Warm up a snowy day with kid friendly snow day lunch foods!

Snow Day Menu

Express Chicken Noodle Soup

Pinwheel Mini Sandwiches

Baked Apples with Granola

Recipes:

Express Chicken Noodle Soup

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

4 Cups Swanson reduced sodium Chicken broth
1/8 tsp. Meijer ground black pepper
1 medium carrot, sliced (about 1/2 cup)
1 stalk celery, sliced (about 1/2 cup) (NOTE:  1 Cup frozen vegetables can be substituted for carrots and celery)
2 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves (about 1/2 pound), cut into 1-inch pieces (or 1 large can Swanson diced chicken)
1/2 cup uncooked whole wheat egg noodles

Directions:

Heat the broth, black pepper, carrot, celery and chicken in a 2-quart saucepan over medium-high heat to a boil. Stir in the noodles.  Reduce the heat to medium.  Cook for 10 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through and the noodles are tender.

Nutrition Information

Calories 127, Total Fat 5g, Saturated Fat 1g, Cholesterol 43mg, Sodium 973mg, Total Carbohydrate 6g, Dietary Fiber 1g, Protein 14g

Recipe adapted from Campbellkitchen.com

Pinwheel Mini Sandwiches

Ingredients

3 (10 inch) Flour Tortillas

3 Tbls reduced-fat mayonnaise

1 Tbls Meijer yellow mustard

6 Kraft 2% Milk American Singles

1 16oz. Package sliced lunch meat (ham and turkey blend)

3 Large lettuce leaves

Directions:

Spread tortillas with mayonnaise and mustard; top with cheese single, meat and lettuce.  Roll up tightly; cut each roll into 8 slices. Serve.

Baked Apples with Granola

Serves: 4, Time: 25 Minutes

Ingredients:

2 – 3 large crisp apples (such as gala, piñata, braeburn, Fuji)

2 Tbls. Raisins or dried cherries

2 Tbls. Meijer packed brown sugar

1 Tbls. plus 1 tsp. margarine or healthy butter blend, softened

4 crunchy granola bars, crushed (or 1/2 cup low fat granola cereal)

Vanilla yogurt

Directions:

Cut apples in half lengthwise. Using spoon, remove and discard cores, making at least a 1-inch indentation in each apple half. In microwavable pie plate, arrange apple halves, cut sides up. Fill each apple half evenly with raisins (or dried cherries) and brown sugar; dot with butter. Cover with microwavable plastic wrap, folding back one edge 1/4 inch to vent steam.  Microwave on High 5 to 6 minutes or until apples are tender. Top each with apple half with crumbled granola and a dollop of vanilla yogurt.