Recently we've had some evening activities, me and the toddler boy and dinner just gets smashed into the time period between play and chores and bath and bedtime.
It is really important to me to instill a healthy attitude about eating by creating nice mealtimes for the entire family. This just isn't possible every day so at least a few times a week I try to make a nice dinner where we all sit down together, no television and just enjoy some nice food.
However, when that pipe-dream isn't plausible I reach for a bag of ready in ten-minutes-from-the-oven chicken nuggets, some applesauce, maybe a Yo-Baby yogurt, some cut up fruit for me and a bowl of steamed veggies on the side. The boy gets the yogurt, applesauce and nuggets with ketchup of course and being what I am, I cannot see a chicken nugget, cut a chicken nugget and feed a chicken nugget without also enjoying some chicken nugget for myself. So, to remain on a healthy caloric track I allow myself two or three nuggets on a plate full of steamed veggies and fruit.
This is an easy meal that is ready in about ten or fifteen minutes for those nights when that is about all you can manage. And, I'm not feeling all that guilty about it either!


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