Fun Food Ideas: Heart Shaped Snacks

Heart Shaped Valentine's Pancakes

Heart Pancakes!

For Valentine's breakfast I just made some pancake batter and put it in 2 separate bowls. To one bowl I added pink gel food colouring and to the other I added red gel colour. Just use a small spoon so you can control the spread of the pancake and put a small heart of pink or red batter in the middle and then the alternate colour for the outside of the pancake. Another quick and simple way to make a 'fun' meal. In my family, pancakes are not only breakfast but also dinner food!

Diane

Heart Shaped Sandwich

Heart shaped sandwich for my kid's lunch!

For Valentine's Day for my son's lunch I made a fun little sandwich. He has a salami and spinach sandwich on whole grain breads everyday so all I did was cut it in a heart shape with a cookie cutter. Super easy to do but just another way to remind my kids that I love them very much!

Diane

Valentine's Dinner

Pink alfredo sauce, heart shaped meatballs, heart noodles, red peppers and tomatoes!

This was an impromptu dinner for Valentine's Day. Hearts...so much fun and an easy shape to create! I just used my basic meatloaf recipe so you can do what you want with the meat but just place it on the grill in a heart shape. It does change shape a little bit as it cooks so really exaggerate the heart lobes so that you can tell it is a heart after it is cooked. I bought some heart shaped noodles but you can also add food colouring to the boiling water for noodles and make red or pink noodles. I just used a basic alfredo sauce from a jar and added pink food colouring, it looks a little toxic but my kids loved it and it does not change the taste of the alfredo. Then, to make a well-roudned meal, I added some red peppers and tomatoes.... why? It is V-Day, we need red and pink food.