Almost to the weekend! Though, I’m looking forward to another weekend at home, I’m NOT looking forward to really buckling down and packing, ugh! We move move in three weeks, so it is now crunch time, eek!
Since we have a busy morning of running errands and meeting up with Giselle and her cute little guy for a play date, I’m going to keep today’s post short and sweet.
Since I haven’t talked much about Keenan’s eats, I thought I would dedicate today’s Thursday Tidbits to all of the things that he eats, while linking up with Brittany’s fun Munchkin Meals link up. I’m lucky, because Keenan is a pretty good eater. He eats what we eat, with the exception of lunch, some breakfasts and when we have date nights. However, he did go through a phase a year ago when he didn’t want to eat a single vegetable, but after a couple of months, he started eating veggies again. Our household rule is you have to eat what is served; we don’t make separate meals. On nights where he isn’t too thrilled with what we make, he still has to eat half of it, and we save the rest for the next day’s lunch.
Anyhow, let’s get to it…
For breakfast on the week days, Keenan usually eats yogurt mixed with berries and a spoonful of chia seeds and ground flax seed or No Oat Oatmeal. If I have baked that week, its either a muffin or bread (he LOVED the Paleo Cherry Almond Bread that we baked last week), and if we have enough time, pancakes.
Keenan’s bowl of No Oat Oatmeal with berries and a dollop of peanut butter!
Speaking of yogurt, his Highlights magazine for this month included a fun little yogurt parfait recipe to make with your child for breakfast or dessert. When we were reading his magazine earlier this week, Keenan immediately wanted to make it (especially since he loves helping us in the kitchen!), so we saved it to make for breakfast yesterday. It was such a great activity, because Keenan did everything on his own (with my help of slicing the strawberries and pouring the yogurt, of course), so he was very excited to eat what he made! I changed a few things in the recipe to make it a little more nutritious, but Keenan still loved it. If you are interested, here is the recipe for our Yogurt Breakfast Parfait.
He was SO pumped to eat his parfait!
For lunches, Keenan loves to eat turkey rolls, “cheesy” eggs with spinach that we either do on the stove or in the microwave (depending on how much time we have), turkey and cheese sandwiches or his absolute favorite, peanut butter, banana and honey sandwiches. Yesterday, he chose “cheesy eggs” with spinach and a side of avocado and extra cheese.
For these “cheesy eggs,” I microwaved one egg with a few pieces of sharp cheddar cheese, chopped fresh spinach, pepper, garlic powder and Italian seasoning.
Snacks, are either string cheese, cheerios mixed with slivered almonds and dried fruit, fruit leathers, cookies that I have made, or fruit and veggie pouches from Happy Family. I actually just picked up the new Chobani Champions Greek yogurt tubes at Costco last week which seem to be his new favorite snack the past few days.
Last but not least, his dinners are a smaller version of what my husband and I eat. Last night, I made a green bean salad with cherry tomatoes, onions, slivered almonds, chicken and feta cheese. He ate every last morsel!
Keenan ate all of the feta cheese first and then the rest of his meal; it was too funny!
On Monday, when I made the Savory Roasted Butternut Squash Salad, he devoured it!
Roasted butternut squash is one of Keenan’s favorite foods.
For dessert, we always have some fruit, unless Keenan has “earned” a special treat of ice cream or a cookie if he stayed in his bed and went right to sleep for his nap and bedtime the night before, or has behaved exceptionally well that day.
That’s it for now. Have a great rest of your day!
Questions:
What are some of your kids’ favorite things to eat?
Do you make separate meals for your kids, or do they eat what you eat at dinner time?
Your advice is great. We are a smoothie eaters here. My toddler loves his veggies, its just getting the meat in. But he does like beans. Thanks for linking up.
Thank you! Good luck with your getting fit adventure! You will reach your goal!
Oh my gosh, that picture of him holding his parfait is too cute! He really does look SO excited!
Thank you! He was over the moon with his parfait; it was really cute!
Everything looks delicious. Keenan is adorable.
I would have to say smoothies and yogurt are probably their favorites. We love Chobani Champions.
We really try to have the girls eat what we eat. Every once in a while if I don’t think they will eat what we eat I make them something. Now that we are going to have four children I don’t want to get in the habit of making more then one thing. 🙂
Thank you! Yes, I can’t even imagine making separate meals for four children! I feel kids need to learn to appreciate whatever is on their plate (at least trying it), as you can’t always have what you want in life.
He’s so precious!!
My boy LOVES cheese…I think he would eat cheese with everything at every meal! He is also a huge pancake eater…I really do struggle to get him to eat his vegetables. I’m considering trying to chop some spinach SUPER fine and put it in his pancake batter.
Thank you! Keenan loves cheese, too! Here is a great pancake recipe with spinach that Keenan loves: http://deliciouslyfit.guru/green-flax-banana-nut-pancakes/
We have the same philosophy of “one meal for the whole family”, as you know. I also more or less require them to eat at least a couple bites of everything, but never usually force them to finish a plate. They just know that they won’t be offered anything else until what had been served, is gone. Every now and then, they turn up their nose to something, but since overall they’re such good eaters, I really don’t mind. I mean, after all, there are a few things I don’t like to eat too!
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