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Healthy Apples & Bananas Bread

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Today is Friday. Today I wanted to go a little healthier with my baking. I noticed my good little eaters started down a slippery slope of eating their healthies and then enjoying a treat, and snowballed into sugar-crazed Pavlovian puppies "I'm-done-eating-what's-my-treat?" Salmon, demolished. "Ice cream?" Garbanzo beans gone, "How many Oreos can I have?" "I finished my frozen waffle, do I get candy?" Eat --> Treat. Food --> Dessert. Thank goodness this isn't a parenting blog!   Per my friend's Katie's request, I went with a banana bread recipe. Katie's kids eat really healthily- she's probably going to add spinach to this. Actually, you could probably add 2 cups of chopped spinach and it wouldn't change the flavor much. Tell me if you do that. Anyways, hopefully a wholesome, fruity bread will help take the edge off as I wean them from the hard stuff. This is meant to be a lighter version of banana bread for a...
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Liz: On Picky Eaters

Picky eaters? Never liked ‘em. Don’t really believe them either. I allow everyone maybe five foods they truly hate. You like mushrooms. You do! You may just need to give them another chance. There are so many different ways to prepare different foods and so many different seasonings and sauces that I just can’t believe someone when they tell me they don’t like something. I usually blame the parents. It’s probably your mom’s fault you think you don’t like fish or green beans. Well, you are the chef now, and food has come a long way since your mom was cooking for you every night. If I can learn to love a good honey balsamic marinade when honey is the most disgusting food on the planet, you can do it too! And any little people in your home may just follow suit. ;0)