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    4 Ingredients Kids: Simple, Healthy Fun in the Kitchen
    4 Ingredients Kids: Simple, Healthy Fun in the Kitchen
    4 Ingredients Kids: Simple, Healthy Fun in the Kitchen
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    4 Ingredients Kids: Simple, Healthy Fun in the Kitchen

    By Kim McCosker

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    The internationally bestselling author of the wildly popular 4 Ingredients series returns with kid-friendly, money saving, quick and easy recipes using four or fewer ingredients!

    Kim McCosker, the delightfully charismatic creator of 4 Ingredients Christmas and 4 Ingredients One Pot, One Bowl, applies her simple, budget-conscious approach to the art of cooking for (and with!) your little ones. Fully illustrated with gorgeous four-color photographs, 4 Ingredients Kids features eighty easy and delicious recipes designed to excite kids and encourage them to join you in the kitchen. This book will teach home chefs how to:

    Help children develop a love for a variety of foods

    Introduce cooking basics to the youngest members of the family

    Properly handle food according to USDA guidelines

    Provide yummy home-cooked meals and spend less money

    Think Spaghetti Cupcakes, Partysicles, Dinosaur Eggs, Pizzadillas, and Taco Popcorn. Think smiles, fun, and full tummies for even the fussiest of eaters. Think fewer ingredients, a no-hassle cleanup, and more time spent with your family. 4 Ingredients Kids is sure to become a staple for busy parents, full of dishes that your kids will ask for time and time again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtria Books
    Release dateAug 27, 2013
    ISBN9781451678000
    4 Ingredients Kids: Simple, Healthy Fun in the Kitchen
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    Kim McCosker

    Kim McCosker is the founder of 4 Ingredients, now a formidable Australian publishing house. 4 Ingredients has created 37 cookbooks, tens of thousands of recipes, images, vidoes, manuscripts and databases with the reach of millions. It is the publisher of cookbooks, ebooks, Apps and a developer of a various range of kitchenware. It has grown to become one of the most recognised and trusted food brands in Australia; with a reported one in seven homes owning a 4 Ingredients cookbook. In 2017, 4 Ingredients was the winner of the prestigious Best Selling Category at the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards in China. This award offered the opportunity in 2018 for Kim to cook onstage, underneath the Eiffel Tower, at the World Gourmand Cookbook Summit in Paris. With global sales nearing 9 million copies, two TV-series for Foxtel and another produced on the Sunshine Coast almost complete, more cookbooks in the works and national Ambassador roles for IGA, BETTA Home Living and Coeliac Australia, Kim and 4 Ingredients really do own the easy, everyday, cooking space in Australia. Committed to community, Kim sits on the Sunshine Coast Major Events Board, was part of the Sunshine Coast Council's Biosphere Nomination Community Reference Group, was awarded the Sunshine Coast's Most Outstanding Business Woman of the Year, 2011 and Griffith University's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017. But most of all, Kim's proudest achievements are her family, a wonderful husband and three beautiful boys who are the lights of her life and her biggest supporters. For more information visit https://www.4ingredients.com.au/.

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      4 Ingredients Kids - Kim McCosker

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      Contents

      Introduction

      Cooking Made Easy: A Brief Glossary of Terms

      Kitchen Safety & Hygiene Tips for Kids

      Healthy Habits for Healthy Kids

      What’s 4 Brekky?

      A Breakfast Box

      Berry Blast

      Brekky Bars

      Cheesy Hash Browns

      Green Eggs & Ham

      Purple Pancakes

      Volcanic Eggs

      Snack Attack

      Apricot Baskets

      Dinosaur Eggs

      Edible Veggie Bowl & Dip

      Play Date Buddies

      Taco Popcorn

      Tickled Pink

      What’s 4 Lunch?

      Baby BLTS

      Chicken & Spinach Rolls

      Chicken Orchard Sammy

      Cinderella’s Pumpkin Soup

      Fancy Fingers

      Herby Omelet

      Hot-Diggity Dogs

      Lunch Box Sushi

      Pizzadilla

      Quiche Cakes (for a Lady Bug’s Picnic)

      Sandwich Rollups

      Spaghetti Cupcakes

      Zucchini Slice

      What’s 4 Dinner?

