Healthy recipe suggestions for Tourer Explorers

Does healthy mean lacking in calories? If so, there isn’t one. You can feed them whatever you like. They’ll need plenty because they’ll soon burn it off, unlike many of their elders.

I'm a big fan of a balanced diet - balance being healthy food and some not so good for you foods too i.e. chocolate! 

I think in this instance we are looking at meals that will provide nutrititional value - some veg would be good to help them with all that energy they will be burning off on Club Sites.  

Popcorn might be fun for them. It can't be too filling, either.

No cooking involved but some preparation and assembly. How about fruit kebabs? Chopped pieces of fruit such as strawberries, oranges, kiwi fruit, grapes, apples or other favourites, speared on woooden skewers and maybe dip the last piece in melted chocolate as a treat?

Carol and Anna have both been on Slimming World diets.  I have been pleasantly surprised by its 'user friendliness'.  Perhaps there is something there that can be utilised?

Someone on here may know more about it than I.

David 

Well, I can tell you the three course meal my sons made for us when the eldest was just ten and the younger one four!!

The eldest wanted to cook, but wanted to buy everything as a surprise, so we gave them some money and took them to the supermarket.  They looked around, worked out what they could afford, bought everything, got everything ready between them, and we had:

Starter:  Slices of watermelon
Main:     Home made beefburgers, made with fresh mince, onions, herbs and spices, cooked on a barbecue (OH did that bit) and salad with French bread 
Pudding: Fresh strawberries dipped in chocolate - some white, some dark.

I don't know exactly what proportions of things they put in the burgers, but they'd seen me making them, and they were delicious.

I have no idea where they got the idea for the strawberries, but basically the chocolate was melted (they knew to do that over warm water), the strawberries held by the hull, dipped and swirled, and then left to cool on a plate which they put in the fridge.  I make them a lot now as they are a mix of healthy and chocolate!

Neither of them is now anything food related, but both still love cooking.  Those campsite meals served as a very good grounding for them 'having a go' themselves.

They both cooked a special meal for us and six friends, for my sixtieth.

This time we had

Starter:  Tian of Cumbrian fresh crab, with Morecambe Bay shrimps, samphire, capers and cornichons

Main:  Honey glazed Gloucester Old Spot pork belly, fondant potatoes, onion puree, fennel salad and (grown in my garden) baby carrots, broad beans and new potatoes

Pudding:  Very Lemon Cheese Tarte with (grown in my garden) summer blueberries, raspberries and strawberries, with very local raspberry coulis and homemade cream ice cream. 

Wow ValDa that sounds amazing - very creative of your boys at that age and what a great idea!! 

Your birthday meal sounds michelin star! 

If they are real campers they should follow the Bear Grylls TV series and learn to live off the land.  There is a lot of satisfaction in doing it all yourself. Pick it, catch it, cook it and eat it. Thats what proper young explorers should do.  

K 

Our boys used to like making kebabs, cubes of marinated chicken, peppers,  cherry tomatoes,  courgettes, and mushrooms  on skewers . Plenty of colour and healthy too. Easy to cook on the BBQ.