These 8 Baby-Led Weaning Meal Ideas for Baby + Toddler are going to be a big hit in your house! These meals are perfect for baby-led weaning, finger foods for baby or as toddler meals. Great lunch and dinner ideas for the whole family! Great for 9 months and up. Scratching your head and wondering what's for dinner? Look no further! These 8 delicious meal ideas are great for baby, toddler, kids and adults alike. Healthy, versatile, fun and above all else they taste good! Reasons to LOVE these 8 baby-led weaning Meal ideas for baby + toddler: great baby food for 9+ months and upperfect for baby -led weaning or the finger food stagefamily-friendly - the whole family will love themeasy dinner ideas healthy baby and toddler mealsnutrient dense for growing kiddosmost can be customized for family preferences and allergy concernscan be made for lunches or dinnersleftovers can be packed for a school lunchgreat toddler lunch and dinner ideas Who to Serve these 8 ...
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Baked Seasoned Chicken Tenders for Baby + Toddler
These Baked Chicken Tenders are a healthy alternative to the fried version - perfect for baby and toddler! Served with a side of roasted sweet potatoes and blueberries for a nutrient dense family-friendly meal. Perfect for baby-led weaning or as finger foods - 9+ months and up. An easy and healthy sheet pan meal for baby - tender seasoned chicken tenders with a side of roasted sweet potato chunks. A perfect meal to serve to baby as finger food or to toddler with a fork. When served with roasted sweet potatoes and chopped blueberries, this becomes a nutrient dense powerhouse meal for baby! It's also sooooooo good that the entire family will love it. I chopped up the baked seasoned chicken and sweet potatoes and added them to a kale salad with feta and hemp hearts. It was a perfect lite dinner for me:) Reasons to Love these Baked Seasoned Chicken Tenders for Baby + Toddler: healthy and deliciousnutrient packed meal for entire familygreat for baby-led ...
Kale Pesto Chicken Quesadilla for Baby + Toddler
These Kale Pesto Chicken Quesadilla are a healthy way to make baby or toddlers meal dreams come true. In fact, they are sooooo good, you will want them for yourself as well. The perfect meal for baby-led weaning and the finger food stage. Great for 9+ months and up! This baby-friendly chicken quesadilla are amped-up with a secret ingredient - kale! Kids of all ages will love these healthy cheesy quesadillas. Whole wheat tortillas filled with kale pesto, chunks of chicken and a sprinkle of shredded cheese - a yummy meal for baby and toddler. Reasons to Love these Kale Pesto Chicken Quesadilla for Baby + Toddler: easy dinner idea for the entire familygreat for baby-led weaning or the finger food stagefamily-friendlyfull of nutrients in a toddler-friendly way - kale, chicken, pesto, whole wheat great packed for school lunch, playdates or picnics in the parkhidden-veggie!great for 9+ months and oldercan make gluten-free by using gluten-free tortillas can make ...
Easy Homemade Chicken Stock
A super Easy Homemade Chicken Stock recipe that is a perfect additional to add to all of your homemade baby purees. It's so easy and good that you will also want to use it for all of your favorite winter meals - soup, stew, chili and even risotto is better with homemade stock!! I wish it was Flashy Recipe Friday in the house today, but instead I am giving you Basic Recipe Friday and bringing you this Easy Homemade Chicken Stock recipe. About time.. right?!? Recipe after recipe, I have given you chicken stock as an option to add to any of the 80+ puree recipes on this site but have failed to give you an actual recipe for the stock. Super rude of me, I know. This might be because 1) I think dealing with chicken bones is pretty icky and am not a huge fan 2) I am lazy like that 3) I just call my mom when I need some chicken stock. Yes, I still call my mom to make me food. I also leave her house with a bag full of groceries every time I visit. One day I will grow up. One ...
