Healthier Poptarts

These are a little time consuming, but it’s a fun recipe to make with the kids. It’s a much better alternative to store-bought poptarts, and you can make them with wheat flour and your choice of filling. My personal favorite is strawberry jam! (Also… scroll to the bottom for an easier version of this recipe,…

Side Dish: Whipped Sweet/Regular Potatoes

This is a good, easy side dish. We don’t eat it very often but the kids love it! It’s very simple, too. I do 1/2 regular potatoes and 1/2 sweet potatoes so that the kids can get the great benefits of a sweet potatoes without getting gas (sweet potatoes make my kids have gas pains!)…

Meatloaf for Kids

This meatloaf recipe was delicious! There are quite a bit of veggies in it and they’re pretty much completely unnoticeable. I put a little ketchup on top when serving to my toddler and he loves it (my baby eats it plain… I guess she’s a toddler now, though.. but whatever). I most recently served this…

Breakfast: Egg Muffins

I’m always on the lookout for a good, healthy, make-ahead breakfast. They’re not as easy to figure out as lunches and dinners… and frozen waffles usually seem so much easier! However, these muffins turned out to be VERY easy and VERY good! I even eat them for breakfast sometimes! It’s a very versatile dish, so…

Exclusively Pumping

With my first baby, Hudson, I breastfed for somewhere-around-3-weeks and then gave up after mastitis attacked! I just wasn’t doing everything properly and didn’t even know it. With my second baby, Everleigh, I decided to exclusively pump. We breastfed in the hospital for 3 days but then immediately went to pumping at home. I had…

Potato Bake (+ Veggies!)

This is a recipe for a side dish for toddlers. This one ends up sort of casserole-style and is able to be cut in to squares to put in your containers for weekly lunches or dinners! I don’t use potatoes often in their diets, but they ARE a good source of nutrients! Yes, they’re a…

Spaghetti & Meatballs

This is the way that I make my Spaghetti & Meatballs for my kids. They love them and it doesn’t take long to make. We enjoy turning it in to a learning experience on Following Directions!