Advice from Christine Garboski
My triplets are now seven, so I can certainly relate with the requirement of quick foods. Since your daughter likes Subway, I would recommend you create your own version at home with a whole-grain roll or sliced bread, lean turkey or chicken and thinly sliced veggies. If she has a hand in making it, my bet is she will love it. My kids like anything that is rolled up in a whole-grain tortilla, so you can always mix it up and use a tortilla in place of bread. If your daughter likes lowfat yogurt, you might want to try freezing it. I do this for my kids (just pop a single-serve carton in the freezer the night before). I place it in their lunch boxes frozen with an ice pack. Several hours later (during their after school activities), the yogurt is at that slushy stage. So it is kind of like frozen yogurt! As well, snacks like nuts, pre-cut veggies and fruit and cheese sticks are always nice to have on hand. One last idea I thought I would share (it happens to be my son’s favorite!). We make smoothies all the time. When he is in a chocolate mood, we blend lowfat milk with a frozen chopped banana and scoop of Ovaltine or Nesquik powder. If in a berry mood, we use lowfat berry-flavored yogurt, lowfat milk, a handful of fresh or frozen berries, a scoop of protein powder and some ice. We blend, pour into a covered cup and go. Hope some of these ideas help!