How Can A Lunch Be Nutritious, Innovative And Sustainable?

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¢ Write 2-3 sentences explaining why this is your decision and why it best suits the challenge of this task.
I have chosen to do my lunch box like this as it has a variety, it is different, has the five food groups and I like all the food that is in it. Not every day I have time to sit and think about my lunch so doing something different makes it more delicious and it is different so it is not boring.

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¢ How can a lunch be nutritious, interesting, innovative and sustainable?
A lunch can be nutritious, interesting, innovative and sustainable by changing up the foods. Some ways you can make a lunch be nutritious, interesting, innovative and sustainable is by using higher nutrition standards, cooking from scratch, using, local produce, having "Meatless Mondays", a healthier snack time, hydration stations, having an international cuisine, nutritional scoring, the kids can make a school garden, they can have summer lunch programs, community outreach and nationwide initiatives: nationwide movements such as the farm to school. Childhood obesity may be a growing epidemic, but it's also easily preventable. School lunches, gardens, and playgrounds, play a critical role in fostering healthy eating habits and more active lifestyles can all prevent childhood obesity. It all starts with every child's right to a happy, prosperous, and
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We need to think about the sustainability of the foods we eat because if we don't the world is going to end really quickly because of climate change and global warming. Some growing concerns that we may have is that Animal products are increasingly raised purely for profit, without regard to proper stewardship or health, we are mono-cropping, and the government is subsidizing it, food is transported and processed using large amounts of non-renewable resources and food is being genetically modified, cloned, and

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