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staceyd
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In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
My 3 year old DD is a picky eater... Loves her sweets and carbs but not much more! Anyone have some good ideas for some healthy meals? Or ways I can hide veggies or make her eat more?
Thanks!
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Posted 4/15/12 9:09 PM  |
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
have you tried vegetable spaghetti?
cut zucchini, squash, carrots, sweet potato, etc on the cheese grater, mix it with a bit of regular pasta, add some kind of sauce and hope for the best!
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| Posted 4/15/12 9:38 PM |
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allIwant
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
DD is a picky eater too. She really likes a broccoli bake I make. It has broc, cheese, egg, etc in it so I feel like she is getting some nutrition. I sometimes add shredded chicken in it too. Let me know if you want the recipe
ETA recipe
Broccoli Bake
-2 packages (block) frozen chopped broccoli defrosted
-3 eggs (4 if you add chicken)
-1/2 cup grated parm cheese
-8 oz of shredded mozz
-1 cup of Bisquick
-1/2 cup olive oil
-1 or 2 cloves of garlic (minced)
Mix it all together
spray a 9 x 13 glass pan with cooking spray
Bake 350 25 minutes covered and 25 minutes uncovered.
Message edited 4/16/2012 6:15:17 AM.
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| Posted 4/15/12 9:50 PM |
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blu6385
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
i make DD spinach omletes.
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wingsofsong
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
Barilla makes pasta with a full serving of veggies in it. My son is a big carb lover too, and not so into veggies, so this pasta was a great find (thanks to NervousNell!). There are 3 different kinds.
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
Posted by allIwant
DD is a picky eater too. She really likes a broccoli bake I make. It has broc, cheese, egg, etc in it so I feel like she is getting some nutrition. I sometimes add shredded chicken in it too. Let me know if you want the recipe
ETA recipe
Broccoli Bake
-2 packages (block) frozen chopped spinach defrosted
-3 eggs (4 if you add chicken)
-1/2 cup grated parm cheese
-8 oz of shredded mozz
-1 cup of Bisquick
-1/2 cup olive oil
-1 or 2 cloves of garlic (minced)
Mix it all together
spray a 9 x 13 glass pan with cooking spray
Bake 350 25 minutes covered and 25 minutes uncovered.
This might be a dumb question lol, but where is the broccoli in this?
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| Posted 4/15/12 11:01 PM |
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
Check out Jerry Seinfeld's wife's book - Deceptively Healthy. She puts baby food in EVERYTHING. muffins, chicken cutlets, everything. I don't know how much vege/fruit you actually get in each meal per serving, but it could help.
Maybe you could have DD help you in the kitchen. DS is allowed to pick a vege.
I make him butterfly french toast sticks- put one french toast stick down the middle of the plate, put some apple slices as wings and then decorate with grapes, strawberries or whatever else I have.
Make it about presentation. As gross as this sounds, I made DS a very pretty snack of ritz crackers with string cheese, grapes and strawberries. He wanted a strange assortment. I made it pretty and he LOVED it.
For dinner, DS used to eat all his pasta and leave his meat. If he was supposed to eat 10 bites of meat and 10 bites of pasta, I'd only put 5 bites of pasta on his plate. If he ate one bite of meat, I'd give him more pasta - eye for eye/bite for bite.
KETCHUP!!!! DS puts it on the strangest things - including apples (one bite fell in it one day and he claims he likes it). Hey, he's eating apples.
Another tip I used to get DS to eat was do "cheers". We did "meat cheers" (like if you were toasting and everything tapped glasses) only we did it with our forks.
GL!
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NewlyMrs
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
Get your child involved...shopping, cooking, have them even try raw veggies (my 4 yo likes veggies raw with a little evoo s&p, even zucchini)
Try pureeing beans & such into sauces, but still offer some of the veggie you are eatting so thry get used to it being apart of the meal
Experiment with dips, sauces (low fat ranch & hummus are hits in my house)
Pancakes with fruit in it for dinner is a house fave (pumpkin & banana wheat)
Set good examples
be persistent...they change their opinions all the time
Look at their habits over a course of a few days
See what they do like & offer it (my dd can eat cherry tomatoes & chickpeas everyday, if I let her)
She loves veggie sushi (but won't eat the veggies separate when I make it)
Good luck & stick with it!!
