Last night was one of those nights when I didn’t have a dinner plan, so I had to throw it together. I usually have a pretty complete plan, so when I improvise without a lot of forethought, sometimes I have to sell my concoction as the real deal.
I put together some deli turkey slices, but I was pretty sure that slabs of turkey sandwich meat were not going to pass muster with the kids. So I had this brilliant idea:
I rolled the turkey up and tied it with a long slice (from a peeler) of a carrot. The kids LOVED it. The 6 year old kept saying, “Thanks for the present, Mom!” The 3 year old took the carrot off, rolled it up, and pretended it was a UFO.
Needless to say, dinner was a success.
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Those roll-ups are such a cute idea.
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Awesome idea! That reminds me of those cartoons from the 70s about eating healthy snacks. Remember the “I hanker for a hunk of cheese” song, where the character put a circular piece of cheese between two ritz crackers and said, “look, it’s a wagon wheel.” Those were the days . . .
Presentation is everything! I need to up my game–it might get Hank to eat some different stuff.