April Fool's Tradition

Every year on April Fool's Day I make the kids something to eat that looks like something other than what it is. You can see many of the past fool food in my blog post from 2011.

This year Walt had the kids at Taekwondo class why I whipped up some "meat loaf and mashed potatoes." Neither Josh or Carley like mashed potatoes and sort of dismissed dinner when they walked in the door.


Carley was the first to sit down. She touched the mashed potatoes and said "the potatoes are really cold.... like ICE CREAM!" She discovered the prank before taking a bite.


The meatloaf is a cocoa rice crispy treat loaf and the potatoes are ice cream with caramel sauce. The ice cream melted so fast so it was a giveaway.





This is one dorky tradition I plan to continue even if the kids figure out the trick before their first bite.