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Kid food – lunch

May 29, 2013 by Stacey 27 Comments

They’re back! My kid food posts!
I’m ashamed to say they stopped for a while there because as Abby’s tastes ran solely to peanut butter sandwiches, bananas and yogurt, I mostly stuck to what I knew she would eat when I was wrangling her and a newborn Pepper. I probably should have continued to give her food she wouldn’t try in an effort to expand her palate, but I was just so busy. And tired.
Anyway, I’m still tired, but I’ve had some luck recently with Abby deviating from her normal food schedule, AND Pepper is on solids, so I’ve resurrected the posts that reflect what I feed my babes. I’m feeling inspired again!
Um, trusty peanut butter sandwich and raisins.
One of my first forays into quinoa bites. These ones were pumpkin. Homemade wedges. Abby sniffed around them, but didn’t seem overly interested.
 Grapes eaten with glee. Wrap unrolled… unsure if she actually ate any of it!
Avocado on rice cracker with pear and puffed rice.
While she whined for peanut butter on her cracker instead, she did get through most of this.
And a lot of the rice bits ended up on the floor.
Egg sandwich and red grapes. It used to be her absolute favourite about a year ago, and now she couldn’t care less. But we’re getting there!
What’s been happening for kiddo lunch at your place?

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  1. The Urban Mummy says

    May 29, 2013 at 5:52 am

    Oooh I love these posts ! With a 10 month (almost 11 – where did that go?) who is Mr Independent with his eating I too find it a little challenging for some variety. I’ve had a win with ‘Spiral Pasta & Broccoli Pesto’ – all the vegies stick to the inside of the pasta so he doesn’t really know he’s eating goodness and the spirals are just the right size for his little fingers too ! I even by spelt, wholemeal pasta for extra goodness and I think it holds together better after cooked. I cook up a little batch and he eats it cold or hot ! I’ll be trying your ‘quinoa bites’ though – they look great !

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    • Veggie Mama says

      May 29, 2013 at 12:26 pm

      broccoli pesto is so genius! I can’t wait to try it. I nearly got abby to eat crumbed eggplant last night by making them into chips. She had a few bites and then spit it out. I was happy to eat her leftovers, they were delicious!

      Reply
  2. tessa : down that little lane says

    May 29, 2013 at 8:19 am

    Quinoa Bites sound fab.. I have to admit to school lunchbox has a fairly similar theme each day but I do try and get the one I have at home to try all sorts. Luckily they would both eat crudites and fruit until the cows come home so healthy is easy its just variety we lack sometimes

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    • Veggie Mama says

      May 29, 2013 at 12:25 pm

      Oh yeah, I hear you. I can’t wait until the kids eat more crudites and a wider variety of fruit. Although my husband still has the same things in his lunch box every day and I would go mad! I need something different all the time. But kids are such creatures of habit, huh!

      Reply
  3. Lilybett and Boy says

    May 29, 2013 at 9:06 am

    Oh my goodness. This could be my boy. Put corn on a plate or in anything and he’ll manage to dig out each little piece and leave the rest – his little body seems to be running on corn and puffed rice alone. The quinoa bites look lovely, might have to give those a whirl.

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    • Veggie Mama says

      May 29, 2013 at 12:25 pm

      Abby ate some the last time I made them – with carrot, cheese and avocado. I was SO excited! Aren’t little kids weird with their food preferences?!

      Reply
  4. Katie Rainbird says

    May 29, 2013 at 9:38 am

    My 3yo has recently taken a keener interest in food and her mornings now start with a whole piece of toast and a bowl of porridge. She’ll hoover most fruit I place before her as well as whole sandwiches and slices of home made treats. It’s dinner that is left waiting for improvement but that’s cool. She mostly gets rice w’ raw veggies or pasta sprirals w’ pesto and cherry tomatoes. And a big ol’ blob of tomato sauce. It’s gotta be on her dinner plate. She loves that stuff man!

