What Did Your Toddler Eat Today? Part 7

[*Ali*]

Oh dear poor Brock. I hope he gets better soon.
Yesterday:
B: Refused banana porridge. Ate dry cheerios
S: Buttered toast (stolen from his cousin)
L: Beans on (more) toast spread with Boursin cheese
D: Salmon, mash potato with (more) Boursin cheese, 2 asparagus spears, 1/4 dragon fruit and 3 strawberries
 
Today:
B: Four grain apple and apricot porridge, 1/4 dragon fruit
L: Pitta and houmous, 10 grapes
S: small piece of custard cream biscuit (at playgroup)
D: Turkey breast stuffed with sundried tomato and basil leaves, rice and sweetcorn, 3 strawberries.

[Brock~Tahlia~Mummy]

Brock had dinner last night and a decent serving!
Thanks cadiesmum  

[marilyn73]

I must rave about this recipe - easy to find if you google wholesome baby food with broccoli.
A friend of mine made broccoli nuggets for dd and she went wild for them.  Won't eat anything else if there's a nugget in sight -we have to give her the rest of the meal first.
I made my own batch last night and added a chopped sweet potato and carrot.   A definite hit. Freezes well.

Ok, enough of that:
B - shreddies, 1/2 english muffin with PB
L - black bean soup, toast, yogurt, apple slices
S - banana, pear, cheese string
S - goldfish, milk
D - broccoli nugget, salmon cake, quiche off my plate (2nd dinner sitting for dd), a few grapes.)

[*Jo*]

well today Caleb (who has a love for the pantry) ate this

B: large bowl of oats with soy milk (then stole a cookie off the bench that I left to cool down from baking grrrr)
S: 5 Snax crackers
L: 2 scrambled eggs with some soy milk
S: banana smoothie (the only way I can get fruit into him)
S: 2 more cookies (grr)
S: ice cream cone (empty) from McDonalds as we bought an ice cream and hes dairy intolerant so just gets the cone
D: offered home made healthy chicken nuggets and hot chips, he only ate the chips, then climbed up and ate mine, then went for the pantry, tried offering an apple but would have none of it.

Marilyn, do you have the broccoli nuggets recipe?

Oh my boy is so unhealthy, what happened to my fantastic "I love all things vege" eater....

[Mom to M&M]

I don't have the broccoli nugget recipe but I do have a really good spinach one. In fact I plan to make some later today!

http://www.food.com/recipe/spinach-nuggets-307877

[Mom to M&M]

Jo - have you tried roasted chickpeas with Caleb? Matthew LOVES them - he thinks of them as a snack like goldfish crackers or the like but super healthy - protein, veg and all. I cook dried garbanzo beans (after soaking them overnight) and when tender but not mushy I drain them and mix about a cup of cooked beans with 1 tablespoon brown sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon, 3/4 tsp ground ginger, 1/2 tsp salt and a pinch of ground black pepper. When beans coated well put them on a baking sheet (ungreased), spray lightly with olive oil spray, mix again and cook at 350 for 40-60 minutes, mixing and shaking the pan every 10-15 minutes. You'll know they are done when they rattle nicely on the pan and feel a bit crisp but not too hard.

On topic - yesterday was:

B: half a toddler cereal bar, strawberries, few cheerios
L: half veggie burger with spinach and mushroom, applesauce
S: goldfish crackers, apple slices
D: barilla plus pasta with sauce with hidden veg and cheese, roasted chickpeas (refused chicken cutlet), arrowroot cookies

[~Sara~]

Jo - have you tried roasted chickpeas with Caleb? Matthew LOVES them - he thinks of them as a snack like goldfish crackers or the like but super healthy - protein, veg and all. I cook dried garbanzo beans (after soaking them overnight) and when tender but not mushy I drain them and mix about a cup of cooked beans with 1 tablespoon brown sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon, 3/4 tsp ground ginger, 1/2 tsp salt and a pinch of ground black pepper. When beans coated well put them on a baking sheet (ungreased), spray lightly with olive oil spray, mix again and cook at 350 for 40-60 minutes, mixing and shaking the pan every 10-15 minutes. You'll know they are done when they rattle nicely on the pan and feel a bit crisp but not too hard.

Yum!!  I want some for myself!

[Mom to M&M]

LOL Sara, I eat them as well. Addictive!

[Jiinx]

goodness...where do you get your ideas from, Karen. can we come live with you?

[gogomama]

goodness...where do you get your ideas from, Karen. can we come live with you?

LOL! I agree!

I think I found the recipe for the broccoli nuggets:
http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/babyfingerfood.htm

If not, I just made these ones today and they were really good! I ended up eating some myself

[Mom to M&M]

Those broccoli ones are basically identical to the spinach ones I posted! I just like the spinach ones cause of the awesome nutritional value of spinach - BUT that said, broccoli is super healthy too AND something that my DS doesn't eat much of (DD loves it steamed or roasted). And since he does get spinach in veggie lasagna or homemade pizza, maybe I'll do the nuggets next time with the broccoli.

Thanks everyone - I do try. Some ideas I come up with on my own, some adapted from recipes from online, from cookbooks or from friends. Or compilations thereof!

[*Ali*]

Yum I might have to try those broccoli nuggets 
So I missed yesterday:
B: Fried egg on toast, strawberries
L: 1/2 avocado and 1/2 banana mashed together (he loved this), beans, pot of fromage frais
D Spinach (tons of it just steamed on its own). turkey breast, sundried tomato, grapes

Today:
B Rice cereal (I had some left in the cupboard from when he was younger that I wanted to use) made with cow's milk with a whole pureed pear stirred in, 2 strawberries and a few grapes
L: Crab cakes in creamy saffron sauce with rocket and potato gratin plus some ciabatta and pizza crusts and 1/2 of DH's pear and almond tart with chocolate and vanilla ice cream.  (out at an Italian restaurant)
D: Beef meatballs in tomatoes with red pepper and mushrooms with spaghetti. Pot of fromage frais.
 

[Mom to M&M]

Not bad today:

B: blueberries, half a small banana, most of a toddler cereal bar
L: 1/4 toasted buttered bagel, yogurt
S: apple slices
D: vegetable lasagna (with kale, spinach, mushrooms and carrot)

[~Sara~]

DS's appetite has been really touchy lately...not sure why (no way he's getting his 2 year molars, gosh I hope!).

B: a few bites of cherrios
S: wanted some more dried cherrios
L: some rice, beans, cheese quesadilla
D: cheese enchilada, refried beans, spanish rice

Normally we don't have Tex-Mex twice in one day, even for being in Texas .  My grandfather wanted to treat us to dinner, and, well, we couldn't refuse.  Oh well.  Tomorrow is another day!

[Brock~Tahlia~Mummy]

B  1/2 oatbix 1/4 Banana, 1/2 piece toast w/butter,prune juice,  ref scrambled eggs
S 2 mumums
S 1 honey rice puff bar
L vegemite/cheese toastie, water
S few spoonfuls of yoghurt 1/2 oat biscuit ref strawberries and apple.
D spag bowl w/ pumpkin and egg noodles, prune juice, frozen yoghurt

he's def feeling much better