Monday, 3/1
AM Snack: Bananas
Lunch: Almond butter and organic strawberry preserves on whole grain bread, organic milk
P1M Snack: Yogurt cups
Tuesday, 3/2
AM Snack: Orange wedges
Lunch: Homemade organic chicken pot pie with mixed vegetables
PM Snack: Organic mixed berry yogurt smoothie, organic graham crackers
Wednesday, 3/3
AM Snack: Multigrain cereal with cranberries & macademia nuts
Lunch: Cheese ravioli with garlic, spinach and parmesan, greens with cucumbers and vinaigrette
PM Snack: Annie's organic snack packs
Thursday, 3/4
AM Snack: Fresh pineapple
Lunch: Organic black beans with steamed basmati rice, steamed organic broccoli
PM Snack: Organic gingersnaps, Craisins
Friday, 3/5
AM Snack: Organic toaster pastries
Lunch: Tuna salad with whole wheat flax bread, organic baby carrots with homemade dill dip [aka ranch]
PM Snack: Colby Jack or cheddar cheese sticks, organic wild rice cakes
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Chicken Fried Steak
I don't fix chicken fried steak often. Actually, I've only made this dish about 3 times in my entire life. Let me tell you--it's worth the work that goes into it! It's one of my husband's all time favorites and I venture to say that I have perfected the dish! No need to order this one out, y'all!
You have to start with the best beef available. For me, that's tenderized steak from Raising Five Cattle Company. Their grass fed beef is to die for. The cubed steak is so tender you can cut it with a spoon.
You'll notice in the pictures that I'm about to post that the meat is not a bright cherry red as seen in grocery stores. Wanna know why? Because theses delicious cuts of meat haven't been injected with red food dye to make them look more appealing. Yes--you read that right. Food dye. It's in everything including the meat you buy at the grocery store. Ick. Enough on that subject. On to the real prize.....CHICKEN FRIED STEAK!
I don't follow a recipe per se but if you're one that needs some direction, try Homesick Texan's recipe--it's no fail! It's my guide but now I fly solo when preparing. I do make my own cream gravy but Homesick Texan's is about as good as you get!
This recipe is for you, my dear sweet friend, Leslie Rosier Mitchell! I'm sure you can whip this up in Boston!
Pat steaks dry using paper towels.
You have to start with the best beef available. For me, that's tenderized steak from Raising Five Cattle Company. Their grass fed beef is to die for. The cubed steak is so tender you can cut it with a spoon.
You'll notice in the pictures that I'm about to post that the meat is not a bright cherry red as seen in grocery stores. Wanna know why? Because theses delicious cuts of meat haven't been injected with red food dye to make them look more appealing. Yes--you read that right. Food dye. It's in everything including the meat you buy at the grocery store. Ick. Enough on that subject. On to the real prize.....CHICKEN FRIED STEAK!
I don't follow a recipe per se but if you're one that needs some direction, try Homesick Texan's recipe--it's no fail! It's my guide but now I fly solo when preparing. I do make my own cream gravy but Homesick Texan's is about as good as you get!
This recipe is for you, my dear sweet friend, Leslie Rosier Mitchell! I'm sure you can whip this up in Boston!
Pat steaks dry using paper towels. Place one steak at a time in the egg mixture and coat well. Be sure to let any excess drip off as you don't want too much!
Dredge steak in well seasoned flour [I use salt, pepper and garlic powder].
Dip in egg mixture a second time.
Back to the flour for a second coating! Be sure to shake off any excess.
Into a hot cast iron skillet. An important note--oil must be very hot and a cast iron skillet is a MUST! I used peanut oil for an extra crispy outside on my steaks. Olive oil won't work for this as it has a low smoke point.
Flip after a three to four minutes. Be sure each side is a deep golden brown.
I place my steaks on a cookie sheet with a metal rack to drain. As I continue cooking steaks, the finished ones go into a warm oven to stay warm while I fininsh preparing dinner.
