Kids Eat Healthy with Frozen

Convincing your kids to eat healthily can be a challenge!

As a busy mum, it can be difficult choosing food for your kids

Especially if your they are at an age where they don’t like to eat healthily. So we have the perfect solutions to make nutritious meals into fun meals!

Busy Mums

The benefit of frozen food is that it is time saving, for busy mums just like you.

So, if you have a school run, kids homework, a friend staying over – this doesn’t leave you with much time to cook! We have the perfect meal ideas from frozen for you! 

Encouraging children to eat healthily can be hard so we have some frozen food recipes that are not only healthy but also fun for kids to enjoy.

The recipes are easy, healthy, cost effective, fun and time saving. So, if you want to be remembered as the house serving the best healthy fun food in the neighbourhood, just read on!

Making Faces

Take a traditional British meat and two veg and make it your own.

why not try making animal faces with your mash and peas? Add two peas to a spoon full of mash and who’s face is that? So, a perfect healthy lunch could be frozen mashed potatoes, frozen peas and frozen sausages. This could not be easier, is nutritious, needs little preparation and all these frozen food items are available in supermarkets.

Have a look here at the faces we’ve been making with frozen pizzas!

Your children’s’ bodies need nourishment – the best way of giving them this is by feeding them lots of fruit and vegetables. Fruit and veg are full of vital goodness and frozen food ensures you get vitamins and nutrients – because the freezing process naturally locks in the minerals and vitamins giving you year-round access to these vital food groups.

You could serve chicken and chips. You might be thinking that chips are not healthy, but you can get low fat chips. Did you know? Frozen oven chips can have more nutrients than home made chips cut from fresh potatoes. That’s because they are frozen so quickly at their peak of quality, they retain their goodness. And frozen chips are for baking – not deep pan frying so they use a lot less fat. Oven chips can be 95% fat free!

Five a Day

A good balance of fruit and veg helps you to lower the risk of heart disease

The Department of Health advises you to eat five portions of fruit and veg a day, (to make up one third of your daily food intake). Frozen food is a good way to acheive your 5 a Day and a great way of having more fruit and veg into your daily meal plan. Fruit and veg can also hep reduce the risk of strokes; it reduces blood pressure and also stops some cancers.

Less waste

Using frozen food reduces the amount of food you throw away.

Not only can frozen be just as nutritious as fresh, but buying frozen also means that you can buy in bulk and know that the frozen food will not spoil. Recent surveys have found that 30% of fresh food is wasted!

By keeping frozen fruit and veg, you will always have nutritious food at hand without having to run to the shop to stock up. Making frozen fruit and veg a staple part of your diet can also help you save money, as frozen products are available at cheaper prices throughout the year!

Mix it up a little! 

You know what they say about variety!

When you are shopping make sure to remember that variety is as important as quantity. No single fruit or veg will provide you every nutrient needed to keep healthy. So, embrace choice and try as many different coloured fruits and vegetables as possible.

Frozen fruit and veg are frozen at their peak of quality and the nutrients are locked in as a result. Fresh produce can be 10 days old before hitting your basket and this means valuable nutrients are lost. For instance, evidence has shown that two days after picking, spinach has already lost 75% of its vitamin C. This loss is reduced to less than 20% when it is frozen!

keep it healthy

How Vitamins help your kids

• Iron - Foods rich in iron help prevents exhaustion and anemia. Iron can be found in green leafy veg, nuts and seeds and red meats.
• Eating vitamin C rich foods increase iron absorption by up to twice as much. Vitamin C can be found in fruits, berries, tomatoes, broccoli, peppers, blackcurrants and potatoes.
• Calcium - Foods rich in calcium are important for growing bones and teeth. Calcium can be found in whole-meal bread, almonds, parsley, watercress and green veg.
• Vitamin D - This nutrient helps keep your family’s bones healthy and is good for the immune system. Vitamin D can be found in oily fish, margarine and fortified foods.
• Anti-oxidants - These may be helpful to protect your immune system and can be found in brightly coloured fruit and veg - so try and eat a wide variety. Don't over-cook or vitamins will be lost!

Kids Easy Dessert

Delicious dessert they would love you for it.

For a dessert you could have a Smoothie from frozen fruit, made from delicious frozen fruits such as Blackberries, Raspberries, Blueberries and cherries.You can have this any time of year because frozen food is always in season! Imagine that exotic fruit smoothie on Christmas Day!

Frozen food smoothie 

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of frozen Raspberries
• 1 cup of frozen Blueberries
• 1 cup of frozen Cherries
• 4 ice cubes
• ½ cup orange juice
• ¾ cup vanilla yogurt
• ½ teaspoon honey (optional)

Instructions:

• Place the, frozen  raspberries, frozen blueberries, frozen cherries and ice cubes into a blender
• Pour in the Orange juice, vanilla yogurt, and honey
• Puree until smooth

Frozen Yoghurt in a Pancake 

Pancakes couldnt be easier from frozen.

For another mouth-watering dessert you could have frozen yogurt, wrapped in a pancake with fruit on top.

You can buy your frozen pancakes straight from your supermarket! Keep them in the freezer until you need them and then just use the amount required whilst putting those you don’t want back in the freezer for another day!

After the pancakes are defrosted gently heat them in the over (follow manufacturers instructions) you can add the frozen yogurt into the pancake, and then add fruit on top such as berries. Even these are available from your frozen food aisle!

Frozen yogurt is much more healthy than ice cream and just as fun! It can be found in all good supermarkets. If you want to make it look more colourful add some defrosted frozen raspberries or blackberries – they don’t even have to be in season!

So there you have it four easy, fun and healthy recipes for you to make in case you’re in a hurry or to make sure that your kids enjoy a healthy, and exciting.