Lunch Box Envy: An Adventure in Healthy Eating for Kids and Families

LunchBox Envy is a “how-to” guide as well as a cookbook. It provides tools for balancing nutrition, meal planning, finding and affording healthy food, basic time-efficient cooking, and building a more sustainable food system. It’s appropriate for children aged eight and older and families of all income levels, and we hope it will empower everyone to create enviably tasty, healthy meals.

It’s all about having fun while developing healthy eating habits!

LUNCHBOX ENVY INCLUDES:

Delicious healthy recipes for kids to make (with or without help) and pack in their lunch boxes
Time and money saving tips for parents when shopping for food and preparing meals
Do-it-yourself projects including a solar dehydrator, worm composter, and growing food in pots
Ways for kids to actively participate in gardening, cooking, preserving, and guided shopping
Nutrition facts for families about how to make healthy food choices
Games, facts about waste reduction, sustainable food, foods and flavors of the world, and more
An engaging and interactive format, including step by step photos and a graphic novel
A do-it-yourself planning sheet for weekly lunch planning

TEACHING WITH LUNCHBOX ENVY

We developed a short course based on the first four chapters of the book called The Other Side of Eating: Planning, Shopping and Cooking! Course materials consist of two PowerPoint presentations and two sets of accompanying notes, and can be divided into any number of lessons, depending on the group ages, needs and interests.

The Other Side of Eating is rich in ideas for how to improve or change how you and your family plan, shop, and prepare food. Know that if participants have just one “aha moment”, the class has been a success. Changing our food habits is a process, and the steps, planning, shopping and cooking, need to be practiced and will not only get easier, but become habitual.

DOWNLOAD THE BOOK

• Front Cover
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Planning and Packing
• Chapter 2 Where To Get Food
• Chapter 3 What is Healthy Food?
• Chapter 4 Getting Started Cooking
• Chapter 5 Recipes
• Chapter 6 Do It Yourself Projects
• Resources Index
• Back Cover

DOWNLOAD COURSE MATERIALS

• Presentation Part 1 (PPT)
• Lesson Plan Part 1 (PDF) 
• Presentation Part 2 (PPT) 
• Lesson Plan Part 2 (PDF)

If you have any questions about the materials and how to use them, please contact us.