Thursday, January 7, 2010

Ideas for healthy foods/recipes to feed my 1 yr old!?

My son just turned one last week and we've been giving him table food for about 2 months now. He will eat any type of fruit (bananas, mango, blueberries, blackberries, grapes, pears) , but only a few other things, like salami, ham,cheese, toast and sometimes chicken breast if it's marinated in something. We also give him crackers, goldfish, and Gerber puffs as well as some other packaged baby snacks, but I want him to get more of a variety and I need help to get him to eat his veggies and get him completely off the baby food jars. I tried to get him to eat broccoli today and he tried it but then spit it out. Does anyone have any easy and quick (HEALTHY) ideas or recipes for lunches and dinners? I am running out of ideas and I feel like I am giving him the same stuff all the time. I think he would eat more veggies if I could find a way to cover the taste with something he likes (some kind of sauce or something). But I also don't want to spend lots of time on fixing something just to find out that he's going to toss it to our dogs if he doesn't like it! Thanks for your help!Ideas for healthy foods/recipes to feed my 1 yr old!?
What about making a big pot of stew. It's so easy to make, just throw it in the crockpot in the morning and away you go. You can pretty much throw any kind of vegetable in there! If you make a big enough pot, freeze some for another day. What about a cheese sauce for the veggies? Another suggestion would be to go out a buy the book ';Deceptively Delicious'; by Jessica Seinfeld. It's a great cookbook on how to hide vegetables in everyday foods. My kids love the Hot Chocolate with sweet potato in it, and also bran muffins with cauliflower.....and they are none the wiser :)Ideas for healthy foods/recipes to feed my 1 yr old!?
Grilled cheese sandwiches: you can hide chopped steamed broccoli in it.


Meatloaf: minced carrots, make it extremely tender.


Quesodillas: you can hide veggies in that as well with the cheese or add beans and some very finely chopped.


These are all things my 1 year old was eating.
Google 'annabel karmel'. Her website has loads of ideas. Her recipes allow you to make a batch so you can freeze food and then have plenty prepared. Has good ideas for finger foods too.
Have you tried baby carrots with Ranch....or even celery with peanut butter you can even top it off with raisins Mmmmm.....or even strawberries with whipped cream
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