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B A B Y  H  -  8  M O N T H S

Typical meals on a week day:

Breakfast:
- 1 jar of organic prune puree, 1 serving of baby oatmeal

Lunch:
- 1-2 oz of vegetable or fruit puree (peas, green beans, peaches, squash, beet, apple, etc)
- 1 finger food (organic puffs, organic oat cereal, cooked apple pieces, avocado pieces, banana pieces, etc)

Dinner:
- 1 oz of vegetable or fruit puree (peas, green beans, peaches, squash, beet, apple, etc)
- 1 serving of beans and/or grains (this week: yellow lentils and brown rice; last week: quinoa)
- 1 finger food (organic puffs, organic oat cereal, cooked apple pieces, avocado pieces, banana pieces, etc)

Drinks:
- Breastmilk (nursing morning and evening, 3 6-oz bottles during the day)

*Note: we’re still struggling with how much to feed Baby H. She LOVES food but seems to get constipated fairly easily (despite plenty of prunes and other foods that help in that department), so we are working on feeding her more slowly/mixing in more finger foods so that she takes her time eating and feels full by the end of the meal. If she eats too quickly she immediately starts crying by the last bite and demands more food!

L I A M  -  9  M O N T H S

Breakfast:
- oatmeal “fingers” – equal parts oatmeal and liquid (some people mix in fruit puree, but I like to sprinkle some cinnamon on it), let sit for a few minutes, then microwave in a shallow dish for two minutes, cool and serve!
- half of a banana
- greek yogurt or eggs (we only have time for eggs on the weekends, usually)

Lunch/Dinner:
- leftover veggies from our dinners from the week – today it was steamed green beans and roasted sweet potato chunks
- some sort of grain – rice, toast, tortilla, etc.
- fruit – I’ve been loving the convenience of freeze dried fruit right now, but if we have fresh melon or berries I’ll give him that

Snacks:
- We have organic puffs and puree pouches on hand for when we’re out and about and don’t have access to food he can easily eat. The freeze dried fruit is great for this, too – I always make sure there’s nothing extra added.

Drinks:
- water and breastmilk

J A C O B I  -  9 . 5  M O N T H S

He eats as much as a toddler! Amazingly he is still nursing as much as he was before starting solids too. I’m not sure where he puts it as he’s only 6th percentile for weight. He is completely BLW now and eats 90% of what we eat (we don’t feed him dairy, nuts or honey).

Breastfeed: 7:30 am Wake up

Breakfast:
- 4 oz. green smoothie
- 1 scrambled egg
- Some type of fruit: his favorite lately has been raspberries, pears and blueberries

Note: because eggs are a high allergen food I did avoid giving them to him until he was about 7.5 months old. Had there been allergies in my family, I would have avoided them.

Breastfeed: 10am

Lunch:
- 2-4 oz coconut milk
- Salmon salad in an avocado: one can of salmon, a healthy fat such as coconut or olive oil (although I still use mayo for myself!), squeeze of half a lemon, a pinch of Mrs. Dash seasoning for flavor and one tomato. He will eat 1/2 an avocado stuffed with about 4 TBS salmon mix.

Breastfeed: 2:30pm

Snacks:
- Mid-afternoon he usually eats fruit; 1 apple, banana, pear, or 5-8 berries. Occasionally he’ll have raw veggies with hummus.

Dinner:
- Stir fry served over sauteed cabbage. We make stir fry at least once a week and use whatever veggies we have on hand. However Cobi prefers colorful food and won’t eat neutrally colored food (such as rice). We usually mix in peppers, broccoli, mushrooms and carrots with some amino acids, red wine vinegar and toasted sesame oil. He will eat two cups of this for dinner.

Our other favorite dinner lately is this delicious beef stew from Jaime Oliver and Cobi is a definite fan! He will eat at least two cups of this stew as well.

Breastfeed: 7:30pm

And 1-2 night feedings as well!

