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Toddler Lunch: Day 1

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toddler5 Today is a really quick and easy lunch to put together. We have fresh mango and strawberries, a black bean and cheese quesadilla, and some carrot “pasta”. The biggest issue in making a lunch like this is choosing the right tortillas, as some brands put some pretty scary stuff in their products. I use Food For Life’s Ezekiel Tortillas which is a 100% natural sprouted grain tortilla. Here are the ingredients:

Ingredients: Organic Sprouted Wheat, Filtered Water, Organic Sesame Seeds, Organic Sprouted Soybeans, Organic Sprouted Barley, Organic Sprouted Millet, Organic Sprouted Lentils, Organic Sprouted Spelt, Sea Salt

Here are the ingredients in Mission brand’s Soft Taco Whole Wheat Tortillas:

 Ingredients: Whole wheat flour, water, vegetable shortening (interesterified soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil and/or palm oil), contains 2% or less of: leavening (sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum sulfate, corn starch, monocalcium phosphate and/or sodium acid pyrophosphate, calcium sulfate), sugar, salt, preservatives (calcium propionate, sorbic acid and/or citric acid), cellulose gum, distilled monoglycerides, enzymes, wheat starch, calcium carbonate, antioxidants (tocopherols, ascorbic acid), dough conditioners (fumaric acid, sodium metabisulfite and/or mono- and diglycerides)

If you take a look these contain partially hydrogenated oil (trans fats!), added sugars, preservatives, and dough conditioners. It is hard to look at these ingredients without being really confused by what half of the ingredients even are and why they are in something very simple like tortillas. Unfortunately Mission themselves don’t want to admit how terrible their ingredient list is because their website claims these are a healthier choice. Not even a chance Mission, sorry!
quesadilla
To put the quesadilla together I simply used  canned black beans and seasoned them with cumin, chili powder, and adobo seasoning. I spread them out on the tortilla and topped them with cheese. On the other side of the tortilla I spread sour cream. I put the two together and placed it under the broiler for a few minutes, then flipped it to the other side for another few minutes. I gave half to my boys and I ate the other half and I have to say.. it was delicious! They both enjoyed it as well.
blackbeanwrap
 
For the carrot pasta I peeled one carrot with a potato peeler and steamed the peels until they were soft. I put a good quality store bought pasta sauce on top of them and that’s it!
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