easy breakfast

I said yesterday that I give my kids processed food for breakfast.  Mostly packaged muffins, cereal, mini bagels, toaster waffles, ect.  I would have NEVER done this when I had just Addison.  She ate all homemade, organic, food from baby food on up.  Then I had Drew.  I made some of his food but he still ate organic jar food about 40% of the time.  Now I have 3 kids, a carpool, a part time job and poor Allie gets jar baby food 100% of the time.  Maybe 50% of it is organic.  Does this make me a bad mom?  I vote, no.  To me it just means that something has got to give and I made the choice that it was breakfast for the kids and jarred baby food for Allie.   Here is Addison eating her muffins and yogurt.

Here is the other thing about the 3 kid mom in me…  Up until 2 weeks ago almost every breakfast Allie ate was in the car.  She was not hungry enough after her morning bottle to eat before we left for school and I went to the gym every morning after that.  So in between school drop off and the gym, I would feed Allie in the parking lot of the gym.  I am sure others out there would think this is horrible but you do what you gotta do.  I am sure once the 4^th comes there will be lots more car feedings, instant breakfasts and other ‘convenience’ things.  I am okay with this.  I cook them a homemade dinner every night that we sit down at the table to eat as a family.  If this is the trade off, so be it.