Ha, I found some recipes that provided all are healthy food and it is easy to prepare. With these simple recipes, parents are able to involve their children in the preparation of meals.
It is many benefit to involve children in preparing meals children get to prepare and understand more about healthy food during preparation and having a quality fun time spent together with parents.
Other then that, I believe children will be more interested with food, which they prepare by their self, they will probably eat that because they feel that they are a part of it. Therefore parents can use this way to getting their child to eat their veggies.
During preparation, children able to practice their fine motor skill through mixing, cutting, squishing etc. Children doing the decoration of the foods also can train their creativity.
Nothing will make a child happier than helping mommy do grown-up stuff. It doesn't matter if your child is 3 or 10, they love to help cook! Involve your kids, when possible. Find some age appropriate activity and have them assist.
Getting kids involved in the cooking process is a great way to spend quality time together. Instill a love for cooking recipes in your little ones that will last a lifetime!
For an easy recipe to make with kids, try one of these. Cooking is a great activity to share with children, to make them a healthy afternoon snack or just to pass the time. Delicious recipes are heirloom treasures to pass down in a family. Start a tradition with the kids in your family today.
Avocado Smoothie
Ingredients * 1 avocado, peeled and pitted
* 1 cup milk
* 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for baking dish and aluminum foil
* 1 cup ice cubes
* 2 tablespoons sugar
* 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Directions
1. In a blender, combine all ingredients, then blend until smooth. Makes 3 servings.
Tomato Egg Soup
Ingredients:* 4 Omega Eggs
* 3 Tomato (diced)
* Ham - Quantity based on own preferences (diced)
* 1 Clove garlic (minced)
Preparation:
- Poached eggs.
- Sauted garlic, add in diced ham and tomato fried for while and then add around 1 liter water to cook until boiled, then add in the seasoning to complete.
Fruit Flower Bouquet
Ingredients* Vegetable peeler
* Kiwi
* Seedless watermelon
* Fresh pineapple
* Flower-shaped cookie cutter
* Melon baller
* Grapes and/or raspberries
* Thin wooden kitchen skewers
Directions
1. Use the vegetable peeler to remove the skin from the kiwi fruit, but leave the rind on the watermelon and the pineapple.
2. Slice off one rounded end of the watermelon so that you have a chunk about 3 inches thick and set it, cut side up, in a bowl.
3. Slice the rest of the melon, the fresh pineapple, and the kiwi into rings about 3/8- to 1/2-inch thick.
4. Use the cookie cutter to cut out flowers from the center of each melon and pineapple slice. Then, use the melon baller to carve out a small hole in the center of each flower.
5. If the flowers are juicy, blot them with paper towels. Then, set them on a flat surface and insert a grape or a raspberry into each center hole. Or, you can use a piece of kiwi fruit scooped from one of the slices with the melon baller.
6. With each flower, thread a wooden kitchen skewer up through one of the lower petals, then through the center fruit, and finally through the opposite petal.
7. "Plant" the flowers in the bowl by pushing the bottom of each skewer into the chunk of watermelon.
8. Finally, thread the kiwi slices onto skewers and add them to the bouquet.
Potato Mice
Ingredients* 4 medium baking potatoes
* 1 tbsp oil
* 2 tbsp butter
* Half cup milk
* Half cup grated cheddar cheese
* Cherry tomatoes
* Chives
* Radishes
* Raisins
* Green onions
Directions
1. Wash the potatoes and pat them dry. Prick the skins with a fork and put the potatoes on a baking sheet. Brush them all over with oil. Bake the potatoes until they are soft. Medium sized potatoes take about one hour in an oven preheated to 210°C.
2. Cool enough to handle? Then cut off the tops and carefully scoop out the soft potato centers with a spoon. You can throw away the tops (or eat them).
3. Mash the soft centers with the butter, milk, three quarters of the cheese , salt and pepper. Then put the mixture back into the potato skins.
4. Sprinkle the remaining cheese on the potatoes and cook under the broiler for a few minutes until golden.
5. Make a nose and whiskers by cutting the chives into lengths of about 3 inches. Take a small cherry tomato, stick a toothpick in one end and insert this into the baked potato to make a nose with the chives tucked behind to form the whiskers.
6. To make the ears and eyes, cut the radishes in half and make two indentations with a blunt knife. Place the radishes on either side of the potato to form ears and then place the raisins in front to make the eyes.
7. To make the tail, choose a part of the green onion that is pointed at the end. Insert this into the back of the potato to make the tail.
Peanut Butter Bears
Ingredients* 1 1/3 cups Rice Krispies
* 1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
* 2 tbsp sesame seeds
* 1/3 cup smooth peanut butter
* 3 tbsp unsalted butter
* 16 chocolate buttons or nonpareils
* Mini colored candies
* Black writing icing
Directions
1. Add and stir.
Put the puff-rice cereal in a large bowl and stir in the confectioners' sugar and sesame seeds.
2. Melt and mix.
Melt the peanut butter and butter in a pan over a low heat. Pour the mixture into the bowl and stir until everything is well mixed together.
3. Make the patties.
Divide the mixture into 8 parts (roughly 2 tbsp each). Squish each one together with your hands, then roll each into a ball. Put the balls on a cookie sheet lined with parchment. Squish down slightly to flatten.
4. Decorate.
Put chocolate buttons or nonpareils into the sides for ears and push in small colorful candies for eyes and noses. Use the writing icing to draw mouths and pupils on the eyes.
Rudolph and Friends
Ingredients* Pretzels (standard shaped)
* Chocolate frosted cupcakes
* Almonds
* Mini vanilla wafer
* Red or brown M&Ms
* White M&Ms
* Black decorating gel
Directions
1. For each "reindeer," carefully snap two pretzels into antler shapes and press them into a chocolate frosted cupcake.
2. Finish by adding a pair of white M&M eyes dotted with black decorating gel.
3. Press on a mini vanilla wafer for a snout, then use a small dab of frosting to attach a red or brown M&M nose.
4. Attach each ear using a halved almond and arrange them next to the antlers.
