Re: breakfast on the go


<tedneeley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> dragonlady wrote:
>> In article <1138722037.838744.199830@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> "tedneeley@xxxxxxxxx" <tedneeley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > We eat breakfast on the go in the car during week days. DH and I eat
>> > oatmeal from a cup. the kids are in carseats so that may become very
>> > messy. I would like to give them breakfast bars of some kind. Most of
>> > them are just as sugary as candy bars. could anyone offer any
>> > suggestions? Right now they only drink chocolate milk in sippy cup. i
>> > would like to add a small bar or snack to their breakfast.
>> >
>> > thanks.
>> >
>>
>> My first suggestion would be to get up a little earlier. . .
>>
>> However, if you aren't going to do that, my mother used to make really
>> healthy oatmeal cookies (gorilla cookies -- and I'm sure I've spelled
>> that wrong) for breakfast for the mornings my younger brother and sister
>> had to get their own breakfasts. They were sort of hand-held granola,
>> but with a fairly low fat content. That and a glass of milk was as
>> healthy as a bowl of oatmeal with raisins.
>>
>> But I would probably advise cutting out the chocolate, at least on a
>> daily basis.
>>
>> --
>> Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care
>
> OP here. Thanks for suggestions. I'll check out Alton Brown's recipe. I
> love his show. His books are a great read too by the way.
>
> About chocolate milk, I use the term very loosely. I add may be half a
> tea spoon of chocolate powder to one glass of whole milk. Just for the
> color :)
>
If it's just for the colour I'd drop it. Put it in a sippy cup that they
can't see the colour. There's no point in giving them extra sugar for no
benefit. In fact I'd be more inclined to keep the chocolate powder if it was
the flavour and the only way of getting them to drink milk.
Debbie


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