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Continuing on with Ben's meals for June 13th to 19th...

13 June
Breakfast - Cornflakes
Lunch - Some of my choc cake
Dinner - Alphabet spaghetti with cream sauce
Supper - 4 piece of crackers

14 June
Breakfast - Oats, grapes, cornflakes, vitagen
Lunch - 2 egg tarts
Tea - A small slice of pandan chiffon roll cake
Dinner - Rice 1 bowl, chicken, eggs
Supper - Strawberry milk

15 June
Breakfast - Oats, grapes, cornflakes, vitagen
Lunch - 2 slice of cheese, yogurt, 1 bowl of chicken rice
Tea - 1 egg tart, crackers
Dinner - Rice, steamed egg
Supper - Crackers, a cup of soy milk

16 June
Breakfast - Oats, grapes, cornflakes, vitagen
Lunch - Pastry puff with kaya n butter
Tea - Crackers
Dinner - Rice with fried chicken, a Wondermilk cupcake
Supper - papaya

17 June
Breakfast - Oats, cornflakes, soy milk
Lunch - My fried noodle & egg, Vitagen, soymilk, choc crackers
Dinner - Oats, cornflakes, papaya
Supper - a Wondermilk cupcake

18 June
Breakfast - Half portion of Alphabet pasta with cheese, half cheese omelette, Vitagen
Lunch - half char siew pork bun, apple juice diluted
Dinner - A bowl of rice with soup and carrots slices

19 June
Breakfast - Cheese omelette
Lunch - A slice of roll cake, some rice with soup and carrots slices
Tea - Alphabet pasta with cream sauce, a Vitagen
Dinner - Chicken claypot rice and soup, Konnyaku jelly

And here are some of the pictures taken on Ben's meals for the week (yeah, I'm getting lazier again... whoopss..)

I cut 2 slices of pastry puffs into 4 squares each, dab on some kaya and butter and baked them for 10 minutes. Ben finished it!

Diluted Ribena with rice and chicken (cooked by my MIL)

Ben having his 1st Wondermilk cupcake! Yumyum!

Ben's typical and favorite breakfast! Organic oats topped with cornflakes!

I fried some noodles and an egg. Ben loved it too!

Continuing on with Ben's meals for June 06th to 12th...

6th June 2011 - Breakfast: Organic Oats (10 tsp) each spoon topped with cereals, 1 bottle of Vitagen

6th June 2011 - Lunch: 1 slice Cheddar cheese, Mango slices, A bowl of egg mayo (mashed corns, carrots, peas)

6th June 2011 - Dinner: Spaghetti bolognaise (few bites only), then he whacked my burger bread :( (picture inset)

7th June 2011 - Breakfast: Organic Oats (10 tsp), grapes, 1 bottle of Vitagen

7th June 2011 -  Lunch: Egg mayo, Corns, peas & carrots, 1 fried fish fillet

7th June 2011 -  Dinner: Cheese Omelette with Cauliflower and cooked fish (minced)

8th June 2011 - Breakfast: Fried noodle, 1 stalk of asparagus, a glass of diluted Ribena

** Ben ate only few bites of the fried noodle, decided to make backup breakfast 8th June 2011 - Breakfast - backup: Organic Oats (10 tsp) with 1 banana

8th June 2011 - Lunch: 1 apple cut into bite size, Egg mayo (Ben didn't eat), 1 bottle of Vitagen, 1 pack of veggie crackers

** No picture: 8th June 2011 - Dinner: ABC soup drenched on Rice (about 5tsp), few bites of fried chicken, 1 tube of Japanese tofu.

9th June 2011 - Breakfast: A cup of soya,1 vege fish fillet (cut up), 1 slice of bread (toasted & cut into 4), 1 cheese omelette

9th June 2011 - Lunch: Fruit Salads (consists of grapes, 1 banana, 1 apple)

9th June 2011 - Dinner: Forgot to take pic 5 oz of sliced carrots (from ABC soup), 1 tube of Japanese tofu again, 1 oz of potato

10th June 2011 - Breakfast: Ben woke at 8am, hubby made cheese omelette while I slept on...	10th June 2011 - Lunch: Grape Yogurt, Tons of grapes, peeled & deseeded.
10th June 2011 - Tea Time: Ben actually whacked 1 and a half of this char siew pork buns!	10th June 2011 - Dinner: A cup of diluted Ribena, half tube of Japanese tofu, 1 pc of chicken, 5 tsp of rice, half slice peanut butter choc bread

11th June 2011 - Breakfast: Pancakes!

