What's for Lunch - Mon., 3/25

Baked Chicken Tenders
Whole Grain Breadsticks
OR
Pizza Bagel
Baby Carrots with Dip
Pineapple In Fruit Juice

NO SALAD BAR TODAY

Yes, we have school today. But - no salad bar because school will  be closed the rest of the week.

The chicken is from Tyson. They are flash-fried by the vendor and frozen and then we heat them in the overn. The serving size of two pieces - which is what elementary students get - has 14g of fat and 580mg of sodium.

The ingredients are: Chicken breast tenderloins, water, modified food starch, sodium phosphates, salt. PREDUSTED WITH: Enriched wheat flour (enriched with niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), wheat gluten, salt. BATTERED WITH: Water, enriched bleached wheat flour (enriched with niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), modified corn starch, salt, dextrose, spices, garlic powder, xanthan gum, oleoresin paprika and annatto. BREADED WITH: Enriched wheat flour (enriched with niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), salt, spices, garlic powder, extractives of paprika, natural flavors (spice extractives). Breading set in vegetable oil. 



Pizza bagels - again. Pizza bagel is on a whole wheat bagel. The sauce is a Red Pack vitamin enhanced tomato sauce. The sodium at 140mg is much lower than we previously used. Here are the ingredients: Tomato Concentrate (Water, Tomato Paste), Sugar, Soybean Oil, Potassium Chloride, Onion Powder, Salt, Citric Acid, Spice, Garlic Powder, Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid), Black Pepper, Vitamin E (DL-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate), Natural Flavor, Vitamin A (Retinol Palmitate). The cheese is a USDA commodity part skim mozzarella. Ingredients are cultured pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes.

Whole grain breadstick- which may be partial vs fully whole grain under the school lunch law.

Fresh raw carrots with an organic full fat ranch dressing.

Canned pineapple in juice from China.