Hide Your Veggies in the Beans

In response to Sarah's post: I try to cook all of Miles' food too and I worry about all the same things, am I feeding him the right amount of vitamins and fiber and protein and bla bla bla. But my challenges are a little different because although Miles will eat pretty much anything, most things make him constipated. So getting him to eat fibers and drink enough liquids is what I'm constantly obsessing with!

But for your problem, lets see. You said Luca likes beans, right? Well, Miles eats just about every kinds of beans (he is half Latino after all) and to make them more tasty, I cook his beans the same way I cook ours, except I don't add salt and pepper.

And you can hide all kinds of good for you veggies in beans! I make a lot of black beans, lentils, black eyed peas, green beans, chick peas, pinto beans, etc. I cook them with celery, carrots, onions, kale, spinach, chard, broccoli, cauliflower, turmeric, cumin, oregano, etc etc. You can really mix them with just about anything and they're very tasty.

I also cook pots of just veggies, like cauliflower, broccoli or chard, with some veggie stock, onions and all kinds of spices. That makes them tasty and fragrant and he'll eat them with quinoa or brown rice. Or you can mix them with sweet potato or whatever else he really likes. I feel like the key is has to cook with the herbs and spices which make the food yummier. And certain spices, like turmeric and cumin, are also good for digestion. I even add nice Turkish curries sometimes and he gobbles it up!

Now, if anyone has advice on some fiber rich foods that might help my little man, I'll take it! The only things he doesn't seem to enjoy eating are tart fruits (plums, peaches, berries...anything tart) and yogurt. He'll eat all of it if he's really hungry, but he can get picky at times!

Hope that helped a little.
L