Barilla Plus Rotini with Meatballs or Marinara
Fresh Garlic Bread
Zucchini Sticks
Strawberry/Yogurt Smoothie
The rotini is a white flour pasta with some protein by Barilla Plus. The ingredients are: Semolina, Grain and Legume Flour, Blend (Lentils, Chickpeas, Egg Whites, Spelt, Barley, Flaxseed, Oat Fiber, Oats), Durum Flour, Niacin, Iron (Ferrous Sulfate), Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid.
Meatballs are ground chuck.
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 zucchini is fresh.
The smoothie will be made with either plain yogurt to which we add honey or vanilla yogurt (no honey) if we can't get plain plus 1% milk and frozen strawberries.
This week's soup: Minestrone - homemade!
Plus, the alternate entree for January is a 1/2 wrap with the soup and sides. The wrap changes each day. Wednesdays are fresh breaded chicken cutlet. All wraps have romaine lettuce and a white flour tortilla. We make these chicken cutlets ourselves -- marinated in yogurt, spices, panko and corn meal.
Sea Cliff Nutrition Committee. The Apple People
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
What's for Lunch - Tues., 1/18
White Meat Chicken Patty
on Whole Wheat Bun
w/Sandwich Fixin’s
Baked Potato
Fresh Fruit in Season
Not so excited today. This is Tyson fried chicken product. The ingredients are: Boneless chicken breast with rib meat, water, salt, and natural flavor. BREADED WITH: Wheat flour, water, wheat starch, white whole wheat flour, salt, yellow corn flour, corn starch, dried onion, dried garlic, dried yeast, brown sugar, extractives of paprika, and spices. Breading set in vegetable oil.
Sounds like you'll also get some lettuce and tomatoes.A baked potato is always nice.
Time to try the alternate entree --
This week's soup: Minestrone - homemade!
Plus, the alternate entree for January is a 1/2 wrap with the soup and sides. The wrap changes each day. Tuesdays are roast beef. Wraps have romaine lettuce, white flour tortilla and Boar's Head meats.
on Whole Wheat Bun
w/Sandwich Fixin’s
Baked Potato
Fresh Fruit in Season
Not so excited today. This is Tyson fried chicken product. The ingredients are: Boneless chicken breast with rib meat, water, salt, and natural flavor. BREADED WITH: Wheat flour, water, wheat starch, white whole wheat flour, salt, yellow corn flour, corn starch, dried onion, dried garlic, dried yeast, brown sugar, extractives of paprika, and spices. Breading set in vegetable oil.
Sounds like you'll also get some lettuce and tomatoes.A baked potato is always nice.
Time to try the alternate entree --
This week's soup: Minestrone - homemade!
Plus, the alternate entree for January is a 1/2 wrap with the soup and sides. The wrap changes each day. Tuesdays are roast beef. Wraps have romaine lettuce, white flour tortilla and Boar's Head meats.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Save the Date - Feb 4 - New Family Cooking Class
Bhavani Jaroff Returns to Sea Cliff!
On February 4th, Bhavani will return to our school for a hands-on healthy cooking class for students and their parents.You can see pictures of her last visit here and check out the recipes she used as well. Or, visit her website at I Eat Green. You can even hear her radio show at the Progressive Radio Network.
Stay tuned for more details.
On February 4th, Bhavani will return to our school for a hands-on healthy cooking class for students and their parents.You can see pictures of her last visit here and check out the recipes she used as well. Or, visit her website at I Eat Green. You can even hear her radio show at the Progressive Radio Network.
Stay tuned for more details.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Weekend Reading
Reading
Epicurious has a nice, interactive site for winter farm-to-table eating. Check it out here.
New, interesting, research suggests that time spent being sedentary hurts you regardless of whether you also exercise. Makes me all the more concerned about the mandatory watching of Tom & Jerry during indoor recess. The article specifically cites the increase in blood pressure in children associated with screen time.
