Category: Eat

Making homemade pizza is the perfect activity to do with your children. They will love choosing their toppings and decorating their pizza.

We also love this recipe because it is the perfect LAST MINUTE meal! Our kids have been doing online learning and this recipe is so easy to whip up and faster than ordering pizza! We love making this last minute meal when we are in a pinch!

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup warm water
• 1 package dry active yeast
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 4 cups all purpose flour (and a little extra flour)
• 1/3 cup olive oil
• Pizza sauce
• Grated mozzarella cheese
• Optional: toppings, pepperoni, olives, basil, corn meal

Instructions

1. Add dry yeast to warm water and wait a few minutes to allow yeast to dissolve.
2. In a separate bowl add flour, salt and sugar. Add in warm water mix and olive oil.
3. Mix dough together and form a ball. We like to rub a tad of olive oil along the inside of bowl. Cover with Saran wrap. Let sit for 30-60 minutes.
4. Knead dough until smooth and roll out dough. We like to wipe the pan with oil and sprinkle corn meal.
5. Add your toppings! We love to layer pizza sauce, cheese, pepperoni, olives and basil.
6. Bake in oven at 425° for 20-25 minutes.

Ingredients

• 4 cups milk (or milk alternate)
• 2 cups spinach
• 1/4 cup maple syrup
• 1/4 cup collagen powder
• 3/4 cup chia seeds
• 1 cup pomegranate seeds
• 1 tbs vanilla
• Pinch of cinnamon

Directions

1. Blend milk, maple syrup, cinnamon, vanilla, spinach and collagen powder together in blender.
2. In large bowl mix the blended mixture with chia seeds.
3. Put in fridge overnight. Make sure to cover with lid or wrap. The next morning top with fresh or frozen pomegranate seeds and serve.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup of sunflower butter
• 1/4 coconut oil
• 1/4 maple syrup
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup of large flake oats
• 1/2 cup shredded coconut (if school safe) or omit
• 3/4 chocolate chips
• 1/4 sunflower seeds
• 1/4 hemp hearts

Directions

1. Mix together: 1 cup of large flake oats, 1/2 cup shredded coconut (if school safe) or omit, 3/4 chocolate chips, 1/4 sunflower seeds, 1/4 hemp hearts
2. Heat over stove top: 1/2 cup of sunflower butter, 1/4 coconut oil, 1/4 maple syrup, 1 tsp vanilla extract
3. Once melted, mix into dry mixture until it is well mixed and all the chocolate chips have melted. Add your mixture to a mold or press down into a pan.
4. Optional step: melt 1/4 cup of chocolate chips with a tsp of coconut oil to decorate the tops. You may also top with sprinkles if you wish.
5. Place in fridge or freezer. Cut into squares or pop out of mold as needed.

Note:

Coconut is actually the seed of a drupaceous fruit and does not trigger a reaction in a person with a tree-nut allergy. Patients diagnosed with tree-nut allergy are not advised to avoid coconut. However, in October of 2006, the FDA began technically identifying coconut as a tree nut, landing it on a few tree-nut lists and causing confusion.

Ingredients

• 1 banana
• 1 avocado
• 2 tbs chai seeds
• 1 cup milk
• 2 tbs cocoa powder
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 tbsp maple syrup
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Instructions

1. Add all of the ingredients to a blender and blend well.
2. Enjoy your smoothie!

Notes:

• Add more or less milk depending on if you would like a thicker smoothie, or a thinner smoothie
• Frozen avocados work great for this recipe

Ingredients

• Fresh fruit: strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, grapes, melon, etc.
• Skewers: you may wish to cut the sharp tips off with scissors when working with younger children
• Optional: yogurt for dipping

Instructions

1. Prepare the fruit by washing and cutting into chunks.
2. Thread fruit onto skewers and enjoy!

Adaptations/Extensions

• Change up the fruit, add chunks of banana bread or cheese
• Build your kabobs in small groups while further developing social skills

Skills

• Fine motor
• Math (patterns, counting, sequencing)
• Healthy eating
• Cooking (preparing food)

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup strawberries (frozen)
• 1/3 of a beet
• 1 banana
• 3/4 cup oats

Directions:

1. Place all of the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.
2. Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat and use a laddle to scoop the batter into the pan for each pancake.
3. Enjoy eating these delicious and healthy pancakes!

Ingredients

• 2 cups of frozen berries
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tbs of chia seeds
• Optional: honey or maple syrup

Directions

1. Over medium heat stir the berries until they heat up and can be easily mushed with a fork.
2. Stir in the vanilla and chia seeds. Mix well.
3. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
4. Store in a sealed jar in the fridge for up to a week.

Notes:

• Chia seeds provide a healthy dose of Omega 3’s
• If you find that you would like a sweeter jam, you can add a little bit of honey to the final product. Our blueberries were sweet enough on their own so we skipped on the sweetener.

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cup rolled oats
• 2 tablespoons chia seeds
• 1/2 cup nut butter
• 1/3 cup maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup chocolate chips

Directions

1. Place all of the ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
2. Stir to combine ingredients until you have a sticky dough.
3. Place the bowl in the fridge for half an hour. This step is not mandatory, it just makes the mixture easier to work with.
4. Roll in to one inch balls and enjoy 🙂 Store the left over balls in the fridge.

Note:

If the mixture seems too wet, add more oats. If it seems too dry, add more nut butter. It should hold together when lightly squeezed.

Skills

• Math
• Measurement
• Counting
• Science
• Language
• Social skills
• Vocabulary: mathematical language: more/less, big/small, wet/dry, add

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup unsalted butter
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/4 tsp salt

Optional

• Choice of jelly
• Powdered sugar

Directions

1. Mix together butter and sugar. Add vanilla and egg. Mix well.
2. In a separate bowl mix flour, baking powder and salt.
3. Slowly add dry ingredients and add milk. Alternating between the two and mixing as you go.
4. Once it forms a dough, wrap and place in fridge for one hour.
5. Remove from fridge, roll dough to about 1/4 inch.
6. Use cookie cutters to cut out bottom and top shapes that will later be sandwiched together.
7. I like to cut out a small window into the top layer, so that you can see the jelly.
8. Bake for 12 – 15 minutes at 375 F.
9. Allow cookies to cool.
10. Assemble cookies by spreading jelly on bottom cookie and then placing the top cookie overtop.
11. Sprinkle with powder sugar, if desired.
12. Enjoy this holiday treat 🙂

Ingredients

• 1 Celery stick
• 1 Apple
• 1/2 cup frozen pineapple
• 1/2 cup water
• Handful of spinach

Directions

1. Blend all of the ingredients in high powered blender.
2. Drink with your favourite green monster book. We recommend the book “Go Away Big Green Monster”.

Adaptations

• We drew a monster face on a glass with permanent markers. The markers eventually come off in the dishwasher

Skills

• Colour recognition – green
• Math
• Language
• Socioemotional
• Science
• Cooking
• Literacy when paired with a book