What are you putting on the table for meals

[Grandma Lewis]

Each breakfast consists of a cereal/bread, juice/fruit, milk and some type of protein.

Lunch consists of sandwich, vegetable such as carrots, milk, chips and some kind of sweet.

For each dinner meal we always have a meat dish, a starch, 2 vegetables and a salad.

The kids get vegetables or bread type snacks in the afternoon.

What are you putting on the table?

[baxjul]

Breakfast is usually pancakes or toast (on homemade bread)

Lunch is soup and sandwiches, sandwiches and olives & pickles, sometimes just soup and HM bread

Dinner is usually pasta, meat, potatoes, etc.
And veggies for lunch and dinner

[pkellyc]

All adults here. Breakfast is whatever they find. For me it was a pear today. I like oatmeal or raisin bran. My grown kids eat regular cereal. DH doesn't eat he is sleeping, he works 2nd shift and sometimes part of 3rd.

Lunch for DH and I are usually leftovers, a sandwich or an egg. The rest eat out or make their own lunches.

Dinner consists of meat, a couple of vegetables and a starch. I try not to make 2 starches but sometimes it does happen. I will also make meatless meals such as Minestrone soup or homemade mac and cheese that type of thing.

We always have fruit and veggies in the house. In fact I stopped buying juice (whole fruit is better for you) with the exception of light cranberry juice for my urinary tract. I hear every woman should have a glass a day.
Snacks are what ever is available.
I like low fat cottage cheese, sugar free pudding, jello, muffins, rice cakes with peanut butter, popcorn, fruit, and sugar free or low sugar yogurt. Milk and veggies are available for whenever we would like them. The others don't snack all that much. My girls are always trying to lose weight, my DH doesn't like to snack so much, as for my son in law we could care less about whether he has snacks or not, and I am a diabetic.

I will on occasion bake for Sunday dinner a desert. It's the one dinner that all 6 of us will be here to eat at the same time.

[Ceashels]

DH:
Breakfast is cereal with milk and coffee on the side.
Lunch is sandwich with cheese, carrot sticks, fruit and cottage cheese.

Me:
Breakfast/brunch is coffee and a cup of milk.
Lunch is leftovers or soup and bread and a fruit

Dinner is usually a meat, a veggie and a starch. I try to omit the starch from time to time, but that doesn't always work.

We are not dessert eaters, thankfully. But I would very much like to increase the veggies we consume and decrease the amount of meat.

[Dancing Lotus]

Breakfast is usualy yogurt with fruit or grapenuts on top. And lots of coffee.

Lunch is what ever was leftover from the night before or PB&J

Dinner is normaly a meat with a starch and a viggie or we do a meatless night.

[Neeley]

For breakfast each day I make DD, DS, and DH something like:
~Eggs, biscuits, sausage
~Pancakes and sausage
~Grits, bacon, biscuits
~Sausage, egg and cheese biscuits
~Sausage, egg and cheese quiche
~Ham and eggs with cheese toast
***It has to be a good breakfast with lots of protien and minimal sugar. Preferably a hot breakfast.***

On weekdays their (DS, DD, and DH) lunches are always...
~Ham and cheese sandwich on wheat bread with Kraft light mayo(spiral cut ham - they don't like regualr sandwich meat so they get the spiral cut, pre-sliced ham)
~20 organic baby carrots (yes, I count them out)
~DD gets a banana, DS gets a naval orange - if it is a small one I give him two, and DH gets either a banana or a green Granny Smith apple
~and what I call "a bad for you snack" - meaning maybe a fruit roll-up, fruit Stackers, pudding, peanut butter crackers - they get to choose this one.
~DH may take a pack of raisins with him for an additonal snack.
~I also send an extra sandwich everyday w/DD. One of her friends never brings a lunch so I want to make sure she gets something to eat if she wants it.
***There is very little variation in their lunches. It is the same everyday for the most part.***

Dinner really varies.
Once a week (on average as of late) they have ribs, meatloaf, baked fish, and baked chicken. They will normally have 2-3 veggies and a bread (rolls, cornbread, garlic toast etc...) If they do not have a bread they will have rice or potatoes instead. The other days it may be fried rice with steamed veggies and egg rolls, tacos with Spanish rice and all the fixings, roast, pizza, etc...

I eat at weird times of the day and am a vegetarian so my breakfast and lunch are different. At dinner I eat whatever they are having that I actually like. Everyone who cooks tries to make sure there is at least one item I will eat. If all else fails, I make a big salad and eat that - but I try not to make myself something different. Our house rule is, "If you don't like what is being served, too bad. You eat it or go without." That rule applies to me too.

[AmyBoz]

Breakfast for the kids is either frozen waffles or Special K. They can drink milk with breakfast.

Dh has granola cereal with almonds and raisins and I have a bowl of Cream of Wheat. Dh drinks coffee and I have milk.

For lunch, I send the kids with a PBJ sandwich, a yogurt, and a snack of a banana or an apple or a 100 calorie snack pack. They drink milk with lunch.

For an afternoon snack, they can have a piece of fruit or a muffin or yogurt. We also have no salt saltine crackers or low fat graham crackers for a snack. They can have Crystal Light lemonade, milk, or water to drink.

For dinner, I have a meat and two vegetables. If it's a pasta night, then it's either pasta with meatballs and sausage or cavatelli with broccoli. The kids can have milk with dinner, and Dh and I have Crystal Light lemonade.

