Need some cheap and easy recipes to temp my son, any ideas?

www.kraftfoods.comNeed some cheap and easy recipes to temp my son, any ideas?
I have a 3 yr old and a 5 yr old so I know what you are going through. I purchased a cookbook called Recipes Kids Love- in my local grocery store in the check out line (at the most $3.00). It has pictures with every recipe. I let my kids look through the book and pick out 1 recipe each for the week. IIl help them make a list of ingredients and when we go shopping for the week, they are ';responsible'; for gathering the items- of course I help them, but I have discovered that this keeps them in line during the entire trip- extra bonus. Then when it's time to prepare, I let them help me with the simple stuff like pouring and combining ingredients and they also like to check the timer and count down the remaining cooking time. I have done this for the past month and have found several recipes that my kids love. I have found that by letting them get involved in picking, planning and preparing what we eat, they are more willing to try new things when offered. My children love the whole process of deciding and plannig and get really excited about their new recipes. It is nice quality time together too. I hope this helps.Need some cheap and easy recipes to temp my son, any ideas?
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i can tell you right now what can stop that.... if he get hungry enough he will eat it. your just spoiling him and making it harder on yourself trust me.
Macaroni cheese


Soliders and soft boiled eggs


Bangers and mash


Let him help you prepare dinner, and taste the ingredients as they go in, then he will know there is nothing scary in his grub.


Anything that looks fun to a child will make it more appealing- make a smily face out of the food, or pretend that its his favourite tv characters favourite food.
Mac %26amp; cheese, spaghetti with plain sauce or meat sauce, tuna noodle casserole, grilled cheese sandwich with his favorite soup, PB%26amp;J .
how old and temp him to do what?
#Boil some frankfurters for about a minute, cut into 2 or 3 pieces, dip in batter and fry in a little oil.





# Mixed kiddies platter: battered sausage pieces as above, cubes pieces of grilled chicken (popcorn chicken), meat balls cut into halves.





#Fish food platter: Popcorn shrimps, fish fingers cut into pieces, Fish strips, or crab patties. ( you can also have fish cakes cut into quarters)





Kids love these as they always go for finger food. Just some tempting ideas for kids.
When my kids refused to eat i let them help me make simple things they loved it and ate everything they made.


one of the easiest things was sausage snails.just buy 1 pack of frozen premade flaky pastry and a pound of sausage meat defrost the pastry roll out but not too thin and spread tomato ketchup over the rolled out pastry.place the sausage meat on the rolled out pastry to the right hand side and roll until you have what resembles a large sausage roll cut the roll int equal slices about 1inch or 35mm thick. lay the slices on there sides on a greased baking tray allowing room between each one to swell in the oven.once placed on the tray lightly press on each shape to make them thinner.so they resemble spiral like shapes.place in a medium to hot oven on the middle shelf for about 20/25 Min's or until golden.


good luck please try it there not bad
Boiled noodles, macaroni are good, ground beef, and any cheese you have on hand. Take a look at prepackaged food, like hamburger helper, and imitate the ingredients with real food, kids love it. Anything homemade is good. Fry ground beef, add salt and pepper, add a can of crushed tomatoes, a bit of oregano, chillli powder, touch of sugar, a small can of tomato paste, let simmer down a bit, throw in any noodles. Mix ketchup with equal parts honey, add chilli powder, a bit of cinnamon, garlic, salt, brush onto cooked chicken pieces, and cook on for a few minutes, no too long, the honey burns easily. Go to cooks.com, search for what ever you have in the house.
I have had to make meals with pretty much nothing.. I am not sure how old your son is but my 7 year old step daughter like this..





1 cup rice


1 pound ground beef


1 can corn ( I use the no salt added sweet corn)


brown gravy...





cook the rice and ground beef. ( separate and drain beef)


then make your gravy. I make a roux ( butter and flour equal parts) then add water to the consistency that i like then add beef flavoring..


After the rice to the beef as well as the corn and gravy...


Just heat til the corn is warm....





May look gross but very yummy......





Also, the food Network ( Foodtv.com) has wonderful ideas and recipes for meals that are good for you and are done in less then 30 minutes,
i make my daughter what i have and what i can afford, and if she refuses to eat it (she is 2 1/2) then it goes in the fridge and she gets it cold the next night but isnt allowed to have anything other that fresh fruit for the rest of the night (or until the next meal depending on the time of day). im not evil, she just has to learn not to be picky. parent cant be expected to cook their kids a meal then throw it away and cook something else just because they're having a tantrum. its what they did before everything became illegal and kids started sueing their parents!
My nice and nephew loves ';green pankakes'; basically you take a large oven safe dish, put spinach at the bottom, pour pancake mix over it and make 1.5cm high, put it in the oven on 200 degrees for aprox 15 mins or until it's golden brown and cooked through.
What sort of thing do you want to do? You also do not say how old your son is!





