Wednesday, January 16, 2013

The Day I Served My Toddler "The College Hangover Breakfast"

Earlier this week I awoke with grand plans. After a successful pancake-making morning only a few days prior, I couldn't wait to get down to the kitchen, sip on some coffee and whip up some delicious pancakes for Carter and me. 

I began to gather all of my ingredients and lay them out on the counter top. It was then that I realized I didn't have any eggs. Crap, I thought. I quickly scoured the fridge for a substitute, after all, there wasn't much else in the house to eat for breakfast and with the rain falling steadily outside, there was no way I was piling the kids in the car for a "quick" trip to the market. 

We all know "quick" is not in a mom's vocabulary, especially before coffee, at 8am in the morning and with a toddler and six month old. 

So back to the scouring. I couldn't find any applesauce and I had already used all the mushy bananas in the house to make banana bread the weekend before. I was quickly running out of options but determined to make pancakes. 

And then I stumbled across some yogurt. I shrugged my shoulders, pulled out the small container of Chobani and set to making the batter. 

A little of this, a little of that.. a cup of yogurt. I mean, in my head it seemed like a great idea. 

The batter was a little thick so I added a touch more milk. It smelled like pancakes and looked like what pancake batter typically looks like so I went with it. 

As I heated the frying pan, I could almost taste the warm buttery with-just-a-hint-of-vanilla deliciousness I would soon enjoy with my toddler. Drippy with syrup it would be the perfect start to this dreary day. 

I carefully poured the first pancake into the pan. I waited for the telltale bubbles. And waited. And waited. As I was waiting, the "pancake" started smoking. 

There were no bubbles and there would be no pancakes that morning. While I was waiting and waiting for the bubbles to appear, the "pancake" was adhering itself to the frying pan in as a blackened, crispy pancake-chip mess.

Let the record show that yogurt is not a suitable substitute for eggs.  

Great, now what was I supposed to feed the toddler? And in one of my finest parenting moments yet, I reheated last night's dinner and rinsed a handful of blueberries to lessen the blow. 

Pizza. I served my toddler pizza for breakfast and while reheating it, I really did think to myself "pizza is always better served cold for breakfast usually after a hangover." 

At least there were blueberries...

13 comments :

  1. I've totally done this. Now Presley asks for Pizza for breakfast....cold. (No "wave"- she says)

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  2. I am dying over here! I have to say I have given Mikayla chicken nuggets with apples for breakfast when she was around Carters age. Dude fruit makes it all better.

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  3. Too funny. My friend feeds her daughter edamame and tofu for breakfast! While I LOVE both, yucko at 8AM. Hey pizza in the morning never hurt the college kid, I am sure Carter happy as a clam!

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  4. I think if you get a toddler to eat something, then it is totally a success! No matter what it is! Haha. My aunt once let my cousin and I have chocolate cake and Coke for breakfast JUST so she would take her medicine. It was awesome!

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  5. hahahaha aw man. I think pizza is totally suitable breakfast. Just make up for it by serving breakfast for dinner this week - totally works right

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  6. HA HA HA!!!!!!! Love it! Glad to know that yogurt is not a subsitute for eggs...I always get in a bind with that situation!

    And I'm with you...at least there was blueberries!

    And he ate!

    xoxo

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  7. Personally, I LOVE pizza for breakfast. The only reason I *wouldn't* give it to my child would be to have more for myself!

    And a little mixture of baking powder, olive (or other) oil, and water works for egg-less pancakes (or muffins or cookies...NOT BROWNIES. Learned that the hard way!). I'm almost offended you didn't text me! :)

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  8. Really, yogurt doesn't work?? I probably would have tried that too. But I couldn't have pulled off this trick - there is never any leftover pizza in this house!!

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  9. In my house leftover pizza is an unknown, only because hubs eats it all. And seriously, your kid eats blueberries - go Mom! You fed him some carbs, dairy, and vegetable with the pizza. That is a well rounded meal :)

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  10. mmmmmm.....now I'm craving cold pizza

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  11. That is awesome. Fresh fruit always makes it seem like a responsible parenting decision.

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