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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 20 Minutes |
Ready In: 20 Minutes Servings: 1 |
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If you’ve got kids that are picky eaters, they’re more likely to eat if you let them fix their own meal. When my daughters were pre-schoolers, I began their culinary education with this simple, fun and healthy lunch plate, and they LOVED it. Ingredients:
1 canned peach or pear half (for the body) |
1 piece curly lettuce (for her skirt) |
1/2 hard-boiled egg, cut length-wise (for her head) |
1 slice of american cheese, cut into thin strips (for her hair) |
4 small celery ribs (legs and arms) |
1 black olive, or marachino cherry, cut in half (for the shoes) |
1 golden raisin (for her nose) |
3 dark raisins (eyes and buttons) |
1 marachino cherry (her mouth) |
small dab of mayo (for “glue”) |
Directions:
1. Place the drained peach or pear half cut-side down in the center of a dinner plate. With a paper towel, pat the top of the fruit dry. Tuck the lettuce leaf under the bottom edge of the fruit for her skirt. Slide 2 celery ribs under the lettuce for the legs, and put the “shoes” in place. Place the other 2 celery ribs on each side of the fruit/body for her arms.
2. Place the egg half at the top of the fruit for her head. Arrange the sliced cheese around the head for her hair.
3. You’ll be attaching the buttons (on the body) and the face features using a tiny dab of mayo to hold them in place. With a paper towel, dry the cherry so that cherry juice doesn’t run on the egg; then slice the cherry so you have a “smile” shape. Cut small pieces from one dark raisin for the eyes, so they’re smaller than the whole raisin used for the nose.
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