Why not get him involved in the preparation of the food?





I made this 'recipe book' from various websites for my daughter - and they all seemed to go down well! (sorry if I have repeated some - I just cut and pasted from the different books I did!) I also apologise for the breaks between recipes - you will have to do it manually for some recipes! I have also realised how many I did - but do not know which to cut out - but at least you have a good variety!





The easiest thing for your son to get involved in is making sandwiches. Pinwheel ones are easy and much more fun than those boring square or triangle ones we make normally!





Take a piece of bread and cut off the crusts. Put it between two dampened teatowels and roll it as thin as you can (fun for your child to do!). Butter the bread and put the topping on (sliced food is easiest, such as ham, or use something like cream cheese. Egg mayonnaise also works). Then roll it up like a swiss roll. Do this quite tightly. Wrap in clingfilm and leave in the fridge for a couple of hours. Then unwrap clingfilm and slice thinly (in 5mm slices).





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Apple Swamp:


3 eating apples


1 tablespoon sugar


1/2 cup water


A few drops of green food colouring (optional)


1 tablespoon of finely grated chocolate


1 banana


Squirty cream in a can


Mint leaves


Method::


1.Ask a grown-up to peel and chop up the apples into small pieces.


2.Ask a grown-up to place these into a large saucepan with the water and sugar.Turn the hob on and cook the whole mixture for about ten minutes until the apple is very soft.


3.Now, ask a grown-up to take the apples off the heat and transfer to a bowl.Use a potato masher to break up all the apple until it's really mushy.


4.Transfer the mixture into a bowl.


5.Ask a grown-up to chop up a banana into slices about a small finger's thickness.Place the slices onto the swamp for stepping stones.


6.Top each piece of banana with squirty cream and then dust finely grated chocolate over the top to look like twigs in the swamp.


7.Place the mint leaves around the outside of the plate for decoration.





Elephant Treat:


1 sweet crepe or pancake


A knob of butter to heat up the crepe


陆 cup fudge


陆 a large mango


1 black grape


2 bananas


Method


1.Ask an adult to cut up the mango into long strips and chop up one of the bananas.Keep two nice strips of mango for the tusks.


2.Ask an adult to place some water in a saucepan and place a small bowl over the saucepan.Bring to the boil and put in the fudge.Stir until the fudge has melted.Take off the heat.


3.Ask an adult to heat up the crepe in a frying pan with a little butter then transfer to a plate.Cut the crepe in half with scissors and roll up the fruit in each half 鈥?like a cone shape.Place each cone either side of a plate.


4.Scoop out a large dollop of ice cream between what is now two ears.Place two pieces of mango to resemble tusks.Put the second banana so it fits as a trunk.


5.Use a tablespoon to dribble the fudge topping over the elephant.Place a halved black grape on the head for eyes.


Farmyard Smoothies:


2 bananas


Tablespoon honey


2 cups milk


Tablespoon yoghurt


1.Peel two bananas, break them up into pieces and place them in a large bowl.Take your fork and mash up the banana so that it changes from lumpy to soft squidgy and creamy.


2.Add your tablespoon of honey and a teaspoon of yoghurt.Mix this in with a fork now it's turning even creamier.


3.Place two cups of milk into the bowl and whisk the mixture up with your fork until everything is really mixed up.Now you can pour your mixture into the glasses.


4.On a piece of yellow card draw a chick's head and tail and cut this out.


5.Using a bit of sticky tape or sticky tack stick the head and tail onto the glass.


6.To make a strawberry pig drink add a cup of strawberries instead of bananas to the recipe.To make a chocolate horse drink add two tablespoons of chocolate powder.





Fruity Borders:


4 sheets rice paper


Coloured icing pens


1 sliced kiwi


Some grapes halved


1.Place four sheets of rice paper down on a board or plate making sure they slightly overlap each other by about a centimetre.


2.Place the sliced kiwi and grape halves onto the paper making sure you place the fruit over the overlapping rice paper.The juice from the fruit will hold the rice paper together.


3.Now you can decorate the paper with icing pens and biscuits in any design you like.








Apple Swamp:





Ingredients:


3 eating apples


1-tablespoon sugar


1/2 cup water


A few drops of green food colouring (optional)


1 tablespoon of finely grated chocolate


1 banana


Squirty cream in a can


Mint leaves





Method:


1.Ask a grown-up to peel and chop up the apples into small pieces.


