that factor the place toddlers eat precisely one third of no matter fruit you give them? It doesn’t matter what measurement portion you provide, or how a lot they claimed to have wished it 5 minutes in the past? I don’t know what that’s about (torture, perhaps?), however I do know find out how to resolve it: yogurt bark.
The cope with meals in my home is you don’t have to scrub your plate, and also you don’t must eat one thing you don’t wish to. This isn’t as a result of I’m the chillest mother or father ever. It’s as a result of I’ve my very own historical past with meals guidelines and restrictions, which ultimately led me to intuitive consuming — which utterly modified my life. On the whole, I believe that strategy has saved each my daughter and me from a whole lot of mealtime stress.
However it’s finished nothing for the fruit. The fruit has remained deserted on the plate each time. And since I’m the one who publicly disavowed the clean-plate membership, I’m additionally the one who’s been pressured to cope with these cast-off berries and chunks of banana. However what do I do with all this fruit? At some point I opened Instagram, and, like an algorithmic miracle, the reply appeared:
Ta-da!
I’ve been making yogurt bark for over a yr now — a minimum of twice per week — and it’s going effectively for everybody. It takes about 60 seconds, and it has saved me from barrels of meals waste. All you want is a scrap of parchment paper, a scoop of yogurt, and the fruit your child left mashed up on their breakfast plate. Right here’s find out how to make it in 5 straightforward steps…
1. Chop up your deserted fruit.
2. Smear yogurt onto parchment paper. (I discover that thick Greek yogurt works the very best, particularly with bulkier chunks of fruit. However you should use any previous yogurt to make bark.)
3-4. Plop fruit bits onto yogurt.
5. Microwave the nut butter or chocolate of your alternative for 30 seconds, then drizzle it over the yogurt. Then stick it within the freezer.
6. Minimize the frozen yogurt into bark items.
Now behold as your baby’s breakfast rejects develop into the thrilling frozen snack they will’t consider you “cooked” for them. There’s one thing about freezing a room-temperature meals that makes it 10 instances extra thrilling.
Congratulations, you may have saved your self the torment of tossing out yet one more completely good chunk of banana.
Every other good methods for utilizing up any sorts of leftovers? I’m ALL EARS!
PS: A five-ingredient dinner for cold nights, and three nice store-bought dinner-party starters, so you’ll be able to simply open and serve.
(Images by Yossy Arefi for Cup of Jo.)