W E E  S T R O L L E R  -  1 2  M O N T H S

Breastfeed: 8am wake up

Breakfast: 8:45am
- 3 pumpkin/oatmeal/flax pancakes (recipe is on HB)
- 1 cup frozen blueberries, thawed
- 1 oz. mozzarella cheese
- 1 egg
- 1 clementine

Breastfeed: 11am pre-nap, 12:30pm post-nap, 2:30pm

Afternoon Meal: 3pm
- 1 gluten free bean & rice burrito
- 1 clementine
- 1/2 cup frozen lima beans, thawed
- 1/2 cup frozen corn, thawed
- 1 banana

Breastfeed: 5pm, 5:45pm breastfeed to sleep

Sometimes he’ll eat a little more, sometimes a little less, but it’s always a huge amount for a little guy. He eats it all; he never drops any on the floor! I alternate his meals so that one will be heavy on protein and veggies and the other on whole grains and fruit (but with some protein too.) He’ll have puffs occasionally as I’m preparing his meal, but usually I’ll give him a clementine while he waits.

C H L O E  -  1 4  M O N T H S

Breakfast:
- 1-2 scrambled eggs
- Yogurt
- Milk or water to drink

Snack:
- Ritz Crackers

Lunch:
- Wedding soup — She loves the noodles, meatballs, spinach, carrots and beans.

Snack:
- String cheese

Dinner:
- Green beans
- Breaded chicken
- Potatoes
- Applesauce

Sometimes she’ll have a snack between dinner and bedtime, too. We mix up snacks between crackers, cheese, chocolate chips/peanut butter chips, yogurt, applesauce, etc.

L I T T L E  Y – 1 7  M O N T H S

Breakfast:
- entire banana, sliced
- small portion of scrambled eggs
- 1/2 cup of cheerios, milk

Lunch:
- 1/2 cup of blueberries
- 2 sticks of string cheese, cut up
- handful of crackers
- 5-10 small cubes of tofu
- milk

Snack:
- small bowl of organic peanut butter crackers or a banana
- water

Dinner :
- steamed broccoli or 10 steamed baby carrots, cut up
- small bowl of pasta
- some sort of fruit
- an ounce or two of cut-up chicken
- milk

I would love to hear what other toddlers are eating, because he eats a lot of the same things over and over. He’s a good eater and generally willing to try new things, but I struggle to find time to cook and dislike giving him really messy stuff, like yogurt.

B A B Y  C H E C K E R S  -  1 8  M O N T H S

Wake up:
- 6 oz. of soy or whole milk

Breakfast:
- a piece of toast
- a mini yogurt
- 1 scrambled egg

Lunch:
- 6 oz. of milk
- toast
- a slice of turkey
- half an avocado or bowl of soup with rice
- topped off with half a banana

Snack: fruit or Cheerios

Dinner:
- Pasta with light sauce or rice with chicken/fish and peas
- topped off with blueberries

N O E L L E  -  2  Y E A R S

Breakfast:
- 1 serving Steel-cut oatmeal, with a free-range organic egg I mix in while the oatmeal is still cooking so everything melds together
- 4 oz whole milk

Lunch:
- bento box consisting of protein, vegetables, and fruit. I usually use a 2-tier bento with 4-silicone cups on the bottom (the top is already portioned into two sections). 4 cherry tomatoes, 1/4 cup berries, 3 oz cheddar cheese cubes, 1/4 cup edamame, 4 pieces of steamed broccoli then stir fried in garlic and butter, 2 breaded and baked fish sticks, 1 hardboiled egg (cut in half)
- 4 oz whole milk

Dinner:
- 1/2 cup chicken soup
- 1/2 cup rice
- 4 oz pan fried tofu with soy sauce
- roasted veggies (I alternate with green beans, carrots, and squash)
- fruit (these days, it’s cubed persimmons – she loves the stuff!)
- 4 oz whole milk

L I T T L E  J A C K S  -  2 . 5  Y E A R S

Breakfast:
- 1/2 cup cereal mixed with 3 tablespoons of full-fat yogurt topped with raspberries, bananas or blueberries. Alternatively she might have 1/2 an egg’s worth of “cheesy eggs” (which we pack with cheese since she doesn’t eat a lot!)

Snack:
- Hummus and whole wheat pita with carrots OR fruit and cheese.

Lunch:
- 1/2 peanut butter and jelly sandwich or half a cup of mac n’ cheese usually.

Snack:
- raisins/other fruit or on a very special occasion Pirate Booty (we happen to have some right now, but it’s usually a once a month treat).

