It’s hot. Honestly I am kind of a summer time wimp. I don’t really love the heat. Spring and Fall temp are more my thing. You know what makes the heat easy to take? Something delicious and cold to keep me distracted from the melty feeling I experience when I step outside my air conditioned [...]
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4 Comments »In a departure from the usual Thursday kid-friendly lunch idea I thought I would mix it up a bit with a kid-friendly snack. In my house you can’t go wrong with peanut butter. In a twist on the classic ants on a log snack made from peanut butter spread on celery sticks and topped with [...]
Posted in Evolving Kids, Kid Friendly Lunch, Kids in the Kitchen Tags: kid friendly, Kids in the Kitchen, snack 3 Comments »Bread Challenge Week 37 Maddy and I decided to take our day around the house and bake something fun. Cookies or cupcakes are fun but since I try to make all food fun we decided to make whole wheat soft pretzels using King Arthur’s Recipe. We had fun mixing and kneading. Maddy flexed her little [...]
Posted in Bread Challenge Tags: a year of baking, A Year of Bread, baking, bread, Bread Challenge, snack, whole wheat No Comments »Snack, snack, snack. That is what we do. All. Day. Long. Everyday. Seriously. Luke packs a a lunch and 3 to 4 snacks. I eat a small lunch and 3 or 4 snacks through the day and Maddy, well Maddy eats pretty much all the time. Okay not really all the time but the kids [...]
I am on a serious sun dried tomato kick. Actually I’m on a basil kick too. Sun dried tomato and basil, ooooh yeah. This hummus has major flavor, crackers, pita chips, veggies, sandwiches, eaten straight off a spoon, you name it and it will be delicious. Sun-Dried Tomato Basil Hummus Ingredients 1 can chick peas [...]
Hummus is one of the best, dips, condiments, party foods ever. It is quick, easy and inexpensive to make and adds so much flavor to your meal or snack. Hummus is my favorite thing to eat with crackers and veggies, which probably seems fairly obvious. Hummus is just a dip right? Wrong. Hummus is also [...]
Posted in Recipes, Snacks Tags: getting healthy, inexpensive, Monday Yumday, quick and easy, snack 7 Comments »Bread Challenge Week 11 Crackers. We go through so many crackers in the Evolving Mommy house. Maddy loves them, in a sort of obsessive way. Luke love crackers because they make such a great vessel to get peanut better to this mouth and I love them because they are so portable and easy. Crackers and [...]
Posted in Baking, Bread Challenge, Kids in the Kitchen Tags: A Year of Bread, baking challenge, bread, quick and easy, snack, whole wheat bread 8 Comments »
