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Salads Your Kids Will Love

‘This post has been sponsored by Tyson®. All thoughts and opinions are my own.’

Salads Your Kids Will Love – Four-year-olds are notorious for asking for one meal and then once dinner is on the table, asking for a different one. At least that is how mine is. In our home, we give her the same dinner we’re eating. If she chooses to not eat it all at the table with us, she can eat it as a snack later if she’s hungry. Vegetables are the tough part, and we’re always trying to find new veggies that she enjoys. Thankfully we’ve stumbled on two colorful salads that she loves eating as well as making!

Hillshire and Tyson make for great salad toppings for kids to love

Salads Your Kids Will Love

Thankfully we have a Kroger close to our house that we love shopping at. Our favorite part about shopping there is the ClickList program where you can order your groceries the night before and pick them up on the way home from the library the next morning! Makes it super easy to stick to our meal plan and budget. Learn more about savings at Kroger here. If you are looking for meal planning help check out Tyson’s calendar here.

Kroger also has all our favorite brands (including Hillshire Farm® and Tyson®) to make our favorite meals. Tyson is also offering $6 towards a movie ticket at the register when you buy any 5 of these participating products in 1 transaction: State Fair® Corn Dogs, Tyson® Chicken Nuggets and Strips, Hillshire Farm® Lunchmeat, Hillshire Farm® Smoked Sausage, Jimmy Dean® Frozen Breakfast, Jimmy Dean® Fully Cooked Sausage and Simple Scrambles™ products between 7/25/18-8/8/18 (excludes online purchases)

We’ve made lots of combinations of salads over the years, and we’ve found two that really please each of us. The best part is that they’re super easy and quick to make!

Hillshire and Tyson make for great salad toppings for kids to love

Mandarin Chicken Jar Salad Kids Love

Strawberry Ham Jar Salad Kids Love

Mandarin Chicken Salad

Ingredients (in order of how you can add them to a jar for lunch the next day):

  • Salad Dressing (we use Classic Sweet Dijon but poppy seed would be great, too)
  • Blueberries
  • Mandarin Oranges
  • Romaine Lettuce (add spinach or kale for adults)
  • Tyson® Frozen Grilled and Ready Chicken Strips
  • Sunflower Seeds

Strawberry Ham Salad

Ingredients (in order of how you can add them to a jar for lunch the next day):

  • Salad Dressing (we use Classic Sweet Dijon but a raspberry vinaigrette would be great, too)
  • Strawberries
  • Red Grapes (halved)
  • Romaine Lettuce (add spinach or kale for adults)
  • Hillshire Farm® Smoked Ham (chopped)
  • Pecan halves

Hillshire and Tyson make for great salad toppings for kids to love

Mandarin Chicken Jar Salad Kids Love

Strawberry Ham Jar Salad Kids Love

One of our favorite parts of these salads, besides that our daughter enjoys making them, is the ease of taking them for leftovers to work and school the next day! We layer them in the jars after we make them for dinner and our lunch is set for the next day!

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Hillshire and Tyson make for great salad toppings for kids to love

Gooey Granola Bars

Hi guys! I wanted to share with you one of my favorite Kid Chef recipes to get your kids involved in the kitchen. Laura posted this granola bar recipe at Heavenly Homemakers and I knew it looked like a super yummy snack that would be a great recipe for my kid chef!

Gooey Granola Bars

The title is extremely accurate. These granola bars are super gooey which is a great sensory activity for toddlers. This recipe is super easy and customizable. You can have your kids choose what additions to make to the recipe. There is only one part that an adult would need to help with, depending on the age of the kids.*

Gooey Granola Bars

Ingredients Needed:

  • 1/2 c peanut butter (or other nut butter)
  • 1/3 c honey
  • 1/4 c coconut oil
  • 1 c oats
  • 1 c (total) of any combination of : sunflower seeds, chocolate chips, dried fruit, coconut flakes etc.

Gooey Granola Ingredients

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