Quick and Easy St. Patrick's Day Meals for Kids

Have Fun Making and Eating Green Snacks and Meals on March 17th

Mar 11, 2009

Are you looking for something green and tasty for your children to make and eat for St. Paddy's Day? You have come to the right place.

It’s fun for the family to have a green-themed food and drink for St. Patrick’s Day. Here is a variety of fast, tasty and simple foods you can prepare with and for your kids on March 17th.

Green Food is Healthy and Lucky for Your Kids

The great thing about St. Patrick’s Day being green-themed, is it can be a wonderful opportunity to get children who don’t normally like vegetables to take a risk and eat some. You can tell them that eating green food will make them lucky on St. Patrick’s Day, or you can get them to drink leprechaun juice and tell them that it magically makes all things green taste delicious. Children love the idea of leprechauns, so have some fun coming up with leprechaun lore to go with your tasty dishes.

Leprechaun’s Lucky Vegetables and Clover Dip

Make a tray of green vegetables and green dip. Cut up any green veggies you like, such as broccoli, celery, cucumbers, green peppers, zucchini, avocadoes, beans and snap peas. You can buy premade dips that are green or buy those little packets that you just have to mix them up with sour cream or yoghurt. If the dip you like to make for veggies is white, just add some green food coloring.

Leprechaun’s Lucky Fruits and Clover Cream

Make a tray of green fruits such as kiwis, honeydew melons, green grapes and green apples. Whip up some whip cream and add green food coloring and sugar to taste.

Green Shamrock Soup

There are a number of green soups you can choose from for your Green Shamrock Soup, and you can either make them from scratch or make them from a can or Tetra Pak. Soups you could try include green pea soup, winter green soup made from spinach, broccoli soup or broccoli-leek soup.

Shamrock “Shandwiches”

Mix in some green food coloring into some cream cheese. You can use regular brown or white bread and then use the cream cheese as a base. You can make them light sandwiches with just lettuce and cream cheese or you can fill them sandwich meat and cheese as well. If you can find a shamrock-shaped cookie cutter then you can cut the sandwiches into shamrocks.

Shamrock Swirls

The key is getting green spinach tortilla shells. You can fill them with things that are only green such as avocado, lettuce, green peppers and then use pesto or guacamole as a spread. You can also add a little color and use lettuce, ham and cheddar cheese with green-dyed cream cheese for a spread. Then roll them up and cut them up into “wheels.”

St. Paddy’s Pasta

Cook up spinach noodles and mix them up with pesto sauce. You can add green vegetables if you like. The best place to get your noodles is an actual pasta shop. They usually have a great variety of spinach pasta that ranges from spinach linguini to spinach tortellini.

Enjoy St. Patrick’s Day with these delicious and easy snack and meal ideas ranging from Leprechaun’s Lucky Vegetables and Clover Dip to St. Paddy’s Pasta.

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