Tasty and nutritious 'hood approved recipes!
Each and every issue of 'hood magazine has an assortment of fantastic breakfast, lunch, and dinner recipes, as well as snacks, so you can feed your family yummy healthy meals. We also provide a handy shopping list to make it even easier for all you families on the go! Just click on the digital issue link and look for the recipes pages in any of the issues to see our assortment of tasty recipes and try something new today!
Here are some of our staff's favorite recipes!
Dinner Recipes
Ingredients
- Lifesavers Hard Candies
Smarties Candy Roll
Stick chewing gum
Rubberband
Decorative scrapbook paper
Thread the rubber band through the holes of two Life Savers, then balance the roll of Smarties between them, across the rubber band. For wings, balance the stick of gum on top, perpendicular to the Smarties, and pull the rubber band up and over each side of the gum to hold it all in place. Decorate the wings with decorative scrapbook paper.
Lunch Recipes
Ingredients
- 1 roll refrigerated sugar cookie dough
16 oz of vanilla flavored candy melts (can be found at Michael’s)
2 c rainbow-colored candies (Skittles work best)
Roll out the sugar cookie
dough to 1/4 inch thickness
on a parchment-lined cookie
sheet. Flour your rolling pin and
dough as necessary to keep
from sticking. Bake according
to directions and remove just
before the cookie turns brown.
Let cool for a few minutes. Divide candy coating in half and melt first batch. Spread with a knife or spoon on top of sugar cookie and sprinkle on candy. Melt second half of candy coating and repeat. Let candy coating set up before breaking apart.
Breakfast Recipes or Birthday Recipes
Ingredients
- 40 small pretzel twists
1/2 cup white vanilla baking chips or 2 oz vanilla-flavored - candy coating, cut into pieces
1 box Fruit Roll-Ups snacks (multi-colored varieties look cool!)
2 pkgs (from a box) Gushers Fruit Flavored Snacks
10 small pretzel sticks (for straight antenna)
or small pretzel twists (for curved antenna)
Line large cookie sheet with waxed paper. Unroll Fruit Roll-Ups, one sheet at a time. Trace each small pretzel on the Fruit Roll-Up with a sharp knife. Remove shape and press firmly to back of pretzel.
Continue until all pretzels are covered. Place pretzels in pairs on waxed paper, with bottom tips touching to form “wings.” Cut 10 Gushers Fruit Flavored Snacks in half to make 20 halves. Set aside. In a microwave-safe bowl, melt white chocolate chips on high for 30 seconds. Remove from microwave,stir, and heat for up to another 30 seconds until chocolate is melted completely and can be stirred smooth. Using a small spoon or pastry bag, dab chocolate to join each pretzel set to make a butterfly. Before the chocolate sets, add a Gushers half, cut-side down, to make the butterfly body. Snap remaining pretzel twists (or pretzel sticks) into antenna size. Dip one end of each piece into the melted chocolate and place on the butterflies. Allow chocolate to harden completely before removing from wax paper
