Cookies For Breakfast
Musings on Parenting — By Jeff on June 10, 2011 at 10:31 am
When is it okay to give your kid a cookie for breakfast? When the primary ingredient of the cookie is a vegetable, that’s when.
The Bear’s end-of-year performance in her 1st grade classroom was recreating scenes from Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, a Zimbabwean tale that was part of the school’s Cinderella-across-the-world reading and cultural program this Spring. She wrote a pair of original lines to say during the in-class show, wore flowing white garb with a string of beads across her brow, and I baked these cookies. Not my usual, jaw-droppingly delicious chocolate chip cookies, but a traditional sweet treat from the African nation of Zimbabwe – the primary ingredients of which are raw sweet potatoes and lemon zest. Much to my surprise and delight, the gaggle of 7-year-old kids ate ‘em up!
This morning the Mouse had a leftover cookie for breakfast and I didn’t even blink. Not a great habit to get into – cookies for breakfast and all – but as a way of getting some sweet potatoes in her, a veggie she dislikes on her dinner plate, I’m more than okay with it.
The Zimbabwe cookies are easy to make and, obviously, quite yummy. Try ‘em for yourselves!
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Thanks for the recipe! I may be odd, but I would absolutely give my kids cookies for breakfast, just for no reason at all. Very, very rarely.
In fact, a week ago, I let my 5 year old have brownies for breakfast, with no vegetables in sight. Just because, and boy did it make his morning happy.
It’s a sorta tradition for us to have leftover Christmas cookies for breakfast in the days/weeks after that holiday…but there is so little of that kind of food around here (because I have no self-control) that it’s rare for it to even be able to happen. It is cool though, to demystify treats in a way – making it not about “celebrating”, but for “just because”. Sure beats having it at the end of the day, for all that shit to sit in our bellies while we loaf around at night!