To keep things interesting, I’ve started changing up the shape of my daughter's sandwiches and fruits by cutting them with my favorite new kitchen tool, the Lunch Punch. These awesome sandwich cutters come in cool shapes, like puzzle pieces and various animals. They also can be used for shaping grilled cheeses, cookies, Jello, and practically anything else you can imagine. No matter the variety of sandwich I make (her current favorite is ham and cheese), my daughter loves assembling the puzzle I pack for her. Then she eats the pieces one by one. She also enjoys playing with the animal shapes and giving them names.
If you can’t find the Lunch Punch nearby, you can easily use a regular sturdy cookie cutter instead. Once I even used her Lunch Punch to “shape” a pile of sticky rice. She loved it and ate every last grain. While I’m not one to sneak food into her diet, I don’t mind making her meals more fun. I’ll even admit that I enjoy it, too.
The Naptime Chef’s Favorite Sandwich Combinations (always served on whole-wheat bread):
Peanut butter with apricot jelly
Grape jelly with cream cheese
Sliced ham with swiss and honey mustard
Sliced avocado with swiss
Peanut butter with nutella (for a treat!)
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