I love the idea of eating only homemade food -- having nothing in my snack pantry but flour, butter, salt and sugar -- the basics with which to create a bountiful array of homemade treats...but then reality sets in. Not to say that it's impossible to make every thing you eat from scratch (there are certainly enough food blogs out there to show me that it is in fact possible) but I seem to always decide that homemade snacks are just too complicated and reserved for those moms/dads out there who have the perfect angel children who will play quietly in the next room for hours while they toss around exotic ingredients for pleasure. But still, the idea comes creeping back, and I want so desperately to make it a part of my reality...
I have had some homemade recipes for store bought snacks saved in my favorites for months now and have never taken the plunge...until now! Bearing witness, for the last few months, to how many goldfish my kids riffle through each month, I decided to finally give 52 Kitchen Adventures' recipe for homemade goldfish a try!! And really, after thinking about it, I realized that making homemade snacks CANNOT be any more complicated/time consuming than toting around a screaming cart-full of hungry, tired kids through a mega warehouse -- all the while trying to weave my way through crowds of people, anxious to stop and clog all of the aisles in order to taste the latest products (and it seems that there is no avoiding 'sample day' any more...every day is sample day it seems...) and just when I think I've broken free, I'm stopped every 10 feet by curious twin gazers (...don't get me wrong, I like when people stop us to admire the twins, but sometimes....i'm in a rush!) Not to mention the back-breaking labor required to get EVERYTHING you bought (99% of which are....snacks!) into the car....whew!
Ok, back to the task at hand: you should really give this recipe a try! You can adapt it for a number of different tastes -- I had some odd and end cheeses on hand that I needed to get rid of, so I ended up making mine with Parmesan, Mozzarella, and Cheddar....delish! Next, I'm going to try pepperjack! But the flavor combos for these crackers are endless! The kids and husband LOVED these! I doubled the recipe and made enough to fill half of a gallon sized ziploc bag...and noticed that they were MUCH more filling than store bought goldfish. So, whereas my kids would normally go through 3 handfulls of fish at a time, they were completely satiated after just 4-5 of these gems -- wow!
I have had some homemade recipes for store bought snacks saved in my favorites for months now and have never taken the plunge...until now! Bearing witness, for the last few months, to how many goldfish my kids riffle through each month, I decided to finally give 52 Kitchen Adventures' recipe for homemade goldfish a try!! And really, after thinking about it, I realized that making homemade snacks CANNOT be any more complicated/time consuming than toting around a screaming cart-full of hungry, tired kids through a mega warehouse -- all the while trying to weave my way through crowds of people, anxious to stop and clog all of the aisles in order to taste the latest products (and it seems that there is no avoiding 'sample day' any more...every day is sample day it seems...) and just when I think I've broken free, I'm stopped every 10 feet by curious twin gazers (...don't get me wrong, I like when people stop us to admire the twins, but sometimes....i'm in a rush!) Not to mention the back-breaking labor required to get EVERYTHING you bought (99% of which are....snacks!) into the car....whew!
Ok, back to the task at hand: you should really give this recipe a try! You can adapt it for a number of different tastes -- I had some odd and end cheeses on hand that I needed to get rid of, so I ended up making mine with Parmesan, Mozzarella, and Cheddar....delish! Next, I'm going to try pepperjack! But the flavor combos for these crackers are endless! The kids and husband LOVED these! I doubled the recipe and made enough to fill half of a gallon sized ziploc bag...and noticed that they were MUCH more filling than store bought goldfish. So, whereas my kids would normally go through 3 handfulls of fish at a time, they were completely satiated after just 4-5 of these gems -- wow!
I'm not as fancy as 52 Kitchen Adventures...I just used a pizza cutter and whacked out a bunch of squares...
Now that I know homemade snacks are do-able, headache free, nap test approved and loved by the little people in my house, I might just go all the way! Next on my hit-list....Pop Tarts!
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