Weekly Challenge - Week 33 (August 13, 2013)

Be creative!

Have fun this week and be creative with your food.  Look through your cookbooks or on-line for ideas.  Aren't the apple cups above cute!!!  I did not make these but found this on-line.  If this is a bit too complex, then try just cutting your veggies or fruit is fun shapes (celery swords and carrot eyeballs are great fun for little ones).  Or you can use the shell of a cantaloupe or watermelon as your bowl for fruit salad.  At a luncheon last week, several loved having cucumber wedges with the egg salad.  They said they have only seen fresh cucumbers cut in rounds - they thought having the cucumber wedges from my garden cucumbers was a fun refreshing change. 

You might add an ingredient your family loves or change the spices in one of my recipes.  Or experiment making a new flavor of ice cream.  Think out of the box and do something different (and share your ideas of what you have tried with Jenn on the FoodsbyGod facebook page). 

 

Tired of standard ham sandwiches and tired of quesadillas for lunches, Jon decided to make a ham/cheese quesadilla yesterday.  Both Jon and Tom loved his new creation.  This made a great lunch combined with some cucumber wedges from our garden (I cut the cucumber wedges in half so they were shorter for my luncheon). 

 

Or make a car or train or fish design out of your food for lunch.  Even if you don't have kids, it is fun and appealing to make your plate of food pretty for a meal.  No excuses that you are not creative because I am not creative yet even I can think of fun things to do such as our July 4th yogurt breakfast or my chili with steak.



The more you try things and practice the easier and more fun it becomes.  Enjoy God's foods and have fun letting your creative juices flow!

"You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore."  Psalm 16:11