With it being September and apple picking season, we have lots of apples in our house these days. And thinking that you may be eating lots of apples too, I thought I’d quickly share with you how we like to pack our apples for our little outings we have at the park for picnics and playtime.
Noah and Penny love to bite into their apples like most of us do but I find that for a picnic it’s fun to have your apples in slices. The only problem with slices is that they get brown quicker than I’d like. Unless you have some lemon on hand to cut down on the oxidation process here is my fun way to bring our sliced apples along for our park dates and keep them nice and pretty on the inside!
You’ll need your knife and cutting board, your apple(s) and a rubber band(s).
Your going to slice your apple like in the picture above and the ones below. Basically, you are making four slices around the core.
Now you’ve made two slices…
And now you have four! 🙂
Okay, so once you have you apple cut into four sections you are going to put it back together…kinda like an apple puzzle of sorts. Once all your pieces have made your apple whole again you are going to wrap your rubber band around it.
Like this:
See, now you are ready to hit the road with your sliced apple
I don’t know about you but no icky brown apple pieces makes my day!
(Yeah, I’ll admit I’m nerdy like that!)
LOVE!!
That is clever! Definitely going to be using this technique from now on.
What a gret idea! We eat apples all the time and my hubby takes one everyday to eat as a snack. I will try this!
Ever cool! I’m going to give this a try!
neat trick!
What a great idea! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Another thing to do that looks really cool & keeps the apple slices from browning: Peel an orange & separate the sections. Then core & cut an apple of similar size into slices. Put them back together, alternating orange & apple slices. Hold together with a rubberband. I think I might of gotten that tip from Family Fun, but I’m can’t guarantee it.
that’s great! thanks for sharing
I love it! how ingenious!
Hahaha! You’re awesome!
Love this idea! I’m going to try it out next time I pack an apple in the kids lunches.
AWESOME! I didn’t know that would even be an option!!!! Love it! My mama used to dip ours in Sprite.
I like your way. Great ” puzzle ” huh!
Fun times!
Hey check out this cute idea! I thought it went along with your post for today! I shared your blog with her. Hope that’s okay 😉
Cristina
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That is so clever!
Love this idea! Mostly because as the mom I am the one that ends up eating the yuck ones….Thanks for saving my apples!
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mandi
How clever! I bet kids really get a kick out of that too.
So very clever!!
I’m having one of those “that’s so simple and yet brilliant, why didn’t I think of that” moments. My daughter wanted to take apple slices for lunch yesterday and I explained that they would be brown and yucky by lunch time. You are so stinkin’ smart!!! Thanks for the tip!
I just saw that on a bento box blog (http://www.anotherlunch.com/2010/09/snack-idea-how-to-make-aussie-apple.html) … it’s such a great idea.
Genius.
Holy cow! Genius! I am so doing this next time we have a picnic. Thank you for sharing this.
I laughed out loud when I saw this post. My husband cuts his apples that way and I always make fun of him for being too lazy too cut it the “proper” way. I guess I’ll have to stop teasing him now that there is a good use for it!
Very clever. My oldest daughter is missing all of her top front teeth and cannot eat apples that are not cut….so I haven’t been sending them in her lunch…UNTIL today. Thank you . She will be so happy to see an apple held together with a rubber band in her lunch 🙂
Great idea, I will definitely do this for my little one once I can convince her to eat skins again. I find my little one will not eat the skin right now though, so what I do is keep a little spray bottle of lemon juice in the fridge and just give them a quick sprites before packing them or even putting them in a bowl for her since she tends to graze and there are no brown bits!
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ok, that is so dang clever! I am going to have to put this in the bag of tricks!
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I LOVE THIS!!!!! I have 7000 apples in my kitchen right now and apples on the go will help me get through that pile!
Awesome, can’t wait to try it out.. I can’t stand it when my apples go brown, eeewwww!!!
I’m a new follower of your too cute for words, blog!!
I love it! My daughter is always saying how “yucky” her apples are at lunch time because they are brown! Now i wont have to worry about it! Grrreat idea! thx!!
Love the idea, but when I saw the picture with the rubber band, I could see my boys flinging the rubber band, maybe with a bit of apple, across the lunch room 🙂 Not practical for creative boys, or maybe it’s just my boys!
OMGosh! That is too freakin’ clever!!! Trying that tomorrow in my son’s lunch! Thank you for that amazing tip!!!
You can also just cut wedges but don’t cut all the way into the apple. All you have to do is pull the wedge out and you don’t need a rubberband to hold it together.
This came just in time! We have a fridge full of newly picked apoles and a 4 year old who won’t eat anything with a brown spot 🙂 Thanks for sharing thi genius and fun way to keep cut apples looking fresh.
-Dana