Recipes Your Kids Will Love ---------- Child friendly recipes can be fun to prepare. Fruits and vegetables can be used in recipes for children. These ingredients can provide a fun element to kid's meals. Finding child recipes that kids can prepare for themselves gives them a feeling of independence. Let the little ones select the fruits and veggies that you use for the child recipes listed below.

Getting children to consume fruit can be simple when we make it fun and exciting. Since fruit should be a constant in every family's menu, let the children choose which fruits they need to prepare a cool and interesting fruit pizza work of art.

You may be surprised by the fruits they pick at the farmer's market. Let the little ones choose which fruits and veggies they would like for their at home project.

Choose interesting or colorful fruits at the grocery store or farmers' market, then set the kids loose making imaginative faces on this tasty fruit pizza. Chances are, they'll snack as they create--and like what they taste.

Choose fruits in an assortment of hues and sizes. Let the little ones decorate the pizza with fun faces or create other shapes on this colorful and interesting pizza.

Ingredients.

*Ready to bake piecrust

Filling *1/2 cup fat free or low fat cream cheese *1tablespoon sugar *1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract *1/4 teaspoon lemon juice *1 tablespoon 1% milk

Toppings Choose strawberries for the nose, kiwi fruit or seedless grapes for the eyes, a banana for the mouth. The choices for making shapes are only limited by their imaginations. The kids can choose pineapples, mandarin oranges or any fruit they like.

Instructions: 1. Let the piecrust come to room temperature per the package instructions

2. Unfold it onto a large cookie sheet or pizza pan.

3. Roll up edges of the crust, crimping them slightly so that they'll stay rolled up. 4. Prick the crust lightly with a fork in about 20 places(allowing air to escape).

5. Bake the crust in a preheated 450 degree oven for about 9 minutes or until it's lightly browned.

6. Remove from the crust from the oven

To Prepare the Filling:

1. Whisk together cream cheese ,sugar, and vanilla extract, lemon juice 2. Add just enough milk to the mix to make it spreadable onto the crust.

*Allow the crust to cool. *Smooth the cream-cheese mixture with a rubber spatula, *Smooth to the edge of the crust

Now its time for the little ones to get to work.

*Allow the little ones to arrange the fruit onto the cream cheese mixture. Don't fret if it is not exact. It is perfectly nutritious and fun. Little ones may opt to add sprinkles. Let their imaginations go wild.

*Refrigerate the pizza for at least 1 hour *Slice with a sharp knife and serve

The children will be antsy and want to consume the pizza immediately. This pizza cream cheese mixture is almost set but will cut easier after refrigerated. Let the little ones assist you with the cleanup. They will be anxious to taste their masterpiece.