On Saturday mornings before I can be completely woken by the “mama, I awake…maaaamaaa up! up!” coming from the monitor, Bret rescues my sleepy state by shutting-off the little voice box and scooping-up the sweet yummies from their beds. I’d love to linger in that cloud of down until noon, but I simply can’t resist the smells and conversation coming from the kitchen. It goes a little something like this:
Greta: What doing Daddy?
Bret: We’re making french toast.
Lulu: We make fench toes!
Greta: I do it! I do it! I do it!
Bret: Don’t drop the egg on the floor Greta
Greta: I drop it? I drop it? I drop it?
Lulu: NO DEDO (Greta), Daddy do it!
Greta: Mama up? Mama up?
Bret: No, Mama’s sleeping
Who wouldn’t want to leap out of bed for this scene?
French toast for the twinkies
Saturday is usually freezer pop day too. The little ones love to have them after their nap so I make a big batch to last the week. I have this theory that the more green color I include in their food from a young age, the more open they will be to a variety of foods as they grow. After all, isn’t it usually the green color that turns them off before they even have a bite? I can’t be the only one who has had to request no basil on the Margherita pizza (a crime) because even the very sight of little green specks will slam those little lips shut before they even have a taste. I participated in the “green ban” with my oldest son and as a result he still has an almost colorless diet. So, with the twins I started with green. Their first solid food was avocado and I’ve been sprinkling something green on almost everything I serve them since. I can’t prove my efforts are effective, but I can tell you that my youngest two are crazy about spinach pops and my oldest would have thrown it at the wall if I’d served him something that resembled frozen grass.
Try them!
Blend together one bag of organic frozen spinach, two cups of frozen mango, one can of organic pears in their own juice (with the juice). Blend it for a while so that the spinach becomes completely pureed. Add some apple juice or water to thin if needed. Pour into fascinatingly shaped freezer molds and freeze for at least four hours.
After Nap Snack
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Brilliant! I’m doing it. I even have those fun star shaped popsicle molds!
Awesome! I’m totally going to try this!
I love the idea of giving them anything green from the start. I try so hard to make vegetables a normal part of life…that and seasoning, I had to tell Karinna that Pepper is the spice of life, so she wouldn’t balk anytime I ground some in to whatever we were making… anyway I would love it if I heard one of kids one day say to one of their friends, “what do you mean you’ve never had beet or zucchini/carrot waffles?”. I will definitely need to add spinach pops to the repertoire. thanks for the great idea!
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