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Re: Picnics |
Getting the kids to help make the picnic food is always a fun way to involve them. As well as making healthy fruit and savoury salads, I also get them to bake things like filled potato skins or wedges (try britishpotatoes.co.uk for loads of easy, imaginative potato recipes like potato salads, wedges, skins etc) which are easy to make and delicious hot or cold, plus they are healthy and filling too. Sometimes we cut out the potato with cookie cutters to make fun shapes and season and bake them just like the wedges. I also get them to make sandwiches cut out with cookie cutters to make fun shapes, as well as chopping up chunks of fruit and making 'kebabs' just to make the fruit more interesting to eat! Taking lots of dips & fillings along with pittas and salads and things like mini burgers or felafels is good too, kids love making up their own fillings for their sandwiches. On the sweet front, I get them to make their own individual fruit jellies and vanilla shortbread cookie fingers to dunk in the jelly as a treat! There are so many ideas to get them involved in making and enjoying their own food. I also found the following websites useful:
http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/searchresults.aspx?type=300&search=kids
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/mostof_cookingwithchildren1.shtml
http://www.kidsandcooking.co.uk |
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| Wed Jul 8th, 2009 3:22 p.m. |
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