Create Instagram Worthy Snacks for your Toddler.

These days, you're not really parenting unless you can fill your "feed" with carefully styled shots of amazing, nutritionally balanced meals crafted into artistic flat-lays and envy-inducing displays of kids smiling their way through snack time. Brought to you by Yoplait Petit Miam.

I took the time to road test the current toddler-snack trends on Pinterest and Instagram, so you can boost your online parenting cred.

1. Animals
Nothing says "Superparent" harder than snacks carefully crafted into adorable animals. Especially if the individual elements of the animal can be enjoyed separately; "Mmmm those sloth's eyes sure are delicious, now try his ears!" I mean, if you haven't eaten bananas shaped into dolphins, have you ever really lived?

The Road Test: I started small with an apparently simple little scene of a dinosaur made from bananas and peanut butter toast with a kiwifruit palm tree modelled on a Pinterest post. Apparently being the operative word. I don't remember reading in the instructions how to deal with the toddler screaming, "No Dinosaur. I want cat! No dinosaur!!!!!!!" upon presentation of the animal. It certainly didn't include the step about scrambling around in a flurry trying to cut sultanas into whiskers in an attempt to get the toddler to eat the "dino-cat" and ending up eating it yourself.

Verdict: Check what animal your little sweetheart wants prior to starting. All in all a lot of effort for a massive fail.

2. Rainbows.
It's all about unicorns and rainbows right now. You knew that right? Arranging any platter into a rainbow combination is sure to make even the fussiest eater happy, and fill your feed with instant, on-trend cred.

The Road Test: So after Googling "How many colours are there in a rainbow?" and trekking off to the greengrocer to find my missing 5 colours, I found out its surprisingly hard to find Violet coloured fruit. So, we went with 6 colours of the rainbow, I mean, miss 4 won't care anyway right. So after purchasing a watermelon, green grapes, blueberries and plums, (I had bananas and mandarins) we headed home to arrange our artistry. Although, by the time we made it home, the kids had eaten all the blueberries straight from the packet and one was asleep in the pram with an Indigo stain around her mouth.

$20 and 35 minutes later we were home ready to assemble our rainbow fruit platter. Now, I had high hopes that this would be simpler than the animal arrangement because it only requires laying out cut fruit in the right order. Turns out I seriously underestimated the time intensity of preparing 5 (yes 5, because we no longer had violet or indigo) different fruits while juggling the demands of 2 kids. But, 30 minutes later, we got there! Hurrah.

In my haze of triumph I did sadly forget to photograph the platter until after the kids had finished. Not a complete fail though, as they only picked out the watermelon and banana anyway, so I still had a somewhat interesting platter of 3 colours for my 'gram.

Verdict: A lot of effort, waste and expense for what is essentially handing your kid some fruit.

3. Bento Arrangements.
This is something that surely even I can pull off! Even a handful of sultanas and some pieces of cheese look impressive in beautifully designed and intricately segmented Japanese-designed lunch packs. The only tricky parts for achieving this look are paying for a beautiful bento lunchbox, maintaining it, not letting the kid lose it, and coming up with enough different items of food (that you are ok with letting the public know that your kid eats) to place in each of the separate sections. Easy!

The Road Test: I got 2 uses out of my daughter's $40 special bento lunchbox before she left it in a sandpit on the other side of Sydney, and 4 uses from my son's dinosaur bento lunchbox (which, no joke retails for $116.95) before I caught him filling the compartments with various "samples" from the park.

Verdict: I can't afford children.

4. Do Something Else.
While Instagram and Pinterest are filled with inspiration and creativity, I think I am going to stick to my strengths and continue to be a "like-er" not a poster. For me as a parent, I am better off handing my kids something quick and easy, they love and I feel good about giving them, like Yoplait Petit Miam. That way, we can spend the time I would have spent getting frustrated at trying to create "Origami Fruit," building a fort and hunting for bugs together instead.

The Road Test: Happy kids, happy parents. Took about 20 seconds to hand them a delicious Yoplait Petit Miam from the fridge, they smiled and sat happily and quietly eating. Then we went out for a wander in the local park. Snack time nailed!

Verdict: Life is for living, not photographing. But I did get some killer snaps of the smiles of relief on my kid's faces that my little experiment was over.

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