Take the important first step toward teaching your child a lifetime of healthy food choices with 'The Visual Guide: How To Make A Healthy Lunch For Kids!' This affordable,
90-minute DVD is geared toward busy, health-conscious parents - packed with valuable information about lunch box-friendly food presentation, healthy lunch ideas and meal options. Plus, valuable tips on incorporating fruits and "disguising" vegetables in your child's favorite meals. All designed to store and present well in a child's lunch box.
Watch as food and fitness expert Laura Pasetta navigates the seven essential layers of a kid-friendly, healthy lunch. This DVD also includes insightful commentary from a registered dietician and respected pediatrician on the impact a poor diet has on a child's health and development.
DVD topics on healthy lunch ideas include: adding interest to fruits & vegetables; making the most of leftovers; kid-friendly sandwiches, wraps & pitas; soup, bean & rice dishes; fitting fun in your child's lunch and helpful shortcuts for busy parents. Not to mention exciting recipe ideas sure to please even the pickiest palate. Your children will never turn up their noses at a sack lunch again!
The well-organized DVD menu allows you to skip from topic to topic with the click of a button - so you can get the information you need in a flash. The Visual Guide Healthy Lunch Ideas DVD covers the topic of children's nutrition in a way that's simple enough to follow, yet unique enough to captivate. It's so full of useful information, you'll watch it again and again - and learn something new each time you do!
Each Healthy Lunch Ideas for Kids DVD comes complete with a colorful recipe booklet full of kid-friendly lunch box recipes. All recipes have been kid-tested and approved by parents. The booklet also includes adorable lunch box theme ideas - sure to get the creative juices flowing!
Here’s a sneak peek at just some of the healthy and tasty recipes found in
“The Visual Guide: How To Make A Healthy Lunch For Kids!”
Pasta Primavera
Makes: 4 servings
Ingredients:
2 cups Pasta, small dried
1 Tablespoon Extra-virgin olive oil
½ cup Onions, chopped finely
2 cloves Garlic, chopped finely
14 Cherry tomatoes, diced small
¼ cup Water
¼ cup Frozen peas
¼ cup Frozen corn
1 Tablespoon Fresh basil, finely chopped
½ cup Mozzarella cheese, cut into small cubes
1 teaspoon Fresh basil, finely chopped
Salt and pepper to taste
Method
· Boil dried pasta in water for about 10 minutes. Pasta
should remain slightly firm.
· In a small saucepan, sauté olive oil, onions and garlic on
medium-low heat for 3 minutes
· Add cherry tomatoes, frozen peas, corn and water. Sauté 3 minutes or until tender. Mix in cooked, drained pasta. Let cool.
· Toss in fresh basil, mozzarella, salt and pepper to taste.
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Asian Confetti Rice
Makes: 4 servings
Ingredients:
2 cups Brown or white rice, cooked
½ cup Onions, finely chopped
1 Garlic clove, minced
½ cup Red bell pepper, diced
1 Tablespoon Roasted sesame oil
¼ cup Water
1 Tablespoon Soy sauce
¼ cup Soybeans, shelled and frozen
¼ cup Corn, frozen
2 Shitake mushrooms, finely chopped
Dressing:
1 Tablespoon Soy sauce
1 teaspoon Roasted sesame oil
1 teaspoon Lemon juice,
¼ teaspoon Ginger, powdered
Method:
Brown rice cooking instruction: Rinse 1 cup uncooked,
brown jasmine rice. Add rinsed rice to 2 ¼ cups water, bring
to a boil. Turn heat to low and let simmer for 45 minutes until
water is absorbed.
· In skillet, sauté onions, garlic, bell peppers and sesame oil on medium-low heat for 5 minutes or until tender.
· Add in water, soy sauce, soybeans, corn, and mushroom cook till tender.
· To make dressing, in separate bowl mix soy sauce, sesame oil, lemon juice and ginger.
· Remove vegetables from heat. Toss in rice and mix well.
· Add dressing to rice and vegetables. Mix together. Can be stored in refrigerator for up to 3 days.
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