Healthy Recipes For Kids

Your kids will love meal time when they are helping you cook these fun and delicious healthy recipes for kids!

Pork Pops with peanut dipping sauce

April 22, 2013 by Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 15 Comments

Spring Fling continues with this fun dinner!

Everyone loves food on a stick!

These pork pops are sure to have your kids begging for more!

WHAT YOU NEED:

1/2 cup soy sauce

1/2 cup rice wine vinegar

2 T toasted sesame oil

2 T honey

1/4 cup orange juice

2 T dijon mustard

1 t grated ginger

2 cloves garlic, minced

1/2 t lemon pepper

3 scallions, chopped

1 pound pork tenderloin

1/2 cup peanut butter

WHAT TO DO:

Combine the first 10 ingredients in a bowl and mix well to incorporate the marinade. Place half the mixture in a large ziploc bag. Reserve other half of marinade.

Place the pork tenderloin in the ziploc bag and let the meat marinate at room temperature for 30 minutes.

Preheat your oven to 375 and heat up a grill pan on your stove top. After the pork is marinated, place on a hot grill pan and sear each side of the tenderloin. Transfer the pork to the preheated oven and bake for 35 minutes or until a thermometer reaches 155 degrees.

Remove pork and let it sit for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile make your dipping sauce by using the marinade you set aside and mixing it with the peanut butter. Mix until smooth.

Slice pork into 1 inch slices, then thread onto a kabob skewer.

Serve with peanut sauce, rice and grilled asparagus.

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St. Patty’s Day – Pots of gold at the end of the rainbow

March 5, 2013 by Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 14 Comments

These refreshing little sipsters are good all year round

But your little leprechauns will be drinking them up this time of year for sure!

WHAT YOU NEED:

strawberries

oranges

pineapple

kiwi

and

blueberries

WHAT TO DO:

Layer chopped fruit into an ice cube tray.

red = strawberries

orange = oranges

yellow = pineapple

green = kiwi

blue = blueberries

Top each cube with seltzer water. Freeze. Serve with pineapple juice and fun straws.

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Back to School Week – Totem Poles

August 27, 2012 by Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 13 Comments

Brady is not a huge fan of the bread on the sangies.

I’d make them for him but he always just strips off the meat and eats it plain.

He loves roll ups so I came up with a new way to serve him lunch…

Voila, the Totem Pole…

WHAT YOU NEED:

8 slices deli turkey

8 slices deli ham or salami

12 1 inch cubes cheese (any variety)

8 whole yellow cherry tomatoes

1 apple cubed

4 chopsticks

WHAT TO DO:

Lay out your turkey and ham in two piles on a cutting board. Cut each pile into 4 even long slices. Lay out the rest of your ingredients around your cutting board so you can build your totem poles in a little assembly line. You have 1 set of strips of turkey and ham to work with for each totem pole.

Take your first chopstick and push a tomato down over one end. Slide it all the way down leaving about 1 ½ inches from the bottom. Then slide down an apple followed by a piece of cheese. Take the first set of turkey strips, roll them into a pinwheel shape and push the chopstick through the meat. Then add another apple, a piece of cheese, etc. Do the same pinwheel process with the first set of ham and add it to the chopstick followed by a piece of cheese, apple, and finally top it off with a tomato. Repeat process for other totem poles.

Serve these with veggie chips or some couscous cooked up quick with chicken stock…Yummy!

Noteworthy Nugget: You can get creative with these totem poles and give them faces by adding peppercorns for eyes or even using condiments like mustard to draw on faces. Your kids will get a huge kick out of them.

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Back to School Week – Chicken Roll Ups

August 22, 2012 by Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 11 Comments

I know the school year is just starting…

But I love to start things off with a bang when it comes to lunches.

This is my boys favorite…

So I decided it needed a little bloggie love.

Check out these delicious chicken sammies!

Chicken Rolls Ups

WHAT YOU NEED:

4 whole Spinach sandwich wraps
1    cup Cooked white rice
1      cup Grilled chicken thinly sliced
½    cup Carrots thinly sliced
½    cup Red peppers thinly sliced
½    cup Alfalfa sprouts
½    Avocado sliced
Mayo or mustard (for sticking)

WHAT TO DO:

Lay out the wraps on your cutting board. Spread just a thin layer of mayo or mustard over the wrap to help everything stick.

