[Does anyone have a good granola recipe?]

This is a staple in our house, we make a double batch every 2 weeks or so.

Fast and Easy Granola

 

1/3 C brown sugar

1/3 C vegetable oil

1/3 C honey

Mix above in saucepan and heat until combined.

 

5 C oatmeal

½ C dry milk

¾ tsp cinnamon

pinch of salt

peanuts (1/2 C – optional)

Combine above dry ingredients in 9x13 pan. Pour sugar mixture over dry mixture and mix well. Bake at 375 for 10 minutes. Let cool in pan. Add raisins and/or dates (1/2 C) at this time. Store in airtight container.

 

We do not add the nuts, they weren't a hit in our house, but we do use a lot of dried fruits after the granola has cooled. We always eat ours with plain, low fat yogurt for breakfast (or dessert!); it's the favorite food of my 2yo. HTH:)

[What kind of social events do your kids do?]

DD1 and DD2 are taking ballet/tap; they also both do choir at our church and we have a homeschool group that meets weekly for fun group activities, we have a vday party next week. DS will have to potty train before he can sign up for anything, but he is eyeing the karate studio next to the dance studio :) Oh, and our local community has a homeschool sports league so we have signed up for basketball, just to see if anyone likes it enough to do it again. We also tried tball last year but no one was interested in soccer.

 

DD1 - 6 yo

DD2 - 4 yo

DS1 - 2 1/2