Cottage Cheese + Fruit Bowls are a fast and simple breakfast recipe for baby or toddler. This easy recipe can be made in the matter of minutes and with just about any fruit you happen to have on hand. Cottage cheese has a great thick texture which makes it easy for baby to use a spoon (or their hands) to eat. Great for 9+ months. Cottage Cheese + Fruit A fun, simple and easy breakfast for baby and toddler - cottage cheese and fruit bowls. Filled with whole-fat cottage cheese, a sprinkle of cinnamon and a handful of chopped fruit of your choice. This simple breakfast is full of protein, calcium, antioxidants and other essential vitamins and minerals for growing baby. I have found that babies tend to love the tart taste of cottage cheese. But if you find that it's just a bit too intense for their growing tastebuds, then I would try using frozen fruit instead of fresh in this recipe. Simply defrost any frozen fruit and save the naturally occurring juices. Take the ...
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Healthy Yogurt Parfait Popsicles for Toddler + Kids
These Healthy Yogurt Parafait Popsicles for Toddler + Kids are the perfect breakfast on a hot summer day! These popsicles are naturally sweetened and filled with protein, probiotics, healthy whole-grains, antioxidants and fiber. A healthy and fun way to start the day! Healthy Yogurt Parfait Popsicles for Toddler + Kids It's full on summer now - where even the mornings are so blazing hot that you have to opt for an iced coffee instead of a hot coffee to start your day. Side note - is it just me or does iced coffee never wake you up the same way hot coffee does? I always seem to be dragging when I drink iced coffee in the morning... anyone else? You guys, these popsicles are about to change these hotter-than-hell summer mornings for both you and your kiddos! These Yogurt Parfait Popsicles are deliciously cold and refreshing while being beyond healthy! It's the winning combination you never knew you needed. Yes, you will be eating this for breakfast as ...
4 Baby-Led Weaning Snack Food Ideas
These 4 Baby-Led Weaning Snack Foods are going to be a hit with your baby or toddler! Can be served as a snack or as part of lunch or dinner. Great for 6-9 months and older! This post was sponsored by Happy Family Organics - check out all of their amazing homemade baby and toddler recipes and meal plans on their learning resources page! These baby--led weaning snacks are going to blow your baby's mind! They are seriously soooooooooo good! So good in fact, you are going to be snacking right along side of babe:) Filled with wholesome ingredients that deliver big on essential vitamins and minerals for growing baby as well as taste, these snacks are going to be on heavy rotation in your house. Reasons to Love these Baby-Led Weaning Snack Foods: great for baby-led weaning or the finger food stagethese snacks are perfect for babies with or without teethcan be a snack or used as a side in a lunch or dinnerthey are SO good you will snack on them as welleasy for baby or ...
Healthy Strawberry Yogurt Dip for Baby + Toddler
This Healthy Strawberry Yogurt Dip is an easy snack dip for Baby and Toddler! Serve with their favorite finger food dippers for some snack time fun! Great for 9+ months. Let your toddler have their fun and eat it to! Toddlers love to dip and this naturally sweetened dip is a winner. Protein filled greek yogurt and cream cheese are mixed with strawberries in a simple dip that can be served with your toddler’s favorite fruit, crackers, pretzels or fruit skewers. This dip is soooooo good that you will want to eat it too! I personally dipped chunks of pineapple and a few gluten-free graham crackers in this dip for a healthy dessert (along with a glass of sparking wine:). Reasons to Love this healthy strawberry yogurt dip: great for baby-led weaning or the finger food stageprotein filled snack dipcan be served as a snack or used as a lunch sidesugar-free! Naturally sweetened with strawberries.easy to makemade with whole foodscan be served with any dippers your ...
Valentine’s Day School Lunch Idea
This Valentine’s Day School Lunch is a fun and healthy way to help your kid celebrate the holiday of love❤️! This lunch can easily be made gluten, dairy and nut free! There is nothing like spreading a little love during Valentine’s Day ♥️ One of the ways I love to share my love, is through food - delicious and healthy food! And that means, I get up extra early and make my girls a special school lunch on Valentine’s Day (I completely acknowledge that I am that type of crazy mom, but I’m just rolling with it:). I try to make these lunches as healthy as I can, because somewhere between when I was in elementary school and now (if you asked my girls that would be a 1 million years ago), Valentine’s Day has now become the new Halloween - soooooooo much candy! For this lunch, I packed it full of healthy fruits, veggies, complex carbs and some protein to keep my girls full and satisfied for their afternoon Valentine’s Day parties. I’m hoping the naturally sweet fruit will ...
Strawberry Oatmeal Smoothie
This super simple Strawberry Oatmeal Smoothie is made with strawberries, bananas, oats and chia seeds. Packed with a ton of fiber, omega-3 fatty acids, potassium and antioxidants this smoothie has perfect staying power to fill you up all morning (or afternoon) long. You would think with all the time I spend in the kitchen, I would be able to make a recipe that is a little more fun and 'themed' for the start of Valentine's Day week ❤️🍰❤️ Note to Self - get with it already! The truth is that I actually didn't even plan this smoothie to go with the festive holiday of love. But I'm not going to tell anyone that. I am just going to go on and pretend that I have everything all lined up and my ducks nicely in a row, and that of course I am making themed Valentine's Day food for the girls all week long. And if you mean, make this Strawberry Oatmeal Smoothie all week long, then I am SO on top of it. I had this smoothie for lunch today, scratch that Parker and I had this smoothie for ...
Strawberry, Spinach + Chives and Barley Baby Food Puree
Today is going to be an amazing day. The rain will stop. The sun will shine. There will be nothing but happiness. The babes will do nothing but laugh and smile all day. I will be an amazing mother and provide such laughter and smiles. The birds will sing. I will sing. Babes will sing. Perfect day. The chores will get done by themselves. There is no such thing as dishes. Groceries will magically appear in my fridge. I will have all the time to play on my hands and knees. I will have a never ending river of patience. The words 'to-do list' are not even a part of my vocabulary. Perfect day. But if for some reason the perfect day I have in mind does not appear, I will be making this recipe. A recipe that will make anyone happy - strawberry fields. Earthy spinach mixed with spicy chives and chewy barley all topped with sweet strawberries. Just look at it. Doesn't it just make you smile? Served hot or cold. In the rain or sun. With a spoon or by little hands. Chop off their ...