What did you feed your kids today?

[olivemeows]

breakfast: breastmilk
morning snack: breastmilk
midmorning snack: breastmilk
lunch: breastmilk
afternoon snack: breastmilk
midafternoon snack: breastmilk
dinner: breastmilk
afterdinner snack: breastmilk
late night snack: breastmilk
midnight snack: breastmilk
early morning snack: breastmilk

hehehheheh

[newveggirl82]

breakfast: breastmilk
morning snack: breastmilk
midmorning snack: breastmilk
lunch: breastmilk
afternoon snack: breastmilk
midafternoon snack: breastmilk
dinner: breastmilk
afterdinner snack: breastmilk
late night snack: breastmilk
midnight snack: breastmilk
early morning snack: breastmilk

hehehheheh

LOL, I miss those days; my little one only nurses a few times a day now. Now, we aren't vegans, but I'll take part here anyway; I'm sure it will give me some ideas! They ate meat today, and I don't remember what they ate yesterday, except for dinner...for dinner we had Spaghetti with spaghetti sauce and zucchini and also garlic bread.

[Vegmomof2]

3 yr old

Upon waking: Chocolate milk
Breakfast: Vegan apple-cinnamon waffle, syrup, orange juice
Snack: Bowl of Cheerios w/ banana and milk
Lunch: PB&J on wheat, mexican brown rice, tortilla chips
Snack: Popsicle
Dinner: Black bean and orange bell pepper soup, tortilla chips, apple juice
Bedtime: Milk

8 month old

Upon waking: Nursed
Breakfast: Banana, baby oatmeal
Snack: Cheerios, nursed
Lunch: Lentils and brown rice (baby food)
Snack: Biter Biscuit, Cheerios, nursed
Dinner: Tried black bean soup, bowl of baby oatmeal
Bedtime: Nursed

[lelab]

Hey, hey, hey...I get better at feeding my kids veg all the time!

6 & 9 year old veggie girls:

Breakfast: Peace Honey Almond Cereal with fresh blueberries and rice milk, oj

Lunch: Organic yogurt w/ fresh organic strawberries, pb&j on whole wheat, organic wheat crackers, water with lemon

Snack: Cherry almond trail mix and chocolate soy milk

Dinner: Homemade pizza with fresh basil, lots o' garlic, rennet-free mozarella and organic sauce, steamed broccoli and carrots, greek salad, more water with lemon

[Vegmomof2]

3 yr old

Breakfast: Vegan waffle, syrup, oj
Snack: Tamari Flax crackers w/organic cheddar, organic milk
Lunch: Black bean soup, 1/2 large orange
Snack: Popsicle
Dinner: Boca Chik'n nuggets, oven fried sweet potatoes
Snack: Organic milk

[newveggirl82]

Today so far-

5 year old:
breakfast: waffle, milk
lunch: you won't believe this, but nothing. She said ewwww to everything I offered. :-/
Snack #1: milk
Snack #2: waffle
Snack #3: strawberries

3 year old:
breakfast: waffle, milk
lunch: one morningstar chik'n nugget and milk. I don't know what was with my kids and lunch today.
Snack #1: waffle
Snack #2: strawberries

13 month old:
breakfast: waffle, banana, soy milk
lunch: three morningstar chik'n nuggets, avocado, green beans, soy milk
snack: breastmilk

I'm planning on having calzones tonight.

[Tofu-N-Sprouts]

Coconut "chicken" noodle soup http://tofu-n-sproutz.blogspot.com/

Thats all she wanted, cause she was sick...

[nookle]

Yay yay yay! I finally have something to report! I fed my sprout her first grown-up food yesterday, and again today!! She had Organic brown rice mixed with mamamilk, and she LOVED it! I am so glad, and SO excited! I have so many foods I want her to try, and we have a lovely organic market within a couple of blocks of my house, and they always have really nice produce. We plan to give her avocado next, on Tuesday. I can't WAIT to cook fancy little stuffs for her! Hooray for 'solids'!

[tatertot79]

My 5 year old has expressed an interest in going lacto-ovo veg and we are just starting but this is what he had to eat yesterday and if he had his way it is what he would eat every day. Even my omni 4 year old ate well yesterday.
B. Whole wheat banana & walnut waffles, with syrup and a glass of juice.
S. One banana
L. Peanut butter and homeade strawberry rhubarb jam on whole wheat and a glass of V-8 (he loves it always has)
S. Carrots and ants on a log (Celery with peanut butter and raisins)
D. Pasta with corn, black beans, diced tomatoes and spices and shredded cheese on top. and a glass of milk not soy yet.

