growing & learning with him
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
