Nosh

How many times have you heard people say or have thought to yourself "it's just too expensive to truly feed my family healthy foods?" And now that we're experiencing a horrible time as a nation with many of us struggling to keep from being laid-off and really watching every dime we spend it's hard to justify paying three dollars for a pound of grapes.

You eat out a lot. You hate spending money on a meal your kid won't eat and you don't like to share. The economy sucks. Why not check out Kids Meal Deals.com? This new site is dedicated to helping you find restaurants in your area offering deals on kids meals including kids eat free days. All you do is simply type in the zip code and choose how far you're willing to travel for a bargain and the site will provide a list of participating restaurants offering current deals.

If your kids tire of PBJ and carrots, or if you want to provide a little more health--even "go green"--check out iLunchbox.com: "What could be easier than packing lunch? A nutritious, inexpensive, tasty lunch? Not that easy. With the onslaught of processed food, pre-packaged, high sugar and high sodium, cute shaped, squeezable foods for kids, with their favorite superhero on it, well… the grocery tab goes up quickly and the taste, and especially nutrition go out the window."

The beginning of each new school year brings new adventures and routines. As the first day of school approaches we find ourselves anxious and excited about all the possibilities. This includes the making of the school lunch or "brown baggin' it" if you will.

Why bring a lunch?:
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a group committed to making changes in school lunch programs, has an informative site

"A Harrisonburg, VA school system thought it was a good idea to put photos of their school lunches on their website. But what they didn’t realize is that the food they were taking pictures of was a collection of the most unappetizing piles of garbage you wouldn’t feed to a dying hamster.

For those of us trying our best to protect our families from all those icky harmful pesticides by buying expensive organic produce environmentally conscience site Daily Green offers "10 Foods you Don't Have to Buy Organic." Saving us some money and piece of mind you'll be happy to see some of the more traditionally pricy items deemed safe from pesticide contamination. Keeping it easier to buy local! Yummy, yum, yum!