Friday lunch involves shopping for the weekend. The mall has a ready-made food for Shabbat market full of take-away meat, potato or rice, vegetable and salad dishes. I usually buy a small container of goujon chicken schnitzels for DD to eat while we're shopping. As we don't have meat at home this satisfies me that she's had some good protein for the day. (Her usual meat meal is lunch at nursery).
On Shabbat (Saturday) we get up late and DD has snacky things to keep her going until an early lunch. So I've never had to deal with breakfast. This week I even asked the nursery teacher if she has milk on her cereal as I had no idea whether she likes this or not. Apparently every child has milk on their cereal except DD, who prefers to eat it dry. Who knew?
Starting on Wednesday we have three weeks of summer holiday during which I have to feed DD three meals a day. Obviously I needed a plan and a list. So here it is.
Breakfast:
I bought boxes of cereal. I always swore I wouldn't as they are full of sugar but I gave in. Shoot me, we have cereal for breakfast. (Not me, I'm doing a Not The Scarsdale/GrapefruitCabbage Soup diet involving a slice of toast and black coffee [with milk]).
Lunch:
Everyday the same. There is a limit to what I'm prepared to do here and as my lunch is a small salad and some protein and we eat together this is lunch: Chopped tomato and cucumber salad (dressed with O.O., S&P, lemon juice), cottage cheese (DD loves this), a HBE each and bread and butter for DD. She can also have a yogurt for dessert.
Suppers:
I have a list of six suppers which we can play with but I've assigned them days to make it easier. I, of course will be having my magic Tomato Soup but we'll be sitting together while DD has:
Sunday - Pitta Pizza with Tomato and Olives
Monday - Egg Noodles and Cheese (no sauce, it's what she likes) with Peas.
Tuesday - Tuna Salad on Crackers and Apple Wedges (that means a cut up apple - try it, tuna and apple goes really well.)
Wednesday - Cheesey Pancakes (The link suggests all sorts of fancy pancakes but DD actually likes the plain cheese ones best). Peas and Mashed Potato
Thursday - Omelet or Scrambled Egg and Chips
Friday - Burekas (The link is for when I made my own but I may just buy them) with a sauce (tomato or mushroom) and Peas or Brocoli (I'm trying to push brocoli but she likes peas.)
Saturday - Lunch (meaning the usual weekday lunch as we usually go to friends for lunch on Shabbat).
Snacks:
Fruit, ice-lolly from the freezer (it's very hot here), jelly-beans on Shabbat, boxes of SunMaid raisins.
I'm linking this post to Meal Planning Monday over at 'At Home With Mrs M.' Pop over there to see some real weekly menu plans for real people.
Some interesting combinations and flavours. Tuna and apple is something I've never heard of! Have a good week :) x
ReplyDeleteI was once served tuna quiche with apple sauce. It was surprisingly delicious. On the other hand we could just have the tuna salad on the crackers and eat the apple for dessert.
DeleteLife is for living and food should be nutritious, delicious and fun-so I think if you are balancing all of these things you are doing a great job!I have had to feed 3 boys 3 meals for the last 11 weeks and they have different tastes and favourites. Two are very picky despite weening them all the same way( many years ago)and offering them the same foods ever since. My middle son who is the 17 year old EMT and firefighter, eats small frequent meals that consist mainly of pasta, rice or potatoes some protein and salad if I am lucky. He snacks on cookies and crisps and apples. He is the healthiest( as in he never gets sick!), strongest and fittest in the family-so go figure. You'll do your best and they grow up and grow tall in spite of you!!( he is 5'11 and I am 5"0).
ReplyDeleteSo I say take care of your health and DD will follow suit.
Gilly.
Thanks Gilly, I'm guessing you saw the (heated) discussion on fb. You are so right and I'm certainly not aiming to be Mrs Organic Foods 2012 - just reasonably healthy. (How did you and Jonny get a 5'11"?)
DeleteYes I saw it...aaaagh!!
DeleteNo idea how I got such a tall kid-certainly wasn't from all his "healthy" eating or my genes, and despite all the rumors we did not stretch him at night!
Gx
That's a very good idea - the meals rota. And its one I need to implement more for Little A each week. At the moment I'm just winging it, I need to be a little more organised.
ReplyDeleteI'm laughing because today, which was Day 1, we went to the park after nursery and then straight to the shops to buy a present for someone and I bought DD a pizza pitta at the bakery. (And it's not even Sunday!)
DeleteYes I know what you mean re meal planning. DD is also a five day a week day care girl. So holiday times I need to think about meals. Evening meals are normally just small and verging on snack like as she has eaten proper lunches and 4pm tea/dinners consisting of two courses everyday as well as breakfast and two snaccks of fruit/veg/crackers at 9:30-10ish and at 2-3ish.
ReplyDeleteA favourite of DD's is French toast - eggy bread. She also likes cucumber....with everything, as a starter, snack. She likes plain stuff including brocoli, cauliflower, white cabbage - steamed but crunchy, boiled plain rice. All boring but I am happy with the veg intake. Good on you for planning.
French toast is a great idea too. It took me a while to realize that whilst I love to cook, DD actually prefers plain stuff too. And cucmbers are one of our favourite snacks too - she even takes a peeled one to bed.
DeleteOne of my main aims here is to avoid us grazing our way through the three weeks on wall to wall snacks and not being hungry enough to bother with proper meals. It sometimes happens on a Shabbat if we don't go out for lunch.
A really innovative and clever menu for the holiday, LOVING the cheesy pancakes too!
ReplyDeleteThanks Karen - yes the pancakes are our favourites atm.
DeleteHi, new to your blog. I'm going to try Tina with apple tomorrow! I'm going to try TUNA , damned phone!! TunA with apple!
ReplyDeletePlease let us know what you think. It may be that I just have funny taste buds. Thanks for joining me.
DeleteIt all sounds good to me! I do try and meal plan, but it normally goes out the window! But Even the black coffee with no milk and a slice of toast! Make sure you have at least one jelly bean though? :)
ReplyDeleteI have three confessions to make.
Deletea) Today was day one and I bought her a pitta pizza from the bakery while we were out shopping.
b) I put milk in my black coffee and a scrape of butter on my toast.
c) I swapped the half a grapefruit for a galss of OJ thereby adding 100 calories and missing out on the fibre.
We also like cheese on toast and tuna pasta bake - all easy to cook and no e-numbers. I was once told not to feel that you have to cook every meal in the holidays - 1 cooked meal a day and sandwiches for lunch is fine. BTW all three cousins have dry cereal with a large cup of milk (strawberry milk I'm afraid), I wonder if she saw it here?
ReplyDeleteMiriam x x
The Pizza Pitta ia basically cheese on toast with some ketchup, tomatoes and olives added. I thought she may have learned the cereal thing at your house. I'm having mine with milk though. She won't drink any milk though so she has OJ or water. She's not very good with sandwiches either which is why we're having the salad with the cottage cheese and HBEs, but I agree that one cooked meal a day is quite enough.
DeleteThanks for commenting. xx
My kids reject all veg and most proteins and I have a powerful antipathy towards cooking. So fish fingers and houmous gets us through the holidays!
ReplyDeleteI would do fish fingers if they were like the ones you get. The fish fingers here are totally processed minced fish and other fillers rather than breaded pieces of fish. As for hummus - it's our national dish but DD doesn't like it unfortunately.
Deletewhat is HBE?
ReplyDeleteHard boiled egg. Sorry :)
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