Thursday, August 29, 2013
What My Toddler Eats
I've learned a lot since I became a stay-at-home mom. One thing that's near the top of the list is that it's really easy to wake up one morning and think to yourself...how am I going to come up with ways to occupy another entire day? It's hard enough thinking of ways to entertain the munchkins, but sometimes the monotony of simple things like what to feed my toddler for breakfast is almost enough to throw you over the edge.
I try to keep a variety of healthy meal and snack options available for Lincoln. Until recently, Addie was content to just gnaw on a teether, but now she is demanding puffs or pieces of food every time Lincoln eats. I'm still trying to get into a rhythm of feeding both kids "real meals" at the same time.
Sometimes it seems like the only thing Lincoln eats is cheese, so I wanted to document a little bit of proof that he does generally at least taste a good variety of foods!
What to Feed a Toddler for Breakfast:
Pancakes, blueberries, and frozen apple juice stars (made in a silicone ice cube tray).
Cheerios with milk. Or, artistic interpretation of a map.
Organic waffle, sliced banana, GoGosqueeZ AppleMango sauce.
What to Feed a Toddler for Lunch:
Spaghetti with marinara (or as we call it, "red noni" - macaroni), cottage cheese, blueberries.
Annie's Mac & Cheese, GoGosqueeZ Applesauce, string cheese.
Cantaloupe, cottage cheese, sliced banana. This was a really picky day. He didn't want anything.
What to Feed a Toddler for Dinner:
We typically serve Lincoln whatever we are eating for dinner, along with a side item or two that we know he will eat. I know that it is important for kids to learn to eat "normal" foods - but I also don't want to send my child to bed starving because he refused to try anything on his plate. When he is five? Maybe that will be reasonable, since he will understand that he needs to eat what is placed before him. But for now, I try to find the middle ground.
Pasta with homemade Alfredo sauce (also known as "white noni"), string cheese, cantaloupe, GoGosqueeZ Applesauce.
Grilled chicken, French fries, cantaloupe from the Farmer's Market, GoGosqueeZ Applesauce. Yes, in case you haven't noticed, we should very likely buy stock in applesauce.
French toast, scrambled eggs, blueberries.
Looking back on this post, it seems that the only fruits we serve are blueberries and cantaloupe. Quite honestly, that's not true - we've just had these particular fruits on hand the last few weeks. We also have a lot of apples, pears, peaches, strawberries, raspberries, grapes, and watermelon. Noticeably absent from these photos? Vegetables. I know. We are a work in progress about that over here. Lincoln generally won't touch them - no matter what - so I try to hide them in muffins or pasta sauce or something like that. If you have more clever ideas for getting toddlers to eat veggies, please throw them my way!
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I have no experience in this yet, but I just saw a post today on Facebook about getting tots to eat their broccoli by melting shredded cheese on top. Worth a try if Lincoln loves his cheese!
ReplyDeleteHe tends to just pick cheese off everything. Ha! I'll keep trying, though. :)
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