Green Tortilla Chips

Serving Size: varies
Notes:
You don’t need to look all over for green chips, you can make them at home, and serve them with your favorite dip.

Ingredients:
1 Tbsp. Green Food Color
1/4 C. Water
Will do about 40 5 1/2″ White Corn Tortilla Shells

Preparation:
Mix together food color and water. With pastry brush, brush on color on both sides of a 5 1/2 ” white corn tortilla. Let dry for one hour. Slice into triangles and fry in hot vegetable oil. Drain tortilla shells on paper towels, salt to taste.

Leprechaun Legs

Serving Size: varies

Notes:
This is a fun way to make stuffed celery sticks. You can leave out the food coloring and enjoy these all year.

Ingredients:
8 oz. Cream Cheese (room temperature)
8 oz. Can Crushed Pineapple (drained)
Celery
Green Food coloring
Preparation:
When cream cheese has reached room temperature whip until soft and fluffy. Blend drained pineapple with cream cheese until completely mixed to gather. Add in food coloring to desired shade. Clean and trim celery. Cut celery into desired pieces. Fill celery with cream cheese mixture and place on serving tray, cover and chill until ready to serve. These are so easy. Simple stuffed celery sticks are tasty little appetizers, or a compliment to a relish tray.

Valentine’s Day is fun holiday, why not celebrate the day with cookies on a string, a recipe kids will enjoy.

My Heart On A String Cookies

Notes:
To thicken ready to spread canned frosting add a little powder sugar and stir well. This will help frosting to have a firm and dryer texture for frosting cookies.
Ingredients:
1 pkg. Sugar Cookie Mix
Heart shape cookie cutter
Ready to Spread canned frosting
food color
Ready to use decorator frosting
Decorating candy sprinkles or bits
1/8 inch ribbon
Plastic Straw

Preparation:
Prepare cookie mix as directed. Roll dough on lightly floured surface, cookie dough should be 1/4 inch thick. Using cookie cutter cut dough into heart shapes. Use a plastic straw to poke one little hole into the top of the heart for the ribbon to go through after baking. Place the cookies on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake in a preheated oven according to the directions on the package. Remove baked cookies and cool. When cookies are completely cool, decorate cookies as desired. When frosting and decorating is complete, cut ribbon into length desired and string cookies with ribbon.

Valentine Cookies On A Stick

Notes:
You and your kids can create these all year long!

Ingredients:
1 pkg. Sugar Cookie Mix
Ready to Spread Frosting
Red Food Color
Craft Sticks
Assorted sprinkles and topping of your choice
Heart shaped cookie cutter

Preparation:
Prepare cookie dough according to instructions. Roll cookie dough on floured surface about 1/4 inch thick. Cut with heart shape cutter. Carefully insert wooden stick 2 inches into the bottom part of the heart. Carefully smooth dough on both sides of the cookie. The wooden stick should not be portruding from the cookies. Place cookies on a greased baking sheet in a preheated oven and bake according to the instructions of mix. Remove cookies from oven when baked and cool. When cookies are completely cool and decorate with your favorite frosting, candies, or sprinkles. Kids will have fun eating cookies on a stick.

Today online there are many resources in the area of recipes. Among those you will find many sources such as recipe swapping online communities, many books for reasonable prices, government suggestions related to some study, and if you look hard enough you might even find a random recipe generating web page. This hasn’t been proven, but likely exists somewhere.

Not all recipes are the same though. Some taste great but are packed with saturated fats that may linger in some ways when your children are old. Finding healthy eating recipes for the kids in your family might prove a little more challenging.

The Eating Pyramids May Help

There are a several food pyramids that suggest healthy eating balance among different food groups. The USDA offers MyPyramid.gov with resources that somewhat help plan what is needed for food intake based on your childrens age, gender, and activity levels.
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The faculty at Harvard’s School of Public Health offers some guidelines to medical professionals that claim to be more in tune to health needs. They definitely distinguish between good and bad fats, as well as suggest more carbohydrates from whole grains. Reading more on this may help you better decide on healthy eating recipes that your children will like.