Dinner:
- 6 bite size pieces of whatever protein we’re having (we always try for more, but it’s usually 6 no matter what we do)
- a grain
- a vegetable. Tonight it was 6 pieces of stir fry lamb, bite size pieces of broccoli and about 1/2 cup brown rice
- dessert: She had a bite of dada’s chocolate tonight :)

J A C K  J A C K  -  9  M O N T H S

Now this girl is a good eater!

Breakfast:
- 6 oz bottle of Earth’s Best formula
- tray full of dried cheerios
- 6-10 raspberries OR a full egg(!)

Formula/Snack:
- 9 am: 4-6 oz formula
- 1/4 avocado

Snack:
- 11 am: handful of Pirate Booty
- 1/2 banana

Formula/Snack:
- 12:30: 4-6 oz formula
- bites of whatever LJ is having for lunch. She particularly likes whole wheat bread.

Formula/Snack:
- 3 pm: 6 oz bottle
- blueberries or other fruit
- more Cheerios

Dinner:
- 5 pm: 10 spoonfuls of brown rice
- 5 pieces of broccoli
- 1/4 cup of pasta
- 2 oz formula
- a few more Cheerios and a few more Pirate Booty

Formula:
- Before bed: 4 oz bottle of formula

She never ceases to amaze me!

T O D D L E R  G I R L  -  A L M O S T  3

Wake up:  
- a clementine (she’s hungry the instant she wakes up!)

Breakfast:
- a scrambled egg and a slice of bacon
- small smoothie made with frozen peaches, plain yogurt and whole milk with a vitamin D drop.

Lunch:
- bowl of soup (carrot/lamb made with last night’s leftovers)
- two cauliflower patties (cauliflower, egg, rice flour and seasonings fried in butter)

Snack:
- a banana. Then she wanders around trying to steal food until supper time.

Dinner:
- rice with stir fried veggies and pork — she ate maybe half a small bowl — she’s not super into supper unless she really loves it. Even if she’s been trying to steal the exact same foods a few minutes earlier!
- Glass of water.

Bedtime snack:
- a gingerbread cookie and half a sliced pear

W O N D E R  B A B Y  -  1 0  M O N T H S

This is mostly the same as Toddler Girl but no snacks because she’s still nursing. I don’t try to keep track of her food intake so I can’t be super specific about amounts.

Breastfeed: 6:30am (after nursing half the night again)

Breakfast:
- part of a scrambled egg (it varies)
- clementine

Breastfeed: 10ish

Lunch:
- a cauliflower patty
- some carrots
- lamb fished out of the soup

Breastfeed: 2ish

Breastfeed: 4ish

Dinner:
- Some stir fried veggies and pork

Bedtime – Nurse

W A G O N  J R .  -  J U S T  T U R N E D  3

Breakfast:
- 1 egg scrambled with a splash of milk
- 2 turkey sausages
- 1 yoplait yogurt
- whole milk (this is the same every day)

Snack:
- a whole banana

Lunch:
- sandwich made with turkey, cheese, mayo, and wheat bread
- snack sized cheese crackers
- applesauce pouch

Snack:
- red grapes sliced in half

Dinner:
- pasta with meatballs and marinara sauce
- whole milk
- popscicle for dessert

L  I T T L E  M I S S  W A G O N  -  A L MO S T  5  M O N T H S  O L D

- 5-6.5 oz of pumped breastmilk about 4-5 times a day!

C H AR L I E  -  3  Y E A R S  ,  1  M O N T H

Charlie has been eating so much better the past couple of months. He still has his days when he doesn’t eat much all day, but he also has days where I’m amazed how much he eats and how willingly he tries new foods.

Breakfast:
- 2 fried eggs (on weekends he’ll have 2 zucchini sweet potato pancakes + 3 slices bacon)
- 2 oz yogurt or some fruit
- 2 oz hemp milk + 2 oz water (he loves milk so much we have to water it down or he won’t eat as much)

Snack:
- we don’t usually give snacks on weekends, but if we do, it’s usually fresh or freeze-dried fruit. Charlie gets goldfish crackers, graham crackers, Pirate’s Booty, or fig newtons at daycare
- water

