I have prepared and fed my kids 1,327,965 snacks as a stay-at-home mom. Morning and afternoon, every solid-food-eating day of their lives. Fruit is my first choice, but sometimes the options just get tired, and the kids are less-than-enthused about eating snacks (then crankiness ensues from all involved). With budget and time constraints, I can only be so creative with snacks.
Sometimes I have to "sell" the snacks to them in Spin Mama fashion -- "We got these from the farmers, who grew them just for us" -- and I try to keep it interesting, by having snack outside or at the park.
I had a brainstorm one day that has definitely made snack time a win-win for the kids and me. I didn't want to cut up a whole cantaloupe and cube it into bite-size morsels (laziness prevails!) , so I made a big deal one day that our cantaloupe was "on the rind." I piled a bunch of slices on big plate and let them help themselves. You would have thought I had given them candy! They loved it. And they ate half a cantaloupe between them at one sitting.
I've done the same with watermelon, although that is almost exclusively and outside snack -- sticky pink goo everywhere, anyone?
And now that I'm picking Jellybean up at school each afternoon, and she's so, so hungry, "on the rind" is totally the portable way to go. You can walk and chew cantaloupe at the same time.
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I should try that spin around here. How hard is it to get the hang of spin? : 0 )
Isn't it funny how your former occupation gets use as a SAHM? That is why I freak out when people portray SAHM's as these unemployable, brain dead, reality show watching women. It take skills and usually you can incorporate your other skills into homemaking and parenting...except on the lazy days. But hey, we all have them!
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