These 6 Healthy + Fun Toddler Lunch Ideas will help you amp up your toddler lunch game, without having to spend any extra time in the kitchen. Easy, fun and healthy lunches your toddler will love! NO Sandwiches! NO PB&J! Toddler Lunch Ideas Tired of making (and serving) your toddler the same ol' pb&j? Then this post is for you - 6 Healthy and Fun Toddler Lunch Ideas - to the rescue! We all get into lunch making ruts, myself included. This past spring, I think I made my girls the same school lunch 8 times in a row before they refused to eat it one more time! I get it. A favorite lunch can only be consumed so many times in a row before it loses it's sparkle. So I went back to the kitchen and started working on some new toddler lunch recipes. These lunches needed to be easy to make, loved by both of my girls and be able to be served at home or packed into a school lunch. These 6 lunches made the cut! The girls loved how fun there were - pepper ...
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Apple + Cinnamon Baby Food Puree
This Apple + Cinnamon Baby Food recipe is a wonderful first food for baby! A delicious nutrient dense puree that baby will go gaga over! Great baby food for 4 months and up – stage 1 baby food. Updated Post - photos and content have been updated from the original August 2013 post! You can read the original post at the very bottom. This recipe is an all-time favorite on the blog! It was the first post that I ever published and since then, readers (and babies) have fallen in love with it. It is an amazing pick for baby's first bite of food! Or spooned into a reusable pouch for toddler! Even older kids love this recipe for a simple and healthy snack! I'm pretty sure even you will be sneaking in spoonfuls of this delicious homemade puree for yourself as well! Reasons to love this apple + cinnamon baby food recipe: creamy and smoothnutrient dense - filled with 2 kinds of fiber, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. delicious - seriously better than any ...
Apple + Clove Baby Food Puree
This Apple + Clove Baby Food Puree recipe is a great first puree for baby! Baby will love this naturally sweetened puree with a touch of earthiness from the cloves. Great baby food for 4 months and up – stage 1 baby food. REASONS TO LOVE THIS APPLE + CLOVES BABY FOOD RECIPE: easy to make – 2-ingredientshealthy – full of nutrients for growing babydelicious baby food for 4 months and up – stage 1 baby foodgreat with your favorite homemade baby cerealfreezer-friendlysmooth and creamy SUPER TIP FOR THIS APPLE + CLOVE BABY FOOD RECIPE: Apple puree is very versatile, so feel free to replace the cloves with cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, mint, thyme or even sage. With so many options, baby will never get bored with this basic apple puree recipe. MORE RECIPES YOU’LL LOVE – The Ultimate Guide on How to Make and Serve Homemade Baby Foods15 Stage One Baby Purees (that actually taste delicious) 7 Organic Starter Baby Purees for Under $20Top Tools for ...
Carrot Applesauce
Carrot Applesauce is a perfect afternoon snack for your little one (and yourself) that is full of wholesome apples, carrots and spices, and tastes just like a bowlful of warm carrot cake (minus the cream cheese frosting of course:)! So versatile, it is also great for school lunches, breakfasts and even dessert. Why heeelllllooooooo there, most delicious applesauce I have ever had in my life. Yup, I'm talking to you up there 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻with your carrots + apples + spices galore. I think I am in love. I know I am in love. Okay, maybe not LOVE love. But we should defintely be best friends - bffs if you will. Because I know that when I get to the bottom of your jar and you are all gone, I will be devastated. I will cry. And it will be embarrassing for me to be crying over an empty jar of carrot applesauce. The girls will come into the kitchen and give me looks of concern, then they will get annoyed and embarrassed for having such a cry-baby mom. They will do a quick ...
Apple-Pecan Crisp [plus a GIVAWAY!]
This Apple-Pecan Crisp is bubbling over with spiced tender apples swimming in a caramel sauce all topped with a thick layer of crispy oat and pecan crust. Serve with a dollop of coconut whipped cream or vanilla bean ice cream for a health(ish) family dessert. I am going to go ahead and warn you that this recipe is good, like REALLY GOOD! So good, that it is my professional recommendation that you make this delicious apple-pecan crisp when no one else is around. Not that you won't share the remaining half of the crisp with the other little mouths in your house. Pssh... we are not that mean. They will get their turn. But the first warm bite of warm spiced apples oozing with just enough caramely richness and topped with a thick layer of crispy-crunchy oat and pecan crust - that my friends is all yours. This coveted first bite can happen in the morning with a strong cup of coffee, at lunch with a drizzle of vanilla yogurt on top, or probably more socially acceptable served ...
Apple Cinnamon Muffins
These wholesome Apple Cinnamon Muffins are filled with whole wheat, fiber rich apples, pecans, dried cranberries and heart-healthy olive oil. While I first made them for a healthy snack for the girls, they have quickly become our favorite go-to breakfast on crazy mornings. It's Muffin Monday peeps!! Who's excited?!?! Nah.. you didn't miss anything, there really is no such thing. But in my world, there should always be a warm pan of muffins sitting on your counter and ready to eat on the most dreadful day of the week - Monday morning. So glad we can agree on that! But I'm taking it back, the most dreadful morning is ANY morning where your baby/toddler/kid doesn't sleep through the night and instead thinks it's time for a 2 o'clock crib dance party (thanks but no thanks Parker) or needs you and only you to put socks on their feet in the middle of the night (really Ellie REALLY?!?). For us moms, dreadful mornings are probably happening more then once a week. So to that, we can ...
Harvest Chicken Salad
This healthy Harvest Chicken Salad is full of cubed chicken, apples, pecans and dried cranberries, all tossed with a yogurt and mustard dressing. Easy for you to make and easy for your toddler (and you) to devour! Lately, it seems like I have a knack for posting recipes that are really just a big ol' bowl of yummy chicken for you to droll over (exhibit A). And while, I guess I could roll this in a tortilla along with some spinach and call it 'Kids Harvest Chicken Wrap for School Lunch', my thinking is that you would rather have some recipes at your disposal that are flexible enough to morph with what you got going on in your life. Recipes you can use for your toddlers lunch, your lunch, a quick dinner, on bread, over greens, rolled into a wrap, and on and on and on. Easy recipes that you can make once (and hopefully in double batch form) and have around all week to create several different meals from. If this is also your thing, as I know it will be since we generally think alike, ...
Apple + Coconut Milk Baby Food Puree
This Apple + Coconut Milk Baby Food Puree is your classic homemade apple baby food puree except it has a fun twist - it's made with coconut milk! Makes for a creamy and delicious puree for one of baby's first bites! Great baby food for 4+ months - stage 1 baby food! It's been a little over a year since I started this blog, as I shake my head because why does life fast forward during the really really good times and seem to be freeze frame during the bad times, and I wanted to give you readers a big hug for being there with me through these last twelve months. Your big hug might come from me while I am wearing my new mommy-of-two uniform of yoga pants and dirty food stained hoodie, but it is a hug just for you, so take it and smile. I started this blog because I wanted to share with you some of my favorite baby food recipes, find a community of parents that are passionate about making their own baby food, laugh at being a parent [which is mostly just me laughing at myself] ...