Kentucky Fried Chicken is going to try to give away free chicken this week. Oh please make the madness stop.
ONE piece of "grilled chicken" per person. The person behind the counter gets to pick what piece you get and there is one piece per person.
Why would anyone get in line for this? It's salty, rubbery and gross.
The last time KFC did this was an epic fail.
Don't fall for the hype, your time is worth more and your heart will thank you for NOT doing it.
Here's a suggestion, head down to your local market and pick up a one pound Boar's Head Ever Roast chicken. Heat it in the oven covered in foil, slice & serve. It's got 3x LESS salt than the KFC and you might even be able to snag a slice for tomorrow's lunch.
Be good to yourself and your family, pick your own food out and eat good food!
Monday, October 26, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Chef Salad To Go
This is the chef salad my #1 guy requested in his lunch today.
I bought a 1/2 slice of Boar's Head Ever Roast Chicken. In this picture I'm just about done cubing it to toss on the salad. There are also bites of Genoa Salami and Sweet Slice Ham rolled and cut into rounds.
Iceberg lettuce (for crunch) slices of cuke & pepper (from last night's dinner) and a few shavings off a carrot. I saved someof the BH sharp cheddar block from the week-end's cheese & cracker plate, shredded it into a small container to use either in salad or maybe on some scrambled eggs, guess the salad won!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Chicken Sandwich: Lunch Little Bites
The theme around here right now is mini. The bakery at my favorite market has been baking these little dinner/finger sandwich rolls that just melt in your mouth.
This is Boar's Head Everroast Chicken, BH Muenster cheese, lettuce and a bit of dijonaise.
Mmmmmmmm......
Have the deli slice the chicken on the thinner side and chees a bit thick.
Monday, October 12, 2009
School Lunch, Truman Didn't Know of Cheese Sticks
In signing the 1946, President Harry S Truman signed The National School Lunch Act and said at that time,
"Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children, and proper nourishment comes first in attaining this welfare."
If you are thinking about how hungry you are then you aren't thinking about math and reading. It's a fact. When your blood sugar drops, your stomach starts grumbling, fatigue sets in, that is not the best time to try to learn something new.
As a country we value this idea so we all got behind the school lunch program but now those good intentions are full of empty calories, canned fruit, sodium laden vegetables and a fryolator.
This week my youngest son could have eaten Fried Cheese sticks, a mayonnaise laden chicken salad sandwich, served with canned sweet potatoes & canned apples and canned blueberries with whipped cream. He did not buy lunch that day. Instead I sent him to school with a Boars Head Honey Ham and American Cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread (no crusts, he's not that good!). A box of organic apple juice, a honey crisp apple, a small bag of chocolate Teddy Grahams and a strawberry yogurt. The lunch box came home full of wrappers and a couple of lonely Teddy Grahams. When he walked home from the bus he came in the door happy and ready for a snack, but not cranky because he was famished. I know fried cheese sticks wouldn't have gotten him through the afternoon math quiz.
I have three kids in three different schools, and a husband who works in an industrial park with one busy restaurant. That's four different lunch menus everyday. Nine times out of ten the youngest brings his lunch. The middle one always brings a lunch and the oldest goes to a school with a salad bar. My husaband doesn't like to wait in lines (for anything) so he brings a lunch. Actually he brings the equivalent of three lunches.
When I see the school menus on the web-sites my first thought is "whomever planned this menu doesn't like food" and my second thought is "why are the standard so low?"
The National School Lunch Program is available in 99% of public schools, and about 30 million schoolchildren took part in 2007 at a federal cost of $8.7 billion. The breakfast program is available in about 85% of schools and serves more than 10 million children each day. Nutrition standards for school meals have not been updated since 1995.The committee said its recommendations reflected the 2005 federal dietary guidelines for Americans.
The guidlines need updating but in the mean time we need to serve our families healthier food.
"Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children, and proper nourishment comes first in attaining this welfare."
