Kitchen Fun With Children
Kitchen Fun with Children: An Important Life Lesson
One of the easiest and most fun ways to spend time with your kids is by working together in the kitchen. You’ve got to eat anyway, so you might as well have some fun with your kids. It’s better than sitting them in front of the TV or Video Game machine and cooking alone, right?
Cooking with your kids is not only a great way to spend quality time, it teaches skills that your children will need later in life. There’s nothing sillier than a college freshman who doesn’t know how to make spaghetti or hard-boil an egg. These are simple life skills that every child should learn and are as important as math and science, without a doubt.
Back To School Dinner Plans For Busy Moms
Dinner Planning for School Days…
Another summer has quickly passed us by. The kids have reluctantly gone back to school. It stands to reason that life should be a little less hectic, right? Unfortunately, that’s usually not the case. Between all of your daily ‘Mom obligations’, helping with homework and providing transportation to every extra-curricular activity under the sun, you probably have little time to devote to dinner planning.
Many times busy parents resort to hot dogs and macaroni and cheese, frozen pizza or frequent trips to a fast-food restaurant. That’s not healthy for you or the kids – not to mention its pretty rough on the family grocery budget.
Easy Kid Friendly Toad In The Hole Breakfast Recipe
I love getting creative when it comes to my kids and their food. A really fun and quick breakfast recipe that kids will enjoy is the Toad In The Hole Recipe which is basically an egg cooked inside of a piece of bread.
Ingredients You Will Need:
Eggs
bread
shredded cheeses such as mozarella and cheddar cheese
bacon bits or cooked crumbled bacon
salt & pepper
you can also add other items to personalize your own toad in a hole.
Directions For Recipe:
Preheat oven to 350F
cut out small circle in bread (big enough to hold a whole medium egg cracked)
Easy Pepperoni & Cheese Crescents
Here’s another delicious yet easy kid friendly recipe we love to feed our kids. We hope you will try it out soon.
(1) 8 oz pillsbury or generic brand crescent rolls
24 slices of pepperoni
1/2 shredded mozarella cheese
1 cup pasta or pizza sauce heated
Directions For Recipe:
Heat oven to 375°F.
Separate dough into 8 triangles; pat out each triangle slightly.
Place 3 slices pepperoni, slightly overlapping, on center of each
triangle. Top each with about 1 tablespoon cheese.
Roll up, starting at shortest side of triangle and roll to the point.
Place rolls, point side down, on ungreased cookie sheet.
Easy Quesadilla Recipe For Kids
> From our Easy Kid-Friendly Recipes
Here is an easy kid-friendly snack or great for a quick filling dinner recipe. It’s healthy too!
Ingredients You Will Need for the Quesadilla:
small flour tortillas
mozarella and sharp cheddar cheese
trans fat free butter/margarine
salt & pepper
you can also add other items to personalize your own quesadilla such as tomatoes, olives, onions, green peppers & mushrooms
Directions For Recipe:
Place non-stick skillet on medium heat, add butter. Then place tortilla flat in the skillet, add cheeses and place another tortilla on top of it. Fry on each side until cheese is melted and quesadilla is done to your liking. This should take 2-3 minutes or less.
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