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Eating

We do a lot of it in our house. Sometimes I feel like I spend my day either cooking or cleaning up. Hungry is Elie's default, and if she is eating, Addily wants some too. I lack creativity on some (most) days and end up feeding my kids the same stuff-over and over and over. Here is my list to break out of the rut, I choose one from each category. It will look different than yours because we are gluten free. I don't believe in making our kids a different meal than we have at dinner, so most of this is what we do for breakfast and lunch.


Carbohydrates
Rice cakes
Pancakes
Arypas (corn cakes)
English muffin or bagel
Crackers
Oatmeal
pasta
Polenta
quinoa
Muffins or
Rice
potatoes
Bread
popcorn
tortillas

Protein
Hot dogs
Chicken
Taco meat
Cheese
Yogurt
Cottage cheese
Eggs (boiled, salad, mixed)
Lunch meat roll ups
Hamburger sticks
Beef jerky
Peanut butter
beans
bacon
Cream cheese

Veggies
Tomato soup
Frozen mixed
Patties
French fries
Raw (peppers, cucumber)
Fresh steamed
Pumpkin pancakes
Zucchini bread
Carrot sticks
Freeze dried

Fruit
Fresh
applesauce
Frozen berries
Fruit leather
Banana bread
Dried
Baked crisp
Fruit muffins
jelly
Freeze dried
Here are some kid friendly things I make and keep in the freezer or fridge for quick lunches and breakfasts:
Meat sticks: Make your favorite meatloaf recipe (1 lb of meat, 1/2 cup breadcrumbs/cereal/oatmeal/smooshed crackers, a big squirt of ketchup/bbq, 1 egg, seasoning) and shape it into sticks and bake on a cookie sheet for about 15 min. or until done. Serve with ketchup for dipping.
Salad: smoosh/grind up egg/tuna/ham/leftover chicken and mix with mayo and small chopped celery. Serve on rice cakes, crackers or toast.
Easy Pizza: Take a piece of bread or English muffin, toast it till crunchy. Top with pizza sauce and cheese then toast again.
Cucumber Sandwich: Shred a cucumber into cream cheese and serve on whatever your kid will eat.
Baked Goods: At any given time I have pancakes, waffles, muffins, arypa's (corn cakes) and bread in my freezer.
OK, this post has gone on long enough. Please, give me some inspiration, what do you feed the little people at your house or what was your favorite meal growing up? Extra credit if it is gluten free...


Comments

Honeycutt Family said…
Grace is in a finicky phase, so it has been tricky coming up with food ideas for her too. Elie has always been SUCH a better eater than Gracie!
This is embarrassing and gross, but one of my favorite lunches growing up was a bologna with mayo sandwich. ICK (yet, I still crave it every now and then!)
05 October, 2008 19:59
amanda said…
Gretchen, you're a genius! I'm printing this out and putting it on my fridge. It's so hard coming up with original ideas. We're pretty boring eaters around here. Abby LOVES lettuce and salad though. I'll even make her a kind of southwest salad that has beans, cheese, tomatoes, corn, tortilla chips... and she dips in ranch.
05 October, 2008 21:29
amanda said…
all that on top of lettuce, of course. forgot to say that. :)
05 October, 2008 21:29
Jennifer McHam said…
You are so creative! I printed out your crafty ideas for the kids from a previous post and I just printed this out too. It's going on the fridge. Genius woman! :) I'll have to think about if I can add to the list...
Jen
06 October, 2008 11:23
Kari said…
You can't go wrong with jello- jigglers or pudding cups...you can make your own pudding and put crushed oreos with gummy worms in it. Kids LOVE that!
06 October, 2008 12:15
Sarah said…
Hi Gretch, this is not on subject, but I think b/c my blog is private, it doesn't update on the side of your blog. I experimented today to see if I made it public it would update, and it did. So sneaky :-) You could have been reading about My House weeks ago if only you had known :-)
06 October, 2008 13:16
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