Cream gravy....yum! Start off with a fat [I used butter but you can use pan drippings for added flavor] and flour. Whisk until it bubbles and begins to turn a nice golden color. I typically don't like dark cream gravy, so I leave mine a little pale. You can certainly cook your rue as long as you wish.
Add seasonings--salt, pepper, cayenne, garlic or you can use season salt.
Whisk in milk. Be sure to turn the heat down as it will start to thicken and will burn. I used skim milk.
Whisk until mixture is nice and smooth.
Fresh ground black pepper and hot sauce [I prefer Cholula] rounds out the seasonings for the gravy!
Assemble plate and add gravy......
Ready to eat!
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Why Do We Treat Thirst With Medication? (You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty) by Dio Miranda
“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”
~Albert Einstein
One of the most significant changes you can make in your health is actually quite simple: increase the amount of water you drink, and improve the quality of the water you drink. Can you remember those times when you drank water from a hose or played in water from fire hydrants with your friends? This same water now contains drugs, chemicals, and even fluoride. Our medicated water might be the best vaccine ever invented (I joke). We need pure water for survival and cannot ignore its benefit. It is essential to keeping our organs moist and functioning.
Fluoride is touted for its ability to prevent cavities, and is added to municipal water supplies. In actuality, cavities are the result of a biochemical imbalance and not a fluoride deficiency. Chlorine and fluorine displace iodine and create problems with the thyroid gland. Fluoride even contributes to infertility. The saddest part is that it is reaching our children!
Most tap water doesn’t taste very good, and so in an effort to hydrate themselves, people try to uses juices and other drinks. I know many people will argue in favor of drinking fruit and vegetable juices for improved health. It takes a great number of oranges to make a glass of fresh orange juice. Can you imagine eating eight oranges in one sitting? How would the body respond to this massive amount of fruit sugar going through its system? Don’t get me wrong, some people benefit from juice drinking, but these folks are drinking just-squeezed, non-pasteurized juices from their glasses. Others who don’t benefit from juicing need nutrients from other sources to meet their body’s needs. Even though many will say that anything liquid hydrates the body, this is just wrong.
Juices that are not consumed immediately after squeezing them oxidize and lose some of their nutritional benefits. When you cut an apple on the kitchen counter and come back in a minute, you see for yourself what oxidation is—it is the process of seeing a live food consume itself.
Drinking coffee is another good example of taking in fluid, but not effectively hydrating the body. Coffee actually dehydrates the body. I know it tastes good and the purer it is, the better. I have to say that coffee is something we drink because we like its taste or think we need the caffeine, but not because our body needs it. Most people are not ready to detoxify themselves from coffee by the time they go to bed at night, and thus they disrupt their hormonal cycle, contributing to sleep problems and making us suspect that we are getting the latest disease in town. I recommend that my clients drink coffee before 9 AM to give themselves some time to get it out of their system before bedtime. This works for some, but not for others. I am not saying that you need to quit drinking coffee, but investigate whether this tasty drink is suitable for you.
The consumption of coffee has been well adopted by our society and is also a great contributor to adrenal fatigue in many people. Adrenal fatigue welcomes allergies, arthritic pain, and a decrease in immune response. Most women that have low adrenal function have more premenstrual tension as well as an increase in difficulty during menopause. In others, it causes changes in carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism as well as fluid and electrolyte balance, changes in the heart and cardiovascular system, and even changes in sex drive.
If we will pay more attention to the adrenal glands and how to keep them healthy, it is almost guaranteed that our lives would be full of energy to spend playing with our children and connecting with nature.
I have seen many children drinking coffee, colas, and other sugary drinks full of colors that glow in the dark. I want to share this quote:
“ . . .one should remember that caffeine is similarly an addictive drug, the use of which has become ‘legal’. Children in particular become vulnerable to the addictive properties of these containing beverages. Stimulating the body at the early stages of the life of a child with pleasure-enhancing chemicals in beverages, in some will program these senses to use harder addictive drugs when they reach school age.
