Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins

Ok, this recipe is super, super easy!

1 - Spice Cake Mix* (Duncan Hines is the best one I've found)
1- 15 oz Can of Pumpkin Puree
2 - Large Eggs
1/3 ish cup of water
half bag of mini semi sweet chocolate chips

Beat your eggs together seperate for about 30 -45 seconds, add in the water and beat another 30 - 45 seconds. Then add the cake mix and mix until smooth. Once your batter is smooth, add in pumpkin puree. Mix until evenly distributed. Hand mix in the chocolate chips. At that point, spoon into muffin tin, cupcake liners or mini-cupcakes for lunch time snacks.

Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.

I then frost mine with premade cream cheese frosting. It's super delish. We eat the big ones for breakfast. I made mini ones this time around for Libbi to take in her school lunch.

**If all you have is pumpkin pie mix, change your cake mix to either a yellow or white cake mix. That way you don't double up on the spices!**

Breakfast on the Run Idea

Libbi has decided that breakfast at school is not what she wants. Usually she compromises for cereal. Occasionally she can talk her dad into breakfast at McDonalds. Well, since it's becoming more frequent, as well as expensive, I decided it couldn't be that hard to make. So yesterday we went on an adventure to make our own fruit and yogurt parfaits.

This is what we came home with:



All Natural Vanilla yogurt, fresh strawberries, oat and honey granola cereal, frozen raspberries, frozen blackberries and disposable cups with lids. I also got some snack size plastic baggies for granola and berries. This morning we took the lids off of our yogurt cups and the frozen berries had defrosted and we had runny pink yogurt juice. So tonight when we put our yogurt in our cups, we put a small amount of berries in another baggie that we can add in the morning. The thing I liked about this is that Libbi doesn't usually eat all of her yogurt, so this way I can give her exactly what she's going to eat without wasting a whole cup of yogurt. Try it...maybe it will work for you.