You already know that factor the place toddlers eat precisely one third of no matter fruit you give them? It doesn’t matter what dimension 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 remedy it: yogurt bark.
The take care of meals in my home is you don’t have to wash your plate, and also you don’t must eat one thing you don’t need to. This isn’t as a result of I’m the chillest dad or mum 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 eating — which fully modified my life. Generally, I believe that strategy has saved each my daughter and me from a variety of mealtime stress.
But it surely’s executed 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 compelled to take care of 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 — at the least twice every 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 methods 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 However you need to use any outdated yogurt to make bark.)
3-4. Plop fruit bits onto yogurt.
5. Microwave the nut butter or chocolate of your selection 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 turn out to be 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 occasions extra thrilling.
Congratulations, you might have saved your self the torment of tossing out one more completely good chunk of banana.
Some other good methods for utilizing up any sorts of leftovers? I’m ALL EARS!
PS: A five-ingredient dinner for chilly nights, and three great store-bought dinner-party starters, so you can just open and serve.
(Photographs by Yossy Arefi for Cup of Jo.)
