Yesterday we gave you five tips for inviting your kids into the kitchen. Today we wanted to share some recipes for kids to cook or help cook. If you want to involve your older children in a big cooking day, consider working on a dump and go mini meal plan together or our new Kids Helping Mini Meal Plan. Have fun!
Breakfast and Snack Recipes for Kids to Cook
- Ginger Yogurt Parfait with Cinnamon Pears
- Yogurt Parfait Popsicle
- Toddler-ific Pizza Snack Cups
- Kylen’s Peanut Butter Balls
- Whole Wheat Soft Pretzel Bites
- Magic Muffins
- Jam Filled Biscuits
- Chocolate Chip Buttermilk Pancake Squares
- Eggo Breakfast Sandwiches
- GFDF Pumpkin Overnight Oats (You can put these in a mason jar and let the kids shake it up!)
Simple Main Dish Recipes for Kids to Cook
- Make Your Own Pizza in a Bag
- Toddler Chicken Nuggets or Paleo Ranch Chicken Nuggets (Kid Approved)
- Rice Cooker Mac and Cheese
- Bean and Cheese Burrito
- Pulled Pork Stuffed Potatoes
- Caprese Pasta Salad
- Easy Freezable Chicken and Biscuits
- BBQ Weenies
- Chicken Chimichangas
- Ham and Mozzarella Stromboli
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Make a Meal Plan With These Recipes!
With membership, you have access to all our recipes (including these!) and ALL our meal plans! You can customize one of our already curated meal plans, or create your own from scratch using our blank meal plan, My Freezer Meal Plan!
You’re not locked into any one meal plan type. You can save up to 12 customized meal plans at a time and there is no limit to how many you can customize in a month.
LEARN MORE CREATE A CUSTOM MEal plan
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You’ll be able to:
- search the 13,500+ freezer recipe database with hundreds of filters available.
- build and save for later use up to 3 meal plans of 5 recipes each.
- favorite recipes you find and want to try later or have cooked and love.
- view nutritional data of each recipe.
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