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. 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