I'm not one to jump on a bandwagon unless I'm passionately against something. Passionately. Like give my life for it something. That being said, I'm on the whole food, organic, healthier choices for my kids bandwagon, but I'm not quite ready to wear the t-shirt and shout it from the mountain tops.
Over the course of the last month, I've made my own household cleaners, right down to dishwashing detergent. I've fed my children more whole foods, less crap. We've eliminated high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), limited refined sugars, and limited eating mcdonald's to once a week or less (Don't judge me; my life has been insanely hectic. I'm fully aware McDonald's more than once a year is BAD. We're working on it, back off! ;))
Anyway, two things I've had a horrible time replacing in my kids' diets is popsicles and pop tarts. I'll conquer the pop tarts later; that's a really...really big mountain to climb. I did, however; find a super simple, super (hopefully) yummy popsicle recipe. I love when I can read all the ingredients on a food, and I'm finding the more I make myself, the more I know 110% what goes in something.
There are three (that's right, 3) ingredients to these amazing popsicles: strawberries, milk, and truvia. That's it, folks. The original recipe called for sugar, but we're working toward eliminating refined sugars, too so it was either sugar in the raw or truvia. I picked Truvia. I'm crippled right now and it was closer! ;)
Here's the recipe:
2 cups whole strawberries (topped) pssst...topped means take the green part off! ;)
1 cup milk (we used skim)
Truvia to taste
Blend all ingredients and place in popsicle molds. Freeze for 6+ hours. I blended, poured and shoved in the freezer in less than five minutes. Then I walked away and hubby cleaned up my mess (back off, I'm on crutches...).
I could not WAIT for my kids to get done with lunch today, seriously could. not. wait. I busted out the popsicles and they were a hit. Just a note, though, if you have seed-phobic kiddos, these pops are NOT for you. Try peaches or something that isn't so...seedy. These probably could've used double the truvia I put in, though I'll never admit that to my littles. They loved it, anyway.
I could not WAIT for my kids to get done with lunch today, seriously could. not. wait. I busted out the popsicles and they were a hit. Just a note, though, if you have seed-phobic kiddos, these pops are NOT for you. Try peaches or something that isn't so...seedy. These probably could've used double the truvia I put in, though I'll never admit that to my littles. They loved it, anyway.
Bean enjoying her refrehsing homemade popsicle
Justin sucking the extra strawberry juice...yum!
I can't wait to try other flavors and not so secretly, I feel all homemaker-ish and stuff. It really makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! ;) Now that I've killed the popsicles and dragged them home, any ideas on homemade poptarts?!