Fun Kids Food Recipes

2 Stalks of celery
12 lg Three-ring pretzels
6 tb Peanut butter or cream cheese
About 18 raisins or currents
12 Slivered almonds or enoki mushrooms

- Wash the celery.

- Using plastic knives, cut the celery into thirds.

- Fill each celery stalk with one tablespoon of either peanut butter or cream cheese.

- For the wings, gently push 1 pretzel into the filling, running parallel to the length of the celery stick.

- Do the same on the celery's other lengthwise side.

- Arrange the raisins or currents as the eyes, nose and mouth.

- For antennae, push the slivered almonds or mushroom cap into filling. If using mushrooms, arrange the spaghetti-like mushroom tips upward, like an antenna.

8 c Puffed popcorn curls; from 8 oz. pkg.
1 c Brown sugar
1/2 c Butter
1/4 c Light corn syrup
1/2 t Baking soda
1 t Vanilla

- Heat oven to 250 degrees F.

- Place popcorn curls in 15x10x1" baking pan.

- In large saucepan, combine brown sugar, margarine and corn syrup; bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly.

- Simmer 2 mins.; remove from heat. Stir in baking soda and vanilla.

- Pour mixture evenly over popcorn curls; mix well.

- Bake at 250 degrees F. for 30 mins., stirring twice during baking.

- Immediately remove from pan; cool completely on waxed paper or greased foil.

- Store in tightly covered container. Makes 8 cups.

1 Package rigatoni pasta -- (10oz)
2 Cans squirtable cheese spread
1 Small Jar barbecue sauce
16 Whole black peppercorns -- (16 to 20)
1 carrot

- Cook pasta according to directions on package. Rinse the pasta in cold water.

- To make snakes: Covering one end of the rigatoni with your finger (to prevent leakage), carefully fill each piece of pasta with cheese spread.

- Place six to eight cheese-filled rigatonis end to end on a serving platter, in a realistically curvy snake shape.

- Using a toothpick, spread lines of barbecue sauce along the top of each snake for markings.

- To form heads, use barbecue sauce to glue two black peppercorn eyes onto the end opposite the tail of each snake.

- Wash, dry and carefully peel skin off carrot. When completely clean of skin,make one more peeling for each snake you have formed.

- At the narrow end of each peel, carefully cut out a long, thin triangle. These are your snakes forked tongues.

- Position tongues.

3 tb Sm-curd cottage cheese;
2 tb Apple, or pear, or apricot chopped
2 tb Slivered almonds;
2 tb Pineapple crushed in natural juice
2 sl Bread (any kind)

- In a small bowl, mix all ingredients (except the bread) together.

- You may need to add a little more cottage cheese to bind the ingredients.

- Spread the mixture on the bread.

- This sandwich is especially good when served on some quick beards such as banana bread, zucchini bread or any other quick breads.

Also, for an easy Christmas twist of the boring PB&J sandwich, try the Rudolph Reindeer.

Take slices of bread, spread on peanut butter and cut into triangles.

Point the small angle toward the bottom.

Put two raisins in the middle for eyes, a cherry nose, and then top it with pretzel antlers.

What fun!