Easy recipes for non-raw friends

[Holli]

I have several friends that are intrigued by my menus and they have asked me to share some of my recipes with them. They both have small kids who are very picky about veggies, but love fruit. I was telling them about some of the desserts I was making and that sometimes my kids just have pie or cookies for dinner-they thought that was great!

Anyway, I looking for really easy and quick (assume that they have nothing in the way of equipment...maybe a blender-definitely no dehydrator and probably no fp) and really yummy recipes that would appeal to small kids. And nothing with hard to find ingredients (that they can't find at a mainstream grocery store) or nothing that sounds too healthy. :D

These particular friends are not very nutritionally educated and so I don't want to scare them off too soon before they see some of the benefits.

I feel like a fisherman holding out the bait and just hoping they take it, love it, and swim with it!

Any ideas???

[Bobbie]

Marinara sauce - serve with zucchini stripped with a potato peeler. Could add marinated mushrooms and marinated onion rings.

[Bobbie]

Buy readyground almonds, blend with date-syrup (soaked dates blended with water) or another sweetener such as very ripe banana.
Place into a pie dish. Top with apples blended with strawberries, then sliced rasberries, strawberries, other fruit.
Or make a cake - 1 layer of almond-mix above, 1 layer of sliced strawberry, banana, papaya/mango, layer of almond, layer of fruit, layer of almond. Top with blend of pine nuts, 1 date, lemon juice and water.
You could use ground dried coconut instead of almond.

[jacsam]

Fruit smoothies....Juice some oranges and throw in some froozen bananas maybe a little agave because their probably used to things being sweeter than fruit really is....oh, a rassberries would really make it tast good and have a very pretty color. Serve in glass glasses to show off the beautiful color. If you don't put rassberries in be sure and add some vanilla, it's adds some fun to the flavor. Good Luck.

[Maria]

"Brittle"

1/2 cup coconut oil
one really ripe banana sliced
handful of cashew pieces or other nuts
1 teaspoon carob or cocoa powder (or more to taste.)
squirt of agave nectar

Mix everything w. liquid coconut oil
Spread on the bottom of a pan and put in the fridge until hard.
break into pieces. They will melt as the oil melts in room temperature. YUMMY!

[Bobbie]

my favourite thing is -

150g blueberries blended with 1 or 2 bananas and 1/2 avocado. I sometimes use different berries or apricots.