Secrets from a Mom of a Toddler

Okay ... for some of you, these may not be 'secrets'!  But for me, I feel like I have conquered a part of my world.

For the past few months, especially over the summer, I have been trying to structure, organize, free up my brain for fun time and feed my two boyz (Buddy and Hubby!) healthy foods-all at the same time!  So I think I have found a couple things that have helped.  Here they are ...

Every 7-10 days I go to Costco and purchase my fruits and veggies.  Some people may be surprised that Costco would be a good place to purchase fresh food, but the prices are decent and the fruit is really really good!  Honest.  I buy what I call our funky fruits from there - raspberries, strawberries, blueberries and bananas (the only non-funky fruit in my home!)  When I get home, I spend the next hour or so chopping the grapes in half (my son is still at the chokable-on-grapes age), cutting the strawberries and washing the fruit.  Then I put all the fruit in about 12-15 containers
(I LOVE the ones to your left!), bag the rest of the grapes for adult consumption and put them all in the fridge.  It has made life a lot easier.  Whether we are having a meal at home, a snack at home or on the run, the fruit is easy to grab, pop in a bag and eat fresh fruit!  It may seem like a little thing or even easy, but with a toddler looking to run outside or jump on and off the furniture, it is treasured time to prepare for healthy food for them ... It's just a great feeling knowing that most of Buddy's snacks are natural sugar not bagged sugar!