2.Ask a grown-up to place these into a large saucepan with the water and sugar.Turn the hob on and cook the whole mixture for about ten minutes until the apple is very soft.


3.Now, ask a grown-up to take the apples off the heat and transfer to a bowl.Use a potato masher to break up all the apple until it's really mushy.


4.Transfer the mixture into a bowl.


5.Ask a grown-up to chop up a banana into slices about a small finger's thickness.Place the slices onto the swamp for stepping stones.


6.Top each piece of banana with squirty cream and then dust finely grated chocolate over the top to look like twigs in the swamp.


7.Place the mint leaves around the outside of the plate for decoration.











Elephant Treat:





Ingredients:


1 sweet crepe or pancake


A knob of butter to heat up the crepe


陆 cup fudge


陆 a large mango


1 black grape


2 bananas





Method:


1.Ask an adult to cut up the mango into long strips and chop up one of the bananas.Keep two nice strips of mango for the tusks.


2.Ask an adult to place some water in a saucepan and place a small bowl over the saucepan.Bring to the boil and put in the fudge.Stir until the fudge has melted.Take off the heat.


3.Ask an adult to heat up the crepe in a frying pan with a little butter then transfer to a plate. Cut the crepe in half with scissors and roll up the fruit in each half 鈥?like a cone shape. Place each cone either side of a plate.


4.Scoop out a large dollop of ice cream between what are now two ears.Place two pieces of mango to resemble tusks.Put the second banana so it fits as a trunk.


5.Use a tablespoon to dribble the fudge topping over the elephant.Place a halved black grape on the head for eyes.














Farmyard Smoothies:





Ingredients:


2 bananas


Tablespoon honey


2 cups milk


Tablespoon yoghurt





Method:


1.Peel two bananas, break them up into pieces and place them in a large bowl. Take your fork and mash up the banana so that it changes from lumpy to soft squidgy, and creamy.


2.Add your tablespoon of honey and a teaspoon of yoghurt. Mix this in with a fork now it's turning even creamier.


3.Place two cups of milk into the bowl and whisk the mixture up with your fork until everything is really mixed up.Now you can pour your mixture into the glasses.


4.On a piece of yellow card draw a chick's head and tail and cut this out.


5.using a bit of sticky tape or sticky tack stick the head and tail onto the glass.


6.To make a strawberry pig drink, add a cup of strawberries instead of bananas to the recipe.To make a chocolate horse drink, add two tablespoons of chocolate powder.





Fruity Borders:





Ingredients:


4 sheets rice paper


Coloured icing pens


1 sliced kiwi


Some grapes halved





Method:


1.Place four sheets of rice paper down on a board or plate making sure they slightly overlap each other by about a centimetre.


2.Place the sliced kiwi and grape halves onto the paper making sure you place the fruit over the overlapping rice paper. The juice from the fruit will hold the rice paper together.


3.Now, you can decorate the paper with icing pens and biscuits in any design you like.











Bo Peep鈥檚 sheep


Ingredients:


1 potato


2 tsp thick yoghurt


陆 cup grated hard cheese


2 black olives


Method


1.Bake potato in very hot oven until skin is crispy and inside is soft. (About 45 minutes, gas mark 8/230 deg Celsius


2.Take potato out and leave until cool.


3.Cut in half and scoop out potato using a spoon.Put into a bowl. Mash potato with fork until smooth.Add most of the cheese and 1tsp Greek yoghurt. Mix all together.


4.Spoon all mixture back into the shells and sprinkle with the rest of the grated cheese.


5.Place potato back in oven and cook until potato has turned golden, about 15 minutes.


6.Take out of oven and place on a plate. Add another dollop of yoghurt in a triangle shape for the sheep鈥檚 head and two small pieces of olive for ears.


7.Cut an olive into two small circles and place these onto the triangle as eyes.


8.Cut up another olive into long strips... Use four of these for legs. Decorate plate with a little cress or parsley for grass.


Dotty Hairstyles:


Ingredients:


1 cup of assorted pasta


Water for boiling pasta


3 cheese triangles


1 teaspoon of tomato puree


2 tablespoons milk


1 radish cut into round slices


1 red pepper cut into a strip for mouth


1 black olive cut in half or use 2 raisins


Method:


1.Ask a grown-up to boil a large pan of water.Add the pasta to this check the cooking times on the packet.Boil the pasta until it is cooked all the way through.It will go from hard to soft.


2.Meanwhile, ask a grown-up to gently heat the milk and the cheese triangles over a low heat stirring continuously so it does not burn.Add a teaspoon of tomato puree and mix well.Take off the heat.


3.Drain the pasta through a colander and rinse under a cold tap.


