What's for lunch 12/7/12

Meatball Parmigiana
Hero or Plate
Whole grain Dinner roll
Long Island Grown Broccoli with garlic and oil
Caesar Salad
Fresh Fruit

For the hero, unlike our hamburgers, this "beef" is from Tyson and  is a USDA commodity product (although we were allowed to opt-out of the "pink slime" meat the USDA used to ship.)  The meatballs are processed, cooked and frozen by Tyson from commodity beef.  Ingredients are: Ground beef (not more than 20% fat), water, bread crumbs (bleached wheat flour, salt, yeast, dextrose, and soybean oil), seasoning (salt, dehydrated onion, dehydrated celery, garlic powder, spices, soybean oil), tomato puree (tomatoes and citric acid), grated parmesan cheese [(cultured part-skim milk, salt and enzymes), cellulose powder, potassium sorbate], grated romano cheese made from cow's milk [(cultured pasteurized part-skim milk, salt and enzymes), cellulose powder, potassium sorbate].   They have 9g of fat (3 are saturated) and 450 mg of sodium.

The sauce is a Red Pack vitamin enhanced tomato sauce.  Here are the ingredients: Tomato Concentrate (Water, Tomato Paste), Sugar, Soybean Oil, Potassium Chloride, Onion Powder, Salt, Citric Acid, Spice, Garlic Powder, Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid), Black Pepper, Vitamin E (DL-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate), Natural Flavor, Vitamin A (Retinol Palmitate).  The cheese is a USDA commodity part skim mozzarella.  Ingredients are cultured pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes. The sodium is 240mg/oz.

I would go for the salad bar or extra broccoli. This is not my kind of lunch. However, it is better then what we served years ago. 

On another note...... I made these delicious Carrot and sweet potato latkes the other night. My kids loved them !! And my middle child is very, very, picky !! It was so easy and delicious. 

Makes: 4 latkes

Tools
Cheese grater or
Food processor with shredder blade
Steamer or a metal strainer/colander over a large pot (with lid) of boiling water
Fork
Spatula
Skillet

Ingredients:
Try to buy everything organic. Here’s why.
1 1/4 cups sweet potato, shredded
1 1/2 cups sweet potato, diced
1/2 cup steamed carrot, diced
1/2 yellow onion diced (here’s a tip)
1 small clove garlic, minced (here’s a tip)
1 tsp fresh lemon juice (here’s a tip)
1/2 tsp fine ground sea salt
Pinch fresh ground pepper
Unrefined coconut oil

Let’s get started.
Shred your onion and 1 1/4 cup of sweet potato.

Dice carrot and 1 1/2 cups sweet potato and steam, covered, for about 20 minutes, until soft.

With a fork, mash together steamed carrots and sweet potato with shredded onion and sweet potato. Mash in salt and pepper.

In a skillet, warm 1 tsp coconut oil over medium heat. Form potato mixture into patties and place into skillet. Press flat with spatula and brown on each side 10 minutes.

Serve warm and enjoy!

This recipe is from yumuniverse.com.  It is a great website for plant based recipes. Even if you are not a vegan or vegetarian you will love these recipes.  Give it a try !