The "Am I Crazy?" school of parenting and nutrition.

Having read a couple weeks of the bento lunch community here on LJ, I've come to the conclusion that nutrition science has changed since I was in school.
( Here's the Am I Crazy rant, which you can skip. )

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I'm currently weighing some "basic rules" for the kid's lunch, and I thought the following were strict but not ridiculous:

--No sweet things allowed at lunch except fruits. (a.k.a. no cookies, candy) Fruits can only constitute 1/3 of the lunch at most.
--Must have at least one thing that has lots of protein: tuna, turkey, beans, etc.
--Must have at least three different foods.

So, a turkey sandwich, carrot sticks with ranch, and a couple of strawberries would count.
Apple slices with peanut butter plus some tuna fish and crackers would count.

Basically, we're moving toward the independence of the kid making her own lunch, but this is not the All Fun Gummy Corn Syrup Shape Hour. She gets points on Chore Wars for making her lunch right, and I want to make sure she doesn't feel that it's an arbitrary decision on my part.

attn: corwinok

Make your own bacon

With pictures. Mmm, yeah.