Posts tagged snacks
the review: homemade fruit roll-ups

I mentioned earlier this week that I am taking a kids' nutrition class online. I’ve made quite a few new recipes this week with the kids and can say that we have been mostly successful. The kids are eating more vegetables for sure. Perhaps the carb filled vacation that we just had was overload for them too. Anyway, one of the things that I tried to make this week was homemade strawberry roll-ups. I sorted through a bunch of recipes (some of which you can see here), each with slightly different sugar content, each with slightly different technique, but all involving puréeing the fruit then baking it at 170° for several hours. This seemed pretty easy.

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off the menu: homemade pizza rolls

I don’t think that I have said how grateful we are to have help at home. A full description of why I am specifically so grateful for Lacie, our Girl Friday, will be forthcoming when I am not lying on the couch watching seven episodes in a row of “Love It or List It” on HGTV. Trust me when I say that I’m not sure how this house would function without Lacie. And I think I should call HGTV to see what “Love It or List It” can do for me.

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