Amy from Yummy Toddler Food shares easy recipes for families with little kids, the best gear recommendations, and no-fuss feeding advice to make mealtimes more enjoyable.
Master List of Breakfast Recipes for Kids Make it easier to serve a nourishing morning meal with these healthy breakfast recipes for kids. These are the BEST breakfast ideas for kids they’ll love to eat! You’ll find quick and easy recipes and ideas for eggs, dairy, waffles, pancakes, French toast, muffins, oatmeal and more.
Quick Lemon Broccoli Pasta Bursting with fresh, bright flavor, this Lemon Broccoli Pasta is one of our absolute favorite fast meals. It’s ready in less than 20 minutes, you can use fresh or frozen broccoli, and it’s perfect for little kids and us adults.
How to Meal Prep (the Easy Way) Learning how to meal prep can be a game changer in feeding your family. Yes, it requires some upfront time and effort—but with my method, not much. And the payoff on busy weeknights is huge. With a little planning, you’ll have a simpler, more organized week. Here’s how to do it.
Hi Reader, While I don't always involve my kids in the kitchen on busy weeknights, I do LOVE exposing the kids to a range of foods while they're in the kitchen because I know it's one way that can take make food more fun. And it can be a way to enjoy food together without as much pressuring on who's eating what and learn what a lot of foods are. The list below is here to help when you want to cook together, vetted by me and my real-life kiddos. (And don't miss this Cauliflower Mac and Cheese,...
Hi Reader, I have been waiting so long to share this news with you and the day has come—you can officially preorder my new cookbook wherever books are sold. (Links below.) Hooray! My brand new cookbook, Dinnertime SOS: 100 Sanity-Saving Meals Parents and Kids of All Ages will Actually Want to Eat is here to take (some) of the challenge out of feeding your family—at the time of the day when we're all the most tired. It is my hope that this collection of easy recipes helps you feed your family...
Hi Reader, I get a LOT of questions from parents about feeding kids, everything from suggestions on food sources of iron to favorite crackers for toddlers to best sippy cups, how to start solids, and on and on. But the most frequent question? "Is this normal???" And in almost all cases, the answer is YES. It's normal that it's hard to predict a child's appetite and food preferences on any given day. It's normal that some kids are more into food than others, that some are more challenging to...
Hi Reader, My little guy just turned 4, which means we have a well-child check up coming up soon. You may have heard about the new Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Previously, the 2016 version of the guidelines was clearly against putting kids on diets and took a much broader, contextual view at raising kids with healthy relationships with food. Now, though, the AAP recommends...
Hi Reader, I was thinking the other day how much I am looking forward to the school year starting for many reasons, including school lunch. I love that it's more variety that my girls would likely have if we packed each day and I REALLY love that it's one less thing for me to do in the morning. But when my oldest went to kindergarten (and daycare, before that), I had so much anxiety about her eating food that wasn't from home. I had heard that it was "bad" or "just pizza" and also stories...
Hi Reader, I've been thinking a lot about the prevailing idea in the feeding kids community that we have to "expose" the kids to new foods day in and day out in order for them to one day eat those foods. That there always has to be a new or less familiar food on their plate. That the ability to constantly eat new foods is somehow the holy grail of feeding little kids. This came up for me recently because I was thinking about how the lunches we make for our kids now are often so different than...
Hi Reader, Okay, I know that much of the world is Very Hot right now, so I thought I'd share some of our favorite cold snacks (that honestly can work at any meal of the day). We've been doing a lot of frozen yogurts in all forms, smoothies, and fruit cups. (I just made the ones below with peaches this week!) I hope these ideas help a little bit. They may also be helpful for teething if that is going on at your house! (Have a question about feeding your family? Simply reply to this email!)...