Stock the kitchen with healthy, easy-to-eat foods that your kids like, say nutritionists with the USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine.  They offer these tips:

• Let kids help shop for healthy mid-day meal and snack foods.
   
• Stock the refrigerator with individual cartons of 100 percent fruit juice and small cans of fruit with pop-top lids, cut-up fruit, and pre-cut vegetables partnered with a favorite dip.  Freeze cartons of 100 percent fruit juice to serve as "pops," or freeze grapes and slices of bananas for bite-size treats.  
   
•  Keep healthy, crunchy snacks on hand, such as pretzels, breadsticks, whole-wheat crackers, ready-to-eat cereals, baked "chips," and low-fat microwave popcorn.
   
• Think grab 'n' go for lunchtime fixin's.  Stock whole wheat bread and low-fat deli meats and peanut butter for sandwiches; flour tortillas and low-fat cheeses for microwavable quesadillas; ready-to-eat salad mixes and pre-cooked chicken breasts for salads; and low-fat yogurt and granola for topping off fruit.