Category: Munchkin Meals
18 Months: Munchkin Meals
| April 4, 2013 | Posted by Madeline @ Food, Fitness, and Family under Munchkin Meals, Toddler |
I can’t believe it’s Thursday already! I love short weeks 
Yesterday I shared my daily eats with What I Ate Wednesday and today I am linking up with my girl Brittany over at A Healthy Slice of Life for Munchkin Meals! Brittany started this link-up just about a year ago when both are girls were getting started on Baby Led Weaning. Sometimes it’s easy to get stuck in a food rut when feeding your tot. Munchkin Meals is a great way to get some new ideas for your kiddo!
BREAKFAST
Breakfast is pretty easy around here. Some of Em’s favorites are scrambled eggs, homemade whole wheat waffles, pancakes, fruit, and baked apple cinnamon oatmeal. Easy peasy and ready fast!
LUNCH
For some reason lunch is my most difficult meal to do for Em. From the top:
Tuna sandwich, bananas, and veggie straws
Chicken salad sandwich, roasted carrots and sweet potatoes, grapes
Applegate chicken nuggets, peas and apples
Leftover roasted chicken, roasted veggies, and bananas
Mac’n'Cheese and fruit
I’ve found that leftovers make for great lunches the next week. Also having a variety of fruits and frozen vegetables on hand helps also. I don’t know why lunch perplexes me sometimes be it does!
DINNER
Em nearly always eats whatever we are having for dinner. It makes dinner time super easy! From the top:
Crock pot pot roast with sweet potatoes
Brown rice Mexican mix – black beans, cheese, tomatoes, avocado, shredded chicken, taco seasoning
Chicken tortilla soup, bananas, veggie straws
Salmon and roasted veggies
There you have it! Emmalyne’s eats at 18 months 
What’s your favorite lunch for your kiddo or yourself?
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March Munchkin Meals: 17 Months
| March 7, 2013 | Posted by Madeline @ Food, Fitness, and Family under Munchkin Meals, Toddler |
I love sharing my eats with you on What I Ate Wednesday because then I can also check out the other posts for some new ideas. Similarly, I love linking up with Brittany for Munchkin Meals because I get some new ideas for toddler meals! Feeding a toddler isn’t hard … but having a variety of foods can be. This is Em’s 17 month edition of Munchkin Meals!
BREAKFAST
Breakfast is pretty standard around here. Eggs, fruit, homemade whole wheat waffles, or baked oatmeal (recipe coming SOON I promise). Oatmeal if for days where we have to be out the door early and I need an option that takes 30 seconds. Perfect!
LUNCH
Quinoa sautéed with spinach, tomatoes, and turkey. Grapes on the side.
Applegate chicken nuggets, clementine, and left over roasted veggies.
Quinoa with peas, turkey, and spinach with clementines.
Low sodium, nitrate free turkey, clementines, leftover roasted veggies
Leftover creamy mushroom chicken, blueberries, and peas.
The biggest thing with lunch for me is that I have things on hand. I make quinoa during my Sunday prep so I have it on hand all week. I always make extra roasted veggies for easy lunch options. Lunch takes me less than 5 minutes to prep which is great when Em gets hangry.
DINNER
For dinner, Em eats what we eat. In this case it was chicken with roasted veggies and grilled pork chops.
SNACKS
Snacks are whatever is on hand. We have been loving smoothies lately. Em also sucks down green juices like there’s no tomorrow. Sometimes it’s Gold Fish crackers.
Overall I try to get Em a balanced diet throughout the day. I also try to add variety to the kinds of fruits and veggies she eats. Overall I am lucky that I have a really good eater who loves her healthy foods! Don’t forget to check out the other posts in the link-up!
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Munchkin Meals – 16 Months {Giveaway}
| February 7, 2013 | Posted by Madeline @ Food, Fitness, and Family under GIveaway, Munchkin Meals, Toddler |
I love my blog friends, or blends. I am lucky enough to count them among my real friends. One of my favorite blends is Brittany from A Healthy Slice of Life. I love linking up every month with her Munchkin Meals series. If you are a mom and haven’t check it out yet, you need to! It’s a great way to get some new ideas for what to feed our munchkins I can’t believe that it’s time for our 16-month edition …. eek! Lucky for me, Em is an outstanding eater and will pretty much eat everything I put in front of her. She’s my little garbage disposal
BREAKFAST
Egg and spinach scramble with fresh fruit
Baked apple cinnamon oatmeal
Whole wheat homemade waffles
LUNCH
Low sodium, nitrate free deli turkey, string cheese, oranges, veggies
Applegate farms chicken nuggets, peas, fruit
Quinoa and chicken, avocado, fruit
Turkey, berries, avocado, and veggie straws, Applegate farms turkey hot dog
Chicken tortilla soup, oranges, lentils
Quinoa and veggies, fruit
DINNER
Chicken and sweet potatoes
Chicken, banana, and veggies
Turkey meatloaf muffins and roasted veggies
Roasted chicken and veggies
Chicken tortilla soup and veggies
Wild salmon and veggies
For snacks, one new edition to our line up is The Little Green Pouch. This reusable pouch is not only environmentally friendly, it is also cost effective. Em loves yogurt and apple sauce pouches but the yogurt can be a pain to spoon feed her and I don’t always have time to clean up the destruction of letting her use a spoon. Enter the little green pouch. I simple add a little water to Greek yogurt (love Chobani Champions) and fill the pouch! Em sucks them down like no tomorrow.
