Kid Friendly Meal!
Tuna Sailboat and Goldfish Cracker Fruit Salad

An easy, yummy meal that my kids loved!  For the sailboat, the “boat” is a piece of red pepper.  Yellow pepper would be tasty, too.  For the tuna, use whatever recipe your family loves.  We added some chopped cucumber this time - gave it a nice fresh taste!  The sail is a triangle cut from a pita pocket that we toasted in the toaster oven.  The kids thought these were great!  They ate their sails, then picked up the boat to eat the rest. 

The salad is: lettuce, berries (we had strawberries and blueberries, but you can use any berries), mandarin oranges, Goldfish crackers and a simple homemade dressing: orange juice, a little olive oil, honey mustard, a tiny bit of sugar and a pinch of salt.   Yum!

A healthy, tasty dinner that the kids gobbled up - that’s the best kind!

An idea for making meal planning easier is made a list of quick and easy breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Sometimes it’s 5:00 PM and I’m racking my brain, trying to come up with something to make. Now I can go to my list for some quick and easy ideas that I might not otherwise be thinking of. For example, on my dinner list are the following, as well as many others:

Tomato soup & grilled cheese
Breakfast for dinner (i.e., eggs and waffles; french toast and fruit)
BLTs
Easy chicken parmesan (breaded chicken patty, topped w/ prepared spaghetti sauce and
shredded mozzarella cheese)
Tuna melt
Egg in a hole (Butter both sides of a piece of bread. Use a small cup to make a hole in the center of the bread. Let your child eat his/her “hole” - quite possibly my kids’ favorite part! Put the bread in a hot frying pan. Crack an egg into the hole. Pierce the yoke. Let start to set up. Flip. Done! Mine like it served with ketchup, even though they’d never otherwise eat ketchup on eggs!)

Having this list helps me to easily come up with something quick to make that I might have otherwise forgotten about. Happy dinners to all!