Thus, the long-term and constant use of sodas in general, and diet sodas in particular, should be assumed to be responsible for some of the most serious health problems of our society. Distorting the physical appearance of the body as a result of excess fat storage is the first step in this direction. Some manufactured beverages should only be used sparingly, if at all, by younger people, when the right programs for the future health of a child is the aim of the parents.” (Wilson)
Do you know that we are the only animal in the world that drinks someone else’s milk for “calcium” intake or because we think it is necessary for survival? My friends, we do not need milk to survive! It is a shame that our mainstream media shows famous people with the mustache of what is responsible for many breathing dysfunctions and inflammations in the body. Many times “quitting milk” alone helps people restore their breathing and eliminate snoring. I am pretty sure their partners appreciate this! Broccoli, for example, is just as rich in calcium as milk, if not more so. Milk is really just white sugar water after pasteurization, anyway. Pasteurization is a heating process which is supposed to kill bad bacteria. It also kills the beneficial bacteria in milk, leaving nothing behind but white sugar water. Louis Pasteur (a French chemist and microbiologist that developed this process) said himself before he died: “[it] is not the germ, the problem is the terrain”. He meant that our body is not ready to digest milk. If you decide to drink milk, make it raw milk from a good healthy cow, and go slowly. Make it whole milk, which has more fat and has been touched less by humans. I will discuss the benefits of fast as we keep moving along this year.
When we consider the oxidation of juice and the pasteurization of milk, we see that we are simply left with sugar to process. This sugar needs to be digested by our body with the help of water! The body will look for water in different places for if we have not taken in enough, and will pull it from the mucous membranes of our organs, from our joints, and even our brain. We can cause dehydration our colon and cause constipation. Imagine how much toxic material is not moving properly out of our bodies—it sits in the intestines and the blood stream. This causes lethargy, bad feelings, and contributes to being sick. This is called “autointoxication”—something we induce.
Water aids in breathing. I usually recommend adding a pinch of sea salt to our water, which increases the dissolved solids in our water. This helps our bronchioles to do their job better. Asthmatics, this might be your solution!
We should drink water at room temperature. In my years visiting the gym, I have experimented with this and many health professionals have done the same. While exercising, the body’s temperature increases. If we place ice cold water in our system, it “freezes ” the area and keeps the water in our stomachs longer, which is not where our body’s design wants it to stay. We want to use the water while we are moving. So, drinking water at room temperature will help the water go through our system as it should, and not sit in our stomachs making a sloshing noise every time we try to do some ab work!
Water is essential for the discs of our spine, our joints, and aids in regulating blood pressure. Our discs are the shock absorbers for our daily movement. Water can sometimes be the miracle cure for low back pain. Keep your spine hydrated and it will pay off! Water is also necessary to hydrate joints so that they glide smoothly and help us be pain free as we move. Water has been used in arthritis cases, healing with amazing results. It is an important part of regulating blood pressure because it assists the kidneys in detoxifying themselves. If any organ is under stress or not doing its job, blood pressure can increase.
Diseases, aches, and discomfort can be healed just by drinking plenty of water! So, here we are again. What are we doing to our children? We don’t have to become hippos, but I encourage you to rethink the quality of the water you drink, and how much water you are drinking.
Some tips to help you in your hydration:
1. Drink half of your body weight in ounces. If you weight 100lbs, then drink 50 ounces of water daily.
2. Add a pinch of sea salt to increase the dissolve solids in the water.
3. Drink water at room temperature so it is better absorbed. If our body temperature is 98.6 degrees, the water we consume should not be cold.
4. Drink water 15 minutes before eating. This will help your digestion.
5. Good brands of bottled water are: Fiji, Evian and Vittel.
6. Drink from stainless steel or glass. Glass is best!
7. Check the source of your bottled and household water. Many bottled waters are just from a city water supply that is not your own!
8. Bathe and shower in good, clean water to avoid chlorine consumption as chlorine kills good bacteria. http://www.ppnf.org/ carries shower heads that eliminate chlorine from water. Also www.isabellacatalog .com carries filters that you could place in the bathtub while bathing babies.
