I am currently a freshman in high school and am part of the mentoring program. Mentoring is basically where you work with kids to do some activities every week, some include arts & crafts, soccer, and other things of the sort. My group is working with 4th graders to do a cooking class. I don’t know if it matters but there are 9 kids and they are all girls. We are doing it every Tuesday in the 4th grade classroom. Here’s the catch though- we don’t have any heating, cooling, or blending devices. We are not allowed to use the school kitchen for obvious sanitary reasons, and we cannot use the teachers lounge or any other facility. We have to make do with what we have, as that is part of being a leader. This week are planning on doing chocolatey pretzels (along with other things to kind of make it a trail mix). Do you have any no bake/no cooking required recipes? Ideally kid friendly as well? Thank you so much!
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If you are not baking or cooking you don't need recipes just make sandwiches or salads. You can put anything you like in a sandwich or salad but put in healthy things so don't use iceberg lettuce because it has no food value and kids need nutrients so use green leaf lettuces red or green and baby spinach and tomatoes onions cucumbers and avocados are very healthy. You can also add canned fish or poultry or meat and everyone can use their favorite dressings. For sandwiches you can buy nice cold cuts at the deli and get a tasty bread. Around here Walmart bakery has the best breads.Kaiser rolls are nice for sandwiches and French or Italian breads from the bakery as well. Use real mayonnaise as it had less sugar than other types of spreads. Meats and poultry with cheeses make good sandwiches and you can add lettuce and tomato. Since you cannot cook you can buy those rotisserie chickens for a hot meal.
No bake chocolate cookies still require the melting of chocolate and butterscotch chips. I think there is one out there that might use cocoa powder. But you'll need oatmeal, peanut butter etc. for them.
Decorating pretzel rods might be fun. You can bring in premade frosting, colors, and piping bags for them to use.
Decorating already baked sugar cookies might also be fun.
Creating little bags of healthy trail mix might work. Use craisens, dried coconut, chocolate chips, pretzels, nuts etc.
Yogurt parfaits
Fresh fruit salad
Fresh vege salad with homemade or store-bought dressing
Drinks count too! When I was a little kid in 4-H, we made a drink called Purple Cow, which was really just a mix of grape soda with ice cream. You can create your own flavors.
No bake protein bars. Lots of recipes that include dates, oats, nuts, honey, peanut butter.
Also, see if you can bring in a blender, or microwave, or hot plate. I suspect that you can't, but if you can, this will help.
there is no way to do chocolaty pretzels without heating up the chocolate. you cannot use chocolate sauce because it won't harden and you will have a huge mess.
Do you have access to hot water, like from a faucet?
then you can make home made hot cocoa mix and drink it, Using a cup of hot water from the tap and the mix.
Its easy to make, no cooking required and if each kid brings a jar with a lid, they can take some home.
A little tip: ALWAYS try each thing you make at home first so you know how it will (or won't ) work. a trial run so to speak.
Here is a recipe. Its easy to make and fun to taste test.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/9335/hot-cocoa-mix/
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Bring premade cupcakes and tell them to decorate them, or maybe make ginger bread houses, it's almost Christmas.
Pair DIPS you can mash by hand with salad in a lettuce wrap:
REFRIED BEANS
GUACAMOLE
SALSA
HUMMUS
CUCUMBER YOGURT
GREEK SALAD
CURRY TOFU
THAI GINGER SLAW
WASABI PEAS
SUNDRIED TOMATO /PEPPER ROMESCO
PESTO
RICOTTA
BALSAMIC
Or each person bring their fav snack, enough to share.
Or each person bring their fav dip, and You bring veggie sticks.
You can do bento-style cute sculptures out of toothpicks and cut veg, ants on a log...
PEANUT BUTTER BROWNIE BITES (no bake) Serves: 20
Ingredients:
1 box of brownie mix (for a 9x13 in pan)
1 cup peanut butter
4 tablespoons milk of choice
Instructions:
1. In medium size mixing bowl combine the brownie mix and peanut butter. Stir and then knead until combined.
2. Add the milk slowly and stir until desired consistency is reached.
3. Taking a tablespoon amount at a time roll the dough into small balls with your hands.
4. Serve immediately or store in a covered container in the refrigerator.
No bake peanut butter cookies,
peanut butter rice krispies (use any nut butter, cookie butter (nut free for allergies) instead of the marshmallows unless you can melt those in the microwave in which case you can make regular rice krispies),
you can bring premade cupcakes and have them frost them during class
cookie decorating is good too
jello?--- when i was a first grader i remember we made a rainbow jello, layer by layer to learn about rainbow color order. the teacher would put it in the fridge over night and we added a different color to our cups every day