The Mediocre Mom's Guide to Greatness

Tuesday July 13th, 2010

Today’s Activity:

Have Breakfast for dinner.

Note:

Here’s an idea for a YUMMY meal.  It is from the Family Cookbook for the Flat belly diet.

Chocolate Stuffed French Toast.

Evaluate:

This breakfast was SO good I cannot believe it is from a diet cook book!  As Elese was finishing eating she said, “This is so good I can hardly speak!”  It’s true, I felt the same way.  Both Max and Elese loved having french toast for dinner and the fact that it was filled with chocolate made it even better.

Tags: breakfast, chocolate, dinner, french toast, recipe
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Monday April 11th, 2010

Today’s Activity:

Go on a walk together.

Note:

Allow them to take their time and enjoy the outdoors.  If you start to get impatient then just walk ahead a bit and circle back to get a little exercise and give them more time to play.

Evaluate:

We didn’t make it on our walk.  We planned to go but the night got away from us because we decided to try our hand at some homemade stuffed french toast and it was totally worth it, although, we could have used the walk to burn off some of those extra calories!!

Recipe:

So incase this looks super yummy to you here is how we made it.

Idea: We got the idea after watching Throw Down with Bobby Flay.

What we did:

First we prepared some cream cheese and added fruit (we used frozen Strawberries for my husbands and Frozen Raspberries for mine so we had to thaw it first).  Mixed it really good and even microwaved it to make a good consistency.

Then we dipped the bread in our egg batter (just egg’s and cinnamon) and then we dipped it in corn flakes and slivered almonds.

Cooked one side of two pieces of toast, flipped one and added the cream cheese filling on top and topped it with the other piece of toast…flipped it again and YUMMY!  I added some powdered sugar and cool whip to mine.  The kids even liked it!

Tags: Bobby Flay, outdoor, recipe, stuffed french toast, walk
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Friday March 12th, 2010

Today’s Activity:

Baking day!  Start some Amish Friendship bread.  I would suggest scrolling down and reading the comment from Baked that was left Nov. 20th, 2007.  Also, it is easiest to store this in a plastic Ziploc bag and just massage the bag rather than stirring the dough.  Once you get to day 10 then go here to learn what to do next.

Note:

If you’ve never done this before it is a lot of fun and it about 10 days you will have some yummy bread!

Evaluate:

OK- let me translate this recipe for you.  I’ve only done this before after someone gave me the start and this was the recipe I found.  While the recipe helped me I would suggest a few differences.  First off save yourself some dishes and just mix the yeast and water in your liquid measuring cup.  Second, put the flour and sugar directly into a Ziplock bag and mix it in there.  Also, read the comment that I mentioned before and when you give this to someone make sure you give them the information included in the comment as well as the baking directions that are in the second link I gave you above.  Hope that helps.  Also, the kids weren’t too disappointed that we didn’t actually bake something today because Max just wanted to go play with friends.

Also, if your little ones are anything like mine they will think that smooching a Ziploc bag is WAY more fun that stirring something with a spoon!

Tags: Amish Friendship Bread, baking, indoor, recipe
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Friday January 22nd, 2010

Today’s Activity:

Bake something yummy with the kids.

Note:

I’m making my favorite new bread recipe.  If it is ready in time for dinner serve it with Jam and call it dessert!

Evaluate:

Our day filled up pretty fast today so I wasn’t able to actually bake the bread but we did get the dough mixed and we are going to make it tomorrow.  That is one of the great things about this recipe, you don’t have to make it right away, in fact you could even wait up to 2 weeks to bake it!  The kids weren’t too excited about making the bread because they just wanted to play but once they started helping me measure stuff out they couldn’t agree on who got to help me next because they both wanted a turn.

Tags: baking, bread, indoor, recipe
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Monday January 18th, 2010

Today’s Activity:

Today is Martin Luther King Day.  Spend some time teaching your children about him.

Note:

Chances are they have learned a little bit about him at school.  Ask them what they know before you start teaching.

Prepare:

We are going to be making play dough this week so make sure that you have all the ingredients.  This is the recipe I will be using. 

Also, Friday is baking day.  Maybe try baking something not sweet like bread.  This is my favorite new bread recipe!

Tags: Martin Luthar King, recipe, teach
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