Little One, at five years old, loves being in the kitchen and helping herself to a bite to eat. Though she’s my little sous chef, she has been wanting to create her own dishes lately. The other night, I intended on serving a gorgeous fruit salad to our dinner guests, but as I was finishing up the main course, Little One decided to help out and make dessert…on her own.
I was crushed and a little disappointed that she had used my pineapple (already peeled and cored). I had great plans for the pineapple! Instead, Little One decided to fill the hollow centre with blueberries and decorate the pineapple with blueberries. I have to admit that it was a clever idea. Okay, it was pretty cute. I couldn’t stay upset for too long! Yes, sometimes we just have to learn how to let go.
Today, Little One wanted a snack. What did she do? She made some Banana Peanut Butter Bites!
Note: We used to never have peanut butter in the house because my niece has a food allergy. However, since she has gone off to college and we rarely see her, Hubby and Little One insisted we have peanut butter in the house again. I do not let her have peanut butter on school days though, since her school is a nut-free zone. We can’t take the chances of exposing children with nut allergies to nuts.
Without any instruction, Little One came up with this idea. She took one banana and with a butter knife, sliced the banana into twelve rounds. She put a bit of peanut butter on six of the rounds and then added the tops to “sandwich” them. She’s all about “plating” her food these days and insisted on adding blueberries to garnish, despite me telling her that blueberries do not compliment peanut butter and banana. Blueberries and banana, yes. Peanut butter and banana, yes. Blueberries, peanut butter and bananas? No!
She’s fives years old. She’s stubborn. She loves making her own food. Who am I to argue?
Ingredients:
- 1 banana
- 1 tbsp peanut butter
These look so tasty and are so simple to make! Thanks for sharing!
My grandkids just love peanut butter and bacon sandwiches! They inherited this love from me lol
I’ve always loved the PB + banana combo, and the PB + blueberry combo, but I never thought about putting them together! Genius!
Great idea! I have lots of peanut butter that I need to use up!
OMG NEAT! Cute and YUMMY!!!!
That is totally adorable! My son, 3 1/2, would love these amuse-bouches!! Thanks for sharing and thank you for reminding us about the nut allergies – this is such a BIGGIE. My son is going into JK this year and I will be very mindful not to feed him PB before school.
Thank you, Emily! 🙂 What’s more fun than yummy, kid-friendly amuse-bouches, right? So true about the nut allergy part. My husband LOVES peanut butter and Little One (though she doesn’t like the texture of nuts) loves peanut butter as well. We do have a rule about no nuts before school though. Just don’t want any kid ending up in the hospital or worse in event the oils from the peanut butter or even from little one’s breath come in contact with a child allergic to nuts. So scary!
Cute idea and love the blueberry on top 🙂
Judy, not bad for a 5 year old, right? 🙂
Love bananas, love peanut butter, love this! Such a cute idea!
Thanks, Alison! My 5 year old daughter comes up with some pretty interesting kitchen concoctions! This was a good one!
That is so cute and so inventive. That’s one of my favorite combos, by the way!
Ahh! Thanks, Janie! When I was a kid, my mom would sometimes send me to school with a peanut butter and banana sandwich for lunch! Little One’s school is nut-free though. I don’t even remember knowing anyone with food allergies when I was a kid. Many kids we know have severe food allergies now.