How can you go from Starving, to stuffed without really eating?

Ok, so my kids claimed they were starving.

We had a large lunch at the mall (a treat)

They had munchies (i.e. samples) at Costco while shopping (again, a treat)

They had a real snack of (Costco-bought) granola bars.

When we arrived home. "MOMMMMMM, You didn't give us snack, we're starving!!!"

I gently reminded them, they had eaten, at which point they stopped complaining. But they said they wanted to eat dinner soon.

Dinner was cooked and served.

Yummy pizza (I was hungry - I hadn't had all their snacks, It tasted good). They barely touched their food.

When asked by their father "why aren't you eating"

"Dad, we're stuffed... we had too much to eat"

go figure.

Edible Activities: Pretzels

Today we made PRETZELS

Since we were unable to buy pretzels at the mall the other week, I had promised my children that "some time" we'd make them "from scratch" "like Grandma did when I was a little".

Today turned into that day!

I went online, and chose a recipe

http://strothotte.com/pretzels.php

There were helpers to assemble the dough.. then we watched a PBS Show while we let the dough rise (in a warm oven so it wouldn't take all day), then we had dough-fun of assembling pretzels, pretzel knots etc. (Oh, and of course, all little helper hands enjoyed nibbling on the dough!)

It turned out "o.k.", next time I'll try a different recipe out there. But, it wasn't as complicated as I thought it would be!