4.Using a tablespoon to put a circle of sauce on a plate, this will be the face.Add two halved olives lengthways for eyes and a small strip of red pepper for a mouth.


5.Now, arrange the pasta to create your desired hair do.Use spaghetti for long styles and the bows for ties- curly pasta for fringes.


Fab Footballs:


Ingredients:


Tray of cress


3 large potatoes


陆 cup sesame seeds


陆 cup cheese finely grated


1 egg


Olives chopped into little pieces


For the goal:


Three lolly sticks


1 orange netting bag


Method:


1.Ask a grown-up to preheat the oven to 230-Celsius 450F gas mark 8


2.Place the chopped potatoes in a pan and cover them with cold water.Bring the pan to boil and cook the potatoes until they are soft.


3.Drain the potatoes in a colander then place them in a bowl.Mash them up until smooth with a potato masher.


4.Add the egg, the cup of cheese and half of the cress to the mixture.Use a fork to stir all of this together.


5.Put the sesame seeds onto a plate.With clean hands roll the potato mixture up into small balls and then roll these around in the sesame seeds to coat the balls.Place them on a greased baking tray.


6.Pick up each ball and carefully push small pieces of olive around each one to make it look like a football.


7.Ask a grown-up to bake them on the top shelf of the oven, until they are a pale gold colour, for about 10 minutes.


8.To make your goal, place three lolly sticks together in the form of a bridge and tape into place.Cut a square strip from an old orange bag and stick this with tape to the top of your goal.Secure the goal into two cubes of potato or some mashed up potato.


9.Put some cress on the plate as grass and place your footballs on top.


Fishy on a Dishy:


Ingredients:


1 packet of puff pastry


1 egg


1 small can of tuna


1 tablespoon of butter


2 tablespoon of flour


陆 a cup milk


Handful of mange-tout


Method


1.Turn oven on 220 Celsius / 425 F/ gas mark 7.


2.Roll out the pastry and cut out fish with a fish cutter (if you do not have a fish cutter then make a stencil out of greaseproof paper and cut out fish with a plastic knife.)


3.Cut a circle into the middle of your fish but do not cut all the way through.


4.Place fish on baking tray and brush with a beaten egg.Put in the oven for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden and puffy.


5.Melt the butter in the saucepan and then mix in the flour.Cook this for a couple of minutes, stirring constantly so that it does not burn. Then add the milk. Keep stirring so it does not go lumpy.


6.When the mixture has thickened nicely, add the tuna and stir.


7.Remove the fish from the oven. Leave to cool a little then remove the centre circle from the fish. Fill up the holes with the fish mixture from the pan with a teaspoon.


8.Place fish on a plate. Arrange some washed mange-tout on the plate to look like seaweed.


Humpty Salad


Ingredients:


2 eggs


Red food colouring (optional)


Blue food colouring (optional)


A lettuce


5 slices cucumber


1 spring onion


2 tablespoons mayonnaise


陆 lemon


Salt and pepper


Method:


1.Ask a grown-up to bring a medium saucepan of water to the boil. Place the two eggs in the boiling water for ten minutes.


2.Remove the eggs from the pan carefully and put under cold water until cold.


3.Half fill two glasses with cold water and mix a teaspoon of blue food colouring in one and red in the other.


4.Carefully tap the cold eggs all over with a spoon to break the shell (do not remove the shell).


5.Place each egg in a glass of coloured water. Leave in the fridge overnight.


6. In the morning, remove the shells from the egg. Cut the eggs in half lengthways and then in half again.


7.Place each of the egg sections in a single lettuce leaf and arrange around a plate. Add five cucumber slices in a flower pattern on top.


8.Squeeze half a lemon in a lemon squeezer and add two tablespoons of mayonnaise to it. Mix together with a fork and add some salt and pepper.


9.Pour this into the centre of the flower and finish off with a sprinkle of spring onions.


Mermaid Soup:


Ingredients:


1 cup water


1 cube of powdered vegetable stock


1 bunch of Chinese rice noodles


1 cup spinach shredded


1 slice of toasted bread


Method:


1.Ask an adult to boil the water in a pan and add two tablespoons of vegetable stock. Stir until dissolved.


2.Ask an adult to break the noodles in half and add to the pan. Turn off the heat.


3.Pop the toast in the toaster.


4.After two minutes add the shredded spinach and stir.


5.Leave the soup for another two minutes and the noodles should have cooked through.


6.When the toast is ready use the fish cutter to cut out the fish shaped crouton.


7.Transfer the soup to a bowl and top with the fishy crouton.


