Bear with me here, I know the title sounds very “BLOG MOMMY
” but hear me out:
I found a few things recently that have helped me save a shit ton of time, are fairly healthy AND help me stretch my WIC allotments. Not even ashamed on this sub to say we receive WIC—even though I am ashamed to tell pretty much everywhere else—because I imagine most of us know how financially draining it is to feed two at a time.
I get there are tons of recipes subs, but EXPEDITED AF cooking times two is next level, add in considering health AND extreme affordability and it’s just…ugh. I could really use the help.
Here are three I’ve done in the last couple of days:
•Tuna burgers (will be making with ~packaged~ chicken tonight)
Ingredients:
two cans of tuna, 1-2 eggs (using one this time), two pieces of bread.
•Two-ingredient banana pancakes
Ingredients:
Banana (note: I had half an extra ripe one left over from whatever and included it; highly recommend but not worth using a full second banana)
Two eggs
And because I’m a daredevil, I added 1/4 tsp vanilla, and by 1/4 tsp, I mean I held the bottle over the bowl and splashed in what was prooooobably 1/4 or so
Took ~15 mins only because I used a pan. If you have a skillet you can do all the batter at once and be done.
Chicken/brown rice “mush”
Ingredients:
Instant brown rice
chicken packet
Egg
Cream of mushroom soup
Anyway: what do y’all think about a sub for these types of thrown together “meals” that yield enough food for multiple babies but don’t require lots of time, money or effort? And that are lowkey enough that only parents of multiples would consider full meals even without using celery or carrots to “AdD a cUTee fAcE so the LO adores it and means it’s KID APPROVED!”
Sorry if this exists already
ETA
PLEASE share recipes, meal tips, boxed/premade meals you feel good about using, whatever. They would be so appreciated.
” but hear me out:I found a few things recently that have helped me save a shit ton of time, are fairly healthy AND help me stretch my WIC allotments. Not even ashamed on this sub to say we receive WIC—even though I am ashamed to tell pretty much everywhere else—because I imagine most of us know how financially draining it is to feed two at a time.
I get there are tons of recipes subs, but EXPEDITED AF cooking times two is next level, add in considering health AND extreme affordability and it’s just…ugh. I could really use the help.
Here are three I’ve done in the last couple of days:
•Tuna burgers (will be making with ~packaged~ chicken tonight)
Ingredients:
two cans of tuna, 1-2 eggs (using one this time), two pieces of bread.
- Tear up the bread into small pieces
- Add egg
- Add tuna
- Mix
- Form into “burgers” (I made mine using about half a handful of the ish each and pat them pretty flat so I knew the egg would cook and so the babies could pick them up themselves)
- Cook in a pan on medium heat until firm
•Two-ingredient banana pancakes
Ingredients:
Banana (note: I had half an extra ripe one left over from whatever and included it; highly recommend but not worth using a full second banana)
Two eggs
And because I’m a daredevil, I added 1/4 tsp vanilla, and by 1/4 tsp, I mean I held the bottle over the bowl and splashed in what was prooooobably 1/4 or so
- Mash banana (should like like pudding, not too many lumps)
- Add eggs
- Add whatever extras you wants (vanilla, nuts, do you)
3.5. Not necessary but I strongly suggest spraying the skillet bc they’re hard to flip since they’re so runny - Pre-heat pan over medium
- Put about 2 tbsp worth of mixture on the skillet per pancake (they will be in no way circular)
- Cook for like, 1.5 minutes max on one side
- Use a super thin spatula to flip bc the fuckers are flimsy and will try to fuck around
- 1.5 max on other side
- Out of pan when you see even slight brown—they’re gonna stay flimsy
- Powdered sugar on top if you want.
Took ~15 mins only because I used a pan. If you have a skillet you can do all the batter at once and be done.
Chicken/brown rice “mush”
Ingredients:
Instant brown rice
chicken packet
Egg
Cream of mushroom soup
- Cook rice
- Put rice in skillet and cook egg in rice
- Add chicken
- Add like six tbsp (???) cream of mushroom (leave it dry enough so it sticks together and you can form it into little “hills” on their trays so they feed themselves
Anyway: what do y’all think about a sub for these types of thrown together “meals” that yield enough food for multiple babies but don’t require lots of time, money or effort? And that are lowkey enough that only parents of multiples would consider full meals even without using celery or carrots to “AdD a cUTee fAcE so the LO adores it and means it’s KID APPROVED!”
Sorry if this exists already
ETA
PLEASE share recipes, meal tips, boxed/premade meals you feel good about using, whatever. They would be so appreciated.
