Easiest way to introduce dried fruits to your kids 👇🏼
🤚 Before anything, bookmark this post to come back to later!
🍊 I’m all about food exposure and introducing new foods to my kids’ palettes that they normally wouldn’t try on their own.
🫚 Did you know it takes kids about 10-20 times of repeated food exposure before they’re even interested in trying the new food?
🍌 We explored new fruits in honor of the holiday Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish celebration of the trees (think of it like Earth Day), and the kids made it clear they weren’t fans of banana chips, apricots, figs, or dates. So guess what?? We made chocolate bark with these exact fruits so they can learn to like them. And guess what? I’ll keep exposing them to these fruits over, and over again.
🍫 This trail mix chocolate bark tastes like my favorite fruit and nut bar of my childhood (Cadbury’s used to be my fave!) but with much cleaner ingredients and nothing artificial.
Line a small baking sheet with parchment paper.
Melt your white chocolate chips and coconut oil together and stir until smooth (you can either do this on the stovetop or in the microwave).
Pour the melted chocolate onto the parchment paper and spread around so it lays flat and even.
Line pretzel sticks up to resemble a tree. We did 4 in a bunch on the bottom, 4 on top, and a bunch spread out for branches.
Sprinkle graham cracker crumbs on the bottom for your soil.
Using a spoon, add melted milk chocolate on top of your pretzels to resemble a tree.
Add dried fruits/seeds to hang on your tree.
Freeze for 30+minutes. Once the chocolate has solidified, break it apart, and enjoy!
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