Healthy food for kids to prepare

[normyc]

I am starting an afterschool cookery club at my sons Infant school (ages 4-7).

Does anybody have any quick and easy "healthy" recipes suitable for that age group to help to prepare and cook.

I have several ideas, but time is running out and I could do with some more.

Please bear in mind that I only have 1 hr max to discuss, prepare, cook and taste the food.

Cheers

[nickmo]

Have a look at: http://kidshealth.org/kid/recipes/index.html

Also at : http://www.healthykids.com/recipe/ and put in the search, for example 5 or fewer ingredients, option. Lots of good stuff there. Easy convert to UK measures off the US site and all aimed at feeding kids properly

[ursula62]

Sandwiches, or bagels are fun with no cooking - they could experiment with mixing different fillings - it's surprising what kids will eat if they have helped to make it!

Pizzas are good - you can make them on crumpets and then grill or bake them, or use ready made bases.

How about making dips and eating them with pre-prepared veggie sticks?

I know it's not really healthy but you could try, as a treat, icing patterns onto digestive biscuits or rich tea biscuits and adding jelly tots, smarties or dolly mixtures.

[sue hide]

pasta is real easy to cook and fun cos of all the diffrent shapes you could even make fresh which is really easy add tuna , chicken, sweetcorn anything the kids fancy to make there own healthy fun meal im a cook in a school and our kids love pasta (and we are nothing like jamie olivers school dinners trust me) and well done to you great idea have fun with it