Fun Lunches Help School Kids Eat Healthy Foods

2022-09-20

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  • From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.
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  • When it comes to making lunch for their kids, moms and dads have usual favorites.
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  • For some parents in the United States, those favorites are peanut butter and jelly sandwiches - also known as PB&Js.
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  • Fruit like apples and bananas are also popular.
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  • But one mother has an unusual go-to ingredient for her children's lunches.
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  • Jenny Mollen uses funny-looking candy eyes.
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  • She has learned that her children will eat any healthy food if it has edible eyeballs attached.
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  • The "eyeballs" are really pieces of candy.
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  • Her children laugh while they eat healthy foods like bell peppers, kiwis, or dates.
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  • The writer and actor says candy "eyes" make lunch more fun.
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  • She wrote about her creative school lunches in a book, Dictator Lunches: Inspired Meals that Will Compel Even the Toughest of Children.
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  • "Honestly, first of all, just buy yourself some candy googly eyes. They (are) tried-and-true," she said.
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  • She admits that "you lose something nutritionally" by giving children candy.
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  • But she thinks that getting children to eat healthy food by putting candy on it is worth it.
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  • Mollen's lunch tricks bring together food and craft.
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  • She uses tricks because her two sons do not like to eat different kinds of foods.
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  • So, she decorates their food to look like animals or even their favorite Pokémon characters.
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  • She makes edible "bugs" made from dates, pretzel sticks for the legs, and, of course, candy "eyes."
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  • She also uses leftover Chinese food to make panda bears from rice and seaweed.
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  • Mollen notes that she puts yogurt into fruit like strawberries and raspberries and then tops with some granola, a mixture of oats and nuts.
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  • She says her lunch projects are easy to do. And her sons think they have won a big prize at their midday meal.
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  • The edible art is not hard to make.
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  • To create it, she says you only need a few tools - a vegetable peeler, shaped containers and cutters, and some special knives.
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  • She says she does not have to buy special ingredients.
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  • She uses leftovers from dinner the night before and everyday items from her food storage area.
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  • She likes using sunflower seed butter to stick her creations together.
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  • This idea of making food fun-looking is not new.
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  • Some Japanese parents are known for creating artful lunches, called bento boxes.
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  • They often have cute, animal-shaped rice balls and flowers or other shapes made from vegetables.
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  • Mollen says making fun-looking, artful lunches for her children helps ease her guilt.
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  • She says, "I (am) a working mom and not the mom doing pick up and drop off. I'm not with them at the park after school every day. I (am) usually working."
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  • Her artful lunches are her way of reminding her children that she is thinking of them.
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  • Mollen says she also wants to teach them healthy eating habits.
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  • She says that by getting kids to eat vegetables at a young age, they will grow up to eat healthy foods later in life.
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  • She also says it is a good way to get children to try foods from other cultures.
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  • If they need to be "tricked" sometimes, that is okay.
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  • And that's the Health & Lifestyle report.
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  • I'm Anna Matteo.