Customized Cuisine for Kids

Are your kids picky eaters? It has been a struggle for parents, for years to get kids to eat healthy and sometimes to even eat anything at all. Well with new advances in culture and in the world comes new ways to make it easier to gets kids to eat. Customizable food! Yes you read that right you can now sit down with your kids and have them customize their snacks for healthy results and they can even design fun wrappers! Here are a few places that are jumping on the bandwagon of letting you customize your food!

The first one is Mojamix.com, they allow you to sit down with your kids and pick out your cereals in 3 steps. Kids get the flavors they want you get the nutrition you want and it's a win-win situation. First you start with your base mix. They have over 20 different choices. You can choose from granola, corn flakes, O's, oats, and more! You can also choose your flavors some have chocolate in them or coconut. Your second step is to pick dried fruits. Again they have over 20 choices of fruit!! From the regulars like strawberries, blueberries, banana chips, apples and cherries to the not so normal fruits like goji berries, golden berries, pineapple, papaya and more! Your third step is to pick out nuts and seeds. With over 15 choices from poppy seeds, sunflower seeds, pecan nuts coconut chips and more! Then your last step is to add extras. This is where kids can go wild! From chocolate chips to a toy in the box, kids can have fun! Then you can customize the label! From choosing the name, adding a quote or comment to uploading a picture to make it fun! The whole time as you add each choice, and you can pick more than one at each step, on the right side of the page it shows your choices and how much your box is going to cost. You can also purchase gift card to give to family and friends to make their own. You can also check out their popular mixes too. Once you have an account you can re order a previous mix or make new ones for re order.

Next we have a healthy snack you can customize for your kids to eat, granola bars! We want our kids to eat healthy and sometimes they don't want too. You can go to elementbars.com and have them help you make a healthy snack that they want to eat! You start by picking your 'core' chewy, oaty, crispy or datey. Then you pick fruits and nuts if you want any. Then you can pick sweets, this is what will have your kids eating the bars while you know it's good for them. Your last choice is 'boosts' you can add protein or immunity boosts and more. The kids won't taste it but you will know it's there! The entire time you are creating your bar on the right site it's the nutritional guide every time you add something it adjusts telling you how much fat and calories the current bar is, what vitamins are in it and more.

This last one is just for fun! You and your kids can make their own ice cream!! Ecreamery.com lets you make your own ice cream flavors. First you start by picking your base, either ice cream, gelato, or sorbetto base. Next you pick one or more flavors to add to your ice cream. With over 48 flavors to choose from you can make hundreds of combinations! Next you pick our mix ins from swirls and sprinkles to fruits and candy. Last but not least you can name your ice cream and pick your ice cream carton!

With the customizable food trend on the rise keep an eye out for more awesome ways to get your kids involved in making meals and snacks that they are will want to eat!