A Fun and Fruity Raw Recipe for Kids

While I don’t have any children myself, I do know how difficult it can be to feed them a healthy diet.  This is especially true today with all the fatty, salty, sugary foods meant to tempt them at every turn.

The good news is that kids of all ages love sweet fruit and you won’t have a hard time convincing them to dive into this fun raw creation!

Cantaloupe Monkey Face!

Here are the instructions from www.instructables.com:

First, cut the cantaloupe in half. Use a spoon to clean out the seeds. Discard seeds into your compost pile.

You will need a minimum of 9 wedges, each approximately one inch wide. If you cut each half in half (that gives you quarters) and each quarter in half, that will give you 8 pieces. Do not peel the skin!

Step 3: Three Skins Down!
First, you make the upper part of the monkey face. Take a serving platter. Either square or oval/round should work. Select three winners – thicker wedges and place them on the platter – skin down! Make space for the lips, so place wedges off center.

Take a wedge, put it skin up in between existing wedges. Repeat.

Get another wedge and put it to the left – it makes one ear! Repeat to give it ear #2 – both are important!

Place two wedges flesh facing each other on the second side of the plate. It makes beautiful monkey lips!

Yes, it’s coming all together! If you mastered making thinner slices and you have extras, you may always insert them in the same fashion – skin down/skin up – till you run out of pieces. I managed to cut a total of 11 pieces out of my cantaloupe and it’s looking pretty good so far! Don’t go yet, grand finale is a head of you!

Got a couple of plums? Or strawberries, blueberries, M&Ms? Anything round would do it. Give your monkey the gift of sight in the sweetest form you can manage!

Seriously – if you are anticipating a big party, don’t get intimidated by the amount of attention your creation will give you! Take it in gracefully and save it for those days when you need a confidence boost. Don’t forget to eat a wedge. Yum!

Oh my gosh, what child wouldn’t love this?!  I mean, kids love monkeys.  Kids love cantaloupe.  Kids love playing with their food.  It’s a match made in heaven!

Oh, I would leave out any M&Ms, of course.

Go raw and be fit,

Swayze