Yumminess

Add some 'yumminess' that the children can create on your menu for holiday programme snacks and meals.

A great alternative to lollies and sweets when you are cooling down after an active play session or just chillaxing together. Yoghurt & Juice Iceblock treats and one ingredient ice cream.

Iceblocks
Really simple you just need some fruit juice and natural yoghurt, and maybe some honey if you want extra sweetness. The fruit juice can be freshly squeezed from those oranges your neighbours gave you, cheaply priced kiwifruit or ripe bananas (well mashed up). Put the fruit juice into your moulds and leave to set, then fill up the mould with your yoghurt and leave to reset. This is best left for about 8 – 10 hours so they could be created one day and gobbled up the next.

Of course these flavours are unlimited really and can be created from everyone’s favourite. Perhaps this creates an opportunity for a team challenge, where groups can create their own recipes and delights. Everyone gets to taste test them and the overall supreme delight discovered.

My children made their favourites. One was berry, choco delight - frozen berries and choc yoghurt - and the other was mango crush – mango and natural yoghurt.

If you have your own yoghurt maker or can borrow a couple, this means you can make the yoghurt from scratch and is a great activity as well. Have fun.

For those children with dairy allergies etc, I would be using all sorts of seasonal fruits, layerer and frozen to have your own fruities and no one misses out.

The one ingredient ice cream
This was a revelation to me and I very much doubted it would end up being the delicious delight that it was. I was proved wrong. Bananas are the ingredient you need, the riper the better. They are whizzed and mixed for longer than you might for say a smoothie and they magically turn into this very light, white creamy treat. Once again you can add in other ingredients if you do not like the dominant banana flavour.

Have fun and I would love to hear about your results.
Julie