I was searching for something to feed the boys for dinner after football and came up with this quick dinner.
Cooked chicken tossed with a bit of BBQ sauce
Cooked brown rice
2 cups Cooked Corn (cut it off the cob or heat frozen corn)
1 can Black beans heated
BBQ Sauce
Green onion
We started with rice in the bottom of the bowl then added the chicken, corn, and black beans. You can add more BBQ sauce or hot sauce to give it more flavor and garnish with green onion. Yum. I had happy fed kids and husband.
Liz one of the football mom's gave me a few tips for feeding my boys. These tips really work:
1. Keep humus in the refrigerator and lots of cut up veggies for snacking.
2. Feed them popcorn after dinner to fill up the void.
3. Keep lunch meat and string cheese in the refrigerator. It's easy to roll the cheese in the meat and go.
4. To-go yogurts are easy to keep around too. Good protein and fills them up.
**originally by Nancy Dell’Aria but I’ve changed a few things.
1 box pasta cooked as the package directs and then cooled. (Pick whatever pasta your kids will eat. We eat Barilla whole wheat pastas)
Dressing – I've doubled it and cut the salt in ½. Salt the salad to your taste.
2/3 cup oil with two to four smashed (use the back of a knife to smash it) garlic cloves. Let it sit for a few hours or overnight to infuse the oil. OK -- or just buy garlic oil.
6 TB cider vinegar
3 tsp. cumin
2 tsp. salt
Mix all the ingredients together in a jar and let sit.
Veggies -
2 cans beans you can use kidney, garbanzo, black or a combo of beans
2 large ripe tomatoes cut into chunks
½ cup cilantro
Extras
Chicken – I use a lot like 2 cups. The boys need their protein!
Cubbed Pepperjack cheese 6-8 oz is good.
I mix all the dry ingredients and put the dressing on right before its eaten. That way it doesn’t get soggy when it sits on the football field for hours in the cooler.
