Eat With the Kids: 10/27/10

Even though I haven't done an Eat With the Kids post in ages, I swear, I am feeding my children regularly.

We're back today following my nine-year-old girl.  Not a big eater.  Not a big snacker.  She's always been that way for whatever reason.  She just eats when she's hungry.  Huh, interesting concept.

She is a gal who sleeps, eats and breathes of ways to beat her dad in Monopoly.  They both are addicts.

7:15 AM

Breakfast:

Egg Sandwiches

(recipe coming soon!)

1/2 apple, sliced

water

12:00 PM

Lunch (made by her) eaten at school:

1 almond butter and apricot jam sandwich on whole wheat bread

1 string cheese

1 fruit cup, light

1 boiled egg

1 fruit leather, all natural

water

3:15

After school snack:

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins

I have no idea how many she ate.  I just left them out for the taking.

6:30 PM

Dinner:

Baked BBQ Chicken (recipe coming soon)

Rosemary Butternut Squash

Parmesan Whole Wheat Couscous (recipe coming soon)

cantaloupe

skim milk

One gingersnap from her dad while they were playing Monopoly for the 3rd hour in a row.

She wasn't a gingersnap fan.

Neither am I.

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Eat With the Kids: 5/27/10

Today is the LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!  Here's how Miss Tressa is going to end it:

7:00 AM

1 slice of banana bread (find recipe here)

1 orange

1 boiled egg

Lunch:

1 homemade wheat roll with turkey and cheddar cheese

1 boiled egg

baby carrots

light ranch dressing

low sugar yogurt

water

After-school snack:

1 homemade whole wheat roll (recipe is coming someday!)

Baked chicken

Sweet Potatoes (find recipe here)

Asian Slaw (find recipe here)

Yet another roll with reduced sugar jam

Skim milk

This kid is a repeat eater.  Do your kids do this?  Every time I turn around she has a roll or boiled egg in her mouth.  I really have to make sure she gets a variety of food groups in her body!  

Now, I have to pack, pack, and pack some more.  The wide road is calling my name...  Vacation here I come!

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Eat With the Kids: 4/14/10

Following Mr. Brian today.  This was the day before grocery shopping day, so I was a bit nervous to see if we could keep this kid fed who has a bottomless pit for a stomach.  

All is well.  He's alive.

7:00 AM

Breakfast:

1 whole wheat English muffin, toasted

All-natural PB

All fruit spread

1 low fat yogurt, the "green" kind only for this kid

1 apple (that I sliced up and made him take it to school in his pocket)

Lunch:

Turkey Roll Up:

1 Kidz Flatout bread

1 slice of deli turkey

1 string cheese

1 box of raisins

1 applesauce

1 Easter egg

1% milk at school 

(he collects milk bottle tops -- which I find dozen in the washer every laundry day)

4:00 PM

After school snack:

1 chocolate protein shake

5:30 PM

Dinner:

1 cup Vegetable Soup (recipe here)

1 pear, sliced

1 Fiber Bar (recipe here)

The soup is not his favorite (it is mine!), but he choked it down.  

After baseball practice:

2 bowls of Raisin Bran

There's the bottomless pit I love :)  With a frog to boot.

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Eat With the Kids: 3/31/10

Following my newly minted three-year-old today.






7:30 AMBreakfast:
1 fruit cup, light
cottage cheese
4 strawberries

He made sure in no uncertain terms that he had both available for breakfast.



So, the strawberries went to the gym with him since he was stuffed from the cottage cheese and fruit.



11:00 AM
Mid-morning snack:
Luna Bar

Mom, can I have one of your Luna Bars, that I just risked breaking my neck by standing on this rocking horse for?  Wait, let me just get a pair of scissors, too.



12:30 PM

Lunch:

3 Turkey meatballs
grapes1 cup of skim milk



4:00 PM
Mid-afternoon snack:

1 apple cinnamon rice cake




6:00 PM

Yes, that is a frozen pizza from Costco.  I have them for emergency purposes, and this evening definitely fell in the emergency category.   

It was Johnny Scott's 3rd birthday and  I was making homemade pizza with a whole wheat dough, when my Bosch FELL OFF THE COUNTER and my Bosch mixing bowl cracked (along with my heart and my sanity).  Needless to say, with my stress levels blowing to new levels, the frozen pizza got unfrozen pretty fast.



The great part of the wild evening was this little guy's 3rd birthday party!  All he wanted as a blue cake, and doggone it!  He got it!  :)  
Did I tell you, or did I tell you that my only hobby is really only fitness and nutrition?!?  Cake decorating should definitely be left to the pros -- or in my case, the kids.

