Cool Kiwi Fruit: Just For Kids

Mean Green Peanut Butter Sandwiches

Ingredients

1/3 ea                            ripe banana, cut into chunks

4 TBS                            low-fat cream cheese, room temperature

4 slices               good quality pre-sliced whole wheat bread, toasted lightly

4 TBS                             creamy peanut butter

1 ea                            ripe California kiwifruit, unpeeled and sliced into 8 rounds

Instructions

·       Place the banana pieces and cream cheese into the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade.  Pulse, scraping down the sides of the bowl, until they are just blended.  Do not over-process.  Alternately, you can mash the cream cheese and banana together until well blended.

·       Spread the banana cream on one side of two pieces of bread.  

·       Spread the peanut butter on the remaining two slices of bread.

·       Divide the sliced kiwi between the two bread slices with banana cream.  

·       Top with the peanut butter covered bread.

·       Cut diagonally into halves then cut again to make four sandwich triangles.  

·       Makes two sandwiches.

Kiwi Wraps

Ingredients and Instructions

·       Peel two kiwifruit and cut into small bite-sized pieces.

·       Mix some low-fat or non-fat cottage cheese.

·       Spread tortilla with peanut butter and place kiwifruit/cheese mixture in the center.

·       Feel free to add other fruits like strawberries.

Kiwi Pizza

Ingredients and Instructions

·       Prepare Sugar cookies using store-bought refrigerated dough.

·       Cut the cookies into fun shapes with cookie cutters.

·       Let cookies cool after baking and spread on some frosting.

·       While frosting is still moist, top cookies with slices of kiwifruit.