Having a hard time receiving the kids to eat their veggies? Here's a great way to encourage them to take pleasure in doing what's high-quality for them: change their vegetables into neat little LEGO bricks!

LEGO Bricks
  • Pick the right vegetables. Many veggies are appropriate, including carrots, potatoes, squash, rutabagas, etc. You could also use stiff tofu and add a food color to the water, which the tofu will immerse up. You can do this with the veggies, too.
  • Arrange your veggies. Boil or steam the vegetables so that they're soft but not spongy. Immerse them for a couple minutes in salt water. This will make them a little firmer by drawing out some of the moisture.
  • Cut the vegetables into cube shapes. As with real LEGO pieces, you'll need to decide what bricks you'd like to make: a single stud square brick, the four stud square, or the six stud rectangle.
  • Poke a straw all the way through the vegetable. This will create a encircling hole and will push out the inside of the vegetable brick. Be sure to match holes with the LEGO stud arrangement you're creating.
  • Using a toothpick, push the stud from the underneath of the vegetable brick until it sticks out of the top. This ensures that it looks like a LEGO brick, whole with studs!
  • Check that the studs are evenly located crossways the top by looking at the brick sideways. If it's not, carefully press a stud back in, or poke one farther out.
Serve with a smile on a colorful plate. I am loving IT :)