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Scholastic Children’s Dictionary Back-To-School Blog Tour {$100 Visa Gift Card Giveaway closed}

It’s stop #6 for the wonderful Scholastic Children’s Dictionary Back-To-School Blog Tour.  Scholastic has partnered with 15 bloggers–including myself–to celebrate the launch of their must-have 2010 Edition Children’s Dictionary with 15 days of back-to-school tips and awesome giveaways for their Scholastic Children’s Dictionary Back-To-School Blog Tour!

You’ve read posts that all have to do with Back to School and now were going to talk about Nutrition!

Last year while attending the Sara Lee Nutrition Summit I learned some great ways to get the kids eating more fruits and vegetables and less sugar! Make food fun by engaging kids in the kitchen. Participating in the process of creating lunch encourages kids to eat it. Place photos of healthy food options on the fridge as part of a food group collage and have kids pick one item from each food group for a well-rounded lunch.

Pack lunches in fun, easy to transport containers such as bento boxes. The boxes allow for simple portion control and are a unique, reusable option to brown bags. We love using our Laptop Lunches!

Organize the night before by preparing lunches, packing backpacks and having easy, wholesome breakfast foods on hand to take the madness out of the morning routine.

Make lunch components functional. Freeze individual yogurt packs, whole grain peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or a handful of grapes to double as a cold pack and a nutritious treat.

Include fun games and jokes in your child’s lunchbox such as Sudoku, comic strips and knock-knock jokes.

Get your kids involved at the grocery store to prepare for lunches that week. Challenge kids to pick fruits and vegetables that match their favorite colors for more nutritious lunch making options.

You can also find many helpful back-to-school shopping checklists from Scholastic. Also, make sure to add Scholastic’s new 2010 Edition Children’s Dictionary to your back-to-school shopping lists.

With exciting features, accessible definitions and helpful illustrations and photographs throughout, the new Scholastic Children’s Dictionary is the essential resource that belongs in every home, classroom and library.

The 2010 edition of the Scholastic Children’s Dictionary features more than 1,000 full-color photographs, simple sentences, illustrations, and diagrams as well as newly commissioned maps of the world, the United States , Canada , Mexico , and Central America . There are hundreds of new and expanded entries written by a prominent lexicographer as well as thousands of additional sample sentences to illustrate word usage. The dictionary also includes guides on grammar, punctuation and idioms and simplified pronunciations created with real kids in mind! The new Scholastic Children’s Dictionary is an essential resource that belongs in every home, classroom, and library.

Scholastic Children’s Dictionary BACK-TO-SCHOOL BLOG TOUR Participants:

Jolly Mom                                Stop #1            July 23
Momma Findings                    Stop #2            July 26
The Mommy-Files                   Stop #3            July 28
The Dirty Shirt                         Stop #4            July 30
1StopMom                                 Stop #5            Aug 2
MommyMandy                         Stop #6            Aug 4
Guessing All The Way            Stop #7            Aug 5
Serendipity Mommy                Stop #8            Aug 6
The Divine Miss Mommy        Stop #9            Aug 9
From Dates to Diapers           Stop #10          Aug 11
MomDot                                      Stop #11          Aug 12
My Sentiment ExactLee          Stop #12          Aug 16
Mommy Niri                             Stop #13          Aug 18
3 Garnets & 2 Sapphires        Stop #14          Aug 19
Mom Knows It All                    Stop #15          Aug 20

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Amanda Acuña an influential Mom Blogger. She created MommyMandy as an online resource to the parenting community. She is married to her high school sweetheart and has three daughters, ages 9, 6 and newborn. They currently reside in Southern California.

356 Responses to “Scholastic Children’s Dictionary Back-To-School Blog Tour {$100 Visa Gift Card Giveaway closed}”

  1. 1
    Gahome2mom says:

    When I went to school, my favorite lunch was the hamburger pizza.

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    April Vereb says:

    They really like the vegetable soup w/ the honey and peanut butter sandwiches! I loved it as a kid, too!

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    April Vereb says:

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    Mami2jcn says:

    I like fruit salad and a turkey sandwich.
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    shelly says:

    My son loves to have turkey sandwiches. I try to throw in some fruit with it since he’s not a big veggie eater.
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    Tiffany says:

    My kids love peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and any kind of fruit! That’s their request every day!

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    cherice says:

    Banana and peanut butter sandwich and string cheese! Thanks for the chance.

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    Owen's Mom says:

    My son enjoys lots of fruit and veggies with his drinkable yogurt.
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    Linda Kish says:

    Peanut butter and jelly sandwich on wheat bread with an apple.

