Fueling Afternoon Focus: The Key Might Surprise You!

Teachers recognize the challenge of keeping students energized and focused throughout the day. They work tirelessly to create engaging lessons and make classrooms vibrant places to learn. Imagine if they could simply snap their fingers to keep students focused all day—it would be a game-changer! While there’s no magic wand, there is an effortless way to boost focus and energy—and it might surprise you.

Eating Lunch to Power Focus
Kids are full of energy, but that energy needs fuel—especially for learning in the afternoon. One of the best ways to help them stay focused? Making sure students actually eat their school lunch. Providing healthy and nutritious lunches we wish our kids would eat is great, but lunch at school is often the one meal where close adult supervision is missing. To ensure kids eat at school, wouldn’t it be ideal to have plenty of options, including healthy and nutritious ones, they look forward to eating? When lunch is something students are excited about, they’re more likely to eat, which is crucial to keep their energy and focus strong all afternoon.

What’s on the Menu Matters
What we hope will happen and what really happens in the lunchroom can be two different things. Students tend to shy away from traditional school lunches, which often come with only one or two options, prepared in advance, frozen, and reheated. With limited choices, students may even grow tired of packed lunches from home, leading to uneaten food. While schools and parents may be offering healthy or nutritious options, how nutritious is a lunch if it’s not eaten?

At Kiddos, we’ve reimagined school lunch service by offering something for every taste and preference, every day, with access to fresh, wholesome options. Our lunches are freshly prepared each morning using high-quality ingredients, giving kids a huge daily menu of choices they love and parents trust—even when they’re not there to supervise. With Kiddos, you can be confident that lunch is something kids look forward to and that fuels them for the rest of their day.

When more kids enjoy their lunch at school, the positive effects are clear. That energy from a satisfying, delicious lunch makes a real difference, transforming the afternoon in classrooms for students and teachers alike. 

By: Michael Baruch