A common misconception about cooking is that in order to create a truly delicious and healthy meal, you have to buy dozens of ingredients and spend hours in the kitchen chopping, mixing, baking, and preparing your ingredients only to be completely exhausted afterwards. Our friends at Cooking Light prove that this isn’t the case at all! This Tortellini, Chicken, and Arugula salad comes together in a cinch thanks to the use of a few quality items such as hearty cheese tortellini and shredded rotisserie chicken. Prepare the dressing and pasta ahead of time to make the final assembly even faster. Who knew making dinner on busy weekday nights could be so easy?

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Instructions:

Tips & Trick:

• For a gluten-free option, substitute the tortellini for brown rice pasta or quinoa.
• Kids can help shred the chicken and mix the dressing!

The Creative Kitchen™, LLC, teaches children about food and how to cook in a fun, safe, and educational manner. Targeting families with children ages two to teen, the company focuses on teaching, writing creative content and curriculum, special events, recipe development, spokesperson work, webisode production and consulting to present educational and entertaining content through food-related activities. The founder, Cricket Azima, is an expert in cooking for and with children. She inspires kids to express themselves creatively through food and cooking, while complementing lessons with traditional educational material such as social studies, math, arts, science, and more. Visit www.thecreativekitchen.com for more information.

We know that the more colors that are on your plate, the healthier and more nutritious the meal is! However, sometimes it can be challenging to make colorful and healthful meals for you and your family. Frances Largeman-Roth’s amazing cookbook, Eating in Color: Delicious, Healthy Recipes for You and Your Family, makes healthy eating exciting, easy, AND of course, colorful! Her chapters are separated by colors—like green and red—and each chapter contains mouth watering recipes that use fruits or vegetables in the chapter’s specific color. Her cookbook will get you and your family excited to eat fruits, vegetables, and grains. More importantly, Frances’ cookbook breaks down foods in fun new ways that will get your little ones beside you in the kitchen, excited to eat AND to cook!

From the Mouth of a Kid:

Mom and I choose recipes based on my favorite colors!

From the Eyes of a Parent:

Eating in Color has become my go-to cookbook for convenient, healthy and family-friendly dinners. My kids are as just excited to eat the dishes from the cookbook as I am. It’s a great way to introduce my kids to new fruits and vegetables as well as teach them about familiar fruits and vegetables. The book even includes a kitchen “cheat-sheet” of ingredients that I should always have on hand, which has proved to be unbelievably helpful on days when there’s no time to shop and I need a quick fix for dinner or lunch!

Fascinating Features:

Eating in Color is divided into six color-coded chapters:

• Reds
• Oranges
• Yellows
• Greens
• Blues, Indigos, and Violets
• Blacks and Tans

In addition to Eating in Color, Frances Largeman-Roth has also published other cookbooks such as: The CarbLover’s Diet Cookbook, The CarbLovers Diet: Eat What You Love, Get Slim for Life, and Feed the Belly: The Pregnant Mom’s Healthy Eating Guide.

The Icing on the Cake:

Eating in Color contains 90 color-coded, family-friendly recipes such as Caramelized Red Onion, Fig Pizza, and Cran-Apple Tarte Tatin. Every recipe also contains clear preparation instructions and nutritional information.

In addition, Frances also includes healthy tips for eating and living well, and the benefits of certain foods and colors in Eating in Color.

Mix it Up!

Plan a rainbow-themed dinner for you and your family! Make one recipe from each of the six color-coded chapters. Choose an appetizer, a main dish, three sides, and a dessert! Your kids will love all the colors, and you’ll all benefit from the wide array of nutrients the meal will provide

The Creative Kitchen™, LLC, teaches children about food and how to cook in a fun, safe, and educational manner. Targeting families with children ages two to teen, the company focuses on teaching, writing creative content and curriculum, special events, recipe development, spokesperson work, webisode production and consulting to present educational and entertaining content through food-related activities. The founder, Cricket Azima, is an expert in cooking for and with children. She inspires kids to express themselves creatively through food and cooking, while complementing lessons with traditional educational material such as social studies, math, arts, science, and more. Visit www.thecreativekitchen.com for more information.