Love is being flexible
Love is being able to provide healthy snacks for your children after school, although it can be challenging at times. Don’t get me wrong, they get their “junk” treats too, but not often if I can help it. What does a mother do to cover all bases except to throw everything out to see what will “stick”, I mean consume.
Exhibit A will show you four bowls of fruits which contained blueberries, pears, apples, and mangoes (the papaya was spared since it was not ripe yet). So which one will be consumed by my three adorable rascals?
Here’s Trent waiting to devour one of these delicious treats.
He was the only one who almost finished the mangoes all by himself. As for Tyler and Sophia? I was preparing to make broccoli cheddar soup for the kids for dinner, Sophia wanted some “broli more broli”, which was shared with Tyler. Hey, who am I to complain?!
I still remember vividly growing up in Viet Nam and eating all different kinds of tropical fruits such as corossolier, durian, guava, mangosteen, sapodilla, rambutan, sweet-sop, waterapple and many more. That’s one of the things I miss the most about living there.
When we were on our honeymoon in Maui, we came across guava trees almost every where on the island. I was like a kid in a candy store seeing all these wonderful juicy guavas that I can pick by myself and eat to my heart’s content. My hubbie thought I was high or something. I came very close in smuggling one tiny guava back home but was too chicken and handed over the juicy fruit to the custom officer. What? I don’t want to be fined or imprisoned over a tiny fruit. Call me chicken, why don’t you!
What are your and your family favorite snacks? Have you ever had a taste of any of the tropical fruits mentioned above? Try it Mikey, you might like it.
Love is being able to provide healthy snacks for your children after school, although it can be challenging at times. Don’t get me wrong, they get their “junk” treats too, but not often if I can help it. What does a mother do to cover all bases except to throw everything out to see what will “stick”, I mean consume.
Exhibit A will show you four bowls of fruits which contained blueberries, pears, apples, and mangoes (the papaya was spared since it was not ripe yet). So which one will be consumed by my three adorable rascals?
Here’s Trent waiting to devour one of these delicious treats.
He was the only one who almost finished the mangoes all by himself. As for Tyler and Sophia? I was preparing to make broccoli cheddar soup for the kids for dinner, Sophia wanted some “broli more broli”, which was shared with Tyler. Hey, who am I to complain?!
I still remember vividly growing up in Viet Nam and eating all different kinds of tropical fruits such as corossolier, durian, guava, mangosteen, sapodilla, rambutan, sweet-sop, waterapple and many more. That’s one of the things I miss the most about living there.
When we were on our honeymoon in Maui, we came across guava trees almost every where on the island. I was like a kid in a candy store seeing all these wonderful juicy guavas that I can pick by myself and eat to my heart’s content. My hubbie thought I was high or something. I came very close in smuggling one tiny guava back home but was too chicken and handed over the juicy fruit to the custom officer. What? I don’t want to be fined or imprisoned over a tiny fruit. Call me chicken, why don’t you!
What are your and your family favorite snacks? Have you ever had a taste of any of the tropical fruits mentioned above? Try it Mikey, you might like it.
My mouth is watering looking at those treat!
Mangoes are my absolute favorite fruit. And not the stringy, sour red ones, I’m talking about the fleshy, juicy Philippine mangoes! Other great “exotic” (it’s all relative, isn’t it) fruits: lychees, langka (jackfruit), and atis (starapple). But my kids do love every one of the fruits you photographed.
OOoooo, I want to come over to your house for snack-time! That looks wondeful! I like the way mangos taste a little peppery and I love blueberries. (but I like to put sour cream on top - so much for healthy)
What a sweet mom you are trying to give them so many healthy choices! Yum.
You serve up the best snacks! I love blueberries and mangoes, mmm… yum! But my all time favourite is wild strawberries, which grow in abundance in Sweden in late July. They are the most glorious thing I have ever tasted.
Happy Love Thursday!
Mmmm … blueberries! I’m struggling to get my 18-month-old to eat fruits and veggies now. Maybe I should put out an appetizing display like that!
I love all those choices. The first time I had mangoes was when I was in the Philippines. It was also the first time I had ketchup made out of bananas. Do they do that in Viet Nam too?
Cute pic. My son loves fruit too.Really all fruit. I can’t think of one he doesn’t like. Blueberries are gone quickly at our house. We have recently discovered that he likes mango. I like mango, but can not eat papaya.
Yep, wife.imp really misses her filipina fruits!
However the imps get their fair share as daddy rotates breakfast between bowls of fresh fruit or oatmeal.
Dried Mango is like crack rocks to me!!
I was lucky in that I got to live in Thailand for five months. I was unlucky in that I developed an addiction to amazing, fresh from the tree, fruit while I was there. I miss rambutan the most. When I first returned home and saw the fruit selection at the store, I became misty-eyed. I cannot wait for the farmer’s market, but they will not have these delights!
Trader Joe’s has dried mangosteens sometimes. I bet they aren’t anything like fresh ones, but they are addictive and tasty anyway.
Where I used to live, we got dry-farmed watermelons. They had to survive on only rainfall, so they got very, very sweet and tasted like no other watermelons. Yum.
I eat melons with chile powder, lime juice and salt to make them super zingy and satisfying.
Great. Now I’m totally craving mangos. The kind that are so juicy it drips from the corners of your mouth. I’ve never had any of those you exotic ones you mentioned–but now I think I need to.
My kids do pretty well with eating healthy snacks like that, but they have their share of Pringles too. Oh well. I’m just happy they eat more healthy than junk most of the time.
Now that looks very healthy! Luckily, Girlie Girl loves fruits and will choose them over candy for snacks. Thank goodness!
Suebob~And here I thought only us Vietnamese folks who use salt and red pepper flakes to eat with watermelons. My Korean hubbie thinks that’s so weird, but it’s so good isn’t it?!
Jeff~I’ve never heard of ketchup until I arrived in the U.S. and french fries too for that matter.
Okay you’ll think I’m bad but my kids favorite after school snack is scones. Now I know most people think of scones in the traditional English sense, but for some reason I grew up calling bread dough fried in oil then covered in butter and honey a scone.
They love this and something about this that they can’t resist and though I don’t do it all the time, it’s about the biggest “I love you” from me to have them come home and find scones waiting.
Not too healthy but mighty tasty and full of love.
I had rambutan today! It was $8/lb. but I couldn’t help myself. They were SO good. I’ve been lucky enough to have kids who love fruit and veggies and so the snack thing is pretty easy in our house. Besides, I do the same thing to them as my parents did to me. I tell them, “If you don’t like it, don’t eat it.”
P.S. My 74 year old ba ngoai smuggled 6 mang cut into the US. Only frozen ones in the US :sigh: I shed a tear just thinking about it.
My son is going through the stage where he only wants to eat yogurt. And nothing else. I’m not giving up, though. I still give him options - none of which he’s currently eating, but I have high hopes that he one day will!
Honglien123~ I’m cracking up at how brave your Ba Ngoai was to smuggled not only 1 but 6 mang cut and here I was too chicken to sneak in one tiny guava from Mauii to Mass. You go Ba Ngoai! I bet everyone enjoyed those fruits a bit more b/c of her action.