Happy Tuesday Friends!
In this post, I wanted to share a few more toddler friendly healthy food options. These were just a few of the meals that little A ate during the weekend.
The first meal is actually her quick and easy, no fail meal/snack. I cooked some steel cut oats in milk with chopped bananas on top to sweeten it a bit. A LOVES this. She had this as her lunch along with an orange. Later during the day, she ate her blueberries, animal crackers and half a banana.
The second meal (on the right) is her dinner. It is white steamed rice with dal (yellow lentil) and a side of chicken and spinach and potatoes. This is also one of her favorites dinners. Some times I don’t make dal so I just make the chicken into a gravy and feed her that or I make the spinach gravy so she can enjoy that.
The third meal is again yellow lentil with rice, with her favorite sides ; strawberries, grapes, string cheese and crackers again. This is a quick lunch or a healthy snack.
The fourth meal is her typical breakfast. An organic brown egg fried in olive oil with a side of apple/pear steam and an orange. She eats this almost every morning except when I feel like Martha Stewart and cook up a storm (rarely ever happens) :).
The second and third meals are my go-to meals for the car rides and my take along snacks. She loves her berries and oranges so that helps me provide her with variety of snacks on the go. I usually cut up all these fruits into small pea sized chunks and put them in plastic containers and zip lock bags and throw them in her “snack caddy”. The way A is eating these days I feel blessed to have such a good eater. Hopefully I am not jinxing myself by saying this but she does have a pretty healthy appetite these days!
I have a few new contents coming soon which I am really excited to share with you all. I will have fun surprises for you all to enjoy. Stay tuned!
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Yumm! Everything looks good!
Sofia eats all her fruits but all of a sudden she won’t eat eggs
She’ll eat veggies so that’s good but chicken or meat is a hit or miss Some days she’ll eat a lot but others she won’t and then on those days is usually pasta bcuz she never says no to that one lol
Thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks for reading Elvira 🙂 . I know, our little ones have a mind of their own. So far Asha loves her chicken and fish but some days she wants nothing to do with them. All we can do is keep trying. I am glad Sofia loves her fruits though which is healthy and nutritious 🙂 .
These look great!! It’s been a month that Arman is refusing any food with texture. Any recommendations? He seems to want only puréed baby food. He used to handle texture very well. I am not sure what happened. Also, how do you make the gravy chicken and gravy spinach? Arman loves yellow Dal and Brown Rice :-).
May be it is one of the phases. I am guessing he will accept other food again since he used to be good about it before. As for the gravy chicken I usually make chicken curry with less spices. I can tell you specifically how but it is just like our version just with less spices. For gravy spinach I usually buy fresh bunch spinach (organic mostly) and saute it in olive oil, I also add potatoes and then put salt to taste and add some water. I cover it and let it cook until it turns into a thicker, almost gravy like texture. You can also add a little cumin in addition to salt but that is optional. This is Asha’s favorite. She almost finishes up one bunch of spinach in one meal 🙂 . Let me know if you have any other question.