Kids’ Recipes: Jack Be Nimble Salad

Ingredients:

one lettuce leaf
one cheese slice
one slice of lunch meat
2 pineapple rings
1/2 a banana
about a tablespoon of peanut butter
a maraschino cherry 

Directions:

1.  Start by layering the lettuce, meat, and cheese on a flat surface. A sandwich sized plastic container works great for this.

2. Drain the pineapple juice and save the juice in a separate container.

3.  Place two pineapple rings on top of each other on the lettuce, meat, and cheese layer.

4.  Peel a banana, cut in half, and place the cut end down into the pineapple rings. The rings are your “candle holder” and the banana the “candle”.

5.  Top the banana with peanut butter; this is the melted wax on the end of the candle.

6.  Place half a maraschino cherry on top for the flame.

7.  Reserve drained pineapple and cherry juice, then mix together. This juice can be frozen in ice cube trays to make juice cubes. Add one or two juice cubes to a bottle of regular water to make your own fruit flavored water. It tastes great and is much less expensive than store bought flavored waters.