VegetarianMastery-Lesson39

Take the information and recipes from this Lesson and make something that would make a child squeal with delight. If you don’t have kids, pretend you are one and make something fun and healthy.

Making Healthy Food Fun And Delicious For Kids with Dina Knight and Sasha Luci Discover two secrets that affect a child’s willingness to eat new foods. Learn to use colors, stories, cookie cutters, and spiral slicers to turn “boring” foods into visually exciting treats. Learn to give foods exciting new kid-friendly names, make scrumptious pizzas

Makes 4. This is a great vegetarian way to make gels. It works differently with different fruits and juices. However, agar agar does not set well with mangoes, papaya, kiwi, or pineapple.  Ingredients:  1 pint apple or other juice  1 teaspoon powdered agar agar or ¾ of a bar Juice of ½ lemon  2 Tablespoons agave, honey,

Makes 5 to 7 servings or 5 to 6 cups. This sorbet is berry pink with the fragrance of sweet banana.  Ingredients:  4 bananas, about 1½ pounds or 3 cups, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces  3 cups strawberries, stemmed ½ cup brown rice syrup  1 Tablespoon lemon juice 3-6 slices strawberry for garnish  Preparation: 

Makes 2 servings. This satisfying and colorful lunch or dinner entrée is easy to pull together and is fun to make with children or friends.  Ingredients:  2 whole grain flour tortillas or 4 corn tortillas  2 cups cooked pinto beans  2 cups lettuce or mixed greens, chopped ½ avocado, cubed ½ cup salsa 1 lime,

Sasha dehydrates fruit herself to avoid the sugars, preservatives, and chemical coatings on commercial dried fruit. Occasionally, her local grocery store sells overripe bananas for pennies on the dollar. She buys them in large numbers, then slices them up and dehydrates them. Her 13-year-old son, Skyler, says he prefers banana chips over regular banana. He

Experiment with Shapes Experiment with creating fun shapes or designs that allow the children to be creative. An easy thing to do is to buy a variety of cookie cutters to make fruits and vegetables in different appealing shapes. You can also decorate your plate and create food art, such as creating red bell pepper