These wholesome Apple Cinnamon Muffins are filled with whole wheat, fiber rich apples, pecans, dried cranberries and heart-healthy olive oil. While I first made them for a healthy snack for the girls, they have quickly become our favorite go-to breakfast on crazy mornings. It's Muffin Monday peeps!! Who's excited?!?! Nah.. you didn't miss anything, there really is no such thing. But in my world, there should always be a warm pan of muffins sitting on your counter and ready to eat on the most dreadful day of the week - Monday morning. So glad we can agree on that! But I'm taking it back, the most dreadful morning is ANY morning where your baby/toddler/kid doesn't sleep through the night and instead thinks it's time for a 2 o'clock crib dance party (thanks but no thanks Parker) or needs you and only you to put socks on their feet in the middle of the night (really Ellie REALLY?!?). For us moms, dreadful mornings are probably happening more then once a week. So to that, we can ...
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Blueberry + Lemon Toddler Muffins
These Healthy Blueberry + Lemon Muffins are the perfect summer breakfast, snack or even a treat for your toddler or big kid! They're easy, delicious, healthy, and most importantly completely make ahead. Summer break breakfast winning! It's Thhhhhuuurrrrrrrrrssssday! That means it's muffin day! Which I am currently making up because really any day can be muffin day! But I am posting this today, so you can make some time to go to the store to stock up on any ingredients you might need to make these delicious muffins for the kiddos (i.e. yourself) this weekend. And while I am pretty sure you will have all the ingredients to make these muffins already on hand, you might NEED to make a solo trip to the store so you can just wander around the aisles, hopelessly lost and content in being by yourself for a few minutes. Let's face it, these days solo shopping trips are my happy place. Let's get back to your future weekend plans - your Saturday morning should definitely be filled with these ...
Mary Guest Post – Lemon + Thyme + Chia Seed Mini Muffin
I'm still fairly new to this whole parenting thing, but a good bit of it seems to be about embracing wholeheartedly the differences in how you might do things and how you were raised or others might think you *need* to do things. While there have been moments that I have stopped cold in my tracks realizing that I had just said something verbatim that I had heard my parents say a thousand times. More often than not, I find myself sailing ahead in uncharted waters following a different star than my parents may have chosen. Growing up, I came from a home that bought cupcakes for school parties and on occasion would make an out-of-the-box treat, ala Betty Crocker, at home. Peanut butter spread in the crevice of a piece of celery was a gourmet treat. It may be perplexing to see the wide swinging of the generational parental pendulum when I choose to make the majority of our food from scratch and include ingredients du jour like chia seeds. The important thing I am realizing is that ...
Apricot + Coconut + Nutmeg + Flax Seed Mini Muffins
We decided to go camping last weekend with a group of friends and our toddler. We have been camping (really more of glamping) many times before the bebe was born but this was the first time we went as a family. And well, it was interesting. We left our one day camping adventure with one cut nose (babes), 4 hours of sleep (me), a leaking air mattress, contest to see who could get the dirtiest (babes) and 1 hangover (hubby). And as we drove off still smelling like campfire, we decided that yes, we did have a ton of fun. That decision I think came from complete exhaustion. Chasing a half crawling/half walking toddler around a camp site where there is nothing really for a toddler to do except get into trouble was more then exhausting - 'E, please stay out of the fire pit. E honey, let's not play with the fire ants. E, FREEZE, we don't walk out into the road like that. E, let's put the hatchet down and play with this, ummm, really exciting frisbee.' So against all better judgement, we ...