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Kids Cooking Video: Potato Pancake Recipe
This Latke recipe (also called potato pancakes) is written in my own hand from 1988, when I would have been in third grade. Food has always been a part of my history, and this traditional dish from my Polish heritage is a perennial favorite. When I first served them to my husband, he was incredibly...
Cooking Video for Kids: Healthy Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken Recipe
This frugal BBQ chicken recipe is a great staple recipe! My kids and I make it several times a month. It can be made in the slow cooker or Instant Pot and it’s free of gluten, grains, eggs, dairy, nuts, soy, corn, sweeteners (optional), and more – so simple to feed everyone! I don’t know...
Cooking Video for Kids: Instant Pot Mac and Cheese Recipe
Mac and cheese is a cinch in the Instant Pot! It comes together so quickly and easily you might think you forgot a step the first time you try it! 😉 You don’t even need to be able to boil water or know when pasta is done for it to come out perfect! Since my...
Healthy Breakfast Kids Can Make: Homemade Grain-Free Quiche Recipe
Imagine waking up on a Saturday morning without a kid yell-whispering “I’m hungry!” in your face. Instead, you come out of your room to see your kids preparing breakfast! Sounds like a dream huh? Now, I’m not saying you should send your 3-year-old to the kitchen to make breakfast for the family, but you might...
Cooking Video for Kids: Healthy Homemade Salad Dressing Recipe
Homemade dressing time!! We use this recipe in our Kids Cook Real Food™ course for intermediate kids to practice measuring… But today we are going to go ironic on that. My goal is to show families how flexible cooking from scratch can be, and how much room there is for error. So we aren’t really...
Healthy Dessert Recipe: Healthy(ish) Brownie with a Secret Surprising Ingredient!
These brownies have a very surprising ingredient that you probably have in your pantry right now…sometimes we serve them as breakfast because they have so many redeeming qualities and just some honey as a sweetener. 🙂 Healthy Dessert Recipe The recipe is from my eBook “The Everything Beans Book.” I know, a brownie recipe in a...
Cooking Video for Kids: How to Make Instant Pot Rice and Beans
Rice and beans are a classic frugal meal made from shelf-stable pantry staples. Today we’ll show you how to make our favorite rice and bean meal in the Instant Pot and give you some options to mix up the flavors in this cheap family dinner. Recipes Kids Can Make If your kids are old enough...
Healthy Snacks for Kids: Homemade Energy Bite Recipe Kids Can Make
I can’t justify spending over $1 each on brand name fruit and nut bars when it’s so easy to make them at home. Here are 2 varieties of nutrient-dense, enzyme-rich bars that are easy to pack, easy to eat, and fairly painless to put together. These quick and easy homemade energy bites can be formed...
Cooking Video for Kids: Cabbage Salad Recipe Kids Can Make
Cabbage is a great green vegetable with lasting power, so if I want to only shop every two weeks, I get lettuce for week 1 salad and cabbage for week 2. Today we will show you a Saint Patrick’s Day inspired cabbage salad that we make all the time… Leah just asked, “Where is the...
91: Chef Junior Kid’s Cookbook Authors on Kids Setting BIG Goals
It’s still crazy to think that my 15-year-old son (and his friends) are published authors. I’m beyond honored to have interviewed them for a Healthy Parenting Connector episode, especially after getting to listen in to their 5 TV appearances and 3 other podcast interviews!! They’re so poised and articulate! We want to show you today...