      5-Minute Fettuccine Carbonara

      Beef & Plum Stir-fry

      Beef Stroganoff

      Cha-Cha Enchiladas

      Easy Peasy Fish Cakes

      Mac ’n’ Cheese

      Meat Loaf Cupcakes

      Popeye’s Pie

      Porcupine Balls

      Quick ’n’ Easy Pasta Bake

      Sammy Salmon Pasta

      Sticky Lamb Chops

      Sweet Chicken Fingers

      Tempura Fish Bites

      Tomato Drummies

      Homemade Takeout (Why order in when you can make it at home?)

      3-Cheese Pizza

      Beautiful Burgers

      Beef & Veggie Pies

      Chicken Nuggets

      Healthy Fish Fingers

      Pita Pizza

      Veggie Ribbon Pasta

      Wok-On

      What’s 4 Dessert?

      4-Minute Strawberry Soft Serve

      90-Second Microwave Fudge

      Banana Splitz

      Caramel Cookies

      Caramel Cupcakes

      Chocolate-Coated Ritz

      Dot 2 Dot Cookies

      Heaven in a Cookie

      Jell-O Cocktails

      M&M’s Bars

      Milky Way Slice

      Sensational Sundae

      Toblerone Slice

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      PARTY TIME!

      Party Food

      Best-Ever Ice Cream Cake

      Bugs in Rugs

      Caramel Popcorn

      Chocolate Crackles

      Chocolate Fruit Jewels

      Fizzy Cupcakes

      Grape Wands

      Heart Me Toasties

      Jelly Fish

      Octopus Dip

      Partysicles

      Peanut Butter & Chocolate Shards

      Princess Pops

      Rainbow Rolls

      Scrolls

      Strawberry Garden

      Sweet Sesame Sausages

      Party Ideas

      Favors

      Great Party Games

      Acknowledgments

      Invitation

      About Kim McCosker

      Index

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      Introduction

      Hello, moms and dads! Welcome to 4 Ingredients Kids! As we all know, a child’s appreciation of delicious, healthy food begins at home. If you like to eat great meals, they will too! If you enjoy cooking, they’ll want to get their grubby little hands in the kitchen as well. And the more they get involved in food preparation, the more likely it will be that they at least try whatever scrumptious bites are brought to the table. If any of you are familiar with my previous books, 4 Ingredients, 4 Ingredients Gluten-Free, 4 Ingredients Christmas, or 4 Ingredients One Pot, One Bowl, you know that I’m all about clever cooking and entertaining. Who wants to spend all day preparing and cleaning up after a meal when you could be eating, playing, and enjoying life with everyone you love?

      4 Ingredients Kids features eighty quick, easy, and delicious recipes that require only four ingredients and are designed to excite kids (of all ages!) and to encourage participation in the kitchen. (Special note: Salt, pepper, and water are not included in the four ingredients.) In these lovely pages, you’ll also find sections on healthy eating habits, kitchen safety and hygiene, and loads of party ideas, all tested and approved by my three little boys, Morgan, Hamilton, and Flynn.

      To put this book together, my invaluable 4 Ingredients team and I turned to social media and asked you, our wonderful readers, which recipes kids in the big wide world love, which ones parents currently have in their repertoires, most-requested meals, and which dishes your kids have made themselves. The most popular recipes, the ones mentioned over and over again, are what comprise this cookbook. Think Spaghetti Cupcakes, Partysicles, Dinosaur Eggs, Pizzadillas, and Taco Popcorn. Think smiles, fun, and full tummies for even the fussiest eaters. Think fewer ingredients, fewer utensils, less cleanup, and more time spent with family.

      Kids are 30 percent of our population but 100 percent of our future. It’s up to us to arm them with the skills to nourish their bodies. Teaching our kids how to eat well and how to cook shouldn’t be a chore—it’s a gift. My hope is that 4 Ingredients Kids becomes a happy, go-to guide for your home and loved ones.

      With love,

      Kim

      Cooking Made Easy: A Brief Glossary of Terms

      Be prepared for questions if your little ones are assisting you in the kitchen. Stage your own cooking show and make use of this cheat sheet to describe the steps in each recipe.

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