Pilot's Plane:


Ingredients:


1 medium courgette


Half a carrot


3 raisins


1/4 onion


Half a packet of mozzarella cheese


3 tablespoons of Greek yoghurt


1 tablespoon of oil


1 small round lettuce


Method:


1.Ask a grown up to help with you with this recipe. Preheat the oven to 230 Celsius/ 450 F/ Gas mark 8.


2.Cut the courgette in half lengthways. Spoon out the centre of the courgette and chop finely. Chop up the carrot and the onion. Finely dice the mozzarella.


3.Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a small saucepan, add the chopped onion and fry for two minutes, then add the carrot and courgette and fry for a further 2 minutes. Take off the heat, add the finely diced mozzarella and stir. It will start to go stringy and sticky.


4.Put the empty courgette shells on a greased baking tray and fill with the mixture. Put it in the oven until the cheese goes golden and bubbly - this will take about 15 minutes.


5.Remove courgettes from oven and arrange on a plate. Put one of the halves in the centre to be the plane. Cut the other half in half again. Place one bit at the end of the plane to be the tail and then cut the other bit in half again diagonally and place these on the plate as the wings of the plane.


6.Arrange your lettuce on the plate and put a blob of yoghurt on to each one - these will be your clouds.


7.Place the 3 raisins along the main courgette for windows.


Pizza Shield:


Ingredients:


200g self-raising flour


50g butter


1 cup grated cheese


4 tablespoons milk


1 tin chopped tomatoes


录 pepper


2 mushrooms


陆 a small onion


陆 cup grated cheese


Method:


1.Preheat the oven to 220 Celsius /425 F/ gas mark7.


2.Put the flour into a bowl and rub the butter into the flour with your hands to create fine breadcrumbs.


3.Stir in the milk to the mixture. Use a spoon at first and then use your hands to knead the mixture into firm dough.


4.Roll out the dough into a large thin flat surface with a rolling pin.


5.Cut into a shield shape with a knife and place on a greased baking tray.


6.Roll up the off-cuts into thin sausages to lie in a cross shape over the pizza. Now your pizza should be divided into quarters.


7.Spread the tomatoes evenly all over the pizza base. Then sprinkle the cheese all over the pizza. Then add your different Ingredients into each section.


8.Get your grown up helper to place the pizza in the oven for about 15 -20 minutes until the cheese is golden and the dough has baked.


Princess Pie


Ingredients:


1 packet of short-crust pastry


1 cup peas


4 tablespoons water


2 tablespoons mint


3 tablespoons double cream


录 cup of milk


2 eggs


Method:


1.Preheat the oven to 200 Celsius/ 400 F/ gas mark 6.


2.Cook the peas in a saucepan with 4 tablespoons of water and the lid on until they are still bright green but soft enough to mash.


3.Mash up the peas in a saucepan and then place them in a jug.


4.Beat up one of the eggs and add this to the mixture along with the double cream, milk, mint and salt and pepper. Whisk this all together with a fork.


5.Take your short-crust pastry out of the fridge. (If it is cold, it will not stick to the work-surface and rolling pin as much). Cut the pastry into 4 equal squares.


6.Roll out each square into a rectangle shape. Cut and trim the rectangles with a knife so they are about the size of a postcard.


7.Roll up the edges of the pastry on each side so you have created little walls each side. (This is so you mixture does not pour out. Then create a pillow out of the off cuts of pastry you have left.


8.Once you have put the pillow in place, brush over the pastry with a pastry brush dipped in beaten egg. This will make it go a lovely golden colour.


9.Place the little beds on a greased baking tray and pour the mixture from the jug into the beds.


10.Bake at 200 Celsius for about half an hour or until the pastry is golden and the mixture has set.


11.Remove and serve either hot or cold.


Tortoise Salad:


Ingredients:


5 tablespoons of apple juice


Juice of 1 lemon


2 tablespoons of olive oil


1 pitta bread


2 tablespoons of soft cheese


2 cherry tomatoes sliced in half


1 apple


1 lettuce


Method:


1.Pour the apple juice, lemon juice and olive oil into a jar. Screw on the lid and shake to mix up the Ingredients.


2.Ask a grown-up to toast the pitta bread in the toaster. When toasted leave it to cool then cut the pitta in half crossways. One half will be for the body.


3.Spread on some soft cheese and stuff the pitta with lettuce and apple slices and stand it up on a plate.


4.Ask a grown-up to cut a small segment off the end of the other pitta bread. Spread and stuff this so it becomes the tortoise's head. Stick two raisins on the head with a little bit of soft cheese to give him some eyes.


5.Ask a grown-up to cut the remaining piece of pitta into four equal slices and place these as the tortoise's legs. Top each leg with a slice of cherry tomato.