[mmy2grls]

Breakfast is pancakes with sausage or bacon (costs us about $7 a week)

lunch is things like grilled cheese plus soup with pasta in it, or something quick and easy

supper is usually meat, 1 or 2 vegetables, home made biscuits

[StartingOver]

Breakfast for the kids usually is:
PB toast w/scrambled eggs and bacon
Cereal w/milk with a piece of fruit

Lunch(if they decide to take cold lunch)
PB sandwich or Ham sandwich
Fruit (usually grapes)
chips or crackers
Cookie

Dinner
Meat, starch and veggie (not very successful at this one)

[inneedofhope]

we eat a variety here. There's not a set pattern. Ds buys lunch at school, so he gets a variety there, too.

[faw42077]

Breakfast for kid( me & dh don't eat breakfast) is usually cereal, poptart, or frozen waffles or pancakes, and sometimes an egg sandwich

Lunch: DD eats lunch at school and DS usually takes either a sandwich or chicken nuggets with whatever else he decides

Supper: usually a meat, starch, vegtable, or a soup or stew

I have to admit that I am bad about the snacks that I buy for the kids and am trying to get them to try healthier options
Usually there is a bunch of junk in the house for them to choose from such as cookies, chips, pudding etc.

[larabelle]

My body is sensitive to excessive wheat and I am allergic to milk products soooooooooooo I work try to work around those considerations as well as I am trying to cut down on meat. I do not eat sandwiches, too much wheat. I do not eat noodles due to their wheat content. I eat alot of beans, potatoes and rice.

Breakfast Choices:
>Cereal of brown rice topped with soy milk and frozen fruit or cinnamon and honey
>Muffin made out of regular flour (this is the only wheat product which I consume daily) and lots of coffee. I buy the cheapest coffee and mix cinnamon, soy milk, imitation vanilla and honey with it. YUMMY!!

Lunch/Dinner Choices:
>Meat and bean dish (Such as pork or beans or chili) and a piece of fruit( such as an apple)
> Baked potato topped with leftover chili, cheese made from soy milk, sour cream made from soy milk, and topped with a little fresh onion

Snacks: Mom's hm cookies, peanut butter on apple slices (I do not eat crackers), Air popped popcorn, I do not eat junk food except Chocolate!!!

Drinks: All meals/snacks are accompanied by water. No soda or juice.

[mommy4ever]

Breakfast: Dh: jam, toast and milk. Sometimes muffins. Kids, a variety. DD10 prefers oatmeal, ds13 does too, dd8 is picky, usually cereal, but am trying to limit that by having home made pancakes and waffles in the freezer for her to toast.

Lunch: Kids: sandwich, fruit and veggies, water. Sometimes leftovers depending on what it was
DH: supper leftovers when at work, sandwiches and soup at home.
Daycare kids and dd4, varies, home made soups, leftovers, sandwiches.
Me: often a green smoothie.

Supper is meat, starch and veggies.

Desserts are a rarity.

Snacks, we do on occasion have chips, but mostly fruit, veggeis and dip, home made muffins, cookies, toast etc.

[qtkitty]

its never the same around here

Yesterday we had:
Breakfast:Eggs and Bacon, juice for me, coffee for Joe
Lunch: Gravy made from some of the bacon grease and a strip of bacon broken up into it over biscuits and Green beans
Dinner: Pulled Pork W/ Homemade Hot Sauce (ours were on potatoe rolls.. guests on regular hamburger buns i was in a hurry and didn't have time to make buns me bad * smacks my hands*), Homemade Coleslaw, and Homemade French Fries ( we had guests so they had soda, i had milk, and joe had coffee) with Homemade Apple Bread for dessert

Today:
Late Breakfast: Cocoa puffs (finishing off the bag so we don't have to move it *lol*) w/ plenty of milk to finish off that gallon (so we didn't have to move that either).
Snack: Arby's Roast Beef Sandwich w/half packet of horsey sauce and a full packet of BBQ ( the left over from when we ate out joe had had a sezure and needed to eat so we ate)
Dinner: Pulled pork Left overs ( rest will go in the freezer ), baked potatoe, and green beans .. atleast i think *lol*

Sunday night for Dinner i know we are going to have Baked Chicken drum sticks, Homemade Coleslaw, and Homemade Potatoe Salad for us and our neighbors family since he is going to be helping us move.

[lukesmama]

I love threads like this, so many good ideas!

Breakfast for us usually consists of cereal and/or fruit, homemade bread/banana bread, or sometimes I'll pop a few frozen biscuits in the oven. Occasionally I'll scramble an egg or two and we'll have bacon egg and cheese biscuits. This morning I made pigs in a blanket but that only happens once every few months.

Lunch for my 2-year-old tends to be a peanut butter and jelly with chips and yogurt (he likes routine). My DH and I eat whatever is left over in the fridge that needs to get eaten, or he will eat a turkey sandwich with chips. I occasionally grab frozen entrees like Lean Cuisines or frozen egg rolls as my lunch, too. I'm trying to eat more veggies lately so I am trying to eat a little frozen Green Giant pack of veggies on the side if I'm not already eating veggies in my meal. Oh, and the baby (13 months) eats leftovers or grilled cheese sandwiches, usually with fruit or peas or whatever veggie I can scratch up for him (often I share my veggies with him).

Dinner varies a lot around here. I make the same several meals over and over:
Spaghetti
Tacos
Chicken Parmesan
Baked chicken with home fries, broccoli or peas, and rolls
Breaded chicken with mac and cheese, rolls, vegetable
Hamburgers with fries or chips (sometimes a veggie or corn)
Chicken sandwiches with corn on the cob and fries
etc.

For snacks, my children don't get snacks usually during the day, but in the evening I mix up a blender of smoothie (strawberries/bananas/whole milk/orange juice) and split it between my two boys. They love it and I feel like it makes up for any gaps in their nutrition throughout the day. Occasionally my 2-year-old will be hungry and I'll give him some crackers or a Nutri-Grain bar with the smoothie.

I'm really trying to add more fruits and veggies to all of our meals, it's a big goal for me right now. That and not wasting food.