Need Some Toddler-Friendly Recipes

To all our readers,

This is a request for you to send in your Toddler-Friendly Recipes!! Daddy has been cooking up a storm every evening after Erik has gone to bed but our little Erik is such a picky eater!! With every "new" food or unfamiliar looking food we introduce, our Erik would poke his tiny little fingers dead-center of whatever it was, be it a pancake, a carrot, a tofu, etc, to do the prodding test. After the prodding was done, the sniffing test would be conducted where Erik would use his little IKEA plastif fork, sticks it on the morsel of food then pretends he's about to eat it and then all of a sudden just takes the morsel away and gives us a laugh ....we'd like to think that its not an "Evil" laugh per se but still, its a laugh!

For Daddy and Mummy, its frustrating! We're both foodies, as in we love to eat food...but not junk food as in pizzas, hot dogs, etc. But come on, Erik has his own personal chef, Daddy, and personal sou-chef, Mummy! What more can a Toddler asks for?! Are there such a need for these excruciating tests?! By no means is Erik skins and bones...nope! But at the same time, he's not an easy person to please during meals! This evening, Mummy served him the following diced up: Lightly seasoned Broccoli, Cauliflower, Carrots, fresh Avocado, and very yummy Mandarin Oranges in very very light syrup (rinsed out three times with H2O!) Along with sum very yummy tomato beef rice (a very common Cantonese family dish) semi-pureed for easy feeding, either by self or with assistance! Plus a side of homemade chicken soup (this is the only way we can get Erik to take his iron supplement)


However, our little Erik decided he will have none of those items for dinner, instead, he ate Pillsbury buttermilk bisquits that Mummy and Daddy...and that's it!! We've also tried serving his toddler food from our own plate...but nope, same thing, his mouth was closed so tight like a vault!

So this is a PLEA if you will, to help our poor tired little souls (well, basically give Chhimi some other ideas!), SEND or COMMENT your Toddler Friendly recipes...and PRONTO! Mummy is expecting each of our faithful readers (what? the whole 5 of you out there?!) to help us out! We need something that a one-year would like...and high in iron content and stay away from processed food. If no recipes, at least tell us how you guys think we can sneak in more veggies and fruits into our darling son's diet!! ...or just sneak food inito his diet period!