What's for Lunch, Thursday 10/31/2013

Southwest Taco Bowl

Corn Tortilla Bowl

Brown Rice, Tomato, Cheese, Salsa, & Romaine

Chipotle Vinaigrette

Zesty Black Beans

Sweet Corn

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Chicken on Request

 

Petite Banana

The brown rice is a great whole grain. The black beans are canned. I'm assuming the same for the corn .

The southwest-style chicken is from Tyson and described as diced, cooked "chicken meat." Read more about farm animals raised by industrial giants like Tyson,  antibiotics and hormones.  The bowl comes from Smokewood Foods. The ingredients are described just as "enriched masa flour" and they look like a big rectangular corn chip. They have 5g of fat and no sodium.   


 

 

 What's for Lunch, Wednesday 10/30/13

Flatbread Cheese Pizza

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on Request*

Caesar Salad

Strawberry Smoothie

Unlike many schools, we do make these pizzas. This is a white-flour pizza (not whole grain). 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).

Go with cheese.  The chicken is a pre-cooked breaded Tyson chicken product. The ingredients are: Boneless, skinless chicken breast filets 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.  Their serving size has 10g of fat (2 of which are saturated) and 620 mg of sodium.

What's for Lunch,  Monday 10/28/1

CBLT

Breaded Chicken, Applegate® Turkey Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato

on

A Whole Wheat Bun

With Cucumber Salad

And Red & Green Grapes

I do not know what the "breaded chicken" is
And I scoured the web for Applegate's Turkey Bacon and came up empty.
I know it's a healthier alternative to "regular bacon" - But the lack of information worries me.

More Amazing Pictures Frrom Food Day!

 Morning Lecture and Healthy Breakfast

Lunch Time with Homemade Butternut Squash soup.

And SUCCESS! 

167 "yummy" votes, 22 "not for me" and 8 "indecisive".

 Fun Crafts. Make a Clementine Orange "pumpkin"

 

More after-school Crafts!

And the amazing turnout of fresh food donations!

Way to go!!!!

What's for Lunch,  Monday 10/27/13

Brunch For Lunch

Cinnamon Challah French Toast & Applegate® Turkey Bacon

OR

Scrambled Egg & Cheese Wrap

Baked Potato "Puffs"

Cinnamon Apple Sauce

 Say "No" to meal declared to be "cake" for lunch by our committee's nutritionist - basically white flour bread.  The syrup is basically HFCS.  They are looking for an affordable maple syrup but do not have one yet - but they will be limiting the serving size this year in the meantime.  Actual lunch from our schools above. This meal has a lot of sugar, simple carbohydrates -- no whole grains

The turkey bacon is by Applegate.  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.)  They promote it as nitrate-free but this NYT article indicates otherwise - and cites the company saying their products have the same level (naturally) of cancer-causing nitrates as conventional brands. Read more about nitrates here.

I do not know if the wrap used for the egg and cheese is whole grain.  But they do use actual eggs like you would use at home. 

"Puffs" are commodity potatoes processed by McCain's into tater tots -- although they are labeled "frozen pre-formed potato rounds."  They are flash-fried before they get to the frozen part.  They have 7g of fat (one of which is saturated) and 190mg of sodium. Ingredients are: potatoes, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following oils: canola, soybean, cottonseed, sunflower, corn). Contains 2% or less of dextrose, salt, sodium acid pyrophosphate added to maintain natural color.

Food Day 2013 SUCCESS!!

Check out some of the fresh food we collected. Amazing!

Great Jot Nutrition Committee!!

 - The Apple People -

What's for Lunch Friday, 10/25/13

Traoria Friday! 

Rotini & Meatballs 
OR 
Rotini Marinara 
With Mozzarella Stick 
Zucchini & Carrot Sticks with Ranch Dip 
Fresh Melon

This is a whole grain rotini by Zerega.  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, Spices, Salt, Citric Acid, Garlic Powder, Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid), Black Pepper, Vitamin E (DL-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate), Natural Flavor, Vitamin A (Retinol Palmitate)

The meatballs are are processed, cooked and frozen by Tyson.  Ingredients are: Ground beef (not more than 20% fat), water, bread crumbs (bleached wheat flour, salt, yeast, dextrose, and soybean oil), seasoning (salt, dehydrated onion, dehydrated celery, garlic powder, spices, soybean oil), tomato puree (tomatoes and citric acid), grated parmesan cheese [(cultured part-skim milk, salt and enzymes), cellulose powder, potassium sorbate], grated romano cheese made from cow's milk [(cultured pasteurized part-skim milk, salt and enzymes), cellulose powder, potassium sorbate].   They have 9g of fat (3 are saturated) and 450 mg of sodium.

Carrots are domestic and served with a full fat organic ranch dressing.