6.Place the remaining salad around the plate. Just before serving, shake up the salad dressing and pour over the plate.


Veggie Sandcastles


Ingredients:


1 onion sliced


陆 red pepper


1 teaspoon turmeric


1 cup long grain rice


陆 cup frozen peas


5 large tomatoes - chopped


2 cups water


Method:


1.Ask a grown-up to heat some olive oil in a saucepan; add the onion, peppers and turmeric for five minutes.


2.Add the rice and stir, pour in the chopped tomatoes and 2 cups of water. Bring this to the boil then turn down and simmer for about 15 minutes until the rice is soft. At this point, if the rice is looking too dry, you can add a little extra water.


3.Place the peas into the mixture and stir cook for another five minutes.


4.Take the pan off the heat. Grease a beaker with butter. This will be your mould.


5.Carefully fill up the mould with the rice mixture and press it down into the mould firmly with the back of a spoon.


6.Tip the mould upside down on a plate and gently remove. Your sandcastle should pop out.





Buzzy Bees


Ingredients:


2 tablespoons sesame seeds


2 tablespoons poppy seeds


2 tablespoons honey


Rice paper sheets


Raisins


Method:


1.Ask a grown-up to preheat the oven to 180 Celsius/ 350 F/ gas mark 4.


2.To make the biscuits, ask a grown-up to cut an egg shape out of the rice paper and two small ovals that will be the bee's wings.


3.Using a pastry brush coat the rice paper with a little honey and place the wings into position. If you do not have a pastry brush, you could always use a clean finger. Wash your hands afterwards.


4.In one small bowl, mix the sesame seeds with one tablespoon of honey. In another bowl, mix another tablespoon of honey with the poppy seeds.


5.Into the centre of the rice paper spread a thin layer of sesame seeds with a teaspoon leaving a gap around the edge of the bee so you will still see the rice paper. The sesame mixture will spread out as you cook it.


6.With another teaspoon drip lines of poppy seed mixture on to of the sesame mixture to create the bee's stripes.


7.Place a raisin onto the biscuit for an eye. Place them on a greased baking sheet.


8.Ask an adult to bake them in the oven for about five minutes. Keep a close eye on them as you want them to go golden but don't want them to burn.


9.Ask a grown-up to remove them from the oven and do not touch them until they are cold.


10.They taste great served with ice cream!








Clown Cheesecake


Ingredients:


12 digestive biscuits


3 tablespoons butter


2x 250g tubs of mascarpone cheese


1 cup of strawberries


50g cup icing sugar


1 red grape


Method:


1.Crush up the digestive biscuits in a plastic bowl with a rolling pin until you have crumbs.


2.Ask an adult to melt three tablespoons of butter in a saucepan and add the digestive crumbs. Stir with a wooden spoon and make sure all the crumbs are coated with butter.


3.When the pan is cool, squash the crumbs down into a greased cake tin with a loose bottom and pack down with the back of a metal tablespoon.


4.Squash a cup full of strawberries into mush with a fork. Add the icing sugar and then add the mascarpone cheese. Mix this together with your fork. Use a tablespoon to place the mixture evenly on top of the crumbly biscuit base.


5.put in the fridge for a couple of hours.


6.When set, add a large strawberry for the nose. Ask an adult to slice a few strawberries lengthways and place for a mouth. Add grapes for eyes.





Disco Pops:


Ingredients:


Plastic cup


A lolly stick


Jelly sweets


Lemonade


Method:


1.Place about ten assorted jelly sweets into a plastic cup. Push some of them up against the side of the cup.


2.Fill up the cup with flat lemonade until just below the rim.


3.Stick a strip of sticky tape across the top of the cup and ask a grown-up to help you snip a little hole in the sticky tape right in the middle.


4.Place a lolly stick in the slit this will make sure you can hold your lolly properly. Don't push the lolly stick down too far as you won't have enough to hold on to.


5.Place the lollies in the freezer for a couple of hours or overnight until frozen solid.


6.Remove the lollies from the mould.


7.Try using other juices or squashes to make different coloured lollies.





Duck Dippers:








Ingredients:


20 crackers


1 large tablespoon of butter


1 cup of cheese finely grated


2 eggs


Raisins


Half a cup of cream cheese


Half a cup of tinned pineapple chunks





Method:


1.Ask a grown-up to preheat the oven to 200 Celsius/ 400 F/ gas mark 6.


2.Take 20 crackers and crush them up in to very fine crumbs by bashing them with the end of a rolling pin in a plastic bowl.


3.Pour the crumbs into a bowl and rub a large tablespoon of butter into them with your fingers until you have coated all the cracker crumbs.


