When my son was an infant, feeding issues were never a problem. My little bundle ate everything! He loved his fruits and veggies, and I always felt at ease knowing that he was eating the nutrients he needed. As a toddler though? That’s a different story! Suddenly I have this picky little eater on my hand. Fruit I can normally get him to eat okay, but veggies? That has become quite difficult.
Show Us Your Nugget Face
I recently learned about Tyson’s “Show Us Your Nugget Face”(#NuggetSmiles) promotion with their 100% chicken nuggets. This is perfect since my son LOVES Tyson’s chicken nuggets. The promotion is a great way to get picky eaters to eat healthy foods, along with their chicken nuggets. When you purchase specially marked bags of Tyson’s, you can send away for a FREE “Show Us Your Nugget Face” Plate to assist in the activity. The plate offers a fun template to create a fun smiley face out of Tyson’s chicken nuggets and other healthy foods. I couldn’t wait to try this out with my little picky one.
We headed off to Safeway one rainy day to shop for the nuggets and a few of my son’s least favorite vegetables. I was super excited to see that Safeway had the specially marked “Show Us Your Nugget Face”‘ Plate Offer packages. To help “decorate” the plate, we picked up a few condiments such as ketchup, mustard, and ranch. I decided the first vegetable I would try to get my son to eat was green beans. Luckily Safeway had them on sale! To complete the purchase, I also picked up brown rice as the starch for dinner.
To get your free plate, you simply mail in 3 UPC codes from the packages, or find the inside codes in each bag to enter online. It’s that simple! After you send in the codes, Tyson’s will send you your plate. 
Since I heard about the promotion, I kept telling my son we were going to make “nugget smiles” for dinner. Later that evening he asked me for his nuggets. We decided to go ahead and create a face before our Tyson’s plate arrived. I used nuggets as the eyes, ears, and nose. The mouth is brown rice lined with ketchup, and the hair is green beans with mustard. To create the appearance of eyes, I placed a dab of ranch dressing with a sliced olive on top.
He really enjoyed watching me craft the face together! He of course went for the nuggets first. However, there wasn’t a battle over the vegetables. He might have saved them for the last, but he did actually eat them without whining about it or telling me “yucky!”
Finally our Tyson’s plate arrived and I couldn’t wait to use it for lunch that day. This time I decided to focus on fruit along with his nuggets. Again I created the eyes, ears, and nose with nuggets. I used strawberries for the mouth, and sliced bananas and blueberries for hair. I also used a blueberries for the pupils of the eyes. The little man was super excited to see not only his new plate, but another fun face!
In record time his plate was clear! To say he enjoyed his nuggets and fruit is an understatement. He definitely was sporting a “Nugget Smile” during this meal.
Overall my son very much enjoyed the faces! Usually I have to play so many games to get him to eat his vegetables and other foods he is picky about. However, with the “face”, he thought they were so cool! He just naturally now enjoys eating the parts. He loves to say each part of the face before he gobbles it up!
How You Can Show Us Your Nugget Face and Win!
Now here’s the best part… in honor of creativity and nutrition, we are throwing a HUGE Pinterest Party to for Tyson’s “Show Us Your Nugget Face” plates! We will award four entrants with Walmart Gift Cards in varying amounts. The party starts goes from now through March 27, 2013. Click HERE for more details on how to enter!
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If you are looking for looking for a fun way to get your picky one to eat healthier foods, check out Tyson’s #NuggetSmiles!
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Your little one is so adorable!! And I’m the mother of a picky eater I’ve been making food fun for a very long time now lol I NEED this plate!!
And Tysons is already one of my little guys favorite snacks :)
Great Idea with the strawberries! These plates are a great idea!
I love the faces, what a fun way to eat.
Cute/Great Idea! I’m going to check out the plate offer for m nieces
what a great idea – live the beans & corn hair!
That is adorable! Your little guy looks so happy with his nuggets.
I’m not even a child, but now I totally want to play with my chicken nuggets and every other food on my plate. So cute!
Love the nugget face! What a cutie! We are big fans of thier nuggets. My son is picky too.
This is so cute! My son’s still too young for this, but I’ll keep it in mind. Chicken nuggets are one of the few processed foods I still buy rather than make myself, and I do usually buy the Tyson brand.
Oh the plate is so stinking cute! I want that plate! It would make meal time so much fun for my daughter! And the food is definitely a bonus too.
What a clever way to get kiddos to eat! WTG Tyson’s!
I really like this idea. I have to try this with my kids.
Oh that is cute :)
That’s so cute! My kids loved to help make faces with their food, now my 7yo tries to plate food with restaurant panache! lol as long as they eat! :)
LOL those definitely are cute!
I love that I am not the only one that lets my kids play with food. There are so many fun and creative things that get them to eat and Tyson has great products for playing/eating!
That is such a creative and cute idea! I love it!
love this idea to get the little ones to eat!
I do this all the time! I was actually thinking of a blog post myself :) Too cute!
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Such a great idea. I have a grandson who is going through the terrible two stage and his eating has declined. Maybe I’ll show this to my DIL.
What a creative idea! That’s a great way to get him to eat all his food!
Love those photos! My little ones have been begging my to get them those plates, everytime we go to the store. I think that it just might be the trick to finally get them to eat Broccoli and Carrots, fingers crossed. Thanks for sharing this!
What a fun plate/s you have there. I can see they your little one ate it all up. What a fun way to get them to eat everything and enjoy eating.
This is so neat! I never even thought about doing something like this. And just have to say, your little guy is absolutely adorable!!
Such a cute idea to get kids to eat! Ill have to try that with kids i baby sit
Oh my goodness! This is so fun! My daughter would love to make a lunch like that!