Do your kids eat all their lunch?
As soon as my kids come home from school, I check their lunch bags to see if they’ve eaten all their food. Usually my 5-year-old comes home with uneaten food. As for my 8-year-old — his lunch bag returns empty but I wonder if he’s eaten all of it.
So I wasn’t surprised to see the results of a recent Hellmann’s study which revealed that Canadian children might have a few secrets when it comes to their lunch time habits.
More than two thirds (72%) of Canadian parents who were polled believe that their children do not throw away lunch items while almost a third (31%) of Canadian children admit they throw out some of their lunch! Nearly half (46%) of the kids trade some of their lunch items with friends regularly.
A-ha! So that’s what happening with their lunch – just as I suspected! Time to get creative when making your kids’ lunches.
Celebrity chef Chuck Hughes has some sandwich-making tips for weary parents which will hopefully entice those picky eaters to finish their lunches!