How To Get Your Kids To Eat Their Greens

How To Get The Kids On Board with JUICING!

- by Jay and Linda Kordich

We have raised two boys, who are now in their late 20?s.  One of our children was so finicky, he would gag at the thought of eating cooked vegetables, or even if certain foods were touching other foods on the plate. This went on for years and years.

It was incredibly frustrating for us, but through ingenuity and patience, we have found a solution for even the finickiest of eaters!

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Raw Food Recipe: Strawberry Patch Ice Lollies

Strawberry Patch Ice Lollies

- from Monkey Mike

In the USA they are called popsicles. In the UK, icy frozen treats are called ice lollies.  Everyone calls them delicious!

If it’s summer in your part of the world then kick back with this super-easy, three-ingredient recipe! Parents and kids alike can whip up a frozen treat in minutes.

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I Can’t Stop Eating This Kale Salad

by Carissa Leventis-Cox

My son says: “I Can’t Stop Eating This Kale Salad”

I love this salad too.  Actually, it was this same salad that made me a raw food convert.  This  recipe is adapted from Ani Phio’s Evergreen Salad in Sunflower Thyme Marinade in Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen Cookbook.

Kale is a wonderful green that can be enjoyed in many delicious ways in any season. It can practically be called a superfood and here is why: kale is packed with beta-carotene, an important nutrient for good vision. Kale is also an excellent source of vitamin C, which is good for cold prevention, as well as a reduced risk of colon cancer. Finally, kale is rich in minerals, such as iron, manganese, calcium and potassium.

Kale is not only full of phytochemicals but is also very versatile. It can be added to smoothies, soups, salads and if you like juicing try mixing it  with other vegetables and fruit, such as carrot or apple. To keep all the enzymes of this superfood intact  eat it mainly raw.

Here is how we enjoy this salad:

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How to Turn Your Child into a Raw Chef with Monkey Mike

I haven’t been in a hurry to print your book out and give it to my son because he is anti-raw, anti-vegetable, and anti-fruit. So no matter how great I thought this book seemed, I didn’t have any higher hopes that my son would find any kind of interest in it whatsoever.

Which is why I was blown away when I finally did give it to him today, on Mother’s Day, and he was excited! He had been watching me sorting through the pages, and actually said “Monkey Mike? Seriously. Where do you get this stuff, Mom?”. (My son will be ten next week.) He had thought that it was a book for me, to give me inspiration on what to make for him (since he saw the key word RAW). But when he realized that the book was for HIM he got interested. He loves the names of the recipes. He loves the illustrations. I had thought it might be a little too “childish” for him, but no. LOVES it all.

The first thing he made was the Alien Slime Smoothie. The one thing raw that I have been able to convince him to have is green smoothies daily. So this being no stranger to him, he dug right in. And really liked the smoothie! Next we created our own recipe (brilliant idea, we will print up more blank pages for that) of the smoothie he usually drinks, which we named “Yo-Mama Smoothie Supreme”, since I created it. We illustrated ingredients and equipment necessary together and had a blast. To top it off he made the vanilla cashew creme, which we had for dessert with strawberries. As he has seen me do countless times he himself wrote onto the recipes an alteration we did (we used collard greens instead of Swiss chard since we didn’t have it for the smoothie) and he wrote how he liked both the smoothie and the vanilla creme. He has also done the maze etc. and we have colored together in the recipe book. Read more »

Monkey Mike Book Review: Families Magazine UK

by Families Magazine

“Monkey Mike’s Raw Food Kitchen: An Un-cookbook for Kids by Joanne Newell is true to its green credentials in that it’s an ebook. There’s no cooking but lots of chopping and slicing as children are encouraged to transform organic ingredients into delicious recipes which are dairy free, gluten free, vegan and 100% raw.

Who can resist Squiggly zucchini pasta and cherry tom sauce, Merry berry milkshake and Cherry banana ice cream –  just  a selection from the 36 recipes on offer?

Written by an Australian mother with a worldwide readership in mind, the values and food sense throughout the book are universal. We loved all the extras: fun activities, workbook pages and food commentaries throughout.

You don’t have to be a raw food family to enjoy this book so if you’re looking for super healthy recipes to inspire your children to embrace fresh food, it’s quirky and lots of fun. Available from www.rawmom.com/monkey-mike for US$19.95.”

Book review taken from, Families Magazine.

We are honored to have the fantastically talented, Joanne Newell as part of the Raw Mom team.

Click here to read more about Monkey Mike.