Healthy Food For Thanksgiving

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Can kids like healthy foods for Thanksgiving? Click these links to hear a 2-minute answer with a special song, from Ashley 5th graders Melody, Ronald, Ruth, Edgar, Anna, Omar, Thomas:.  Here are their healthy ideas.  Ashley student reporters learned their friends’ favorite vegetable  . . . and what they DON’T like . . . The 5th grades say that making healthy foods fun will help more kids enjoy them.

 

RECIPE:  Pilgrim Sandwich

Good Eating for Pilgrims and YOUR Family

Ingredients

    • 12 slices 100% whole wheat bread
    • 8 oz. Colby cheese
    • 24 slices turkey lunch meat
    • 15 oz. can whole cranberry sauce
    • 1 – 2 lbs. bagged romaine lettuce
    • 2 – 15 oz. cans green beans

Instructions

    1. Open cans of cranberry sauce and green beans. Drain green beans.
    2. Divide cranberry sauce evenly into 4 serving containers. Add plastic forks to containers.
    3. Divide green beans evenly into 4 serving containers. Add plastic forks to containers. The green beans are a side vegetable to be eaten with the sandwich.
    4. Divide bread evenly for the four groups and put on the large paper plates. Each person eating should get one piece.
    5. Divide the turkey evenly and put in 4 serving containers. Add plastic forks to containers.
    6. Cut the cheese slices so each person eating gets a piece and divide evenly into 4 serving containers.
    7. Break up the lettuce and divide evenly into 4 bowls.
    8. Have sandwich ingredients and paper plates, plastic forks, and napkins ready to pass out to each group for serving and eating the sandwiches and green beans.
  • Cooking time (duration):20
  • Meal type:lunch, dinner or snack
  • Culinary tradition:USA (General)
  • Number of servings (yield): 12