Stroke of Genius!
My mother has received many a phone call in my adult life that goes something like this:
Her: Hello?
Me: I am a STINKING GENIUS!!!!!
Her: pause, as she registers who is calling her, what I am saying, and I am pretty sure there might be an eye roll as to what "genius" plan I have come up with now.
Well folks, this one is so genius, I am taking it to the blog world.
I AM A STINKING GENIUS!!!!!
This past weekend I suffered insomnia. It is not something I hardly ever suffer from. If I had to suffer from it, at least I am on Spring Break. But while I laid awake for 3.5 hours on Sunday night/Monday morning I got a great idea for a snack bucket!
Huh?
I was laying there thinking about Pinterest ideas and I remembered that I saw something about people putting an Easter egg with a treat inside packed lunches and I thought, that would be cool if I was organized enough to put different snacks in eggs for Lulu. And then . . . well the idea took off. I started thinking of all the snacks I could put in the eggs, and then I changed my mind and decided I wouldn't use eggs because then she wouldn't be able to see what was in the egg and then I might have to open every single egg before she decided what snack she wanted. So I would use snack sized Ziplock bags.
So far I've put: animal crackers, string cheese, yogurt tubes, and peanut butter crackers in the bucket. After I go grocery shopping I'm adding carrrots, cashews with some cranberries, and applesauce. Folks, I started the bucket last night with the few things I had on hand and I have to tell you, this thing has already proved to be genius! Because: it's reasonably healthy. I honestly wouldn't care if Alexa or Andrew ate from the bucket all day (my kids, aren't much for eating so they probably could). It's already in a reasonable serving size- do I really care if she eats 8 animal crackers when she gets home from school or at t-ball practice? Nope. 8 animal crackers isn't overkill (and there's only a few bags on animal crackers in there, so they can't really load up on an excessive amount of animal crackers). Plus, it's so convenient. I don't have to figure out what snack to fix, who's going to like it, if it's healthy, or blah blah blah blah- it's all done. When we're dashing out the door grab a snack from the bucket! And the ultimate of ultimates that I love the most . . . Alexa gets to choose. Her almost 2 year old little mind thinks she has freedom of choice, because she got to choose a snack. There's no gigantic meltdowns because I won't let her have Easter candy or gummies- they won't be choices hardly ever! And if I want to let them be a choice- I can just drop them in the bucket.
Oh my snack life has just become a million times easier.
Her: Hello?
Me: I am a STINKING GENIUS!!!!!
Her: pause, as she registers who is calling her, what I am saying, and I am pretty sure there might be an eye roll as to what "genius" plan I have come up with now.
Well folks, this one is so genius, I am taking it to the blog world.
I AM A STINKING GENIUS!!!!!
This past weekend I suffered insomnia. It is not something I hardly ever suffer from. If I had to suffer from it, at least I am on Spring Break. But while I laid awake for 3.5 hours on Sunday night/Monday morning I got a great idea for a snack bucket!
Huh?
I was laying there thinking about Pinterest ideas and I remembered that I saw something about people putting an Easter egg with a treat inside packed lunches and I thought, that would be cool if I was organized enough to put different snacks in eggs for Lulu. And then . . . well the idea took off. I started thinking of all the snacks I could put in the eggs, and then I changed my mind and decided I wouldn't use eggs because then she wouldn't be able to see what was in the egg and then I might have to open every single egg before she decided what snack she wanted. So I would use snack sized Ziplock bags.
So far I've put: animal crackers, string cheese, yogurt tubes, and peanut butter crackers in the bucket. After I go grocery shopping I'm adding carrrots, cashews with some cranberries, and applesauce. Folks, I started the bucket last night with the few things I had on hand and I have to tell you, this thing has already proved to be genius! Because: it's reasonably healthy. I honestly wouldn't care if Alexa or Andrew ate from the bucket all day (my kids, aren't much for eating so they probably could). It's already in a reasonable serving size- do I really care if she eats 8 animal crackers when she gets home from school or at t-ball practice? Nope. 8 animal crackers isn't overkill (and there's only a few bags on animal crackers in there, so they can't really load up on an excessive amount of animal crackers). Plus, it's so convenient. I don't have to figure out what snack to fix, who's going to like it, if it's healthy, or blah blah blah blah- it's all done. When we're dashing out the door grab a snack from the bucket! And the ultimate of ultimates that I love the most . . . Alexa gets to choose. Her almost 2 year old little mind thinks she has freedom of choice, because she got to choose a snack. There's no gigantic meltdowns because I won't let her have Easter candy or gummies- they won't be choices hardly ever! And if I want to let them be a choice- I can just drop them in the bucket.
Oh my snack life has just become a million times easier.
I saw something like that on Pinterest. My kids are such pigs, they'd eat the whole bucket in a day.
ReplyDeleteMy kids would too...hope it works, Kate.
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