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Kids Recipes - Recipe of the Week
Below is the Kids Recipe of the Week. Cooking with your children is a great way to teach them skills, have fun together and make any day more special!
We like to offer kid-friendly recipes or easy kid recipes to make cooking fun for your kids by offering fun foods for them or cooking with them.
If you like to cook, or just like swapping recipes (you don’t have to be a gourmet!), we’d love to have your favorites! Please contact us if you’d like to submit a recipe to share.
This Week's Recipe:
Variety is the Spice of Lunch
School is here! Now how to pack some nutritious yet interesting lunches? Here's a few tips:
- Include enough range to keep your kids from getting bored, but don't be surprised if they settle on a few favorites and request them week after week. Kids like to have a few familiar, comforting things nearby when they are away from home.
- Give them some choices from each food group, and allow them to mix and match for a nutritionally-balanced lunch.
- Beyond sliced bread, try crackers, pita bread, naan, corn bread, English muffins, tortillas, baked tortilla chips, mini bagels, or lettuce wraps.
- For protein, there's good ol' peanut butter, but the kids might also enjoy hummus, bean dip, sliced cheese, yogurt, cold cuts, tuna salad, pasta salad, egg salad, or a thermos full of chili.
- When serving tuna, egg, chicken, or pasta salad, mix in shredded carrots, apples, zucchini, bell peppers, raisins, nuts--anything to add nutrition and fiber without adding lots of empty calories.
