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Kids Recipe of the Month

Peach Popsicles

6 Peaches

1 cup Sugar

1 cup Water

 

Add water and sugar together, bring to boil. Stir and be sure sugar has dissolved.

Pit your peaches and cut into slices.

Add to the simple syrup and cook on medium heat until peaches are soft (able for a skewer to go through easily.

Pour into a bowl and cool down in fridge

Once cold, blend in blender or food processor and pour into ice cube trays

The cubes will start to freeze, after 30 min or so.

Add toothpicks to the center of each "popsicle"

After another hour or so pop out and enjoy fresh Peach Popsicles!!!

 

** A guardian should be present for this recipe, boiling water is involved!

Incredible, Edible, Veggie Bowl

Ingredients:

  • 1 green, yellow, or red pepper, washed
  • 1 bunch of celery, washed
  • 1 carrot, washed and peeled
  • your favorite salad dressing

Utensils:

  • knife (You'll need help from your adult assistant.)
  • cutting board

Directions:

  • Cut the pepper in half (from side to side). Clean out the seeds and gunk from the inside. Now you have two pieces. One will be your pepper-shaped bowl.
  • Cut the other half of the pepper into skinny slices.
  • Cut the carrot into skinny sticks about 4" long.
  • Cut celery into skinny sticks so each one is about 4" long.
  • Put a little salad dressing in the bottom of your pepper bowl.
  • Put celery sticks, carrot sticks, and pepper slices into the pepper bowl.
  • Now you've got a portable veggie treat! You can pull out the veggies and eat them with a little dressing. Then when you're finished with the veggies, it's time to eat the bowl!

Serves: 1

Serving size: 1 veggie bowl

Nutritional analysis (per serving):

93 calories, 3 g protein, 1 g fat, 22 g carbohydrate, 4 g fiber, 98 mg sodium, 71 mg calcium, .7 mg iron

Note: Nutritional analysis may vary depending on ingredient brands used.

Icy Strawberry Freeze

Prep time: 1 to 2 hours

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 c. milk
  • 1 c. sliced strawberries (they can be either fresh or frozen)

Utensils:

  • ice cube tray
  • blender (You'll need help from your adult assistant.)
  • serving dishes

Directions:

  • Pour the milk into an ice cube tray and freeze until solid.
  • Pop the "milk cubes" out of the tray and put them into the blender. Then put the strawberries into the blender.
  • Put the lid on the blender and blend on high speed until everything is all mixed together and very smooth.
  • Pour your Icy Strawberry Freeze into serving dishes and serve right away.

Serves: 3

Serving size: 4 oz. (1/2 cup)

Nutritional analysis (per serving):

65 calories, 2 g protein, o g fat, 15 g carbohydrate, 0 g fiber, 1 mg cholesterol, 25 mg sodium, 53 mg calcium, .3 mg iron

Note: Nutritional analysis may vary depending on ingredient brands used.

Reviewed by: Allison Brinkley, RD, LD/N, CNSD
Date reviewed: September 2003

 

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