Saint Pats day goodie ideas for kids! NO SUGAR THOUGH?

Question

I work with 4 and 5 year olds. I would like to do a desert for the kids for Saint Pats day but one kid can not have sugar at all! I need help!

Answer 1

I dont think splenda, equal or sweet n low are good for kids, try recipes that substitute honey, juice or even applesauce for sugar instead.

This is a great book that will help, lots of recipes! You can always add "green" to the recipes & make them for St P's Day. See if your local library has the book or even your local B&N or Borders will have it:

Sugar-Free Toddlers: Over 100 Recipes Plus Sugar Ratings for Store-Bought Foods (Paperback)

by Susan Watson (Author), Loretta Trezzo (Illustrator)
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Other options are making sugar free cookies (with green cookie dough), sugar free puddings (lime/pistachio) & my fav is key lime yogurt (you can get it in sugar free). Green juice is fun, my son loves limeade.

Recipes:

Leprechaun Pudding

one 1-ounce box of sugar free instant
pistachio pudding for every five children
1/2 cup of milk per child
1 small, resealable plastic bag per child
1/2 cup measuring cup
1 spoon per child.

Put tablespoon of pudding mix in sandwich bag and milk, then close the baggy and have kids shake and squeeze, then eat.
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Shamrock Cookies

Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 (3 ounce) package instant pistachio pudding mix
1 1/3 cups baking mix
1 egg
2 tablespoons honey

Cooking Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease baking sheet.

2. Cream together the butter or margarine and the pudding mix. Blend in the baking mix, egg and honey and mix well.

3. On a lightly floured surface roll out the dough to 3/8 inch thickness and cut into cookies with a shamrock cookie cutter.

4. Place cookies on the prepared baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 9 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned on the edges. Let cookies cool on rack. Frost with green colored icing (sugar free) if desired.
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Emerald Isle Punch

1 can (355 mL) frozen sugar free limeade concentrate, thawed
1 quart (1 litre) sugar free lime sherbet
2 litres lemon-lime non carbonated sugar free beverage
4 cups (1 litre) crushed ice

Cooking Instructions

1. In a large mixing bowl or punch bowl, stir together the limeade concentrate and the lime sherbet.

2. Add the lemon-lime beverage and the crushed ice and serve immediately.

3. If you don’t want to serve the punch right away, refrigerate the mixture of limeade and sherbet until just before serving time. Add the non-carbonated beverage and crushed ice at the last possible moment.
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Green Cupcakes

Ingredients

3/4 cup (175 mL) vegetable oil
3/4 cup (175 mL) honey
1 egg
2 tsp. (10 mL) white vinegar
1 tsp. (5 mL) vanilla
1/2 tsp. (2 mL) liquid green food colouring
1-1/4 cup (300 mL) all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. (2 mL) baking soda
1/2 cup (125 mL) buttermilk

Icing
1/2 cup (125 mL) butter, softened
2 cups (500 mL) sugar free icing sugar
1 tsp. (5 mL) vanilla
2 tbsp. (30 mL) milk or cream
green food colouring (preferably paste type)
additional sugar free candies or nuts

Cooking Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350° F (180° C). Place 10 paper liners into the cups of a muffin pan.

2. In a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer, beat together the oil, honey, egg, vinegar, vanilla and green food colouring until combined.

3. In a smaller bowl, stir together the flour and baking soda. Add to the egg mixture, in two or three additions alternately with the buttermilk, beating well after each.

4. Spoon the batter into the 10 paper liners, dividing the batter evenly among them.

5. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick poked into the middle of a cupcake comes out clean. Remove from pan and let cool thoroughly.

6. Meanwhile, make the icing. In a medium bowl with an electric mixer, beat the butter until creamy. Add the icing sugar gradually, in 3 or 4 additions, beating very well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla. Add the milk or cream, 1 tbsp. (15 mL) at a time, beating well, until the icing is creamy and spreadable -- the more you beat this, the better it will be. Add the food colouring, beating it in gradually until the icing is tinted the way you like it.

7. Decorate cupcakes with sugar free green sprinkles or SF coloured sugar, shamrocks made out of gummy candies -- or whatever else your little leprechaun can think of.

Good luck!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I've been a diabetic since I was 5 (diagnosed 20 years ago). Make Sugar-free lime Jell-O Jigglers and cut them into shamrock shapes with a cookie cutter. All you do is make the gelatin as the package directs, but you add an envelope of Knox gelatin (unflavored) to make them easier to hold. Voila! Yummy snack for all the kids and they won't get all hyper on you, unless they're just naturally energetic.
Also try cutting a head of broccoli into easy-to-handle florets, and serve some low-fat Ranch dressing or other dip with them!

Answer 4

shortbread cookies with no sugar added

INGREDIENTS
1 cup butter (no substitutes), softened
1/2 cup of applesauce
1/2 cup cream cheese
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
green food coloring (optional)
DIRECTIONS
In a mixing bowl, cream butter, cream cheese and applesauce; gradually add flour. Add food coloring now if you are going to use it.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out each portion to 1/4-in. thickness. Cut with 2-in. to 3-in. cookie cutters dipped in flour. Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets.
Bake at 300 degrees F for 20-25 minutes until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Answer 5

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Symptoms of type 1 diabetes:

Increased thirst
Increased urination
Weight loss in spite of increased appetite
Fatigue
Nausea
Vomiting

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Increased thirst
Increased urination
Increased appetite
Fatigue
Blurred vision
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Answer 6

try kiwi fruit its very good and fun to use and its green, put kiwi in jello or in a fruit cup with green grapes or pistachio pudding ,try a cookie pizza with pistachio pudding and kiwi and grapes on top or a topping for ice cream all this stuff comes sugar free

Answer 7

The first thing that came to mind was green eggs and ham, like the book. And green sugar free jello with bits of fruit in it, like green apple. :-)

Answer 8

check diabetes websites and use splenda