If you want to be more creative when eating fruit, especially with your children then here are some ways, in which you can add fruit to and eat fruit in fun ways, so they will taste even more tasty and look even more beautiful.
What we eat is often affected by how appealing or easy it is, these ideas for fruit will definitely make them fun and appealing and are great ways to encourage children to eat healthy and enjoy fruit.
When eating ice cream to the ice cream you can add some fruit in there like banana, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and all the other types of berries. Children obviously love ice cream, so they would also love the fruit in there as well.
Or, you can eat ice cream with fruit as a fruit cone, like a normal ice cream cone but add a lot of fruit in there. You can even use ice cream cups or even a plate.
It's not important to have a chocolate fountain, simply just melt some chocolate into a bowl and cut some fruit into pieces like apple, banana, and strawberries and dip the fruit into the chocolate and just enjoy it. You can also keep them in the fridge, so the chocolate goes hard and make them into chocolate covered frozen fruit.
Using this way to eat fruit is an easy way, the fruit looks colorful all together, to make fruit skewers just add your favourite fruit onto the skewer stick, it is great to have as a snack or at a party, make sure your children are safe with the sticks.
Fruit pots are products you can get from the supermarket these are good to add to your children's packed lunch, you can also make them at home. A fruit salad is a big salad of chopped fruit you can make in a bowl or plate, and you can add juice, syrup or mint leaves to it.
Add fruit to a cake or a tart, there are a lot of recipes out there that include fruit as an ingredient, you can place the fruit at the top and inside the cake or tart, using strawberries is very common in cakes. Or, another fun way is to make strawberry shortbread kabobs they look and taste amazing, check my Pinterest board for the full recipe.
You can get an ice lolly tray which makes lollies (or you can use empty yoghurt pots) and add your preferred juice and then add chopped fruit which you would like to have, there are alternative ways which you can make them this includes using yoghurt, milk, water or fruit puree. Then leave to freeze and enjoy your lollies, these will be great for summer.
Make jelly and add fruit inside the jelly and then leave it in the fridge for a couple of hours and when it turn into jelly you can decorate it even more by adding fruit on the top and around the jelly.
In yogurt add some fruit like all the berries or any of your choice, or you can get yoghurts that already have fruit in so you can eat it as it as. Another way is to make frozen fruity yoghurt bites you can find the full recipe here.
Make custard of your choice banana or strawberry, and before serving add chopped fruit like banana, apple, strawberries and other berries into the custard, it will taste delicious with cold custard. Or, perhaps trifle, trifle includes jelly custard and double cream you can add fruit to the jelly and at the top of trifle with some grated chocolate.
I hope you enjoyed these ideas and will use them to eat more fruit and encourage your children as well.
Not only can these ideas work, you can also cut fruit in awesome shapes using cookie cutters or a melon baller to make them look cute.
Another tip, when having breakfast, dessert or even dinner prepare a fruit salad along side it, you can even get plates for kids that have 3 or four sections in them which are called sectioned plates so in one section you can add fruit and vegetables.
What we eat is often affected by how appealing or easy it is, these ideas for fruit will definitely make them fun and appealing and are great ways to encourage children to eat healthy and enjoy fruit.
Ice Cream and Fruit cone
When eating ice cream to the ice cream you can add some fruit in there like banana, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and all the other types of berries. Children obviously love ice cream, so they would also love the fruit in there as well.
Or, you can eat ice cream with fruit as a fruit cone, like a normal ice cream cone but add a lot of fruit in there. You can even use ice cream cups or even a plate.
Chocolate
It's not important to have a chocolate fountain, simply just melt some chocolate into a bowl and cut some fruit into pieces like apple, banana, and strawberries and dip the fruit into the chocolate and just enjoy it. You can also keep them in the fridge, so the chocolate goes hard and make them into chocolate covered frozen fruit.
Fruit skewers, Fruit pots, and Fruit salad
Using this way to eat fruit is an easy way, the fruit looks colorful all together, to make fruit skewers just add your favourite fruit onto the skewer stick, it is great to have as a snack or at a party, make sure your children are safe with the sticks.
Fruit pots are products you can get from the supermarket these are good to add to your children's packed lunch, you can also make them at home. A fruit salad is a big salad of chopped fruit you can make in a bowl or plate, and you can add juice, syrup or mint leaves to it.
Cake or Tart
Add fruit to a cake or a tart, there are a lot of recipes out there that include fruit as an ingredient, you can place the fruit at the top and inside the cake or tart, using strawberries is very common in cakes. Or, another fun way is to make strawberry shortbread kabobs they look and taste amazing, check my Pinterest board for the full recipe.
Ice lollies
You can get an ice lolly tray which makes lollies (or you can use empty yoghurt pots) and add your preferred juice and then add chopped fruit which you would like to have, there are alternative ways which you can make them this includes using yoghurt, milk, water or fruit puree. Then leave to freeze and enjoy your lollies, these will be great for summer.
Jelly
Make jelly and add fruit inside the jelly and then leave it in the fridge for a couple of hours and when it turn into jelly you can decorate it even more by adding fruit on the top and around the jelly.
Yoghurt
In yogurt add some fruit like all the berries or any of your choice, or you can get yoghurts that already have fruit in so you can eat it as it as. Another way is to make frozen fruity yoghurt bites you can find the full recipe here.
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Custard or Trifle
Make custard of your choice banana or strawberry, and before serving add chopped fruit like banana, apple, strawberries and other berries into the custard, it will taste delicious with cold custard. Or, perhaps trifle, trifle includes jelly custard and double cream you can add fruit to the jelly and at the top of trifle with some grated chocolate.
I hope you enjoyed these ideas and will use them to eat more fruit and encourage your children as well.
Not only can these ideas work, you can also cut fruit in awesome shapes using cookie cutters or a melon baller to make them look cute.
Another tip, when having breakfast, dessert or even dinner prepare a fruit salad along side it, you can even get plates for kids that have 3 or four sections in them which are called sectioned plates so in one section you can add fruit and vegetables.
