Do you have a good recipe for kids food?

Question

Does anyone have any good recipes for a fruit salad or regular salad or anything else to serve at a kids bithday party? Some of the kids attending are not allowwed a lot of 'junk' food and sweets.

Answer 1

Get a large seedless watermelon and cut it in half - use a melon baller to scoop out the inside in pretty little balls - next use the melon baller on a cantaloupe, a pineapple and a honeydew. Combine all balls in a bowl then refill the watermelon halves to serve as bowls - kids love the sweet and tart flavors and it looks really nice in the melon shells. You could also cut oranges in half and scoop out the centers reserving the peel in its bowl shape - puree the oranges and add 1 can frozen concentrated lemonade (do not reconstitute) Freeze this mixture to nearly solid then using an Ice cream scoop refill the orange halves so the look lie frozen oranges replace in freezer until serving time and hand out to the kids. They are tart and sweet but have none of the problems of ice cream and cake.

Answer 2

Fruit Salad,
Use the following
strawberries
melon
orange slices
bannana
apple slices

mix in orange juice to make a sauce until the fruit is wet, but not like a soup. Make sure to use a glass, plastic or ceramic bowl to store and serve because metal can react with the apples and turn them blue.

Salad cherry tomatoes are a good choice, so are baby carrots and brocoli. Kids love dipping things into sauces, so make one for them or purchase one.

Answer 3

check out www.kraftfoods.com - they have a cool idea where you make jello in a half of cantalope or honeydew then slice for individual servings.

old family classic, lightened up:
1 tub lite or sugar free cool whip
1 box sugar free pudding (pistachio or vanillia)
1 can crushed pineapple, well drained
1 bag mini marshmellows

Mix it all up and fridge for a couple hours


Simple fruit salad:
sliced bananas, tossed w/ lime juice
diced fuji apples, tossed w/ lemon juice
sliced seedless grapes
well drained manderian oranges
enough vanillia custard style yogurt to coat

fruit kabobs:
banana chunks, tossed w/ lime juice
melon chunks
seedless grapes
strawberry halves
whatever else that is in season and looks good!

slide 2-3 pieces of fruit onto a skinny pretzel stick and serve w/ a dip made by mixing (2 to 1) lite cool whip and yogurt (any flavor)

veggie sticks:
baby carrots or carrot sticks
celery sticks
bell pepper sticks (all colors)
baby tomatoes stuck on pretzel sticks

serve w/ dip made from (2 to 1) lowfat sour cream or plain yogurt and lite salad dressing (ranch or 1000 island are the most popular)

Answer 4

You sound like you want them to eat "junk" food, since you put it in quotes.

But anyways...yes. I do have a recipe for a salad.

Peel and cube a jicama. Peel and cube a mango. Cube an avocado. Crack open a coconut; dig out the meat, save the juice for something else. Chiffonade some Thai basil. Chop some cilantro. Toss these ingredients together in a bowl with some peanuts.

Now make the dressing. Toast 1 tsp. cumin, 1 tsp. coriander, and 1 tbsp. white sesame. Grind them into a paste and powder. Mix with 1 tsp. salt, pepper, 1 tsp paprika, 1/4 c. coconut milk, the juice of half a lime, and 1 tbsp. lime zest

Pour of the dressing over the salad and dress well.

Make sure you compost the coconut shell, the lime, the jicama peels, the avocado and its seed, and the mango peel and its seed, since you did put a COOKING question under the ENVIRONMENT section. And please, please! Recycle the can of coconut milk when you're done with it. Make sure the kids compost their napkins too.

Answer 5

There are a lot of things you can do instead of the normal cake and ice cream. One year my son wanted watermelon instead of cake for his party. This was a bit difficult since his birthday is in March, so I paid 8 bucks for a watermelon for a bunch of 4 year olds. But you can use an icepick to make holes to put the candles in or you can carve it like pumpkin and serve it that way.

If you want "ice cream", puree mango, berries of some sort( I like raspberries in this), bananas, and a little bit of a light colored juice (white grape, peach nectar, apple or pear) in a blender and pour it into something big enough to freeze it all in. Set it out about 10 minutes before you want to serve and you have a healthy sorbet. Or you can freeze it in Popsicle molds. Either way is good.

If you want something savory, make some guacamole dip and serve with baked pita chips or home made baked tortilla chips. Cut fresh corn tortilla chips into strips or triangles, arange in a single layer on a baking sheet and toast until they are crisp. Then they can be sprinkled with chili power or any other SouthWest flavoring you have. Put a couple of black olives in the dip for eyes and serve in an oval shaped bowl. You can do the same thing with black bean dip.

Answer 6

Ingredients
17 oz Can fruit cocktail, drained 2 tb Lemon juice
1 1/2 c Miniature marshmallows 1/4 c Maraschino cherries, halved,
2 md Bananas, sliced Drained
1 md Apple, coarsely chopped 1 1/2 c Cool whip


Directions
Stir sliced apples and bananas in lemon juice to keep from turning dark. In large bowl, combine all ingredients except coolwhip. Gently fold in coolwhip. Cover; chill until served.

Answer 7

I would say just make some old school fruit salad with all the melons and cantaloupe, kids usually love that kind of stuff.

Answer 8

PB&J Daisies As plenty an artwork undertaking as a cooking one a million kit of ten refrigerator biscuits, the small type (2”) 5 tsp. peanut butter, soft or chunky 2 tsp. jelly or jam, any flavor Preheat oven to 4 hundred. Separate the biscuits. utilising clean kitchen scissors, make 6 - 8 short cuts around the sting of each biscuit. decrease in direction of the middle yet no longer all a thank you to the middle. place the biscuits 2 inches aside on an ungreased baking sheet. utilising your hands, press down the middle of each biscuit to make a dent. Spoon a pair of million/2 teaspoon of peanut butter into the dent in each and each center. Bake at 4 hundred for 8 - 10 minutes. eliminate from oven and set on paper plate or placemat on which toddler had drawn stems and leaves on an identical time as daisies bake. place small quantity of jelly or jam on precise of the peanut butter. Makes ten.

Answer 9

you can make tacoos nachoos even cheese dip

Answer 10

ya mac and cheese!! lol