[chula]

My 11 year old son is a joy to feed. He is already a label reader. A few weeks ago he was at his aunt's house and told her that he is vegetarian but he prefers to 'eat vegan'. She, of course, had to call me up to share her concerns about his protein intake. :)

Yesterday's food -

B- oranges (he isn't very hungry in the morning)
L - bean and rice burrito, raw sugar snap peas, carrot sticks, apple juice
Snack - blackberry and banana smoothie made with vanilla soymilk, 1/2 whole wheat bagel with peanut butter
D - veggie lasagna, salad
Snack - popcorn (movie night)

Today -

Brunch - tofu scramble made with tofu, potatoes, green and orange peppers, onion, and topped with avocado slices
Snack - smoothie (vanilla soymilk, banana, blueberry because the blackberries are too 'seedy' according to him)
Dinner will be falafels and hummus in pitas with sprouts, cucumbers, tomatoes. We are going to make some cupcakes later. He is helping me bake our way through the vegan cupcake cookbook.

[Amy SF]

Yay yay yay! I finally have something to report! I fed my sprout her first grown-up food yesterday, and again today!! She had Organic brown rice mixed with mamamilk, and she LOVED it! I am so glad, and SO excited! I have so many foods I want her to try, and we have a lovely organic market within a couple of blocks of my house, and they always have really nice produce. We plan to give her avocado next, on Tuesday. I can't WAIT to cook fancy little stuffs for her! Hooray for 'solids'!

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Well, did she like the avocado? :sweat:

[FattyFFO]

IM getting alot of great ideas from this post....very cool

[nookle]

:up:

Well, did she like the avocado? :sweat:


Unfortunately, no. It's the only thing out of everything we've given her that she hasn't liked. :( We've let her try it 3 times so far, and she seems to like it less each time. *sigh* I was so excited about the avocado.

But she has had a lot of fruits and veggies, and she loves them all. I even let her try my dahl yesterday, and she loved it! Apples and cinnamon, and carrots and dill.... we're just starting to give her protein stuffs - lentils and beans and whatnot. Lots of fun. :)

[Amy SF]

She may end up liking avocado yet, though it could take some time. Some children "grow" into certain foods; they don't always take an instant liking to them. I remember that my sister's kids took FOREVER to take a liking to tossed green salad, and then it had to either include or not include certain items, and have a certain kind of dressing, etc. Now they'll eat just about any green salad put before them. And food tastes change. I would never eat mango as a kid, but my father, a certified mango-lover, kept offering until I finally gave in. It took a while for me to come around, but now I like mango.

[chula]

What my kiddo ate today -

B - cereal with soymilk, banana
L - he ate the school lunch, they had 'galaxy' pizza which is a little cheese pizza, pears, carrot sticks, apple juice
First dinner (before karate) - pasta with veggie sauce, apple
Second dinner (after karate) - more pasta with veggie sauce, salad, garlic toast

Tuesdays are a bear. We leave the house at 7:45. He is in school until 4. We have a 1/2 hour commute home. Karate is from 5 until 6. He takes one of our dogs to the library for a special 'Paws to Read' program from 6:30 - 8. Then he gets to come home and do homework. He usually just grazes in between activities.

[Macylee36]

My kid never seems to eat at regular times anymore, which I am trying to fix. In any case, his molars have been coming in and he's been drinking different types of smoothies.

B- green smoothies with spinach, peaches, yogurt, soymilk, strawberries and some water

L- raisan bran smoothie! Thought of it today and he loved it! He loves raisan bran but because of his mouth he hasn't been wanting to eat it. So today I poured some cereal into the blender, added soymilk and a couple pieces of fruit and he drank the whole thing! Loved it!

D- he didn't seem very hungry but I got him to eat some quinoa made with carrots, bell pepper and onion.

During other parts of the day he had soymilk and water.

[chula]

Today he had -

B - peaches and soymilk
L - cheese quesadilla, pear, apple juice, carrot sticks
D - Amy's pesto pizza, salad

Tomorrow is 'Colonial Day' for 5th graders. He is packing a baguette, a chunk of cheese and an apple in a lunch pail. And a metal cup for water. He suggested to me that he didn't need to shower tonight because in Colonial times they didn't bathe very often.:stinkeye: Good try! :lol:

Macylee - that is really interesting about the raisin bran smoothie. I used to love the mushy end part of a bowl of raisin bran. Hope he cuts those teeth real soon!

[chula]

He is obviously going through a growth spurt. He has hit the bottomless pit stage.

