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Tasty Tuesday: Fresh Fruit Round Up

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

August is here, our garden is giving up fruits for our labor. This week I’m sharing some great recipes, including those that were linked up last week.

Tasty Tuesday: fresh fruit round up

Smoothie Strawberry Banana Popsicles by The Jenny Evolution

Double Watermelon Vodka Lemonade Cocktail by Growing Up Gabel

Watermelon Brie Bites by My Suburban Kitchen

Three Berry French Toast Bake by Marilyns Treats

Belgian Waffles by Jodi Fitz

Strawberry Delight Recipe by Embellishments

Strawberries Creme Smoothie by And This Marine Wife

Watermelon Mint Gin Fizz by Frugal Foodie Mama

Berry Basil Lemonade by Honey & Birch

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Filed Under: Family Friendly Recipes Tagged With: fruit, Recipes, Round up, tasty tuesday

Apple Sauce Ice Pops

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

This is my kids favorite summer time treat, or, at least their favorite summer time treat that is healthy yet seems unhealthy. These apple sauce ice pops are just the thing to beat heat with a cool treat.

Moms, you can be happy that your kids are having a healthy cool treat today.

apple sauce ice pops

Apple Sauce Ice Pops

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I buy these boxes of apple sauce at Costco, in fact my daughter pointed out these box last week as we were shopping because she wanted some of these ice pops.

apple sauce ice pops

I picked up these molds, they are bigger than our “normal” ones but they work great, in fact, they come back less often. It takes a single cup to fill each of these molds.

apple sauce ice pops

As you can see, I like to divide the flavor when making them. My kids go crazy for them! You don’t have to feel bad about giving them to your kids, because these are unsweetened. It’s fruit. It’s cold. Momma’s sit down and enjoy one with your kids.

Plus, your kids can make them. They’ll definitely enjoy eating them.

apple sauce ice pops

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Filed Under: Family Friendly Recipes, Snacks Tagged With: apple sauce, cold treat, fruit, healthy snack, ice pops

Teaching Kids to Garden in Our Homeschool

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

Having a place to have a vegetable garden was top priority when we were house hunting. In fact it was the only request from my two daughters. We just been waiting for the time to come for teaching kids to garden. They were excited and made some requests for what to grow. The requested things to grow list keeps growing: tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli, and the latest, cauliflower.

Teaching Kids to Garden in Our Homeschool
Introducing Gardening in our homeschool

Teaching Kids to Garden in Our Homeschool

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When we put in our order, we ended up with over a hundred dollars in seeds ordered. But by no means were we going to be planting each and every seeds ordered in one season, and not just one variety of each, like tomatoes – we have three varieties ordered (tiny ones, ones for salsa, and big juicy ones for sandwiches and salads).

Making sure your kids are interested in what you are growing is key to teaching kids to garden, otherwise they won’t have something to look forward to.

Seeds we ordered:

  • tomatoes
  • cucumbers
  • carrots
  • peas and beans
  • broccoli
  • leek
  • cauliflower
  • onions
  • peppers, and more.

We ordered a few fun things for the kids – purple carrots, sugar tomatoes (small, perfect for snacking) and cucamelons.

We gave Austin the choice of what kind of cauliflower to order – white (regular), graffiti (purple), or cheddar (orange). She went with white. Why let her choose the type we ordered? Because it makes growing it that much more special for her and more interesting when the time comes to eat it.

Introducing Gardening in our homeschool

How to Include Teaching Kids to Garden:

We have included them in every step so, and they’ll be helping with the planting, because kids have small fingers for small seeds and small weeds. Joking! They’ll be helping too.

We want them to eat everything we grow. They are already great vegetables eaters, a little picky but they eat most of them, like sit down and eat a package of grape tomatoes between the three of them in a sitting.

Tips for including your kids in gardening:

  • kid sized tools – shovels, spades, watering cans
  • let them pick something out to grow
  • let them help plant/weed
  • let them harvest – and eat straight from the garden
  • The Garden Classroom is a great book full of ideas and ways to include your kids in gardening and getting them to enjoy being outside in general

How to Get Started Teaching Kids to Garden

Start simple with planting your seeds and letting your kids help with planning where and how to space them. This makes a great science lesson in learning how much room plants need to grow and how much sunlight they also need. It’s also a way to work in math when you are spacing plants apart.

