A Challenge You Can Win - How to Make the Kinds of Salads Kids Really Will Eat

Hey, Mum, I Want Salad!  When it comes to getting a kid excited about a salad, you first have to make the salad exciting to the kid. It sounds like a bit of a challenge, but not an impossible one. You can do this by including the addition of lots of imagination. 

Try some of these quick tips to perk up a plain, everyday salad.

• Cut the veggies so they have interesting and unusual shapes.
• Hollow out the inside of cucumbers, squash, or bell peppers and use these to hold the salad
• Make radishes into roses, and add carrot curls
• Diagonal sliced veggies add more visual appeal
• Add some ingredients like assorted nuts, raisins, sesame seeds, and grapes
• Use baby greens that are very tender and tasty
• Make salads colourful and fun
• Add fruit slices to a salad
• Fresh veggies are so good, if you have a green grocer or veggie garden use them
• Try different types of green leafy vegetables instead of the usual Iceberg lettuce
• Give your salads appealing names; kids love foods and dishes with zany names

Colourful Pinwheel Salad

Ingredients
Seedless cucumber-sliced with a mandolin
1 cup sliced red pepper (slice them lengthwise)
1 cup crinkle cut raw carrots (again use a mandolin)
1 cup cherry tomatoes, cut in half (Jelly Bean tomatoes are sweet and wonderful)
½ cup of sliced celery (cut on a diagonal)
½ cup pecans, peanuts, or sunflower seeds
Dressing of your choice (on the side)

First, place your leaves of Romaine lettuce on a plate in the shape of a pinwheel. Add your other ingredients in a fan shaped arrangement in the center of the leaves. You should have 2 or 3 layers of veggies when you finish and then place the tomato halves in the middle of the veggies. Top your salad pinwheel with some of the different nuts and serve.

Kid’s Curry Dip for Veggies

8 ounce carton plain yogurt
½ cup shredded carrots
2 teaspoons chopped green onions or chives
1 tablespoon salad dressing or mayonnaise
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon curry powder

Mix together in small bowl, and then chill for 3 hours before serving with raw vegetables.

Salad Wraps

You will need several Large Romaine Lettuce Leaves

Ingredients
½ cup shredded carrots
¼ cup finely chopped nuts
½ cup diced apple
1 tablespoon mayonnaise or dressing of your choice
½ cup shredded greens

Mix ingredients together and let your child add a spoonful or two to a lettuce leaf.
Add some raisins
Now roll up your salad wrap and enjoy

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