Handy-Mamma Tip: More Sprinkles, Please

This is my 5-yr old's dessert choice the other day.  Frozen yogurt with diced mango and rainbow sprinkles.  I truly could not imagine anything more repulsive.


There's just something magnetic, irresistible about sprinkles that drives kids into a feasting frenzy.  Is it the attractive pastel coloring, surely derived from all-botanical sources?  Or that delightful texture, waxily clinging to the roof of the mouth that alludes to the goodness of mother earth.  Or better yet, the flower-shape of each tasty bit, lovingly hand-crafted into a veritable garden of eatin'. 

Whatever it is, kids dig it.

Here's a little Handy-Mamma tip for the week:

Buy sprinkles (go to Whole Foods and find the organic, all-natural ones if you must) and sprinkle a few of these colorful little bits on your kid's veggies.  Let them do it themselves if it helps.  They actually contain very few calories or fat, or any other consumable sins we adults fear.  The net result is that your kids will eat whatever is sprinkled.  Beats slathering everything in butter, which is my personal preference.