Teeny Turkey Sandwiches

We made these fun bird sandwiches for a Thanksgiving party last year and they were a huge hit :)  They are super easy to make, yummy, and fun to do with the kids.  Below is the original recipe....Enjoy!!

Ingredients:

• Bread (original recipe used cocktail pumpernickel bread)
• Vegetable Cream Cheese

Decorations:

• Peas (eyes)
• Red Pepper
• Pepperoni
• Cheese
• Cashew
• Slivered Almond
• Parsley

Instructions:

1. For each sandwich, spread vegetable cream cheese between 2 slices of bread
2. For the head, use a small drinking glass or round cookie cutter to cut a circle from another slice of bread, then stick it to the top of the sandwich with a dab of cream cheese.
3. Add facial features such as pea eyes, a red pepper or pepperoni snood (above the beak), and a pepper, cheese or cashew beak.
   
4. Wedge pepper, slivered almond, or parsely sprig feathers between the bread slices.

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Trees in a Broccoli Forest Recipe

Trees in a Broccoli Forest

2 carrots, peeled

3 cups broccoli florets

4 cherry tomatoes

3 Tbsp parsley leaves

Dipping Sauce:

1/4 cup plain non-fat yogurt

1/4 cup low-fat sour cream

2 teaspoons honey

2 teaspoons spicy brown mustard

1. To prepare dipping sauce, combine yogurt, sour cream, honey, and mustard in a small bowl.

2. Hold carrots against cutting board and trim off ends.

3. Cut each carrot in half, crosswise, then lengthwise to make four pieces.

4. Arrange each plate by putting two carrot pieces side-by-side in the center.

5. Arrange broccoli around the carrots forming a cluster.

6. Arrange the tomatoes at the top of the plate.

7. Spoon dip around the base of carrots and sprinkle with parsley.

Mermaid Bananarama

Here's another HEALTHY & FUN food idea...

Need:

• Banana
• Mozarella Cheese Stick
• Handful of Dried Apricots
• Handful of Dried Cranberries
• Raisin (optional)

What To Do:

1. Make a slice 3/4 of the way up the stick. Then pull or slice several thinner strips from each side of the mozarella stick.

2. Cut the banana into 3 sections. Take a slice off of the bottom of each section of the banana so each section lays flat.

3. Place the banana sections on a plate to make the lower body, torso and head of the mermaid. Now take the sliced off banana and cut two strips for arms and 2 triangles for the tail fin.

4. Set the mozarella hair on top of the mermaid's head. Cut the raisin in half and place on the mermaid for the eyes.

5. Cut several dried apricots in half lengthwise and cut a small silver for the mouth and nose.

6. Cover the mermaid's torso with apricots in the shape of a bathing suit top.

7. Cover the lower body (tail and fin) with cranberries. Now eat and enjoy!

Salad People Recipe

Ingredients you could use are below (it’s totally up to you, as you can see in the above photos, not all of the listed ingredients were used) - play with it and base it on what your children would love most.

- Cored pear halves, peel optional
- Raisins
- Fresh & ripe or canned & drained Dried cherries as well as pitted cherries
- Cottage cheese or very firm yogurt
- Strips of cheese (cut wide and thin, to be limbs)
- Cherry tomatoes
- Sliced bananas (cut into vertical spears as well as rounds)
- Blueberries
- Cantaloupe or honeydew (cut into 4-inch slices)
- Peas
- Celery sticks (plain or stuffed with nut butter)
- Cooked angel hair pasta, or a “curly” variety
- Sliced radishes
- Shredded carrots
- Parsley sprigs
- Sliced strawberries
- Small spinach leaves
- Sliced black olives

1. Place a pear half in the center of each plate, flat side down.

2. Arrange a round scoop of cottage cheese or very firm yogurt above the narrow top of the pear, so that the cheese or yogurt looks like a head and the pear looks like a torso.

3. Create arms and legs from strips of cheese, banana spears, melon slices, or celery sticks (stuffed or plain).

4. Create hair, facial features, hands, feet, buttons, zippers, hats and so forth from any combination of the remaining ingredients.

5. Name it and eat!