What's For Lunch?
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🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s bonus episode: Elizabeth and Jamilah are joined by registered dietitian, Maya Feller, to discuss lunches for in-person and at-home learners. How can parents make sure their kids are eating nutritious meals that still taste good? What can parents do about kids that graze in the kitchen all day? And when should they start packing their own lunch?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Tuesday, September 8th, the What's for Lunch Edition. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who is seven, and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy 3. |
| 0:27.9 | And I'm located in Navar, Florida. |
| 0:30.5 | On today's show, we'll be talking about healthy and easy lunches for your kids, |
| 0:34.6 | no matter whether they'll be learning in person or at home. |
| 0:38.1 | We'll be joined by registered dietitian Maya Feller for that conversation. |
| 0:41.8 | But first, as always, we've got triumphs and fails. |
| 0:45.7 | Elizabeth, do you have a triumph or a fail for us this week? |
| 0:49.3 | So I have a throwback triumph from my parents. |
| 1:00.0 | My dad used to draw like these fantastic drawings on our like paper lunch bags. And then when we went to lunchboxes like on pieces of paper and tape them in. |
| 1:05.5 | And I just remember feeling just like this amazing love coming from getting to pull these lunches out. He draws |
| 1:15.1 | these like thoroughly bizarre drawings that have huge noses. It's like just a thing he does. And I |
| 1:20.7 | could recognize a drawing anywhere like going through old papers. I'll see his like doodles and I'll |
| 1:25.0 | be like, oh, this is dads. And I even like message my |
| 1:29.3 | sister to say like, what do you remember about lunches? And she was like, dad's drawings. And I was like, |
| 1:33.8 | yeah, he would just draw. Like if we went to zoo camp or there was something going on, he would do like |
| 1:38.0 | a little drawing. And I cannot say enough that the drawings are terrible. Like they are not good |
| 1:43.5 | drawings. They are weirdly my father's |
| 1:46.5 | terrible drawings. And they made us feel just like so loved and appreciated and thinking about this |
| 1:53.1 | was a good reminder of how just like little things that I'm sure he did after we were asleep or like |
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