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    Mari says:

    Apple slices and almond butter is the healthiest, and easy to make.

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    LAMusing says:

    No kids. But when I was a kid, my favorite was ham!

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    Peggy Gorman says:

    Peanut butter and sugar free jelly,cut up watermelon or melon, pudding (that is the favorite!) and some pretzels I always packed too much but they shared
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    Cynthia R says:

    Usually a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, with grapes or an apple, also yogurt covered raisins
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    Katie says:

    My daughter really likes to bring a hummus wrap to school for lunch!

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    Jennifer says:

    Whole wheat english muffin, topped with mozzarella and tomatoe! Coring an apple and stuffing it with peanut butter is awesome too!
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    Katie says:

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    Debbie Stanton says:

    my son’s favorite school lunch meal… pb&J on whole wheat, cut up strawberries and blueberries, and a handful of cashews and celery sticks.
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    When my girls were in school they ate lunch at school so it was whatever the cafeteria was having. When by some miracle they were able to pack their lunch it was usually peanut butter sandwiches. I’m anxious to see what the boys will prefer for their lunch.
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    Mari says:

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    Debbie Bellows says:

    mine always liked a turkey sandwich and a banana

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    jeanine says:

    well we homeschool, so most of our lunches are healthy. my kids LOVE peanut butter and jelly though. it’s always the first request when asked what they want.
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    jeanine says:

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    Kellie Terrett says:

    About as healthy as I can get them to eat at lunch is a PB&J or tuna sandwich, hopefully with an apple or dried fruit…

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    Kellie Terrett says:

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    My daughter isn’t in school full-time yet but she loves grapes as a healthy school snack!

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    Annette D says:

    My son likes the same lunch every day! I send a plain ham sandwich on wheat, with carrot sticks and some type of fruit or a fruit rollup and a bottle of water.

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    phxbne says:

    hard boiled egg, proscuitto and bread and butter

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    Betty N says:

    My little grandson always takes a healthy lunch. My daughter in law packs such things as rolled up deli turkey,always some fruit, carrot sticks. sometimes cheese or yogurt, etc He loves healthy foods!

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    Cindy says:

    My kids love hummus and crackers with tzatziki sauce and veggies.

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    Jessica says:

    My daughter’s favorite meal is a chicken sandwich.

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    Kristen M. says:

    My kids like a variety of small snacks – mozzarella cheese sticks, carrots, fruit, hard boiled eggs, etc.

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    Donna C. says:

    my son’s favorite lunch when he was in school was always peanut butter and jelly sandwich , a fruit cup and chocolate milk

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    Lynda Del says:

    They love the little turkey club sandwiches that I cut into fun shapes with a cookie cutter. I add some fruit like a plum or a peach.

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    Tabathia B says:

    My daughter loves banana sandwiches with peanut butter
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    Stephanie R says:

    My lady’s fave lunch meal seems to be squash and carrots, but she doesn’t have it at school :)
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    Mindy says:

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    Mindy says:

    My little one loves pb and j and celery, tomatoes and apples.
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    crystal says:

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    Bethany says:

    My kiddo loves cucumbers, yogurt, and a pb sandwich. Her Fave!! Thanks for the chance to win this!!

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    Amber says:

    My girls love celery and cream cheese with raisins! Also, fruit roll ups are a big hit over here. Thanks!!

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    meeyeehere says:

    My son loves a good ole PB and J! He is allergic to dairy products so he has to eat just whatever I make.
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    Erica Best says:

    my nephew love apples and yogurt.

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    Amy says:

    My son’s favorite lunch is a cheese stick with crackers, a Gogurt and a piece of fruit, cut up in pieces.

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    stacey moore says:

    my little one loves fruit! her favorite is the grapefruit cups!

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    debbie says:

    I make homemade bread every day and they like that with turkey. They also take a fruit cup and a juice pouch.
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    Nancy Sloan says:

    My grandson favorite healthy lunch is a healthy sandwich along with real fruit slices like apples

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    Michelle S says:

    My kids love to have my Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato wheat wraps with some baked chips, choice of fruit/fruit bowl and a pudding/yogurt. They do not like the lunches at school at all. Wraps are easy and fun to eat.
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    nan lara says:

    my son starts preschool soon, but his fav healthy lunch at home is cheesetick and brocolli and buttered whole grain bread
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    Thao says:

    Every Friday, we send a lunch with the kids to day care. We usually pack a sandwich and fruit. Wheat crackers for a snack.

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    Barbara M says:

    The kids like turkey roll ups and mandarin oranges!
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    Andrea H says:

    My favorite healthy lunch is a chicken breast sandwich with some baby carrots and a yogurt. Yum!

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