I brought in all sorts of fruit, vegetables, dip and sandwiches. The students helped me prepare some healthy snacks and we all got to try them. Then we put together a menu and gave the snacks some fun names, like at Jamba Juice.
The menu consisted of:
The Veggie Pack - celery, carrots and green peppers in a snack bag with ranch dip in a cup
Fruit kabobs - strawberries, grapes and apples on a skewer
The Monkey Sandwich - peanut butter and bananas on raisin bread
The reason for doing the taste test is because I told the kids, "if you don't like eating it, chances are other people won't like it too." I wanted the kids to sell something that they believed was healthy and tasty themselves. Unfortunately, the veggie pack was not the hit which I had hoped. Many of the kids did not like green peppers and found it unsatisfying.
The monkey sandwich got mixed reactions. The kids did not like how the bananas looked.... they get brown quickly after you cut them up. And one of the youth leaders who sampled it said it made his mouth dry and sticky. We knew that we had to serve a drink with this, thats where the idea for making smoothies came about.
Fortunately, the fruit kabobs were a hit and the kids were able to make it themselves. I gave them a challenge. I told them to try and sell a kabob to the elders and the staff in the building and whoever can make the most money wins. Our biggest winners were Valerie and Anthony who were able to make $1 each. They shared their technique: Greet people respectfully (preferably in their own language... Anthony greeted his customer in Cambodian) and tell them how juicy and tasty it is and that you made it yourself. Adults like to encourage and support young people and are more likely to buy (and pay more) from a cute kid.
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