The site where kids make dinner
For today's Dinner Together, I decided to use a new web site I'd heard about -- and let the kids choose their own dinners. Virtually.
The new site Zisboombah lets kids choose from a pretty broad menu of categorized foods -- i.e., meat, fruit, dairy, dessert -- and drag pictures of their choices onto a plate. They can then get a nutritional score for the meal, and email it to their parents...sort of like a virtual order for takeout.
One catch is, you can't put dessert on your plate until you've selected a "non-starchy vegetable."
My kids loved this idea, and I was curious what they would come up with. Here are their orders:
Sam (6):
--Chicken wings
--White bread
--A slice of American cheese
--Apple juice
--Asparagus (chosen so he could have dessert)
--Carrots
--French fries
--Chocolate ice cream
Nutritional score: 1 star. (It was 3 until he added the ice cream.)
Leah, 8:
--Hamburger with ketchup
--Kaiser roll
--French fries
--Green beans
--1-percent milk
--Chocolate ice cream
Nutritional score: 1 star.
Obviously, we have some work to do.
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