Ingredients

• 12 pre-made baked sugar cookies (unless you prefer to make your own)
• 24 mini M&M’s
• 12 orange sprinkles
• Pack of chocolate sprinkles
• 6 marshmallows, halved
• White cookie icing
• Black cookie icing

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Instructions

1. Make sure that you buy sugar cookies that are already baked if you don’t intend baking your own from scratch.
2. Spread the white cookie icing on the base of each cookie.
3. Use black cookie icing to put eyes and a smile on each marshmallow. This is the snowman’s face. Use each orange jimmy as a nose.
4. Place a marshmallow directly on the cookie icing on each cookie. Add extra icing at the base of each marshmallow to secure it.
5. Stick the chocolate jimmies into the sides of each marshmallow for arms and place the mini M&M’s on the base of the cookie for buttons

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The banana boat requires a boat, a mast, a sail, and a crew.

For these, you’ll need:

• A banana (the boat)
• Melon, cut into a triangle (the sail)
• Chocolate chips (the crew)
• A toothpick (the mast)
• Peanut butter (to glue it together)

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Instrauctions:

In technicality, this is very simply a snack of banana with peanut butter and chocolate chips. But we’re going to make it more than that by building a “boat” out of the ingredients.

Start by cutting a ridge through your banana long ways, so that you’re left with a fault line wide enough for a crew running down the banana. Next, fill the fault line with peanut butter. 

Now, attach the sail to the mast by skewering the triangular melon on the toothpick. Then stick the toothpick upright into the banana, thus giving your boat a mast and a sail.

Finally, add the chocolate chip crew. Encourage the kids to tell a story with these materials—who’s in the crew, where they put each of them, and why are they out at sea? This way kids have a little more than just a snack that they’ve created—they’ve created a story.

Finally, eat the boat!

The post These Banana “Sailboats” Are a Fun Snack to Make With Kids appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

George is an Australian dad to two girls, Anela and Kiki, who has mastered the art of making school lunches. With his own form of “Bento Boxes,” a popular Japanese lunch art form, he has used his creative meal ideas to pack some of the most scrumptious-looking lunches for his daughters.

Utilizing a mix of fresh fruits and vegetables, grains, meat, and treats, George makes lunches that are surely the envy of all of his daughters’ classmates.

It might seem downright impossible to prepare a lunch for your children that is both appetizing and healthy, but School Lunch Box shows you how to do just that. The days of boring sandwiches and bags of chips are long gone as you will learn to create better, fresher, and more attractive lunches.

What are you waiting for? Find yourself a little bit of inspiration and become the biggest hit in the cafeteria with the fantastic tips that George offers up!

The post Looking for Kids’ Lunch Box Inspirations? Check Out This Instagram! appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

On September 15th, she posted a photo that shows the inside of her fridge. The photo shows the fridge door that’s not packed with eggs and condiments like many other fridge doors. Instead, we see several plastic containers filled with fresh fruits and veggies and some other healthy snacks. We can already see what this is all about and it’s brilliant.

“After grocery shopping I always wash and prep all of the food that is considered self-serve in our house,” this clever lady wrote on Facebook. “There’s something about having things truly ready to grab that makes kids eat it. I could leave the baby carrots in a bag or leave the grapes on the stems but they wouldn’t eat it.”

Thousands of people commented on her post agreeing that this is indeed a great way to make kids eat more fresh produce, but that it can also be helpful for adults. After all, don’t we all have the days when we reach for a bag of chips simply because it’s convenient to eat? With just a few extra minutes of preparation, you can have your own pre-made healthy snacks available in your fridge at all times!

The post A Mom Posted This Incredible Fridge Hack That Went Viral appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Independence

Teaching a child to cook will allow them to have the independence they need to thrive in the world. They have to learn at some point that you cannot take care of them forever, and if they learn at a young age that they can feed themselves, they will be much more prepared for when they get older.

Responsibility

When you’re in the kitchen, there’s a lot going on at the same time. Teaching kids how to cook and to clean up after themselves will teach them more responsibility than almost any other chore. Although it will be hard and messy for you at the beginning, as they get older it will become more routine, and you will get to worry less.

The post Why You Should Be Cooking with Your Kids appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Fortunately for us, David Frenkiel over at @gkstories provides us with a gold mine of vegetarian options for all ages on his brilliant Instagram page.

The author of Little Green Kitchen, a cookbook full of vegetarian, kid-friendly recipes, also provides his followers with tons of delicious meat-free meal ideas.

As the father of two young girls, Frenkiel knows well the challenges of making food without using meat that both parents and kids love. A quick look at his page proves, however, that what is difficult is not impossible. Who wouldn’t love this vegetarian potato and lentil salad sandwich, for example?

Vegetarian cooking is appropriate and healthy for people of all ages, and that includes kids too. Be sure to give Frenkiel a follow if you’re looking to find new vegetarian recipes for your children and family!

