Story Play Foodie | Special Guest Nolana Lynch

Hello Everyone!

How are you doing today? I am happy to be here to share with you a layout I created with the Foodie Story Play kit.

I LOVE the “Food Stories” prompt paper from this kit which focuses on what I loved to eat as a child, teen, and presently. Since I’ve been making a lot of my favourite Trinidadian childhood foods over the past few months, I decided this was the perfect story to tell.

I kicked things off by searching for photos of the food I cooked lately in my Google Photos, and was pleased to see that I did photograph quite a few of these dishes. Some of the things I love are a nice “Buss-up Shot Roti” with Curried Potato and Beef, Pholourie which is a perfectly spiced flavour burst snack that I was obsessed with growing up (and still am), Pineapple Chow - a spiced pineapple snack with chadon beni (cilantro), garlic, pepper, and more.

Recently, I’ve also been trying new dishes inspired by some of the things I also enjoyed eating growing up. I’ve always loved eggplant dishes, particularly a stuffed eggplant, so I tried an Eggplant stuffed with Spiced Lamb, Spinach Pancakes - which we call Dinosaur Pancakes - a favourite with my son,

I placed my photos in a banner frame in Canva, then printed and cut them to size. They were approximately 4 inches wide, I punched a hole in the top centre of each banner, added twine and I placed them into a 4x4-inch flip-up pocket, which I adhered to the food transparency from the kit. This I layered over the prompt page.

All in all this was a really fun way to pay homage to some of my favourite foods! Can’t wait to see what food stories you tell!

Find more inspiration from Nolana on Instagram here.