Today's Lunch

[Unregistered]

Slow-Roasted Organic Chicken with Braised Chick Peas, Organic Roasted Orange & Yellow Peppers, Arugula & Snap Peas with Blood Orange Vinaigrette, and Smoke-Roasted Organic Pears with Feta Relish.

[Josiegirl]

Lunch was Pizza Bagels, cantaloupe, cucumbers, grapes and milk
Snack will be Organic Cheddar snack mix and oranges

[Baby Beluga]

Love all of these ideas! I always feel like I am in a food rut with the kids. All but one of mine are dairy free so it really cuts down on the options.

Today's lunch was red beans and lentils with pita bread, steamed broccoli and mango.

Yesterday's was natural PB and honey on homemade wheat bread, peas and apple slices.

[kathiemarie]

I cheated today...delivered pizza, raw assorted veggies, cuties, milk. Long week 3 under 1 with 2 of them being very clingy.

snack will be crackers and apples

[Unregistered]

PM SNACK MENU: (We are on the food program)
Monday: graham crackers and milk
Tuesday: goldfish and juice
Wednesday: cheese and crackers and juice
Thursday: yogurt and juice
Friday: bugles and juice.
We serve milk for breakfast and lunch and then for morning snack because its not counted, we serve either extra milk or juice or water and some type of grain.

[sharlan]

Grilled cheese sandwiches, carrots, and applesauce.

Who knows for snack, probably yogurt and crackers.

[Unregistered]

Today we are having flat bread pizza, carrot sticks and cucumber slices. How about you?

[VTMom]

Today is a snow day so we have an unplanned full house! I'm going with the crowd pleasers of waffles/apples/milk for breakfast, hard boiled egg/kiwi/water for morn snack, turkey tacos/steamed broccoli/corn/milk for lunch, and a celebratory treat of chocolate pudding with crushed choc cookie and a single teddy graham emerging from the top (for Groundhog Day!)/fresh pineapple/water.

[LysesKids]

Snack was brioche toast, cuties and milk, I went with mini burgers on buns, sweet potato fries, tossed salad & apples for lunch. Snack is 5 layer dip with fresh made tortilla chips (leftover dip from Superbowl party ); its got refried beans, guacamole, salsa, grated cheddar cheese, sour cream... can't let something this good go to waste

[Josiegirl]

Lunch today was Baked Cod, whole wheat rolls, peas, applesauce and milk
Snack will be graham crackers with peanut butter, banana and milk.

[AuntTami]

Okay I need to up my meal game too!
How do you all get ur littles to eat so many different veggies and fruit? Everyone here likes apples, bananas and one like blueberries and that's it!

[deliberateliterate]

Wow, lucky daycare kids! I definitely make simple meals.

Today was meatballs, rice and roasted butternut squash.

Tomorrow will be the pancakes that we had for dinner last night, scrambled eggs & smoothies

Thursday is pita pizzas w/ cauliflower

Friday is I can't remember

[Shell]

Yep... I made pizza, the frozen kind. There's NO way I'd go through all the hassle to make bbq pork or stew for a lunch. 1. my kids would look at me like I had 5 heads and not touch it (can't cook very well, more into baking!) They have steamed frozen veggies or sometimes they love cauliflower, carrots, green peppers with a little ranch for dipping. I also offer fresh/canned fruit. (usually buy the berries or large fruit options from Costco). I have a sample menu on my website and it has all the kid friendly foods of pasta, pizza, sloppy joes, chicken nuggets, mac n cheese...etc. All parents are aware of this before they sign up with me. I'm a very picky eater, so I have a hard time making things that I myself wouldn't touch.

Snacks are yogurt, frozen yogurt, cheese sticks, cuties, apple slices, pretzels, pirate booty, cucumbers and carrots w/ranch, wheat crackers n cheese, melon, grapes, Annie's graham's, or bunnies, apples, fruit kabobs (only when the boys aren't here for sword fighting, !). Sometimes homemade chocolate chip cookies with milk (special treat for birthdays).

Same here. I offer all the "kid friendly" stuff, but try to make it as healthy as possible- like organic Mac and cheese, wheat bread, organic pasta sauces, throw some spinach in a cheese quesadilla. Kids get tons of organic fruits and veggies- they eat a lot of that and organic yogurt- I make lots of fresh fruit smoothies.
I try to buy organic snacks, too, but it's all so expensive and crackers and such just seem like empty calories anyway.