What's for lunch - Friday, November 1, 2013

Applegate Hot Dog on a Whole Wheat bun 

With or without sauerkraut 

OR

Fresh Fruit Plate w/Freshly Baked 

Whole Wheat Breadstick & Cheese

Carrot sticks, Pineapple chunks in juice

The hot dogs are from Applegate Farms - so they are far better than many hot dogs. They have 8g of fat and 330mg of sodium. The ingredients are just: beef, water, sea salt, less than 2% of the following: celery juice, sodium lactate (from beets), lactic acid starter culture (not from milk), onion powder, spices, garlic powder, paprika. They have 6g of fat(2.5g saturated) and 380 mg of sodium. They are dairy-, casein- and gluten-free. The bun is whole wheat.

I do not have any information on the other items. 

What's for Lunch - Thursday, October 31, 2013

Southwest Taco Bowl
Corn Tortilla Bowl, Brown Rice, Tomato, Cheese & Salsa With Black Beans and Sweet Corn
Romaine lettuce with Chipolte vinaigrette
With or without Chicken
Petite Banana

The brown rice is a great whole grain. The black beans are canned. Not sure about 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, October 30, 2013

Flatbread Cheese Pizza
With or Without Chicken 
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