As any of you that follow us already know, we view celebration times as a great opportunity to encourage, promote and enjoy healthy eating. Celebrations are also the perfect time to develop and build on relationships with the families and whanau, and encourage their participation in your healthy food culture.
We have created a whole range of healthy, delicious and straightforward recipes that could be made with children in the centre or given as ideas to parents to bring in for a potluck style party. By giving the suggestions to parents, you can invite their participation and demonstrate that celebration foods can be healthy and tasty. An effective way to achieve this is to print some recipe options they can choose from. Not only parents will thank you for helping them decide what to bring, you'll also end up with a range of healthy and appetizing choices at your gathering!
To ensure you end up with a variety of foods for your celebration, we have included a range of baked, fresh, savoury, sweet and even drinkable options. For instance we prepared our guacamole recipe with a Christmassy twist by cutting the tortilla crisps with a Christmas tree shaped cookie cutter!
We created a pair of smoothies, red and green, a duo of mini muffins, savoury and sweet, and our vegetarian snack, Xmas Roll-ups; as well as a range of fresh fruit preparations that are sure to be a hit with the children!
Creating healthy foods is not only preferable in a centre setting, it's a valuable opportunity for the children and families to learn and share plenty of other great skills. Getting the families involved will enable them to recreate these ideas at home, for their own celebrations, or allow them to share some fabulous, healthy ideas of their own!
We wish you all a happy holiday from Clean Plate!
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