Bird Recipes and Snacks

Bird nests
Needed:
Pretzel sticks
Chocolate chips
Jelly beans
Waxed paper
Give each child a piece of waxed paper & a few pretzel sticks. Have them arrange their sticks into a nest. In the meantime, melt chocolate chips. Drizzle melted chocolate over pretzel stick nests. When chocolate cools, place jelly beans on nests.

Fruity Nest to Nibble
Ingredients:
mixing bowl
2 lg shredded wheat biscuits
measuring cups & spoons
1/4 cup coconut
1 Tbsp. brown sugar
1/4 cup margarine or butter (melted)
Muffin tin
Foil
Fruit or jelly beans
1) To make the nests, in a mixing bowl crumble shredded wheat biscuits with your fingers. Use a spoon to stir in coconut and sugar. With adult help, pour in the melted margarine. Stir everything together.
2) Line each of the 6 muffin cups with a piece of foil. Press the shredded wheat mixture onto the bottoms & up the sides of the foil-lined cups. With adult help, bake in 350 oven about 10 minutes or till crisp. Cool the nests in the cups.
3) Remove the nests from cups by lifting up on the foil. Carefully peel the foil off nests. Fill the nest with fruity bird eggs. If desired, top the fruit with a spoonful of yogurt.

Bugs and Butterflies Recipes and Snacks

Ant Snacks
Use cherry tomatoes for three body segments, pretzels for legs and antenna, let children make ants for snack.

Ants on a log
A classic, fill celery or apple slices with peanut butter, and use the raisins as "ants" on the log.

Ants In Your Pants
Cut bread into pant shapes. Spread with peanut butter Put raisin ants on top.

Bunny Recipes and Snacks

Bunny Food
Talk to your children about the different foods that bunnies eat and then have some for snack (Lettuce, Carrots, etc)

Cat and Kitten Recipes and Snacks

Cat Snack
Use cookie cutters to cut toast into bone shapes for "doggy snacks" and fish shapes for "kitty snacks."

Cat Face Sandwiches
Let the children make cat face sandwiches for snacktime. Give them each a slice of bread and let them spread on peanut butter. Let them place raisins in the centers of their toast to make eyes and noses. Then give them thin slivers of pickles to add for whiskers and grated carrots to sprinkle on for fur.

Kitty Warm Milk
Heat a panful of milk, until is just warm. Pour a small amount into a bowl for each child. Invite children to sprinkle nutmeg and cinnamon over the warm milk. Have the children in lap up the milk with a spoon.

Cat Face
1/2 Peach (head), almonds (ears),
cherries (eyes), raisin (nose), stick pretzels (whiskers)
Create cat faces using the ideas above or a variety of other items.

Dog and Puppy Recipes and Snacks

 Snack Idea
Use cookie cutters to cut toast into bone shapes for "doggy snacks"

People Biscuits
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
2/3 cup milk
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons margarine
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon sugar
1 egg
Raisins
Soften the margarine to room temperature. Mix all of the ingredients except the egg with a fork to form a soft dough. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface. Knead 10 times. Roll dough 1/2 inch thick. With a gingerbread man cookie cutter, cut out the dough and placed on a greased cookie sheet. Brush the biscuits with a beaten egg. Add raisin eyes. Bake in 400 degree oven for 20 - 25 minutes until golden brown. Enjoy your People Biscuits!

Puppy Chow
*WARNING* This recipe is VERY addictive - it is my daughter's favorite treat :)

1 stick butter
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup peanut butter
1 box Crispix cereal
2 cups powdered sugar
Melt together butter, semisweet chocolate chips and peanut butter. Pour over 1 box of Crispix cereal in medium bowl. Put sugar in a large bowl and add the ingredients to coat. Serve in a plastic bag.

Dragon Recipes and Snacks

Dragon Breath Snack
Provide a mild salsa and chips to the children. Encourage them to breathe "dragon fire" if the salsa feels warm in their mouth. Make sure to provide plenty of water and/or juice!




