Fourth of July marks the high point of the summer, but sometimes children get left out of the party because there's no adult food around. Here are a few food ideas that are sure to please your little ones.Kids love bite-sized snack that you can carry with them. Just about every child loves Macaroni and cheese. You can make it special and portable by hollowing out a roll of small dinner and padding and mac and cheese.
They also need a spoon.Stuff cherry tomatoes with a mixture of one cup of cottage cheese mixed with a quarter Cup of Parmesan cheese. Fill a plastic container disposable large enough to serve your stuffed tomatoes, half full of water, then freeze at least one night. At the time of the party serving the tomatoes on the lid of the container placed on the ice.For a variation stuff the tomatoes with chicken salad or tuna salad.Chicken wings are easy and fun. Cut a chicken wing into three pieces. Save the bony wing end for making chicken stock. Bake 350 degrees wings until done. Serve at room temperature with dipping sauces.
Mix equal parts of honey, lime juice and mustard for a spicy dip. Or try the ketchup equal parts and brown sugar for a BBQ like sauce. Each child gets their own little cup of dipping sauce.Sandwiches and miniature Hot Dog are always a hit. Buy the little Franks and refrigerator biscuits. Cut the biscuits in half. Put a little frank and roll up. Cook as package directs.Grill baby burgers and place a cut dinner roll, top with a slice of tomato, a leaf of lettuce and condiments favorites like mayonnaise, ketchup and mustard ...Salad to go. Wash endive leaves. Fill the end with one teaspoon of prepared salad of your favorite son. Wash butter lettuce leaves, choosing smaller leaves more pliable. Roll out the lettuce and put a tablespoon of salad on the side closest to you. Roll the leaf forward covering the salad. Insert the end of the leave under as if you were rolling up a burrito. Lightly fill the stalk of celery with cream cheese. Press dried cranberries or raisins in the cheese. Cut into bite-sized pieces. For a change of use flavored cream cheese.Child size pizzas.
Use refrigerator cookies. Lightly flour a Board. Roll each biscuit flat doubling the size of the biscuit. Place biscuits on cookie sheets. Spread with a teaspoon of tomato sauce, pizza sauce or spaghetti sauce. An alternative is to use a slice of fresh tomato. Top with mozzarella cheese. Cook as package directs.A vegetarian dish and dip can be made special by using vegetables. Carrots, squash, patty pan squash, summer beans, both yellow and green should be blanched by immersing in boiling water for one minute and then in immediately in an ice bath. Add snap pea pods, grape, tomatoes, both red and yellow baby potatoes and boiled.Mini tacos are fun and easy. Use the corn chips that are made for dipping and have a bowl shape. Fill with a teaspoon of cooked taco meat, refried beans and top with shredded cheese. Cook until the cheese melts.Usually the challenge with children and dessert is to stop children from eating only the sweet stuff. Here are some suggestions for taking forward the theme mini. Use small biscuits as vanilla snaps or mini chocolate chip cookies. Put a spoonful of ice cream on the flat side of one cookie and cover with the flat side of one cookie to make a sandwich, then freeze in a plastic container.Use a sugar cookie-sized, approximately 3 inches in diameter. Frost with vanilla pudding and top with slices of fresh strawberries for a mini Strawberry cupcake. Do different varieties: use chocolate pudding and raspberries, fresh blueberries and lemon pudding.Kids will love to make them feel special to your fourth of July celebration.
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