3.0 from 6 votes
Veggie Garden Cups
Over the years I’ve realized one important factor when it comes to inspiring kids to eat their fruits and veggies. If you add a whimsical touch to food, they won’t even hesitate before eating them up.
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
15 mins
Servings: 4
Calories: 56 kcal
Course:
Snacks
Cuisine:
American
Ingredients
- 2 ripe avocados, pitted
- 1/2 a lime
- kosher salt
- 1 bag Bolthouse Farms matchstick carrots
- 1 Bolthouse Farms large carrot, peeled
- 1 Persian cucumber
- 4 cherry tomatoes
- 8 breakfast or red radishes, sliced in half
- 8 sugar snap peas
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 celery stalk
- 1/2 cup broccoli florets
- 4 wooden skewers, cut in half
- 4 small plastic cups
Instructions
- Spoon the avocado flesh into a bowl along with the lime juice and salt. Use a fork to mash the avocado until smooth.
- Fill each small plastic cup about 1/2 way up with Bolthouse Farms matchstick carrots.
- Spoon 1/4 of the avocado mixture on top of the matchstick carrots in each cup.
- Cut the carrots and cucumbers into 2 inch lengths. Use a pairing knife to make 4-5 small notches around the carrot and cucumber pieces. Then slice each one into 1/2 inch slices to form flowers.
- Place the carrot flowers and cucumber flowers onto wooden skewers. Top the cucumber flowers with cherry tomatoes.
- Cut the red bell pepper and the celery into sticks about the same length as the sugar snap peas.
- Place the carrot and cucumber flowers, sliced radishes, sugar snap peas, red bell peppers, and celery into the avocado mixture to create a garden.
- Then place the broccoli florets in the open spaces to create grass.
Cup of Yum
Nutrition Information
Calories
56kcal
(3%)
Carbohydrates
13g
(4%)
Protein
2g
(4%)
Fat
0.5g
(1%)
Saturated Fat
0.1g
(1%)
Polyunsaturated Fat
0.2g
Monounsaturated Fat
0.1g
Sodium
69mg
(3%)
Potassium
460mg
(13%)
Fiber
4g
(16%)
Sugar
6g
(12%)
Vitamin A
15.108IU
(0%)
Vitamin C
63mg
(70%)
Calcium
44mg
(4%)
Iron
1mg
(6%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 4Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 56
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 56kcal | 3% |
| Carbohydrates | 13g | 4% |
| Protein | 2g | 4% |
| Fat | 0.5g | 1% |
| Saturated Fat | 0.1g | 1% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 0.2g | 1% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 0.1g | 1% |
| Sodium | 69mg | 3% |
| Potassium | 460mg | 10% |
| Fiber | 4g | 16% |
| Sugar | 6g | 12% |
| Vitamin A | 15.108IU | 0% |
| Vitamin C | 63mg | 70% |
| Calcium | 44mg | 4% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.