Sample Menu #2
Dinners:
Baked lemon chicken and fried potatoes – Do you have potatoes there? Can I get them fresh there? We have potatoes and lots of Kaukau from the garden.
Gound beef tacos, tortillas, beans, salsa, sour cream - Salsa – Can I buy it there or make it from the garden? You make it. Sour Cream – can I buy it there? No, but make it from cream.
Chicken and dumplings with veggies in the broth
Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, gravy – I understand that we can get hamburger and chicken. Is there other meat that we can get there? Not a great variety but you can look.
Chicken tacos, tortillas, Spanish rice, cheese crisps, salsa, sour cream – Tortillas – can I get them there or do I need to bring them? You make them.
Ranch baked chicken – Is there milk available there or is it powdered? We have boxed milk - skim, trim and whole. Also, there is powered milk for baking.
Spaghetti
Lunches:
Grilled cheese sandwiches and veggie soup – What cheese is available there? We have colby and some mozzarella
Meatloaf sandwiches – Bread, I know we have to make it. Can we get all the ingredients there? Do we need to bring some of it? We can get all the ingredients here.
Sloppy joes
Mini hamburgers (baked in the oven and on homemade rolls)
Macaroni and cheese – Pasta, Can we buy that there? Yes.
Tuna Sandwiches – Can we by Mayonnaise there ? Yes.
Breakfast:
Cinnamon rolls
Scrambled eggs with onions & peppers, toast
Omelets (made big ones and divided them)
Pancakes & eggs – Should we bring pancake mix? If you don’t want to make the pancakes from scratch..
Oatmeal & eggs
Mid morning and afternoon snacks:
cut up oranges
peeled tangerines (makes them easy to grab and eat while working)
cookies - peanut butter, oatmeal, chocolate chip, snickerdoodles – Are these from a box or can we get the ingredients we need there to make cookies? Made from scratch, no box mixes. We don’t have chocolate chips.
quarter peanut butter sandwiches – Peanut Butter – Bring it or buy it there? We have here in the store.
Rice Bubble cocoa treats (recipe on the box)
Desserts:
Brownies –.
pineapple upside down cake
cookies
cakes
With all meals we had some sort of fresh fruit salad or platter. Fresh cut veggies with dip made from sour cream and ranch mix went well at lunches. We got creative with salads at dinner. What veggies and items do you grow in the garden there? carrots, broccoli, lettuce, cabbage, caucau (potatoes), onions, green beans, bananas, What sort of veggies will we need to buy? Lena will go to the market and buy all the veggies and fruit that you need. Deviled eggs were a hit.
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