Here is my method for filling them:
The Little Green Pouch is fantastic for baby food purees if you decide to go that route (we did baby led weaning) or for toddlers who love their independence and pouches! The Little Green Pouch is giving away a set to one lucky reader of Food, Fitness, and Family. Enter via the Rafflecopter widget below:
Giveaway will close at midnight on February 10 with the winner announced on the blog Monday, February 11. Easy peasy! Thanks Brittany for hosting another awesome Munchkin Meals. Can’t wait to see what everyone linked up
What was your favorite snack as a kid? I loved snacking on cereal out of the box. Heck, I still do!
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Munchkin Meals: 15 Months
| January 3, 2013 | Posted by Madeline @ Food, Fitness, and Family under Munchkin Meals, Toddler |
Really excited to be linking up again with Munchkin Meals this month with my friend Brittany at A Healthy Slice of Life. I had the pleasure of meeting her and Hailey back in May (?) when they were in town visiting Savannah. She’s just in sweet in person and Em and Hailey are long lost BFFs After showing my eats yesterday, I am ready to show you a sampling of what Emmalyne has been eating recently.
Preparing meals for an active toddler is both fun and daunting. I aim to give Emmie a variety of foods every day. She will be 15 months old on Sunday and loves pretty much any food put in front of her. Currently we are at three main meals and two snacks a day plus whole milk at meals. Girlfriend can eat
BREAKFAST
From the top left:
Scrambled eggs with spinach, berries, and whole wheat toast
Homemade whole-wheat waffles and cantaloupe
Plates are the latest hat fashion in toddlerhood
LUNCH
From The Top:
Brown rice sautéed with spinach, turkey, and tomatoes with pears on the side
Annie’s mac-and-cheese with peas and bananas
Turkey peas and mandarins
Grilled cheese with broccoli and mandarins
SNACKS
Multigrain Cheerios
Fruit cups (in water not syrup)
String Cheese
Annie’s Snack Mix
DINNER
Happy Bites Salmon Stix with peas and blueberries
Baked chicken, roasted veggies, and blue au gratin potatoes
**Dinner is typically whatever we are eating.
I have been really lucky that my toddler hasn’t had a picky palate. I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that we did baby led weaning with her but that is obviously just my opinion. Additionally, if there is something that she doesn’t like once, I keep trying. She eats until she is full and tells me when she is done which works for us. The only downside to her healthy appetite is having to include her in the grocery budget and when we go out to eat
Something to read that I found interesting: 6 Food Mistakes Parents Make via the NY Times
What is your kiddos favorite snack? If you don’t have kids, what’s yours?
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Munchkin Meals
| December 6, 2012 | Posted by Madeline @ Food, Fitness, and Family under Munchkin Meals |
My daughter is a garbage disposal. Seriously. She eats the same amount of food as many 7 year olds. Recently I have noticed an increase in our grocery bill to keep her satiated. Her pediatrician said her weight is right on track with her height and that she is probably so hungry because she is so mobile. Luckily, Brittany is hosting Munchkin Meals this week so I can talk about it
Emmie is taking after me and loving a big breakfast. Normally she eats whatever I do. Whether that be scrambled eggs with spinach, Vans whole wheat waffles, and fruit. She is officially a strawberry monster and could down an entire pint in one sitting if I let her.
For lunch, left overs rock. Whatever is still in the refrigerator makes its way onto her tray before the epic pre-nap meltdown begins. If there aren’t leftovers, I steam veggies, make macaroni and cheese, chop turkey, or whatever. I often have some brown rice pre-made that I can mix with whatever I can find. Ha.
Snacks are getting a bit easier. Girl loves her carbs and will down Cheerios or wheat crackers. String cheese is a quick and easy fix and mandarin oranges are baby crack. Peeled apple slices can go a long way too.
For dinner, Emmalyne eats whatever we are having. Often times Emmalyne and I eat dinner together and then Chris gets home later and warms a plate. She loves my turkey meatloaf muffins and will down a plate full of roasted veggies easy.
The most difficult thing we are facing? Eating out. It’s costing too much money since we have to buy Emmalyne a full meal. HA. ;) Gone are the days where she would be happy having a few bites of my meal.
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My daughter is a garbage disposal. Seriously. She eats the same amount of food as many 7 year olds. Recently I have noticed an increase in our grocery bill to keep her satiated. Her pediatrician said her weight is right on track with her height and that she is probably so hungry because she is so mobile. Luckily, Brittany is hosting Munchkin Meals this week so I can talk about it
Emmie is taking after me and loving a big breakfast. Normally she eats whatever I do. Whether that be scrambled eggs with spinach, Vans whole wheat waffles, and fruit. She is officially a strawberry monster and could down an entire pint in one sitting if I let her.
For lunch, left overs rock. Whatever is still in the refrigerator makes its way onto her tray before the epic pre-nap meltdown begins. If there aren’t leftovers, I steam veggies, make macaroni and cheese, chop turkey, or whatever. I often have some brown rice pre-made that I can mix with whatever I can find. Ha.
Snacks are getting a bit easier. Girl loves her carbs and will down Cheerios or wheat crackers. String cheese is a quick and easy fix and mandarin oranges are baby crack. Peeled apple slices can go a long way too.
For dinner, Emmalyne eats whatever we are having. Often times Emmalyne and I eat dinner together and then Chris gets home later and warms a plate. She loves my turkey meatloaf muffins and will down a plate full of roasted veggies easy.
The most difficult thing we are facing? Eating out. It’s costing too much money since we have to buy Emmalyne a full meal. HA. ;) Gone are the days where she would be happy having a few bites of my meal.
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