Are you searching for easy blueberry recipes kids love? Here are some easy and yummy ways to serve blueberries to children.
Every summer we go down to a nearby berry farm and we pick berries. Strawberries in late spring, and blue and blackberries in the summer. This past week we were able to go pick ourselves a big basket of blueberries.
What are the Benefits of Picking Your Own Blueberries?
I just love the yearly tradition of picking berries ourselves, and coming home with our mast/grassy boots, sticky fingers and tummies full of sweet berries.
It is so important to teach our children where our food comes from and to help them play an active roll in growing it, or harvesting it, preparing and enjoying it with others.
Our society is so disconnected from the production of food, many children have no idea were certain food products come from, how they are grow or prepared. What a tragedy to go through life disconnected from our very basic life sustenance!
Picking your own food from your garden, backyard tree or local farm has great benefits for children. It can connect them to the knowledge that their food is provided from God’s creation and gives them pride in participating in the process.
Children also seem to be more likely to eat healthy, fresh food if they have an invested interest in it. Blueberries or apple or green beans are much more interesting and exciting to eat, if you have picked and prepared them yourself, than if you were just handed them.
Another great perk of picking your own blueberries is the cost! Buying fresh blueberries at the grocery store can be quite expensive. Picking blueberries can secure you a large amount of high quality fruit for a lower cost!
But now you have to figure out how to use and preserve them so they don’t go to waste and you can enjoy them for a long time!
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Easy Blueberry Freezer Jam
All kids love peanut butter and jelly don’t they? Mine sure do! One of the tastiest treats you can make with blueberries is homemade jam! Plus, it’s way easier than you might think!
Ingredients for Blueberry Jam –
- 1 1/2 quarts fresh or frozen blueberries
- 1/2 packet Sure-Jell low/no sugar pectin
- 1 1/3 cup sugar
Easy Blueberry Freezer Jam
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 quarts fresh or frozen blueberries
- 1/2 packet Sure-Jell low/no sugar pectin
- 1 1/3 cup sugar
Instructions
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Add clean berries and sugar to the saucepan and heat over medium /high, stirring occasionally.
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Simmer berries and sugar until berries break down and are juicy, and sugar is dissolved.
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Prepare 1/2 the packet of Sure-Jell as instructions say (remembering to halve the water).
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Add pectin to cooked fruit and mix well.
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Pour jam into jars, leaving plenty of headspace (room at the top of jar so freezing doesn't crack the jar).
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Put on lids, and cool on counter for several hours.
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Put into fridge for 12 hours.
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Remove lids and freeze until solid, then add lids back.
And if you prefer a jam recipe that doesn’t call for pectin, here is Homemade Berry Jam Without Pectin from The Homestead Nurse blog!
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Delicious Blueberry Baked Good Recipes
My absolute favorite recipe to add blueberries to is pancakes. Are pancakes actually baked goods? Hmmm…
Blueberries are delicious in many many baked goods including pies, cakes, breads, crumble and so on!
Best Blueberry Pancake Recipe
Here is my FAVORITE pancake recipe. It is easy to throw the dry ingredients together and store in an airtight container for future use!
The best part? All you have to do to make them blueberry pancakes, is add a couple handfuls of frozen or fresh blueberries to the batter and give a little extra cooking time on each side!
And while we are in the breakfast vein, I will share a recipe from Hilltop in the Valley for blueberry scones!
Einkorn Lemon Blueberry Sourdough Scones
Holy YUM!
Healthy Blueberry Muffin Recipe Selection
Blueberries are delicious when added to baked goods, that is for sure. You would be hard pressed to meet a kid or adult that didn’t want to gobble up a blueberry muffin or two on the spot!
Here is a fantastic collection of blueberry muffin recipes to suite your needs from several of my fellow blogging friends!
Homemade Sourdough Blueberry Muffins from Hearts Content Farmhouse
Buttermilk Blueberry Muffins from Barefoot in the Pines
Dairy Free Blueberry Muffins with Sprouted Wheat from The Home Intent
Sourdough Blueberry Oat Muffins from Healthy Driven Country Livin
Lacto Fermented… Blueberries?!
Here is something new and different to try! Over at Life Full and Frugal, they claim these berries taste like candy! That sure sounds like something kids would love! It’s a super simple process too involving store-bought kombucha and mason jars.
How Do You Freeze Blueberries?
Freezing blueberries is a great way to preserve them, and keep them fresh to use anytime you want!
It is a simple process that only requires a baking sheet and parchment paper or wax paper.
- Wash and dry blueberries
- Spread berries out on paper covered baking pan in a single layer
- Set tray with berries in freezer on a level surface and freeze until solid, 6-12 hours.
- Gather up frozen berries and store in a freezer bag and return to freezer.
What are Ways to Use Frozen Blueberries?
The best thing about freezing most fruit, is that you can use it just like you would fresh in recipes.
Frozen blueberries are awesome in the obvious… Smoothies! I don’t have a blueberry smoothie recipe on the blog at the moment, but I do have a dragon fruit one. It will show you the base of how to make a rich, creamy smoothie and you can swap the dragon fruit for frozen blueberries! Here it is!
But the not so obvious might be… Basically all the recipes I have mentioned so far can be made with frozen berries! (Maybe not the fermented ones.)
You can add frozen blueberries to baked goods, pancakes, and scones. You can also eat them straight from the freezer as a snack plain, with milk or cream over them (YUM), or on top of yogurt, cereal or oatmeal!
**One of my favorite things to do with them is to put a handful in a small bowl, and slowly cover them with cream. Wait a minute or two and the cream will freeze from the cold berries and it creates a creamy, icy treat!
Thank you for stopping by today, and I hope these blueberry ideas were helpful to you!
If you have any great blueberry recipes or tips to share, please leave them in the comments for everyone!
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