Today's Lunch

[sharlan]

What was on today's lunch menu for your dck's?

We had smoked pork chops, shells w/ white cheddar, green beans, and cuties.

I am at a loss for PM snack.................... Any suggestions? What's your kids' favorite snack?

[melilley]

We had beef stew w/potatoes, carrots, onions, and green beans, a hawaiian roll, and pineapple.

My kids love cottage cheese w/ pineapple, yogurt, apples, anything with peanut butter, and of course cracker type of snacks. I'm kind of in a snack rut too.

[hope]

Baked ham, roasted turkey, string beans and pasta salad with veggies.

Snacking on rice cakes and apples and carrots now.

[KiddieCahoots]

Pot roast, potatoes, carrots, with onions and gravy (from the crock pot), Italian bread with butter, and pears.

[nothingwithoutjoy]

Today we had mashed potatoes with cheese, peas, carrot sticks, cabbage. (Yep--all veggies. Clearly I'm not on the food program.)

Snack today was plain yogurt with frozen strawberries. (Still smelled like summer!)

Recently for snack I gave them roasted potatos with homemade ketchup. They all said "for snack?" "this isn't a snack!" But then they loved it and begged me to make it "a lot!"

[spud912]

Lunch was whole wheat cheese quesadillas, steamed broccoli and fresh blackberries.

Snack? Hmmmm.......haven't decided yet. Maybe yogurt and granola?

[sharlan]

Today we had mashed potatoes with cheese, peas, carrot sticks, cabbage. (Yep--all veggies. Clearly I'm not on the food program.)

Snack today was plain yogurt with frozen strawberries. (Still smelled like summer!)

Recently for snack I gave them roasted potatos with homemade ketchup. They all said "for snack?" "this isn't a snack!" But then they loved it and begged me to make it "a lot!"

How do you make ketchup?

[daycare]

breakfast oatmeal, bananas, and eggs

lunch-
quinoa, ground turkey, olive oil, parm cheese, broccoli, olives

pm dinner- salad, lettuce, tom, balsamic vinegar, tuna. Yogurt for dipping, cucumber slices, carrot chips, and french roll with hummus.

[AmyLeigh]

Beef and bean chili, saltines and orange slices.

I'm thinking baby carrots and cheese cubes for snack.

[Givingthemgrace]

Lunch: chicken and black bean taquitos on homemade tortillas, corn, Apple slices.
Snack: raisins, string cheese.

[nothingwithoutjoy]

How do you make ketchup?

I use the recipe in the "Ball Blue Book" canning book (again--no food program; in part because they don't allow home-canned food. But you could make it fresh, too, and refrigerate.) I reduce it by cooking in a crock pot--less chance of burning the bottom.

Tomato Catsup(using whole tomatoes)
>from the Ball Blue Book

4 qts peeled, cored, chopped, red-ripe tomatoes (about 24 large)
1 C chopped onion
1/2 C chopped sweet red pepper
1 1/2 t celery seed
1 t whole allspice
1 t mustard seed
1 stick cinnamon
1 C sugar
1 T salt
1 1/2 C vinegar
1 T paprika

Cook tomatoes, onions, and pepper until soft. Press through a
food mill or sieve. Cook rapidly until thick (volume is reduced
by half), about 1 hour. Tie whole spices in a cheesecloth bag;
add with sugar and salt to tomato mixture. Cook gently about 25
minutes, stirring frequently. Add vinegar and paprika, cook until
thick. As mixture thickens, stir frequently to prevent sticking.
Remove spice bag. Pour hot into hot jars, leaving 1/4 inch head
space. Adjust caps. Process 10 minutes in boiling water bath.
Yields about 3 pints.

[SilverSabre25]

My husband took too many of the leftover BBQ meatballs so we had baked beans, cucumbers, bananas and toast.

Snack was carrots, grapes, and a cheese stick.

[Unregistered]

BBQ pork chop, carrots, pears, and brown rice.

[SquirrellyMama]

We had black bean quesadillas, peaches and salad. We aren't doing a pm snack today since we're at the park.

Kelly

[daycare]

My husband took too many of the leftover BBQ meatballs so we had baked beans, cucumbers, bananas and toast.

Snack was carrots, grapes, and a cheese stick.

how do you prepare your grapes for the kids. I always want to serve them but don't because I don't know how to prep them so the kids won't choke on them.