Food, Family & Fun: Meal in a Potato

Recipe

Food, Family & Fun

A Seasonal Guide to Healthy Eating
Commemorating 50 years of School Lunch

Meal in a Potato

45 minutes—1 hour
Serves: 4

This makes a fun side dish or hearty snack. To make it into a true meal, add leftover meat, poultry, fish, or mashed beans, and vegetables like chopped spinach or broccoli to the potato.

If you have a child who is older and helps to get dinner started, this is a nice recipe to suggest. (To save on time: "bake" the potatoes in a microwave.)

Ingredients

4 large potatoes
1 Tbsp oil
4 Tbsp grated lowfat sheese (mozzarella or cheddar)
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
1/8 tsp of nutmeg

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Scrub potatoes well. Dry with a towel. Rub the outside with oil. Bake about 45 minutes—1 hour until potato is soft.
Cut off a cap lengthwise. Scoop out some of the pulp and mix with the cheese, salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Spoon back into potato. Replace cap. Serve.

Nutrients per serving
1 potato

Calories 262
Saturated fat.9 g
Iron 2.8 mg
Protein 6 g
Cholesterol 1 mg
Calcium 50 mg
Carbohydrate 25 g
Vitamin A 4 RE
Sodium 204 mg
Total Fat 4.1 g
Vitamin C 26 mg
Dietary Fiber 5 g

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This Month includes United Nations Day (October 24). Why not create an "Adventures in Eating" bulletin board at home? Put a map of the world on it. Get Colored pins. Each time a child tries foods from each Pyramid Food Group they make a colorful cutout of the food, and attach it to the map with a pin, in the area of the world where that food is commonly eaten. Remember to celebrate "National School Lunch Week."

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