What's for Lunch - Wed., 3/13

Cup of Soup
White Meat Chicken Tenders
Whole Grain Roll
Baked Sweet Potato Wedges
Caesar Salad
More Salad Bar Veggie Sides
Pineapple in Fruit Juice

The soup this week is lentil - one of our healthier verieties with 4g of fat and 360mg of sodium.  INGREDIENTS: Vegetable Stock (Water, Vegetable Base [Carrots, Tomatoes, Onions, Potatoes, Garlic, Sea Salt, Dextrose, Evaporated Cane Juice, Canola Oil, Spices, Turmeric]), Lentils, Tomatoes (Tomatoes and Tomato Juice, Sea Salt, Naturally Derived Citric Acid and Calcium Chloride), Onions, Carrots, Celery, Contains 2% or less of: Butter (Sweet Cream, Sea Salt), Corn Starch, Basil, Garlic, Nisin Preparation and Spices.

The chicken is a Tyson "fully cooked chicken breast nugget fritter with rib meat" with 10g of fat and 420mg of sodium.  The ingredients are: Boneless, skinless chicken breast nuggets with rib meat, 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.

Sweet potato wedges are flash-fried and frozen with 4.5g of fat and 140mg of sodium. Ingredients are Sweet Potatoes, Potato Starch - Modified, Vegetable Oil (Contains One Or More Of The Following Oils: Canola, Soybean, Cottonseed, Sunflower, Corn). Contains 2% or less of Annatto (color), Baking Soda, Beta Carotene (color), Caramel(Color), Natural Flavors, Rice Flour, Salt, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate(Maintains Natural Color & Leavening), Sugar, Tapioca Dextrin,Xanthan Gum.

Caesar is romaine lettuce, tomatoes and croutons. Pineapple is canned -- and from China.