Day 8 - my toddler's rabbit spinach pie

I had a big bag of spinach and a tired toddler,  so I asked myself what on earth would he eat that I could use it all in! Then it dawned on me. Why am I trying to figure out what he would eat, why not just ask him! So, I did a Google Image Search for spinach recipes and asked him which he would like for dinner. He picked out something I would have skipped right passed, but he seemed adamant that was his favourite, so this is the spinach pie we made together while his baby sister was in her sling carrier.

 

http://www.m.webmd.com/food-recipes/spinach-quiche

 

We just used some cheddar cheese and made 5 in jumbo muffin tins. My little boy loves helping in the kitchen and seemed genuinely excited when we told daddy how he had made them e.g. grated cheese together, stirred together, oiled the tins together. Once finished, I cooked up a few veggies and turned it into a rabbit

 

Day 5 - Mashed sweet potato and carrot fish with coconut prawns

For tonight's dinner, I boiled up some sweet potato and carrots and mashed it with a little butter to make the fish. I threw some prawns in egg then a mix of desiccated coconut and ground almond then fried them for about 5 minutes and served up with sugar snap peas, avocados and yellow bell pepper.

Day 4 - Breaded fish butterfly

Today's plan for how to keep a toddler at the table was a breaded fish butterfly. I simply chopped some white fish into strips, broke an egg on one plate, had breadcrumbs with a bit of parsley on another, dipped in each then oven baked for half an hour. The wings were made up of roasted pepper rings, courgette chunks, parsnip slices and some boiled carrot and broccoli.

Day 3 - Baked Omelette Tractor

My plan to entice my toddler to the table today was a baked omelette tractor with hummus and grated carrot grass, a ham man and tractor wheels and spinach leaves.

I made the omelette by cooking up some onion and red pepper in a pan with a little olive oil then off the heat, mixed in egg, grated carrot and spinach leaves. I poured it in to a casserole dish that I'd lined with a silicone sheet then baked in the oven at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes. Quick and perfect for cutting shapes out of!

Day 2 - Mashed Potato aeroplanes

On today's toddler menu is mashed potato aeroplane with sweet potato and carrot sunshine, cauliflower clouds and chicken flying over some mange tout and peas!

Plate Fun Beginnings

Our 23 month old son has always been slim, but with the arrival of his baby sister and escaping the high chair, it's become harder and harder to make my toddler sit at the table, and as a result he has been loosing weight. After trying all the usual tips to help toddlers sit still, I asked my mum what she suggested - her response - if he will eat crayons, why not make his food crayon shaped?!! Not convinced my crayons would look very realistic, I set out to make his plate more interesting. Not only did he stay at the table, but he ate more, slept almost 2 hours longer than usual and was a much happier child the next day. So this is where plate fun begins. We have decided to try to make a different fun plate for every day for the next year and share them with you all.

Our first fun plate:

Cheese flowers, carrot and courgette stars, pea sky, pepper horizon, mash potato boat, minced beef sea and an egg fish.