Episode one in a series from Healthy Kids, Happy Planet! – in this short and sweet kids cooking show, Queen BeaN prepares three delicious handheld wraps – a sweet citrus Asian inspired wrap with edamame, a veggie burrito with pinto beans and guacamole, and a veggie wrap with hummus. Kids learn about the power of plants for a strong body, sharp mind and happy spirit! The 10 minute show serves as enrichment for HKHP Cool Beans from Around the World elementary nutrition curriculum. More at healthykidshappyplanet.org
Food Glorious Food from Earth’s Magical Garden helps improve your mood your games your grades and your organs you know like your brain and your heart and your kidneys soups salads or sandwiches what’s best is the question Queen Bean has the answer kids beans are Perfection that would be me I am known
Throughout the land as Queen Bean because I’m all about cooking with beautiful magical beans glorious beans the leaning and green protein G swallowed or chewed so filling scrumptious and creamy just picture a bean burrito piled high guacamole holy beans glorious beans magical beans leaning green beans so welcome to my kitchen where
We’re going to make delicious recipes using superfoods for a strong body sharp mind and happy spirit and we’re going to use all the colors of the rainbow because each different color has a different nutrient that your body needs for example orange foods like sweet potatoes and carrots
Have vitamin A and vitamin A is important for strong Vision B vitamins come from grains and beans and they help boost brain power vitamin C is in red foods and purple foods and it’s important for a healthy immune system to help fight disease let’s see that’s a b c d vitamin D true
Or false vitamin D comes from outer space it’s true we get vitamin D from sunshine on our skin and that sunshine vitamin is very important for building strong bones so today we are going to make recipes with all different colors we’re going to wrap our ingredients in a
Tortilla and create Rainbow wraps for a yummy handheld meal handheld like a sandwich only better so we’ll start with a classic a Mexican bean burrito let’s see if we get all the let’s see if we get all the food groups so we start with with our tortilla Which is a grain food
Right we’re going to add our protein with beans glorious beans now we could do black beans we could do pan of beans or if you’re like me do a little of both yum so we’ve got our grain we’ve got our protein what do we need next we need a
Fruit and a vegetable right so salsa happens to me made from Tomatoes tomatoes have seeds inside that means they’re a fruit we’ve got our fruit don’t we who doesn’t love guacamole so guacamole is also technically a fruit because it has a seed inside so let’s see we’ve got our
Grains we’ve got our protein we’ve got our fruit what are we missing vegetables and we’re going to use leafy greens for lots of calcium I will use this beautiful red leaf crunchy sweet lettuce now little knife safety o don’t put it near your eyeballs knife safety want to know which side is the
Sharp side keep it away from your fingers and move really slow so know the sharp side move slow and keep an eye on your fingers because that’s where people get their Cuts here’s something really remarkable leafy greens actually have a vitamin in it vitamin K that helps you
To stop bleeding and there we have it Mexican bean burrito next do you remember where archaeologists discovered beans 10,000 years ago people were farming them in the earliest civilizations Middle East so now we’re going to make a middle eastern wrap with hummus garbon o beans are what hummus is
Made out of and garbanzo beans have a nickname and I think it’s really cute garbanzo beans are also known as chick peas because they kind of look like a little chick right don’t worry no chicks were harmed in the making of This wrap so and you know when you go to the store
There’s different flavors of hummus so there’s classic humus and the ingredients are garbanzo beans and lemon juice and garlic so familiar ingredients and they puree it up also you could get like Jalapeno cilantro let’s let’s say we like something spicy so we we’ll do the Jalapeno
Cilantro yum We’ll add a little bit of chickpeas for a little more chewy texture Let’s see we can just make this up what do you I think cucumber would be delicious in this knife safety slow keep it away from my fingers put some cucumbers inside oh
That’ll make it fresh and crunchy ah oh some tomato and tomatoes have seeds inside so it’s actually a fruit so we’ve got our fruit our protein our grain what are we missing leafy greens I’m going to add some kale to this one a little bit of
Kale I’ve got my beans I’ve got my greens grains and there we have it now next up Asian now you might have noticed that the tortillas I’m using are a golden brown that’s cuz they’re a grain food and grains are the seeds of grasses and when they grow from the earth they’re
They’re like a golden brown color now sometimes you’ll see in the store there there’s also a lighter white tortilla right um and that’s because part of the seed has been removed the brand the outer uh Brown layer so you have a choice between brown or white but what’s
Important to know is that when they remove that outer Brown brand layer they remove almost all of the nutrients so you have a choice but look for labels that say whole grain or whole wheat if you want a whole lot more nutrition okay now the Asian Bean would
Be soybeans those are soybeans these are soybeans in their pod you might have heard of them as edamami yeah you ever have edamami yum so we’re going to put some soybeans in but you know what else I’m going to put in for a nice chewy texture tofu have you ever had tofu it’s
Actually made from soybeans yeah um it happened by accident hundreds of years ago I think it was like 200 years ago or something that uh an Asian Chef and he was stirring up his soybeans and he dropped a little bit of seaweed inside the pot and suddenly his
Soybean mixture got really firm kind of like meat and it had this great texture and that was the beginning of tofu so we’re going to put tofu which is basically these little soybeans made into something chewier then how about celery yeah and we’re going to put some Mandarin
Oranges inside of this I’ve already got some peeled throw some of those in to make it Tangy and sweet and always always always my leafy greens and I’m going to use an Asian leafy green this is Bach Choy you’re the chef you get creative use whatever greens you like
Um an experiment and we can feel really good about the meals we made today because they’re all plants and when we eat lean and green with all plants and beans especially for protein we save so much water land energy and Wildlife and it was easy right just we
Had our Mexican with pinto beans and black beans oh my goodness I just thought of something we could even add a little Crunch and more more protein with some pepitas native to Mexico from pumpkins and winter squash the seeds yeah seeds and nuts have a ton of
Protein too um maybe for our Middle Eastern wrap we could add some pistachios that’s they’ve got tons of protein and they’re native to Iran which is in the Middle East and for our Asian I’m just going to add a little bit of crunch with some cashews more protein lots of minerals and vitamins
It’s simple veggies tortilla and beans glorious beans sing with me the words are here ready beans glorious beans the lean and green protein helps bodies grow strong helps fishes swim and in blue streams why should we eat Bean protein it could save the world oh Bean beans beautiful beans glorious
Beans magical beans leaning green beans don’t forget guys you have the superpower to protect our precious Planet precious animals and your precious self every day eating lean and green thanks for coming and cooking with me today and have a glorious day beans glorious being