sandwich art

Ella is a very sporadically picky eater. Some days pizza is her favorite meal and the next day she'll gag on it and say she doesn't like it. Oh Ella... 

I can count on one hand the number of times that "ate most of" has been checked under lunch on Ella's school report. Most days when I pick her up from school her lunch looks just like it did when I dropped her off. Maybe she just likes to sit and watch all her friends eat, who knows! I am always thinking of ways to get creative with her food to help her eat. I have found that she loves a good presentation with her food. If her pancakes are in the shape of Mickey Mouse she will eat them, if each piece of chicken has a toothpick in it she enjoys them better, so I thought of a fun way to spice up the presentation of her turkey sandwich I packed in her lunch today.

My mom used to do this for me when I was little and I loved it. It's so easy and it even made packing Ella's lunch early this morning a little more fun.

To make the bread paint just pour a little milk in a bowl and add a couple drops of food coloring. I use q-tips to paint on the bread and then toast it when you are done. And thats it! How fun is that! 

Hopefully Ella will like it, I will let ya know what her lunch report says today.