Healthy school lunches for your child and the environment

Ed Begley Jr., shares advice for parents on what the best packed school lunches are for your child's health and for the environment
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Healthy school lunches for your child and the environment

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As a parent, another area I like to really have a good impact on my children is the school lunches. The school lunches at many schools is not the kind of food I eat and is not the kind of food they eat, so I pack a good school lunch that has healthy, organic material, a lot have been grown in my garden and it's packaged in a way that it doesn't have any single use plastic. Reusable containers, all that stuff, all that waste that normally goes into the trashcan at the school is eliminated by using things repeatedly. Plastic or some other hard material container, utensils - I have these wonderful, wooden utensils that I pack in the kids' school lunch that are wonderful, and they eliminate the use of those throw away plastic forks and spoons and knives. So healthy food packed in reusable containers is something that's very good for kids, and you can have a great impact on the waste trim with it too.

Ed Begley Jr., shares advice for parents on what the best packed school lunches are for your child's health and for the environment

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Ed Begley, Jr.

Actor & Environmentalist

Inspired by the works of his Academy Award-winning father, Ed Begley Jr. became an actor. He first came to audiences’ attention for his portrayal of Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the long-running hit television series St. Elsewhere, for which he received six Emmy nominations. Since then, Ed has moved easily among feature, television and theatre projects.

Ed co-starred in the Woody Allen movie Whatever Works with Larry David, as well as the Seth Rogan/Judd Apatow film Pineapple Express, and a number of Christopher Guest films, including A Mighty Wind, Best In Show and For Your Consideration.

Other feature film credits include Batman Forever, The Accidental Tourist and The In-Laws.

On television, Ed just completed Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, an HBO movie with Christopher Plummer, Danny Glover and Frank Langella. He also starred in the HBO movie Recount with Kevin Spacey, Tom Wilkinson and Laura Dern, and appeared in recurring roles on Six Feet Under, Arrested Development and Boston Legal.

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As a parent, another area I like to really have a good impact on my children is the school lunches. The school lunches at many schools is not the kind of food I eat and is not the kind of food they eat, so I pack a good school lunch that has healthy, organic material, a lot have been grown in my garden and it's packaged in a way that it doesn't have any single use plastic. Reusable containers, all that stuff, all that waste that normally goes into the trashcan at the school is eliminated by using things repeatedly. Plastic or some other hard material container, utensils - I have these wonderful, wooden utensils that I pack in the kids' school lunch that are wonderful, and they eliminate the use of those throw away plastic forks and spoons and knives. So healthy food packed in reusable containers is something that's very good for kids, and you can have a great impact on the waste trim with it too.