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Silly Tips for Making Food Fun

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What’s the best way to get kids to eat their veggies and try new foods? We have found that playing with our food is a recipe for success! If you sat at our dinner table you might find us using carrot sticks as swords or waving around our asparagus (they are spears after all!) We even allow green beans to be eaten without a fork occasionally (just not in from of Grandma).

Bottom line is our kids gobble up a lot of healthy food and that makes us feel good. Here are a few more ways to make eating food a fun time for the family:

Personalize It

My husband has a knack for forming food into amusing shapes. Who wouldn’t eat carrots and cucumbers carved as their name?

Fun food - veggies
Liam was thrilled when his dad baked his name in crackers!

Fun food - crackers
The kids helped make these special Mother’s Day rolls:

Mother's day bread
Make It Goofy

Face shapes are always fun!


We made this dragonfly from the Bean Appetit cookbook:

Fun food - dragonfly
Here’s a little snack that Liam made for me the other day. Proof that he loves to play with his food too!

Fun food - snack
Shape it like a Heart

We seem to be especially fond of making heart shaped food around here. This past Valentine’s Day my husband turned beets into this beautiful heart salad:

Heart beets

Last year he and the boys made a soup with homemade heart shaped noodles for Valentine’s Day:

 

Fun food - heart soup

And I couldn’t resist this silly little experiment to turn eggs into hearts:

 

Fun food - heart eggs
What do you do to make food fun for your family?

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Filed Under: Do It Yourself, Healthy Food, Healthy Kids Tagged With: fun food, healthy food, kids, Valentine's Day, vegetables

About Micaela

Micaela Preston is natural living educator and safe and sustainable product activist. She has spoken at conferences and events, has lobbied for safer chemical laws, and has consulted with many brands and businesses. Her book, Practically Green: Your Guide to Eco Friendly Decision Making was published in 2009.

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  1. Lori Popkewitz Alper says

    June 2, 2012 at 10:04 am

    I think we need to come to your house to eat! Your meals are much more fun than ours. I love the snack that Liam made for you.

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  2. Good Girl Gone Green says

    June 2, 2012 at 6:35 pm

    This is so cute!

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  3. Micaela says

    June 2, 2012 at 6:38 pm

    You are welcome anytime Lori! We would love to show you around Minneapolis!

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  4. Micaela says

    June 2, 2012 at 6:39 pm

    Thanks Stephanie!

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  5. Brenna @ Almost All The Truth says

    June 6, 2012 at 1:21 am

    I think my kids would love to come eat at your house too! I love how creative you get with the food!

    My kids love Salad People and we can do some fun things with those and whatever ingredients we can scrounge up. They also really like the mini muffin tin lunches I do sometimes. Now how did you do the eggs?

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  6. Micaela says

    June 6, 2012 at 7:21 am

    I've never heard of Salad People Brenna – sounds fun though! Here is a link for the heart shaped eggs – I had originally seen it on Facebook but just found the post!

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  7. Micaela says

    June 7, 2012 at 1:44 pm

    Just looked up Salad People – so cute! I can't believe I've never heard of it before – I have 3 other Mollie Katzen cook books!

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  8. Leah says

    June 7, 2012 at 12:51 pm

    Salad People is one of my favorite books y Mollie Katzen! I teach childrens cooking classes and want to have a class where we make rainbows out of food. I love your heart shaped beets Micaela!

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  9. Kids Dentist says

    June 21, 2012 at 11:24 pm

    I love the idea of soup with homemade heart shaped noodles for Valentine’s Day. This can really make cooking with my children more fun. Do you still have the recipe for the noodles?

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