the Moore 4

photo: Tina Rupp, Parenting Magazine, the early years, March 2009
It was a happy accident that we had NFF tonight. The menu for dinners this week went completely awry… switchin’ up days and meals that fit the need for the night. We added a recipe to the menu from Parenting Magazine not long ago and decided to make it tonight instead of tomorrow. (The red pepper that was to be included was looking a little wrinkly a day or so ago so into the fridge it went to hopefully preserve it’s life.)

*phew* we made it.

Truth be known… we originally had New Food Monday because it was Cali’s turn to pick and she chose Little Cuties:Clementines. Only when we got them home that night, they weren’t lookin’ too fresh either and decided to peel right into them and not wait until Friday! Some pieces were good. Others? Not so good.

If you like Chinese food, give this delish dish we had tonight a try! I did season the chicken with hoisin sauce because lets face it… just cooked chicken needs a little somethin’. (Thought it would have a better chance of being eaten by the girls, too.)

I also sliced up the carrots with a knife instead of grating them. I usually always buy the pre-washed organic little stubby carrots and I already had an unhappy encounter with my Pampered Chef mandoline just this month. Sliced a thin, clean skin slice right off the tip of my index.

It’s so hard to function in the kitchen with a Band-aid!

Not sure if I’ve ever had hoisin before, but it was yummy! So, I wanted to try this dish with the homemade peanut sauce as well as the hoisin sauce – kinda separate of themselves. So, I put the fixin’s out to each make a little variation of this meal on your very own plate. Again, thought the girls would fair a little better with it this way.

Couldn’t coerce Cali into eating a snow pea. Tilly dove right into them. I think she liked them, but got too much & spit a few shell-like creatures out. She also was amusing herself by putting the linguine in her glass of milk tonight.

(sorry no messy photo to share)

I got a few bites of this dinner in her and I think she mostly liked it. She kind of had a pinched expression after her last bite. It had a red bell pepper in the mix. Maybe that was why :)

Daddy and I really liked it. I think it’s a keeper for the Moore4!

It’s amazing what things Rick and I will eat now as ‘grown-ups’.

As a kid ourselves? NooooWaaaayyyyy.

So why do we do this to our kids?

Because it’s good for them.

Because now we are the parents trying to get them to eat something healthy.

I guess the world keeps spinning the same for parents and their children…

Generation after Generation.

Posted by Shelley