4.Add a cup of finely grated cheese and mix this in.


5.Add the two eggs and stir.


6.Mix well at first using a fork but as it gets firmer use your hands to make it into a firm dough.


7.Turn the dough out onto the work surface and roll it out flat.


8.When you have rolled it out thinly, ask a grown-up to cut out some duck shapes with a pallet knife. Place them on a lightly greased baking tray.


9.Place a raisin for an eye on each one and sprinkle some extra cheese over the top of them. Ask your grown up helper to place them in the oven for about 10- 15 minutes.


10.Meanwhile, mix the tinned pineapple and the cream cheese together in a bowl and transfer to a serving bowl.


11.Take out the crackers and allow them to cool then place them on the plate with the cream cheese dip.














Flowery Basket:


Ingredients:


1 wholemeal bread roll


2 mini tomatoes


2 red grapes


2 slices of cheese


Bunch of parsley


4 pieces of pineapple from a tin


7 straws (thin ones)


Method:


1.Ask a grown-up to take the bread roll and cut inwards halfway down on both sides to leave a strip in the middle. Then cut down from the top of the roll to join where you have just cut - like an upside-down T shape.


2.Remove the two sides of the bread. Pull out the bread from underneath the handle to make a basket.


3.Use the flower cutter to cut three or four flowers out of the cheese.


4.Poke the flowers onto the straws and top each one with a piece of pineapple. Put the flowers into the basket.


5.Stick the tomatoes on straws and place these into the basket along with the flowers. Do the same with the grapes.


6.Arrange some parsley around the basket to create leaves for the flowers.





Flutterby Cakes


Ingredients:


100g butter or margarine


100g sugar


100g self-raising flour


2 eggs


Strawberry jam


Jelly sweets


Method


1.Ask a grown-up to heat the oven to 180 Celsius/ 350 F/ gas mark 4.


2.Mix the butter and sugar together until creamy with either a wooden spoon or an electric whisk. It helps if the butter is not too hard.


3.Crack two eggs into the mixture and beat this in with a wooden spoon or whisk with the electric whisk.


4.Next, sieve your flour into the mixture. Sieving the flour lets more air into the mixture to make it light and fluffy.


5.Mix all of this together and you should have a stiff, pale yellow mixture. Use a teaspoon to dollop the mixture into the cases. This will make about ten little cakes.


6.Ask a grown-up to pop these on a baking tray and place in the oven for about 15 minutes. Keep an eye on them to make sure they don't burn. When they are ready, take them out. Be patient and let them cool off.


7.This part is quite tricky and you will need to ask a grown-up to help. Using a serrated knife or a bread knife, cut off the top of the cup cake so you have a lid.


8.Paste strawberry jam onto the sponge bit of the cup cake. The cut the lid of the cake in half and decorate each half with icing. Arrange the two halves of the lid into wing shapes for the butterfly.





Gingerbread Robot


Ingredients:


225g self-raising flour


100g brown soft brown sugar


75g of butter


1 teaspoon ginger powder


2 tablespoons of golden syrup


1 egg


Flat icing in blue, red, yellow and black (optional)


Icing pens (optional)


Method:


1.Put the flour and the ginger into a large bowl then add the sugar. Add the butter and rub this into the mixture with your fingers to form fine breadcrumbs.


2.Beat up the egg in a cup with a fork and add two tablespoons of golden syrup to this.


3.Add this to the mixture, at first stirring together with a spoon, and then using your hands to form stiff dough. It may be a bit crumbly at first.


4.Turn out onto the work-surface and knead so that it is mixed completely.


5.Ask a grown-up to preheat the oven to 170-Celsius/325F/ gas mark 3


6.Roll out the dough very thinly. Put a little flour on the top of the work surface to stop it sticking.


7.Using a round cutter cut two circles for hands. Then use two sizes of square cutters. Use the small one to cut the robot's head out and the large one for the robot's body. Then use a rectangular cutter to cut four shapes out for the robot's arms and legs.


8.Place all of these pieces very carefully on a greased baking sheet. A fish slice will help with this.


9.Place in the oven for 15- 20 minutes and then leave to cool on a wire rack.


10.Roll out the icing and very thinly cut out shapes to decorate your robot. Use icing pens to add decoration.





Monster Muffins:


Makes 12


Ingredients:


250g self-raising flour


50g tablespoons sugar


150 ml milk


50g tablespoons butter


2 eggs


1 stick of rock


12 glace cherries


Method:


1.Preheat the oven to 200 Celsius/ 400F/ gas mark 6.


2.Take a stick of rock still in its wrapper and roll it up into a tea towel. Bash the rock in the tea towel with a rolling pin until it has crumbled into little pieces. Place the pieces in a bowl


3.Put the flour into a bowl.


