Show Us Your Life- What you feed your kids!

Feb 4, 2011 by Lindsay

Today I am joining Kelly for a Show Us Your Life Friday! The topic is what you feed your kids! I had lots of fun going through pictures to find some of our kids eating, I was surprised to see how much we photograph our kids while the are so politely shoving their faces! haha!

Our boys love to eat. They usually eat lunch and then after I clean up I will eat something and it never EVER fails that when I sit down to eat they see me with a bowl or a plate and they always come begging for food! Cracks me up!

Breakfast everyday consists of cereal. The love to eat “Daddy’s cereal” which is Life, otherwise it’s Raisin Bran, Cheerios or Frosted Mini Wheats. Neither of our kids are big milk drinkers, but they do eat it on their cereal. Saturdays are their favorite breakfast day because that’s the day that Daddy let’s them help make pancakes and bacon. They LOVE their bacon! Oink oink!

Lunches everyday consist of peanut butter and jelly on wheat bread with any combination of the following – oranges, yogurt, cheese, grapes, pretzels, apples, bananas…I just feed them until they aren’t hungry anymore!

My boys would snack all day if I let them. After naps I let them have snacks, but never after about 4:30 otherwise it’s too close to dinner. Snacks are usually goldfish (actually, off brand whales!) Ritz crackers, chips and salsa, graham crackers or pretzels. Their absolute favorite snack is popcorn, we have this popcorn popper that makes the best popcorn and you can control the amount of salt and butter you add to make it better for you. Sometimes if it’s a REALLY special day we will add M&M’s to our popcorn, but not very often.

For dinner they eat whatever we eat. Sometimes it’s a battle, sometimes it’s not, but they always eat it! Dinners include things like stuffed shells, chicken rolls, spaghetti, enchiladas, chicken casserole, egg casserole and sometimes it’s simple like hotdogs or chicken strips! We usually have some sort of vegetable, salad or fruit on the side as well. If there is bread being served we make them eat their dinner first and the bread is their reward because they like it so much! There have been a few times in the past few weeks where one of the boys will insist that they don’t want to eat what we are having and we tell them that we will save it and they can have it for breakfast the next day. We haven’t had to follow through on that yet because they usually agree to eat then. It sounds a little harsh, but I want to know that they are getting good nutrition and I’m not fixing three different dinners every night.

Now, the one thing that the just don’t care for is macaroni and cheese. That baffles me. Doesn’t every kids like macaroni and cheese? But other that that the will eat most anything, including any and every condiment known to man! Haha! And what kid doesn’t like their share of treats as well! I don’t think we have encountered a treat they don’t like!