Food and Nutrition Expert | Recipe Developer
Do your kids bring home half-eaten apples, bananas, oranges or other fruit from their school lunch? Instead of being frustrated, capture those fruits soon after the lunch arrives home. Rinse them and trim off any brownish parts, then dice or chop into bite-sized pieces. Toss with one or two new fruits like a few frozen blueberries, chopped kiwi or canned peaches. Voila! A fruit salad snack they’ll love!
Cheers!
Looking for a healthy snack for the kids’ sports season wind-up party or a birthday gathering? Think fruit and vegetables. But, not in the ordinary way. The cheezies, chips or candy will be far more tempting to the kids until you pull this trick out of your pocket and wow the crowd! Google ideas for inspiration whether in the shape of a soccer ball, Mickey Mouse head, hockey stick or a princess dress. Here, I washed a string-less head from a real lacrosse stick and arranged the vegetables around it. The boys devoured it!
Cheers!
You know all of those really junky foods your kids see in ads or on the grocery store shelf and want you to buy? April Fool’s Day and/or Halloween are PERFECT times to grab a few of them.
But here’s the trick.
You buy a few when the kids aren’t around. Then, stealthily, you empty out the real contents. After they’re asleep, you pack their usual healthy lunch…veggies, fruit, sandwich. Each item gets placed inside one of the junk containers.
At school, they open their lunch to be wowed by your generosity on the junk. As they open the containers, they see the trick is on them!
Oh what fun!
(When we did this, we kept the junky items and let our son try them after school. Although he can always appreciate most chips and candy, he took one bite and no more of the other crappy lunch items proclaiming, “Yuck! This tastes like fake whipped cream.” Our work here is done!)
Cheers!
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