Let's have a race. I bet that if I give you time enough to assemble the makin's of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (PB, jelly, two pieces of bread) you could make one faster than the time it will take you to read about how you should make more of them and buy fewer Lunchables.
Ready? Go!
I know it's easy (but not cheap at all) to toss a Lunchable snack kit in the kid's lunch box or your own tote or purse. Such variety! Turkey and Cheese and Ham and Some Other Cheese and Pizza and Nachos and Cracker Stackers and Buildable Gumy Candy (don't ask!) !!!
Sure they are easy, but Consumer Reports wants you to consider two other things they are - high in lead and sodium. Their tests say that various Lunchables and the various imitators have way too much sodium, lots of lead, and high amounts of cadmium, which is a heavy metal you don't want to listen to.
Lunchables Turkey and Cheddar Cracker Stackers have the most, followed by Lunchables Pizza with Pepperoni, Lunchables Extra Cheesy Pizza, and Armour LunchMakers Cracker Crunchers Ham & American.
A good rule of thumb is, the easier a processed food is to plop on a table or toss in a bag, the less healthy it tends to be, so take five minutes, smear a little nutter butter on some 143-grain bread and send the kids off smiling!
1 comment:
I think you are exactly right about the easiest being the most unhealthy.
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