If you are thinking about how hungry you are then you aren't thinking about math and reading. It's a fact. When your blood sugar drops, your stomach starts grumbling, fatigue sets in, that is not the best time to try to learn something new.
As a country we value this idea so we all got behind the school lunch program but now those good intentions are full of empty calories, canned fruit, sodium laden vegetables and a fryolator.
This week my youngest son could have eaten Fried Cheese sticks, a mayonnaise laden chicken salad sandwich, served with canned sweet potatoes & canned apples and canned blueberries with whipped cream. He did not buy lunch that day. Instead I sent him to school with a Boars Head Honey Ham and American Cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread (no crusts, he's not that good!). A box of organic apple juice, a honey crisp apple, a small bag of chocolate Teddy Grahams and a strawberry yogurt. The lunch box came home full of wrappers and a couple of lonely Teddy Grahams. When he walked home from the bus he came in the door happy and ready for a snack, but not cranky because he was famished. I know fried cheese sticks wouldn't have gotten him through the afternoon math quiz.
I have three kids in three different schools, and a husband who works in an industrial park with one busy restaurant. That's four different lunch menus everyday. Nine times out of ten the youngest brings his lunch. The middle one always brings a lunch and the oldest goes to a school with a salad bar. My husaband doesn't like to wait in lines (for anything) so he brings a lunch. Actually he brings the equivalent of three lunches.
When I see the school menus on the web-sites my first thought is "whomever planned this menu doesn't like food" and my second thought is "why are the standard so low?"
The National School Lunch Program is available in 99% of public schools, and about 30 million schoolchildren took part in 2007 at a federal cost of $8.7 billion. The breakfast program is available in about 85% of schools and serves more than 10 million children each day. Nutrition standards for school meals have not been updated since 1995.The committee said its recommendations reflected the 2005 federal dietary guidelines for Americans.
The guidlines need updating but in the mean time we need to serve our families healthier food.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
The Salt Lick Sandwich
Real meat is NOT shelf stable. It's a fact. More in a minute.
I love it when fat people order diet coke with a 6,000 calorie snack.
Please, that's like putting a Hello Kitty band-aid on a gunshot wound.
Then they look at you and say in all seriousness, "I have a lot of water retention."
OMG, don't even get me started.
My daughter came home for lunch today, a rare aoccurrance so it was nice. Very casual, "all I really want is a sandwich and some celery sticks Mom".
A Sandwich?? Really?? That I can do.
So two honey ham, american cheese and sliced sweet pickle sandwiches were born.
I swing throught the market a couple of times a week. No big deal, we need fresh banans, deli and breads faily often. With three kids and a husband who eats like three kids a lot is consumed here.
Just for my own information I checked the sodium on the Hillshire Farm "deli sliced" ham that comes vaccumm sealed in a plastic container that is realativly shelf stable for over a month: 650mg for 2 oz. AND as an added bonus, the expiration date wasn't for SIX WEEKS from today.
Shelf stable meat. Three words that really only describe one thing: Spam.
Do yourself and your family a favor and don't buy this stuff!
I love it when fat people order diet coke with a 6,000 calorie snack.
Please, that's like putting a Hello Kitty band-aid on a gunshot wound.
Then they look at you and say in all seriousness, "I have a lot of water retention."
OMG, don't even get me started.
My daughter came home for lunch today, a rare aoccurrance so it was nice. Very casual, "all I really want is a sandwich and some celery sticks Mom".
A Sandwich?? Really?? That I can do.
So two honey ham, american cheese and sliced sweet pickle sandwiches were born.
I swing throught the market a couple of times a week. No big deal, we need fresh banans, deli and breads faily often. With three kids and a husband who eats like three kids a lot is consumed here.
Just for my own information I checked the sodium on the Hillshire Farm "deli sliced" ham that comes vaccumm sealed in a plastic container that is realativly shelf stable for over a month: 650mg for 2 oz. AND as an added bonus, the expiration date wasn't for SIX WEEKS from today.
Shelf stable meat. Three words that really only describe one thing: Spam.
Do yourself and your family a favor and don't buy this stuff!
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