OK, so I've been a slacker with this blog recently. But hey, I'm a busy lady. Last month was Morty's 3rd birthday, and we had a big mustache party with all his playgroup friends, Early Intervention therapists, and nannys (past and present). I contemplated what to order for food (there was no way I was making all the food & planning the rest of the party) & asked a lot of people whether they would like burritos or sandwiches. The overwhelming response was burritos! Which is good, because that's what I wanted too. We just weren't sure whether a bunch of 2 & 3 year olds could handle them - we have no way to gauge since our little 3 year old doesn't eat a whole lot by mouth. But it was a total success - typical 2 and 3 year olds can definitely handle burritos.
Happy Birthday to my little dude!
Table
We ordered them from Boloco and got a bunch of the "mini" size - which were just right because the dads could have 3 if they wanted to eat a lot, and the little ones were satisfied with 1. I also made some fresh salsa and served it with store bought chips (some salsa ended up in the blenderized mix, but the chips did not).
For cake, I made this great mustache cake out of a Betty Crocker cake mix with directions from this site. I also made a batch of cupcakes with a second box of cake mix. I'm not afraid to admit I used a box mix. My palette is not refined enough to actually tell the difference. And, of course, I'm short on time. I did, however, make the frosting - I can definitely tell the difference with the stuff that comes out of a store bought tub. I used the Cake Boss's recipe. Just a hint - that "fancy" swirl of frosting on the top of the cupcake was WAY easier to do than frosting them with a knife. I just used a ziplock bag with a hole cut in the bottom corner.
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I'm not going to lie - I am totally guessing at the volume that this recipe made - I forgot to check. But my Blendtec doesn't hold much more than 40 oz and still mix, so I think that's about right. But as is often the case with restaurant food, the calorie content of this mix ended up being super high! I think it's the highest that I've made. That's probably pretty normal for a birthday meal, though. If you wanted to cut the calories down, you could just omit the 3T of oil, and that would bring it back to 1.3 cal/cc.
I added the basics to this recipe, including green beans and fruit to build up the nutrition content. I also put in a cupcake - because every birthday boy needs a cupcake - even if it goes through a tube!
Here's the blenderized diet recipe:
| Whole Milk | 1 cup |
| flavored Kefir - 1% milkfat | 1/2 cup |
| apple juice | 1/2 cup |
| "mini" size Boloco classic burritos | 2 |
| salsa, fresh | 2 T |
| green beans | 1 cup |
| banana | 1/2 small |
| diced peaches with juice | 4 oz cup |
| Red Velvet cupcake | 1 cupcake |
| cream cheese frosting | |
| Canola Oil | 3 T |
| Children's Multivitamin | 1/2 tablet |
| calcium chews supplement | 1/2 chew |
| Volume (oz) | 42 |
| Cal/oz | 48.3 |
| Cal/cc | 1.6 |
| % Fat | 26% |
| % Carbohydrates | 57% |
| % Protein | 16% |
