CINNAMON APPLE CREAMED HOT CEREAL

CINNAMON APPLE CREAMED HOT CEREAL

Serves 6-8 When I was growing up, my favorite breakfast was cream of wheat cereal. Cream of wheat was tiny bits of wheat cooked with milk. Now I realize that a dinosaur couldn’t eat that! Still, sometimes you want to eat things even if it’s not healthy for you. Then...

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FROZEN WAFFLES

FROZEN WAFFLES

Serves 6 This happens to be one of our favorite recipes in the entire book. It has some surprising ingredients, but they come together so nicely that they really do taste and feel like the waffles you had before you ate like a dinosaur. Dinosaurs didn’t have freezers...

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ZUCAKES

ZUCAKES

12 medium cupcakes or 1 loaf When we found a cake pan featuring zoo animals, the idea of a zucchini cake recipe called ZuCakes (pronounced zoo-cakes) became something we needed to invent. Zucchinis are naturally pretty sweet, and that means you don’t need a lot of...

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BANANA CHOCOLATE CHIP BREAD

BANANA CHOCOLATE CHIP BREAD

Makes 1 loaf or 15 muffins Not often, but sometimes, your bananas get overripe before you eat them. Don’t let them go to waste because of a few freckles or bruises! You can freeze them for use in our Hawaiian Vacation Smoothie or you can make this wonderful warm and...

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CHOCOLATE MILKSHAKE

CHOCOLATE MILKSHAKE

Serves 2-4 We love avocados in our family and try to put them in EVERYTHING. What better way to add smooth, rich flavor to a drink than adding a whole avocado to it? This smoothie is so creamy and thick, we’ve started calling it a milkshake! INGREDIENTS • 2 dates,...

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CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Makes 24 cookies These chocolate chip cookies are amazingly delicious. As a matter of fact, we think they’re even better than any chocolate chip cookie we had before we ate like dinosaurs. We like to dip ours in (unsweetened) chocolate almond milk, but they’re also...

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ELVIS’S NUT BUTTER AND NANA SMOOTHIE

ELVIS’S NUT BUTTER AND NANA SMOOTHIE

Makes 16 oz of smoothie When we make this smoothie, one of us will do the full lip curl and explain to the kids that we’re making an “almond butter and ‘nana smoothie.” Grown-ups think this is funny because there used to be a famous singer that said things like that,...

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PUMPKIN CIDER “LATTE”

PUMPKIN CIDER “LATTE”

Serves 4 One cool fall morning we woke up and decided we needed a warm drink to get us through the day. Cole came up with the idea to make his very own version of a winter drink using some pumpkin and apple juice. The boys loved pretending they were drinking coffee,...

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CINNAMON APPLE TIDBITS

CINNAMON APPLE TIDBITS

Makes a quart of apple tidbits This recipe is just like our Apple Rings, only it adds cinnamon and makes the apple pieces into little tidbits, perfect for munching on and adding to trail mixes. With the addition of cinnamon, these are deliciously tasty. We like this...

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ZUCCHINI LATKES

ZUCCHINI LATKES

Serves 4 What are latkes you ask? Well, I know them as little potato pancakes that I like to eat with applesauce. Since we missed them we thought these fun and surprising little green cakes would be a good substitute. They’re even better, actually! They’re slightly...

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