We packed up most of the contents of the pantry a few days ago, but we hadn’t yet sealed up the boxes. Poppy found one of them this morning and pulled out a bag of dried apples.

“Chips!” she said.

“Would you like a chip?”

“Chips!”

So I opened the bag and handed her a small piece of dried apple. She promptly popped it in and, to my surprise, didn’t spit it back out.

“Mmmmm,” she said.

It took her about 10 minutes to chew up that wee dried apple, but she did chew it up. And now she’s eating her lunch — mashed sweet potato with a little bit of apple sauce stirred in.

Maybe I need to put a bowl of broccoli in a box and leave it where she can find it.