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, possibly?), however I do know clear up it: yogurt bark.
The cope with meals in my home is you don’t have to scrub your plate, and also you don’t must eat one thing you don’t wish 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 ultimately led me to intuitive consuming — which fully modified my life. Basically, I feel that method has saved each my daughter and me from lots of mealtime stress.
Nevertheless it’s completed 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 cope with these cast-off berries and chunks of banana. However what do I do with all this fruit? In the future I opened Instagram, and, like an algorithmic miracle, the reply appeared:
Ta-da!
I’ve been making yogurt bark for over a 12 months now — at the least twice every 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 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 most effective, particularly with bulkier chunks of fruit. However you need to use 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. Reduce the frozen yogurt into bark items.
Now behold as your baby’s breakfast rejects turn into 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 could have saved your self the torment of tossing out yet one more completely good chunk of banana.
Another 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.
(Photographs by Yossy Arefi for Cup of Jo.)
