Making Dinner Before The Little Mermaid’s Even Begun
Posted on January 20, 2008
Filed Under creative cuisine, daily drama |
I’ll be a little MIA for a bit. I’ll still be reading and posting, but commenting not so much, since I am up to my eyeballs in 2007’s procrastination kicking my in the ass.
We went shopping today, looking for a Dora potty. Instead, we bought some yarn for part of Jdawg’s ‘welcome to living on your own, jackass’ housewarming present (future tense). Also, since I’d been a good little planner and had brought five snacks, it makes sense that they’d all be gone before it was time for her second afternoon snack, so I did the (previous, to me) unthinkable: I bought Ritz cheese sandwich crackers for her. MMMMMMMMM cancer preservatives!
Then, we got home late (stupid elevator at our skytrain stop wasn’t working today, added extra traveling time. And I take forever during shopping excursions.) so I decided to whip up a five minute meal (which was also comprised of some suspect ingredients, healthy-wise). Here’s the lowdown:
- Fill up a big pot about a third full of water. Throw in the soup base from one pack of Spicy Chicken and one Vegetable Mr. Noodles. Turn to boil.
- Add in about a cup of frozen stirfry vegetables mix and add a lid. Watch pot - it will boil faster.
- Once it’s boiling, add in your noodles and cook for three mins. Scoop into bowls with a drainy-spoon-scooping device.
- While you had those three minutes, you should have thrown a serving of extra creamy vanilla yogurt, a cup of frozen mixed berries and about a cup of milk in the blender and kept pushing pulse until it was all smoothie-like. Pour into the most excellent child friendly glasses you own.
- Also during those three minutes, you took a leftover serving of butter chicken and cut it up into bite-sized bits and nuked it for a minute, right?
- Then, since your three minutes is up, you tossed the chicken bits with everyone’s individual noodle/veggie servings.
Voila…That’s one serving each of dairy, fruit, veggies, meat and crap. Cuz everymeal should include a serving of crap, right?
It should be noted that Isobel did not enjoy. Well, she liked slurping the smoothie from her Starbucks Halloween travel cup, but the noodles - vetoed. So, after I slaved away cooked for a twelfth of an hour, she ended up eating a banana, half an avocado and a rice cake. Harumph. (So, I ate hers, too.)
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You’re ingenious with your leftovers. I hate giving my kids stuff with unpronounceable cancer causing ingredients too. But sometimes desperation is the winner.
hey I tried to make a smoothie and my frozen berries were too big, i think, cuz they just stayed whole and my blender started to smell like burning plastic so i had to stop. so now i’m trying to slurp smoothie from around giant clumps of icy strawberries. any ideas for how to improve my smoothie experience?