Monday Jan 31
breakfast--Cheerios....at least once a week, healthy and the children love 'em, fruit salad with pineapple, pears, and melons left over from the prior week, (when trying to get the most life our of food, think about the storage container that nature provides for us...the skins, melons and pineapple have a long shelf life) and milk
lunch--beef chili, freshly cut (chopped in age appropriate size for small mouths to eat) and trimmed lean beef with onions, pinto and kidney beans, peppers(donated form an co-workers garden, and we use fresh, unsalted chicken broth from the whole chickens we cook off), organic corn chips(for the older kids(3-5) and saltines for the little ones), apple slices, and milk
snack--finger pancakes with blueberries and WATER!!!
Tuesday Feb 1
breakfast--cream of wheat (lighlty, lightly seanoned with brown sugar), fresh strawberries and bananas, and milk
lunch--pineapple ranch chicken pizza (fresh whole wheat dough for crusts, fresh yogurt ranch, freshly cooked chicken from whole chicken state, freshly cut pineapple and cheddar cheese....and the kids aske for seconds), pineapple and melon fruit salad, cucumber coins and milk
snack--graham crackers with cream cheese spread on them with grapes (cut appropriately to age) sprinkled on top...very fun for all ages
Wednesday Feb 2
breakfast--Whole Wheat fresh french toast sticks (yes fresh, 6 ingridients as oppossed to the 39 ingredient battered, fried and bagged sugar wafers that to many of our children are used to), super blueberry sauce (oh ya its super...blueberries, superfood..cinnamon,superfood...mix em... super sauce that the kids love, wonderful alternative to syrup), pears (cut appopriately), and milk
lunch--fresh chicken (white and dark meat), with healthy gravy (i know, i know..healthy gravy? yes i use whole wheat flour to coat the chicken that i heat after slow cooking it water to create a broth, and then create the gravy with that broth...a little salt...done), mashed potatoes (golds so that the peel can be left on for to ensure we are utilizing all the vitamins in the vegetable), pineapple ( in know it might seem that we use alot high vitamin c fruits, but this time of year it is going to good use inside the bodies of our children to help boost immune systems), and milk
snack--bustin' banana muffins( enough bananas to count as a fruit), and milk
Thursday Feb 3
breakfast--cheese quesadillas(whole wheat tortillas and real cheddar cheese--great meat alternative for protien source), orange smiles, and milk
lunch--bug noodles and chicken( Safeway sells these bug shaped pastas that are tomato,spinach and whole wheat pasta in their Eating Right line of foods, the kids love them, its a great source of whole grain..ya it means a trip to the store every once in awhile, but well worth it, and we put what ever veggies are available for flavor and an extra boost), steamed brocolli, apple wedges and milk
snack--whle wheat sandwhich thins with fresh peanut butter and 100% apple juice(i know the juice argument, but its all natural and its the same as real fruit it just processes faster, and great for snacks...thats about all we serve it for)
WHEWWWW....i will be making a point to do this every day as to avoid the catching up. If there any recipies or processes that anybody would like to inquire about just let me know.
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