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| Posted 4/15/12 11:46 PM |
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allIwant
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
Posted by wingsofsong
Posted by allIwant
DD is a picky eater too. She really likes a broccoli bake I make. It has broc, cheese, egg, etc in it so I feel like she is getting some nutrition. I sometimes add shredded chicken in it too. Let me know if you want the recipe
ETA recipe
Broccoli Bake
-2 packages (block) frozen chopped spinach defrosted
-3 eggs (4 if you add chicken)
-1/2 cup grated parm cheese
-8 oz of shredded mozz
-1 cup of Bisquick
-1/2 cup olive oil
-1 or 2 cloves of garlic (minced)
Mix it all together
spray a 9 x 13 glass pan with cooking ipspray
Bake 350 25 minutes covered and 25 minutes uncovered.
This might be a dumb question lol, but where is the broccoli in this?
Omg!!!!!! Not spinach broccoli..
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wingsofsong
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
Posted by allIwant
Posted by wingsofsong
Posted by allIwant
DD is a picky eater too. She really likes a broccoli bake I make. It has broc, cheese, egg, etc in it so I feel like she is getting some nutrition. I sometimes add shredded chicken in it too. Let me know if you want the recipe
ETA recipe
Broccoli Bake
-2 packages (block) frozen chopped spinach defrosted
-3 eggs (4 if you add chicken)
-1/2 cup grated parm cheese
-8 oz of shredded mozz
-1 cup of Bisquick
-1/2 cup olive oil
-1 or 2 cloves of garlic (minced)
Mix it all together
spray a 9 x 13 glass pan with cooking ipspray
Bake 350 25 minutes covered and 25 minutes uncovered.
This might be a dumb question lol, but where is the broccoli in this?
Omg!!!!!! Not spinach broccoli..
I thought maybe that's what you meant. But then I was like, well maybe there's spinach in it too. And then I was like, maybe she actually meant to say it's a spinach bake? Anyway,glad we cleared that up  And thanks again for sharing!
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| Posted 4/16/12 7:15 AM |
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
Quiche, the kids and I love it
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| Posted 4/16/12 9:44 AM |
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
What about making mac n cheese and throwing some spinach in it?
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
My DD loves grilled cheese. So I started putting a slice of chicken or turkey breast and some diced up spinach in it. She takes it every time.
I will also use my immersion blender to blend up steamed veggies like broccoli, spinach, carrots, zuchinni etc and add it to tomato sauce or whatever sauce may accompany what I am cooking.
There is also yogurt now that has a veggie and fruit in it. I believe it's yo baby, more sugar than I like to give her but she loves them and I like that she's getting some veggie/fruit on a difficult day. There is one with green beans/pear another with squash/peach and a sweet potato/apple one.
Raviois or tortilinis! There are ones with pumpkin, spinach and cheese, etc...these sometimes work for
Thanks for this post, because I am desperate for ideas too.
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
For a healthy lunch you might want to make it fun with variety. Your little one might not try all the foods at first but giving choices really helps. You could do this using an ice cube tray and filling it with lots of healthy choices and some familiar foods that you know she likes as well.
Also, with veggies, having a dip always helps. And I have a garden during the summer and being able to pick right from the garden makes them more willing to eat the veggies. You can take her to the store and have her pick out some veggies.
You can also give a choice between what veggies to cook that night and make it her choice. Image Attachment(s):
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
Posted by babydreams
For a healthy lunch you might want to make it fun with variety. Your little one might not try all the foods at first but giving choices really helps. You could do this using an ice cube tray and filling it with lots of healthy choices and some familiar foods that you know she likes as well.
Also, with veggies, having a dip always helps. And I have a garden during the summer and being able to pick right from the garden makes them more willing to eat the veggies. You can take her to the store and have her pick out some veggies.
You can also give a choice between what veggies to cook that night and make it her choice.
OMG, I love that idea! I'm bookmarking this thread for when DD gets a bit older! Great ideas and recipes, thanks1
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
Posted by babydreams
For a healthy lunch you might want to make it fun with variety. Your little one might not try all the foods at first but giving choices really helps. You could do this using an ice cube tray and filling it with lots of healthy choices and some familiar foods that you know she likes as well.
Also, with veggies, having a dip always helps. And I have a garden during the summer and being able to pick right from the garden makes them more willing to eat the veggies. You can take her to the store and have her pick out some veggies.
