The best way to begin as a little chef, is probably to be a little eater. Thankfully, Kyrie has never been an overly picky eater, though she has become pickier at age 4 than she ever was before. She likes mushrooms on her pizza or fresh in a salad, but not in any other dish. She loves guacamole, but dislikes avocadoes. It's often difficult to predict how she will react to a meal. However, we always know a few things about Kyrie:
1) She loves soup, especially chicken noodle.
2) She has a sweet tooth.
3) She will eat (& negotiate) as much as she needs to get a candy treat after her meals.
4) She eats small portions.
5) No matter how much she eats, she will want a snack (or several) 30 minutes later.
Attending to Kyrie's snack habits can quickly become a tiring task. We have told her that she needs to eat more at meals a thousand times, but at the end of the day she is going to eat in the manner that best fits her biology. For Kyrie, that means small meals and several snacks throughout the day. I try to be understanding of this, no matter how frustrating it is to constantly have to fetch and/or monitor her snack acquisition.
Over the weekend, as she was pestering me for another snack, I placed crackers, peanut butter and a butter knife on the counter. Then I told her to grab herself a plate and the stepstool because if she wanted a snack, she was going to make it herself. We have practiced spreading in the past, so she was pretty eager to prepare her own peanut butter crackers.
Here is Kyrie making her first batch of PB crackers:
First, some peanut butter.
I love how carefully she is spreading the PB in this photo.
The taste test!
And, of course, the clean-up!
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