Now that the holiday vacation is over, we are back to our regular school schedule which includes extracurricular activities and sports. If your kids are like mine, they come home from school every afternoon starving which actually makes me wonder what they are serving for lunch daily. As a Working Mom, I have tried to come up with easy after-school snacks that my boys can enjoy and that won't take a ton of preparation. Both of my sons love pizza so I knew that any recipe involving pizza ingredients would be right up their alley. I found that I could make easy pepperoni pizza dippers with some of the ingredients that we normally keep in the house anyway. All of this equals to a yummy recipe, happy kids after school, and a mom who is super cool in the eyes of her children! Pepperoni Pizza Dippers Yields: 8 pizza dippers Prep Time: 5 minutes | Cook Time: 11-15 minutes | Total Time: 20 minutes Ingredients: 1 … [Read more...]
Feed Their Hunger After School! #tysonfoods #jimmydean #saraleedesserts #Ad
*This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Tyson Foods, Inc. All opinions are entirely my own. Back to School is finally upon us here in New York City and there is a whirlwind of preparations that are taking place in our home to make sure the school year goes off without a hitch. Believe it or not, meal planning is a huge part of our planning because I teach full-time and my boys come home from school starving every day. It's not that they don't eat lunch at school but, for some reason, they work up quite an appetite acquiring all that knowledge! So one of the things that we prepare for in advance is having the perfect snacks and foods that can easily be prepared once our boys get home in the afternoon. Of course, sticking to our grocery budget is always a consideration but we also want to make sure that we buy foods that our sons really like. Our youngest can be quite the picky eater so it's important that we take his … [Read more...]