Idlis Traffic Light

Colorful idlis used as traffic lights will add fun to your children's breakfast.  Sandwich is topped with colorful idlis.

Red Idli : Idli batter with tomato juice
Yellow Idli : Idli batter with little saffron powder
Green idlli : Idli batter with peas paste

HouseSandwich

Being a mom of picky eater is extremely tough. Now, I simply buy right food, prepare it nutritiously and serve creatively and leave the rest up to kids.

Ingredients:

Bread Slices

Cheese Slices

Cucumber

Carrot

Apple Wedges butterfly

If your children hate fruits then add tiny bits of chocolates, peanut butter or cream cheese.
Butterfly apple wedges for kids:)

Apple wedges for butterfly wings

Banana pieces for body

1 tsp chocolate paste to cover body

2 mini chocolate for eyes

Fruits car

Watermelon is a summer favorite fruit. It is healthy and delicious. We made this toy car with this fruit.

Ingredients:
Watermelon for body
Banana pieces for wheels
Banana skin for number plate
Blue marshmallow for eyes look

Sponge bob sandwich

I made this sponge bob sandwich with cheese and bread. You can help your picky eaters into healthy eaters by making characters they admire.

Body: slice of brown bread and cheese
Eyes: bananas and blue marshmallow
Eyelashes: nori (seaweed)
Mouth: Tomato

Sesame street fruit snacks

Kids love characters and it is a great way to encourage healthy foods using these characters. We tried to make Elmo and big bird fruit snack out of an apple, mango, banana, carrot and raisins.

 
For Elmo:
Half sliced apple for face
Cheese for Eyes
Raisins for pupils
Carrot for nose
Dark part of apple skin for mouth

For Big Bird:
Mango for face and beak
Bananas for Eyes
Raisins for pupils
small carrot for tongue

Angry bird rice balls

My son loves angry birds so I made these rice balls for him. This is my first try to make angry bird rice balls though I have made onigiri (japanese rice balls) many times.

Ingredients:
1 tsp tomato ketchup for red bird
1/2 nori sheet for eyelashes
Cheese for eyes
Cooked sticky white rice
Small carrot for beak and feather
1 tsp peas paste for green pig rice
2 peas for pig ears
Small cucumber for pig nose

Method:

For the red bird, I mixed white rice with tomato ketch up. It has also little white rice on the bottom. First I made onigiri of red rice and shaped into egg shape then again added little white rice on the bottom and shaped. Cheese and nori sheet are used for eyes and eyelashes. Carrots are used for beak and feather on the top. 

For green pig, I mixed white rice with pea paste to make green colored rice. I used pea pods for ears and  round shaped cucumber slice for nose. Cheese and nori sheet are used for eyes and eyelashes.

Monkey breakfast

We made this monkey breakfast with regular pancake, a banana and small chocolate chips. My little 1.5 years old got excited to see this monkey.

Ingredients:
Regular cooked pancake
1/2 tsp chocolate powder
1 banana
Few mini chocolate chips

Method:
This is so easy and fun breakfast. Make your regular pancake batter. Separate half of it and add little chocolate powder. Make monkey head with this chocolate batter. Make face, nose and ear with other regular batter. You can use scissor to cut monkey's face. Place on a plate and decorate. We used banana for eyes and little chocolate chips for pupils and smile. My older one put chocolate chips for monkey's smile.

 Keep one banana on side.

Phineas and Ferb snack

Phineas and ferb characters are fun and healthy snack made out of fruits and pancake.

Ingredients:
1 small cooked pancake
Small pieces of banana
1/2 Kiwi fruit
Small piece of apple skin
Few mini chocolate chips


For Phineas
Body - We cut the pancake in a triangular shape.
Hair- Used scrap skin of an apple
Eyes- Round pieces of banana
Ear- A small piece of pancake
Pupils- Mini chocolate chips

For Ferb
Body-We cut pancake in a retangular shape.
Hair- Half cut kiwi fruit
Nose, Ear- Small pieces of pancake
Eyes-Round pieces of banana
Pupils-Mini chocolate chips

Mickey mouse fruit snack

Making my boys eat fruits is a hard job. So we came up with their favorite character mickey fruits snack. It is very simple and healthy snack and also children finish while talking about their characters.

Ingredients:

Apple for face.
Black grapes for big two ears.
Half grape for Nose.
Small red part of apple for mouth.
Two small sliced banana for eyes and tiny grapes for pupils.

Fun icecream snack

A fun, healthy and filling snack.

Ingredients:
A slice of  brown bread
A slice of cheese
One banana
A small piece of an apple

Method:
Make a cheese sandwich in a shape of an icecream cone. Slice one banana, spread like an icecream on the top of the sandwich cone.
Put a small piece of an apple to give a feel of cherry on the top.

Sponge Bob Omelete

My little son loves sponge bob so I tried to make this sponge bob omelet rice for him. 

Ingredients:

For stuffed rice

1/2 cup cooked rice

1/4 cup vegetables

1 tsp olive oil

2 tsp tomato ketchup

salt and pepper for taste

Sponge bob Parts 

1 egg for thin omelet

1/2 slice cheese for eyes and teethes

1/4 small cut cucumber for eye balls

1/4 tomato for mouth

1/4 nori sheet  for eyelashes

Method:

Heat oil in a pan. Add rice and vegetables with salt, pepper and tomato ketch up. Stir fry and keep aside.

Make a thin omelet like crepe. Put some fried rice on it.

Make square shape and warp with plastic and keep aside.

Make round pieces of cheese and cucumber to make eyes and eyeballs. You can use toothpick or cookie cutter to make shapes. Cut nori sheet to make eyelash parts and use tomato or red bell pepper to make mouth. Use cheese to make teethes.

Arrange everything and serve.

Fruits Flower

Children will eat more fruits as long as it looks good. They eat nearly twice as much of the "fun and attractive fruit" even they know plain fruits and decorated ones taste same.

Today we made a papaya and grapes flower.

Fruit Tower

We made fun fruits snack today. We sliced an apple and then stacked banana and strawberries.