Forget dinner and a movie- dinner and a book is way better!
It wasn't hard getting inspiration to create a meal based on the children's book Dragons Love Tacos! Much like my family, the way to a dragons heart is always through his stomach!
Chloe and Max chose Dragons Love Tacos at our local library and I immediately knew we had to have tacos to accompany the story!
Creating a meal based around a children's book is a great way to promote a love of reading over the summer. Part of being a good reader is making connections to what you are reading. What better way to connect to a story than through food! Its also an excellent way to introduce new foods to your children and get picky eaters to try new ones.
I read the story before preparing our shrimp tacos. Chloe and Max loved hearing why dragons love eating tacos so much. They especially enjoyed checking off the ingredients dragons love in their tacos because we were including most of the same in ours. We were very careful not to include the one ingredient dragons should never have in their tacos (anything spicy) because we do not like spicy either!
I truly enjoyed this time with my children. I cannot wait to select the next book with Chloe and Max and cook a meal together. Chloe loves to help in the kitchen and I hope through this, she will love reading just as much.
I look forward to sharing more "Books to Belly" posts with you and your families!
Shrimp Tacos
- 2 pounds of shrimp (feeds 4)
- taco shells (hard or soft- or both if you want to get crazy!!!)
- lettuce
- tomato
- avocado (optional)
- shredded Mexican cheese (I use Sargento Mexican blend)
- reduced fat sour cream (optional)
- Margie's all natural mango herb & garlic marinade for the shrimp.
Cook shrimp until pink throughout. I did ours in a pan on the stove. You can grill them on the BBQ as well.
Involve the kids by having them assemble the ingredients in a platter. Before heating the pan, I had Chloe scoop the shrimp into the pan and clean the celery in the sink.
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