Yesterday was an odd day, as we were gone all day long since family came from out of town.
Breakfast - milk and nutrigrain bar
lunch - taquitos, refried beans, and chicken enchilada casserole
dinner - chicken and beans
snacks - right now we are usually refusing veggies, except for freeze-dried corn and peas and tomatoes. (I just found these at the Henry's market - they are rather expensive, but I figured it was worth a try). He also eats the kids organic pack snacks - oatmeal cookies, cheese ducky shaped crackers, and lemon vanilla cookies. He LOVES the vegetable beech nut toddler crackers.
Usual breakfast is Barbara's Spoonfuls cereal - a lot like "Life" cereal, except more whole grain and either a fruit serving (Peaches, mandarin oranges - his favorite!, berries, bananas, or a steamed apple - peel, cube and steam in micro (covered) for about a minute...it makes the apple a lot sweeter and softer to eat) and milk.
We also make smoothies - which he thinks is a treat. YoBaby yogurt (whole milk yogurt) with a *little* milk and sometimes some fruit in the blender.
He is hit and miss with eggs, but will always eat cheese, and likes banana bread - made with less sugar and oil and no nuts. When we are in a hurry, it's fruit bars for breakfast.
Lunch, soup or sandwiches or pasta dish. Sometimes fruit and bread and cheese. Sometimes a smoothie.
Dinner - we try to get him to eat what we eat...chicken, beef, ham, pizza, pasta. The sushi didn't go over so well last week - he didn't care for the crab or the seaweed. The avocado was green, so he spit it right out.
Right now, we are eating a lot of dinners from "Dream Dinners" - just one of the companies where you got and put the dinners together in freezer bags or containers. They give you all the main dish and usually side dish ingredients and you cook at home. I was running out of ideas for meals, too! There are many companies who do this all over the US - all have a different name, but they are about the same price and the same concept. A few of the places will even let you pay a bit more to put the meals together for you - you just pay and pick them up. Some companies even have ready-made meals you can drop-in and pick up. This is not a plug for any particular company - just a convenient and healthy dinner option I wanted to present. We had 24 meals for about $200 last month...as a working mom (3 days a week), it was a big help to me.
I loved reading all your ideas and got several of my own....I know I'll keep checking when I run out of inspiration!
