sea food

[Strangehair]

how can i make sea food fun for kids and are there any good recipies

My dd (2) eats prawns without any need to make them fun, I just mix a bit of mayonaise with them or she likes prawn cocktail. I also make a tomato, garlic, spice type curry with them and put it with rice.

Luckily both my kids love seafood. They've always had fish pie (i.e. mixed fish, inc. prawns in white sauce with mashed potato on top), but also like salmon fillet with hollandaise sauce (packet mix sauce!), and other fish too. They both love going to the fish counter in the supermarket & choosing what fish we're going to have for tea (with some guidance from me away from the too pricey stuff!)

We've recently been on holiday to France where ds1 (aged 3 1/2) was quite happy to peel his own prawns before eating them, and feeding them to ds1 ( 1 1/2)who also loved them. Ds1 also really liked mussels - especially my moules marineres! (not too sure that he should have that though, with the wine content )

My two are both mad for prawns - I make paella, risotto, and a seafood lasagne (different kinds of fish and prawns). I have also given them dressed (canned) crab in linguine etc. Neither is keeen on octopus or squid (too chewy!) and I haven't given them cockles or mussels but that's because they make me heave!