Day Four hundred and five

Breakfast:  Scrambled eggs, cinnamon raisin bread, and grapes.

Dinner: Spaghetti squash parm (recipe), salad, and brown rice penne.

Day Three hundred and sixty-seven

Breakfast: Mighy tasty hot cereal (Bob's Red Mill) with chunks of apples and cinnamon.

School lunch: Rolled-up deli turkey, tortilla chips, babybel cheese, baby spinach, and grapes.

Not-school lunch: Turkey and cheese in a brown rice wrap (with pumpkin puree spread on the wrap, to be disguised in the melted cheese) with baby spinach and orange slices.

Day Three hundred and sixty-six

School lunch for the day: Fresh mozzarella cheese, edamame crackers, cut-up apples, carrots, and cashews.

Dinner: Turkey meatloaf (with green puree ala Sneaky Chef), mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli, and grapes.

Day Three hundred and thirty-four

Lunch: Deli turkey and cheese on gluten-free bread, cucumbers and spinach with ranch, and apple slices.

Three-bean turkey chili (with shredded zucchini and butternut squash puree) topped with shredded cheddar, sour cream, and avocado.  I made a triple batch of this- one was donated to a charity function a friend was running that evening, and another went into the freezer for future use.

Lunch for tomorrow: Turkey on gluten-free bread, fresh mozzarella, spinach with dip, grapes, and pirate's booty.

Day Three hundred and twenty-three

Breakfast: Pumpkin granola breakfast cookies (recipe: Gluten free on a shoestring), scrambled eggs, and tangerine slices.

Dinner: Brown rice spaghetti, turkey meatballs (with green puree, ala Sneaky Chef), baby spinach, and grapes.

We went to a pumpkin festival in the afternoon, and my daughter was really bummed that we could't buy any of the baked goods for sale there, as the pumpkin pie looked great.  I promised  to make her one when we got home, and I always keep my promises.  This is my grandma's pumpkin pie recipe, and I just subbed gluten-free flour in the crust recipe.  It worked.

Day Three hundred and twenty-two

Dinner in a rush: Polenta slices, gluten-free chicken nuggets, fruit salad, and steamed carrots.

My daughter's lunch for tomorrow: Turkey, cheese, gluten-free crackers, red peppers, and grapes.

Day Three hundred and twenty-one

Lunch: Turkey and cheese melted on homemade gluten-free bread (recipe: Gluten-free on a shoestring), grapes, baby spinach, and ranch.

Dinner: Sweet potato and chicken apple sausage hash (recipe: Rachel Ray), fruit salad, and green beans.

My daughter's lunch for tomorrow: Rolls of deli turkey with a mozzarella stick, baby spinach with dip, grapes, and gluten-free pretzel sticks.

Day three hundred and eleven

My daughter's gluten-free lunch: Rolled deli turkey, mozzarella stick, edamame crackers, carrots, and grapes.

Day Two hundred and eighty-two

Lunch: Cream of broccoli soup (an extra jar from the freezer) with steamed veggies mixed in.

Dinner: Chicken tetrazzini (crockpot) over whole grain spaghetti, sugar snap peas, cantaloupe, and grapes.  I made a double batch of the tetrazzini in the crockpot, and froze it for a future dinner.  That makes me happier than the initial meal itself!

Day Two hundred and fifty-five

Dinner: Diced turkey with chunks of apples, light ranch dressing, and baby spinach on whole grain bread, and grapes.  I  had a more interesting meal planned, but we had a late lunch and the kids have been under the weather, so I opted for a quick, no-cook dinner.  Afterwards, I was so thankful I'd done so.

Day One hundred and seventy-six

Dinner: Turkey hot dogs on whole grain thin/buns, steamed broccoli and carrots, cantaloupe, and grapes.

Day One hundred and seventy-three

Dinner: Sliced turkey, sun-dried tomatoes, baby spinach, and melted cheese on a whole wheat sandwich thin; fruit salad (chunks of apple, pear, and grapes), baby carrots and red pepper. This is one of our "no cook" dinners, and I am working on integrating more of these into our busy nights.

Day One hundred and sixty-one

Breakfast: Strawberry blueberry smoothies.

Shredded yellow squash, for the freezer. This is great for putting into quesadillas, meatloaf, and spaghetti sauce.

My husband's dinner: Steak, bread and butter, grapes, and steamed carrots. I think I had leftover chicken, as I don't partake in beef.

Day One hundred and sixty

Breakfast: Cream of wheat with maple syrup and fresh strawberries.

Lunch: Spinach omelet on whole grain bagel thin with fresh strawberries.

Dinner: Turkey breast in a white wine sauce (crockpot; Recipe: Make it Fast, Cook it Slow), mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli, steamed yellow squash sticks, and grapes.

Day One hundred and forty-nine

Breakfast: Banana blueberry strawberry oatmeal with a drizzle of maple syrup and cinnamon.

Lunch: Garden vegetable soup, baked grilled cheese, and pineapple. I realize this is an awful picture, but I was in a rush and didn't get to take a better one.

Dinner: Rotisserie chicken, whole grain penne with sun-dried tomato alfredo sauce, salad, and grapes.

Day One hundred and thirty-two

Snow day lunch: Baked grilled cheese and apples (low fat cheddar), steamed baby carrots, and grapes.

Dinner: Chicken marsala over egg noodles, sauteed collard greens, and strawberries. Since this meal was time-intensive, I doubled the recipe so that we can have it again w/o all the cooking. Whew.

Day Sixty-one

Dinner: My husband's turn to cook, which means BBQ. Cheeseburgers (mine and the kids were turkey, his beef), waffle fries, steamed broccoli, and grapes.

Day Sixty

Yogurt. I tried something new and made it in the toaster... it worked!

Dinner: Cheesy whole grain rotini (with turkey bacon and peas; recipe: Cooking Light), pretzel rolls (compliments of my friend Christie- these were so good!), salad, and grapes.

Day Fifty-two

Breakfast: Whole wheat crepes (recipe: Sneaky chef) with chocolate syrup, banana slices, and a sprinkling of flax seeds; and a blueberry-strawberry yogurt smoothie.

Dinner: Turkey nacho bake (ground turkey, beans, taco seasonings, diced tomatoes, and a scoop of butternut squash puree). Usually the chips go at the bottom when I make this, but my friend Melissa brought this to a party recently with the chips on top, so I thought I'd try that to see if the chips got less soggy. It worked! Thanks, Melissa L!


Dinner: Turkey nacho bake, salad, avocado, and grapes.

Day Forty-nine

Dinner: Spinach salad (hard-boiled eggs; croutons made from the whole wheat bread I made a few days ago; steamed carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower; red pepper; chinese noodles, and avocado. Afterwards: grapes and prunes.