Rice cake decorating is a fun and easy way to get children in- volved with making food without having to cook anything. These idea’s can be easily made at nursery or at home with parents, so why not have a go! Get creative and use a variety of ingredients to make patterns and shapes, children love adding grated carrot, tinned sweet corn, sliced button mushrooms, kidney beans etc, be creative and use whatever you have in the cupboards to make faces and patterns. We would love to see your creations so please send them to us via email [email protected] or tag us in photo’s on twitter using the handle @familyfoodfirst What do I need? The following pages show idea’s of different faces that you can To make them look just like the pictures use the ingredients peanut butter, make by decorating rice cakes, these ideas all came from Pin- strawberries, banana and blueberries, or experiment and make your own terest. faces using any other fruits that you have in the house, such as apples, pear, sliced grapes, raspberries, orange segments etc. What do I need? What do I need?
Hummus/cream cheese Hummus/cream cheese Cherry tomatoes Cucumber Cucumber slices Cherry tomato Lettuce Green bean carrot
Black olive
What do I need? What do I need?
Hummus/cream cheese Hummus/ cream cheese
Carrot slices Red pepper
Cucumber Cucumber sticks and Cherry tomato slices
Red pepper Peas/cucumber
What do I need? What do I need? Hummus/ cream cheese Carrot sticks/grated carrot
Black olives Black olives
Red pepper Carrot slices
Cucumber Cucumber slices
Hummus/cream cheese Red onion Family Food First Hummus Butterbean spread
Hummus is a nutritious, tasty, filling snack which is very versatile can be A great alternative to hummus. It contains butterbeans which is a great used as a dip for raw vegetables and breadsticks or spread onto a rice cakes source of protein and a tasty alternative to meat for vegetarians. You and could add it to sandwiches at tea time or dip in your favourite vegeta- pita. It is really easy to make, we tried this recipe out at Picnic In The Park ble sticks! 2016 and the children loved it—so have a go yourself. This recipe makes Here’s what you need; Serves: 8—10 children (approximately) enough to serve approximately 25 children. 1/2 red or white onion finely chopped Here’s what you need; Serves: 25 children (approximately) 1 clove of garlic 2x 400g tin’s of chickpea’s 1x400g tin of butterbeans rinsed and drained 3 cloves of garlic Juice of half a lemon 2 tablespoons tahini 1 tablespoon vegetable oil Juice of 1 lemon 10 tablespoons sunflower oil 1 tablespoon of fresh coriander or teaspoon of dried coriander 3 tablespoons oil 200g plain yogurt
Here’s what you do; Here’s what you do;
Simply open and drain the chickpea’s, add them to the blender along with all the other ingredients, blend until smooth, ad a couple more tablespoons Add all ingredients to a food processor and blend until there is a of water at the end if you want to have a looser consistency. smooth consistency—its as easy as that!
NOTE: To make a smaller batch simply half the ingredients, the hummus NOTE: To make a smaller batch bigger so serve more children simply keeps well in the fridge for 3 days. double the ingredients, the spread keeps well in the fridge for 3 days.