Eating on fly inspires ‘Cooking with Kids’

Cook with the kids? We hardly have time to cook for them anymore.

In this rush-rush, eat-it-now world, parents are increasingly turning to fast food and kids are reaching for quick, sugar-loaded snacks. “Cooking with Kids,” a 90-second news feature that airs on KHQ-TV every Saturday is hoping to help change that.

The program was inspired by the problems that can be caused by eating on the fly … childhood obesity, type II diabetes, low bone density and eating disorders. “Cooking with Kids,” is designed to show how easy it is for kids to prepare snacks and meals that taste good and are good for them.

Three segments of the show were taped recently in Spokane and will begin airing this Saturday. Local kids joined chef John Sarich, a James Beard Award winner, to whip up Blueberry Scones, Fruity Breakfast Parfait, and Corn Chowder. Look inside today’s IN Food section for those recipes. Each one was reviewed by a registered dietician for its nutritional content.

The recipes and all of the show’s segments also are available online at www.cookingwithkids.org.

Litehouse Low-Carb

If you’re watching carbs, Litehouse has a new salad dressing for you.

The Sandpoint dressing maker has released a new line of refrigerated salad dressings that have just one carbohydrate per serving. They come in six of the company’s tried-and-true flavors: blue cheese, ranch, Southwestern ranch, Italian, Mediterranean and Caesar.

The dressings are made with canola oil without MSG or preservatives. Also, the dressing is gluten free.

Look in the produce section of the supermarket for the new Litehouse One Carb Plus or check out the online store at www.litehousefoods.com. There are also coupons and low-carb recipes.

Here’s one for Homer

We’re sure that at least Homer Simpson would approve of the latest way to deliver the flavor of Krispy Kreme’s famous glazed doughnut.

The company has a new line of frozen drinks, including frozen original Kreme — that’s right it’s a drinkable version of the fried and glazed dough that has made it famous. The drinks also come in raspberry, latte and double chocolate. If you need a shot of caffeine to go with all that sugar, you can also add coffee to the Kreme and double chocolate flavors. The drinks are $2.79 for the small size drink to $3.99 for the large.

Sorry carb watchers. Krispy Kreme is bucking the national diet trend and doesn’t have plans to introduce any drinks low in sugar and carbohydrates despite its falling stock prices. According to a company press release, Krispy Kreme’s stock has fallen more than 45 percent this year as people shunned fried, glazed dough because of the low-carb diet fad and Wall Street’s concerns about the company’s aggressive pace of new store openings.