Healthy Kids Recipes

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Getting children involved in cooking healthy kids recipes is one great way for them to catch the cooking bug and also learn more about healthy foods and their benefits. The same would apply to any special diets, everyone can have FUN cooking.

For most kids, they love to be creative, especially when it involves 'getting dirty', again, there is no exception whilst making healthy kids recipes.

SUPERVISION

Although this can be a nerve-wracking experience for parents, children are more likely to want to create meals entirely on their own. Simply supply them with ‘safe-to-use’ utensils and sit back in confidence and watch that what they will create will be safe, tasty and nutritious.

It's important that whilst we supervise them that we don't hover and critique their every step while cooking, this can make them tense and destroy the mood of confidence that you’ve worked so hard to create.

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It’s hard to keep coming up with fresh ideas for healthy kids recipes and packed lunches for the 20 or so school days there are in a month. No wonder we often rely on the same old lunch recipe favourites.

Here are a few of my favorite kid lunch box ideas. I’m sure you’ve heard some of them before but I’m hoping you’ll find a few new ideas to inspire you.

Change The Bread

For a change from everyday sandwiches use soft tortillas for wraps, bagels, English muffins, pita pockets or fresh baked rolls.

Create Your Own Snack Mix

Use a selection of small flavorful crackers, cereal, dried fruit or pretzels. Just about anything goes. For an occasional kid lunch box treat toss in a few M & Ms or yogurt or chocolate covered raisins. Experiment with different mixes and pre-package in individual zip lock bags.

Try Different Sandwich Fillings

Alter the sandwich fillings. Consider combinations like diced chicken and corn, ham and avocado, grated carrot and cheddar cheese, or jam and cream cheese.

Quesadillas

Place on soft tortilla in a hot frying pan. Spread with tomato sauce or pizza sauce. Sprinkle grated cheese on top and other fillings like ham, bacon, peppers, onions and tomatoes. Place another tortilla on top and heat until cheese melts. Cut into pizza triangles.

Don't Forget The Veggies

To ensure your child gets his or her daily requirement of vegetables cut up a selection of carrot sticks and celery sticks. Consider also other veggies like cucumber, ears of baby corn, cherry tomatoes, and zucchini. Pack a small container of dip.

Fruit Cubes

Cut up different pieces of fruit and package in a plastic container. Use fruit or vanilla yogurt as a tasty dip.

Fruit & Cheese Bites

Cheese cubes and grapes make a nice snack or lunch dessert. Pineapple and apple slices dipped in lemon juice also go nice with cheese.

Mini Muffins

Kids love things that come in small packages. So think ‘mini’ – small muffins and bagels. Vary flavors to avoid boredom.

Sandwich Shapes

Remove crusts from bread and cut out different shaped sandwiches using cookie cutters.

Pack A Note

Occasionally pack something extra special in your child’s lunch box like a note saying I love you or even a simple smiley face. Be creative and come up with something like a funny cartoon or saying that you know that will put a smile on your child’s face.

Beyond Sandwiches

If your child is tired of bread in any form consider crackers. What about packing a few crackers in your child’s lunch box along with cheese and ham slices? You can even cut the ham and cheese slices into fun shapes using cookie cutters. Be sure to package the crackers, cheese and meat separately.

Healthy Kids Recipes: By Sherrie Le Masurier

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These healthy kids recipes are ideal for children aged eight and up to cook and give them plenty of scope to be creative.

Quick and Easy Kids Recipes to Get Started.

Adorable Peach Smoothies
Here is a healthy peach smoothie just for kids. Fun to prepare, refreshing and ready in just 1 to 2 hours

Darling Banana and Peanut Butter Muffins
Healthy Muffins are really tasty, especially when made with Banana and Peanut Butter. This recipe is an absolute winner with the kids and adults alike.

Delectable Pineapple Pops
Healthy pineapple pops are a great idea for kids parties. They will love getting involved and making these.

Delightful Pretzels
Having a pretzel snack kids cooking party allows kids to get hands on cooking experience. Kids are sure to love the fun, the mess and eating the finished product.

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Delish Vanishing Zucchini Muffins
Much like the banana bread, these healthy zucchini muffins are insanely good and very easy to make.

Enticing WOWie Strawberry Bars
Healthy strawberry bars are by far a kids favorite snack. These are also good with a little chocolate drizzled over the top for extra flavor.

Exquisite Berry Tasty Muffins
Have Fun Baking Berry Muffins - Oh So Berry Yummy (Careful the adults don’t eat them all up as these berry muffins are berry berry tasty)

Good Blueberry Pancakes
A Healthy eating pancake recipe with so many delish Blueberry’s. That's why it's a Blueberry Pancake recipe just for kids.

Gratifying Yogurt Pops
Let the kids help to make these easy healthy yogurt pops with flavored sweet fruits.

Heavenly French Toast
With this healthy French toast recipe you can get the kids to help prepare breakfast the night before!

Mouthwatering Fruity Kabobs
Fruit Kabobs are not only sweet and delicious but healthy for the kids too. Making Kabobs is a smart way to get the kids to eat fruit and stay healthy.

Scrumptious Banana Bread
A YUMMY Banana Bread Recipe Just For Kids.

Tasty Strawberry Smoothie
Unlike some smoothie recipes, these healthy strawberry smoothies are best made with a food processor, because the frozen strawberries can be big and difficult to puree.

Tasteful Peanut Butter Snack
This healthy peanut butter snack is one that kids can make all on their own.

Tempting Veggie Bowls
Cook up a Healthy Vegetable Bowl with the Old-Fashioned Glazed Carrot Recipe.

Vegetarian Recipes

Yummy Snack Mix
So what is a healthy snack mix?

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