Duck Recipes and Snacks

Just Ducky
hard boiled egg peeled
slice of cheddar cheese
slices of carrots small pieces of ripe olives.

Directions: Cut ¾ slice from narrow end of egg so that the egg stands. Reserve the slice.  Place egg on plate.  With knife make notches in the rounded side of reserved slice of egg to form a feathered top.  Place on duck’s head.  Round out the edges of the slice of cheese to make a duck’s bill.  Place under the egg.  Add carrot eyes and bits of olives for pupils.



Elephant Recipes and Snacks

Baked Elephant Ears
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time! Start with this snack that's shaped like an elephant ear.
You will need: 1 stick of pie crust mix, Medium mixing bowl, Measuring spoons Hot water, Fork, Wood board, All-purpose flour, Baking sheet, 2 tablespoons sugar. 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon, Shaker or spoon
1. Have adult break pie crust into little pieces in the bowl. Add 3 tablespoons of hot water. Mix with fork till the dough sticks together.
2. Sprinkle the wood board with flour. Pat your hands with flour. Form the dough into a big ball on the board and divide into 4 parts. Form each part into a ball. To make elephant ears, use your whole hand to flatten each ball. Press hard so that the dough gets thinner. It should be about 1/4 inch thick.
3. Place each piece of dough onto an ungreased baking sheet. Mix sugar and cinnamon. Place in shaker. Sprinkle the cinnamon-sugar topping on your elephant ears. Be careful not to get the sugar on the baking sheet. Have adult bake at 350º for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool.

Elephant Heads
Needs: can biscuits (each child needs two biscuits) - cinnamon sugar - 2 raisins - a craft stick and the foil or baking paper same as above.
Give each child two biscuits. Have them place one biscuit and flatten just a little. Next with craft stick have them cut other biscuit into 3 pieces with the middle piece being narrow (this is the trunk) the 2 outside pieces are the ears.
Add to the biscuit - the 2 ears and put trunk in the middle. (Have them press the edges down so they stick to the biscuit . Add raisin for eyes. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Bake until golden brown. The children love to eat them while still warm.

Fish Recipes and Snacks

Fish Snack
Needed: Blue napkins, medicine cups, pretzels, gold fish crackers, peanut butter
Open up napkin and place fish in the middle. (The napkin is the ocean.) Have peanut butter in the cup. (This is the bait cup.) Use pretzels for fishing rods. Dip in bait (peanut butter) and catch a fish. Eat fish and bait. keep fishing until all the fish are eaten.

Fish in the Sea
Need: Italian bread or french bread
Cream cheese
Goldfish crackers
Blue food coloring
Bread knife
Bowl
Plastic knives
Waxed paper
Slice bread. Mix blue food color and cream cheese. Spread cream cheese on bread. Put goldfish in the blue sea. EAT

Jello Aquariums
Just get some clear plastic cups, put some Oreo crumbs or "sandy" colored cookie crumbs on the bottom. Get some blue jello & pour over the crumbs, add some gummy fish & when set, this makes a great snack!




Frog Recipes and Snacks

Frogs In A Pond
Make up some green jello, allow to partially set then drop in some chocolate frogs and return to fridge until fully set - a yummy treat!

Frog On A Log
Clean celery and cut in short pieces for a log. Add cream cheese that has been tinted green with food coloring. Children can add raisins for the frogs.



Jungle Recipes and Snacks

Jungle Animal Centerpiece (Edible)
Pick an apple that will stand up by itself nicely. Cut the apple in half, horizontally. Place the two cut ends in a little lemon juice, to retard browning). Cut a plastic straw into 3 equal pieces. Pick 3 jungle animals from a pkg. of animal crackers. Place the straws into the bottom half of an apple evenly. Attach each animal cracker with a dot of peanut butter. Press top half of apple into bottom half of apple. Instant animal carousel.

