citrus and other snacks

as soon as the kids come home after school, snack is on the schedule. what ever it may be, first there is fruit. the kids are all different, one prefers plain yoghurt, the other loves any kind of fruit as the third one would eat bananas every day...
thea is a citrus fruit lover and of course, she must peal the fruit herself. this is perfect, especially during the winter months. in early december we got a big load of clementines, directly imported from greece, via gebana (now one can order oranges from the peleponnes region. we really liked the fruit a lot, they got harvested as they should, shortly before the peak and shipped within a few days. so the taste was absolutely exceptional, and we will order again next year.
i love to order through gebana, knowing that they take care of their producers and pay fair wages as well as help them market their products through cooperatives. nothing is big scale, which puts me at ease and this way i can even feel good when eating those delicious citrus fruit, and adding those needed vitamins to my meals in the fruitless winter of northern europe...

an other snack, everyone likes, and at any time is welcomed. home baked goodies. yesterday it was the poppy-lemon-almond cake, today its a oat-sesame-seed-coconut bar. and i'm sure tomorrow will make me think of something else, like tripple chocolate brownie or so...
baking at this time of year is perfect, it makes me comfortably warm in the house while baking and when everyone comes home in the afternoon, there are smiles and laughter as the smell of baking is waving through the house, welcoming and excitingly.