The post David Frenkiel: The King of Kid-Friendly Vegetarian Fare appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Ingredients

• 12 pre-made baked sugar cookies (unless you prefer to make your own)
• 24 mini M&M’s
• 12 orange sprinkles
• Pack of chocolate sprinkles
• 6 marshmallows, halved
• White cookie icing
• Black cookie icing

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Rosanna Pansino (@rosannapansino)

Instructions

1. Make sure that you buy sugar cookies that are already baked if you don’t intend baking your own from scratch.
2. Spread the white cookie icing on the base of each cookie.
3. Use black cookie icing to put eyes and a smile on each marshmallow. This is the snowman’s face. Use each orange jimmy as a nose.
4. Place a marshmallow directly on the cookie icing on each cookie. Add extra icing at the base of each marshmallow to secure it.
5. Stick the chocolate jimmies into the sides of each marshmallow for arms and place the mini M&M’s on the base of the cookie for buttons

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Sweet Loren's (@sweetlorens)

The post Surprise Your Kids With These Melted Snowman Cookies appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

The banana boat requires a boat, a mast, a sail, and a crew.

For these, you’ll need:

• A banana (the boat)
• Melon, cut into a triangle (the sail)
• Chocolate chips (the crew)
• A toothpick (the mast)
• Peanut butter (to glue it together)

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Shelby Anderton (@pickingpineapples_)

Instrauctions:

In technicality, this is very simply a snack of banana with peanut butter and chocolate chips. But we’re going to make it more than that by building a “boat” out of the ingredients.

Start by cutting a ridge through your banana long ways, so that you’re left with a fault line wide enough for a crew running down the banana. Next, fill the fault line with peanut butter. 

Now, attach the sail to the mast by skewering the triangular melon on the toothpick. Then stick the toothpick upright into the banana, thus giving your boat a mast and a sail.

Finally, add the chocolate chip crew. Encourage the kids to tell a story with these materials—who’s in the crew, where they put each of them, and why are they out at sea? This way kids have a little more than just a snack that they’ve created—they’ve created a story.

Finally, eat the boat!

The post These Banana “Sailboats” Are a Fun Snack to Make With Kids appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

George is an Australian dad to two girls, Anela and Kiki, who has mastered the art of making school lunches. With his own form of “Bento Boxes,” a popular Japanese lunch art form, he has used his creative meal ideas to pack some of the most scrumptious-looking lunches for his daughters.

Utilizing a mix of fresh fruits and vegetables, grains, meat, and treats, George makes lunches that are surely the envy of all of his daughters’ classmates.

It might seem downright impossible to prepare a lunch for your children that is both appetizing and healthy, but School Lunch Box shows you how to do just that. The days of boring sandwiches and bags of chips are long gone as you will learn to create better, fresher, and more attractive lunches.

What are you waiting for? Find yourself a little bit of inspiration and become the biggest hit in the cafeteria with the fantastic tips that George offers up!

The post Looking for Kids’ Lunch Box Inspirations? Check Out This Instagram! appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

On September 15th, she posted a photo that shows the inside of her fridge. The photo shows the fridge door that’s not packed with eggs and condiments like many other fridge doors. Instead, we see several plastic containers filled with fresh fruits and veggies and some other healthy snacks. We can already see what this is all about and it’s brilliant.

“After grocery shopping I always wash and prep all of the food that is considered self-serve in our house,” this clever lady wrote on Facebook. “There’s something about having things truly ready to grab that makes kids eat it. I could leave the baby carrots in a bag or leave the grapes on the stems but they wouldn’t eat it.”

Thousands of people commented on her post agreeing that this is indeed a great way to make kids eat more fresh produce, but that it can also be helpful for adults. After all, don’t we all have the days when we reach for a bag of chips simply because it’s convenient to eat? With just a few extra minutes of preparation, you can have your own pre-made healthy snacks available in your fridge at all times!

The post A Mom Posted This Incredible Fridge Hack That Went Viral appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Independence

Teaching a child to cook will allow them to have the independence they need to thrive in the world. They have to learn at some point that you cannot take care of them forever, and if they learn at a young age that they can feed themselves, they will be much more prepared for when they get older.

Responsibility

When you’re in the kitchen, there’s a lot going on at the same time. Teaching kids how to cook and to clean up after themselves will teach them more responsibility than almost any other chore. Although it will be hard and messy for you at the beginning, as they get older it will become more routine, and you will get to worry less.

The post Why You Should Be Cooking with Your Kids appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Fortunately for us, David Frenkiel over at @gkstories provides us with a gold mine of vegetarian options for all ages on his brilliant Instagram page.

The author of Little Green Kitchen, a cookbook full of vegetarian, kid-friendly recipes, also provides his followers with tons of delicious meat-free meal ideas.

As the father of two young girls, Frenkiel knows well the challenges of making food without using meat that both parents and kids love. A quick look at his page proves, however, that what is difficult is not impossible. Who wouldn’t love this vegetarian potato and lentil salad sandwich, for example?

Vegetarian cooking is appropriate and healthy for people of all ages, and that includes kids too. Be sure to give Frenkiel a follow if you’re looking to find new vegetarian recipes for your children and family!

The post David Frenkiel: The King of Kid-Friendly Vegetarian Fare appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.