Lunch:
- laptop bento box with 6 different foods, always consisting of at least one protein, vegetable, and fruit
- 6 mini meatballs (w/o breadcrumbs)
- 6 pieces of broccoli sauteed in garlic, aminos (wheat-free, soy-free soy sauce alternative), and sesame oil
- 6 slices cheddar cheese made w/ raw milk
- peas w/ butter, pepper and a dash of salt, pickles, or cucumber
- asian pear and strawberries
- 3oz hemp milk + 3 oz water

Snack:
- goldfish crackers, graham crackers, Pirate’s Booty, or fig newtons at daycare
- water

Dinner: 
- 5 different foods on his bus platter
- 1/2 serving salmon (we make it many different ways and he usually eats it)
- baked sweet potatoes w/ butter
- asparagus sauteed w/ butter, pepper, salt
- dried anchovies (sauteed in aminos, sesame oil, maple syrup… but he will eat them even sauteed lightly in olive oil. He’s obsessed with them lately)
- soup (bone broth, seaweed soup, fish soup…. almost any kind of brothy-soup)
- 3 oz hemp milk + 3 oz water

O L I V E  -  1 5  M O N T H S

Olive started out as a great eater, and I thought that it was because I already had one picky child and paid my dues. But after an extended period of sickness, she never went back to liking solids again. It’s so bad that I want her to be as picky as Charlie! There are many days when she won’t eat any solids other than a couple pieces of fruit the entire day…. she even rejects snacks like puffs and cereal bars! It could be that she is too into nursing.

Breastfeed: 8am-ish

Breakfast:
-  1/2 fried egg
- 1/2 zucchini sweet potato pancake
- 1 serving cantaloupe
- prune juice (she gets constipated easily) and water

Breastfeed: After breakfast, but a little bit before naps

Snack: 
- To pacify Olive when we’re out and about I do keep snacks on hand like Happy Babies puffs, yogurt melts, freeze-dried blueberries/strawberries, rice cakes, and mum mums (all gluten-free), but she doesn’t get them often.

Lunch:
- asparagus sauteed w/ butter, pepper, salt
- small bowl chicken porridge
- couple small pieces of pickle
- 1 clementine
- prune juice and water

Breastfeed:  I breastfeed after she eats lunch otherwise she won’t eat solids.

Dinner:
- couple bites of salmon
- couple asparagus stalks (the only veggie she will eat consistently)
- couple pieces baked sweet potatoes w/ butter
- rice balls (rice rolled into balls with seaweed) when she doesn’t eat the rest of her dinner
- 3 oz soup in her sippy cup
- water

Breastfeed: At bedtime, and any middle of the night wakings. I have her nursing 4 times in the daytime here, but it’s usually 5-6 times. She crawls over to me and pulls on my shirt throughout the day!

L I L’  C B  - 3  Y E A R S ,  3  M O N T H S

Typical meals on a school day:

Breakfast:
- Cereal (Quaker Oatmeal Squares) with milk and blueberries and a clementine

Snacks:
- Served at school — usually pretzels or goldfish (he’s stopped eating snacks on non-school days because he eats more at home)

Lunch:
- Bento with protein, fruit, and veggie. Example: Hard boiled egg, mixed nuts, craisins, clementines, grape tomatoes, steamed broccoli.

Dinner:
- Whatever we’re eating! Example: brown rice, broiled salmon, stir fry with tofu and broccoli, and watered down kimchi!

If he asks for snacks throughout the day, he usually has fruit (apples or clementines right now), yogurt, or an applesauce. Sometimes, he’ll also munch on cucumbers as a snack.

J A M E S  -  4  ,  J  O E  &  N  I C K  -  3  ,  L I L L Y   –  A L M O S T  1 5  M O N  T H S

Now that Lilly is a little older, she pretty much eats the same thing as the boys only cut up a little smaller

Wake up: First things when they wake up they have some milk

Breakfast:
- they get to pick cereal, oatmeal or pancakes

Snack:
- James gets whatever they have at preschool, the other three get carrots or apples or sometimes granola bars

Lunch:
- pasta with olive oil and Parmesan, grilled cheese, or almond butter and honey sandwiches
- cut up fruit or whatever veggies we had left over from dinner

Snack:
- crackers or apple sauce

Dinner:
- they love meatloaf, tacos, pasta or soups. Their favorite is Lemon chicken soup or chicken and dumplings.

Snack:
- they have some milk and sometimes a treat like animal crackers or apples with honey on them

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How old is your little one and what does a typical day of meals look like for them?