What's for Lunch - Mon., 4/1

This is a perfectly nice sandwich -- but take the cucumbers!

Whole Wheat Grilled Cheese
Cucumbers with Dip
Cinnamon Applesauce

NO SALAD BAR TODAY

Yes, we have school on Monday -- but no salad bar the day after a break.

The grilled cheese sandwich is made with Cabot cheddar on whole wheat bread.  We use Nature's Own Whole Wheat Bread for these. The ingredients are: STONE GROUND WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, BROWN SUGAR, YEAST, WHEAT GLUTEN, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: SALT, VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN OIL OR CANOLA OIL), DOUGH, CONDITIONERS (SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, CALCIUM, STEAROYL-2-LACTYLATE, MONOGLYCERIDES, CALCIUM IODATE, ETHOXYLATED MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, CALCIUM PEROXIDE, DATEM), CULTURED WHEAT FLOUR, VINEGAR, CALCIUM SULFATE, MONOCALCIUM, PHOSPHATE, YEAST FOOD (AMMONIUM SULFATE), SOY LECITHIN.

Cucumbers with a full fat organic ranch dressing.

Commodity applesauce dressed up with our own cinnamon. 

Weekend Fun

Looking for an Egg Hunt?

Sea Cliff's hunt will be in Spooky Park on the Friday morning before Easter - bring two dozen filled eggs (or drop off hte night before).

Garden of Eve organic farm has a hunt plus real bunnies and chicks. Great cafe and market.

Benner's Farm has baby animals and a great hunt.

Garvies Point has a Dinosaur Egg Hunt - it was great last year.

Poster Contest Winners Announced!

Sea Cliff's Nutrition Month Poster Contest Winners:

Enjoy the Break

No School this week -- but we do have school next Monday.

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.

Weekend Reading

Reading

Don't miss Michael Mudd's NYT piece - "How to Force Ethics on the Food Industry".

The WSJ's Law Blog weighs on on the USDA proposed rules to ban Doritos and other nutritionally worthless items from schools.  If you'd like to support the USDA's efforts to prevent obesity in children and help them fight the food industry, sign here.

You should sometimes wash those re-useable grocery bags you're toting about.

Watching

Loved this clip on urban and vertical farming in Chicago.

Food

Schools in Milton, VT have been serving some great new recipes according to the Let's Move campaign -- try them for yourself. 

Fun

Need Stuff for Your Kids to do over the break? These places are all hosting activities or camps:

Garvies Point

Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery

Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum

Science Museum of Long Island

Nassau County Museum of Art

What's for Lunch - Fri., 3/22

MACARONI & CHEESE (Order Entree #1)
Barilla Plus Pasta with Wisconsin Cheddar
OR
Cup of Soup (Order Entree #2)
with Pizza Bagel
Sauteed, Seasoned-Broccoli
Petite Banana

The noodles we're using for the Mac n cheese are 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 made from Wisconsin Cheddar. 

The soup is chicken noodle. It has 3g of fat (1g saturated) and it's quite salty - 670mg of sodium. The ingredients are: Chicken Broth, Water, Chicken (Chicken, Water, Modified Food Starch, Salt), Carrots, Pasta (Wheat, Eggs, Egg Whites, Niacin, Iron [Ferrous Sulfate], Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Celery, Onions, Contains 2% or less of: Chicken Base (Chicken, Salt, Rendered Chicken Fat, Dextrose, Sugar, Natural Flavoring, Roast Chicken Flavor [Rendered Chicken Fat, Flavor, Safflower Oil], Chicken Broth, Turmeric), Chicken Flavor (Salt, Corn Syrup Solids, Natural Flavor [Chicken Powder, Chicken Fat], Yeast Extract, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Natural Tocopherols), Chicken Fat, Olive Oil, Parsley, Acacia & Xanthan Gum, Garlic, Turmeric, Nisin Preparation and Spices.
Contains: Wheat and Egg.

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.

Fresh broccoli and banana.