I saw a similar recipe in Family Fun magazine months and months ago in a Dr.'s office and thought that I could convert it to something MY kids could eat. That recipe used a rice crispy treat base, but B and K can't eat that so I just used jumbo marshmallows. I cut slits in the marshmallow and Barrett pressed in small pieces of dried fruit (pineapple and strawberry). Then he wrapped strips of fruit roll-up that I had cut to the proper height around the marshmallows. As we worked on these, I talked to him a little about real sushi and showed him a picture of real sushi. He enjoyed snacking on the dried fruit until I let him dig into his little masterpieces!
Since I'm on the topic of dried fruit, if your kids like dried fruit as much as mine, I highly recommend getting a food dehydrator. Huge money-saver and I can even make my own fruit roll-ups with it...and there's no dyes or high-fructose corn syrup in these!
I'm sure if you google you can find the original recipe from the magazine.
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Very fun. So creative! Where did you get your dehydrator?
We got our dehydrator at Walmart. It was the only one on the shelf, so I don't know if it's a regular item. but I'm sure you could do Site to Store too--it was only $30 something.
Also, to make the fruit roll-ups is an extra piece that I ordered online. And the dried fruit that babies eat is freeze dried which is a little diffrent than dehydrated. Nora probably needs more teeth before she can eat dehydrated fruit.
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