Just Say Yes to Vegetables

Kid Friendly Recipes

Even preschool aged children can help out with basic cooking tasks, such as rinsing fruits and vegetables, stirring and mixing, spooning and sprinkling, and mashing soft foods with a fork. As children grow, their kitchen skills do too. School aged children can learn harder tasks such as measuring ingredients and cutting soft foods with a butter knife. Here are a just few of the JSY recipes that have simple steps even young children can do:

Stirring:

• Figgy Pudding
• Apple Pancakes
• Celery and Apple Salad
• Cucumber Dip with Pita Chips
• Pumpkin Pudding

Spooning and sprinkling:

• Black Bean Wraps
• Easy Pear Parfait
• Pepper Pizza

Mashing soft fruits:

• Banana Pancakes
• Peachy Topping
• Straw-nana Topping
• Strawberry Lemonade
• Cranberry Fruit Salad

Not only will your kids enjoy helping to prepare these tasty dishes, they'll enjoy eating them, too!