You understand 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 methods to resolve it: yogurt bark.
The take care of meals in my home is you don’t have to scrub your plate, and also you don’t should eat one thing you don’t need to. This isn’t as a result of I’m the chillest father or mother ever. It’s as a result of I’ve my very own historical past with meals guidelines and restrictions, which finally led me to intuitive consuming — which utterly modified my life. Generally, I feel that method has saved each my daughter and me from a whole lot of mealtime stress.
But it surely’s achieved 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 take care of these cast-off berries and chunks of banana. However what do I do with all this fruit? Someday I opened Instagram, and, like an algorithmic miracle, the reply appeared:
Ta-da!
I’ve been making yogurt bark for over a yr now — not less than twice per week — and it’s going nicely 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 methods to make it in 5 simple steps…
1. Chop up your deserted fruit.
2. Smear yogurt onto parchment paper. (I discover that thick Greek yogurt works the most effective, particularly with bulkier chunks of fruit. However you should utilize 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. Lower the frozen yogurt into bark items.
Now behold as your little one’s breakfast rejects grow to be the thrilling frozen snack they’ll’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 will have saved your self the torment of tossing out yet one more completely good chunk of banana.
Some other good tips 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 possibly can simply open and serve.
(Images by Yossy Arefi for Cup of Jo.)