Animal Crackers
Toast cut into jungle shapes
Cake decorated like a jungle on top.



Lion and Tiger Recipes and Snacks

Animal Sandwich
Have the children spread frosting on an animal cracker, and then put another one on top, like a sandwich cookie.



Ocean Recipes and Snacks

Mermaid Potion
Freeze ice cubes made with water and one drop of blue food coloring per cube. Use warm water to prepare powdered lemonade drink mix and add one 12 oz. can of warm lemon lime soda pop. Add 8 drops of yellow food coloring to the lemonade/soda pop mix. Pour lemonade/soda pop mix into a clear plastic glass and drop in one or two blue ice cubes and stir.

Ocean Snack
Have blue jello - complete with gummy fish! - for snack.




Octopus Recipes and Snacks

Octopus Soup
Ingredients
Hot dogs (fattest kind you can find)
Small pasta shells
Directions
1. Slice hot dogs lengthwise to within 1" from endBR> 2. Keep slicing the hot dog until you have about 4-8 "legs"
3. Boil shells according to package directions
4. About 4 minutes before the pasta is done put the hot dogs in the boiling water.
5. When completely cooked, drain well
6. Toss shells with butter or margarine and serve with the hot dogs
7. The hot dogs will curl up and look just like an octopus!

Octopop!
In a Dixie cup, pour juice (orange, apple, fruit punch, etc.), put in a craft stick. Put in gummy worms hanging over the edge to look like legs. When the pop is taken out of the cup it looks like an octopus on a stick.




Penguin Recipes and Snacks

Penguin Snack
1 slice of bread per child, spread cream cheese over top. Use 1/2 black olives for eyes (or raisins), wedge of carrot for beak, chopped black olives for wings.

Penguin Cookies
Ingredients:
1 chocolate sandwich cookie per child
1 chocolate kiss per child
Have students wash their hands. Give each child a napkin, cookie, and chocolate kiss. They twist the top off of their cookie and carefully break it in half. They place the two pieces on top of the bottom half with the icing side up and spread a little out for wings. Then they place the chocolate kiss at the top for the penguins head.

Snack
You'll need: vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, small bowls or cups, spoons, whipped cream.
Scoop some ice cream into a bowl and let the children add their own black and white toppings. Stop eating- if you can- and feel the cold sensation in your mouth.



Rainforest Recipes and Snacks

Rainforest Animal Centerpiece (Edible)
Pick an apple that will stand up by itself nicely. Cut the apple in half, horizontally. Place the two cut ends in a little lemon juice, to retard browning. Cut a plastic straw into 3 equal pieces. Pick 3 rainforest animals from a pkg. of animal crackers. Place the straws into the bottom half of an apple evenly. Attach each animal cracker with a dot of peanut butter. Press top half of apple into bottom half of apple. Instant animal carousel.



Reptile Recipes and Snacks

Snake Cakes
Make patty cakes and join them together in the shape of a snake. Ice them with green icing.

Snake Sticks
Buy pre made or make your own bread stick dough. Have the children help roll them out in the shape of snakes on the baking board or tray. Sprinkle with grated cheese or garlic & butter if desired. Bake according to directions.

Lizard Skins
1/2 cup Peanut butter
12 ounces Marshmallows
4 drops Green food coloring
4 cups Rice Krispies, Cheerios or Corn Flakes
Pam
Raisins
Heat peanut butter with marshmallows in a large saucepan over low heat until melted. Add green food coloring and mix in. Pour in cereal and stir quickly. Spray 8" pan with Pam then pour contents into pan. Allow to cool in fridge, then cut into long thin strips, about 1" X 4". Cut each raisin in half and stick on one end of each strip to make the lizard's eyes.

