Kids Design their Own Dinners

With the website Zis Boom Bah, kids work with their parents to design their own meals. They get to play with different dinner choices, and in order to achieve the highest score possible, they must create a balanced, nutritious meal. Stars are awarded by creating a plate with balanced meat, grains, and vegetables, and when you try to add a dessert before you have a 5-star meal, a dialog box pops up: “Sorry! Your meal must have 5 stars before you can add dessert!” When the meal is complete, you can send it to your parents to make dinner plans.

A recipe section has easy to make recipes complete with nutritional information and shopping lists.

Cute, fun and kid-friendly, this site is a good step towards helping families eat better, when kids help make their own decisions they are more likely to eat new things.

via Bon Appétit, September 2010, pg 48.