Healthy Dinner for The Moody Mommy

Sometimes, when I'm feeling bad about myself as a mother, I feed my children lots of healthy food. And then I feel a little bit better. It's a tactic I highly recommend. It's much easier than actually being patient.

So one day this week, instead of giving my children the pizza I regularly make, I shook things up a little bit and invented a new recipe.

(Oh, and it also might have been to make my diet-freak of a husband happy. But that's a story for another time.)

Here's what I did.

Make the pizza dough recipe from here. (If you yelled at your kids a lot that morning and are feeling especially bad about yourself, I highly suggest using some whole wheat flour as well.)

Then, while the dough rising, get one package/bag/whatever of frozen spinach. Defrost & drain. Mix with one bag of Mozzarella cheese. Then chop a small onion and 1-2 cloves of garlic. Saute them in a little olive oil or cooking spray until they are soft.

Mix the spinach and cheese mixture with the onion mixture.

Then proceed with making the regular pizza - spread the dough in a pan & put the sauce on. Then put the spinach/cheese/onion mixture on top and bake it.

Viola! You have healthy, delicious, pizza!

(No picture, sorry...camera battery died right before dinner).

Serve it to your children with a side of baby carrots and I promise, as you watch them devour it, you will feel your self worth as a parent slowly returning.

But if your children are evil little beasts and they say, "Ew this is disgusting I don't like spinach and carrots I hate this make me something else no I wont eat this blah blah blah," well then, your children are evil little beasts and I can't help you out there. They probably deserved whatever you did to them.

And that's all I have to say about that.

P.S. This is officially the second time I am tagging a post as "crazy people" and referring to myself