My Child's Menu (as of June 2007)

I'm trying to start my little girl on the right path to healthy eating (most of the time...). Here is a snapshot of what she is eating these days.



Breakfast

• Pumpkin Bread, Kashi Go-Lean Blueberry Waffles, Cheerios with Rice Milk, Kashi Autumn Wheat (known in our house as Cow Cereal, since the box lately has a cow on the back)with Rice Milk, Oatmeal (plain)


• Fresh Fruit: banana, strawberries, pineapple, kiwi, peaches, grapes, watermelon, ripe pear

Lunch/Dinner

Main Dish

• Pizza-dilla - whole wheat tortilla with cheese and tomato sauce
• Cheese quesadilla - above without tomato sauce
• Whole wheat pasta and tomato sauce (Muir Glen Garlic Roasted Garlicc is our latest favorite)
• Annie's Organic Whole Wheat shells and cheese
• Trader Joe's veggie meatballs
• Boca Chik'n nuggets
• Pizza
• Meat (lately it's the Hormel Nitrite Free Turkey) and Cheese
• Brown Rice (she likes it plain)
• Scrambled Eggs with cheese
• Quinoa
• Hummus with tortillas or cracker for dipping
• Cubed Avocado

Sides

• Fruit
• Applesauce
• Raw Veggies - she'll nibble on carrots, red peppers, sugar snap peas and celery
• Ketchup - she LOVES Muir Glen ketchup on anything
• Triscuits

Snacks

• Graham Crackers
• Triscuits
• Apple
• Whole Grain Goldfish
• Cheerios
• String Cheese
• Raisins and Dried Cranberries
• Banana (she LOVES frozen bananas)

She won't eat the following (and I've tried!)

• Cooked vegetables
• Mashed or baked potatoes
• Sunflower Seed butter (like peanut butter)
• Yogurt
• Beans of any kind - pinto, black, navy, garbanzo
• Blueberries
• Cantaloupe
• Plain, Un-buttered Popcorn
• Chocolate
• Condiments beyond ketchup

Random things I've discovered she likes...

• Green Tea (plain and ginger flavor)
• Caribou Coffee Coolers
• Pumpkin Seeds
• Jelly Belly jelly beans
• 1 or 2 lettuce leaves from my spring mix salad
• Don Pablo's salsa