Saturday mornings at our place are always the same. The kids are calling out requests from every room, the kitchen is a mess before breakfast even starts, and everyone wants pancakes. Again. We’ve made pancakes almost every weekend for a year. I love that everyone agrees on breakfast, but the same thing always happens: by 10:30, someone is already asking what’s for lunch.
I’d been putting unflavoured whey in my morning smoothies for a while, and one Saturday I thought, why not add a scoop to the pancake batter? If it turned out strange, I could just throw them away. But maybe, just maybe, everyone would stay full until lunch and I could finally drink my tea while it was still hot.
It worked. The pancakes came out fluffier than usual, the kids ate them without a single question about what was different, and we actually made it to lunchtime without the constant “I’m hungry” soundtrack.
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