The Third Annual
ROEPER GALA
& GOLDEN APPLE AWARDS EVENING
featuring
consideration, realize that
even children with great
eating habits at home prob-
ably will eat only food con-
sidered acceptable to their
cafeteria peers. Even
though Erin loves raw green
beans or broccoli spears at
home, she may not want to
eat them in front of friends
for fear it will seem nerdy.
It's important to respect a
child's views and help him
find foods that are accept-
able fare among his social
set.
With this in mind, consult
\=the child about what goes
into his lunch box and
involve him in the prepara-
tion of his own lunch. Try
out any new meals at home
before packing them in a
child's lunch box.
Then there is the look of
lunch. Children delight in
unusual shapes and in
clever design and are more
likely to eat rather than
trade away something that
is the aesthetic envy of their
peers. Some suggestions:
Get out the cookie
cutters and cut
sandwiches,
cheese slices or
chunks of melon
into kid-favored
shapes.
• Get out the cookie cut-
ters and cut sandwiches,
cheese slices or chunks of
melon into kid-favored
shapes. Or use free-form
cutting to create the first
letter of a child's name.
• Expand the horizons of
a white-bread-only child by
creating a two-color sand-
wich, using one slice-of
white bread and one slice of
wheat. Use a small heart- or
animal-shape cookie cutter
► to cut out a shape in the
center of each piece of
bread, then flip the designs
so that the whole-wheat is
in the white slice and vice
versa.
• Send fruit salad in a
hollowed-out orange peel.
• Serve up salads such as
tuna, chicken or egg in
pitas, cored apples, hard-
boiled egg whites, baked
potato skins, snow peas,
celery stalks or cherry toma-
toes. Or roll them up in tor-
tillas or lettuce leaves.
• Cut the crust off a slice
of bread; roll it out thin and
then spoon on a spread. Roll
up the bread jelly-roll fash-
ion; then slice the rolls into
-
half-inch-thick pinwheels.
• Wrap sliced lunch
meats around a pickle,
bread stick, broccoli or
asparagus spear, green
beans, or melon spear.
Wise parents will, in
addition to packing the
child's lunch, also include a
food treat that is "valuable"
in the child's mind. It gives
him something extra with
which to negotiate if he's
hooked on lunch-time trad-
ing, and also provides an
after-school snack.
Most children require
something to help fill their
tiny tummies and boost
their energy level while
awaiting dinner.
Some snack suggestions
to pack away — and to have
readily available and within
easy reach at home —
include fruit roll ups, nuts,
yogurt, pretzels or bread
sticks, popcorn, fruits,
string cheese or cheese
spreads, individual contain-
ers of applesauce, trail mix,
and cut-up vegetables.
Almost as important as
what's for lunch is its mode
of transport. Currently "in"
on the lunch-box scene are
insulated nylon lunch sacks.
Sturdier than brown bags
— and easily customized
with iron-on patches, fabric
pens and sewn-on sequins
— lunch sacks keep food
cool and are environment-
ally correct in that they're
reusable. Also high in favor
are lunch-box-size ice chests
with freezer packs for fresh-
ness built into the box.
Reusable plastic juice and
food containers cut down on
disposable bags and boxes.
A small wide-mouth ther-
mos is handy for keeping
chilled salads fresh all
morning, as well as for
transporting hot foods such
as favorite leftovers, chili,
soup or taco filling.
If the child gets weary of
carrying, the same bag or
box day after day, vary the
routine with alternatives
such as a small knapsack or
fanny pack, a straw basket
or a brown-bag decorated
with stickers.
If parents opt for using
boxes or bags without freez-
er packs built in, consider
these tips to prevent
spoilage:
• Place a frozen ice pack
in the box or insulated bag.
• Add a frozen juice box,
can or a frozen container of
yogurt. They keep cool until
lunch and do double duty as
ice packs.
• Prepare a sandwich
with frozen bread slices.
The bread will work as an
insulator and will thaw by
lunchtime.
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MAYA ANGELOU
Celebrated Author & Poet
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1993
TROY MARRIOTT HOTEL
7-10 PM
hosted by %/DIN/• TV4's
CARMEN HARLAN & EMERY KING
1993 Golden Apple Awardees
MAYA ANGELOU
NORMA CARTER, STAN OVSHINSKY
ROSA PARKS, DUDLEY RANDALL
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