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Meal Planning with Rainbow Meals
With füdoo® Boards Family Meal Planning has never been easier.
What is a Rainbow Meal?
It's the easiest way to know you are offering a balanced meal. Strive to make each meal hit all color füdoo® magnets. Red, Orange, Green, Turquoise, Blue, and Purple! Score! We like to line up the magnets in the order of the rainbow, write the menu on the back of our board and enjoy eating a fully balanced, satisfying meal. Only by using your füdoo® Board magnets you can easily plan and offer fully balanced meals that are simple to record and understand for young children. Teens can easily learn how to make a strong, energizing meal for themselves just by building a Rainbow Meal by food group!
Rainbow Meals
So Basic. So Balanced.
The key to a Rainbow Meal is not how fancy it is nor counting calories, carbs, or fat. It is balance. Try to focus on planning the meal by food group.
Rainbow Meals fill up your füdoo® Board fast! Try these examples below:
Send us your favorite Rainbow Meal idea & we'll give you credit on our site!
Try this healthy recipe for the Chinese New Year!
Log Life Noodles
by Anne Colemans
2 tablespoons peanut or sesame oil
3 cloves garlic - minced or chopped
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated ginger - or about 1/4 teaspoon powdered if fresh is unavailable
Vegetables:
6 dried Chinese mushrooms - soaked for 2 hours in warm water, drained well and julienned
1 cup Napa cabbage (Chinese celery cabbage) sliced thinly as for cole slaw
1/2 cup bamboo shoots - drained well and julienned
Sauce:
1 tablespoon brewed soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon sugar
2 teaspoons sesame oil
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
1 teaspoon red chili paste with garlic
4 ounces cellophane noodles - soaked for 1 hour in warm water and drained well
2 cups chicken stock or Chinese chicken soup
several tablespoons thinly sliced green onions
Directions:
Heat a wok or large skillet over high heat and add peanut oil.
When the oil starts to “shimmer”, add the garlic and ginger. Stir briefly, but quickly, and add the vegetables.
Stir-fry until the vegetables are tender and very hot.
Add the sauce, noodles and stock and simmer over medium heat until the noodles are clear and tender and have soaked up most of the stock.
Serve sprinkled generously with sliced green onions and remember; don’t cut these noodles!
Other Great Recipes
~ Scrambled egg with red pepper and cheese
~ Corn muffin with peppers
~ Watermelon sliced
~ Water
Sunrise Breakfast
~Green Eggs and Ham Omlette (and cheese!)
~Slice of toast
~Sliced kiwi
~Broccoli
~water
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
~black beans
~fat free refried beans
~pineapple
~whole wheat tortilla
~carrots/onion/tomatoes
~grated cheese
~water to drink
Hello Burrito
~Amy's Organic Spinach Pizza (frozen!)
~salad with croutons
~chicken breast
~watermelon
~water to drink
Spinach Pizza
~baked ham
~tortilla
~carrots/broccoli
~orange
~gouda wedge
~water
Ham on a Tortilla
~whole wheat waffle
~all natural peanut butter
~1/2 banana
~yogurt
~water
~pumpkin (pure pumpkin mixed into p.b.)
Good 4U Rainbow Breakfast
~hummus
~wheat tortilla
~cream cheese or crumbled ~feta
~sliced peppers, carrots
~grapes
~water
Hummus Wrap
Pasta Salad
~bow-tie pasta with parmesan
~cheese and fresh veggies
~serve with a veggie dog or Italian sausage
~plum
~carrots
~water
Almost Rainbow Smoothie
~berry yogurt
~silken tofu
~frozen strawberries
~carrot juice
~serve with graham crackers
Tortellini! Tortellini!
~cheese tortellini
~tomato sauce
~turkey meatballs
~broccoli
~water
~fruit salad for dessert
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By using your füdoo® Board when you plan meals for your family you can:
Know you are serving food that is part of the USDA's food pyramid plan.
Be sure you are serving a variety of foods by learning how to make a Rainbow Meal.
Involve your children in the planning of meals in order for them to take part in their own healthy nutrition.
Have proof that you have given your family the proper nutrition choices for their day in order to be balanced.
Easily figure serving sizes for children and adults! Tell at a glance what you need to offer the best, most balanced meal!
Eat! Drink! Move! Think!
It really is that simple!
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