Fruits are packed with nutrients and fiber, so we always want to include them in the diet. These succulent, colorful foods are best eaten whole, rather than processed into high-calorie foods, but sometimes it may be exciting and fun to prepare them in creative ways. Here are some ways to make eating fruit more enjoyable.
Chilled Strawberries and Chocolate Ice Cube Tray
Chocolate and strawberries are everybody’s favorites. Combine them in an ice cube tray, freeze, and you have a great dessert you can serve anytime. The secret is in the quality of the chocolate chips you will melt, and in combining milk chocolate with dark chocolate to add to the flavor and nutritional value.
Simply wash 12 medium-sized strawberries and allow to dry. Melt 12
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Any time will be perfect to enjoy these fruit tacos!
First make banana pancakes to use as taco shells. To make the batter, combine two eggs, one large banana, two tablespoons flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon, and one teaspoon vanilla in a blender. Cook your pancakes in a lightly sprayed griddle or skillet over medium heat. Let them cool.
Fill your pancakes with fresh fruit filling, consisting of chopped bananas, raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries, whipped cream or yogurt, and optionally, lime zest.
Fruit Sushi
If you’re not a fan of raw fish, but want to have fun eating sushi, make frushi! Even kids will enjoy these. Just use your imagination. Cut chunks of strawberries, cantaloupe or other favorite fruits. Make long, thin slices of cucumber by using a vegetable peeler. Wrap these thin slices around the fruit chunks and secure them with toothpicks. Alternatively, you can also use fruit leather to wrap the fruits chunks. Sprinkle with shredded
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Just cut a medium-sized grapefruit in half. Loosen the fruit from the skin by using a sharp knife to cut around it and preserving the shape of the outer shell. Place the halves with cut side up on a baking pan. Drizzle with honey and sprinkle some cinnamon on top. Broil for two to three minutes until bubbly. This is best served warm.
Fruit Kabobs
Fruit kabobs make great party food. They are easy to make and fun to eat. Prepare assorted fruits of your choice such as strawberries, kiwifruit, seedless grapes, star fruit, cantaloupe or honeydew, and pineapple. Slice them into medium sized cubes and thread them into skewers. Brush the fruits with thick sweet-sour glaze made from boiled sugar (1/3 cup), cornstarch (2 tablespoons), orange juice (1 cup), and lemon juice (2 teaspoons). Refrigerate before serving.
Lemon curd
Make lemon curd to use as versatile topping for cakes, bread, or other foods. Alternatively, you can also use lime instead of lemon for your
On a similar note, fruit smoothies are an easy way to flush your body with essential nutrients. Smoothies aren’t like generic nutrient-rich foods, they’re drinks which aren’t just cool refreshments but also extremely advantageous with their health benefits. The best way to understand
Sprinkle the one-third of a cup of chopped nuts on top, and bake it at three hundred
peanut butter and jelly. You would use a plate instead of a paper towel. You could just eat the
To start the recipe, the following supplies will be needed; a medium bowl, knives, measuring spoons, a cutting board, and a spatula to stir the ingredients, a regular spoon can be used
When I entered high school I started babysitting children and each child had his or her own sandwich. Marshawn loves the peanut butter with honey (Picture 1) on white bread with slices of banana. Tyhere is Marshawn's twin brother but he enjoys whipped creamy peanut butter (Picture 2) on wheat with honey nut Cheerios crushed on top. My cousin Kayla love to have creamy peanut butter with banana and strawberries (Picture3) on honey wheat bread. Kayla's younger sister is allergic to most fruits so I give her white chocolate peanut butter with honey on extra fiber bread. Abigail loves her sandwich on toasted honey wheat bread, topped with crunchy peanut butter brown sugar and pancake syrup.
Using your second medium bowl, blend the pack of cream cheese and sweetened condensed milk. Once you have a creamy consistency add in the instant vanilla pudding mix and continue blending the mixture with your hand blender. After all the mixtures are incorporated, spoon in 2 cups of whipped cream until the pudding is frothy in texture.
For example, an excellent juice combination that can be added to a healthy breakfast or for a mid-afternoon snack is a cup of spinach, carrot, and apple juice - less than 50 calories. Beets, celery, spinach, and tomatoes make another great morning juice, while fresh grapefruit and orange juice will help satisfy your sweet tooth in the mid-afternoon.
do. God had said that Adam and Eve may eat any fruit from any of the trees in
I'm bias toward the recipes I suggested, mostly because I know they work, they taste good (kid approved), they are easy to prepare, easy to demo, easy transport well while maintaining the cold chain, are low on the allergy risk, don't require cooking, and are very affordable (lots frozen or canned ingredients). These include- the Carrot Yogurt Salad, Berry Smoothie, Fruit Salad, Bugs on a Log, and Fruit S'mores. Each recipe will make 5-6 samples for kids.
This recipe allows the average cook to create a delicious homemade blueberry whipped cream pie. Instead of having to buy pies and other desserts from the store, now anyone can make them inexpensively at home. Making a blueberry pie may take some time, but the end result is well worth the effort and the wait. The main steps in making a blueberry pie are not complicated, but one should not forget that there are pre-cooking and post-cooking steps that are just as important as the main cooking steps.
First, before starting to combine the ingredients preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Second, get any size pan and put any kind of grease and flour on the pan. Third, get a bowl and pour the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and mix it all together thoroughly. Fourth, get a large bowl beat the eggs, butter and vanilla while doing that slowly add sugar into the large bowl until everything is mixed together well. Fifth, when the eggs, butter, vanilla, and sugar are well mixed together add the flour gently until the batter is mixed well and it looks smooth.
Food is the essential vitality of life and the essence of survival. It nourishes one’s physical body to enable pursuit of passion. However, in overwhelming aspects of American society, food is viewed as an enemy. It is seen as the root cause of obesity which carries heavy condemnations of ugliness and weakness. Countless people have become obsessed with food as a means of exerting strength, displaying will-power, and achieving alleged beauty. The way society views nutrition has become misconstrued and disordered, resulting in unhealthy relationships with food, and thus emotional and physical harm. The most effective way to change society’s relationship with food is to target the presentation, practices, content, and intentions of nutrition
Breakfast is the first meal of the day and has always been said to be the most important. This meal is proven to promote better attitudes towards the day and gives people more energy for the day. Eating breakfast is supposed to prepare you for the day and promote better choices when it comes to choosing what to eat for the rest of the day. For some people eating breakfast isn’t a choice when it comes to weak stomachs not being able to handle the earliness of the meal, but what are the true benefits of eating breakfast? Studies show that breakfast is healthy for you, but making the healthy choices that make breakfast is what really proves its importance. Students are definitely affected if they don’t eat breakfast. Breakfast is a great way
What is the reason that people feel that cooking at home is the best option for
Eating Responsibly To eat responsibly means to know what you are eating and knowing what you are putting into your body, whether it is healthy for you or not. It’s a sad fact that the typical American diet (high in meat and processed foods) is not healthy. There are a lot of different ways to stay healthy, but it can also be very difficult to follow a good diet plan all the time. I know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and I have tried to eat well before all of my classes. I include the necessary protein of eggs and sausage, and include a fruit of some kind.