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 Prairie Beef Hot Dogs, cooked, cooled, and cut into coins
- Organic Prairie Italian Chicken Sausage or Bratwurst, cooked, cooled, and cut into coins
- Organic Prairie Pepperoni
- Organic Valley Stringles, cut into coins
- cucumber slices
- green or yellow zucchini slices
- thick asparagus spears, blanched and cut into coins
- broccoli stems, peeled and cut into coins
- radishes, sliced
- carrots, peeled and cut into coins
- dried banana slices
- dried apricots
- fruit leather, cut into coins
- kiwi, peeled and sliced into coins
- oyster crackers
- small round pretzels
- small round corn tortilla chips
- round ravioli, cooked and cooled
- garbanzo beans*
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.)