9. Whole house water filtration system is a good idea. Make sure your water is filtered with a carbon filter. Water softeners are not water filters!
10. If drinking coffee, buy an organic or certified organic blend as coffee is one of the most polluted seeds in the world. Make sure to drink coffee with food in your stomach to avoid a blood sugar crash.
11. If in need of rehydration after your sport, dilute your sport drink using water.
My intentions are that YOU become and expert on yourself. Have a great month!
Migdoel “Dio” Miranda
Wellness Coach
Advanced Exercise Kinesiologist
http://www.diofitness.com/
Email: dio@diofitness.com
512.820.9112
References:
Batmanghelidj, F. M.D. Your Body’s Many Cries for Water, 1997.
http://www.watercure.com/
Wilson, James L. Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome, 2001.
http://www.adrenalfatigue.org/
Wikipedia, “Fluorine” 2010.
~Albert Einstein
One of the most significant changes you can make in your health is actually quite simple: increase the amount of water you drink, and improve the quality of the water you drink. Can you remember those times when you drank water from a hose or played in water from fire hydrants with your friends? This same water now contains drugs, chemicals, and even fluoride. Our medicated water might be the best vaccine ever invented (I joke). We need pure water for survival and cannot ignore its benefit. It is essential to keeping our organs moist and functioning.
Fluoride is touted for its ability to prevent cavities, and is added to municipal water supplies. In actuality, cavities are the result of a biochemical imbalance and not a fluoride deficiency. Chlorine and fluorine displace iodine and create problems with the thyroid gland. Fluoride even contributes to infertility. The saddest part is that it is reaching our children!
Most tap water doesn’t taste very good, and so in an effort to hydrate themselves, people try to uses juices and other drinks. I know many people will argue in favor of drinking fruit and vegetable juices for improved health. It takes a great number of oranges to make a glass of fresh orange juice. Can you imagine eating eight oranges in one sitting? How would the body respond to this massive amount of fruit sugar going through its system? Don’t get me wrong, some people benefit from juice drinking, but these folks are drinking just-squeezed, non-pasteurized juices from their glasses. Others who don’t benefit from juicing need nutrients from other sources to meet their body’s needs. Even though many will say that anything liquid hydrates the body, this is just wrong.
Juices that are not consumed immediately after squeezing them oxidize and lose some of their nutritional benefits. When you cut an apple on the kitchen counter and come back in a minute, you see for yourself what oxidation is—it is the process of seeing a live food consume itself.
Drinking coffee is another good example of taking in fluid, but not effectively hydrating the body. Coffee actually dehydrates the body. I know it tastes good and the purer it is, the better. I have to say that coffee is something we drink because we like its taste or think we need the caffeine, but not because our body needs it. Most people are not ready to detoxify themselves from coffee by the time they go to bed at night, and thus they disrupt their hormonal cycle, contributing to sleep problems and making us suspect that we are getting the latest disease in town. I recommend that my clients drink coffee before 9 AM to give themselves some time to get it out of their system before bedtime. This works for some, but not for others. I am not saying that you need to quit drinking coffee, but investigate whether this tasty drink is suitable for you.
The consumption of coffee has been well adopted by our society and is also a great contributor to adrenal fatigue in many people. Adrenal fatigue welcomes allergies, arthritic pain, and a decrease in immune response. Most women that have low adrenal function have more premenstrual tension as well as an increase in difficulty during menopause. In others, it causes changes in carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism as well as fluid and electrolyte balance, changes in the heart and cardiovascular system, and even changes in sex drive.
If we will pay more attention to the adrenal glands and how to keep them healthy, it is almost guaranteed that our lives would be full of energy to spend playing with our children and connecting with nature.
I have seen many children drinking coffee, colas, and other sugary drinks full of colors that glow in the dark. I want to share this quote:
“ . . .one should remember that caffeine is similarly an addictive drug, the use of which has become ‘legal’. Children in particular become vulnerable to the addictive properties of these containing beverages. Stimulating the body at the early stages of the life of a child with pleasure-enhancing chemicals in beverages, in some will program these senses to use harder addictive drugs when they reach school age.
