My kids are forever searching for a snack. Left to their own devices, they'd eat every blasted treat purchased from my weekly grocery runs in a day or two! It's exasperating. Snacks aren't cheap, and there's nothing worse than opening the cupboard to discover that you are, in fact, Old Mother Hubbard! (Of course, because the greedy little darlings have raided your stores)
Don't despair. The Broads are at the rescue! Here are a few quick fixes for those times when the kids are 'starving' and you're staring at the shelf blankly, wondering what in the heck you can come up with to silence the suffering.
The Saltine ...Oft Overlooked Staple
My grandmother, being a child of the depression, offered me this tasty treat one afternoon when I was quite young. I've never forgotten how yummy it was, and she shared that during those lean days of her childhood, her mother had come up with the idea.
You'll need saltine crackers, butter, a dish of sugar, paper plate(s), knife and spoon.
Butter the crackers and let the kiddies hold it over a paper plate and sprinkle sugar over the buttered surface. Tap off excess - and Voila! - Happy Kids. The sugar is minimal and the kids still get a sweet treat. That's It!
Sunflower Seeds - Long Lasting Yet Not Filling
I regularly keep sunflower seeds in the house. Ranch, Buffalo Ranch, Dill-Pickle, and Buffalo Wing Red-Hot are among the favs in this house. Give the kids a dish for the shells, and they'll be busy for at least half an hour. Plus, my boys can chomp away without ruining their appetites for dinner. *Warning: This Snack May Cause The Need For Vacumming.* I would never kid around about extra vacuuming. Okay, enough said.
Microwave Popcorn: Cheap And Easy To Hide (I say that last word with a completely straight face. Anyone with kids old enough to raid cupboards is nodding and smiling.)
'Pop' (Ahhh, I crack myself up sometimes) into your local Wal-Mart and you'll find the 24 pack Gourmet brand microwave popcorn for about $5.00. That's a lot of snacking-for-your-buck. Adding to the draw of this option, most kids are capable of peeling the wrapper off, plopping the bag into the contraption we call a microwave, and pressing the 'popcorn' button. No fuss, no muss. And... you're getting the kids to eat their fibre.
Happy Snacking!
Moìra
Don't despair. The Broads are at the rescue! Here are a few quick fixes for those times when the kids are 'starving' and you're staring at the shelf blankly, wondering what in the heck you can come up with to silence the suffering.
The Saltine ...Oft Overlooked Staple
My grandmother, being a child of the depression, offered me this tasty treat one afternoon when I was quite young. I've never forgotten how yummy it was, and she shared that during those lean days of her childhood, her mother had come up with the idea.
You'll need saltine crackers, butter, a dish of sugar, paper plate(s), knife and spoon.
Butter the crackers and let the kiddies hold it over a paper plate and sprinkle sugar over the buttered surface. Tap off excess - and Voila! - Happy Kids. The sugar is minimal and the kids still get a sweet treat. That's It!
Sunflower Seeds - Long Lasting Yet Not Filling
I regularly keep sunflower seeds in the house. Ranch, Buffalo Ranch, Dill-Pickle, and Buffalo Wing Red-Hot are among the favs in this house. Give the kids a dish for the shells, and they'll be busy for at least half an hour. Plus, my boys can chomp away without ruining their appetites for dinner. *Warning: This Snack May Cause The Need For Vacumming.* I would never kid around about extra vacuuming. Okay, enough said.
Microwave Popcorn: Cheap And Easy To Hide (I say that last word with a completely straight face. Anyone with kids old enough to raid cupboards is nodding and smiling.)
'Pop' (Ahhh, I crack myself up sometimes) into your local Wal-Mart and you'll find the 24 pack Gourmet brand microwave popcorn for about $5.00. That's a lot of snacking-for-your-buck. Adding to the draw of this option, most kids are capable of peeling the wrapper off, plopping the bag into the contraption we call a microwave, and pressing the 'popcorn' button. No fuss, no muss. And... you're getting the kids to eat their fibre.
Happy Snacking!
Moìra
Great snack ideas! I love popcorn. I like butter on saltines, but I never thought about putting sugar on them. Interesting.
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I actually saw Seventh-Heaven when we died: you couldn't GET! any moe curly, party-hardy-endorphins, extravagantly-surplus-lush Upstairs (in [the] end without end -Saint Augustine) when my o-so-beautifull, brilliant, bombastic girly passed-away due to those wry, sardonic satires.
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ReplyDeleteBut, seriously, folks, as I stand-up here on the Great Stage of our finite existence, I wanna warn U.S. of the coming Warning...
Rather than sending me to Hell (I was a naughty-naughty boy), God chose to send me a head injury! YeeeHaw, Paw!! Lemme wanna fill-you-up withe avant-gardeness and wisdom necessary to achieve Heaven with ANOTHER dry, succinct commentary of our predestined existence determined by U.S. ...
Wanna find-out the fax, Jak, in a wurld fulla the 'power of cowards'? Wanna wiseabove to help a 'Plethora Of Wurdz' [POW!] which are look'n for a new home in thy novelty??
Q: But [gulp] can anyone tell me the difference between K2 plus IQ? A: Nthn. In Heaven, we gitt'm both for eternity HeeHee Need a few more thots, ideers, wild wurdz (whoa, Nelly! easy, girl) or ironclad iconoclasms?
VERBUM SAT SAPIENTI: As an ex-writer of the sassy, savvy, schizophenia we all go thro in this lifelong demise, I wanna help U.S. git past the ping-pong-politics, the whorizontal more!ass! we're in (Latin: words to wise).
"This finite existence is only a test, son," God Almighty told me in my coma. "Far beyond thy earthly tempest is where you'll find tangible, corpulent eloquence". Lemme tella youse without d'New Joisey accent...
I actually saw Seventh-Heaven when we died: you couldn't GET! any moe curly, party-hardy-endorphins, extravagantly-surplus-lush Upstairs (in [the] end without end -Saint Augustine) when my o-so-beautifull, brilliant, bombastic girly passed-away due to those wry, sardonic satires.
"Those who are wise will shine as brightly as the expanse of the Heavens, and those who have instructed many in uprightousness as bright as stars for all eternity" -Daniel 12:3, NJB
Here's also what the prolific, exquisite GODy sed: 'the more you shall honor Me, the more I shall bless you' -the Infant Jesus of Prague.
Go gitt'm, girl. You're incredible. See you Upstairs. I won't be joining'm in the nasty Abyss where Isis prowls
thesuperseedoftime.blogspot.com
infowars.com
-YOUTHwitheTRUTH
-------------------------------
PS Need summore unique, uncivilized, useless names? Lemme gonna gitcha started, brudda:
Oak Woods, Franky Sparks, Athena Noble, Autumn Rose, Faith Bishop, Dolly Martin, Willow Rhodes, Cocoa Major, Roman Stone, Bullwark Burnhart, Magnus Wilde, Kardiak Arrest, Will Wright, Goldy Silvers, Penelope Summers, Sophie Sharp, Violet Snow, Lizzy Roach, BoxxaRoxx, Aunty Dotey, Romero Stark, Zacharia Neptoo, Mercurio Morrissey, Fritz & Felix Franz, Victor Payne, Isabella Silverstein, Mercedes Kennedy, Redding Rust, Phoenix Martini, Ivy Squire, Sauer Wolfe, Yankee Cooky, Young Kook: -blessed b9...
God blessa youse
(trust-N-Jesus)
-Fr. Sarducci, ol SNL
JohnLeary.com