Don't Play With Your Food

Every parent has taught their child/ren, yelled and have been insistent on not playing with their food. Maybe we ought to lighten up a bit. I find the following to enlighten you with. I am sure you may have a few of your own. Please feel free to comment on you personal favorite.

1- M&M's (Plain)- placing a wad of 6 or so candies in your cheek: move one to the front of your teeth and try to remove the coating without breaking it up into small pieces. Do this fast enough so that the last M&M is not melted. Consider yourself an expert if you can do it with peanut M&M's. Same concept, just one at a time move the peanuts to the other cheek. Keep them all there till you are ready to eat the peanuts alone.

2-Malted Milk Balls- Place one on the roof of your mouth behind your front teeth. Now roll it with your tongue and at the same time try to scrape the chocolate off. I like to call this the lathe method. One caution though; too many tries at this will cause that piece of skin between your front teeth to feel like it has been burnt by hot liquids!

3-Shredded Mini Wheat Cereal- Frosted of course- bite it in half eating just the frosted part.

4-Celery-Place a dopple of cream cheese in a round blob on a plate. Take your celery and try to get the stringy stuff off with your teeth. Make hair on your cream cheese and bite off a few pieces for facial features.

5-Mashed Potaoes- Play Close Encounters of the Third Kind. If you are in a resturant just stare at it and keep saying "I know this"