I'm sure you were all looking for more evidence that we should eat fewer animal products. Here's some. I'd like to see the school lunch program help kids get used to this kind of eating.
There's new evidence that the dairy industry's fight to to keep chocolate milk in schools is still misguided. Read it here.
Fun
Remember Dr. King this weekend. On Monday, at 9am, Glen Cove hosts a march from the First Baptist Church on Continental through Glen Cove to the Wunsch Arts Center where a program will celebrate Dr. King's memory.
Epicurious has a nice, interactive site for winter farm-to-table eating. Check it out here.
New, interesting, research suggests that time spent being sedentary hurts you regardless of whether you also exercise. Makes me all the more concerned about the mandatory watching of Tom & Jerry during indoor recess. The article specifically cites the increase in blood pressure in children associated with screen time.
I'm sure you were all looking for more evidence that we should eat fewer animal products. Here's some. I'd like to see the school lunch program help kids get used to this kind of eating.
There's new evidence that the dairy industry's fight to to keep chocolate milk in schools is still misguided. Read it here.
Fun
Remember Dr. King this weekend. On Monday, at 9am, Glen Cove hosts a march from the First Baptist Church on Continental through Glen Cove to the Wunsch Arts Center where a program will celebrate Dr. King's memory.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
MENU CHANGE! What's for Lunch - Fri., 1/14
Menu Change Announced!
Fresh Garlic Bread
get your sides from the ...
Salad Bar Lunch!
Fresh Grapes
The ziti is a white flour pasta with some protein by Barilla Plus. The ingredients are: Semolina, Grain and Legume Flour, Blend (Lentils, Chickpeas, Egg Whites, Spelt, Barley, Flaxseed, Oat Fiber, Oats), Durum Flour, Niacin, Iron (Ferrous Sulfate), Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid.
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).
Here's what they can probably expect from the salad: The bar will have two kinds of cheese, chic peas, romaine lettuce, and raw vegetables among other things - including croutons. At Sea Cliff at least, the salad is put together by the cafeteria workers to order for the kids. The dressings are Balsamic Vinegar, Ranch and Caesar. Click each one to be linked back to ingredient lists. Read about Balsamic Vinegar here: filtered water, organic soybean oil, organic balsamic vinegar, organic sugar, salt, organic white vinegar, organic minced garlic, organic garlic powder, organic onion powder, organic black pepper, organic red bell pepper granules, xantham gum.
This week's soup: Tomato and Rice
Plus, the alternate entree for January is a 1/2 wrap with the soup and sides. The wrap changes each day. Thursday are Roast Beef. Wraps have romaine lettuce, white flour tortilla and Boar's Head meats. (See below in case they are using the Friday schedule for the wraps.)
We are canceling the original Friday menu because the snow made the fresh food harder to get. It was:
BBQ Roast Chicken
Herb Baked Potato Wedges
Cucumber Rounds
Watermelon!
This is frozen chicken to which we add BBQ sauce. The potato wedges are plain, frozen potatoes quarters - a USDA commodity food. We season and bake them. Cucumber rounds and watermelon sounds like great, fresh options.
This week's soup: Tomato and Rice
Plus, the alternate entree for January is a 1/2 wrap with the soup and sides. The wrap changes each day. Fridays are turkey. Wraps have romaine lettuce, white flour tortilla and Boar's Head meats.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
MENU CHANGE! What's for Lunch - Thurs., 1/13
Hi, everyone - due to the snow and its effect on food deliveries, our menu is changing for Thurs. and Fri.
Thursday is now:
BRUNCH FOR LUNCH
Homemade Challah French
Toast w/Orange Rounds
Applegate Turkey Bacon
Cinnamon Applesauce
It's hard to recommend what our committee's nutritionist has called "cake for lunch" but it is popular. At least it comes with fresh fruit plus govt commodity applesauce.
