Tyson Chicken Nuggets Bumblebees in Springtime #SpringtimeNuggets

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When I was given the opportunity to participate in decorating Tyson Chicken Nuggets with a springtime theme, I jumped at it. Since my husband and I are adopting internationally, we realize that by the time our kiddo comes home to us, we will be through much (if not most) of their baby stage and we will be headfirst into parenting a toddler.  My goal as a parent will be to create fun and yet nutritious meals for my kiddos that they will enjoy eating. So my brain was spinning when it came time to putting together a Springtime Tyson Chicken Nuggets meal! I was able to get lots of fun decorating ideas on Club Tyson’s Facebook page HERE and I also went to Walmart for additional ideas.

I headed to Walmart to attend their Tyson Chicken Nuggets Springtime Demo. I was able to see ideas of how to make plates of Tyson Chicken Nuggets into smiley faces, rainbows, flowers and more.

While at Walmart, I picked up a bag of Tyson Chicken Nuggets, some ketchup, mustard, barbecue sauce and two potatoes. And yes, of course I used a $0.75 Tyson Chicken Nuggets coupon on my bag of nuggets!  😉

Once I got home, it was time to put my plan into action. My goal was to make an easy meal using my Tyson Chicken Nuggets that was both fun and nutritious.  I had a bag of fresh spinach and some celery in my fridge.  I also had fresh cornbread muffins and leftover cooked red quinoa that I was planning on using in my meal.

I popped a cookie sheet with Tyson chicken nuggets into the oven.

Meanwhile I boiled & mashed two potatoes and in a separate pot made red quinoa.  I took a cornbread muffin that I had made earlier in the day and frosted it with my mashed potatoes. I dipped the frosted muffin into the cooked red quinoa. I chose to use red quinoa because it is so good for you and it looks like fresh soil.

On a cutting board, I placed the cooked Tyson Chicken Nuggets, celery stalk and fresh spinach. I cut the fresh spinach into grass-like strands and the celery I cut into my flower stalk. The celery had to be thick enough to support my chicken-nugget tulip and also stay in the corn muffin base.  (And yes, I did use a Mickey Mouse cookie cutter to aid in cutting the chicken nuggets into bee shapes!)  I thought I was going to use a carrot (as pictured below) but then decided to stick with celery.  You could very easily substitute carrot sticks for celery sticks though!

The really fun part of preparing this meal was when it was time to “paint” the Tyson Chicken Nuggets with condiments like ketchup, mustard and barbecue sauce. The ketchup went onto the nugget that my tulip. The mustard went onto the nugget bumble bees. And the barbecue sauce was the stripes and eyes of the bumble bees.

My finished product with three bumble bees flying to my red tulip!

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I was really pleased with this Tyson Chicken Nuggets Springtime meal! Not only is it colorful and fun, but I was able to sneak some veggies and quinoa into the meal! And don’t worry, just because I don’t have any kiddos yet, the food didn’t go to waste! Hubby enjoyed every last bite!

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I am a member of the Collective Bias®  Social Fabric® Community.  This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias®  and Tyson. #cbias #SocialFabric #SpringtimeNuggets”.  As always, all thoughts and opinions are 100% my own.