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Muffin Tin Muffin- Blue and Purple Foods

March 29, 2010 By Deirdre

JDaniel and I had fun tracking down blue and purple foods. BiLo had purple cauliflower on special this week and we found the purple potatoes from Peru at Whole Foods.

His tin contained blue tortilla chips, blueberries, purple potatoes (They are boiled in the picture above. I later mashed them.), meatloaf (non-purple meatloaf), a blueberry muffin and a little of the purple cauliflower. I was shocked when he asked for more potatoes and cauliflower. I wasn’t shocked that he wanted more of the muffin.

Muffin Tin Monday- Bananas and Breakfast for Lunch

March 1, 2010 By Deirdre

JDaniel loves Curious George and I love breakfast! I combined those two loves to put together this meal. It consisted of pancakes with syrup, banana pudding, ham slices, banana yogurt, and mandarin oranges. Curious George would need small sized food so the pancakes, ham slices, and oranges were all small in size. The foods that had bananas in them were to satisfy JDaniel and George’s love of them. The napkin will be a part of his Curious George birthday party on Friday. We took one out early just for fun!

Disclaimer: This meal was served last Tuesday. We left last Wednesday for Augusta following my fathers-in-law passing and we didn’t return home until yesterday.

I am so glad we had this meal before we left. JDaniel ate meals in hotels, my in-laws’ house, a church dining room, a few restaurants, and the car while we were gone. On our last night in Augusta he threw up three times and he went on a liquid and cracker diet on Sunday.

Muffin Tin Monday- Orange You Glad It’s An Orange Lunch!

February 22, 2010 By Deirdre

Today’s theme for Muffin Tin Muffin is Orange. JDaniel had carrots, two muffin cups of turkey wrapped in orange cheese, gold fish, left over beets from last week doctored up to look and taste better, and corn chips. He loved this meal!

Alison over at As is suggested adding applesauce to the beets to make them sweeter. What a great idea! It went over so well. I added food coloring to make it look orange and JDaniel had no idea that he was having beets.

We also listened to Ross King’s Words That Rhyme With Orange CD. I love his music. Here is a link to the review I wrote for the CD.

Muffin Tin Monday- Red Tin Part Two

February 15, 2010 By Deirdre

I made JDaniel a tin filled with heart-shaped foods along with foods that were red or pink this week. He has a homemade pizza made with my sister’s homemade tomato sauce, tomatoes, ham, beets, and heart-shaped bread with strawberry cream cheese.

JDaniel loved the cream cheese! He barely touched the beets even though I told him that his grandmother loves beets. The homemade pizza was his favorite. He asked for it at every meal this weekend.

Muffin Tin Monday-Valentine’s Day: Red Tin Part One

February 8, 2010 By Deirdre

There isn’t a theme this week for Muffin Tin Monday. Since my blog theme is Valentine’s Day this week, I went ahead and did a red themed tin (next week’s theme on Muffin Tin Monday). I am just calling it ” Red Tin Part One”.

JDaniel had hot dogs, strawberry yogurt, red potatoes, red grapes, strawberry applesauce and a little chili with red beans. I decorated with three cookie cutters I received in a Valentine’s Day exchange with Country Mouse, City Mouse.

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Muffin Tin Monday- ABC’s Tin (Really Just A-F)

January 25, 2010 By Deirdre

I created an ABC tin for JDaniel this week. He inhaled everything. He almost always inhales everything.

Here is what was in his tin: Applesauce, Bagel (cinnamon and raisin), Cheese, a Drink (milk), Extra peas (They really should be called leftover peas, but that doesn’t start with E.), and Fancy ham ( I don’t know why it is called that. It just is on the package.).

I can’t wait to see what the other Muffin Tin Mom’s came up with.

Muffin Tin Monday- Counting to Six

January 11, 2010 By Deirdre

Today the Muffin Tin Monday Theme is Back to School/Learning. JDaniel had a counting tin for lunch. He had one strip of chicken, two pieces of cheese, three yellow pepper strips (He didn’t like them raw. He loved them cooked.), four grape tomatoes, five orange slices, and mixed veggies with six green beans. This meal didn’t fill him up. JDaniel requested two crackers and more oranges. Maybe I should have done three strips of chicken and one yellow pepper strip.

Muffin Tin Monday- New Year’s Day

December 28, 2009 By Deirdre

JDaniel had a New Year’s Muffin Tin today. It contained confetti fruit salad, New Year’s ball drop tomatoes, ham, black eyed peas, and apple slices cut into 2010. He loved all of it.

Muffin Tin Monday-Christmas

December 21, 2009 By Deirdre

I have really enjoyed reading the postings in December by other Muffin Tin Moms that involved decorating part of your meal. I decided to create a decorate your meal muffin tin for JDaniel. He wasn’t interested in creating though. He was really interested in eating what was in his tin!

The meal was made up of flat bread Christmas trees, cheese and carrot garland strips, ornaments of sausage circles, peas and peaches.

When he had inhaled the contents of his tin, he glanced to the top of the china cabinet, and pointed to the tin of his Aunt Kate’s cookies. “Cookie please,” he said. (He should have been full. I guess he is like all of us and has room for Christmas goodies.)

Here is what her cookies looked like.

Muffin Tin Monday- Christmas Books and Stories

December 14, 2009 By Deirdre

The Muffin Tin theme this week is a meal based on a book. I selected The Donkey’s Christmas Song by Nancy Tafuri. It is a story about a donkey that fears his song will be too loud for the Baby Jesus. He lets the doves, cows, chickens, goats, sheep, and mice all sing first. It takes a look and a smile from the baby to get him to sing. When he does sing, the baby laughs with joy.

This week’s tin contains:
•Some meat for the dove (chicken not dove meat)
•Some cheese stars for the star and goat (The cheese is not goat’s milk cheese.)
•Some milk for the cow
•An egg for the chicken
•Some Cheerios for the donkey
•Some mashed potatoes for the sheep

I looked at this picture and realized most of the food is one color. So, I gave JDaniel part of the egg and some mandarin oranges. I guess that the oranges could be the smile the baby gave the donkey!