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Kids Meals

Making sure your children's diets contain all the vitamins and minerals they need can be challenging. Fortunately, avocados are wonderful for children's health because they contain a mass of vital nutrients. The delicious taste, creamy texture and versatility of avo means that your kids can at last eat green food without complaint.

Start your children on some simple kids meals below – we even have some easy kids recipes they can make themselves! You can also make sure your kids eat their greens by simply spreading avo over their chicken or steak. The smooth and creamy texture will win them over in no time.

If you want to enjoy the luscious taste and health benefits of avo yourself, you can also try one of our smart recipe ideas for Weekend Breakfasts.

Avocado & Mint Ice-Cream

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Serves: 4
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 6 hours of freezing time

2 large avocados, skin and seed removed
¼ honey dew melon, skin and seeds removed, diced
Juice of 1 lemon
¾ cup sugar (optional)
1 bunch mint, leaves removed
½ cup natural yoghurt
2 egg whites, whipped until peaks are formed

  • Using a blender or food processor, blend the avocados, honey dew melon, lemon juice, sugar, mint and yoghurt until velvety smooth.
  • Fold in the whipped egg whites and pour into a terrine dish, loaf pan or plastic freezer storage container and freeze for 6 hours or overnight.
  • Remove from the freezer 10 minutes before serving
  • Turn out of the container and cut into desired shape (rectangular, wedges or triangles) and serve with fresh seasonal fruit.





Avocado Breakfast

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Serves: 1
Prep Time: 2 minutes
Cook Time: 0 minutes

2 Eggs
2 Tablespoons of Milk
Avocado
Squeeze of lime
Corn chips
Yogurt optional

  • Mix eggs  and milk lightly.
  • In a small pan cook slowly on low heat moving around the pan until just cooked through or however you like to do scrambled eggs.
  • Plate: mashed avocado with a sqeeze of lime, corn chips, scrambled eggs and a spoon of yogurt.
  • This can be finger food, the way most 6 year olds like their food.


Crunchy Chickensticks with Sweet Avocado & Corn Dip

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Serves: 4
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes

1/2 avocado
2 tablespoons yoghurt greek style
125g can sweet corn, rinsed and drained
500g chicken breast
100g cornflakes
1 egg
½ cup flour
2-3 tablespoons oil

  • Mash avocado with a fork.
  • Combine with yoghurt and sweetcorn.
  • Set aside in the fridge until needed.
  • Warm oven to 100° C.
  • Cut chicken halves lengthways, cut across grain, then halve again to have fingersize chicken pieces.
  • Put cornflakes in a sandwich bag and close.
  • Roll over with a rolling pin and crush cornflakes finely.
  • Swirl egg slightly and put on a deep plate.
  • Put flour in a second deep plate and cornflakes in a third deep plate.
  • Dip each piece of chicken, one at a time, first in the flour (shake off any excess), then in the egg and at last in the cornflakes.
  • Press on firmly then transfer them to a large tray.
  • Heat oil in a non-stick frying pan and fry chickensticks in batches for about 6 minutes each side until cooked through.
  • Keep warm in the oven until all done.
  • Serve with avocado-sweetcorn dip.
Tip:
Put the flour in a big snap lock bag. Drop chicken pieces in the bag to coat evenly with flour and shake off any excess.