WIC Stew - Page 2

Rabbit · 04-02-2010, 07:44 PM

You can get sweet potatoes, but not white potatoes. They're not a particularly healthy food. Out of all the white potatoes, fingerling are the most expensive, and the most nutritious. Reds are a decent second. Russet are the worst. They've been bred to be nearly all starch, and will not work well in this recipe. Well, they'll work, but they'll mash themselves. Golds will work.

Seth gets spooned yogurt. Other than that, he feeds himself, and has since he first discovered the wonder of "carpet crunchies" left behind by his siblings, my cue that it was time to consider meals.

His developmental ped even requested that I stick with letting him fingerfeed, no matter how big a mess he makes of it, as it's just better for his brain and motor skills. Buy a tarp. Take the high chair outside to hose off. But let him play with his food, please.

---------- Post added at 09:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:28 PM ----------

Another note on this stew. Samantha eats it, but takes exception sometimes to the carrots and radishes. (And sometimes eats them just fine. She's weird.) Anyway, I set a saucer next to her bowl, and let her put the bits she doesn't want into that saucer. And we both just refill Seth's high chair tray from that saucer, as they're nicely cooled by the time he's ready for more. When I don't provide a saucer, she doesn't eat as much, and will politely abandon her bowl before she's full, attempting to avoid the bits she doesn't want.

DancingWithElves · 04-02-2010, 10:45 PM

awesome tips!

you know, i've never cooked radishes before

what are they like cooked? i've kinda always thought of them as cucumbers: crunchy and raw.

Heather Micaela · 04-02-2010, 11:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rabbit

You can get sweet potatoes, but not white potatoes.

we can get ANY produce

Oh and you inspired me to share my favorite wic recipe

Rabbit · 04-03-2010, 12:32 PM

Each state has slightly different WIC rules.

Radishes cooked are kinda like carrots in texture. Cooking's not their best use, because they lose their pretty color. Parsnips or turnips would probably be better, but I buy radishes for my salads, and this uses up the greens, and the extra radishes I can't eat in a week.

Kale is a great soup green.

momyshaver · 04-03-2010, 01:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rabbit

Each state has slightly different WIC rules.

Radishes cooked are kinda like carrots in texture. Cooking's not their best use, because they lose their pretty color. Parsnips or turnips would probably be better, but I buy radishes for my salads, and this uses up the greens, and the extra radishes I can't eat in a week.

Kale is a great soup green.

I didn't know you could cook radishes...may have to try that...maybe

I like kale good enough in soup, though...

edited to add...in Indiana you are not able to purchase potatoes on WIC, either. I wish we could, lol.

Heather Micaela · 04-03-2010, 03:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rabbit

Each state has slightly different WIC rules.

Radishes cooked are kinda like carrots in texture. Cooking's not their best use, because they lose their pretty color. Parsnips or turnips would probably be better, but I buy radishes for my salads, and this uses up the greens, and the extra radishes I can't eat in a week.

Kale is a great soup green.

Actually I stand corrected - apparantly potatoes are the ONLY restricted veggie. I thought I had bought some w/ wic before, but I guess it was just at the same time I was using wic.

CrunchySeaSalt · 04-03-2010, 04:13 PM

You are SOOOO lucky! I adore V-8 and they won't let us have it here in my area.

Totally agree with the kale as a soup additive...the only way I can eat it..... and I KNOW that it is fabulous for you

believer · 04-03-2010, 05:14 PM

I had not thought of using V8 juice in a soup or stew. It sounds like a lot of sodium, but perhaps it would still work with low sodium V8.

I used a can of black beans that I got free as part of a "meal deal" at a groc store to make black bean hummus and the canned black beans I got had corn and red bell peppers and onion in it along with seasoning and I just added some tahini, lemon juice, a clove of garlic and cayenne pepper and ground cumin and threw it in the vitamix and blended it and it was great (I took it to work along with a bag of chips this morning and it took less than 5 min. to prepare it.).