You can also give a choice between what veggies to cook that night and make it her choice.
You could play Simon Says.... Simon says, eat something red, Simon says eat something round!!!!
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lynnd126
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
Posted by Sparrow
Posted by babydreams
For a healthy lunch you might want to make it fun with variety. Your little one might not try all the foods at first but giving choices really helps. You could do this using an ice cube tray and filling it with lots of healthy choices and some familiar foods that you know she likes as well.
Also, with veggies, having a dip always helps. And I have a garden during the summer and being able to pick right from the garden makes them more willing to eat the veggies. You can take her to the store and have her pick out some veggies.
You can also give a choice between what veggies to cook that night and make it her choice.
OMG, I love that idea! I'm bookmarking this thread for when DD gets a bit older! Great ideas and recipes, thanks1
I saw this in a patterning mag referred to as a "nibble tray" I put four cupcake papers in a little tupperware to do it.
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
I want to also add that with my kids I find that dinner is their worst meal of the day. They both seem to eat much better earlier in the day and are more willing to try foods for snacks or lunch than at dinner.
PS- DS was telling his teacher that he eats seaweed as a snack and I guess his teacher didn't believe him and said that it must be spinach not seaweed. But DS was right, he eats seaweed as a snack from trader joe's.
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OrganicMama
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
Posted by NewlyMrs
Get your child involved...shopping, cooking, have them even try raw veggies (my 4 yo likes veggies raw with a little evoo s&p, even zucchini)
Try pureeing beans & such into sauces, but still offer some of the veggie you are eatting so thry get used to it being apart of the meal
Experiment with dips, sauces (low fat ranch & hummus are hits in my house)
Pancakes with fruit in it for dinner is a house fave (pumpkin & banana wheat)
Set good examples
be persistent...they change their opinions all the time
Look at their habits over a course of a few days
See what they do like & offer it (my dd can eat cherry tomatoes & chickpeas everyday, if I let her)
She loves veggie sushi (but won't eat the veggies separate when I make it)
Good luck & stick with it!!
ITA 100%!!! DS will eat anything that he helps to make. Yesterday he helped me cut up cucumbers for tabboulleh with a plastic kiddie knife, and he's not even 2 He will also eat anything between 2 pieces of bread, so sandwiches are a huge hit.
Also, giving another option when they refuse something reinforces that they don't have to eat what you prepare, so my advice would be to stay away from doing that if you can.
Keep offering, it can take up to 15 times for a child to develop a taste for something (or even try it).
Also, show DC that you eat it too.
Good luck!!!
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OrganicMama
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
Posted by babydreams
For a healthy lunch you might want to make it fun with variety. Your little one might not try all the foods at first but giving choices really helps. You could do this using an ice cube tray and filling it with lots of healthy choices and some familiar foods that you know she likes as well.
Also, with veggies, having a dip always helps. And I have a garden during the summer and being able to pick right from the garden makes them more willing to eat the veggies. You can take her to the store and have her pick out some veggies.
You can also give a choice between what veggies to cook that night and make it her choice.
Dr. Sears promotes this for picky eaters, I think it's a wonderful idea! It gives them a little control over what they eat, which I think a lot of kids want.
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
I got DS a crinkle cutter like this one (mine is Jo!e and was about $3 at BBB). He helps me cut all sorts of things including potatoes and butter.
Crinkle Cutter
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
Posted by robynfs
My DD loves grilled cheese. So I started putting a slice of chicken or turkey breast and some diced up spinach in it. She takes it every time.
I will also use my immersion blender to blend up steamed veggies like broccoli, spinach, carrots, zuchinni etc and add it to tomato sauce or whatever sauce may accompany what I am cooking.
There is also yogurt now that has a veggie and fruit in it. I believe it's yo baby, more sugar than I like to give her but she loves them and I like that she's getting some veggie/fruit on a difficult day. There is one with green beans/pear another with squash/peach and a sweet potato/apple one.
Raviois or tortilinis! There are ones with pumpkin, spinach and cheese, etc...these sometimes work for
Thanks for this post, because I am desperate for ideas too.
Love the grilled cheese with spinach and turkey breast idea!
thanks
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Re: In serious need of healthy meal ideas!!!!
Great ideas! Except I'll be using them on DH instead At 9 months DD is a great eater but my Husband on the other hand is the worst! I really need to get something besides cereal & hot pockets in his system
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