Stocking a Healthy Kitchen!

Make sure you have the following on your kitchen shelf:

Brown rice and/or couscous	Brown sugar
Pasta	Honey
Bulgur or barley	Cornstarch
Beans (dried or canned)	Baking powder and baking soda
Fat-free refried beans	Vinegar
Reduced-fat condensed cream soups (a variety)	Ketchup, mustard, light mayonnaise, and relish
Chicken or beef broth	Reduced-fat salad dressings
Salsa or picante sauce	Canned tuna or salmon (packed in water)
Pasta sauce	Peanut butter
Vegetable cooking spray	Ready-to-eat whole-grain cereals
Vegetable oil, such as olive oil	Oatmeal
Herbs and spices	Baking potatoes and/or yams
Flour	Dried fruit, such as apricots and raisins
Sugar	Bread crumbs

Try to have the following in your refrigerator:

Fresh fruit (variety)	Parmesan cheese
Fresh vegetables (variety)	Low-fat margarine or butter spray
100 percent fruit or vegetable juices	Eggs or egg substitute
Onions	Low-fat sliced cheese
Tortillas	Reduced-fat deli meat, such as turkey breast
Fat-free milk	Bottled lemon juice
Low-fat yogurt	Light soy sauce and teriyaki sauce
Low-fat cottage cheese	Fresh garlic

Try to have the following in your freezer:

Frozen vegetables	Lean meats (chicken breasts, lean beef, loin chops)
Frozen chopped onions	Fish
Shredded low-fat cheese (a variety)	Frozen yogurt, sherbet or sorbet; frozen juice bars

The Lunch Box!

The Lunch Box is a project of the F3: Food Family Farming Foundation.

What They Believe!

We believe all children must have access to healthy food to grow their bodies, minds and future. We must feed their knowledge while also providing wholesome sustenance to their physical needs. The tools for feeding such change must be equally available to all schools no matter their geography, budget or situation. The relationship children have with food will evolve into a virtuous circle benefiting not just themselves but our society as a whole.

F3 is focusing its efforts on The Lunch Box: Healthy Tools To Help All Schools

The Lunch Box is a web-based portal that enables all schools and school districts to make a healthy difference for all children in America by providing relevant information and the pragmatic tools necessary to make good food available for all kids.

The Lunch Box is in beta mode. When fully functional, it will provide the multi-faceted approach necessary to transition any processed food based K-12 school meal program to a whole foods environment where food is procured regionally and prepared from scratch for the student population. As a free resource, The Lunch Box will provide the essential “tools” for examining, learning about, and implementing this type of healthy meal program. From the “why” to the “how to,” The Lunch Box will offer a complete menu of choices for those seeking to implement program change in their schools and distric

Please check out their website: www.thelunchbox.org

Is Your Family Disconnected?

Overwhelmed, unorganized and out-of-touch. If any of this describes your family, it’s time to slow down, clear out the clutter and take back your family with Peter Walsh’s Stripped Down Challenge.

Between schedules that pull you every which way, a growing dependence on technology and the stress of daily life, it’s easy to let your life consume you. Now, it’s time to be the change in your household and provide the best life possible for your family. “The whole idea of stripping that stuff out of the house starts to get you back in touch with your home, which is so important,” Peter says. “Get the family back connected with each other.”

All you need is one week and Peter’s six Stripped Down Challenge rules. Get started!

http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Peter-Walshs-Stripped-Down-Family-Challenge/slide_number/0#slide

( From the Oprah Winfrey Show)

Improvement with food items in Lunch Bag

After I sent the parent a note saying chocolate and chips are unhealthy items in your daughter’s lunchbag and stressing that this is what she ate all day this is what the student’s lunch bag looked like today big difference eh?
She had cucumbers, carrots, croissant, corn and juice.