Slippery Salamanders
Materials:
pan
spoon
bowl
self-seal sandwich bags
cookie sheet
aluminum foil
scissors
For each different color salamander you'll need:
1 1/2c. apple juice
1 3 oz. pkg. jello (yellow, red, green or orange)
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
5 ice cubes
Directions: Heat 1/2 the apple juice in a small pan. Add flavored gelatin and stir until dissolved. Pour remaining juice in a bowl, sprinkle with unflavored gelatin and stir. Pour cool mixture over hot and add ice cubes. Stir until most of the ice is melted. Refrigerate about 20 min. until mixture is the texture of pudding. Pour 1/2 of mixture into sandwich bags. Seal bag, leaving corner of bag open. Cover cookie sheet with foil and slowly squeeze jello into 2-in. squiggles. Chill 2 hr. and enjoy some wiggly, squiggly salamanders

Snakes to eat
1/3 cup of margarine
1/3 cup corn syrup
1 Tsp vanilla
1/2 Tsp salt
green food coloring
1 lb. powdered sugar
Knead mixture until smooth. Add more sugar if sticky.

Tuna Turtles
Yield: 8 sandwiches
1 can of flaked tuna
small cucumber seeded and chopped
grated carrot
2 tbs thousand island dressing
1 tbs mayonnaise
1 can biscuits
1 tbs sesame seeds (optional)
Heat oven to 450 Cut two biscuits into four pieces. Attach one piece to sides if the eight remaining biscuits - these are the heads. Score surface of each biscuit to look like turtle shell. Sprinkle sesame seeds on the biscuit. Transfer to lightly greased cookie sheet . Bake 8 minutes until golden brown. Cut each turtle biscuit in half horizontally and fill with tuna salad.

Snapping Turtle Salad
one pear
4 pecan halves
2 cloves
1 green olive
Wash and peel the pear. Cut in half. Place one of the halves hollow-side down on a salad plate. Use the pecans for feet. Use the green olive for the head and stick the cloves in for the eyes. Makes one serving.



Turkey Recipes and Snacks

Turkey
Use a prune for body, gumdrops on toothpicks for the legs. Toothpick with marshmallow for neck and head, raisin eyes, cupcake paper for tail.

Turkey Dinner Have a mock (or real if it's that time of year!) Thanksgiving dinner, complete with dressing, cranberry sauce, and of course, the turkey! Use the dinner to emphasize how we should be thankful every day for the things we have in life.



Zoo Recipes and Snacks

Animal Soup
Make chicken noddle soup with animal crackers in it.

Apple Recipes and Snacks

Apple pizza
Ingredients: Pizza dough, apples, flour, sugar, cinnamon, shredded cheddar cheese.
1. Roll pizza dough out onto tray.
2. Sprinkle cheese on dough.
3. Put cut apples (pre sliced thin by you - although you can do a few with them to show them) on dough.
4. Mix equal amounts of flour, sugar, cinnamon in a bowl (enough to cover pizza).
5. Sprinkle mixture on pizza.
6. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.
7. Enjoy!!!

Individual Apple Pies
Ready-made pie crust (the kind that comes packaged flat in the dairy case)
Canned apple pie filling
Have each child cut out two large circles of pie crust (using a large, round cookie cutter or a large plastic drinking cup). Put a spoonful of pie filling in the middle of one circle. Place the second dough circle on top. Use a fork to crimp the edges and pierce a few holes in the top to allow steam to escape. Bake in a toaster oven 10-15 minutes or until brown.

Apple Honey Grahams
Apples
Graham crackers
Peanut butter
Optional: honey
Give each child a slice of apple and a table knife for dicing the apple. Spread a graham cracker slice with peanut butter. Add honey, if you like. Sprinkle diced apples on top.

Apple Sandwiches
Apples
Peanut butter
Slice apples the "round way" so that a star is formed in the center. Spread a slice with peanut butter and top with a second slice to form a sandwich. (You don't need to core the apples if the slices are thin.) You can use the leftover end pieces for making applesauce or for dicing on the apple grahams described above.

Applesauce
For each quart of peeled and sliced apples, add:
1 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. lemon juice
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
pinch of salt
Cook until tender. Mash apples with a potato masher or electric mixer. Add more sugar if needed. Serve cold.