Eat With the Kids: 3/10/10

Little Miss Tressa's turn:

Breakfast:

1 bowl of Shredded Oats
1/2 large pear



Lunch:

1 tuna sandwich with whole wheat bre
1 light yogurt
1 can mixed fruit
1 clementine orange
1 chocolate chip bar
water



After-School Snack:

1 Z-Bar
1 string cheese
1 banana



Dinner at the park:

1 scrambled egg and cheese burrito on a whole wheat tortilla
apples
grapeswater

Treat at a church activity -- I have no idea what it was. 

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Eat With the Kids: 3/03/10

I stuck my neck out for this one:  I tracked what my almost 3-year-old ate for an entire day.  He is very picky and could seriously eat only cottage cheese and fruit all. day. every. day.

I learned a few things about Johnny Scott by doing this:  He doesn't eat as much as I thought.  Also, having healthy food choices in the house is the ticket for one his age.  If I had chips and cookies around here, the boy would insist on eating that junk (and so would the rest of this clan). 





8:30 AMBreakfast at the gym (he is a late eater for whatever reason):
Apples and PBCraisinsLow-sugar yogurtWater


11:00 AMMid-morning snack:
1 Fruit Source Bar(I offered him more, but playing was much more interesting)  The only reason you'll ever catch me at McDonald's:  It's pouring rain outside and my kiddo needs to run, jump, and climb somewhere other than my house.



12:30 PMLunch: Bean and cheese quesedilla1 clementine orange1 fruit cup
skim milk

4:00 PMMid-afternoon Snack: 1 piece of whole wheat bread (find recipe here)

6:00 PMDinner:Earl Cobb Wrap (find recipe here -- Thanks, Kim! :)Pirate Booty (this is a kid-pleaser and a mom-gagger)PearsSkim milk

Eat With the Kids: 2/17/10

Miss Tressa gets the camera in her face today:




7:00 AM
Breakfast:

1 cup oatmeal sweetened with brown sugar
1 orange
water



11:15 AM
Lunch
1 Turkey Rollup:
Kidz Flatout bread, 1 slice of turkey, 1 string cheese
Pirate Booty
Grapes
1 4 oz light yogurt



2:45
After-school, pre-chess club snack:

1 ZBar



4:15 AM
More snacks:

1 Dreyers Sugar Free Popscicle



4:30 AM
More snacks:

1 slice of whole wheat bread
**This girl could eat an entire loaf of bread. I have to limit her, but often she sneaks a few extra pieces without me catching her. I guess it could be worse.





6:00 PM
Dinner:

Pasta Salad (see recipe here)
cantaloupe
2 slices of whole wheat Zucchini Bread



8:00 PM
Post basketball practice ice cream:

2 scoops of mint chocolate chip ice cream of which she ate 3 bites then said she was sick of it and threw the rest away.
Who is she related to?!?

Eat With the Kids: 2/10/10

For today's Eat With the Kids post, we are following my lovely, so very gentle six-year-old son Brian. Brian is huge. He is 2-1/2 years younger than his older sister, just as tall as her, and weighs 2 pounds more. He has been this way since the get-go (he weighed 9.2 lbs at delivery, versus Tressa's petite 6.0 lbs).

Brian is the SNACK KING. I swear he had a sack of Wheat Thins in his hand when I delivered him. He'd much rather snack all day than eat at meals. It is because of Brian that I have to "open" and "close" the kitchen during the day. I basically have to drop kick him out of the kitchen constantly. Yes, I know he is a growing boy and trust me -- the boy eats. I just like him to eat the meals I cook too. So, I have to watch him a little closer than Miss Tressa.

Here we go:




7:00 AM
Breakfast:

1 1/2 whole wheat waffles
2-3 Tb pure maple syrup
1/2 banana
1 boiled egg
water



12:00 PM

Lunch:

1 turkey and cheese sandwhich made on whole wheat bread
1 Light "Green" yogurt (he only likes green, a.k.a. lime)
1 no sugar added applesauce
1 apple
1 baggie of Pirate Bootie (our version of Cheetos)





3:15 PM
After school snack:

yet another applesauce (a Brian favorite)
1 turkey dog on a whole wheat bun (um, you will see Brian eat a lot of these)



6:00 PM

Dinner:

1 Bean and Cheese Tostada (see recipe here)
1/2 orange (he hates them)
1 cup of skim milk



8:30 PM

Post-basketball, pre-bedtime snack:

Another tostada. Plain this time.