Healthy Eating Game: Healthy Recipes For Children

Kid-Friendly Recipes

Have you ever played a healthy eating game with your family? It can be any game that involves eating healthy foods. Healthy eating and understanding the basics of nutrition can be fun for children too.

Healthy Eating Game: Eat Your Broccoli

Another option is to find creative cooking ways to get your child to eat their broccoli and green beans. Below is one easy recipe used with broccoli, but you can add almost any vegetable to this flavorful dish. You can learn to make kid-friendly recipes.

Broccoli Cheese Rice

Ingredients

• 1 bunch of broccoli, chopped
• 2 cups brown rice or 1 lb whole grain pasta
• 2 cups cheddar cheese
• 4 tbs butter or olive oil
• ½ cup milk
• Salt and pepper to taste

Steam broccoli and set aside. Cook rice or pasta according to package directions. Melt butter in large pan on the stove. Add milk and cheese and mix well. Then add rice or pasta and broccoli. Salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy this meal with a dark leafy green salad on the side with olive oil and lemon dressing.

Healthy Eating Game: Helping The Overweight Child

If they are used to eating frozen meals, canned soups, and boxed dinners, trying to get them to value natural, wholesome food will be a daunting task. The truth is, if they don’t know about the consequences of how certain foods will affect their health, they probably won’t care too much about changing their diet.

Teaching your child about nutrition facts, and letting them read stories of people who are sick from food related diseases, would help them to realize the impact of eating unhealthy foods every day. Let your child eat whatever he or she wants but only cook and store healthy foods in the home.

Healthy Eating Game: Fruit Desserts

Homemade Strawberry Shortcake

• 4 cups whole-wheat pastry flour
• 2 tablespoons baking powder (aluminum free)
• ½ cup butter
• 1 ½ cups milk
• ½ cup honey (preferably raw)
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 pints fresh strawberries
• 1 pint real whipping cream

Mix together flour, salt, and baking powder. Cut the butter into the flour until it resembles course crumbs. Mix together the cream and honey and add all at once to the flour mixture. Knead these biscuits and add more flour until the dough can be rolled. This makes about four big shortcake biscuits or six smaller biscuits.

Bake for 12 minutes in a preheated 350-degree oven. Meanwhile wash strawberries and cut in each strawberry into halves or fourths. Add them into a bowl with ¼ cup raw honey or other natural sugar. With electric beaters, mix the whipping cream for about two or three minutes until it thickens nicely.

Take each biscuit and cut in half. Put both halves in a bowel and top each half with a good bit of strawberries and then whipping cream. Enjoy this healthy strawberry shortcake dessert anytime you are craving something sweet.