Dried Apple Rings
Peel, core, and cut apples into rings. Dip in salted water for 15 minutes. Dry for two weeks.

Apple Ring Sandwiches
Peel, core, and cut apples into rings. Spread with:
peanut butter and bananas slices
cream cheese and raisins
granola mixed with honey
cheese spread or a slice of cheese
Cover the first apple ring with another apple ring to make a sandwich.

Apple Juice
1/2 cup seeded apples
1 cup water
1 tsp. sugar
Blend the ingredients in a blender. Serve chilled.

Caramel Apples
An all-time favorite. You can melt your own caramels, or buy the kits pre-made into wraps at the store.

Chocolate Recipes and Snacks

Mud Cups
chocolate pudding (made to directions)
crushed chocolate cookies (dirt)
gummie worms or bugs
Fill small bowl/cup with chock pudding cover with layer of cookie crumbs for dirt add a worm or two for a great mud pie.

Other Chocolate Foods
Chocolate chip cookies
Chocolate cake
Chocolate milk
For those that have chocolate allergies, there is a product out there called Carob. It tastes almost identical to chocolate, and a lot of grocery stores carry Carob-coated products and candy.

Rocky Road Cookies
Perfect for use with leftover Easter candy! Get any chocolate chip cookie recipe, and cut the amount of chips in half and crush, cut up break or shave candies into mix and stir. Set oven for 375 bake until done according to recipe.

Egg Recipes and Snacks

Eggs in a Nest Snack
Melt some butterscotch chips in a double boiler. Mix in Chow Mein noodles till covered. Let each child mold noodles into the shape of a nest. Put in three jelly beans to represent eggs. Kids can have this at snack time.

Other snack ideas:
Jello eggs
hard boiled eggs
egg salad sandwiches
scrambled eggs

Recipes and Snacks

Make orange juice
Have at least one orange per child. Cut them in half and let the children squeeze the juice into little cups.  Provide plastic juicers (can be found at the dollar store) and bring in an electric juicer if you have one.  Discuss the various ways to get juice from fruit.  Which way is easiest? Hardest? Why? Etc.

Fruit Salad Invite
Make fruit salad and invite the parents for snack. Children can cut the fruit into small pieces (be sure to cut up grapes as they pose a choking hazard).  Ask parents first about allergies; strawberries are a common one.

Banana Treat
Cut bananas into chunks, dip in vanilla yogurt and roll in wheat germ or crushed cereal or granola.

Apple Crescents
2 cups peeled, cored and chopped apples
3/4 cup 2 Tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
2 (8 oz.) packages refrigerated crescent rollsbr> Glaze--1/2 cup confectioners sugar and 2 or 3 Tablespoons hot water
In bowl combine apples, sugar, flour and cinnamon.   Separate crescent rolls into 16 triangles.  Spoon mixture in center of each triangle.  Fold 3 points over filling like an envelope, sealing edges.  Place on cookie sheet, 1 inch apart.  Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes, or until golden brown. Beat confectioners sugar and hot water in bowl until well blended. Drizzle over warm crescents.  Makes 16.

Apple Lips
2 apples
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup mini marshmallows
Core and slice apples into 8 slices.  Spread with peanut butter, top with marshmallow "teeth".

Banana Orange Shake
6 oz frozen orange juice concentrate
2 bananas, peeled
3 pints vanilla ice cream, softened
6 cups cold milk
Liquefy orange juice and bananas in blender.  Place ice cream in gallon mixing bowl and add fruit mixture.  Beat with mixer until blended.  Continue beating and gradually add milk.  Beat until smooth and frothy.

Snack Ideas:  
1. Peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches.
2. Strawberry short cake.
3. Strawberry finger jello,
4. Strawberry milkshakes
5.  Serve fruit punch - w/ ice cubes, freeze a strawberry in each ice cube.

