Anyway, earlier in our homeschooling year, we did a unit on nutrition. Teaching my kids about the type of food their body needs everyday and why. Teaching what happens to your body when you give it the wrong type of food. In case you are interested, Time for Kids has some GREAT age based worksheets on nutrition and physical activity. When we were done with the unit, I wanted to reinforce this knowledge in a practical way, so it became a duty of theirs to help with the menu planning. 5 (almost 6) year old Kiddo C plans the snacks everyday, and 9 year old Kiddo B plans our lunches. They make sure we get the right amount of food groups in our daily menu as well as making sure that we have the not-so-good-for-us stuff in moderation. I purchased several kid focused cookbooks to help them get ideas and inspiration.
Which brings us to today's recipe. This kiddo friendly recipe shows that when you give something a fun name and add some happy colors and fruits that they like, they will eat and LOVE some amazingly nutritious food. Lunches can be fun, flavorful, AND nutritious while still being quick and easy.
Ingredients:
- ¼ cup orange juice
- 1 TBSP salad oil
- 2 tsp honey mustard or Dijon mustard
- 1 tsp sugar
- ¼ tsp salt
- 4 cups torn lettuce
- 1 ½ cups fresh blueberries, raspberries, quartered strawberries, and/or canned mandarin orange sections, drained
- 2 TBSP cheddar or pretzel goldfish
~Put the fruit on lettuce and sprinkle with the goldfish crackers.
(For a dinner salad, add cooked chicken)
Recipe Source: Belle and the Beast, Disney's Magic Kingdom Cookbook
This recipe is linked up at:
Simply Sweet Home
Tidy Mom
Mommy's Kitchen
Eat at Home
HA! I had the same experience as you did. There were 100 kids at our elementary school. ALL the food was home made. Parents would line up on turkey and noodle day! Yum!!
ReplyDeleteI was totally shocked in my late 20s as a substitute teacher to see what those poor kids were being fed. Nachos! As if those chips were real corn and that orange stuff squirted on top was actual dairy?! Shocking.
You are so right Sig. I gained so much weight when I was teaching at eating school lunches. The reason it happened at our alma mater was the lunch ladies thought I needed to have twice as much as the kids! Now the other school, yuck, nachos and corn dogs.
ReplyDeleteThis looks yummy! I love the idea of having the kids help out with menu planning. I'm going to have to have H1 plan for us.
YUM!! Thanks for sharing and linking up!
ReplyDeleteYum! And so pretty and colorful! Thanks for linking up for Friday Favorites!
ReplyDeleteI am now dying to put goldfish in my salad! Great idea!
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