Tutti-Frutti Salad
When you’re trying to teach your children about healthy eating, it’s
important to involve them in the entire process, the process of choosing
what you should eat to the process of cooking the food. Cooking with
your kids will allow for both greater bonding between you as well as
allow you to teach them various things about cooking utensils,
measurements, and healthy eating. However, sometimes they will get
sick of hearing about veggie pizzas and the benefits of eating only lean
meats like chicken breast and fish, and they’ll want to eat something
sweet and that’s where this tutti-frutti salad can come into play, one
of the many healthy desert choices that you and your child will enjoy,
and that you can collaborate in preparing.
 For
this recipe you’ll need a medium cantaloupe, 2 red apples, 300 grams of
seedless grapes, 500 grams of blueberries and about the same amount of
sliced peaches packed in light syrup. This salad will need a dressing
made out of 250 ml of low-fat yogurt, 2 tablespoons (30 ml) of orange
juice and one (15 ml) of honey. All you and your child then have to do
is to halve, seed and peel the cantaloupe and slice it into bite-sized
chunks and place them in a large enough bowl. After that
you core the apples, cut them into 8 pieces and add them to the bowl as
well, followed by the grapes and blueberries. Finally, you have to add
the peaches and their syrup and toss lightly but thoroughly to ensure
that the ingredients mix properly. Once that is done all that remains to
be done is to spoon the salad into individual serving bowls and top it
with the orange yogurt dressing. The dressing is pretty straight
forward, you combine and mix all the ingredients and serve. Making
this recipe shouldn’t take you longer than twenty or twenty-five
minutes, even less if you have the dressing ready from a previous day,
because you can refrigerate it for up to a week. This great tutti-frutti
salad can work both as a desert as well as a quick breakfast when you’re
in a hurry, if you have it prepared from a previous day. It is low in
fat and high in carbohydrates which you’ll need to provide you with
energy at the start of the day, as well as the fact that the mixture is
packed with vitamins and minerals. |
