Ingredients: Carrots Cream cheese Pitted black olives Instructions: Slice carrots into 1-inch-thick chunks. Top each with a blob of cream cheese and one half of a pitted black olive. Serve and enjoy! Recipe adapted from: Family Fun Magazine
Ingredients: Tangerines, mandarin oranges or clementines (seedless) Celery stalks and leaves Instructions: Peel tangerines, use your fingernail or a small paring knife to scrape off as much white membranes as possible. Wash, dry and slice celery. Cut 1-2 inch narrow pieces from the tops of the celery and insert into the peeled tangerines. Cut leaves from the celery tops and arrange to look like pumpkin leaves. Recipe adapted from: BrenDid.com
What you need: 1 cup of frozen berries 1 cup of milk 1 cup of vanilla or lemon yogurt ¼ tsp. of cinnamon 2 tbsp. of sugar How to: Place berries, milk, yogurt, cinnamon and sugar in the blender. Blend until smooth and creamy. Serve into four tumblers or put in the fridge. Serves four children Reference: LEAP Food Flair, Legacies Now, p. 132.
Third Place Winner – 2016 Healthy Start Recipe Challenge What you need: 3 cups any fruit Sugar to taste How to: Preheat oven to 170°F. Cover cookie sheet with parchment paper. Blend ingredients until smooth. Poor mixture onto cookie sheet. Spread it out evenly. Bake at 170°F for 6-8 hours until center isn’t sticky. Let cool. Cut and eat. Submitted by: Hope’s Home, Prince Albert, SK
What you need: Variety of sliced fruit (oranges, apples, melon, grapes, berries, banana, etc) Wooden skewers How to: 1. Take a skewer- poke and slide different types of fruit onto the skewer 2. Enjoy! Submitted by: Play & Discover Early Learning Centre, Regina, SK
Ingredients: ½ cup margarine (no trans-fat) ¾ cup lightly packed brown sugar 1 tbsp. blackstrap molasses 2 eggs 1 ½ cup all-purpose flour 1 ½ cup whole wheat flour 1 tsp. baking soda ½ tsp. salt 1 ½ tsp. ground ginger 2 c. tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. allspice ¼ cup milk Dried fruits (raisins, cranberries, etc.) Cooking spray How to: In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to cream margarine and sugar together. Blend in molasses until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in eggs, one at a time. In another bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt and spices. Gradually add dry ingredients to creamed mix, alternating with milk. Mix until well combined and dough forms. Cover and chill for 1 hour. Preheat oven to 350° F (180° C). Spray cookie sheets with cooking spray. Roll out dough on lightly floured surface to 1 cm (1/4 inch) thickness. Use gingerbread people or cookie cutters to cut out cookies and decorate them with dried fruits. Bake cookies for 8 to 10 minutes until golden brown. Let cool before eating. Makes about 24 cookies. Reference: LEAP HOP, Legacies Now, p. 143
Ingredients: 1 & ½ cups of frozen blueberries 1 banana (frozen) 8-10 fresh pineapple chunks ¾ almond milk 1 cup spinach Toppings: Fresh blueberries Fresh strawberries Mandarin pieces 2 tablespoons of unsweetened coconut ¼ cup granola 1 tablespoon hemp seeds 1 tablespoon walnuts 1 tablespoon peanut butter Directions: Put all ingredients in blender and blend. The consistency should be thicker than a regular smoothie so that you can eat the smoothie with a spoon. Add a little more milk if the mixture isn’t blending. Pour mixture into a bowl and add toppings. Enjoy!
Ingredients: Pizza Bush Pie 2 slices of bread Spreadable butter 1-2 tbsp. pizza sauce ¼ cup chopped or sliced meat (chicken, ham, etc.) ¼ cup Mozzarella (more or less depending on personal preference) Extras: Sliced peppers, mushrooms, jalapenos, pineapple, tomatoes, etc. Directions: Make campfire (works best when there is lots of hot coals and fire not blazing). Butter the bread on one side and lay the butter side down in the cold Bush Pie maker. Add pizza sauce, to bread then add meat, cheese, and other toppings. Close the Bush Pie maker. Cook over campfire coals. Cook times will vary with the fire and also depending if the Bush Pie maker is aluminum or cast iron. Take it out of the fire and open to check the color of the bread. Remove from fire when it is a golden brown color (depending of personal preference). Note: Try Dessert Bush Pies- try adding marshmallows, peanut butter, jam, chocolate, canned cherries, cream cheese in any combination that appeals to your taste. Try Breakfast Bush Pies- try sliced boiled eggs, bacon, ham, cheese, spinach, mushrooms, tomatoes, etc. The options are limitless.
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