Great Recipes for Kids - and Grown Ups

FROZEN YOGURT POPS

3 cups plain yogurt
1 cup fruit juice concentrate (no sugar added)

In a medium bowl, blend the yogurt and juice together well.  Pour the mixture into ice cube trays, cover the trays with plastic wrap and stand up a woddedn Popsicle stick in the center of each cube and freeze!

KIDS' GRAHAM TREATS

Graham crackers to form a single layer on a cookie sheet
1/2 - 1 1/2 tsps. fresh peanut, almond, or cashew butter for each graham cracker
1 - 2 bananas, sliced
1/2 - 1 cup carob chips
1/4 cup crushed nuts (optional)

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
2. Place the graham crackers or cookies on the cookie sheet.  Top each with layer of nut butter.  If desired, top with a layer of banana slices.
3. Sprinkle with carob chips and, if desired, crushed nuts.
4. Bake just until the carob chips melt.  Serve immediately.

BANANA NUT SPREAD

1/2 ripe banana
2 tbsp. almond or sesame butter
2 tsp. tofu mayonnaise
1 tbsp. soft raisins

In a medium bowl, mix all of the ingredients together.  Serve in a pita pocket, on whole grain bread or with crackers.

KID FRIENDLY POCKET SANDWICH IDEAS

For a healthy snack, fill a whole grain pita pocket with any of the following:

- Almond butter and sliced bananas
- Soy cream cheese or mashed tofu and nut butter
- Nut butter and chopped, diced dates
- Jelly and sliced bananas
- soy cream cheese, pineapple rings and chopped nuts

For a larger meal:

- Chicken salad
- Tuna salad
- Egg salad
- Hummus

Add sprouts or lettuce, tomato slices and serve. 

Yours in health,

Kristy Kurtz
Certified Holistic Nutritionist