Monday, August 2, 2010

Mooched Mommy Idea #9


My son has learned the word, "popsicle." He requests them for breakfast, lunch, dinner and at snack time. Recently, when his baby cousin tried to mooch a lick, he put it on his head to get it out of her reach. Dude means business about his daily treat.

I hate giving him all of that sugar and corn syrup, and have mooched these ideas from fellow mommies:

1. Applesauce popsicles. Just freeze no-sugar applesauce in popsicle molds. Voila!
2. Fruit Chillers. You can find them in the canned fruit section of the grocery store. They are mainly fruit juices with a little sugar added.
3. Frozen grapes, blueberries or bananas. All of these fruits freeze really well, and are quite tasty.

I am currently also looking for healthy alternatives to ice cream, cake and cookies. Not having much luck yet.....

2 comments:

Court said...

Never tried applesauce, but frozen grapes are AMAZING (of course I'm talking about my adult tastes).

Casey said...

Awesome applesauce idea. I make watermelon popsicles (just freeze mushed up watermelon chunks and drop like 2 or 3 chocolate chips in it to look like seeds). And I make yogurt popsicles (nonfat organic vanilla yogurt with frozen berries in it). I freeze yoplait whips for my kids and call it frozen yogurt ice cream. They dig it.