Category: Kids Recipies

You will need –

Pita bread ( I usually buy mine at Aldi’s)

Olive Oil (or regular)

1 can of tomato sauce or pizza sauce

1 tbsp Italian herbs (if you use just plain tomato sauce)

3 tbsp shredded cheddar

1 tbsp grated Parmesan

How we do it –

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

All this your kid can do (with your help, of course)

 brush oil lightly on pita bread

mix tomatosauce with Italian herbs

1 tablespoon on pita bread, brush over it

Sprinkle about 3 tablespoons shredded cheddar and 1 tablespoon parmesan over bread

Bake for about 10 minutes until cheese melts and browns a bit

Enjoy!

Optional –

Of course there are endless possibilities to make it even fancier, by adding cooked meat, olives, basil leaves, peppers, mushrooms, …. to the topping. I usually put it on before I add the cheese, so the cheese melts and keeps all the goodies underneath moist and yummy.

NOW IS THE TIME TO INTRODUCE KIDS TO HEALTHY FOOD

Rainbow Fruit Salad

Engage the Senses

Put all the fruit you’re going to use on table(like a pineapple, blueberries, bananas, strawberries, or whatever you can get.Talk about using all of our senses to examine the fruit.  What color is the banana?  How does that prickly pineapple feel on your fingers?  What do those strawberries smell like?  Of course, we are going to see what it tastes like later.  It is, not only an invitation to explore the fruit, but an opportunity to build language skills…

Promote Self-help Skills

Give your child the opportunity to wash and cut the fruit it just explored.  Some of the fruit requires big knives, which of course only the grown ups are allowed to use.  Give your child a plastic knive to cut the fruit into smaller, bite-sized pieces….

it can be quite a daunting task but it isn’t one you should shy away from. Children  always love the opportunity to create their own snack.  They are more eager to try a new food, when they have helped create it themselves…

When all of the fruit is cut, let your child mix it in a big bowl, maybe with some vanilla yogurt.  The children have now pride in knowing that they helped to prepare this yummy snack…