Lent is probably my favorite time to live the liturgical year at home with my kids, and holy week is when it all comes to a head! Today, I want to share some food ideas and recipes that you can make with or for your kids during Holy Week. I now have an entire cookbook full of symbolic Holy Week and Easter recipes! I hope these holy week recipes bring your family together and help everyone stay focused on the true meaning of this week. Let’s check out the Holy Week food ideas.
Pretzels are a very traditional food for Lent, in fact, they were actually invented to be a simple Lenten snack, and are in the shape of arms crossed in prayer! You can find my recipe for Lenten pretzels here.
Palm Sunday Food Ideas
Spy Wednesday Food Idea
Spy Wednesday is the day that Judas schemes to turn Jesus in for 30 pieces of silver. For this day, try making “money bag wontons” for dinner to symbolize the bag of silver that betrayed Jesus.
The Easter story cookie download is included in my new cookbook for families– The Symbolic Holy Week & Easter Cookbook! This cookbook includes 23 recipes that point to the true meaning of Easter. It only includes 29 pages of bonus printables! You do not want to miss this amazing resource.
Holy Thursday Recipes
The perfect recipe for Holy Thursday is to bake unleavened bread together! I mean… it is the anniversary of the Last Supper, the day that Jesus gave us the Eucharist, the day of the first mass, and you can totally serve your unleavened bread with grapes or grape juice in wine (plastic) wine glasses for the kids. Find my recipe for unleavened bread here.
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You can also have a simple Christian Seder meal, which is a tradition we started here in Lydia’s first communion year.
Good Friday Food And Recipe Ideas
We love to make these easy crown of thorns crackers for Good Friday! They’re absolutely perfect because they’re meat free, protein packed, and not overly indulgent for Good Friday.
Hot Cross Buns are a very traditional recipe for holy week. Some families make them on Holy Thursday, others on Good Friday. Some families eat them on Good Friday while others hold them for breakfast Saturday morning. Whenever you make or eat them is up to you, but here is a great hot cross bun recipe for you to try this year from Oh, Sweet Basil.
Holy Saturday
Even More Meaningful Easter Recipes For Kids
To find even more meaningful recipes to point your family towards the true meaning of Easter, I would definitely encourage you to check out my ebook, The Symbolic Holy Week & Easter Cookbook.
Lacy- you are awesome. This is exactly why I love your blog. There is nooo way I was going to be able to find all these recipes….or even know I should be looking for them. Thanks again for saving me time and my sanity:)
Even though I do not have any children, I love your blog. I get lots of ideas to enrich my faith, and celebrate being Catholic. Thank you so much, Hugs, Kathleen
Thanks for the link 🙂 I want to make that crown!
Just wanted to say that the Liturgical Tea ideas originally came from Alice at the blog Cottage Blessings: http://alicegunther.com/pages/teatime.htm
There are lots of good ones there for all year round! We did the Candlemas one in February and had lots of fun w/ it!
I have ALWAYS wanted to know how to make hot cross buns-but never got around to it. Perfect timing!! And the idea of a Liturgical Tea is wonderful-thank you for sharing!
Great ideas, Lacy! And thanks for including me 🙂
I should have added, "How did I miss this last year!"
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I find it awesome that all the food ideas are sweet treats!!! Good thing no one in our house gave up desserts!! Thanks for listing all these-I am planning to do a craft and food each day next week with the kids so that they see how special this week is!!! Keep them coming!
I had forgotten about this website of Catholic awesome ideas, my kids have since grown up and have had too much going on to pay attention to the traditions of Holy Week and Easter! I don’t know if starting to pray Jewish prayers along with the Rosary has enlightened me or better yet freed up my spirit to be present and celebrate traditions of Holy Week – I’ll take both! Looked for traditional recipes and here it all is in Catholic Icing! I missed you Catholic Icing, but I’ll land here for awhile!