The Importance of Diet in Physical Fitness

Physical fitness comes from eating well, exercising well within it, and then resting as well. Without these three put together, there will be an imbalance. Too much food without burning it may leave healthy eating recipes useless. Finding the balance between diet and energy burning will indeed help you raise healthier kids as a result.

Kids Have Always Been Picky

In your search for new healthy eating recipes that your children will like, keep in mind that their tastes will change along the way. And taste is what it’s all about. Paying more attention to what they like and don’t like over years will give you a second sense about what healthy eating they will eat. Often sweeter tastes in the early years go well.

Healthy eating recipes that will fill these years well may be better when the sweet taste comes from fruits. Over the years, use your sense when looking for innovative ways to keep your children eating healthy. It doesn’t hurt to look for recipes that might bring new ideas into your own cooking.

One place to look towards healthy eating recipes your children may enjoy is where you are now reading. You should also find more tips on what makes things healthier, and years down the road you can sit back and appreciate the outcomes in your children.

Find lots of healthy eating recipes for kids at http://healthy-eating-for-kids.com

The recipes are designed to be easy to prepare as well as healthy and fun to eat!

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Egg Nog Milk Shake

Serving Size: 1

Notes:
This is a tasty milkshake that is perfect for the holidays.

Ingredients:
1 C. vanilla ice cream
1/3 C. Egg Nog

Preparation:
Mix both ingredients in a blender, and serve when well mixed.

 

Holiday French Toast
Why not make your holidays extra special by preparing a batch of Holiday French Toast? Your kids will enjoy this recipe, Egg Nog adds a special touch to the Holiday French Toast.

Holiday French Toast

Serving Size: 6

Notes:
This is a tasty version of French Toast. You can subsitute the bread of your choice.

Ingredients:
1 Quart Premium Quality Heavy Egg Nog
1 Loaf french bread sliced
1/2 C. powder sugar
1 + 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon (optional)
Vegetable Oil for Frying

Preparation:
Mix 1 tsp. of ground nutmeg into 1/2 C. powder sugar and set aside. On medium high heat place non stick fry pan and add oil when the pan begins to get hot. Enough of oil is needed so the pan is barley covered, about 1 tablespoon for two or three slices of bread. In a shallow dish place enough of the egg nog so the slices of bread maybe halfway submerged. Dip bread on both sides and place into hot oil. When bread has been toasted on each side and turned a golden brown remove and sprinkle with the powder sugar mixture.

Shipwreck Stew

Serving Size: 6-8

Notes:
This is an easy to put together stew. You can also put this in the crock pot for a couple of hours if desired.

Ingredients:
1 lb. ground beef
3/4 C. chopped onion
1/4 C. uncooked rice
2 c. chopped potatoes
1 (15 oz.) can kidney beans
1 (8 oz.) can tomato paste
1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/4 tsp. chili powder
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 tsp. salt

Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brown ground beef with onion in skillet, stirring until crumbly; drain. Layer ground beef mixture, rice, potatoes and beans in large casserole.
Combine remaining ingredients with 1/2 c. water in bowl, mixing well. Pour over casserole. Bake covered, at 350° for 1 1/2 hours.

Glycol Punch

Serving Size: Varies

Notes:
This punch has a fantastic color. The punch also tastes pretty good. If you want an excellent effect for punch this is the one to go for. Diet Mountain Dew produces the best color.

Ingredients:
2 liters of Diet Mountain Dew
1 pkg. Blue Kool-Aide prepared
Preparation:
In a large punch bowl add the Diet Mountain Dew. Add in enough of the prepared Blue Kool-Aide to obtain the Glycol color. We obtained our color with about 3 cups of Kool-Aide.

 

Jam Pennies

Notes: These are perfect for a tea party. This recipe is from
In the Royal Manner : Expert Advice on Etiquette and Entertaining from the Former Butler to Diana, Princess of Wales.

Ingredients:
12 slices of white or brown bread
2 Tbsp. butter, softened
6 oz. strawberry jam

Preparation:
Cut the crusts from bread, then lightly spread each slice with butter. Spread six slices with jam, and then sanwich them together with the remaining buttered bread.
Using a round pastry cutter, stamp out four circles from each sandwich. Arrange on a serving plate and serve as soon as possible.