The Beauty of Beets

Beets make the best food coloring EVER!  It's that rich pink that is usually only achieved with a strong shot of red 40, but without the harsh chemicals and additives, and it has the bonus of injecting your comeda of choice with a few vitamins, minerals, and micronutrients :-).  I am on a muffin kick and in my search to keep things fresh and interesting I decided to add some beet puree to my next batch. 

To be honest I first got the idea a couple of years ago from Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food, by Jessica Seinfeld. A loves the taste and I love what's in them. Yum yum happy mum!

The Evolution of a Toddler Diet

One thing I know for sure is that when it comes to my toddler and food, there is nothing that I know for sure. She eats bread but not the crust, she eats the crust but not the bread, she eats potatoes sometimes (usually when fried), she eats fish, she only eats raw food, she eats nuts, and she eats berries but only the red ones. LOL! I can’t keep up.


We have evolved from fish sticks and chicken nuggets though. These days A is eating mostly almond butter and honey sandwiches on whole wheat bread (it would have been peanut butter but Costco only offered almond butter as a less processed alternative to the main brands of peanut butter). It is the meal/snack of request 95% of the time and to be honest I really can’t kill her for it. It has lots of protein and lots of fiber; omega 3’s and is low in cholesterol, etc. It is also really easy to make ;-)

So that is it for now… oh, that and Chinese food. Anything that starts with the word Chinese she is game for. Go figure.

Fish Sticks and Chicken Nuggets

One cannot live on fish sticks and chicken nuggets alone… or can they?

A is currently putting this theory to test. When she just started eating food she ate everything I put in front of her, which was usually fruits and vegetables but now she has a true toddler diet. I feel bad because as a new mom I was guilty of judging moms of toddlers who only ate processed food. Now I am one of those moms. She prefers the salty breaded flavor of meat/fish over anything else. That’s not entirely true, if I offered cookies for dinner she eat that too.


Surprisingly this doesn’t keep me up at night, E does. I don’t have the energy to fight her right now. She doesn’t have any issues with her weight and is very healthy overall. This is simply a luxury of A’s toddler years and by the time she is in school (hopefully before then) she will eat what we eat for dinner.