Top 8: The best healthy snack foods for school lunches 

Having variety is key to children coming home from school with empty lunchboxes
Top 8: The best healthy snack foods for school lunches 

School-approved healthy snacks can be tricky to find — here are 8 great options.

School lunches for young children can be seen as a headache or an opportunity. Schools have their own policies about snacks, but overall nuts are banned, at least when classes have a student with a nut allergy. We kept nuts out of today's survey. 

Having a variety of foods is key to children coming home from school with empty lunchboxes. If they return full, it doesn't mean the contents won't be eaten later in the day or the same selection in a week or month. 

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