Gone are the days of standing over the stovetop stirring the hot oatmeal as it cooks, planning a two week menu, and taking an hour to prepare a snack.
Now, my 5 year old can climb onto a chair and get the cheerios down. Ta-da...breakfast served in 30 seconds! As I lay in bed getting another 15 minutes of sleep and my four munchkins start climbing all over me, ready for the day's activities to begin, I get up to go have my own bowl of cereal. Still half a sleep I walk toward the counter and "crunch, crunch" under every step. OK, the invention of cheerios is one of a Mom's greatest treasures, but I can guarantee that for the rest of the day I'll be finding them all over the house, even though they were eaten in the kitchen!
Raisins...oooh, do we even dare? A healthy snack, so feeling like a great Mom, I hand over the bag as they excitedly head up the stairs to kindly share this amazing snack with all the other kids. Later, to my toes delight, I step upon the fresh "squoosh" of a raisin already tracked two miles on the bottom of someone else'es foot. I bend down and scrape it out from between my toes. Maybe the raisins need to go!
Fruit snacks! There we go...alternative to the sticky raisins, these have a bit more substance and aren't tracked as easily around the house. But, dare the kids drop one, no matter their shape, they will always roll to the most inconspicuous place, where, upon cleaning that corner you never get to a month later, will lie a melted pile of sticky..."what was that?"!
Kids foods... a true blessing in disguise!
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