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Lunch Money
This isn’t a recipe so much as a way to bring some fun into your kids’ lunch hour. Instead of giving then cash to buy junk food, give them coins they can actually eat—that is, offer a balanced meal of round, coin-shaped edibles (organic, of course!). Here’s a range of possibilities.
Ingredients
- Organic Valley Stringles, cut crosswise into rounds
- Cucumber, sliced
- Green or yellow zucchini, sliced
- Asparagus spears, blanched and cut crosswise
- Broccoli stems, peeled and slice into rounds
- Radishes, sliced
- Carrot, sliced into coins
- Organic Prairie Hot Dogs, cooked, cooled and cut into rounds
- Organic Prairie Italian Chicken Sausage or Bratwurst, cooked, cooled and cut into rounds
- Organic Prairie Pepperoni
- Dried bananas, in slices
- Dried apricots
- Fruit leather, cut into rounds
- Kiwi, sliced
- Oyster crackers
- Small, round pretzels
- Small, round corn tortilla chips
- Round ravioli, cooked and cooled
- Garbanzo beans (*see note)
Directions
1. Let your child choose his or her favorites from the array of finger foods above. Pack the little piles of “coins” into a rectangular container to make a lunch-size treasure chest.
*Call these “gold nuggets” instead of coins--and offer nuggets in other colors, too (think peas, blueberries, grapes, etc.)
Copyright by Terese Allen
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