Baby Food - Beet Yogurt

My daughter was doing really well with chunky solids and then she got a little sick and seems to be wary of food all over again...sigh. She loves yogurt and I usually mix unsweetened apple sauce with plain yogurt for her. I was out of apple sauce but had pureed beets in the fridge. On a whim I mixed some together and she loves it! It just goes to show that no combination is too weird to try!
And its a nice pretty pink too :)

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Spinach Mookshake

Or at least that's what my 2 year old calls it. Mookshake, milkshake, smoothie or green milk....however you label it, it's delicious and it's chalk full of nutrition!! Made with slight modifications from Weelicious.

Ingredients
4 cups (packed) fresh spinach
2 Large Bananas
2 Cups Milk
1 Tsp. Vanilla Extract
2 Tbsp. Honey

Put it all into the blender and blend until smooth. Refrigerates well for a day or two if there is any left over. There's not usually! Sometimes I blend it up before adding the honey and take some out, mix it with some plain yogurt and xanthan gum (you could use other thickening agents) and feed it to my not quite 1 year old as pudding! She loves it!


It's definitely a vegetarian snack, and could easily be made vegan and or milk free. Maple syrup would be a good substitute for the honey, and you could use soy, rice or even almond milk!

Lately anytime I ask my son what he wants for a snack he asks for a spinach mookshake. He loves them that much. I tested it out on some other children this morning, and they were actually fighting over it...fighting over spinach!! Imagine that!

Banana Avocado Mousse

This is another recipe from Weelicious. It's wonderfully easy to make and if you have toddlers and babies (so long as your babies are having dairy already), you can serve it to both of them! I made this today, but much to my dismay my kids ate all of it, and I was left with only the spatula to lick :( I think I will have to make a double batch next time! My 2 year old loved that he helped make it (minus where he scared himself by pushing a button on the blender before we were ready to go!), and my 11 month old seemed delighted to be eating the same thing as her big brother. And me? Well I'm delighted that they had a super healthy snack and viewed it as a treat!

Ingredients
1 Banana
1 Small or 1/2 Large Avocado
1/4 Cup Plain Yogurt
2 Tbsp. Milk (Can use Rice, Soy, Etc.)

Put all ingredients into a blender/food processor and blend until smooth (After peeling/pitting the fruit of course!). Then try to get some before your kids eat it all :) 

Anything I make for the kids including dairy I use full fat. My son is on the skinny side and my daughter is under 2 so I just keep it the same for both kids. Plus it makes it extra creamy! My hubby went to the store yesterday for me and I asked him to buy 'high fat plain yogurt', and he came home with 6% baking yogurt instead of the 3% yogurt I had in mind! It definitely added to the creaminess of this pudding!

Baby Food - Mango Banana Chicken Puree

My daughter is 11 months old but still isnt so great with chunkier food so Ive been trying to become creative with her meals. Today I made mango banana chicken puree and she gobbled it up! I even tried some and it was quite tasty :)
Ingredients
1 Ripe Mango
1 Banana
Handful of cooked chicken
Put all ingredients in food processor and process until desired consistency is reached.
I havent tried freezing this yet but I would imagine it would freeze well.

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