More mothering

[ailbhe]

I've made banana muffins to a recipe a friend had on her fridge: 100g butter-substitute, 200g soft brown sugar, 350g self-raising flour, 2 eggs, 4-5 bananas. Bake at 170C / 325F / mark 3 for 40 minutes for muffins, about an hour for cake. I think I might like to add some baking powder next time as they are pretty doughy, but then, I tend to find muffins doughier than I like.

So now, am I a good mother for making homemade muffins, or a bad mother for eating them all, or an even worse mother for giving my daughter sugary food for breakfast? Because she's not getting this much sugar in the afternoon, no matter what.

She likes the tie-dyed scarf I wear to keep my hair out of my eyes (I have wisps) and kept trying to put it on herself. But it fell off. So I retied one of them to fit her, and she is now delighted to look at herself in the mirror and be Just Like Me. Where's my leather biker jacket?!

(Which reminds me, I need to return that jacket to its owner, because it's too heavy for me to wear every again. I think - or at least, until Linnea doesn't need to be picked up ever again).

I need to decide whether or not to continue feeling guilty when I allow Linnea to drink sugary stuff like apple juice. So far, I figure that as long as she eats too, to stimulate saliva production, it doesn't matter... But what do I know?

Comments

[k425.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting the recipe - I have a bunch of bananas rapidly going spotty and hoped you'd pass it on.

As for sugary stuff, my view is that provided we don't give YoungBloke sugary stuff at every meal, or even every day, it's all part of a healthy moderated diet. At nursery he gets toast and milk for breakie, a proper home-cooked meal and fruit for lunch, and snacky food and something cakey (e.g. muffin, custard biscuits, gingerbread) for tea. At the weekend he often gets a muffin for an afternoon snack. But it's as likely to be a scotch pancake or blini. We don't do juice often but that's not out of principle. If L gets juice with a meal there's not much of a problem as far as I've worked out. It's sipping juice throughout the day that's a problem because of the (lack of) saliva thing.

[richtermom.livejournal.com]

We give Squeaky diluted juice because I finally gave up pumping after 15 months, but she also does drink regular water and occasionally soy milk when DH doesn't hog it all. I feel less guilty when I make sure the juice is fortified with vitamin C and other stuff because she still doesn't do citrus very well, so that's gotta help.

Suggestion for the banana muffins: Add oatmeal. It adds some texture but it also does make it a bit fluffier -- somehow the whole cooking thing makes the oats expand or something weird.