Food in containers (Anna)

Emma is at home with me today, not feeling well.

When she goes to day care, she give her her lunch in little tupperware containers that she carries in a lunch box. We tend to give her a fair bit of variety since we never know if she's having a feast or famine kind of day, and also if (being a toddler) she baulks at one thing, she has other options. So she might have leftover stirfry in one container, crackers in another, cheese in another, blueberries in another, etc.

This morning, after a long sleep, she was ready for some breakfast. We were having leftovers from last night - organic turkey sausage and salad (with added blueberries), and, on her request, I made some scrambled egg and toast as well. As usual, I put it on her plate at the table.

But instead of tucking in, she decided that the presentation was all wrong. She went into the cupboard with all the plastic containers and pulled them all out, lining them up on the kitchen floor in a long train. She then chose her favourites, and painsakingly transferred each of the food groups into seperate containers - one for sausage, one for salad, one for the blueberries she picked out of the salad, one for egg, etc. Then she balanced them all up into a huge "breakfast tower" and rearranged them until she was happy with her tower.

And then, she opened all the containers and ate. Every bite.