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Hard Boiled Eggs Recipe- Egg Toppings Bar

March 11, 2015 By Deirdre

Leftover hard boiled eggs provide a great opportunity for children to try new foods or try combining favorite foods in a new way. We have created a hard boiled eggs recipe for a salad with bunny shaped croutons a few years ago. We recently used some leftover hard boiled eggs to create hard boiled eggs recipe for an egg toppings bar. Each had gave us a new way to try hard boiled eggs.

We started by digging through the cabinets and the fridge to look for things that would taste good with an egg. We happened to find some bacon bits, salad croutons, ranch dressing, and shredded cheddar cheese.

After crushing the croutons into bread crumbs (which is lots of fun) , each of the toppings we found was placed in a small bowl. I then placed the bowls on a place mat to keep them from going all over the table.

I asked my son to try dipping one of the ends of the egg or a side of the egg into the dressing. Then he was then supposed to dip that part of the egg into one of the other toppings. The idea was to dip the egg into only one of the toppings. As you may have guessed the eggs may have been dipped in multiple toppings. That is was just fine with me!

The bacon bits and cheese toppings ended up being his favorite. I was not surprised.

Tips for Creating a Hard Boiled Eggs Topping Bar of Your Own

You may want have a small shallow cups or bowls for each child to use. They want to re-dip the eggs they have already bitten into.

You may not want to use bowls for the toppings at all you may want to sprinkle a sampling of each of the topping onto a paper plat and have just the dressing a a bowl or cup. Your children can then dip or roll their egg in the toppings.

You may want to have your children dip their egg into the dressing and then sprinkle the topping or topping they want to try onto the part of the egg with the dressing.

Here are other toppings you to try in this hard boiled eggs recipe:

Ribbon peelings of celery or carrot
Grated cucumber
Parmesan cheese

My son looked like he was having so much fun exploring the hard boiled egg toppings bar that I grabbed an egg to explore them too. Yum! I really liked the ranch with bread crumbs on my egg.

If you decided to create a hard boiled egg toppings bar at your house, please leave me a comment below telling me about it or share a picture of it on my Facebook page.

Kid Friendly Recipes- Teepee Snack

November 17, 2014 By Deirdre

I wanted to come up with a yummy kids friendly recipe for Thanksgiving snack that kids can build. It needed to have ingredients that could be swapped out if the children creating it had food allergies. This kid friendly recipes for teepee are something that will do just that. If you read through the ingredient list and it doesn’t, please check out my scarecrow snack mix. It is another one of those kid friendly recipes I have done with my son.

Kid Friendly Recipes for Kids

Ingredients:

Graham crackers
Nutella
Pretzel sticks
Assortment of dried fruit or Trail Mix

Adding a Spread to the Graham Cracker

The ingredients can be set out for children to completely create on their own. You can put the nut spread on the crackers ahead of time instead if you like . If you put the nut spread on ahead of time, you won’t have to put out a spreading tool.

Here are some spreading tool ideas:

Dull knife (If children are allowed to use them)
Popsicle stick
Tongue depressor
Small Spatula

Constructing the Kid Friendly Recipes for Kids

Children can arrange the pretzels in to the shape of teepee. We used two short or broken sections of a pretzel at the top of the teepee for this thanksgiving snack for kids. One full size pretzel and one broken pretzel that were about pretty long were used to create the side of the teepee. We did not have to break pretzels. There were a lot of broken pretzels in our bag. If you don’t have a lot of broken pretzel in your bag, you can break them into the sizes you need for the kids.

After creating the teepee, we added dried fruit to it to decorate it. Children can create patterns or a design with the fruit or just place it where they think it will look best.

Ingredient alternatives to use in these kid friendly recipes for kids

If you want to steer away from nut butters, you could try spreading the cracker with one of the following:

Cream cheese
Jelly
Frosting
Honey

If pretzel are a problem, you could use one of the following:

Diagonal columns of raisins
Small bread sticks
Chex cereal
Slices of cheese sticks

There are probably bunches of other alternatives. If have any food alternative suggestions, please leave a comment below or on my Facebook page sharing them.

Children love to create. This snack is one that is fun to create! We also found it to be really delicious.

Here are some for kid friendly recipes you will enjoy:

Fruitful Turkey

Over a Veggie Rainbow

Applesauce Toppings Bar

Very Hungry Caterpillar Snack

Jellyfish Lunch

Other Kid friendly recipes can be found on my Food Creations Pinterest board.

9 Apple Recipes for Kids

October 1, 2013 By Deirdre

We love apples at our house. They are on our shopping list every week. They are great to eat on their own or as a part of a dessert, dip, or lunchtime main dish.When I looked back through the archives, I found that we had created and/or made 9 apple recipes for kids. Each was wonderfully delicious and super easy to make. I hope you will find one or two or nine that you like and want to try at your house.Dutch Apple Dessert is one of my husband’s favorite apple dessert. JDaniel and I made it for Father’s Day last spring. It is made up of several layers of delicious ingredients that blend well together.

Apple Crisp is JDaniel’s favorite apple dessert recipe. He has been asking me to make it since we got back from picking apples. If you head over to check out this recipe you will see that I didn’t take the best picture of it. I didn’t include it in the collage for that reason, but t is awesome!

Apple Enchilada is a super easy dessert for kids to put together. We made them of Cinco De Mayo last year. Strawberries were used to garnish our dessert. I think dried apples would be great if you were making it this fall.

Mrs. Marnier’s Homemade Applesauce is super fun to make. We had to borrow a food mill to make it. The food mill was loaned to us by Mrs. Marnier. That is how the recipe ended up with her name on it.

Homemade Apple Chips have become a go-to afternoon snack at our house. They are super easy to make and taste delicious. They don’t last long at our house!

5 Dips for Apples were such fun for JDaniel and I do create. I wanted to come up with dips that didn’t have a caramel base. (Though they are awfully good!) It was fun to go through the fridge and pantry to come up with delicious dips all our own.

Apple Chicken Salad turned out to be a lunchtime favorite of mine. JDaniel enjoyed it and I really loved it. I will be making it again and again.

Apple Cinnamon Bread was made to take to JDaniel’s teachers during the first week of school. We had one problem with it. Can you guess what it was? Answer: We kept eating it. I had to resort to making double batches of it.

Apple Sandwich Sushi Rolls were made for JDaniel to take in his lunch to school. His bento box came home empty that day. That means they were a total success. This post will walk you through how to make them.

I have shared with you 9 apple recipes for kids. Do you have a favorite apple recipe you like to make with your children?