Toddler music has an uncanny ability to be stored dormant in your brain for a decade, and then out of the blue you find yourself able to recall every lyric perfectly like you sang it yesterday. Let me explain: my co-worker Maegan was talking about singing “We are the Dinosaurs” at dinner last week, and I suddenly had flashbacks to sitting on the orange carpet in mommy and me class 12 years ago, animatedly singing about dinosaurs marching, eating, sleeping… and of course, ROARING.
Maegan is in the thick of dinosaur songs right now because her girls, ages 5 and 3, have been on a big dinosaur kick lately. So much so that Maegan bought dino nuggets, a food she doesn’t typically serve, and then realized she could serve them alongside creamy Broccoli Cheddar Soup. In no time, her girls were dunking dino nuggets into the soup to “take a swim.”
This supper accomplished multiple things:
- With a side of bread, the soup created a satisfying dinner for mom and dad.
- Served with the dino nuggets, she avoided the usually inevitable “just soup for dinner?” moans from her kids, AND offered a playful new way to eat broccoli.
- This was easy weeknight fun — Maegan’s 3-year-old reported this as her favorite meal of the week!
Whether you serve this soup alongside dino nuggets or not, ;-) I hope you try it this week, as a yummy transition to spring!
PS: Apologies for the earworm I may have brought you — I unfortunately now have it too. ROAR!