At Sea Cliff, the french toast last month was served with a large portion of syrup. Clearly, the school lunch program cannot afford real maple syrup, and pretty much all artificial syrups are made with high fructose corn syrup - which we have talked about extensively here. Our school has made great strides in getting HFCS out of a lot of foods but it is in this one.
The turkey bacon is by Applegate. It is nitrate-free. Here are the ingredients: Turkey (Turkey Used Never Administered Antibiotics, Growth Promotants or Animal By-products), Water, Sea Salt, Maple Sugar, Celery Juice, Onion Powder, Spices, Lactic Acid Starter Culture (not From Milk.)
It might be a good day to try the Alternate Entree for January.
This week's soup: Tomato and Rice
The alternate entree for January is a 1/2 wrap with the soup and sides. The wrap changes each day. Wednesdays are fresh breaded chicken cutlet. All wraps have romaine lettuce and a white flour tortilla. We make these chicken cutlets ourselves -- marinated in yogurt, spices, panko and corn meal.
I'm not sure which alternate entree they will use. Thursday are Roast Beef. Wraps have romaine lettuce, white flour tortilla and Boar's Head meats.
Thursday is now:
BRUNCH FOR LUNCH
Homemade Challah French
Toast w/Orange Rounds
Applegate Turkey Bacon
Cinnamon Applesauce
It's hard to recommend what our committee's nutritionist has called "cake for lunch" but it is popular. At least it comes with fresh fruit plus govt commodity applesauce.
At Sea Cliff, the french toast last month was served with a large portion of syrup. Clearly, the school lunch program cannot afford real maple syrup, and pretty much all artificial syrups are made with high fructose corn syrup - which we have talked about extensively here. Our school has made great strides in getting HFCS out of a lot of foods but it is in this one.
The turkey bacon is by Applegate. It is nitrate-free. Here are the ingredients: Turkey (Turkey Used Never Administered Antibiotics, Growth Promotants or Animal By-products), Water, Sea Salt, Maple Sugar, Celery Juice, Onion Powder, Spices, Lactic Acid Starter Culture (not From Milk.)
It might be a good day to try the Alternate Entree for January.
This week's soup: Tomato and Rice
The alternate entree for January is a 1/2 wrap with the soup and sides. The wrap changes each day. Wednesdays are fresh breaded chicken cutlet. All wraps have romaine lettuce and a white flour tortilla. We make these chicken cutlets ourselves -- marinated in yogurt, spices, panko and corn meal.
I'm not sure which alternate entree they will use. Thursday are Roast Beef. Wraps have romaine lettuce, white flour tortilla and Boar's Head meats.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
What's for Lunch - Wed., 1/12
BRUNCH FOR LUNCH
Homemade Challah French
Toast w/Orange Rounds
Applegate Turkey Bacon
Cinnamon Applesauce
It's hard to recommend what our committee's nutritionist has called "cake for lunch" but it is popular. At least it comes with fresh fruit plus govt commodity applesauce.
At Sea Cliff, the french toast last month was served with a large portion of syrup. Clearly, the school lunch program cannot afford real maple syrup, and pretty much all artificial syrups are made with high fructose corn syrup - which we have talked about extensively here. Our school has made great strides in getting HFCS out of a lot of foods but it is in this one.
The turkey bacon is by Applegate. It is nitrate-free. Here are the ingredients: Turkey (Turkey Used Never Administered Antibiotics, Growth Promotants or Animal By-products), Water, Sea Salt, Maple Sugar, Celery Juice, Onion Powder, Spices, Lactic Acid Starter Culture (not From Milk.)
It might be a good day to try the Alternate Entree for January.
This week's soup: Tomato and Rice
The alternate entree for January is a 1/2 wrap with the soup and sides. The wrap changes each day. Wednesdays are fresh breaded chicken cutlet. All wraps have romaine lettuce and a white flour tortilla. We make these chicken cutlets ourselves -- marinated in yogurt, spices, panko and corn meal.
Sara
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