Easy Recipes for Kids

Easy recipes for kids are kid friendly, healthy, tasty, and fun to make. Cooking is a wonderful way to learn responsibility and valuable skills. Parents can make delicious meals with children in the kitchen and spend quality family time.

For parents concerned with children who are overweight, the low carb recipes, which are low in carbohydrate and high in protein may be beneficial.

What are your favorite easy recipes for kids? I'm sure pizzas, sandwiches, soups, smoothie, and desserts are all time favorites. Speaking of recipe books, I recommend the Kid Approved Meals.

The Kids Approved Meal provides quick and easy recipes for kids with 13 Weeks of breakfast, kid-tested lunch menus, and mom approved. Also, the recipes are easy for kids. It comes with categorized grocery shopping lists accompanying each menu.

More Easy Recipes for Kids

Pork Chop Casserole

• 6 pork chops
• 1 can cream of celery soup
• 1/2 cup of milk
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 (24 oz.) package hash browns
• 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
• 1 can French's fried onions
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil

Salt pork chops and brown in vegetable oil. Place in large casserole dish. Mix remaining ingredients and pour over top. Bake at 350 for 40-45 minutes.

Kids Dessert Pizza

Fruits can add variety to child's meals. Finding fun food for kids can be as simple as taking them to the grocer with you. Choosing fruits that are tasty and chock full of nutrients can be an exciting adventure.

Getting little ones to consume fruit can be easy when we make it fun and entertaining. Since fruit should be a staple in every family's menu, let the little ones choose what fruits they require to make a festive and interesting fruit pizza project.

You may be surprised by the fruits they choose at the farmer's market. Let the kids choose which fruits and vegetables they want for their at home project.

As part of the easy recipe for kids, select exciting or colorful fruits at the grocery store or farmers' market, then turn the kids loose creating creative faces on this yummy fruit pizza. Odds are, they'll snack as they create--and love what they taste.

Choose fruits in a wide range of palettes and sizes. Let the kids design the pizza with festive faces or construct other shapes on this colorful and festive pizza.

Ingredients

Ready to bake piecrust: Filling

• 1/2 cup fat free or low fat cream cheese
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1.4 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon 1% milk

Toppings Select strawberries for the nose, kiwi fruit or seedless grapes for the eyes, a banana for the mouth. The choices for making shapes are only restricted by their imaginations. The kids can choose pineapples, mandarin oranges, or any fruit they prefer.

Instructions

• 1. Let the piecrust come to room temperature per the package instructions, then unfold it onto a large cookie sheet or pizza pan.
• 2. Roll up edges of the crust, crimping them ever so slightly so that they'll stay rolled up. Poke the crust gently with a fork in about 20 places (allowing air to escape.
• 3. Bake the crust in a preheated 450 degree oven for about 9 minutes or until it's slightly browned. Remove from the crust from the oven
• 4. Whisk together cream cheese ,sugar, and vanilla extract, lemon juice adding just enough milk to make the mix able to spread onto the crust. Allow the crust to cool. Spread the cream-cheese mixture with a rubber spatula. Spread to the edge of the crust

Now its time for the kids to showcase their skills

Allow the kids to arrange the fruit onto the cream cheese mixture. Don't worry if it is not perfect. It is perfectly healthy and fun. Children may like to add sprinkles. Let their imaginations run wild. Refrigerate the pizza for at least 1 hour. Slice with a sharp knife and serve

The kids will be impatient and want to consume the pizza immediately. The pizza cream cheese is almost already set. So when you're done cleaning up, allow the kids to assist you here. They will be eager to taste their creation.

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Reference
Kid Approved Meals