Have your kids started school yet? Or homeschooling activities?

Eating healthy when you’re back to busy school nights or back to overly full homeschooling schedules is not an easy transition. Back to school time is such a busy time for all families and as an exhausted mom, myself,  I often don’t have the time or energy to cook a balanced meal. We want our families to eat good healthy food, but it’s not always practical.

Easy to-go foods are packed with too much salt, sugar, and other less than desirable ingredients. Even if you do find a healthy option to chow down before your child’s game practice or dance class, it’s rare that vegetables would be included. Seems like an ongoing question, but how do we get our kids to eat more vegetables? And not just the kids! I’m just as guilty of not eating enough vegetables when constantly on the run or getting home late so many nights a week. I want to be a good example in teaching healthy habits as well as feel good and keep my body strong and healthy, too.

How to get more vegetables into your back to school routine

This post was sponsored by Ready Pac Foods® Inc. All opinions are my own.

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Ready Pac Foods sent me a whole box of different variety snacks and salad meals to try.

Honestly, I’m not a big fan of salads, but these looked absolutely delicious!  They are packaged as single servings and fit comfortably in a lunch box. The salads even included a fork! Which was a pleasant surprise as I didn’t think to bring one with me the first time I brought a Ready Pac Foods Salad along with me.

The Ready Pac Foods salad mixes are of many different flavor combinations and include a protein, so this is more than a side salad. These are great for a meal!  The lettuce in each was crisp and fresh.

The toppings are separated by packaging so all stays fresh, and you put the toppings on yourself so you can decide how much of what you’d like on your salad. I loved all the variety in toppings and dressing flavors! And how different each one was. I’ve never experienced so many salad flavors. I guess I haven’t been very adventurous.

My favorite varieties are:

• Ready Pac Foods Bistro Kickin’ BBQ Style (also the kids’ favorite!)

• Ready Pac Foods ElevAte™ Organic Spinach-Pow salad and
• Ready Pac Foods ElevAte Organic Power Grains Superfood Salad

I was thrilled they had organic options and my kids loved the Ready Pac Foods ElevAte Organic Nutty Cranberry Salad.

They also enjoyed the Ready Pac Food Snax®.

These are perfect for when you have to cart around hungry kids after school or before they go to their afternoon activities. A healthy, nutritious mix of snacks to give them energy to conquer the rest of the day.

I wish we had a fridge full of the Ready Pac Foods Antioxidant Berry Blend! Fruit cups are always a delicious snack that every kids loves.

 

Ready Pac foods makes it so easy to grab and go healthy foods during busy school days!

Start your school year off on the right foot with healthy foods to fuel your kids and yourself with healthy brain food.

 

This post was sponsored by Ready Pac Foods, though I always give my honest opinion.

Tell me your favorite tips for getting your family to eat more vegetables in busy times in the comments!