Semi Homemade Cooking With Kids A popular lifestyle professional and author with a devoted following worldwide, Sandra Lee’s signature Semi-Homemade approach to cooking and home decorating offers savvy shortcuts and down-to-earth secrets for creating a beautiful, affordable and most of all, doable life. Her first book Semi-Homemade Cooking (Miramax Books, 2002) is a New York Times national bestseller. Cool kids’ cuisine and nothing is made from scratch. With Sandra’s guidance throughout the book, kids learn to have fun and succeed at cooking in the kitchen – with nothing made from scratch! Cool kid cuisine includes recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, after-school, snacking, desserts and drinks. Chapters speak directly to kids with Bright Breakfasts, Movie Munchies, Smart Snacks, Sleepover Sensations and more. Plus, each chapter is filled with lively illustrations to draw kids into the book and into the kitchen.

Reviews:

“It is easy enough for kids to help prepare the meal and gets them involved. I just love it!”
- customer review from amazon.com

“For those of us who want to get in the kitchen with our kids and make something tasty with as few steps and ingredients as possible (the name SEMI homemade is a clear giveaway) buy this book.”
- customer review from amazon.com

“What a wonderful book! Easy-to-understand instructions”
- customer from foodnetworkstore.com

“Unlike her cookbooks for adults, this one has cartoons instead of photos. Each easy-to-make recipe follows Lee’s typical formula of being 70% store-bought and 30% homemade.”
- review from barnesandnoble.com

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Cooking up Fun for Kids with Diabetes Here are simple, fun, healthy recipes and activities for kids with diabetes that they can make themselves or with their parents. Recipes and projects help kids understand the importance of food to their health. Includes: Recipes that teach children about the link between diabetes and nutrition Hints for parents on managing their children’s nutrition Creative projects to enrich children’s connection to food

Reviews:

“Some are just easy recipes that a child can do; others have been adapted to make it more fun for children.”
- customer from amazon.com

“Here are simple, fun, healthy recipes and activities for kids with diabetes that they can make themselves or with their parents.”
- editorial review at barnesandnoble.com

“Even if your don’t have a child with diabetes in your immediate circle, this book is terrific for anyone who wants to involve children in a healthy eating lifestyle.”
- review at diabeticgourmet.com

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This is such a great time of the year to try making your own Halloween treats! You’ll probably already have a lot of the following items on hand already and what you don’t, is easily found in your local supermarket. Most of these Halloween recipes are easy enough so that your children can make them on their own, but some may require your assistance or supervision.

Also check out our other easy candy recipes for kids.

Bloody Good Popcorn

One package of microwave pop corn
paprika

Prepare the popcorn according to the package directions. Pour it into a large mixing bowl, shake some paprika on it and stir it until it turns red.

Ghoulish Punch

1/2 gallon limeade
1 liter ginger ale
1/2 gallon lime sherbet
marshmellows
maraschino cherries

Mix the limeade and ginger ale together. Scoop the sherbert and add it into the mixture. Add the marshmallows and maraschino cherries to float in punch.

Creepy Spiders

Two round crackers
Smooth peanut butter
Eight small pretzel sticks
Two raisins

Spread the peanut butter on one cracker and cover with the other cracker to make a sandwich. Insert eight pretzel “legs” into the side of the cracker in the peanut butter. Use a dab of peanut butter to set two raisin “eyes” on top.

Ants on a log

celery sticks
peanut butter
raisins

Wash the celery sticks and cut each piece in half. Spread peanut butter over the entire length of the celery. Press raisins into peanut butter.

Scary Spiders

Twelve ounce package of chocolate chips
One medium size can of chow mein noodles
One package of M&M’s

Melt the chocolate in the microwave. Stir in the chow mein noodles. Drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper. Add two M&M’s for spider eyes.

These Halloween recipes for kids are perfect for a perfect for a Halloween party with friends or as a fun treat for you and your kids to make, and enjoy at home.

Happy Halloween!!

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