Month: May 2012

Toddler Food: What Miss G Eats {9}

Toddler Food

Here it is…  Our ninth instalment of Toddler Food.  Please don’t mind the fact that it looks as though I only fed my child lunch and dinner every other day this week…  I promise, she was well fed everyday!  The lack of photos means one of two things – either there were a lot of leftovers involved (very possible) or I simply forgot to take photos (very possible also).  Anyways, here’s a question I got from a fellow mommy this week:

Is there anything your baby doesn’t eat?  How do you handle it?

The answer is yes, there sure is!  It’s a strange one because it seems like such a kid / North American staple, but she does not like potatoes and has never liked them.  It doesn’t matter if they’re mashed, roasted, boiled, baked, or pan-fried, she puts them in her mouth, starts to chew, and immediately begins scraping her tongue off with her pudgy little hand.  So weird.  The other thing she really doesn’t seem to enjoy is raw tomato (I don’t blame her – I don’t enjoy them either! ☺)  She eats cooked tomatoes, tomato sauces and soups, but will always leave raw tomatoes on her plate.  I must say, we’re very lucky as those are really the only two things she doesn’t seem to like.

As far as how we handle it goes, I guess we kind of don’t “handle” it at all…  (Is that bad?)  If potatoes or raw tomatoes are included in the meal we’re eating, we put some on her plate, and let her eat as usual.  We may encourage her to try them if she’s tried everything else and not touched them, but in all honesty, we just kind of leave it.  If she eats them, she eats them, and if she doesn’t, she doesn’t.  (Again, this laid-back approach is very likely due to the fact that she’s a fantastic little eater and we’re never really worried about whether or not she’s getting enough nutrients / calories / vitamins / food groups.)

Here are some of the meals our growing little girl ate this week:

IMG 1350Breakfast // Wholewheat oat pancakes with stewed berries.

IMG 1470Breakfast // French chia and flax toast with berries and bananas.  Watermelon sticks.

IMG 1426Breakfast // Toasted Chia and flax bread with all-natural peanut butter and Crofter’s Organic Just Fruit Spread. Hard cooked organic egg. Fruit slices.

IMG 1542Breakfast // Breakfast banana split (banana, all-natural almond butter, plain organic whole milk yogurt, organic oats, organic raisins, strawberry slices, and a sprinkling of cinnamon).

IMG 1583Breakfast // Breakfast bagel (broiled cheese, scrambled organic egg, and avocado slices) with sliced strawberries.

IMG 1561Breakfast // Organic Greek yogurt with strawberry slices, mango chunks, and hemp hearts.

IMG 1354Snack // Multigrain Melba Toasts with toppings (all-natural cream cheese and avocado / garlic scape pesto and fresh grated parmesan / all-natural almond butter with hemp hearts, chia, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and raisins).

IMG 1458Snack // Mango chunks and fresh raspberries.

IMG 1545Snack // Pistachio, pecan, walnut, and cranberry trail mix.

IMG 1525Snack // Organic crispy apple chips.

IMG 1563Snacks {on the go} // No-salt-added black beans.  Mozzarella cubes.  Pistachio, pecan, walnut, and cranberry trail mix. Homemade wholewheat cheddar crackers. Red pepper slices. Watermelon cubes. Apple slices.

IMG 1546Snack // Homemade wholewheat cheddar crackers.

IMG 1456Snack / Lunch {on the go} // Pistachio, pecan, walnut, and cranberry trail mix.  Red pepper slices and carrot sticks. Mozzarella cubes.  Roasted chicken and avocado wrap.  Watermelon chunks. Apple slices.

IMG 1585Snack / Lunch {on the go} // Cape seed roll drizzled with olive oil.  Baby banana. Shredded grilled chicken.  Steamed carrot sticks.  Pistachio, pecan, walnut, and cranberry trail mix.  Organic no-sugar-added fruit leather.  Homemade wholewheat cheddar crackers.

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Lunch // Chicken, black bean, and veggie quesadilla with salsa, guacamole, and sour cream.

IMG 1523Lunch //  Leftover Sunset Corn and Chicken Soup from Burgoo.  Homemade wholewheat cheddar crackers.  Steamed broccoli and carrots.

IMG 1409Dinner // Cheddar and broccoli elk pasta.  Grilled chicken breast. Peas and corn.

IMG 1580Dinner // Sushi salad (brown rice, steamed carrots, edamame beans, nori, green onions, and sesame seeds) with grilled shrimp and avocado slices.

IMG 1463Dinner {out at Burgoo} // Gooey Cheese Griller on multigrain.  Sunset Corn and Chicken Soup with crema fresca and fresh cilantro.

IMG 1540Dinner // Rainbow cabbage salad (red pepper, carrots, yellow pepper, edamame beans, fresh herbs, purple cabbage, roasted sesame seeds, and Little Creek) with grilled garlic shrimp.

♥

Keeping Busy

As I was preparing dinner late this afternoon, Grae came into the kitchen and sweetly asked for hangers.  I immediately knew what she wanted to do – she wanted to hang them on her crib railing as I do when setting out her outfit choices in the morning.  I retrieved a great big handful of hangers from the top of her closet, handed them over, and she was pleased as punch.  I was back at my cooking when she came in a requested more hangers, to which I suggested she take down the ones she had and put them back up afterwards.  Off she went.  A couple of minutes later, I sneakily poked my head around the corner to find this…

My little work bee always has to keep busy, even if it involves creating jobs for herself, undoing them, and redoing them again.  ♥

 

An Afternoon Ritual

This has become an after nap time ritual in our house…  These three wooden puzzles perfectly in line, the pieces strewn upon the floor, some chill music, and a very determined little puzzle master at work.  Oh ya – some serious bed head is also necessary.

iPhoneography // Frog Tags Along

Today’s play gym visit was all about Frog.  Everything that Gracen did, Frog did.  Come to think of it, Kermit probably had a better time than Grae because she used many of her turns to send him down the slide, help him jump on the trampoline, and push him on the plasma cars.  IMG 3337IMG 3341IMG 3345

Of course, when Grae went potty, so did Frog (ew…public washrooms and stuffed creatures – don’t worry – he didn’t touch a thing!) and when Gracen waved goodbye to play gym and all of the kids and toys, so did he.  What a silly little doodle I have on my hands.