The Snack Rut

It occurred to me yesterday when I was pouring Goldfish crackers into a bowl for Alex that we seem to be in a snack rut.  Alex comes home from school every day and immediately asks for Goldfish crackers.  Last night I had the brilliant idea to look through some cookbooks and websites and find some fun, yummy, yet healthy snack ideas for the boys.  I made a list and told the boys this morning that we were going to start a new thing.  Instead of coming home and expecting Goldfish crackers every day I will have a different snack ready for them.  Logan asked about the snacks so I told them a few that I had found.  One of the snacks is a Chocolate Peanut Butter Dip that you eat with apple slices.  I found it in my Deceptively Delicious cook book.  Logan seemed excited about it, but Alex made a face and said, "I don't want new snacks."  Alex is going to be my challenge.  He eats a waffle with syrup for breakfast every morning.  I will ask if he wants something else and he always says, "I want a waffle."  My goal is to help him try new things and hopefully sneak some fruits and veggies in as well since he rarely eats them.  We bought a food processor about a year ago and I hid vegetables in casseroles, pasta sauce, and mashed potatoes.  The boys eat them pretty well and never realize those "yucky" vegetables are hiding in their food.  I plan to make a small batch of baked macaroni and cheese with pureed vegetables hidden in them.  If I give the boys 1/2 a cup for a snack that should be enough and they would be getting a healthy snack.  Other ideas I stumbled across were Nutella Cookies, mini pizzas, and applesauce muffins.  The planning has been fun and I know the baking/cooking will be fun.  We will just have to see if the eating works out the way I hope.  Ha.  I'll keep you all posted.

In the meantime, here are a couple of new photos of the boys.

Logan was dressed as Luigi from Super Mario Bros. and then decided Luigi would be a ninja.  It was funny watching him run around wearing the Luigi costume with a ninja mask and carrying a sword.

A very cool Wolverine.  I had no idea that Wolverine wore sunglasses and played keyboard when he wasn't fighting bad guys with the X-Men.  Talk about a talented super hero.  Ha.