Thus, the long-term and constant use of sodas in general, and diet sodas in particular, should be assumed to be responsible for some of the most serious health problems of our society. Distorting the physical appearance of the body as a result of excess fat storage is the first step in this direction. Some manufactured beverages should only be used sparingly, if at all, by younger people, when the right programs for the future health of a child is the aim of the parents.” (Wilson)
Do you know that we are the only animal in the world that drinks someone else’s milk for “calcium” intake or because we think it is necessary for survival? My friends, we do not need milk to survive! It is a shame that our mainstream media shows famous people with the mustache of what is responsible for many breathing dysfunctions and inflammations in the body. Many times “quitting milk” alone helps people restore their breathing and eliminate snoring. I am pretty sure their partners appreciate this! Broccoli, for example, is just as rich in calcium as milk, if not more so. Milk is really just white sugar water after pasteurization, anyway. Pasteurization is a heating process which is supposed to kill bad bacteria. It also kills the beneficial bacteria in milk, leaving nothing behind but white sugar water. Louis Pasteur (a French chemist and microbiologist that developed this process) said himself before he died: “[it] is not the germ, the problem is the terrain”. He meant that our body is not ready to digest milk. If you decide to drink milk, make it raw milk from a good healthy cow, and go slowly. Make it whole milk, which has more fat and has been touched less by humans. I will discuss the benefits of fast as we keep moving along this year.
When we consider the oxidation of juice and the pasteurization of milk, we see that we are simply left with sugar to process. This sugar needs to be digested by our body with the help of water! The body will look for water in different places for if we have not taken in enough, and will pull it from the mucous membranes of our organs, from our joints, and even our brain. We can cause dehydration our colon and cause constipation. Imagine how much toxic material is not moving properly out of our bodies—it sits in the intestines and the blood stream. This causes lethargy, bad feelings, and contributes to being sick. This is called “autointoxication”—something we induce.
Water aids in breathing. I usually recommend adding a pinch of sea salt to our water, which increases the dissolved solids in our water. This helps our bronchioles to do their job better. Asthmatics, this might be your solution!
We should drink water at room temperature. In my years visiting the gym, I have experimented with this and many health professionals have done the same. While exercising, the body’s temperature increases. If we place ice cold water in our system, it “freezes ” the area and keeps the water in our stomachs longer, which is not where our body’s design wants it to stay. We want to use the water while we are moving. So, drinking water at room temperature will help the water go through our system as it should, and not sit in our stomachs making a sloshing noise every time we try to do some ab work!
Water is essential for the discs of our spine, our joints, and aids in regulating blood pressure. Our discs are the shock absorbers for our daily movement. Water can sometimes be the miracle cure for low back pain. Keep your spine hydrated and it will pay off! Water is also necessary to hydrate joints so that they glide smoothly and help us be pain free as we move. Water has been used in arthritis cases, healing with amazing results. It is an important part of regulating blood pressure because it assists the kidneys in detoxifying themselves. If any organ is under stress or not doing its job, blood pressure can increase.
Diseases, aches, and discomfort can be healed just by drinking plenty of water! So, here we are again. What are we doing to our children? We don’t have to become hippos, but I encourage you to rethink the quality of the water you drink, and how much water you are drinking.
Some tips to help you in your hydration:
1. Drink half of your body weight in ounces. If you weight 100lbs, then drink 50 ounces of water daily.
2. Add a pinch of sea salt to increase the dissolve solids in the water.
3. Drink water at room temperature so it is better absorbed. If our body temperature is 98.6 degrees, the water we consume should not be cold.
4. Drink water 15 minutes before eating. This will help your digestion.
5. Good brands of bottled water are: Fiji, Evian and Vittel.
6. Drink from stainless steel or glass. Glass is best!
7. Check the source of your bottled and household water. Many bottled waters are just from a city water supply that is not your own!
