Veggies Kids Love

Do you like butterflies?  I bet you do.  My favorite part of making the butterfly salad is decorating my own butterfly.  It is really fun because everybody can design their own and they all turn out different.  I love butterflies.  I hope you will enjoy making this butterfly salad.  Here is the recipe:

For each person:

4 spinach leaves or 2 larger leaves of lettuce

1 long carrot or celery stick

various other chopped up vegetables, fruits, nuts, or beans

First you take the spinach leaves or if you have big lettuce leaves cut them in half and put the little ones on the bottom.  This will make the butterfly’s wings.

Next you take the long carrot or celery stick and lay it in the middle between the two halves of the butterfly to make the body.

Use pea pods, shredded carrots, or thin strips of red bell pepper to add antennae to the top, coming out of the top of the body.  Then decorate the wings with other veggies.  Note:  remember to make both sides of the butterfly’s wings the same, like on a real butterfly. Don’t forget to drizzle some salad dressing on your butterfly when you eat it!  It’s fun to pick up the wings and eat them like burritos.

Here is a picture of a butterfly salad I made yesterday for lunch.

If you like, you can pick a few of these ideas for your butterfly salad bar:

Striped Butterflies:  cut toppings in strips to make a striped design on your butterfly wings

Circle Butterflies:  cut all the toppings into circles (best are tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet onions, beets, bell pepper rings, carrot circles, sliced olives)

Rainbow Butterflies:  choose one topping of each color:  purple cabbage, dried blueberries, green pea pods, yellow bell peppers, orange carrots, red tomatoes

And whatever veggies you have left in the fridge Butterflies (like we made yesterday) =)

Posted by Anne – age 9