My husband is blue collar and essentially just snacks through his whole 10 hour shift and is RAVENOUS when he gets home for dinner. I've been trying to use less meat primarily for cost reasons, but also because i like the way my body feels when I fill up mostly on plants and beans. I'm pretty new at this and don't know how to fill his stomach without a ton of meat.
My 12 month old is allergic to dairy, eggs, wheat, and avocado. She was a pretty great eater for a while but just started some pickiness and I'm finding myself feeding her largely the same things every week.
For breakfast almost every day, she has overnight oats with chia seeds and soy milk. I usually put some nut butter, applesauce, cinnamon, and/or honey for flavor. Occasionally I'll make her gluten free pancakes.
For lunch or dinner our usual rotations are:
Chicken
Tuna salad (I use skipjack tuna but I still only give this to her every other week because I'm overly worried about mercury lol)
She usually likes salmon filets but I don't make them often because of cost. Canned salmon is hit or miss.
Beans and rice - any beans! I'm so grateful she loves beans.
Lentil pasta with tomato sauce
And I pretty much always give her a side of frozen peas/carrots/corn because she loves them.
She also likes broccoli and asparagus.
For fruit she consistently likes grapes, blueberries, and applesauce.
And if whatever I'm making my husband and I can be modified for her, she gets that too. For example, the other day I made a cottage pie and gave her some, and she just picked out the peas and carrots and ate those lol.
Current dislikes:
All meat other than chicken and canned tuna. I've tried breakfast sausage, hot dogs, ground beef, and various fish filets including tinned sardines. She used to like most of these until recently! I still offer them but they usually end up on the floor.
Edamame - she used to love this but not anymore.
Most fruit including berries (other than blueberries), bananas, watermelon, peaches, mango, and canned mandarin oranges.
Potatoes in almost every form, even sweet potatoes. Just today I tried potato pancakes though and she liked them, so hope it sticks!
I just feel guilty and that she's not getting enough variety. If I could pick your brains I would appreciate some new ideas! And/or reassurance that she will be okay on beans and rice and veggies 🥲
I’ve had to cut out eggs and dairy due to breastfeeding my baby who is allergic. I want to start the MD but my only breakfast ideas currently are oatmeal with berries, or avocado toast. Curious what other options are out there that I’m not thinking of!