Talk about how much water and sunlight they need to grow and when the best time to water plants is, hint: not in the middle of the afternoon.

How do you know when you can start to harvest and eat your vegetables? Your seed/plant packages should be able to give you and your children that information.

Have fun trying the different vegetables both raw, which is our favorite way for most, and cooked in different ways.

After the Gardening is Done

After the garden work is done, and you have delicious fruits and vegetables what do you do? Now is the time to get in the kitchen with your kids. You can teach your kids about cooking and canning.

Similar posts that you may be interested in:

Gardening Books for Gardening with Kids
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Growing a Snack Garden with Kids

Filed Under: Homeschool, Natural Homeschooling Tagged With: fruit, Garden, Healthy, Homeschool, homesteading, lifestyle, Vegetables

Homemade Pop Tarts!

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

This recipe is very easy. I cheated just a tiny bit with it. But my cheap makes this much easier and quite child friendly. Your child could do every step, getting help with the oven of course. These homemade pop tarts were quite delicious. You get whatever fillings you want. With the amount of sugar you want. Breakfast doesn’t always have to be this cereal or toast.

Homemade Pop Tarts

Homemade Pop Tarts

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What you need:

  • Pillsbury Refrigerated Pie Crust
  • jam
  • blueberries
  • strawberries
  • white sugar

How to make Homemade Pop Tarts

I used Pillsbury Refrigerated Pie Crust to make it that much easier, this was my cheat. I rarely buy something like this when I can just make it, but at $2 (or less, I can’t remember) it was worth it. I hate making pie crust, the rolling it out evenly drives me batty. BUT rolling out the pie crust could be fun for your kids! So let them go at it if you want!

Decide what topping you want. We had blueberries, strawberries and some chocolate chips. I sprinkled a little sugar over the berries. You could also use jam. Jam would have been easier I admit.

Unroll your crust, or roll it to be nice a thin if you made your own (go you!).

Homemade Pop Tarts

I laid one crust on top of the other to cut them out. This way I had matching sized top and bottom. It saved me the headache of making sure the filling was covered.

Homemade Pop Tarts

I used cooking spray, sprayed my cookie sheet. Placed the bottom half on the pan, and added our fillings.

Homemade Pop Tarts

Add about a table spoon of filling, if you use too much it will run out, the juice will then sadly they’ll:
A.  stick to the pan
B.  make it harder for you to clean your pan

Or you know, use a silicone baking sheet and don’t worry about them sticking at all.

Add about a table spoon of filling

I brushed a little water on ours then sprinkled a little sugar over them. I had ran out of icing sugar, so this was our alternative, plus a little healthier.

I cooked our homemade pop tarts  at the temperature on the box for the pie crust. I actually cooked them just a few minutes less than the time too. Each recipe cooks at different temperatures and time so go by what yours says. I learned this the hard way with the last apple pie I made. Almost burnt it but the apples were crunchie still.

Homemade Pop Tarts

Gauge just loved them! Austin liked them, Brookland didn’t care for the strawberry ones, but over all they were a hit. Just a little something special for a Sunday afternoon.

Homemade Pop Tarts
Homemade Pop Tarts

Homemade Poptarts

Yield: 10
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 8 minutes
Total Time: 13 minutes

Homemade pop-tarts without all the sugar! Feel better about your kids eating pop-tarts when you make them.

Ingredients

  • Pillsbury Refrigerated Pie Crust
  • jam
  • blueberries
  • strawberries
  • white sugar

Instructions

  1. Let your pie crust thaw for 10 minutes before getting started.
  2. One crust on top of the other to cut them out.
  3. Cooking spray, sprayed my cookie sheet.
  4. Placed the bottom half on the pan, and added our fillings.
  5. Add about a table spoon of filling.
  6. Add about a table spoon of filling.

Notes

You could also your own pie crust recipe instead of pre-made.

© Ashley Mullen
Category: Breakfast

Have you ever made homemade pop tarts? What would your filling choices be?

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Filed Under: Breakfast, Family Friendly Recipes, Kids Activities Tagged With: Chocolate, From Scratch, fruit, healthier choice, homemade, homemade pop tarts, pop tarts, silicone baking sheet

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