4.in another bowl whisk up an egg with a fork and add the sugar and the milk.


5.Ask a grown-up to heat the butter up in a small saucepan and allow it to become runny. When it has cooled slightly add the butter to the egg mixture. Mix all this together with a fork.


6.Add the liquid mix to the flour and mix the Ingredients together very lightly. It's important not to mix it too much. It should look like a lumpy gooey mess.


7.Add the crushed up rock again stirring quickly and lightly.


8.Use a tablespoon to fill up the muffin cases in the muffin tin equally.


9.Bake in the oven for about 15- 20 minutes.


10.When the muffins are out of the oven and have cooled, pop a glace cherry on top of each one.


Moon Rocks


Ingredients:


This will make about 24 moon rocks


For the rock cakes:


300g plain flour


100g butter


陆-cup raisins


100g sugar


1 egg


Blue food colouring (optional)


For the rockets:


Coloured marzipan


Raisins for decoration


Method:


1.Ask a grown-up to turn the oven on to 200 Celsius/ 400 F /gas mark 6 and make sure you have a lightly greased baking tray ready.


2.Tip the flour into a large mixing bowl. Add the butter. Using your fingers, crumble the butter into the flour. This may take a little time. The mixture will start to turn from lumpy into fine crumbs.


3.When you are happy with your mixture, you can add the sugar followed by the raisins. Mix all the Ingredients together.


4.Add a beaten egg to the mixture, then splash in a few drops of blue food colouring (optional). You could use any colour you like.


5.Mix it all together with your hands and form the dough into small balls. Place them on the baking tray in the oven for 15 minutes.


6.Whilst the moon rocks are baking in the oven, make the decorations. Make the marzipan into spaceship shapes.


7.Place raisins and sweets on to make portholes.


8.When the fifteen minutes is up take the moon rocks out of the oven. Be sure to leave them to cool before you touch them. Place a few of the moon rocks onto a plate and place the spaceships around the edge.


Monster Muffins:


Makes 12


Ingredients:


250g self-raising flour


50g tablespoons sugar


150 ml milk


50g tablespoons butter


2 eggs


1 stick of rock


12 glace cherries


Method:


1.Preheat the oven to 200 Celsius/ 400F/ gas mark 6.


2.Take a stick of rock still in its wrapper and roll it up into a tea towel. Bash the rock in the tea towel with a rolling pin until it has crumbled into little pieces. Place the pieces in a bowl


3.Put the flour into a bowl.


4.in another bowl whisk up an egg with a fork and add the sugar and the milk.


5.Ask a grown-up to heat the butter up in a small saucepan and allow it to become runny. When it has cooled slightly add the butter to the egg mixture. Mix all this together with a fork.


6.Add the liquid mix to the flour and mix the Ingredients together very lightly. It's important not to mix it too much. It should look like a lumpy gooey mess.


7.Add the crushed up rock again stirring quickly and lightly.


8.Use a tablespoon to fill up the muffin cases in the muffin tin equally.


9.Bake in the oven for about 15- 20 minutes.


10.When the muffins are out of the oven and have cooled, pop a glace cherry on top of each one.














If these do not sound like what you want, try the following books:





The Sainsbury Book of Children's Cookery by Roz Denny and Caroline Waldegrave (ISBN 0-7445-2607-8) - Sainsbury Walker Books





Kids in the Kitchen by Sara Lewis (ISBN 0-600-60745-3) Hamlyn books - Hamlyn.co.uk





Children's Quick %26amp; Easy Cook Book by Angela Wilkes (ISBN 0-7513-5651-4) - Dorling Kindersley - dk.com





Alternativey, try your local library for cookbooks.





Bon appetit!
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Try taco macaroni





Make 1 box macaroni and cheese according to package directions





Make 1 batch of taco meat according to taco seasoning packet directions





Layer in casserole, starting with macaroni, then taco meat, repeat layers, if you want you can top with crumbled tortilla chips





Bake 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.





Very quick, easy, and tasty for your son!
chicken fajitas you cook them and then he can make them himself . they feel more involved then at tea time.
Octopus Hot Dogs


A fun way to liven up that ever-present kids' food. Great for bad weather days, cranky kids (or moms!), birthday parties, or just because. My daughters think I'm really cool when I make these for them. :o)


1 hot dog


ketchup, to serve


1 servings 1 octopus per hot dog





1. Cut hot dog in half length-wise, leaving about 1'; intact at the end.


2. Cut each of the long sections in half (lengthwise), then in half again - these are the legs.


3. Boil until legs' curl up and hot dog is cooked through.