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More healthy lunch options for kidsPosted Apr 6th 2007 11:11AM by Jonathan M. ForesterFiled under: Lunch, Trends, Stores & Shopping, Did you know?, New Products, AmericaIt seems like 2007 is the year of kids food. There has been a lot of talk and action around the world looking at the problem of poor diet and health, especially among children. Schools and municipalities are examining what children are eating and trying to educate them and change the school lunch diets. The school lunch business is a multi-billion dollar industry. In the US the National School Lunch Program, which provides meals lacking in solid nutrition to approximately half the 54 million public school kids, costs around $7 billion-a-year.Now a whole slew of food companies are producing healthier prepared lunches aimed specifically at kids in school. No more of those cheap but fat and chemical laden snack type lunches you buy in the deli section of the supermarket. These are real meals that parents can afford and are healthy too. Some of these companies are available at or deliver to schools, some sell from store fronts, and some sell through the Internet. Many of these programs are getting a larger response from parents of private school children but most service public school kids as well. I expect to see many more of these companies in the next year or two and offerings to public schools growing rapidly.A few of the companies trying to feed healthy school lunches to our kids are: Brown Bag Naturals (brownbagnaturals.com). In Manhattan Beach, CA, provides online ordering and delivers to several local schools.Kid Chow (kidchow.com). In San Francisco, CA, they provide reasonably priced meals ordered online and delivered to 12 schools.Health e-Lunch Kids (healthelunchkids.com) In Fairfax, Va., they take orders online and deliver to private schools. they are in discussion with Washington, D.C., public schools as well. Kidfresh (kidfresh.com). A store in New York City delivers to private schools. Kidfresh plans 50 stores in six cities over the next five years.
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