What's For Dinner?

Or, breakfast and lunch for that matter?

I've had several people over the past 6 months or so ask me about what I feed Georgia.  I've heard the same thing, "What do you feed Georgia?  I feel like I'm always feeding {insert kid's name here} the same things over and over again."  Jonathan and I also have the same problem with Georgia.  We feel like we're always feeding her the same foods.  

When I am feeding her I try to hit all the major food groups at each meal, if possible.  I do tend to focus on meat and veggies more than fruits but those are my only general guide lines.

Here are the common things G eats

UPDATE:  Most of what I feed her is organic.  Especially all her meats and dairy.

Breakfast:

She drinks milk when she first gets up in the morning.  Three ounces or so and then I usually scramble her one egg and mix it with salsa and shredded cheese and give her some type of fruit. The most common fruits she eats at breakfast are strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and bananas.  Sometimes at the end of the meal I'll give her YoBaby drinkable yogurt.  Especially so if she didn't eat that much breakfast.  I also offer YoBaby after lunch or dinner too if she didn't seem to eat that much.  It's typically because of teething.

Snack:

I don't always give her a snack between breakfast and lunch because she is only on one nap and eats early lunch at 11.  If I give her a snack then sometimes she doesn't want lunch.  But, when we do have a snack it is generally graham crackers, chex, animal crackers, or yogurt covered raisins.  Occasionally she'll have an apple sauce pack.  Sometimes she really likes those and other times not so much.

Lunch:

A lot of times we eat left overs from dinner the night before.  But, if we don't have left overs then she'll eat any of the following.

Meat: lunch meat, chicken strips, hot dogs, sausage

Veggie: peas, broccoli, corn

Fruit: almost any fruit you can think of but mainly blueberries, raspberries, or strawberries.

I also give her string cheese a lot at lunch time and she really likes that.  If she's eaten everything on her plate but doesn't seem full then I'll give her more "snack" type items to see if she is really "all done" or not.

She gets more milk at 12:30 and then gets topped off with milk right before her nap at 1.

When she gets up from her nap (with her eye teeth coming in and allergy attacks and waking up about every other day to POOP! your guess is as good as mine as to when she'll wake up.  Her nap used to be 1-4 but now sometimes she's only been sleeping an hour and a half and screaming the rest of "nap time") she gets another sippy cup  of milk.  Sometimes she drink all 5oz but usually it's around 2 or 3.  Our pediatrician recommends 16-24oz of milk a day.  We also give her water at every meal, dinner included and whenever she wants it through out the day.

Dinner:
We try to feed her whatever we are eating for dinner first.  If she doesn't like it then we pull out more lunch type items to make sure she gets full.  Also, just because she doesn't like something once doesn't mean she doesn't like it.  We try and try again on different days.  It took her a full week to start eating peas but now she likes them although broccoli is her favorite.  So, everything we're eating at dinner she eats/tries...usually she LOVES what we're having for dinner and loves that we are all three eating the same thing.

Example, for dinner tonight Jonathan made chicken spaghetti.  But, he does a kind of healthy spin on it.

First, he used Veggie Pasta from HEB.  On the front of the box it says, "Full serving of vegetables per 4 oz. portion".

Then, he added all these veggies.  He actually adds in this many vegetables into most of his "casserole" or pasta type dishes.  You don't even notice they are there most of the time.  From left to right is onion, carrot,  green bell pepper, and red bell pepper.  He adds diced carrots to almost everything.  Once they're cooked I never notice a flavor difference.  Like, he always adds them to our pasta sauce and I love marinara but if I didn't know it I would never guess there was a full bag of carrots in the sauce.  So, tonight G actually got her serving of veggies without us having to prepare a separate "veggie" portion for her.

I hope this gives y'all some ideas of new foods for your littles to try!

What are some of your baby's favorite foods?  I need new ideas myself!