Tried & Tested Healthy Recipes for Kids: Quinoa Maki Rolls

vegetable quinoa sushi at British Early Years Centre International kindergarten in Bangok

Ingredients 3 cups Quinoa6 cups Water3/4 Cup Apple Cider Vinegar3 Cucumbers (sliced into long strips)6 Carrots (grated)6 Avocado (diced)21-4 tsps Sesame Seeds48Nori Sheets2 1/4 tsps Soy Sauce Directions 1.Add quinoa and water to a saucepan and bring to the boil.Once boiling, turn down to simmer and cover for 12 minutes.Turn off heat and stir in…

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Tried & Tested Healthy Recipes For Kids : Rainbow Poke Bowl

healthy recipes for kids at British Early Years Centre International kindergarten in Bangok

We have been discussing the introduction of salads for a long time and in particular deliberating just how to introduce them at our kindergarten. We wondered if we should simply add a small side to a variety of appropriate dishes or whether to simply present the children with an interesting, colourful and multi-textured salad. The…

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Easter Egg Ideas

Finding Easter Eggs in Bangkok is never easy and they can be expensive when you do discover them. We have already seem how to make them using moulds but here are some alternatives which are even easier still… so you have no excuse now! Coconut Cream Eggs Courtesy of Rainbow Hot Coupons Ingredients: 8 oz…

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Home-made Easter eggs

Finding Easter eggs in Bangkok can not only be difficult but also expensive but did you know that they are actually quite simple to make? The process is a little time consuming but the result is just the same as you will find anywhere. What is even better is that you can tailor them to…

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Great Smoothie Recipes to Get Your Child Eating Their Greens

At the British Early Years Centre, Bangkok we have been designing and making vegetable smoothies and juices with the children for a few years now as part of their healthy eating topic. Here is a great post from Random Recycling with some lovely recipes for smoothies that have a good balance of healthy greens vs…

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Cake in a Jar

A fantastic idea for baking cakes easily… Who would have known it was this easy?

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Fruit vehicles

For fussy eaters who like vehicles, here are some great ideas to get them eating a little fruit. To stick the parts we recommend using Pocky sticks. They tend to be robust enough to hold your vehicle together but you don’t run the risk of impaling your little one’s mouth. You can even design your…

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 5 healthy alternatives to 5 terrible favourites.

Granola/ Cereal Bars.  Yeah. That ‘healthy’ and ‘nutrient rich’ breakfast or lunchtime snack, hanging out in the healthy isle of your favourite supermarket, next to the oats and quinoa, cleverly positioned far enough away from the chocolate and cookie shelving. The salt and sugar content in these things is horrendous. Added artificial dyes and high…

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Fun Snacks for Healthy Kids

Trying to get children to eat healthily can be difficult. Here are three creative ideas that can be as fun to make as they are to eat. Watermelon Pizza A very simple idea that can be used in role play as well. Set up a pizza shop and call up your child to place an order. Ask…

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