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KID-FRIENDLY RECIPE // Savoury Baked Beans

Looking for something easy, healthy and packed full of veggies for the kids to eat at home? Here’s a yummy Savoury Baked Beans On Toast recipe from the team at Explorers Learning Academy for you to try.
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A simple, delicious and healthy recipe to keep kids healthy at home

 

Explorers Mittagong

 

The kids are home and boy, are they hungry!!! We love this recipe from the team at Explorers Learning Academy – it’s filling, it’s packed with veggies (the good stuff!), yummy and super easy for us parents wearing 259 hats right now to whip up! 

 

Ingredients 

2 x 420g cans baked beans

1 x chopped onion

1-2 x cups of mixed vegetables (washed)

1 x zucchini – washed and grated

200g reduced fat grated cheese

 

cook at home

 

Method

Using a small amount of olive oil, saute the vegetables in a frying pan; add baked beans and bring to the boil; simmer for 10 minutes.

In the meantime, cook your toast.

Serve bean and vegetable ‘sauce’ on toast and sprinkle with cheese.

 

healthy recipe for kids

 

Alternative: serve on corn chips and melt cheese under the grill.

A great winter warmer with plenty of fibre and protein!

 

easy lunches for kids

 

 

Mittagong Childcare

 

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