Kids

Here are some recipes your kids, and their friends, are sure to enjoy. They are fun to eat and nutritious, too.  And, you don’t have to be a kid to enjoy them!

Fruit or Vegetable Kabobs

Stick some of the following fruits and/or vegetables on skewers.

Kumquats • Strawberries • Peaches  Nectarines • Pears • Apricots  • Honeydew  Cantaloupe • Watermelon • Grapes  Pineapple • Apple  • Peppers • Radish  Sliced Carrots • Celery • Squash • Cherry Tomatoes •  Onion • Cauliflower

Courtesy of Susan Hira

Veggie Rollups

Using a pita, tortilla, flatbread, lettuce or cabbage, spread avocado or nut butters on breads/lettuce/cabbage and place chopped vegetables on top.  Roll up like a burrito.

Courtesy of Susan Hira

Fruit Drink

    1/2 cantaloupe

    One glass of ice

    6 dates

Blend in VitaMix or blender until icy and creamy.

Simple but everyone loves it.

Courtesy of Lisa Fuhrman

Oatmeal

    6 cups water

    4 cups organic oat flakes

    1 organic apple

    1/2 tsp. cinnamon

    Soymilk

    Raisins

While the water is getting hot, peel the apple and cut it into very small bits. Place apple

bits into the pot. Add the oatmeal and about

1/2 tsp. of cinnamon.  Let simmer.  Shut off heat when almost all the water is gone and let oatmeal cook for another five minutes. (This guarantees that the pot doesn’t burn!) Add raisins and soymilk.

Our kids love it and so do their friends.

Courtesy of Lisa Fuhrman

Trail Mix

    Raisins

    Organic shredded oat cereal

    Nuts

    Dried cranberries

Mix together. 

Pack in Ziploc bags to take along as snacks.

Courtesy of Susan Hira

Our thanks to two busy NHA moms, Susan Hira and

Lisa Fuhrman, for sharing these special recipes with us.

©Copyright 2002. All Rights Reserved. Health Science is the publication of the National Health Association. This article reprinted from the Summer 2002 issue.