{lauren’s latest} skinny mini banana muffins

skinny-mini-banana-muffins

i don’t know why but i feel like if i make all my food into mini muffin form dylan’s going to eat it. we’ve had banana’s hanging around for days and we loved the banana chocolate chip muffins my sister-in-law made while we were in calgary last month, so … i made followed this great recipe […]

banana oatmeal snacks

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confession. i hate bananas. or should i say banana-flavoured things. who decided that banana would make a good candy? ugh. so gross. despite their horrid flavour, however, i know how great bananas are for you. and dylan seems to like them for some reason. so i kind of jumped on this recipe for a healthy […]

cheesy stove-top broccoli pasta

cheesy-pasta-and-broccoli

for about a year, we managed to avoid any major sickness with dylan. that was until a few weeks ago, maybe a month? when dylan came down with a nasty gastro-intestinal virus that had her out of commission for about a week (brought me to my knees, too, i’m afraid) and then after our trip, […]

why won’t my kid eat?

sushi-anyone

i have no patience. i thought having a kid would be the impetus i needed to learn, or develop (?) patience. i was wrong, because now i have the negative version of whatever percentage of patience i had before i had one, and never is this more apparent then when i’m trying to get her […]

breakfast smoothies

is it still a smoothie if I have to spoon feed her? technically… smoothies are so stupid easy to make (especially if you have an awesome munchkin fresh food maker like we do) you’ll seriously be asking yourself why the hell didn’t you figure this out sooner? just think, you can trick your babies into […]