Chicken Chili Verde
Made with chicken, corn, beans and a tomatillo salsa verde, this easy and healthy Chicken Chili Verde is a perfect family meal for any night of the week! This soup came to fruition when I was being queen of the lazy. Despite most people's opinion, I don't always like spending hours upon hours cooking in the kitchen. Yes, I love to cook. Yes, I love to make delicious and healthy food. Yes, I like to drink wine while I cook. But spending hours in the kitchen, not always my jam. We can co-queen this lazy cooking thing together if you want. Because I know you have nights/weeks/months when you don't want to spend countless hours in the kitchen as well, that's why we are such good friends. This soup was made with 3 things in mind 1) how can I make a delicious meal for Christmas lunch without spending more then 20 minutes on it? 2) how can I make a soup that Parker will actually eat because she firmly believes soupy soup is for pouring onto the table to play in? 3) how 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 ...
Cheesy Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken
This Cheesy Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken is a flavorful way to spice up your family's weekday dinner. This recipe is super easy and calls for a simple 5-ingreident salsa, chicken and of course some cheese, all tossed together and cooked while you are at work or wrangling the kiddos. The hardest part, is deciding how to eat it. Don't worry, I included some of my favorites down below. Well hello there big ol' pile of shredded chicken. I probably should have jazzed you up with the perfect sprinkle of cheese or cilantro on top, but this chicken isn't fussy. It doesn't want to play those pinterest worthy games. The only game this chicken wants to play is how can it get into your mouth in the fastest way possible. And in as many ways as possible. It wants to be devoured by you and your little ones. It's goals are that simple. Is it weird that I am talking about a chicken dish like it actually has goals and feelings??? Yup. Okay then, let's switch it around. The only goal I ...
Basic Chicken Baby Food Recipe
This homemade Basic Chicken Baby foodrecipe is a great addition to add to your baby's favorite puree for extra protein and flavor! Great baby food for 4 months and up - stage 1 baby food! This puree isn't going to win any beauty pageants, that is for sure. It will however, win first prize in the taste category, because this puree is a taste winner! Now, I never thought I would say that out loud about a chicken puree - chicken puree tasting good?!?! It's a new one for me! Usually the thought of any sort of pureed meat gives me the heebie jeebies, but the thought of pureed meat in a jar sitting on a grocery store shelf usually pushes me waaaayyyyy over the edge and into another world of jeebies. Meat at room temperature in-a-jar is just not right. The thing is though, meat is super good for baby. Beef, chicken, pork, liver, fish, etc, all have essential vitamins, iron, zinc, fat and protein that baby needs in order to thrive. Any meat ...
How To: Chicken Puree and Chicken Stock
CHICKEN stock.. CHICKEN puree.. In baby food? Really? Don't worry if you are scratching your head like I did at those two things being together. If you already knew this, then you are super smart and should come over and teach me a couple of things. Before I started making my own baby food, I naively thought baby food had to be only fruits and vegetables. That's it. Done and Done. Well of course I was wrong. That is not a well rounded diet. Your baby needs more whole grains and protein then that. And then of course I opened my eyes and saw that baby food was indeed sold with chicken in it. In pouches or jars on a shelf. Just sititng there. On a shelf with chicken in it? I still scratch my head on how that is ok to eat. Chicken, whether used as a stock to thin down purees or as a chunky puree added to other fruits and veggies is a great way to get protein, iron and minerals into your baby. This becomes especially important around 9 months, when babies need more of those nutrients ...
Chicken + Apricot + Sage + Kale Loaf
When I think of a meal for a toddler, meatloaf would never enter my mind. In fact, I am pretty sure I have never even had meatloaf before. It seems so old school. Something served with a side of peas and a big glass of milk. So when I received some chicken meatloaf leftovers for my babe I was beyond skeptical. I probably even rolled my eyes at it. Turkey loaf. REALLY. It is just so, un-pretty. But then I heated a big hunk of it up, served it with some cooked carrots [of course, I had to go all out] and served it to the babes for dinner. She devoured it. Bite after bite. Not a crumb left. I was speechless. So I gave it a try. Not what I was expecting, even though the name really does sum up the taste of it - a dish that is a cross between a loaf of bread and ground meat with just a pinch of spice. There was something very hearty and homey about it. I could see why it was devoured. This is what got my wheels turning. If I could just add some veggies [kale, carrots and tomatoes] ...