Cent$ible Nutrition News
April/May 2015
Cost Cutter: Shopping with the Kids
Vol. 18, No. 2
Children Enjoy the Kitchen, Too Cooking with your kids is a great way to spend quality time together. It can also be a great learning experience.
To make trips to the grocery store more fun and within your budget, prepare a grocery list for your child. For younger children include a picture and a number, such as a pear with the number 5.
Instead of sending children off to watch a movie or play a video game while you cook, consider letting them help. Cooking can improve children’s self esteem. When kids help prepare a family meal, they have a sense of worthiness and see themselves as valuable members of the family.
Let your children read the next item and cross it off the list, find prices, push the cart, and choose produce. Challenge them to find a fruit or vegetable they would like to try. Children will enjoy being included, plus shopping can be great reading practice.
Cooking together can be a great hands-on opportunity for all kinds of learning. Through the process of cooking, children can learn about science, math, and art. They can also learn about botany if you choose to plant a family garden together.
Helping Families Eat Better for Less
Bringing children into the kitchen can create a culture of healthy eating. Children can assist with buying, planning, and preparing food, which is more meaningful than just being served a plate of food.
Cooking together is a great way to spend time with each other. As you cook, you can talk and find out a little more about what is important to them. Enjoy the pleasures and quality time of cooking with your kids!
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Washing Hands for Kids of All Ages
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY Finding Something Fun to Do
Teaching children to wash their hands properly at a young age is important. Clean hands are essential for food safety and to prevent the spread of illness. Set an example by washing your hands.
When you are helping children find ways to increase physical activity, have them think about what they really like to do. Do they like to move fast or do they enjoy games where they have to be careful and aim? What do they like to do after school, on the weekends, or during gym class? Do they like doing activities with friends or by themselves? If they like being outside, they could help shovel snow or make snow forts. Inside, children could play a video game that has participants actively moving while playing. They could challenge themselves in golf, tennis, or jump roping.
If your child is helping you cook, make sure your first step is washing your hands. Teach children to sing a song, like the ABCs, while washing their hands. This helps them wash for 20 seconds, which is recommended to get hands completely clean.
Having fun while being active is the goal!
FAMILY CORNER Mini Pancake Cakes Pop these in the oven for a quick breakfast treat!
Remind children to wash their hands after playing with pets, using the bathroom, sneezing, playing outside, and before eating.
Ingredients • • • • • •
1 cup flour 2 tablespoons sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 egg, beaten 1 cup lowfat milk
• 1 tablespoon applesauce • 1 tablespoon Canola oil • Fillings: raspberries, bananas, strawberries, blueberries, chocolate chips, walnut pieces
References • Bunting, Eve, A Picnic in October • Fleming, Denise, Lunch • Polaccoo, Patricia, Chicken Sunday • www.fit.webmd.com
Directions 1. Wash hands with warm, soapy water. 2. Preheat oven to 350 °F. 3. Mix dry ingredients. 4. Stir in liquid ingredients. 5. Spray mini or regular muffin tins with cooking spray. 6. Fill each tin half full of batter. 7. Add a spoonful of filling and put more batter on top. 8. Bake for 8-12 minutes, depending on size of tin. 9. Remove and put on a cooling rack. 10. Enjoy now or put in the freezer for a quick breakfast treat later in the week.
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SENIOR SENSE
FEATURED RECIPE
Sharing Stories and Recipes with Your Grandkids
Pretzels
To start a new tradition read a favorite picture book to your child or grandchild and then cook together. For example read Jack and the Beanstalk and then make your favorite bean recipe or read Cinderella and prepare pumpkin muffins. Another idea would be to check out books from the library and cook matching recipes. To get started consider these books: Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco, Lunch by Denise Fleming, or A Picnic in October by Eve Bunting.
KIDS CORNER Ingredients Search Circle five ingredients in pancakes (hint: look at the Family Corner recipe!), then color the picture and add your favorite topping!
Cheese Broccoli Flour Sugar Rice
Oil Juice Applesauce Milk
Ingredients • 1 ¼ teaspoons yeast • ¾ cup water • 1 ½-2 cups flour (substitute whole wheat flour for half the flour) • 1 teaspoon sugar • ½ teaspoon salt • 1 egg • Coarse salt
Directions 1. Wash hands with warm, soapy water. 2. Mix yeast with warm water. 3. Add sugar and salt. 4. Gradually add the flour until the dough is soft and firm, but not sticky. 5. Knead the dough until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes. 6. Grease a medium size bowl. Place dough in the bowl and turn dough over, so top is oiled. 7. Let dough rise until doubled in bulk. 8. Preheat oven to 450 °F. 9. Spray a cookie sheet. Divide dough into 8 pieces. 10. Roll each piece from the center out to create a thin rope. 11. Shape rope into pretzel. 12. Brush each pretzel with beaten egg and sprinkle with salt. 13. Bake at 450 °F for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Serves 8
BONUS! What is your favorite pancake topping? _____________________________________________
*Consider having a pretzel with a slice of cheese for a tasty snack.
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