CrunchySeaSalt · 04-03-2010, 05:25 PM

Yum to the hummus too

04-02-2010, 07:44 PM	#16
Rabbit Deactivated You know how we say, "It works both ways!" Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: In the Neighborhood Posts: 39,704	Re: WIC Stew You can get sweet potatoes, but not white potatoes. They're not a particularly healthy food. Out of all the white potatoes, fingerling are the most expensive, and the most nutritious. Reds are a decent second. Russet are the worst. They've been bred to be nearly all starch, and will not work well in this recipe. Well, they'll work, but they'll mash themselves. Golds will work. Seth gets spooned yogurt. Other than that, he feeds himself, and has since he first discovered the wonder of "carpet crunchies" left behind by his siblings, my cue that it was time to consider meals. His developmental ped even requested that I stick with letting him fingerfeed, no matter how big a mess he makes of it, as it's just better for his brain and motor skills. Buy a tarp. Take the high chair outside to hose off. But let him play with his food, please. ---------- Post added at 09:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:28 PM ---------- Another note on this stew. Samantha eats it, but takes exception sometimes to the carrots and radishes. (And sometimes eats them just fine. She's weird.) Anyway, I set a saucer next to her bowl, and let her put the bits she doesn't want into that saucer. And we both just refill Seth's high chair tray from that saucer, as they're nicely cooled by the time he's ready for more. When I don't provide a saucer, she doesn't eat as much, and will politely abandon her bowl before she's full, attempting to avoid the bits she doesn't want. Last edited by Rabbit; 04-02-2010 at 07:33 PM.

04-02-2010, 10:45 PM	#17
DancingWithElves Rose Garden Blissed out in the January sun Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: that perfect place :) Posts: 11,701	Re: WIC Stew awesome tips! you know, i've never cooked radishes before what are they like cooked? i've kinda always thought of them as cucumbers: crunchy and raw. __________________ ~I r e n e~ sweet and sassy wife, mama, healer, part-time dragon-slayer the worst PM answerer ever my belongs to the babywearing 'Architect' Dancing with my three Magical Elves Smiles the Stampede Sugar Plump & Double Dimples Kissing each elf 1,000,000 times a day, and when there's time left tracking gnomes, singing folk songs on the porch, befriending dragonflies, and bopping sun-frosted 'fros through the dandelion fields.

04-03-2010, 12:32 PM	#19
Rabbit Deactivated You know how we say, "It works both ways!" Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: In the Neighborhood Posts: 39,704	Re: WIC Stew Each state has slightly different WIC rules. Radishes cooked are kinda like carrots in texture. Cooking's not their best use, because they lose their pretty color. Parsnips or turnips would probably be better, but I buy radishes for my salads, and this uses up the greens, and the extra radishes I can't eat in a week. Kale is a great soup green.

04-03-2010, 04:13 PM	#22
CrunchySeaSalt Rose Trellis Fighting APD and hoping to win soon! Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: East Coast Posts: 2,540	Re: WIC Stew You are SOOOO lucky! I adore V-8 and they won't let us have it here in my area. Totally agree with the kale as a soup additive...the only way I can eat it..... and I KNOW that it is fabulous for you

04-03-2010, 05:14 PM	#23
believer Rose Garden Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 8,130	Re: WIC Stew I had not thought of using V8 juice in a soup or stew. It sounds like a lot of sodium, but perhaps it would still work with low sodium V8. I used a can of black beans that I got free as part of a "meal deal" at a groc store to make black bean hummus and the canned black beans I got had corn and red bell peppers and onion in it along with seasoning and I just added some tahini, lemon juice, a clove of garlic and cayenne pepper and ground cumin and threw it in the vitamix and blended it and it was great (I took it to work along with a bag of chips this morning and it took less than 5 min. to prepare it.). __________________ Dana INTJ widow of Big Bear, mom to: B. - 16 y.o. dd J.-19yo ds M.- 25 (MIL to) A - 24 2 white cats, 3 dogs http://becauseisaidsothathswhy.blogspot.com/

04-03-2010, 05:25 PM	#24
CrunchySeaSalt Rose Trellis Fighting APD and hoping to win soon! Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: East Coast Posts: 2,540	Re: WIC Stew Yum to the hummus too

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