Brynnley and I kicked off our domestic afternoon with a baking session, intending to get a freezer stash of toddler-friendly breakfasts for my postpartum season coming up!

My two year old is very picky, and happily favors all food void of nutrition. You know, the toddler staples: buttered toast, tater tots, Mac n’ cheese, and chicken nuggets. And don’t you dare try to pull a fast one and sneak in those “hidden veggie” nuggets. Her healthy-detector is fine-tuned. 😉

I have found a loophole in her palette, however. The secret seems to be chocolate chips. So in an attempt to add some nutrition to her future breakfasts, we whipped up a double batch of these Sweet Potato Peanut Butter muffins – with mini chocolate chips.

She DEVOURED one with a glass of milk the moment they cooled off. Success! I found them just as tasty as she did, so we are sharing the recipe:

I’m not sure how this recipe works because it’s nearly all wet ingredients. It must be the six eggs that really add the muffin texture!

We packaged them in individual baggies and stored them in the freezer so that we can easily pull out one at a time to heat up for Brynnley’s breakfasts over the next couple of weeks.

You can also always order my Strong Like My Coffee mugs from my little boutique page here: Strong Like My Coffee boutique. They come with a wooden topper and a golden stir spoon ☺️

In my last blog post I mentioned that I would be attending a Meal Prep class to help get my freezer stocked with some meals for those first couple of weeks after the new baby arrives (due early July.)

Overall I think the concept is really good & I got 10 different dinners all packaged up in the freezer, ready to be thrown in a crockpot or sheet pan. Each one says 4-6 adult servings, though I would say 3-4 would be more accurate. It was very rushed though – we assembled all 10 different dinners in under 75 minutes and the assembly line-style process meant you really couldn’t catch a break to wipe off your cutting board or clean up your work station throughout. I would have preferred they use all allotted 2 hours and gone a little slower.

Each dinner incorporates meat and veggies (though not as many veggies as I would have included) and I achieved my goal of getting some healthy dinner options at the ready, so I’ll call it a win. I’m not sure yet if I would attend again though; I will need to wait until we cook them up!

We have not been interested in many shows or movies on TV lately, so I’ve opted to read more instead. I’ve finished 8 books in the last 6 weeks which is really good for me! I typically always reach for thrillers or romantic comedy fictions. However during pregnancy and postpartum, I seem to develop a kind of anxiety where I just come up with the most ridiculous but scary scenarios of terrible things that can happen to my toddler or baby. I also have pretty vivid and scary dreams too, wake up easily, and take hours to fall back to sleep. So I try to limit the thrillers I read or anything disturbing on tv – even the news.

That’s meant I’ve actually been reading more non-fiction lately. I’m starting the audio version of The Anxious Generation. Most of what he’s sharing so far about the negative effects of social media and smart phones on kids going through puberty is not surprising or new at all, but there are many studies that show how strongly kids ages 9-14 specifically are impacted by living in a screen-based world rather than a traditional play-based world. Even though we have many years until we have to navigate this with our own kids, it’s still interesting to think about as a parent now!

Well that catches us up this week! Let me know if you make the muffins and if you like them :) I have a couple other picky toddler recipes to try out, but they don’t involve chocolate chips so we will see how they are received….

Xoxo

Kenz