Now September is upon us it’s the start of the academic year and this week most children across the UK will return to school (or start for the first time – gulp!)
There is a certain amount of time pressure in the morning to get out of the house on time. A time pressure which my daughter is completely oblivious too! Although maybe this will finally alter now she herself has to be at school on time (I can but hope!)
Eating first thing in the morning is something my daughter isn’t really ‘into’ therefore it can take her ages to pick *ahem* I mean eat her way through her breakfast.
Just a spoon full of sugar?
It’s truly tempting to serve her up a bowl of sugar coated cereal to guarantee “something” gets eaten within the allotted time frame but in my book this doesn’t constitute a healthy start to the day from any angle. Given school will be far less accommodating than her pe-school, who served up fruit and snacks from almost the moment she went in, finding a solution has become rather pressing.
My Milkshake Brings All The Boys To The Yard!
So for the past week we have been trialling smoothies and milkshakes for breakfast with a side serving of nuts. This seems to tick all the boxes with my daughter. She loves nuts and she loves fruit smoothies. She thinks Christmas has arrived early and I’m happy she is eating something far healthier than a bowl of junk cereal. Win win 🙂
One evening we sat around the kitchen table chopping up bananas and strawberries and popping them into little freezer bags along with blueberries. She found this a really fun job to help mummy with and now we have a week worth of smoothie bags stashed in the freezer ready for blitzing in the food processor. This little bit of advanced prep work should make our school mornings nice and easy. Â We chose bananas, strawberries and blueberries for our smoothie bags. We chopped up the strawberries and bananas into smallish pieces. The blueberries we left whole. Depending on the size of bananas you’ll either need one small one or half a large one. Just add milk and blitz in the food processor until it’s smooth. If you are feeling indulgent you could always add a scoop ice ice cream !