Play Food

When my kids play "house" or "restaurant", they like to have pretend food to play with. Only trouble is I really do not like purchasing inexpensive plastic junk food for them to play with. There are some great play foods out on the market today, for example at Ikea they have material veggies in a basket, like we'd get at the Farmers' Market. There are also some good wooden foods out there too like Melissa and Doug, but they are a little out of my price range. Another solution that I've come up with is whenever I finish a packaged raw food product, I let them use the container as part of their play food. It's great! They have spirulina jars, hemp protein powder containers, vega packages, Chlorella and sproutein containers, and a cornucopia of other items. Makes for interesting free play, for sure!