We are currently experiencing a highchair boycott. The booster seat concept is fine except he is really messy. Being at the table gives him more surface area to fling food around. Now I am cleaning the table and around the circumference instead of just the tray and highchair circumference. Of course Keegan thinks it is all so hilarious. Frankly I am still thrilled that mealtime is no longer a time for fighting to get food in his belly. He still has picky days, like yesterday when I prepared and offered 5 different breakfast choices and he passed on all of them. Except cheese, he always wants cheese.
I am looking for suggestions from you on protein/vegetable combos that he might go for. Keegan needs to up his consumption of veggies and I think if they are fixed as part of a dish he'll be more open to them. I will take meat or vegetarian options as long as they contain good protein. Bring on the toddler friendly food ideas!
PS Anal retentive confession: I've started a spreadsheet with all of our dinner, lunch and snack ideas. I am hoping to streamline meal planning and grocery shopping. Hey, every little bit helps and I don't want to have to resort to prepackaged foods unless it's absolutely necessary.
http://www.fillorburst.com/mt-tb.cgi/864
I just recently found out that Magdalena LOVES stew. (remember how I was saying on my blog I made stew? heh) It's the perfect thing to throw anything in. I threw in beef, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, peas, green beans, and I throw some corn in hers when I reheat. :) M also loves scrambled eggs and cottage cheese. Recently I've started giving her iron enriched oatmeal (regular, not baby stuff) and I mix in some mashed bananas or some purreed fruit. With that I also sneak in some spinach, but since it has that fruity flavor, she gobbles it up. I am lucky though cause she generally doesn't reject anything I fix her, though i'm pretty darn picky myself.
beans? any kind. baked beans, garbanzo beans, kidney beans. charlotte ate some garbanzo beans tonight with our chicken curry!
have your tried cooking peppers and peeling the skin off? they are sweet that way. she will also eat spinach when it is chopped up fine into a macaroni/cheese/tomato sauce bake thingy.
hi! thanks so much for sending best wishes our way. I think I have a book called Happy Baby food or something that might have recipes and such. I'll take a look and let you know. It's fun reading about keegan's latest "adventures" in the kitchen.
I've had a spreadsheet with our dinner ideas for an age now. I've just never met anyone with a likemind that I could admit that too! :-) And I wish I could give you toddler food suggestions but given that my toddler doesn't eat, I'm a blank.