A-Peelingly Easy Oats for National School Breakfast Week

This week is National School Breakfast Week! 

To celebrate NSBW, we are featuring recipes from our Meals Plus Child Nutrition Cookbook, which you can download here. The cookbook includes recipes from Meals Plus customers from across the country and school breakfast recipes using USDA foods. Enjoy these Apples and Oats in your cafeterias!

Apples and Oats

Ingredients:
15 lb. + 10 oz. Peterson Farms Apple dices, fresh cut, ready to eat
3 gal. + 2 c. steel cut oatmeal, sweetened

Meals_Plus_school_lunchDirections:
Pull 4 oz. soufflé cups and place at workstation.
Using a 4 oz. spoodle, place ½ c. or 2.5 oz. of fresh diced apples into cups.
Cover tightly and date stamp.
Place in steamtable pans or in food storage shallow bins. May stack 4 high. CCP: Hold below 41°F. CCP: Never handle ready to eat foods with bare hands.
Refrigerate until service.
If utilizing a pre-packaged steel cup oatmeal, follow manufacturer’s directions.
If utilizing an in-house recipe, cook according to recipe
instructions. CCP: Hold above 135°F.
8. Serve ½ c. oatmeal with ½ c. fresh diced apples.

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Nutrients per serving:
Calories – 227.596
Chol (mg) – 0.000
Sodium (mg) – 15.608
Fiber (gm) – 10.072
Iron (mg) – 0.362
Calc (mg) – 543.316
Vit A (IU) – 50.624
Vit C (mg) – 51.637
Protein (gm) – 5.029
Carb (gm) – 48.849
Tot Fat (gm) – 2.012
Sat Fat (gm) – 0.402
Sugars (gm) – 27.712
Trans Fat (gm) – 0.000*

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