Almost every kid loves a good peanut butter or grilled cheese sandwich, but every day? Not only is it boring, but it doesn't encourage nutritional variety, which is key to a healthy diet. Rather than fill up pages with sandwich "recipes," we've opted to give you some sandwich suggestions:
- Cashew or almond butter and honey on 12-grain bread
- Add dried cranberries and walnuts to your favorite chicken salad
- Stuff a salad in a pita (keep the dressing on the side if it's going in a lunch box)
- Give them a Gobbler! Turkey, cranberry sauce, and a thin layer of mashed sweet potatoes or leftover stuffing
- Grilled vegetables with goat cheese on toasted wholegrain bread make for a tasty and healthful combination
- Grilled portabella mushroom with melted Swiss cheese, avocado, and honey mustard is a big hit with the older kids
- Instead of the standard mayonnaise or mustard, use pepper jellies on ham, turkey, and chicken sandwiches
- Skip the bread and use some Boston Bibb lettuce leaves as sandwich wrappers
- How about a fruit sandwich? That might even make for an interesting new breakfast — slices of your favorite fruits between thin slices of our Banana Bread (page 119), for example.