8. Bathe and shower in good, clean water to avoid chlorine consumption as chlorine kills good bacteria. http://www.ppnf.org/ carries shower heads that eliminate chlorine from water. Also www.isabellacatalog .com carries filters that you could place in the bathtub while bathing babies.
9. Whole house water filtration system is a good idea. Make sure your water is filtered with a carbon filter. Water softeners are not water filters!
10. If drinking coffee, buy an organic or certified organic blend as coffee is one of the most polluted seeds in the world. Make sure to drink coffee with food in your stomach to avoid a blood sugar crash.
11. If in need of rehydration after your sport, dilute your sport drink using water.
My intentions are that YOU become and expert on yourself. Have a great month!
Migdoel “Dio” Miranda
Wellness Coach
Advanced Exercise Kinesiologist
http://www.diofitness.com/
Email: dio@diofitness.com
512.820.9112
References:
Batmanghelidj, F. M.D. Your Body’s Many Cries for Water, 1997.
http://www.watercure.com/
Wilson, James L. Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome, 2001.
http://www.adrenalfatigue.org/
Wikipedia, “Fluorine” 2010.
Delayed Opening for Wednesday, Feb. 24
We will follow the Leander ISD delayed opening schedule for tomorrow, Wednesday, February 24. We will open at 9:00 AM. Operating hours will be from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM.
In the event that Leander ISD goes on to cancel school for the district, we, too, will cancel school. Please be advised that we will update the blog, voicemail as well as send an email communication should school be cancelled tomorrow.
Stay warm and enjoy this little bit of Texas winter!
-Leslie, Janie & Tina
In the event that Leander ISD goes on to cancel school for the district, we, too, will cancel school. Please be advised that we will update the blog, voicemail as well as send an email communication should school be cancelled tomorrow.
Stay warm and enjoy this little bit of Texas winter!
-Leslie, Janie & Tina
Monday, February 22, 2010
Nature Trays/Center Pieces
If you're looking for a way to slow dinner down or a way to make family time a little special, why not try a seasonal center piece or nature tray for your table? The children can be a part of gathering things, or (as we are finding at school) they love the surprise of what adults place on the trays. We light the candle on the tray before we sing our lunch song, then enjoy our meal together. The children blow out the candle when the meal is done and we begin clearing the table. Family life can be very busy, especially for those where one or both parents work outside the home. It is nice to slow down and make our time together something sacred.
~Leslie
January
Early February
Late February
Monday, February 22, 2010
Sorry for the delay in blogging. We've been busy the last two weeks, as some of our staff and their children have not felt the best. A few more cold days this week, then we hope for Spring in Texas! We are waiting to till our garden, but already have cabbage and pepper plants sprouted indoors. We repaired our greenhouse, so we will begin some additional plants in there.
With a couple of soft, bruised apples Jennifer decided to make a homemade apple-cinnamon tart for the children. It was done in time for PreK's morning snack . . .it was delicious!
Hugging our stuffed sun at Community Time this morning . . . Our story this week is about Mother Nature, and how she gently tucks seeds underground, then asks the Ocean, the Sun, etc. to provide "vapor" which Jack Frost turns into frost/snow to further protect the seeds from Father Wind.
The Moon . . .
This figurine is representing Mother Nature in our story . . .
Water play . . .
Learning to use a syringe--or a "plunger" as Catherine called it.
A busy classroom--a child painting and two children building a structure with clips/scarves/playstands.
Our infant friend visited the Twos class and enjoyed painting--have we mentioned that our small school is like a big family? The children easily join in with other groups and generally have no problem moving from one staff member to another.
The Twos . . .
Washing the chalkboard to get it ready for this week's special drawing . . .
Using a hot pad in the play kitchen . . .
Dried beans and small animal figures . . .
Our nature tray changed today. On this tray we have a couple of twigs, a ceramic bird, and a jar filled with birdseed and a candle. Everything was placed on a pale green silk. The candle is lit during meal time.
A chilly morning at the petting farm.
