Health & Cooking: Frozen Foods

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Health & Cooking: Frozen Foods

The Best Frozen Dinners

No time to cook? Try one of these 12 healthy options

By Kathleen M. Zelman, MPH, RD, LD
WebMD Weight Loss Clinic - Expert Column

Stroll down any supermarket frozen food aisle a

Stroll down any supermarket frozen food aisle and the evidence is clear: frozen meals are big sellers, claiming more shelf space than virtually any other type of frozen food. Beyond the old-standard TV dinners, you'll find ethnic (especially Asian), vegetarian, low-calorie, supersized, natural, and organic meals.

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These Freeze Best

Some dishes are more suited than others to cooking in large quantities and freezing in individual portions. Foods that lend themselves to freezing and reheating include:

• Spaghetti sauce
• Meatloaf
• Meatballs
• Casseroles
• Soups
• Stews
• Chili

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National Food Service Management

National Food Service Management
Care Connection Curriculum Section 8: Nutrition Education
From the website...
This section provides lessons about healthful food choices, variety and moderation in food choices, and the good things healthful food does for the body for providers and young children.

It offers a large selection of fun food activities that the child care provider can do with young children to help them make healthful food choices and make eating habits that will last a lifetime.

Cooking Connection: Banana Pops
Children will listen to a story about fresh fruits and then prepare banana pops, a snack they can eat fresh or as a frozen pop later.

Cooking Connection: Little Red Hen Bread
After listening to the story of The Little Red Hen, children will participate in a simple whole wheat baking activity.

Cooking Connection: Moo Juice Smoothie
After listening to the story, From Grass to Milk, children will assist in the preparation of smoothies that include two dairy foods and a fruit.

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Eat Smart. Play Hard.™

Eat Smart. Play Hard.™

From the website...
The Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ Campaign was launched by USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to encourage and teach children, parents, and caregivers to eat healthy and be physically active every day. Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ offers resources and tools to convey and reinforce healthy eating and lifestyle behaviors that are consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the MyPyramid Food Guidance System. Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ is about making America's children healthier. It's about practical suggestions that will help you motivate children and their caregivers to eat healthy and be active. Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ Campaign messages and materials are fun for children and informative for caregivers.

Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ Resources
Web Site for Parents
Activity Sheets/Bookmarks/Comics/Stickers
Brochures/Mini Posters/Handouts
Additional ESPH Resources


Make It Quick and Easy
Below are a variety of quick and easy recipes you can use with the Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ Healthy Lifestyle. Try them to save time and add interest to your meals.

The Start Healthy, Stay Healthy™ Menu Planner

From the website...
The Start Healthy, Stay Healthy™ Menu Planner generates easy-to-follow menus based on the food groups and nutrients recommended by health professionals for children's healthy growth and development. You can use the generated menus, or create your own - either way, the unique 5-Star Rating System* lets you know when your menu falls within our recommended nutrition guidelines for your child's stage. So whether your child is a Supported Sitter or a Preschooler, or at any stage in between, the Menu Planner will help you select the right variety of foods and nutrients to help your child start, and stay healthy.
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Produce for Kids

Produce for Kids

From the site...Produce for Kids is a marketing organization that works with the produce industry and grocery stores to promote healthy eating for kids. Take a look at our kid-friendly, nutritional recipes that the whole family can enjoy! Our recipes are tasty and approved by our nutritionists - the best part is that everyone can help cook! Recipes

Menus 4 Moms

Menus 4 Moms

Subscription Site $7.95 per month

From the About Us section of the website....With today's busy lifestyles, most women find that putting a home-cooked dinner on the table each evening has become an impossible challenge. By providing the tools necessary to make delicious home-cooked meals while still saving time and money, Menus4Moms has been helping busy moms enjoy stress-free family dinners since 2005.

Menus4Moms.com not only provides a variety of dinner menu plans, but also offers home organization help, bulk and frugal cooking articles, local grocery deals and a growing social network for busy moms. Born out of the busy lifestyle of Mary Ann Kelley, a work at home mom, Menus4Moms is the result of years of refining cooking and shopping techniques to save today's busy moms both time and money. Our goal is stress-free, happy moms who have time to enjoy their families!