Frozen Fruit Treat
1 3/4 cups strawberries    
1 large can crushed pineapple
5 bananas (cut in cubes)
12 oz frozen orange juice - concentrate
1 1/2 cups water
Mix ingredients together.  Freeze in small paper cups. Serve partially defrosted.  Children love this nutritious treat!

Breakfast banana splits
Use oatmeal (or any hot cereal) instead of ice cream. Still use toppings. You can use crushed pineapple, strawberry preserves or thawed frozen strawberries) and of course, chocolate syrup and a little whip cream. Of course you make these a size to fit the kids, so they can finish them all, but the kids will love it for a change of pace.

Apple Snacks
Mix 1 C. of sour cream with (PI) C. of brown sugar.   Provide apple slices or strawberries for dipping.

Orange Sodas
Serve oranges with peppermint sticks stuck in the top to look like straws.  

Frozen Blueberries
Freeze blueberries and have the children pick them up with toothpicks for a snack.

Ice Cream Recipes and Snacks

Home Freezer Ice Cream
Who says it has to be summertime to enjoy ice cream? Not your kids, that's for sure! Everyone loves ice cream, and what better way to beat the cold weather blues than with some cold treats? Gather your kids around, get out the ingredients and have some fun. Don't forget to pull out all your favorite toppings. You can use anything from sprinkles to crushed candy bars to cookies.
Fresh fruit is an excellent topper for a fresh bowl of homemade vanilla ice cream. Try bananas or strawberries sliced and thrown on top. Or add them to the blender with a splash of milk for a fabulous shake.
Anything is possible. Have fun with it! Let the kids help pick the toppings and make it a fun day for everyone!

Ingredients:
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 cups milk
3 eggs
2 cups heavy or whipping cream
5 teaspoons vanilla extract
In heavy, 3-quart saucepan with spoon, combine sugar, flour, and salt. In medium bowl with hand beater or wire whisk, beat eggs and milk and eggs together until well blended; stir into sugar mixture until smooth. Cook for about 15 minutes over low heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens and coats the spoon, being sure that the custard does not boil or it will curdle; cool. Stir in 2 cups heavy or whipping cream and 5 teaspoons vanilla extract. Freeze and Enjoy!

Alternative Ice Cream Recipe
This one is a lot more fun to get the kids involved with!
Vanilla Ice Cream (Basic recipe)
1 pint of half and half cream
1/1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1/3 cup + 2 tablespoons sugar
The result will be two cups of smooth and creamy ice cream.

Variations To make a flavored ice cream, add one of the ingredients below:
3 tablespoons of your favorite flavor of instant pudding
1/3 cup of fruit (for example, bananas, strawberries, peaches)
3 of your favorite cookies, crushed into pea-size pieces
1/4 cup finely chopped nuts

YOU WILL ALSO NEED:
A 1 lb. and a 3 lb. coffee can, both with tight-fitting lidsBR> 8 cups of crushed ice or small cubes of ice
1/2 cup of rock salt (plus the ingredients in the above recipe)
1. Mix the three basic ingredients together. Pour them into the one-pound coffee can. Add a variation if you want. (The can will be about three-fourths full.) Place lid on securely, and set the small can inside the three-pound can.
2. Starting with ice, alternate layers of ice and salt between the outside of the small can and the inside of the three-pound can, packing the ice down as you go.
3. When the layers get to the top of the small can, cover the entire lid with ice. Then place the lid on the three-pound can, making sure it fits tightly.
4. Set the can on the floor, and gently roll it back and forth. You may need to wrap a small towel around the outside of the large can so it will stick to your hands. Roll the can for at least ten minutes. The ice inside the can will get watery, but keep on rolling!
5. After rolling, put the can upright. Remove the towel and lid from the big can, and slowly pull the small can out of the big can. Wipe the ice and salt from the lid; then remove the lid carefully.
6. The ice cream will be frozen to the sides and bottom of the can. (If it is not thick enough, put the can in a freezer. Check it every ten minutes or so.) When it is thick enough, stir the icy parts off the sides and bottom into the mixture until it's smooth and creamy.

