Oh Baby!

What a fun day in the world of Super Greeny, Little Winger, and New Edition! I had grand ambitions to rise early to attend a spinning class, but New Edition thought I should rise even earlier, at the tune of 4:30AM! So the 6AM spinning class was a pass, as I quickly engulfed myself into the world of motherhood.

The day began with a bunch of time spent catching up on laundry- for my 3 boys. (Insert a quick run to GetGo for some coffee, as we are OUT!!!) The rainy day progressed into a fun adventure in the kitchen with Little Winger. As mentioned before, our garden is plentiful and providing us with amazing, healthy breakfasts, lunches, and dinners! It is also providing the means to make baby and toddler food. Today I prepared baby apples and baby green beans, only the green beans were from the garden, but the apples were, of course, organic!

Little Winger was playing in the kitchen as the baby food adventure began and he was insisting on cooking zucchini, or "cuckin zutini" as he says it. Sooo- we started to cook zucchini! While the baby apples and green beans were boiling away...


I made some Fried Zucchini circles, but baked them for a healthier version! The process was simple! I took some thinly sliced zucchini circles and dredged them in whole wheat flour, followed by a quick swim in the egg, and lastly a nice coating of bread crumbs. Then the happy little zucchinis were placed into the toaster oven, or "wittle oven" as Little Winger calls it, for about 15 minutes.




The result was about 60 ounces of organic baby apples at a cost of only 7.50, which in turn is a savings of about 3.00 compared to store bought organic baby food. And of course the green beans are organic, and only cost cents to plant several plants, so virtually free! One small pot of green beans resulted in about 20 ounces of baby food!








Of course, we all got to eat the delicious lunch. New Edition was eating some thawed milk and fresh organic apples. Little Winger tried the zucchini, "zutini"
...but decided "me not like it." Next time I will have to cut them to appear french fry like! I enjoyed a plate of zucchini for lunch!





For any naysayers out there, the entire process, starting at peeling apples and trimming the ends off of green beans, and ending at enjoying the baked zucchini took about 40 minutes! So it truly does not take very long to turn organic vegetables and fruit into delicious foods that anyone of any age can enjoy! And if you get to spend the time in the kitchen with an inquisitive toddler trying over and over to sing the ABC's, it is quite enjoyable!