Meatloaf? Grilled Cheese?

Meat Loaf

You’ll need:

One 5’ by 9’ bread pan

6 cups cocoa-flavored crisp rice cereal

One 10-ounce bag regular marshmallows

Red and green rolled fruit snacks

1⁄2 cup dried pineapple

2 tablespoons butter

1 1⁄2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

Coat the bread pan with cooking spray and set aside. In a food processor, quickly pulse the cereal. Crushing the cereal with a rolling pin in a large zip-topped freezer bag will work, if you don’t own a food processor.

Chop all of the rolled fruit snacks and dried pineapple into small bits. Set all ingredients aside.

Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a large saucepan over low heat. Add the unsweetened cocoa powder and stir until mixed. Add the bag of marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Add cereal, chopped fruit snacks and dried pineapple to the marshmallow mixture. Stir quickly, using a rubber spatula coated with cooking spray or butter, until well mixed.

Press mixture evenly into pan and let cool for 30 minutes. For a more convincing meatloaf, slice it up and place on a serving platter.

Grilled Cheese Sandwich

You’ll need:

Vanilla pound cake (store-bought is fine)

One cup vanilla or buttercream frosting

(store-bought is fine here, too)

Red and yellow food coloring

Cut the pound cake into one-inch slices and lightly toast in a toaster or toaster oven until they turn light golden brown. Let cool 8-10 minutes.

Once cooled, stack two slices for each sandwich and cut in half diagonally. Do this first to avoid making crumbs. Set ‘bread’ slices aside and add a couple of drops of yellow and red food coloring to the can of frosting. More yellow than red is better for realistic-looking American cheese. Carefully spread a generous amount of frosting between slices of each half of sandwich. Gently press down on the sandwich so the frosting slightly oozes out of the sandwich, creating a melted cheese effect.

I suggest that you actually serve these after the main course. It will be something totally unexpected for family or friends and a great opportunity to discuss God’s unexpected miracles. Have fun!