Looking for Kid Friendly Healthy Recipes

bacon, lunch meat, cheese, fruit, greek yogurt. Granted, not meals by themselves, but any combination could be. Those are my 2yo's favorite foods and she's pretty picky.

Meatballs made with ground turkey. Whole grain pasta. Grilled meat and veggies on skewers. Kids seem to like interactive foods. I serve taco's to my family and load my own up with more veggies and less cheese. I am also a fan of the sandwich. Again, I can customize mine to be more conducive to my new lifestyle, with leaner meats and more veggies. I have also been doing a make your own salad thing. I am finding that my daughter is following my lead with some of her own choices lately. This REALLY makes me happy, because setting a better example for her, was on of my biggest motivators.

Hope these suggestions help a little.

Michelle

My son likes the buttermilk oven baked 'fried' chicken recipe I found from the weight watchers cookbook combined with mashed caulflower. Also ground turkey spaghetti over whole grain pasta and ground turkey tacos with whole grain tortillas.

I've tried a few recipes from this website. I have 4 kids eating the dinners. They've liked everything I've tried especially the chicken rollatini with spinach. It's www.skinnytaste.com.

Family Fun Magazine has good ones.
also Kids Health - http://kidshealth.org/kid/recipes/index.html

Good luck!

hey I am always searching for new cooking ideas and recipes. I am a huge fan of Bobby Flay. I came across a healthy grilled individual pizza recipe a few days ago. this is somthing (depending on age) your children and help and make it their own!

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes-and-cooking/family-favorite-dinner-recipes/pictures/index.html

you can mix up the ingrediants of course with more veggies too. I think kids would have a great time creating their very own healthy pizza!

I also have found a great breakfast recipe in Hungry Girl cook book for a breakfast cookie. It is made of pumpkin, pureed peaches, two kinds of raisins, fiber, and i have substituted french vanilla powdered cofffee creamer for my powdered vanilla protien. let me know if you need the reciped they are actualy very good and a good grab on the go breakfast. sure does beet poptarts!

Kristi

A couple of weekends ago I made oatmeal craisin cookies and I swapped out all the bad stuff (apple sauce instead of oil, no butter, sweet n low brown instead of brown sugar) and I called them breakfast cookies to get my daughter to eat breakfast before school and it worked! I also invested in a juicer. What she doesn't see go into it doesn't seem to bother her and I've been able to get all kinds of fresh fruit juices and vegetable juice (we always warm our and add bouillon cubes otherwise the raw vegetables alone are too bland). You might try taking something the kids might think of as ordinary -- like apples and do something you wouldn't normally do to it like warm it in the oven with cinnamon and/or honey or make grilled peaches

can you be more specific on the cookie recipe?
id like those for me...maybe i can just google it but if possible i would like to know how you made these cookies and nutritional values
data
thanks

I have a 6 year old and a 3 year old. I often feed them "ingredients" for dinner rather than giving them the completed version of what my husband and I eat.

For example, hubby and I had tacos last night. The kids ate: veggie crumbles (our ground beef substitute) that I separated out before putting the taco seasoning in, black beans (warmed straight from the can), cheese, corn, pieces of avocado, some pieces of tortilla, and some tortilla chips. They were totally happy with it and would NEVER have eaten a taco or burrito if I'd given them the completed version.

I do this with a lot of our meals and it seems to go better than trying to come up with recipes that they'll eat.

However, I will share this recipe with you because my kids both LOVE it and I'm surprised they do. It doesn't seem like a "kid" recipe but the gobble it up!

Hamburger Stroganoff

1/2 cup chopped onion
1-2 cloves garlic
1 pound ground beef (again, we use veggie crumbles but you can use whatever meat you like)
1/2 tsp salt
1 can cream of mushroom soup
6 oz plain yogurt (can substitute sour cream)
4 cups dry egg noodles

Cook the egg noodles and set aside. Saute chopped onion until very soft. Add crushed garlic and cook 1-2 minutes. Add beef and heat until fully cooked. Add salt, soup, and yogurt. When heated through, add the cooked egg noodles and stir. For the kids we put it in a bowl and cut it up so the noodles are small and kid friendly.

Enjoy!