Grilled Cheese - Simple but Healthy

Simple but healthy - One of my goals in cooking with the kids is to teach them to make simple but healthy foods that they can prepare on their own. Grilled cheese sandwiches with carrots and cucumbers is a good example of this type of meal.

My daughter could do much of the work herself at only five years old. She spread the butter on the bread, got out the cheese, flipped the sandwich over in the frying pan.........

peeled and sliced the cucumber, and peeled the carrots. I only cut the carrots, cleaned up after her and monitored the stove. My nine and eleven year olds can both prepare this type of meal on their own. Sometimes I will ask them to make lunch or dinner and am pleased when they serve something along these lines.