Willow stayed the night but came after dinner. She did have breakfast with us this morning. We had an option: rice cereal or oatmeal. Cress and Phyllis had rice cereal. Phyllis had a second bowl of oatmeal. Rice cereal is just plain brown rice, leftovers usually, reheated and served with cinnamon sugar and milk. Willow only ate half a bowl of oatmeal. On oatmeal we usually serve two spoons of brown sugar and raisins, if you want.
When camping with the Tervalons, Nicole put raisins on her hot cereal and I was shocked at how much she put on. Then I thought, why not? And now we use a lot of raisins. We use more sugar than my parents allowed, too. When I was a kid we got one spoon of sugar, like teaspoon sized. I read that cold cereal has so many teaspoons of sugar that letting your child have a little on hot cereal was a worthwhile trade off. Actually it said let your kids put on the amount of sugar they want because it will almost surely be less than in commercial cold cereal. But I am not sure they counted on cheerios and mini wheats - though we get frosted mini wheats. Personally I eat puffed kamut - which has far less sugar - but in any event two spoons of sugar it is.
For lunch we had leftovers. Soup or the noodle concoction of the other night (sorry that entry is in the other journal - prechallenge, so to speak). Two girls ate noodles. Cress and I ate soup. I had toast - Cress passed. Phyllis ate and said she liked the mac-n-cheese muffin but didn't want it in her lunch. Dai said she liked it but only ate it to finish so she could have some Halloween candy. Cress did not like it point blank.
Dinner tonight is BBQ chicken and veggies from the freezer/crock pot recipe. It doesn't seem particularly promising. Watery. I am making rice to go with it. We shall see.
It was bland. Not bad but boring. And none of the girls really card for it. Yes, it has a lot of veggies, but they are cooked so far down I am not sure they had much nutritional value left. Maybe next time I will try four hours on high rather than eight on low.
Much Halloween candy today and I opened the pomegranate dark chocolate morsels. Phyllis finished her candy so the rest has been consolidated into one sharing bowl - hence why I let them kind of gorge today before it all became a free for all.
When camping with the Tervalons, Nicole put raisins on her hot cereal and I was shocked at how much she put on. Then I thought, why not? And now we use a lot of raisins. We use more sugar than my parents allowed, too. When I was a kid we got one spoon of sugar, like teaspoon sized. I read that cold cereal has so many teaspoons of sugar that letting your child have a little on hot cereal was a worthwhile trade off. Actually it said let your kids put on the amount of sugar they want because it will almost surely be less than in commercial cold cereal. But I am not sure they counted on cheerios and mini wheats - though we get frosted mini wheats. Personally I eat puffed kamut - which has far less sugar - but in any event two spoons of sugar it is.
For lunch we had leftovers. Soup or the noodle concoction of the other night (sorry that entry is in the other journal - prechallenge, so to speak). Two girls ate noodles. Cress and I ate soup. I had toast - Cress passed. Phyllis ate and said she liked the mac-n-cheese muffin but didn't want it in her lunch. Dai said she liked it but only ate it to finish so she could have some Halloween candy. Cress did not like it point blank.
Dinner tonight is BBQ chicken and veggies from the freezer/crock pot recipe. It doesn't seem particularly promising. Watery. I am making rice to go with it. We shall see.
It was bland. Not bad but boring. And none of the girls really card for it. Yes, it has a lot of veggies, but they are cooked so far down I am not sure they had much nutritional value left. Maybe next time I will try four hours on high rather than eight on low.
Much Halloween candy today and I opened the pomegranate dark chocolate morsels. Phyllis finished her candy so the rest has been consolidated into one sharing bowl - hence why I let them kind of gorge today before it all became a free for all.
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