Monday: Apple Chicken, baked potatoes, baked butternut squash, and steamed broccoli
Monday: Taquitos with salsa and sour cream, salad
Tuesday: Beans and cornbread, steamed green beans
Wednesday: Hamburger Soup, salad
Thursday: Grilled chicken, brown rice, salad, steamed carrots
Friday: Gyros with lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers, brown rice
Saturday: Apple Chicken, baked potatoes, baked butternut squash, steamed broccoli
I know it is only Sunday, but I have a few minutes right now to do this and I may not have time in the morning. So, here is my menu! We are trying to eat up all of the Once A Month Cooking meals from September. Then Friday is grocery shopping day and we will start fresh.
1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)
Sugar Windstar
2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie)
Chocolate Chocolate Chip
3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)
J Jon
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Pink Giraffe
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Maxine Idabel
6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)
Jonju
7. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
The green coke
8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)
Lloyd Dale
9. STRIPPER NAME: (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy)
Mackie Reeses
10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names)
Jean Bruce
11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter)
Parks Philadelphia
12. SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: (your favorite season/holiday, flower)
Autumn Rose
13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”)
Watermelon Shirtie
14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)
Burrito Oak
15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”)
The Cross Stitch Rain Tour
sliced cheese, 1/2 pb sandwich, 1/2 turkey sandwich, cucumbers, carrots, and cantaloupe. Juice to drink.
Friday: Grilled chicken, potatoes, raw vegetable slices (cucumbers, tomatoes, bell pepper), corn
Saturday: chicken fajitas, avocados, corn tortillas, homemade salsa, refried beans, tortilla chips
Sunday: grilled salmon, salad, steamed green beans, brown rice, fresh fruit and green tea
Monday: Chicken noodle soup, homemade bread
Tuesday: grilled tilapia, fresh fruit, sliced tomatoes and cucumbers, green beans, fresh fruit and green tea
Wednesday: Iri Iri Pan Pan, steamed mixed vegetables, baby carrots
Thursday: Teriyaki salmon, brown rice with peas, cooked carrots, sliced raw vegetables, fresh fruit and green tea
http://bentolunch.blogspot.com/
Target stores: Lock and Lock boxes
HOW TO BUILD A BENTO BOX
•Plan your bento like an art activity.
•Choose foods for color.
•Use cookie cutters and other tools to cut foods such as bread, cheese, fruits and vegetables into interesting shapes.
•Use plastic skewers for foods such as fruit or roll-up sandwiches.
•Use cute plastic bottles or small sauce containers for liquids
•Don't forget muffin cups (large and small), to separate items.
•Egg molds press hard-cooked eggs into whimsical shapes. Go to www.24hourkitchen.word press.com for a look at egg molds and how to use them.
•Rice molds also allow you to shape rice into whimsical shapes. Besides Ekitron, find rice molds, including Hello Kitty, on eBay.
•Here are color ideas for fruits and veggies:
For reds, select from strawberries, red grapes, halved cherry tomatoes or sliced red peppers.
For orange, consider carrots, dried apricots, sweet potato, cantaloupe or mandarin orange segments.
Green is easy: peas, cucumber, green grapes, broccoli, spinach, green peppers and asparagus.
For white, try rice, Asian dumplings, pasta, bread or popcorn.
BENTO BOX FOOD IDEAS
Faux sushi: Cut the crust from a piece of bread, spread cream cheese on the bread, top with thinly sliced deli meat and roll tightly. Cut into ½ -inch slices to resemble a sushi roll. (From Shannon Carino.)
Fruit sushi: Cut the crust from a piece of bread, spread with pineapple cream cheese, add a banana, roll and slice.
Salad roll: Remove the thick rib from a romaine lettuce leaf. Top with favorite salad dressing, a thin slice of Muenster cheese, a thin slice of roast beef. Roll tightly and secure with a pick.
Sandwich on a stick: Alternate chunks of ham and cheese, separated by squares of bread. Finish with a strawberry.
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How to make lunches kids will love
No more doughnuts: Nutritious, quick breakfast ideas
Tortilla roll: Spread a tortilla with refried beans. Top with cooked chicken, shredded lettuce and grated cheese. Roll and slice. Use plastic skewers to secure.
Muffin cup: Layer the cup with shaved turkey, shredded lettuce and carrots.
Polenta pizza: Slice store-bought polenta, brown both sides in a skillet and top with tomato sauce, freshly chopped herbs and cheese; warm until cheese melts.
Alphabet pasta: Cook pasta according to package directions. Toss with freshly chopped vegetables and butter.
Mini stromboli: Slightly flatten canned biscuit dough. Spread with small amount of tomato sauce on half, top with chopped pepperoni, fold over and crimp edges with fork. Bake in a 350 F oven until golden.
Hard-cooked eggs: Cook egg, peel it and then press it into an egg mold. Top with favorite meat shapes.
These are ideas I got from the article in the Dallas Morning News I was telling you about yesterday. Not all of the food suggestions follow the traditional Japanese way of eating, but some of them do. There are some cute ideas, that's for sure!
Here is the information I learned from the book Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat.
You need to get the book and read it for yourself. I couldn’t put I down last night and stayed up way too late reading it!
The Statistics:
Japanese women have an obesity rate of 3%.
American women have an obesity rate of 34%.
The life expectancy (at birth) of Japanese women is 86 years.
The life expectancy (at birth) of American women is 80 years.
Seven Secrets from a Tokyo Kitchen:
The Seven Pillars of Japanese Cooking
These foods make up the core of the Japanese diet. They do have small amounts of beef and chicken. Very small amounts. They eat meat as a side dish or as a condiment.
A typical Japanese meal consists of a bowl of rice, miso or clear soup, and three side dishes. One side dish will probably be fish, and the other two will most likely be vegetables.
This diet will not only keep us thin and healthy, but will help prevent all kinds of diseases, like Alzheimer's disease. My mother-in-law has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's at the age of 59, so this one is close to my heart.
Beauty in the Common Things: a morning drive…coffee in hand…windows down…cool air blowing in
Listen In: Baby gurgling and squealing in his exersaucer
Supper Plans: Italian Chicken in crock pot, noodles or mashed potatoes, green peas
Today I Plan To: piddle around the house, hang kids’ artwork on the hallway wall, fold and put away laundry, drink 8 oz of water every hour and take my herbs to prevent mastitis (not feeling so great this morning; this is the way I feel when I am about to have a full blown run-in with mastitis)
View From the Kitchen Window: neighbor across the street working on his lawn
This was a really great birthday. Annie can testify to that, right Annie? This birthday was in 1998 and I was turning 22. Corey planned a surprise birthday party for me. I really had no idea. He had lots of people in on it, but the most important person who helped him was Annie.
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