5 Colors a Day for 1 Week - Day 5

Beans and Rice

Just two days left and we will have eaten at least 1 of the 5 main colors of fruits and vegetables a day for a week.  Here is what we ate today.

Day 5

Breakfast: sweet potato pancakes, kiwi, and yogurt

Snack: crackers, cheese, cranberries, and dried strawberry fruit stick (all natural)

Lunch: Burger King (not my favorite but we were running errands) - chicken nuggets, cheeseburger, and french fries (they were out of the apple slices)

Snack: banana and rice pudding

Dinner: 7 Bean soup - with split peas, purple, red, black, white beans, and tomatoes, homemade whole wheat corn bread, and rice

Blue/Purple: purple and black beans
Green: kiwi, split peas
Red: cranberries, tomatoes, strawberries
Yellow: bananas, white beans, corn
Orange: sweet potato in the pancakes


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