With a couple of soft, bruised apples Jennifer decided to make a homemade apple-cinnamon tart for the children. It was done in time for PreK's morning snack . . .it was delicious!
Hugging our stuffed sun at Community Time this morning . . . Our story this week is about Mother Nature, and how she gently tucks seeds underground, then asks the Ocean, the Sun, etc. to provide "vapor" which Jack Frost turns into frost/snow to further protect the seeds from Father Wind.
The Moon . . .
This figurine is representing Mother Nature in our story . . .
Water play . . .
Learning to use a syringe--or a "plunger" as Catherine called it.
Painting in the Twos class. . .
A busy classroom--a child painting and two children building a structure with clips/scarves/playstands.
Our infant friend visited the Twos class and enjoyed painting--have we mentioned that our small school is like a big family? The children easily join in with other groups and generally have no problem moving from one staff member to another.
PreK painting . . .
The Twos . . .
Washing the chalkboard to get it ready for this week's special drawing . . .
I love mixed age grouping--here a near five year old works beside a near three year old.
A chalkboard drawing in one classroom depicts the sprouting of a seed and its growth into a plant.
Using a hot pad in the play kitchen . . .
Dried beans and small animal figures . . .
Our nature tray changed today. On this tray we have a couple of twigs, a ceramic bird, and a jar filled with birdseed and a candle. Everything was placed on a pale green silk. The candle is lit during meal time. 
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Menu for 2/22 - 2/26
Monday
AM Snack: Organic cinnamon applesauce, organic butter crackers, water bottles
Lunch: Organic pasta with white beans, garlic and parmesan, organic steamed broccoli, organic milk
PM Snack: Almond butter, banana and almond milk smoothie, organic graham crackers
Tuesday
AM Snack: Bananas, water bottles
Lunch: Organic vegetarian chili over organic tortilla chips, shredded all natural cheese, organic milk
PM Snack: Organic strawberry cream cheese on organic sunflower bread, water bottles
Wednesday
AM Snack: Oranges, water bottles
Lunch: Organic chicken noodle soup, organic fresh baked bread with organic butter, organic milk
PM Snack: Colby Jack or cheddar cheese sticks, all natural veggie straws, water bottles
Thursday
AM Snack: Organic red delicious apple wedges, water bottles
Lunch: Organic mini pizzas with sauteed spinach and all natural mozzarella, cantaloupe, organic milk
PM Snack: Organic Z bars, water bottles
Friday
AM Snack: Pineapple, water bottles
Lunch: All natural nitrate/nitrite free turkey rollups, steamed organic mixed vegetables, organic milk
PM Snack: Fresh baked all natural ginger snaps, Craisins, water bottles
AM Snack: Organic cinnamon applesauce, organic butter crackers, water bottles
Lunch: Organic pasta with white beans, garlic and parmesan, organic steamed broccoli, organic milk
PM Snack: Almond butter, banana and almond milk smoothie, organic graham crackers
Tuesday
AM Snack: Bananas, water bottles
Lunch: Organic vegetarian chili over organic tortilla chips, shredded all natural cheese, organic milk
PM Snack: Organic strawberry cream cheese on organic sunflower bread, water bottles
Wednesday
AM Snack: Oranges, water bottles
Lunch: Organic chicken noodle soup, organic fresh baked bread with organic butter, organic milk
PM Snack: Colby Jack or cheddar cheese sticks, all natural veggie straws, water bottles
Thursday
AM Snack: Organic red delicious apple wedges, water bottles
Lunch: Organic mini pizzas with sauteed spinach and all natural mozzarella, cantaloupe, organic milk
PM Snack: Organic Z bars, water bottles
Friday
AM Snack: Pineapple, water bottles
Lunch: All natural nitrate/nitrite free turkey rollups, steamed organic mixed vegetables, organic milk
PM Snack: Fresh baked all natural ginger snaps, Craisins, water bottles
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Menu for 2/15 - 2/19
Monday, Feb. 15
AM Snack: Bananas, water bottles
Lunch: Almond butter and organic strawberry spread on organic sunflower bread, organic red delicious apples, organic milk