Nutrition Recipes and Snacks

Fruit Plate (lunch or snack)
Give each child a paper plate and sliced fruit. Ask them to create themselves using the slices of fruit. Example grapes for eyes, sliced apple for eye brows, banana sliced lengthwise for a mouth and a kiwi slice for a nose. This presents an ideal time to discuss the importance of eating well to maintain healthy bodies. When their creation is finished they may eat the fruit plate for snack!

Melon Bowl
Watermelon & Various other melons
Knife Melon ball scoop or small ice cream scoop
Adult cuts a watermelon in half. Have kids scoop out the inside using an ice cream scoop or melon baller. Cut open other melons and have kids make balls with the melon ball scoop from the other melons. Fill the watermelon with balls from the various melons. This makes a great summer snack or dessert.

Happy Face Sandwiches
Bread
Peanut butter
Raisins
Alfalfa or bean sprouts
Squeezable cheese
Other small food items
Spread peanut butter on one side of bread - open faced. Have child make eyes, nose, mouth and hair from other items provided. Encourage kids to be creative and eat what they create.

Vegetable Recipes and Snacks

Vegetable Soup
This works well in a crock pot, put meat in early (in the morning before kids arrive). Use frozen or fresh chopped vegetables, let kids decide how much of each vegetable goes in the pot. Cook on high for 2-3 hours, serve with crackers.

Raw veggies (served with sour cream or ranch dressing):
Cauliflower, celery, broccoli, carrots, radishes (may be a little spicy for younger children), lettuce, green onions, Etc.

Watermelon Recipes

 

Watermelon Salsa

YOU WILL NEED:
2 cups seeded watermelon chunks
3/4 cup chopped sweet onion
3/4 cup canned black beans, rinsed and drained
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt

DIRECTIONS:
Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl. Cover and refrigerate for at
least 1 hour to blend flavors. Stir before serving. Serve with corn chips.

Watermelon Smoothie

YOU WILL NEED:
2 cups seeded watermelon chunks
1 cup crushed ice
1/2 cup low fat plain yogurt
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/8 teaspoon almond extract

DIRECTIONS:
Combine all ingredients in a blender.
Blend until smooth.

Watermelon Fizz

YOU WILL NEED:
1 watermelon (15 cups)
5 cups cantaloupe chunks
1 cup banana chunks
2 cups pineapple chunks
12 ounces lemon-lime seltzer

DIRECTIONS:
Cut watermelon lengthwise.
Scoop balls from the center using a melon scoop.
Halve the cantaloupe. Remove the seeds and scoop balls from the cantaloupe.
Cut bananas into bite-size pieces.
Drain pineapple chunks. Combine fruits
in half of the watermelon shell. Toss to combine.
Cover and chill in the
refrigerator until ready to serve.
Pour chilled lemon-lime seltzer over fruits.
Serve immediately.

WATERMELON WALDROFT SALAD

YOU WILL NEED:
2 cups seeded watermelon chunks
1/2 cup diced celery
1/2 cup seedless grape halves
1/4 cup low fat plain yogurt
2 tablespoons sliced almonds* toasted

DIRECTIONS:
In a mixing bowl, combine watermelon, celery, and grapes .
Just before serving, add yogurt; stir to coat.
Sprinkle with almonds.

Pasta Springs

 

YOU WILL NEED:
8 oz. uncooked rotini pasta
1 can (15 1/2 oz) Italian style diced tomatoes
1 bag (16 oz) frozen vegetable mixture
1/2 cup ketchup
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese

DIRECTIONS:
Cook pasta according to package directions; keep warm.
Combine tomatoes, vegetables, ketchup, and water.
Cook, covered, 6-7 minutes until vegetables are tender-crisp.
Stir in pasta and parmesan; heat.
Serve. Use extra parmesan for topping

Mom's Mandel Bread Recipe