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    • Veggie Mama says

      May 29, 2013 at 12:24 pm

      haha sometimes abby just has a bowl with a little sauce in it…

      Reply
  5. ANB says

    May 29, 2013 at 10:12 am

    Repeated requests for “ham san-wich, Mumma” which means I put in ham, cheese, cucumber and grated carrot, and she then pulls the whole thing apart and ignores the bread. And still lots of cheesy pasta. And pizza made on English muffins or miniature frozen bases, topped with just tomato paste, cheese, cherry tomatoes and capsicum.

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    • Veggie Mama says

      May 29, 2013 at 12:23 pm

      Yum, can you be my mum?! I remember doing an english muffin pizza on one of these posts a while ago. That was before the downward sandwich spiral 🙁
      I’m going to give pasta another go though! Thanks for the tips x

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      • ANB says

        May 29, 2013 at 5:34 pm

        Ha, serves me right, all that was consumed here today for lunch was lamington, yoghurt and mandarin. In that order. Stellar parenting on my part!

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  6. MotherDownUnder says

    May 29, 2013 at 11:48 am

    Toddler C has been surprising me lately. For example he has been eating tuna like it is going out of style. Vegetables are still pretty much shunned…unless I hide them in moofans.

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    • Veggie Mama says

      May 29, 2013 at 12:22 pm

      MOOFANS FTW!

      Reply
  7. Wendy says

    May 29, 2013 at 12:53 pm

    Maybe try these… http://vegiesmugglers.com.au/2011/10/12/how-to-have-them-begging-for-zucchini-in-their-lunchbox/

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    • Veggie Mama says

      May 31, 2013 at 9:53 am

      I’ve tried something similar – she wasn’t interested. It was a while ago though, maybe she’ll be more into it now!

      Reply
  8. Lisa Mckenzie says

    May 29, 2013 at 1:45 pm

    I am glad Abby is a least trying the new things now,she may or may not get better ,time will tell hon xx

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    • Veggie Mama says

      May 31, 2013 at 9:48 am

      She seems healthy enough, so I won’t worry just yet! <3

      Reply
  9. Lexi Kentmann says

    May 29, 2013 at 1:50 pm

    Love this post and love the inspiration and variety. I needed this.

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    • Veggie Mama says

      May 31, 2013 at 9:48 am

      ha this is actually pretty mild for variety. It gets better!

      Reply
  10. Christie Connelly says

    May 29, 2013 at 3:04 pm

    Poppy was off peanut butter for a while and is now back on. As well as cream cheese. Still cannot get her to eat any kind of pasta, mashed potato, rissole/patty or even homemade chips! (Bought ones seem to be fine though, go figure). My saving grace is rice. She will eat it mixed with practically anything as long as there is also peas in it, so I have been very, very creative 🙂

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    • Veggie Mama says

      May 31, 2013 at 9:48 am

      What is WITH that? Abby won’t eat handmade chips, but will eat bought ones.
      And I gave her crumbed zucchini chips the other day… and she ate a few bites until she got to a zuchini-y bit and spit it out. SO close!

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      • Christie Connelly says

        May 31, 2013 at 10:34 am

        Beats me! But at least I get to eat yummy home made chips!
        I got Poppy to put celery in her mouth the other day for 2 seconds. It’s the first step!!! 🙂

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        • Veggie Mama says

          June 3, 2013 at 3:33 pm

          Small wins! Love them.

          Reply
  11. Polly says

    June 2, 2013 at 10:03 am

    Arghhh toddlers actually kids in general and their fussy behaviour is so frustrating. I think you are sensible to stick with what you know and throw a change in here and there,you just never know when you might get a win. Our win this week is mandarins for two out of three anyway!

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    • Veggie Mama says

      June 10, 2013 at 11:21 am

      haha isn’t it weird. I am going to try abby on mandarins this week too. She used to eat them…

      Reply
  12. Deb from Kids Dig Food says

    June 8, 2013 at 4:55 pm

    Love your post Veggie Mama. I’d also love you to check out my Facebook page Kids Dig Food and my website, http://www.kidsdigfood.com.au – great ideas for those struggles with kids and food 🙂

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    • Veggie Mama says

      June 10, 2013 at 11:20 am

      Ooh I like that idea!

      Reply

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