Kosher recipes suitable for toddlers?!

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If you want to know kosher recipes that are suitable for toddlers, the first step you should take is to learn about the regulations of kashrut (kosher laws). This is an excellent and popular website that explains kashrut laws as well as other aspects of Judaism: http://www.jewfaq.org/kashrut.htm

But in a nutshell, here is what you need to do to prepare Kosher food for a family (I am assuming they are strictly kosher, but you should ask just in case):
1) Buy only kosher certified meat (or use what the parents have at home). This would be meat such as beef, turkey, chicken, or lamb that has been slaughtered in the appropriate manner and marked as kosher. Obviously, no pork products.
2) Fish that have BOTH scales and fins are permitted. This includes salmon, tuna, cod, herring, etc. Shellfish is not permitted, nor is catfish, eel, shark, swordfish etc (no "scales"-- not that you could get many kids to eat that anyway!) But beware-- even if the fish is a kosher species, it may have been filleted/gutted on a non-kosher work area (that has come into contact with unclean animals)-- so it is best to ask the parents about fish.
3) Meat (poultry, lamb, beef) cannot be prepared with or served with ANY dairy products. Also-- you are supposed to wait anywhere from 4-8 hours between meat and dairy (depends on the family). Beware- some products (such as bread, spreads etc) may have dairy or a dairy derivative in them and would render the meat unkosher. Fish can be eaten with dairy.
4) Parve/Pareve is the term given to foods that are neither meat nor dairy. Therefore, you can eat them with meat or dairy. This includes fruits/vegetables, flours, eggs, fish, and honey.
5) All fruits and vegetables are kosher (except for some exceptions over Passover holiday in Spring).
6) This is clearly a LOT of rules to keep track of. But to make it easier, learn to identify certified kosher items, and whether they are meat/dairy/parve. Once you have all your kosher food, don't serve kosher meat items with kosher dairy items. To make it simpler, many families will have separate areas of the kitchen for meat and dairy, to ensure that the two don't mix. There are usually separate dishes for meat/dairy as well. Again, ASK THE FAMILY about what they do before you start your job.

Now for some ideas for kosher foods toddlers may enjoy :)
* Pasta (don't put cheese on it if it contains meat!)
* Mac N Cheese
* Grilled cheese and tomato soup
* Chicken soup
* PB&J sandwiches
* Veggie (or plain cheese) pizza
* Potato salad/egg salad/coleslaw
* oven-fried fish or chicken strips
* crackers with cheese
* crackers with kosher deli meat or salami
* fruit cups
* veggies with ranch dip or hummus
* Banana nut bread
* Cornbread with honey/butter
* Boiled eggs or devilled eggs
* Tuna sandwiches or tuna salad/crackers
* Apples or celery with peanut butter (my FAVORITE snack as a toddler!)-- mix the apple slices with a little lemon juice if you are packing them for lunch, to keep the apples from turning brown and icky looking)
* Potato pancakes
* Broccoli/other veggies or chicken sauteed with teriyaki sauce


Just some random thoughts that popped into my head of the kosher foods I would have eaten as a toddler! Hope this helps :)

And don't forget-- the most important thing is to talk to the family first! Many people have their own version of what "Kosher" means, so you want to be sure to be on the same page as them. Good luck with your new job!
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Jewish, semi-kosher and LOVE cooking

The parents will probably be very specific about cooking if they keep kosher.

Kosher is just a process of slaughter, meat prep, what foods cannot be combined and separate dishes and utentials.

A tot whose parents are keeping kosher can eat anything a tot whose parents are not, it just has to be prepared correctly and not a forbidden food.

The parents might just leave you food to nuke for the kiddo.

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