Swimming and appetite

If anybody is looking for a sure fire way to increase their kids' appetite: 1 hour swimming lessons. I could NOT get enough food into my children today, especially Saige, who has been an eating machine for a few months now. Normally the lessons are 45 minutes, but we had 15 minutes to make up for today. Here is what the menu was today:

- Soy/rice milk upon waking
- 2 crepes for breakfast
- they each shared a leftover crepe an hour before swim lessons
- I gave them pretzels and apples for a snack on the drive to swim lessons (which falls at lunch time, 11:30 -12:30)
- I gave them a whole carrot to munch on the drive home from lessons
- I made them a smoothie with banana, strawberries, protein powder, avocado, laban (yogurt drink) and flax seed when we got home, plus a carrot muffin
- pumpkin seeds and pears for a snack.
- a small bowl of Cheetos for watching a movie I promised them this afternoon
- They whined the entire first half of the movie that they were still hungry...so I rushed and made dinner (chicken/egg noodles stir fry with carrots and cabbage) at 4:30! I usually feed them at 5:30 or 6.
- Granola and milk before bed

All to be repeated tomorrow. They will come home from school and snack all afternoon until dinner. I have noticed a slight weight gain in them, so it IS going somewhere other than the hollow leg :)

I am thankful for not having boys when it will eventually come to feeding the teenage years.

Did you know?

Did you know that my comsumption of Pringles is directly related to having them on hand in the house?

We have movie night occasionally. With Robb being gone on a business trip, I anticipate one or two movie nights this week. So, while shopping for groceries, I planned ahead and bought a tube of Pringles (our movie snack of choice, lately). BAD IDEA. I know they are there. I cannot help myself. I LOVE them. We have a small store literally across the road that sells them. If they were not in the house, I really wouldn't think to go out and cross the road to buy them. But they are here, but not for long. I am not sure if there is enough left for movie night. I may have to finish them, hide the evidence, then go across to the store that sells them to re-stock. But...I will wait for movie night, to lessen the temptation. :)