Birthday Burrito Blend

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.

Tube
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%