My child...the food monster

Right around Jackson's 2nd Birthday (one month ago) he went through what I thought was a huge growth spurt. He was eating tons at meals and always asking for seconds! However, that was NOTHING compared to the growth spurt he's going through right now! This kid is a BEAST! I swear he is going to eat us out of house and home!

Here is what he's eaten so far today....and we haven't even hit dinner yet!

Breakfast - 2 cups of cheerios with milk
                  Half an eggo waffle
                  Cereal Bar

Snack(s) - 2 cups of Blueberry/purple sweet potato organic puffs
                 2 cups of strawberry/beet organic puffs

Lunch - 1 container chobani yogurt
              5 huge strawberries
              2 handful blueberries

Snack(s) - 2 cups strawberry/beet organic puffs
                 1 Banana
                 1 bowl ritz crackers
                 1 bowl of cheddar bunnies

(I clearly need to sneak some veggies in him at dinner!)

He's currently working on the cheddar bunnies and already asking for MORE!!! He's a food monster! I am in no way complaining as this is VERY positive for us...it's just so dramatic from the amount that he normally eats. Just blows my mind!

Sneaky Mommy

It is no surprise that Jackson being 22months old and the delight he is that we struggle at meal times. The number of foods that I can get him to willingly eat I can count on my two hands so I have taken to the sneaky approach.

This kid is quite observant so I have limited options on where I can sneak different foods in. I've tried cutting up veggies as small as I can cut them and sneak them in to eggs but he finds them and won't even touch it. BUT I have discovered that sneaking different veggies in to meatballs then covering the spot where they poke out with ketchup seems to be a success! I know I know, one day he will have to see that he is eating these veggies but my hope is that by the time he sees them that he'll be out of this difficult stage and it won't be such a struggle to just get him to simply TRY it!

So for now I will continue being sneaky mommy :)

he LOVES them!

finger lickin good

rarrrrr

 

Tonight the sneaky veggie of choice was Zucchini