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So, I don’t know about any of you, but the world of IG Mommy Bloggers and the pressure to Pinterest our way through our children’s younger years can be a lot, am I right?
I see so many of them stressing the importance of feeding their kids scratch-cooked everything and stressing the importance of hiding vegetables in their muffins and deceiving them into eating healthfully; I get it.
Kids are super picky.
Mine can be about some things, although when it counts she is usually looking for the vegetables before she is looking for things like meat; I count myself lucky that it’s not an all-out battle to get her to eat broccoli (not like an issue with 7 year old me in 1984, refusing to eat steamed Brussels Sprouts and staging a kitchen table sit-in- whoa, the drama).
I have subscribed to the idea that homemade is the only way but in the last year I have begun to bend here and there; semi-healthy Gorilla Munch cereal? Fine. Pizza? Ok.
After standing over a bowl and grating more than one zucchini only to have my child tell me that she doesn’t love my healthy double chocolate zucchini muffins, I finally had to ask myself if putting myself through the stages of making something like that only to have her be lukewarm on them is worth it; the answer?
Not really.
SO.
In my foray through the grocery store I found this Krusteaz Power Muffins mix (I think there were several flavors but I got banana nut and chocolate chip); swapped out the 1/2 cup oil for 1/2 a cup of unsweetened apple sauce and boom. Breakfast my kid will eat and we can both live with and I feel like I did something special.
Ladies, I think sometimes we have to compromise on things being “healthy af” and agree that if it was cooked in our ovens, inside our houses it is indeed homemade. If our kids are eating breakfast and learning and growing into good humans, I think we’re doing our jobs and that has to be enough.
Raise your hands if you’re with me.
So, there you have it.
Twenty minutes, swap out some fat, pat yourself on the back, and have a fantastic week.
Until Next Time,
The Chick and her Chickadee