Spice Up Toddler Lunches

We had gotten stuck in a rut with the same or similar lunches everyday. We (the kids and I) needed something new. 

Mashed Potato Boats with Pirates (red potatoes with cheese and olives)
Hearts and Stars (lunch meat and cheese on crackers)
Life Boats (clemetine slices)
Fish and Oysters in the Sea (frozen peas)

This is a hand-me-down book given to me. I hadn't really used it until my 3 year old started being a bit picky. He's willy to try most foods but says he doesn't like any of them. It was time to do something new, fun, and engaging. 

We hosted a get together and had some left over food. So let's get creative. 

I used my small cookie cutters to make cut outs for my two eaters. 

I did cheese up for my kiddo who may not eat the meat and meat up for the kiddo who avoids cheese these days. I would like to say it worked but nope. She ate it all and he only at the crackers and meat leaving the cheese to his sister. 

I microwaved small red potatoes and the cut off the top, scooped out the middle, mashed it with some butter and salt and pepper and then refilled them. 

Add a cheese triangle with a toothpick, then an olive as pirate.

My two love frozen peas. They were the oysters and fish in the sea and the clementine slices were the life boats with the mashed potato pirate ship started to sink (be eaten). 

Yummy Carmel Bread

This is something that I threw together at the last second for my family at the end of dinner. 

I used premade refrigerator breadstick, a tablespoon of butter and a few tablespoons of brown sugar. 

 

I melted butter and brown sugar together in the microwave. I baked the bread according to the package for 17 minutes. After five minutes in the oven, I brushed on the butter/sugar mixture on the bread and let it continue to bake.

 The bread sticks rose in the heat and the sugar mix seeped into the bread making it sweet, crunchy, and delicious!

 

Be sure to give the time to cool because of the sugar they are super hot!