April Fools Dinner 2010

Found some really good ideas for this years April Fools dinner.

Here's what we had...

For "dessert"! Pink frosted cupcakes!! (meatloaf with mashed potato "frosting")



Then, for "dinner"...


Chicken nuggets (wafer cookies coated in peanut butter and crushed cornflakes). I put them on the cookie sheet to add to the deception.

Grilled cheese sandwiches. (toasted pound cake with dyed frosting)

Corn and carrots! (Shaped starburst candies)

We're ready to EAT!!

Since is was April Fools, we had "dessert" first...


Tegan was all excited to have a cupcake... until it wasn't what she thought it was. It took a minute for her to figure out it was mashed potatoes, which she likes.

Jennan wasn't so sure about them either... but she came around, and ate hers.

Duncan was not happy that he didn't know it was mashed potatoes before he took a big ol' bite. He's not a fan of mashed potatoes. We let him scrape them off. He ate the meatloaf part just fine.

Liam was a happy camper! He loves mashed potatoes! He ate 3 of these.

Then we started eating "dinner"...

Liam was quite happy with his "grilled cheese". He didn't like the look of the "nuggets" so he didn't eat any.

Duncan liked the "chicken nuggets" the best.

Tegan was really happy about the "grilled cheese" too.

Jennan had a little bit of everything. Anna and I had to keep reminding our selves that this wasn't actually dinner. We kept trying to get the kids to eat. Then we'd remember... this is the dessert, they don't need to eat it.

They also had a special "drink" with "dinner"... jello!

The kids had a blast. We really enjoyed watching them have such a fun time at dinner. Hope you had a fun April 1st.

April Fools' Dinner

This year, I was a little stumped as to what to do for our April fools' dinner. Last year I made marshmallow-co-co-crispy "meatloaf", with vanilla ice cream "mashed potatoes", and caramel syrup "gravy". With chicken nugget "mini-cupcakes" with pink mashed potato "frosting" for dessert. But that was before we had the boys on their diet. So repeating last year's dinner was not an option.

Then I thought, maybe a change in utensils or eating on something other than plates would be fun. Like serving taquitos in a cup, and Anna came up with drinking their juice/milk out of a bowl.

I continued to think about it, and decided to make "ginger bread man" meatballs, with "candy cane" apple wedges, and french fries (couldn't think of anything clever for those). We make our own meatballs all the time, so all I had to do was shape them into little people shapes. For the apples, I used a scoring utensil to create the stripe effect. We used ketchup to decorate with.


Here's what it looked like.

Jennan looks happy with dinner. The girls' "cookie" had a dress.

Duncan thinks it's pretty silly.

Here's Liam drinking out of his bowl during dinner.

Happy April Fools' Dinner!