Meal planning moving slowly today
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This is too much bbq chicken lol
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I made that honey chicken in the instant pot and it was pretty good!
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Could do this served over greens
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And I already have carrots and pita so this would work
Thank you for following as I live blog my brain
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Okay so the one pan part of this was a damn dirty lie. It’s two sheet pans plus a billion bowls (or single use plastic bags).
But the marinaded chicken turned out delicious. The extra marinade on the broccoli wasn’t worth the effort. The pineapple was good but I always love pineapple. I might try to tweak this in the future to be less dish-intensive.
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The roasted bbq chicken meatballs, cheesy rice, and tomatoes/broccoli slapped and was super quick to put together!!!
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This week’s meal plan:
- Lunches: creamy chicken “cajun” pasta
- Dinners: turkey chili, deli sandwiches
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This week! Doubling batch of bean burgers to bring to my sister and her new bb. Will serve with avocado and sweet potato tots
Opting for frozen corn and frozen green beans as sides to mitigate any parasites as much as possible, but I do have a bunch of kale left from last week that I will be making into chips. I figure that not eating it raw is a good way to go
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We have done the cheesy gnocchi!!
It was indeed easy and delicious. Pipsqueak did not eat it but she doesn’t eat anything mixed together.
Tonight we are trying this:
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I wanna try that!!!
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My kid will eat plain roasted broccoli, plain baguette, and plain white beans so it’s an easy one to keep her portion on the side. She also used to reliably eat ceasar salad dressing but that has suddenly changed over the last 3 days 
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Ugh it is a specific sadness when they take a food OFF of the list 
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Pork satay with thai green beans
Beef stroganoff
Cheeseburger macaroni
Breakfast sandwiches plus mango pineapple smoothie bowl from kid cookbook
Spanish chickpeas and rice
Ham and cheese paninis with pickles
Skillet pizzas
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Sharing a win and a loss - last night I made budget bytes’ beef and cabbage stir fry, which everyone in the house likes except for D1. I made it per the instructions, but I also cooked a cup of green lentils on the side and when the beef was done cooking I added in the lentils and then mashed it all with the potato masher, so there aren’t many identifiable lentils. DH and D2 still liked it and ate it! I can taste a slight texture change from the lentils but it tastes exactly the same to me and is wonderful.
We were out of fresh ginger so I used powdered ginger instead. I thought that I could get D1 to taste it by telling her that I used a different kind of ginger. At that point D2 had already eaten half of hers and told me how much she loved it. She heard that something was different and immediately said “I can taste that it isn’t the same and I’m done eating now” 
She refused to take another bite because it was “different”. D1 said it looked the same so still wouldn’t try it
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Hahahaha these KIDS!!!
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I think this is one of the best parts of having older kids. We always think about the constant care aspect of little kids being exhausting, but picky eating/fighting nutritious foods is just as exhausting. The most I do these days is try to make sure vegetables are served when I cook, and keep some fruit in stock. If I make food and they don’t choose to eat it, oh well. They’ll be fine. 
Here’s a meal win. I made this last night and it was simple/easy and yet, delicious! A lot of recipes that call themselves “quick and easy,” I tend not to like. Casseroles don’t go over well here. But this meal is a keeper! (As long as the eaters like lemon.)
https://www.allrecipes.com/one-pan-lemon-garlic-parmesan-chicken-recipe-8693366
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So interestingly this might be an area where the conventional wisdom has evolved! This is exactly what they say to do for little kids now, offer them healthy options and let them take it from there. We just had our 2.5 year ped visit and Ped was hitting that advice hard. (Obvs everyone should do what works for them but just sharing the anecdote)
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