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| Sister H. put together this visual comparing the processed convenience foods we typically reach for with healthier (and less expensive) alternatives that can be made at home. |
Ingredients:
bread (a firmer bread, such as ciabatta, baguette, etc... works well)
cheese
lunch meat of choice
grape tomatoes
lettuce pickles
olives
Directions:
Cut up cubes of bread, cheese, and lunch meat (order your meat from the deli cut into 1/2” slices - which makes it easy to cut nice cubes)
String the cubes onto a skewer with other foods your child likes, such as a grape tomato, piece of lettuce, pickle, or an olive.
(To make it easier to pierce each cube of cheese and meat - use a straw to poke a small hole first. Threads right on without pushing so hard)
Brown Bag Bar Cookie
(found at The Changeable Table)
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
1 cup flour
1/2 cup quick oats
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt (optional - if using unsalted butter)
1 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 Tbs peanut butter
2 Tbs milk
Directions:
In a bowl, cream sugars & butter with peanut butter. Add egg and vanilla. Combine flour, oats, baking soda, and salt. Blend dry ingredients into creamed mixture. Spread into a greased 9” x 13” pan (or half-size cookie sheet) Sprinkle with chocolate chips. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool ten minutes. Combine powdered sugar with 2 Tbs peanut butter and 2 Tbs milk. If desired, add a drop or two of vanilla. Beat, adding a little more milk if needed for drizzling consistency. Drizzle over bars. Allow to cool completely before cutting. Makes 24 squares, or 3-4 dozen small bars.
More Ideas for School Lunches: (found here)
SANDWICHES/WRAPS/MAIN FARE
• Tortilla wraps {Natural lunch meat and cheese wrapped in a tortilla, cut in half and each half secured with a toothpick}
• Sandwiches {PB&H, PB&J, meat and cheese, etc.}
• Sandwich skewers {a deconstructed sandwich skewered on a long toothpick or bamboo skewer – meat chunks, cheese cubes, bread cubes, cherry tomato, etc.}
• Meatballs {my kids love meatballs on a toothpick or just in a little container with a plastic fork}
• Leftover pizza {I know cold pizza makes some of you want to hurl but my kiddos love it}
• Ham or Turkey roll-ups {lunch meat rolled up with a squirt of mustard and a pickle}
• Mini-bagels with filling/topping of kid’s choice
• Sliced turkey kielbasa or other lean sausage {I include a toothpick for easy eating}
FRUIT
• Apple or Pear slices
• Dried fruit/Raisins
• Fruit Leather
• Applesauce
• Strawberries/Blueberries
• Grapes
• Half of a banana
• Watermelon/Cantaloupe chunks
• Pineapple chunks
• Orange slices
VEGGIES
• Baby carrots/carrot sticks
• Sugar snap peas
• Celery sticks
• Handful of cherry tomatoes
SIDES
• Hard boiled egg
• String cheese
• Mini Babybel cheese
• Crackers/chips
• Pretzel sticks
• Yogurt/Cottage cheese
• Popcorn
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