The Big 0 -3!
April 12 2011
My daughter turns three on Friday.
She has requested a very specific cake for her birthday…because turning three is all about the cake! She has asked for a “chocolate heart shaped cake with pink icing”. Instead of buying a heart shaped mold to use for one cake (well, hopefully one cake) I will use a square pan and a circle pan to make a heart shape. Just place the squar
e cake on an angle, cut the circle cake in half and place the halves on two adjoining sides of the square and voila! Heart shaped cake.
As for pink icing, there’s not really any option of avoiding awful food colouring. I think a special treat once in a while is no big deal. Sugary desserts every now and again are okay for our family because we try to limit the amount of sugar in our diets on a regular basis, therefore a bit of indulgence now and again is no biggie.
Sugar becomes an issue if, like most things, it is consumed in excess. We’re very much an “everything in moderation” kind of family. We don’t avoid salt but we limit it. We are very aware of how much we have daily. We don’t cut all fats but again, we are aware of the amount we consume.
I am taking my wife out for her birthday dinner this week (it is birthday FEST around our house right now) and I am sure I’ll order something on the heavier side. That just means that meals on the day before and the day after will be lighter. Same goes for my daughter’s birthday celebration…there will be excess of sugar on that night for sure but we’ll temper that with healthier choices throughout the week.
