Sneaky, sneaky...

So I've started sneaking vegetables and protein powder into my kids food.  Mostly to get my youngest to eat them at all - if he had it his way, a daily diet would consist of carbs, fruit, and soy milk.  My 3 year old is doing so much better at eating what I give her - at least a bite of it - but veggies are tricky.  

I mean, she ate fish last night.  Herself.  And asked for more.  

After I got up off the floor, I gave her more and made a big deal out of it.  She told me that she could see her muscles getting stronger while she ate it.  I wholeheartedly agreed.  

I started with a recipe for zucchini muffins.  So far, my son has eaten two of them, and that's more green vegetables than he's had in the last 6 months actually make it down his esophagus.  And stay there.  I made a batch like the recipe called for, but it still had a decent amount of oil and brown sugar in there, so I did another one with applesauce instead of most of the oil, less B sugar, and some protein powder.  They are almost as good!  

I'm thinking of picking up one of those books that has a bunch of recipes for sneaking veggies into food.  If you've had success with any of these, please let me know.

Now I'm off to take my son for a haircut.  He hates them when I do them, so we'll see how this goes.  It's an 'example' video for moms on how to cut their child's hair themselves to save money.  I'm thinking it might end up being more of a outtakes reel - "Cutting your own kids hair when your kid doesn't think it's as great of an idea as you do".

We shall see...

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