Beans and Rice

So far this week has gone pretty well in regards to my resolution to get the kids more involved with cooking and meal planning. Eamon chose to have olives and pita for lunch this week, no feta (they did not have the kind he liked at the store when we went shopping) and no hummus. He is also taking an orange. He wanted to take a cookie and a sugar drink as well, but we compromised on just having one or the other. He wants to chose which one in the morning when his dad packs his lunch. Eamon also chose dinner, beans and rice. This is an easy meal, if lacking in vegetables, and the kids both like it. We had pineapple as the dessert course, so I guess it is not so bad.

I had to remove the chairs from the kitchen in order to keep Mylos from the mixer and the stove. He is not really buying the idea that I am the one who decides when he can participate in the cooking. So instead, he moved a chair to the door to work on an escape plan.