Who said that you can’t play with food? If your little ones are the kind of people who go around the plate and never finish it, we have the solution to get them excited at the table: make food fun!
Sometimes it is difficult for children to consume products rich in vitamins, such as vegetables, fruit or fish, because their taste does not excite them. To solve this problem, it is best to combine them with others that they do find appetizing or prepare them in a different format, playing with their presentation. This is what Samantha Lee did, for example, whose dishes are making the rounds on the web. This mother came up with the idea of to recreate fairytale characters and storieswith the food to get the two queens of her house to eat their plates. And the idea seems to be working.
If you want to try this creative formula to surprise your little ones at the table, we took from the menu of Apolo Seafood some precooked dishes of different brands, as well as vegetables and meats that can make your task easier. We accompany them with several presentations to inspire you to create stories in the dishes that apart from encouraging those crazy little ones to eat, will be the icing on the cake when you celebrate children’s parties.
Chicken nuggets
Chicken nuggets are usually a hit with the kids, which makes them ideal as a ‘lure’ to make other ingredients less popular for children, but very necessary for their vitamin content, such as vegetables, more ‘attractive’. Based on nuggets, vegetables and rice, they have prepared this dish that recreates the popular ‘Angry Birds’, as you can see below.
You can substitute the nuggets for other chicken or turkey products that also tend to delight children, such as the breaded chicken tearschicken tears, chicken flamenquines chicken flamenquines or the Cordon Blueof turkey breast.
Hake sticks and sticks
The sticks hake sticks -at Mariscos Apolo we have them from Marfrío- become the best option if your little ones are those who can’t stand fish, since in this format they usually find it appetizing. Because of its shape, it is easy to create figures, like the one you can see in the following image, based on rice and hake sticks.
Via Recetín.
Instead of the sticks, you can use battered hake filletsas well as other precooked fish or seafood dishes, such as tuna mini empanadillascalamares a la romana, gambas gabardina, muslitos de mar, croquetas or pavías de bacalao.
Stuffed potatoes
Because of their round shape, stuffed potatoes, popularly known as ‘bombs’, are very useful to give life to multiple characters on the table. You can combine them with vegetables so that the kids look at vegetables with different eyes.
Pizza bases
The pizza basespizza bases, a blank ‘canvas’ on which you can ‘draw’ with different ingredients, will surely leave your little ones speechless. They can also become the queens of their birthday parties.
Chicken hamburgers
The chicken burgersa meat that kids usually love, are also ideal for children’s celebrations.
Vegetables
Vegetables such as cauliflower, broccoli, beans or spinach need not scare children away from the table. Quite the contrary. Making them feel like little Popeyes full of energy thanks to their vitamins can be easy. It’s a matter of combining them with other flavors and associating them with fun dishes so that they become the best accompaniments to their meals.
Dinosaur park with broccoli trees and nuggets. Via Decorations the Manualidadesx
