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our faves- 1. pbj 2. pb and banana
3. butter, sugar and cinnamon
4. butter and apricot preserves
5. beef hash
6. pb and mayo
and 7. best favorite- take 4 slices toast and spread on
warmed shredded bbq chicken eat with fork ,delish.

Jewish Rye bread spread with thinly sliced sauteed shitake mushrooms, thinly sliced provolone cheese, with a few capers sprinkled over the top mildly toasted. (My favoriter toaster oven treat)

*note for an interesting flavor add (in addition to the butter the mushrooms are being sauteed in) a teaspoon of peanut butter.

*leftover turkey gravy from thanksgiving dinner boiling hot on buttered whole wheat toast

*bacon, tomato and real mayo

*virgina ham and white super sharp cheddar, layered on buttered wheat toast and broiled til melty

*honey roasted peanut butter

*roasted chicken breast (leftover), garden tomato and watercress

*eggs scrambled with half and half, mixed with cooked sausage, tomato, cheddar and topped with white gravy!!!

Good Morning! I just started my day topping my toast with mayo and big thick slices of homegrown beefsteak tomatoes and a little freshly ground sea salt and pepper. Heavenly.

@NativeRose...wow thanks for commenting on my post from almost a year ago! I have never eaten gluten-free bread but the brown-sugar & cinnamon cream cheese really sounds good :)

SE...what's your latest toast topper? Can we beat the 308#...actually I think the # is up to 312?

These food bans get sillier and sillier. What in the world would be acheived by banning cupcakes? Oh right! Children would miraculously stop becoming obese!!! Are we living in Myanmar or something? Reducing sugar intake during the school day sounds like a better plan to me... I think children should be taught to be smart well rounded people first, then you can tackle obesity with silly bans. Can you imagine this generation of kids growing up to believe that cupcakes and the axis of evil are your enemies? HA!

I think everyone was in agreement that the school cafeteria needed to go on a diet. But banning cupcakes is tantamount to outlawing one of the last remaining bits of childhood that kids today have left. Merry-go-rounds, walking to school, trick-or-treating, and simply playing outside are now nearly things of the past.

OK, so the cupcake crisis is not exactly up there with global warming. But it is, nonetheless, important to our national heritage (and to our fundraisers), and it doesn’t take a think tank to solve the problem.

It’s apparent that the only way we’re going to have our cupcake and eat it, too, is to build a better one. Americans do it all the time. It’s our nature. Ban it? Why, when we can just improve it.

To be successful, it must be indistinguishable in flavor and texture from the original. Can it be done? It already has been done by hundreds of thousands of parents across America who have risen up (ahem…) and have overcome the cupcake crisis by simply adding a few healthy, and sneaky, ingredients.

As a “sneaky chef,” I discovered that because kids love them so much, cupcakes are the perfect “carrier” to deliver valuable hidden nutrition. How? By simply adding a few hidden ingredients. And what school nutritionist could object to a cupcake invisibly enhanced with pureed blueberries, spinach and whole wheat pastry flour, and with only half the fat and sugar?

With this simple solution–call it a “nutritional compromise”–our kids can enjoy a time honored tradition, and we can relax in the knowledge that they are also getting some much needed nutrition.

Parents, we must unite to save the cupcake, and the bake sale, as one of the last vestiges of childhood innocence and American nostalgia. By adding some sneaky nutrition, we can get cupcakes taken off the endangered species list and back into happy tummies. Let’s start baking again for fundraisers, and keep the fun in childhood and the specialness in birthdays.

It’s time to let ‘em know there’s a new cupcake in town!

Talk about a "Knee Jerk" reaction! The cupcakes are certainly not the problem. Shorter recesses, less frequent gym classes, school lunches full of starchy, overcooked, over-processed foods are some of the real problems that need to be addressed. It is amazing to me sometimes how the people who are responsible for educating our children can be so unintelligent!

Maybe these schools who are banning sweets and cupcakes ought to stop making chicken nuggets and cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizza "healthy" lunch fare.

In tomato season I have open-faced tomato sandwiches every day. My current fave: multigrain toast spread with goat cheese, a little black olive tapenade and thick-sliced brandywines sprinkled with sea salt. So good!

Also, the DC-area bakery Marvelous Market sells a delicious, slightly sweet bread called Farmhouse Wheat (which I think is a variation on Anadama bread) that is awesome when sliced thick, topped with any sharp cheese (I like Parrano), and toasted until the cheese is bubbling and is beginning to brown.

Some savories;
101:crisp ciabatta rubbed with garlic and squeeze a very ripe tomato over it
102:Madras red curry paste and plain yogurt
103:melted blue cheese and rosemary
and some sweets:
104:butter, dulce de leche, and gorgonzola
105:cream cheese, peanut butter, and graham wafer crumbs
106:butter, brown sugar, and ginger