Feeding Our Kid

Despite his refusal to drink anything but water (not even chocolate milk or juice), Connor eats an amazing amount and array of food. His day starts with sliced banana and Cheerios, then a big bowl of plain whole milk yogurt mixed with a few tablespoons of wheat germ and a heaping spoonful of almond butter. Some days he will even have scrambled eggs after all that! He feeds himself with the spoon now, with a little assistance. He has a new fascination with dipping Cheerios into the yogurt and then eating them. After that lumberjack breakfast, he is pretty good till lunch on most days, though I do offer him a snack mid-morning.


Lunch typically is a tray of cut-up fruits, veggies, protein and always a slice of whole wheat toast at the end of the meal. Today he had cherry tomatoes, blueberries, avocado and a salmon/herb patty. Lately I've been having some fun with his food and making things like turkey-wrapped avocado chunks or strawberry and peanut butter sandwich bites. He seems to appreciate the creativity :) I found the other day that pizza is a hit with him as we had leftovers from the night before. I just cut it up into cubes and he ate it, eggplant, onions and all. After his nap he'll have a slice of cheese, which we have tremendous fun cutting into pieces and stacking together before he eats, and a peach (how he loves peaches!) or grapes.


Dinner is a lot like lunch, usually a mix of leftover stuff we had the night before (bbq chicken thighs, fish, tofu, or turkey burgers, plus spinach or other veggies, and fruit like melon, strawberries, oranges). He has a second big bowl of yogurt at night, this time mixed with eggplant hummus and ground flax seeds.

A lot of my day is preparing and cleaning up food for Connor, but I wouldn't have it any other way. It's a lot of fun now that he eats all the same stuff we do, and so neat to see him appreciate a variety of healthy foods. I know people say that kids shape their eating habits around this age, and I'm so excited for the life of good food he has ahead of him!