Kids nutrition: mini pizza muffins that your little'uns will love!
Swap: a processed pizza.
For: mini pizza muffins.
Why: with fast food resembling one of the core culprits responsible for super sizing our offsprings' silhouettes, slashing their intake of the excess energy, salt, sugar and saturated fat found in 'food' sources such as processed pizza is essential for reducing their risk of developing detrimental diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and hypertension - health complications that are becoming increasingly more common during childhood.
How: using innocent ingredients including mozzarella cheese, mushrooms. chicken, peppers, ham (watch the salt content!) and tomato puree as toppings, and wholemeal muffins as a base/s.
The best bit: encouraging our tots' to tuck into a mini pizza muffin/s as opposed to a tasty takeaway is a fantastic way to increase their intake of the mandatory macronutrients and micronutrients found in food sources such as cheese, lean meat and a variety of vegetables - think vitamin C from red and green peppers, calcium from cheese and protein from chicken - whilst instilling the importance of making (and munching on!) healthier, homemade meals from an early age - a habit that many minors will take with them through adolescence and adulthood.
Top tip: if you're failing to fool fussy eaters - particularly those who are prone to a 'phobia' of fruit and vegetables - with sensible food swaps, try making the muffins appear more appealing by personalising their 'pizza' with a fun face or an adorable animal - most ingredients will melt to mimic their original position on the pizza and/or can be accompanied by additional ingredients such as a sliced piece of pepper to create a more prominent smile!
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