Smoothies On A Rainy Day

I can't believe it! Tomorrow Cashton turns 4 and today we were suppose to be celebrating with family and close friends but hurricane Delta had other plans for us. It felt terrible to do, but mid week I made the decision to "raincheck" Cash's birthday celebration to next weekend. Try explaining that to a 4 year old!

Since we've been stuck inside all weekend, we have been eating all of the junk food! Pizza, pasta, candy, popcorn... you name it, we've had it. So this morning after realizing that this weekends activities and diet were both a wash (literally). I've come to the conclusion that we need something healthy in our lives. 

Cash loves kitchen activities that he can help with, even though he only really eats chicken nuggets, fries, veggie/fruit pouches, bananas, pizza, goldfish and chips. (I know. I'm Mom of the year.) 

Anyway, I recruited his help to make fun fruit smoothies this afternoon. It gives him exposure to new foods (even if he won't eat them today ... maybe with exposure he will later on down the line) it lets us work on vocabulary, and gives him something to do, to break up the rain day movie-o-rama. 

Today we made "Triple Berry" fruit smoothies. We always keep lots of berries and bananas around our house so this one is an easy fan favorite. 

Ingredients:

1 Banana 

1 Cup Blueberries

1 Cup Raspberries

1 Cup Strawberries

1/2 Cup Blackberries

1 & 1/4 Cup Almond Milk

1/2 Cup Greek Yogurt 

Blend and enjoy! 

We freeze our berries to give it a thicker consistency but you can use all fresh fruit too! 

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Fun Holiday Snacks To Make With The Kids

We did this fun activity with Cashton a few days ago but the kids are about to go on Christmas break and I know some of you will be looking for things to keep them busy so I thought I'd share. This project was simple but fun. Cashton's favorite snack in the world is graham crackers so I knew he would be interested the second I brought out the box. I picked up these Candy Melts while I was running errands through Michaels, picking up Christmas decor and since they were on sale I grabbed two bags of them. You can never have enough chocolate in the house, right? 

After following the easy step by step directions in the microwave we had ourselves all the ingredients we needed.  Cashton needed a little help spreading the white chocolate over the cracker but he loved decorating the cookies with crushed candy canes. (I bought a bag of them already crushed but if you have older kids that might be a fun project for them to handle.) 

We used white chocolate and graham crackers for our holiday cookies but you can get creative with it too and expand your menu. Feel free to use any color chocolate (they legit come in every single color) or swap our graham crackers for your Oreos. If crushed candy canes doesn't do it for you, pick your favorite toppings like Christmas colored jimmies (sprinkles for you non-Pittsburghers). Have fun with it !

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