Book and Dessert

We have checked out this very cute bilingual book from the library several times. The book is written mostly in English but very cleverly inserts a Spanish vocabulary word or two on each page. Not to ruin the surprise ending but the animals attempt to make a cake which ends up on the floor. To salvage their dessert, they turn the cake into pineapple upsidedown cake.

The book includes a recipe for pineapple upsidedown cake at the end of the story so the boys and I decided to make it for our dessert.

Organic

I am pretty frugal. Ok, my husband calls me cheap. I try to spend as little money on everything that I possibly can. But something has been bothering me lately. I have been reading a lot about the pesticides in our produce. Since I try to get the boys to eat as many fresh fruits and vegetables as possible, I was more than a little disturbed to learn that despite my cleaning and scrubbing, the pesticides still remained in a lot of the food that they eat on a daily basis.

I always dismissed "organic" as another ploy to make me spend more of my hard-earned money on food (a bill that I struggle to keep down.) Last weekend I visited a Whole Foods store for the second time in my life and purchased organic apples and strawberries. From my research I learned that the only fruit and vegetables that are worth buying organic are those that you eat the skin. It is a small step but I feel good about it since the boys eat apples and strawberries every day. I did roll my eyes as a walked by the $5 organic cookie. I'm not ready for that.