Frankly, I am bored. I am bored out of my mind of preparing, looking at, and serving the same foods in the same ways to my kids. I don't know about you, but they moment I introduce ANY new type of food configuration to my 3 year old, whether it features any 1 of the 4 foods that she will actually eat or not, if it LOOKS different, then it goes neatly into the slobbering jaws of
the two yellow labs waiting beneath her booster (darn opportunists.) I go
nuts art directing food into bugs, faces, and flowers shapes. She's... like,
sooo over it. So I tried a different tact. Instead of reducing it down to the gimmicky, perhaps I take a more sophisticated tack....I went Euro, I made a toddler version of fondue in the microwave. Mozzarella and ricotta with a bit of garlic and salt was the gist and I served it with chunks of bread, salami and veggies ( cherry tomatoes, broccoli flourettes, zucchini) to dip into it. I found a use for my leftover wooden shish-ka-bob skewers as well as a new way to prepare the old standbys, plus was able to sneak in a few new ones. She loved that she could "play" with her food and I loved not having to make another veggie still life. What I feared would be a "Fondon't" with some creative license was a Fon-DO!