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Healthier Mac and Cheese

Divisions: Cooking for Beginners, Healthy Recipes, Recipes for Kids, Stay-at-Home Moms

Submitted by ceoMom #101, Jennifer, 4 months ago

To make lunch healthier for my kids, I take what they normally eat and try to make it healthier. For example, my girls love mac and cheese (a typical kid's lunch). Instead of buying the regular brands, I buy a natural brand called "Annie's" that has NO artificial anything (no chemicals). It's all natural and high quality.

You can find Annie's in the organic section of your grocery store. Be sure to read the instructions. They are a little different than making a regular box of mac and cheese (for example, you don't use butter).

Then I add frozen peas in while the mac and cheese is boiling, so the kids eat some veggies with it. And I always add a side of fruit (a few strawberries or blueberries).

I try to do this with everything I make for lunch. If I can figure out a way to make it healthier, I'll do it!

2 comments

ceoMom #354, Sophie — 2 months ago

That is a good way to make it healthier.
I usually also always add parmesan cheese, a little olive oil or sometimes a spoon of sour cream or both ! But a healthiest way for children to eat pasta is to simply cook pasta and add fresh cheese and butter or anything else that keeps it quick and healthy when we want to cook a quick healthy side,,, Why add that cheese powder mix I often ask to myself ??

ceoMom #101, Jennifer — 2 months ago

That is a also a great idea! Thank you!!!

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