Breakfast
is a touchy subject in my house. My sister and her husband (who are
both professional chefs by training) and their soon-to-be-three kids
live with us ("us" being me, my husband, and our five kids) and Keri
and I have very different ideas on what makes an acceptable morning
meal. All I really care about is that my kids head off to school with
something in their bellies that will last until lunch, so I'm okay with
enriched bars, graham crackers with peanut butter, and any number of
things. Keri basically thinks breakfast, whenever possible, should be
a sit-down affair featuring homemade pancakes or waffles, eggs, etc.
You can read about our Breakfast Bar Wars here and here.
Although
I still believe I'm right, Keri pretty much won, because hey, if her
husband is willing to come down to the kitchen at 7:15 to make
buttermilk pancakes, who am to tell my kids not to eat them? So it was
more a moral victory than anything else when I found out famous foodie
Danielle Altshuler Wiley - aka Foodmomiac - basically agrees with me.
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