PM Snack: Organic hummus and all natural pretzels, water bottles
Tuesday, Feb. 16
AM Snack: Cantaloupe, water bottles
Lunch: Lentil nachos [organic red lentils, pesticide-free grape tomatoes, organic baby spinach, all natural shredded cheese, organic tortilla chips], organic milk
PM Snack: Organic blueberry/banana yogurt smoothies, organic graham crackers, water bottles
Wednesday, Feb. 17
AM Snack: Organic raisin bran, water bottles
Lunch: Organic tomato bisque, fresh baked bread with organic butter, Colby Jack cheese sticks, water bottles
PM Snack: Organic applesauce, all natural veggie sticks, water bottles
Thursday, Feb. 18
AM Snack: Organic Red Delicious apples, water bottles
Lunch: All natural lasagna, organic steamed green beans, organic milk
PM Snack: Organic cream cheese on organic crackers, water bottles
Friday, Feb. 19
AM Snack: Fresh pineapple, water bottles
Lunch: Chicken salad [organic roasted chicken, mayo], all natural flax/wheat bread, chilled organic peas, organic milk
PM Snack: Organic air popped popcorn, organic apple juice
AM Snack: Bananas, water bottles
Lunch: Almond butter and organic strawberry spread on organic sunflower bread, organic red delicious apples, organic milk
PM Snack: Organic hummus and all natural pretzels, water bottles
Tuesday, Feb. 16
AM Snack: Cantaloupe, water bottles
Lunch: Lentil nachos [organic red lentils, pesticide-free grape tomatoes, organic baby spinach, all natural shredded cheese, organic tortilla chips], organic milk
PM Snack: Organic blueberry/banana yogurt smoothies, organic graham crackers, water bottles
Wednesday, Feb. 17
AM Snack: Organic raisin bran, water bottles
Lunch: Organic tomato bisque, fresh baked bread with organic butter, Colby Jack cheese sticks, water bottles
PM Snack: Organic applesauce, all natural veggie sticks, water bottles
Thursday, Feb. 18
AM Snack: Organic Red Delicious apples, water bottles
Lunch: All natural lasagna, organic steamed green beans, organic milk
PM Snack: Organic cream cheese on organic crackers, water bottles
Friday, Feb. 19
AM Snack: Fresh pineapple, water bottles
Lunch: Chicken salad [organic roasted chicken, mayo], all natural flax/wheat bread, chilled organic peas, organic milk
PM Snack: Organic air popped popcorn, organic apple juice
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Nose Pickin' and Adenoids . . .
At school Tuesday, I was singing a song with my class that involved hand motions pointing to different body parts. When we gently tapped our nose, I jokingly said, "and remember, at school we don't pick our noses!". A little girl smiled, looked like a deer in headlights, and said, "But sometimes I don't pick my nose at farm school."
On Wednesday, we were playing a version of "freeze dance" where you dance when the music is playing and freeze when it is off. I told the children that when the music stopped, we were going to lay down, pretend to sleep, and make snoring sounds. One little boy came over to me, "I can't really snore 'cause I don't have my tonsils or adenoids anymore."
These children may have been Violet and Colton . . .
~Leslie
On Wednesday, we were playing a version of "freeze dance" where you dance when the music is playing and freeze when it is off. I told the children that when the music stopped, we were going to lay down, pretend to sleep, and make snoring sounds. One little boy came over to me, "I can't really snore 'cause I don't have my tonsils or adenoids anymore."
These children may have been Violet and Colton . . .
~Leslie
Good Morning
Sunrise at The Good Earth Day School
2/10/10
Morning has come,Night is away,
Rise with the sun,
And welcome the day.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Wednesday = Bread Day!
PreK found some ice outside today!
Lord of the Flies?
Future joke: An alum of The Good Earth Day School walks into a bar and says, I used to go to school with goats . . . no, no really. And a donkey, too!
Jeanne's sport und spiel . . .
Trying to make it over a river filled with alligators . . .
Darling Lily . . .
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