Lay half of the rice down into the center of one of the wraps and press it out so it thinly covers the center of the wrap. Do the same for the second.

Evenly distribute your chicken between the two wraps laying it in an even row over the rice. Be sure to keep it in a single line.

Follow suit with your carrots, red pepper, sprouts and avocado. Now fold in the right section of your wrap over the ingredients and slightly pull then back toward you, then continue to roll over and make your self a tube.

Cut your tube into sushi roll looking slices.

You can cut them straight or on an angle then arrange them on a plate. Serve these with edamame or even edamame chips! You’ll have your kids yelling Arigato.

If you don’t have spinach wraps you could use whole wheat ones.

Or, if you have a kid like Brady, you could skip the wrap all together and just roll up your goodies inside a big piece of romaine lettuce!

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Best chicken ever

July 16, 2012 by Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 7 Comments

Ever get into a dinner time slump?

Get sick of having the same ol thing week after week?

That’s when it’s time to bust out the big guns…

This is one of our go to recipes when we need to shake things up.

It’s easy…
It’s affordable…

It’s delicious…

It’s the BEST CHICKEN EVER!

WHAT YOU NEED:

3-4 pounds chicken (thighs, legs, and/or boneless breasts)

1/2 cup red wine vinegar

1/2 cup soy sauce

2 garlic cloves, minced

1 medium onion, chopped

1 t. prepared mustard

3/4 cup ketchup

1/3 cup honey

Salt & Pepper

WHAT TO DO:

Preheat your oven to 325 degrees F.

Lay your chicken in a large baking dish, skin side down.

Combine remaining ingredients in a large bowl and mix well. Pour sauce over chicken.

Bake at 325 for 1 hour.

Turn chicken skin side up and bake for 1 more hour.

Serve on top of buttered brown rice or whole wheat noodles.

Be sure to spoon on lots of sauce, it’s delicious! My kids love this one with some garlic roasted broccoli!

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Grillin’ & Chillin’ Week – Cedar Plank Salmon with Jack Daniels Sauce

June 28, 2012 by Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 11 Comments

Happy August!!!

It’s hot hot hot.

Great time to get out on the back porch and fire up the ol’ grill.

And cool down in the sweltering summertime.

So we’re paying homage during

Grillin’ & Chillin’ Week

First up.

One of our faves…

Cedar Plank Grilled Salmon with a Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey sauce.

Oh yeah…it’s good!

WHAT YOU NEED:

1 large cedar grilling plank

1 large wild caught salmon fillet

olive oil

S&P

1/2 T extra virgin olive oil

1/2 sweet onion, chopped

1 jalapeno seeded and chopped

1 cup mango chutney

1/2 cup Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey

3 T whole grain mustard

WHAT TO DO:

Fill your sink with water and soak your cedar plank for at least 3o minutes.

Preheat your grill to medium high.

Season your salmon with olive oil and sprinkle with S&P.

In a small saucepan heat olive oil over medium high heat. Toss your onions into the pan and allow to sweat for a few minutes. Add in your jalapeno and allow to cook for 4 minutes. Season veggies with S&P.

When the veggies are soft, deglaze with Jack Daniels. Scrape up all the good browned bit on the bottom of the pan. Stir in mango chutney and mustard. Bring to a boil then reduce heat and simmer until your salmon is ready.

When your grill is hot, place salmon, skin side down, on the cedar plank. Place plank on the hot grill and shut the grill cover.

Grill until cooked through, about 12 minutes.

Top with Jack Daniels sauce.

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Healthy Recipes For Kids

Pork Pops with peanut dipping sauce

St. Patty’s Day – Pots of gold at the end of the rainbow

Back to School Week – Totem Poles

Back to School Week – Chicken Roll Ups

Best chicken ever

Grillin’ & Chillin’ Week – Cedar Plank Salmon with Jack Daniels Sauce

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