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Toddler Moms come in :)
In a typical day, what does your kid eat? I feel like I feed Macy the same things over and over and I need ideas for different things for her to eat. Every time I go to the grocery store I walk around hoping to get inspired but when I read the nutritional labels, most of the food isn't so nutritional.
So help me with ideas please! Thanks!
Baby Macy is here!
12/09 - Macy (daughter) | 4/10 - Began TTC Baby #2 | 12/10 - Chemical Pregnancy | 1/12 - Miscarriage at 14 weeks | DX - PCOS & Hyperthyroidism
Re: Toddler Moms come in :)
Ezra loves fruit. I buy fresh stuff (bananas, apples, strawberries in season) but also keep a big stock of canned fruit and fruit cups (I always buy the ones that are packed in 100% fruit juice, not syrup). He also eats a lot of whole wheat bread and mini bagels with butter, cream cheese, or peanut or almond butter on them.
For meat, I usually feed him whay we're having, but I also sometimes make a few chicken breasts and keep them in the fridge to heat up for quick meals. I keep a big stock of frozen veggies (broccoli, carrots, etc.) too and heat them up in the microwave. I do this and offer them to him first just so I can say I tried but he always just chucks the veggies on the floor.
I also buy frozen ravioli and tortellini and will sometimes make a bunch and stick it in the fridge to microwave quickly throughout the week. He loves most kinds of pasts and rice too. He will also tolerate yogurt sometimes.
Quinn is going through a slightly picky stage, which is unfortunate. We always give him whatever we are having for dinner, unless its really weird or spicy. For lunch he eats mac and cheese (his current fave), PB&Honey, Turkey and Cheese, pasta, or leftovers of some sort. He would also live on yogurt if we let him, so we have to limit that. He also likes raw carrot, fruit (currently its green apples, bananas, and sometimes red grapes), various crackers, cheese, and an assortment of unhealthy stuff that I try to limit.
Thanks for posting this, I need some new ideas too!
I try to make each meal a carb+protein+veg/fruit.
For example -
Breakfast - 1 scrambled egg + cheese, 1/2 slice of wheat toast, 1/2 banana.
Lunch - Peanut butter sandwich (wheat bread again), handful of grapes.
Dinner - Whole wheat pasta + frozen mixed vegs + ground beef + spaghetti sauce, with 1/2 banana and 1 baby cookie.
DD loves any combo of foods, so often she has "leftover casserole." I take whatever's in the fridge and mix it up, or toss it in an omelette. Quiche is a great thing to make if you have random stuff laying around. Pour it into muffin pans and have mini breakfasts/lunches ready to go.
Breakfast - oatmeal with 1/2 banana and cinnamon; OR toast with peanut butter and yogurt w/ banana; OR scrambled eggs with cheese and spinach; OR whole wheat pancakes with blueberry sauce
Lunch - anything we have leftover from dinner or grilled cheese sandwich, mac n cheese with fruits
Dinner - usually it's pasta or rice with some steamed veggies and fruit for dessert. DD is not a big fan of meat, so sometimes if we're having some kind of stew with meat and veggies, I'll puree it and use it as a sauce for her pasta.
I may not have been blessed with a good sleeper, but the child is a good eater. She'll eat pretty much anything we give her.
That said, she's a fruit junkie. She's never turned away any fruit - she gets whatever's in season/on sale. Applesauce (unsugared) makes a great, portable snack.
Lucky for me, she loves Asian food, too, and she eats whatever it is they serve at my in-laws.
She also surprises me in that she'll eat things that I think are too spicy. She'd rather have pepperjack cheese than plain mozzarella.
Really, I think now is the time to offer her a ton of variety, if you can, just because I think there's a period of general openness to "weird" things. Personally, I never got over the weirdness and I still eat like a 4-year-old.
But at the same time, I don't stress if we're in a rut. I actually stress surprisingly little over what she eats or doesn't eat, and that's weird given how I stress over pretty much everything, lol. But sometimes, she's just in a phase and the only thing she asks for is blueberries. But it doesn't last. And there are some days that she just doesn't eat a whole lot, but then there are other days where I can't believe how much she ate.
My silly Lily is almost 4.