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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 August 4, 2010 Back to School 2010, Giveaways, Product Reviews 356 Comments 1,790 views

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

  1. 201
    Carole Spring says:
    August 12, 2010 at 9:06 PM

    ham and turkey sandwich, yogurt, carrot sticks, grapes, and a juice box
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    jennifer horn says:
    August 13, 2010 at 7:59 AM

    Favorite lunch is turkey and cheese sandwich, yogurt and baked chips.

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    Lisa from Life with Lisa says:
    August 13, 2010 at 8:41 AM

    My son loves Apples and Peanut Butter – yum!
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    Jennifer M says:
    August 13, 2010 at 6:47 PM

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    Jerry Gilreath says:
    August 13, 2010 at 9:44 PM

    Seems turkey sandwiches are popular all around! That + an apple make for a guaranteed hit!

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    Jill H says:
    August 14, 2010 at 2:17 AM

    My kid’s favorite healthy school lunch meal is a burrito from Chipotle which is pretty healthy.

  31. 231
    Shawna OBrien says:
    August 14, 2010 at 11:31 AM

    My son loves ham sandwich with carrots on the side.

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    August 14, 2010 at 1:38 PM

    my son loves hotdogs, but we buy the uncured, nitrate free, preservative free kind. then we washes it down with annie’s mac and cheese. yum!

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    August 14, 2010 at 6:36 PM

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    August 14, 2010 at 9:13 PM

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  60. 260
    Linda F says:
    August 15, 2010 at 5:34 PM

    My son’s favorite healthy lunch meal is a turkey, ham and cheese sandwich with lettuce and tomato on a whole wheat roll.

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    August 15, 2010 at 5:34 PM

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    Ashley Parker says:
    August 15, 2010 at 7:22 PM

    My kids favorite school lunch would be a turkey or ham sandwhich on wheat bread string cheese a piece of fruit and yougart for snack!!

  67. 267
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    August 15, 2010 at 8:40 PM

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    August 15, 2010 at 9:19 PM

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  89. 289
    Kevin E says:
    August 16, 2010 at 8:42 PM

    My daughter loves tunafish on whole grain white bread with american cheese!

  91. 291
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    August 16, 2010 at 8:45 PM

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  92. 292
    Cori Westphal says:
    August 16, 2010 at 8:48 PM

    My kids love veggies and dip. And sliced meat and cheese on crackers. Both are pretty healthy!
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    HSUper Parentsw says:
    August 17, 2010 at 11:34 AM

    Our son-to-be’s favorite healthy lunch would be a turkey sandwich on wheat bread.
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  105. 305
    Amanda A says:
    August 17, 2010 at 1:14 PM

    My son loves when they have taco pizza – they really pile the veggies on, so it’s semi-healthy!

  106. 306
    Carol W. says:
    August 17, 2010 at 2:58 PM

    Our favorite healthy school lunch is sliced turkey on whole wheat with baby carrots on the side.

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    August 17, 2010 at 3:00 PM

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  112. 312
    jamie says:
    August 17, 2010 at 6:30 PM

    My kids like chicken or turkey bacon wraps with lettuce and tomato, applesauce, and pretzels

  114. 314
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    August 17, 2010 at 6:53 PM

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    August 17, 2010 at 6:59 PM

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    August 17, 2010 at 7:00 PM

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    August 17, 2010 at 7:08 PM

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    August 17, 2010 at 7:08 PM

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    August 17, 2010 at 7:09 PM

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  122. 322
    april yedinak says:
    August 17, 2010 at 7:17 PM

    Turkey wraps
    Carrot sticks w/ lowfat ranch
    applesauce
    lowfat milk

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    August 17, 2010 at 7:18 PM

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  128. 328
    taylor says:
    August 18, 2010 at 6:18 AM

    My daughter loves when the school has ceasar salad

  133. 333
    Deanna says:
    August 18, 2010 at 10:32 AM

    My kids’ favorite healthy school lunch meal is the fruit plate with yogurt.

  134. 334
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    August 18, 2010 at 10:45 AM

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  138. 338
    WeeMasonMan's Mom says:
    August 18, 2010 at 11:36 AM

    A peanut butter sandwich on wheat bread, a reusable container full of natural apple juice, and ants on a log! (celery, pb, and raisins)
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    August 18, 2010 at 2:23 PM

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    Michele p. says:
    August 18, 2010 at 5:40 PM

    my daughter enjoys apple or carrot slices, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, milk, and maybe a side salad with a little lettuce and radishes and cukes covered with lime juice…

  144. 344
    Emily Peterson says:
    August 18, 2010 at 5:40 PM

    My daughter does not go to a school, but her favorite healthy lunch is my homemade chicken, extra-veggie and whole wheat noodle soup!

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    August 24, 2010 at 4:42 PM

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    August 24, 2010 at 4:42 PM

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