My husband likes waffles. He finally started making them at home some weeks ago. He bought himself a waffle maker and he has been trying out different recipes. Little gosling is thoroughly enjoying this, too. When we ask him what he wants to eat for breakfast, there is a good chance his answer is “gaufres” (French for waffles). 

I’m not particularly a sucker for it, but he used to be unable to resist the smell of it in the street or in the parks. That is, until we started eating healthily some years back and banned sugar from our home. This never meant we did not enjoy our sweet moments. It is just that we have them sugarless. Daddy regularly makes cakes and crepes, but instead of sugar, he uses a mix of maple syrup, dates, raisins, depending on what we have at hand. This has made it so easy to have little gosling off sugar until the recommended age of two. And we’re keeping at it, with occasional exceptions. 

Little gosling had his first taste of waffles some weeks back when I could not resist the smell of the waffles coming from a waffle and ice cream van in the park and my husband was in a more tolerant mood. Little gosling had a couple of bites and he remembered it!

My husband is generally very, very good at keeping sugar away. So strict was he that I used to have my sugary treats at work, in my own time :P. Can’t give up chocolate completely :). But I enjoy a variety of dark chocolate. The lockdown however had a weird effect on him. At some point, he threw everything out the window and indulged in some very heavy ice cream eating. The warm, nice weather outside over the past two months also helped a lot. Consequently, we, the adults, spent a number of weeks eating ice cream twice a day, when little gosling was asleep. Now, with a bit of normality coming back into our lives – school restarting, going into work some hours a day -, we’re back at cutting out the sugar.  

Sunday has been our waffles day for the past weeks. Last Sunday, little gosling had two waffles, with slices of bananas and some peanut and hazelnut butter on top. Daddy ate his with honey. I ate mine with a mix of crushed bananas, raspberries and blackberries.