April Fools Day

I have fallen off the blogging world lately. I will now try to play catch up so brace yourselves for blog overload...

Lets start with April fools day. I LOVE April Fools day. I am not a fan of pranks but I love to make funny meals and trick my kids. This year our kitchen was under construction so I make our April fools dinner a week early.

We had fish sticks and fries:

The fish sticks were wafer cookies with cornflake breading. The fries were bread sticks cut to look like shoestring potatoes.

The boys are getting a little to old to be "fooled" with dinner but they still ask every few months if I will make them an April Fools Day dinner, even though it isn't even close to April Fools Day.

To make up for doing our April Fools Day dinner early I made mini hot dogs for the boys' school lunch. They turned out really cute and the boys Loved them.

They were made from circus peanuts, caramels and yellow frosting.

April Fool's Dinner

The Dinner Menu:
Pot pies (a.k.a pudding with tootsie roll shaped peas, carrots and corn. Dried guavas & papayas for pork and chicken chunks and bananas for diced potatoes).

Chocolate pie with strawberry frosting (a.k.a. meatloaf with mashed potatoes frosting).

I really had the kids fooled that I was making a regular meal this year. They were very disappointed that I didn't have anything planned, little did they know.

Here is the pie prior to baking.

The finished product.

The veggies and meat prior to assembly.

The pot pie filling.

The finished pot pies.

Alyssa's face when she tasted the "frosting" and found out it was potatoes.
This is classic Alyssa!

Alyssa when the boys told her the pot pie was really candy and pudding.



Sadie didn't even know anything was wrong with dinner.
I did have to give her ketchup for her "chocolate pie" so she'd eat it, though.

The boys giving me their verdict on dinner.

I am glad this day is only once a year! Making veggies fro tootsie rolls is very time consuming.

April Fool's Prank

I got up this morning and the boys were fully dressed with coats, shoes and backpacks on, waiting by the door. They explained to me that they had to be to school early today and they needed to leave without breakfast. I played along and told them they better hurry and go catch the bus. They then opened the garage door and came in the kitchen door and yelled "April Fools" They thought they were so funny because they were sure I believed them. Maybe I should be an actress.

The kids have been bugging me for days to make them an April Fools dinner. I keep telling them no. Why would I really tell them my plans? Part of the fun is keeping them on their toes. To lead them astray I colored their milk blue and applesauce red for breakfast and told them that is all I had time to do, maybe next year. Alyssa refused to drink the blue milk, maybe because the boys told her it was alien pee. Boys will be boys!

Stay tuned for my dinner details...

April Fool's

April Fool's day is just a few days away. I am not into pulling pranks but I do love to make a "messed up meal" for my kids. I think this is the 3rd or 4th year I have done this tradition. My kids are still talking about last years dinner.

Chicken Nuggets: bananas rolled in pb and graham cracker crumbs,
Peas: green tootsie rolls
Fries and Ketchup: Bread sticks and seedless raspberry jam
Mashed potatoes and gravy: ice cream and caramel sauce

To get more fun ideas on meals and pranks, go to Family Fun. This year I am going to make the fauxberry pie for dessert and the Pot pie for the main dish, I think. I will post all the details later in the week.