PPhoenix RoseSeventh grade studio

Food you already like, plus one extra real thing.

Meals

These are lunches you can pack and dinners you can cook fast. Keep the nuggets and mac. Add fruit or a little extra on the side.

Pack lunches

  1. 1

    Nugget box

    leftover chicken nuggets, grapes or apple slices, a cheese stick. Chips are fine if they help the fruit go in.

  2. 2

    Mac thermos

    boxed mac in a thermos, strawberries or a clementine on the side.

  3. 3

    Snack plate

    crackers, cheese, a few nuggets or turkey slices, fruit. It looks like a snack lunch. That is the point.

  4. 4

    Cheese quesadilla

    make at night, cut into triangles, pack with a banana or applesauce.

  5. 5

    Butter noodles

    leftover pasta with butter and parmesan, plus fruit.

Dinners (about 15 minutes)

  1. 1

    Oven nuggets night

    nuggets on a sheet pan, apple slices, and microwave frozen corn (sweet).

  2. 2

    Mac plus

    boxed mac, extra shredded cheese. If she will allow it, stir in rotisserie chicken pieces or a handful of frozen peas.

  3. 3

    Cheese quesadillas

    tortilla + cheese in a skillet, two minutes a side. Fruit on the plate.

  4. 4

    Butter pasta

    any short pasta, butter, parmesan. Same fruit trick.

  5. 5

    Grilled cheese

    sandwich + fruit. Done.

Not a diet. Just a little more real food next to the stuff she already eats.