Feed Your Kids Right With These Kids Recipes
George Roy
After a hard day of play, a gaggle of kids runs in from the yard hungry and looking for something to eat. Meals made from kids recipes are often great food items that can bolster and refuel a child’s energy. The building blocks of a healthy body and healthy mind for a child start in the kitchen with healthy recipes for kids. Meals for kids that are wonderfully tasteful, as well as balanced in vitamins and minerals, are the ideal type of meal. When following recipes, the daunting task of making meals for kids can be made much simpler. The simplicity of kids recipes is perhaps the biggest draw as these recipes aren’t prone to using exotic or otherwise hard to obtain ingredients, and can often be made from common household foods. One should be stocked up well on the most basic of ingredients – flour, milk, eggs, butter, salt, vegetables and fruits. Pantry items that can stay fresh in a cool, dark place for a long time are great when used in these recipes – dried fruit and nuts do especially well.
Kids recipes are usually centered around a single wholesome carb in order to provide constant and even amounts of energy to the child’s metabolism. The carbohydrate is usually chosen because it is long lasting in the stomach and therefore cuts a child’s urges to snack on unhealthy foods. The most used carbohydrates are bread and rice, followed by potatoes. Rice pudding is one great option for a kids recipe based on carbohydrates and the meal can be dressed up with dried fruit or a small amount of sugar for a satisfying treat. Many other dessert type kids recipes are not diabetic sugar substitute friendly, but rice pudding most certainly is. The combination of nut butter and bread when used to make a sandwich is intensely filling and easy to make compared to other kids recipes. Because of their portability, these sandwiches do best in school lunch boxes.
A kids recipe that seems more difficult than it actually is to make is that of spaghetti with marinara sauce. This recipe has just two parts to it – the noodles and sauce – and is very easy to put together in less than half an hour. Because a child’s taste buds are more prone to spicy flavors, no pepper or salsa is included in this marinara sauce. For extra vegetable power, consider simmering celery until soft and adding it to the sauce. If you have a gluten sensitive or allergic child, this recipe is for you; there are many gluten free types of noodles.
Kids recipes can also be made fun with the inclusion of the child in the kitchen as well. Children usually enjoy the easier and simpler tasks like washing vegetables and making cold salads. Having a cookbook of kids recipes and allowing a child to choose their own dinner from it is a wonderful way to help a child feel included in meal decision making. Recipes designed for kids should always consist of a simple, fun approach to the cooking itself while maintaining a level of health and taste. Perhaps the most important aspect of any dish is that it retain all flavor.
George is a healthy cooking enthusiast who tries to actively support a love of eating quality foods in his family and friends. The father of two young children, George knows how important it is to instill proper diet and cooking habits in kids at a young age.
