I'm so excited to share this post with you. I have been working on it for an insanely long time. I don't know about you but I am always looking for fun new foods and ways to feed Maggie. Fortunately she has always been an awesome eater. From the time she was 6 months she was wanting to eat whatever we were having. After a couple of months I realized I could use it to my advantage and I started making my own baby food. I would combine things like Carrots, Sweet Potatoes and Apple Sauce or Green beans with Avocado. I also loved it because I could play with around spices for flavoring and cut back on the sodium. It broadened her tastes so much. I can't say that I know too many almost 15 month old who's favorite food is anything Mexican because she loves spicy things. Now she pretty much eats whatever we are eating for dinner, and breakfast and lunches we get to be creative.
She is getting to the stage where eating needs to be more fun, and not so much a chore. I have loved playing up her serving trays and giving her varieties of things to choose from. These are some of my favorites that we have purchased and want to purchase.
To give you an idea of what some of our meals look like. Breakfast I always try to include carbs or protein and lots of fruit. Some of our favorites are scrambled or hard boiled egg, eggo/ english muffin with cream cheese. Lunch always has a protein, veggie, fruit and some sort of treat like a fruit snack, or a handful of marshmallows. Dinner is almost always what we eat. Main dish, fruit, veggie, carb. I will be completely honest and tell you I am not a mom who focuses on non-processed, all organic foods. I do my best to make sure my child eats healthy, but when I'm in a bind, TV dinners and boxed Mac n' Cheese are lifesavers.
1. Ham, Crackers, tortillas, cheese, raisins, marshmallows, pears, cheese puffs, peaches, flavored puffs.
2. Blueberries, peaches, diced roast beef, turkey stuffing, dinner roll.
3. Bow-tie Pasta with meat sauce, halved grapes and fruit smoothie.
4. Mini pancakes, peanut butter, bananas, raisins, marshmallows, blueberries.
5. Italian Chicken, corn, fettuccine noodles, cheddar biscuit.
6. Chicken and cheese quesadilla, guacamole, chicken rice and bananas.
7. English Muffin with strawberry cream ch., bananas, blueberries
8. Meatballs, butternut squash with cinnamon, and blueberries.
9. Tortellini tossed with panko bread crumbs, hard boiled egg and kiwi.
10. Crockpot Italian Chicken, egg noodles, green beans and watermelon.
I hope this gives you all some fun ideas and that feeding time becomes a little more creative in your houses. Please comment and leave me your meal ideas too. I would love to add to our ever growing list of options.
Wishing you a fabulous weekend.
Happy Saturday!
-Kelli
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