B#1 - peaches, toast, almond milk
B#2 - fruit roll and nectarine (after he came into my office saying he was starving)
L#1 - quesadilla, orange slices, grape juice, granola bar
L#2 - he came into my office while I was out and snagged a chocolate energy bar and nectarines from a co-worker
S - big bowl of spicy black beans with grated rice cheese, scooped up with tortilla chips, carrot sticks
D - Tofurky Italian sausage, baked beans, corn on the cob, cole slaw, bread roll

I have been making him a big banana smoothie and a pb&j sandwich before bed time. He also makes himself a bowl of cereal after dinner. All that food and he's still a stick.

[jolliebell]

This is an awesome thread. What a great way to find ideas for what to feed my recently veggie six-year old (and his little brother, who's mosty breastfed)!


My 11 year old son is a joy to feed. He is already a label reader.

I love this, CHULA! He must make you very proud. My DS would like to be a label reader, but his reading skills are still not up to reading words like "partially hydrogenated soybean oil." Though, to his dad's utter joy, he does try. After his soccer games (moms provide snacks for the team), he has handed his snack to his baffled coach and asked if it has hydrogenated oil. His tickled parents giggled.

General menu:

Breakfast - Cereal, usually Kashi Heart to Heart or Mighty Bites. Today he had Crispy Rice cereal. Rice or soy milk for the cereal. Banana.

Midmorning snack - Toast with Earth Balance or fruit.

Lunch - PB & J with baby carrots.

Midafternoon snack - Pretzels or fruit or PB & banana smoothie.

Dinner - The last two nights he had a salad he made himself (hafta love the empowerment of autonomy) with baby spinach, romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, olives, flax seeds, cucumber slices and balsamic viniagrette.

I look forward to posting my boys' menus!

[Tofu-N-Sprouts]

Yesterday:

Organic Frosted Mini-Wheats
almond milk
cherries
blueberries

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A few snack-y leftover bits of dinner from a few days back...
bindi masala
rice
cauliflower pakoras
naan
(recipes on my blog)

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Potluck with veggie friends so I honestly have no idea specifically - but I'm sure it was healthy-ish.

[chula]

TNS - I had to go buy some okra to make the bindi masala. It looks too good! That will be dinner tomorrow night.

Today he had -

B - toast and peanut butter, banana, chocolate Almond Breeze
L - cheese pizza, pear, grape juice

He was nearly in tears after school because he was hungry. I forgot to pack snacks. :( He had to go to math club. I brought him home before karate and fed him.

D#1 - quesadilla, cucumber slices
D#2 - chili and salad

S - crackers and fruit

[Tofu-N-Sprouts]

chula, sounds like your lil' guy didn't get enough protein early in the day? Was that because that's all he wanted/chose to eat?

Maybe for lunch add some nuts or roasted chickpeas (recipe here on VB somewhere) or whole grain crackers?

I know how it is though - sometimes my kids will only eat certain things and they they're hungry again an hour later...

[chula]

That's probably it, TNS. He hadn't eaten dinner the night before. (We went to the "Pirate Dinner Theater" and everything was sauced and kind of yuck. He ate one bite.) Then he had a friend spend the night and breakfast was more talk than food. He loves the roasted chickpeas and I should make them more often.

We had the bindi masala just now. He took a bite of okra and asked if he had eaten it before. He had but it had been fried. I asked him what he thought and he said it was fine but it was a little slimy and maybe it was too old. I told him that okra is slimy like that and that people use it in soups and stews to make them thicker. He asked for more. :lol: He cracks me up. I guess slimy food is just fine if mom says so.

[Tofu-N-Sprouts]

heehee (slimy food).

I shouldn't be admitting this, but my 7-year-old calls okra "spicy slugs" and squeezes each okra pod until the "guts" (yes, I know, how UN-VEGAN!) squish out... SOOO appetizing!

[jolliebell]

DS is pretty independent in getting his own breakfast and snacks and stuff, so it's amazing how much of what he eats I'm only peripherally aware of. *Scratches head*

Breakfast - Kashi 7 Grain Flakes with Rice Milk
Snack - Frozen strawberry lemonade
Lunch - 2 slices of multigrain toast with Earth Balance, corn on the cob
Snack - Peach, popcorn, peanut butter & banana smoothie
Dinner - Curry Masala Dahl with pita

Baby bfed multiple times, had pureed sweet potatoes & spinach & pieces of banana at lunchtime, then jarred bananas (gleh) at dinnertime (everything else was still frozen).