What's in season? Blueberries!

I just recently discovered blueberries. They had somehow ended up on my list of foods that I don’t eat (along with coconut, tapioca, and anything with a custard-like consistency). I’m always hearing about how blueberries are a super food, filled with antioxidants, so I picked some up at Trader Joe’s and decided to give them a try. What a great decision that was! Juicy and sweet, I can’t get enough!

Learn all about blueberries at The Blueberry Council.

Read about blueberries in this classic children’s book, Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey.

How to eat blueberries:

• With your fingers, of course!
• Use toothpicks or fun appetizer sticks to pick up the blueberries (and work on fine motor skills, too!)

Let’s expand to other foods and textures:

• Top your plain or vanilla yogurt with a handful of blueberries

• Blueberry flavored yogurt
• Make some blueberry muffins – measure, pour, and stir for a sensory and strengthening experience!
• Add some blueberries to your pancakes – create a design or smiley face in your pancake
• Drink a blueberry smoothie
• Make a blueberry popsicle
• Spread some blueberry jam on a piece of toast, an English muffin, or a rice cake
• Crunch on some freeze dried blueberries

Not ready to eat blueberries? Here are some fun ways to explore:

• Build with blueberries

• Paint with blueberries
• Color with blueberries

• Count your blueberries
• Last, but not least, I love this one…go fishing for blueberries!

What is your favorite blueberry activity or favorite way to eat blueberries?