11th June 2011 - Lunch: 1 char siew pork buns

11th June 2011 - Dinner: 1 boiled egg, chicken & potato, rice, a cup of diluted Ribena

** No picture: 12th June 2011 -Ben had some Cornflakes cereal for breakfast (after rejecting BOTH my pancake & organic oats backup meal), then had some of my chocolate cake for his lunch. For dinner, he had 1 char siew pork bun with some lotus soup (and some lotus slices) and 1/3 slice of cold cuts (ham)

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I really need to buckle up and be more creative with Ben's meal planning. Ever since I got pregnant, I realised I've been slacking off and after discussions with hubby, we decided to work together to plan proper meals for Ben - as in sneaking in more veggies into his meals and making sure he's eating more variety of foods compared to his usual oats and noodle stuff.

I have yet to go for our next grocery shop, so for now, I have to make do with what we have on hand. I'm writing this post out to remind myself not to ever slack off with Ben's meals and to be serious with what goes into him as well.

I will try to snap pictures whenever I can (you might noticed pictures of tea time and dinner missing for these few days whooppsss..) of what I'm feeding him from this month onwards so that I can have a daily reminder of this. And also, you may noticed there's no veggies in Ben's meals too.. sigh.. my fault, my fault... when Ben started solids at 6 months old, I am all about home made puree of fruits and veggies and all... but after he turned 1 year old, I have not been disciplined enough to keep it up. I am not a veggie person and I think that's why Ben's meals nowadays doesn't have veggies in it too.

So with this toddler meals planning and documenting, I want to tell and remind myself to be disciplined and consistent in including veggies as well as providing nutritious foor for Ben from now on. So, hopefully after our grocery shopping you will be able to see more meal pictures with veggies in it.

1st June 2011 - Breakfast: Cheese omelette, 2 baked fish fingers (cut into cubes, each cube top with mini slices of cheese),dipping sauce (tomato & mayo), a bottle of Vitagen

2nd June 2011 - Breakfast: Banana Milk Smoothies with Banana Organic Oats (10-11 tsps of oats cooked for about 2mins)	2nd June 2011 - Lunch: Pancake (5 tbsp wheat flour, 2 eggs, pinch of salt), Konnyaku jelly, a bottle of Vitagen.
3rd June 2011 - Breakfast: Fried Kuey Teow with Egg, a cup of diluted Ribena	3rd June 2011 - Lunch: 1 Banana (sliced), 1 Cheddar cheese (sliced), Konnyaku jelly.

4th June 2011 - Breakfast: 2 pcs of Vienna sausages, 3/4 Cheddar cheese mix with 1 scrambled egg. (* Ben was so attracted to the 'octopus' sausages hahaha...)

4th June 2011 - Tea: 2 hard boiled eggs with mayo dip (Ben ate 1 egg only)

4th June 2011 - Dinner: Of course NOT the whole pot! Ben had some fishballs & tofu from the steambot pot. (*We had a birthday party for Ben's cousin Isaac.)

5th June 2011 - Breakfast: Organic Oats (10 tsp) mixed with 1oz of carrot, each spoonful topped with some cereals, 1 bottle of Vitagen

5th June 2011 - Dinner: Prepared by hubby. A bowl of egg mayo (with mashed corns, carrots, peas), few bites of fish fillets. The rest goes to mummy...

I am continuosly looking for more choices (if possible easy and fast to make or those I can prepare the night before) as I need to start planning and timing all this before Spicy Baby comes along in September. I need to consider that maybe during the 1st month after delivery that I am still exhausted (recuperating from labor and also settling down with Spicy Baby) and other people (such as hubby and my MIL) will need to take over my roles in feeding Ben during that time.

So I hope to be able to post up pictures of Ben's meals as we go along from this month onwards to serve as a guide and reminder.

Thank you for reading and if you have any websites on toddler's recipe, do share it with me!

Current websites recommended and those I found: http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Kids-Recipes, http://blog.superhealthykids.com/menu-archives/, http://weelicious.com/category/toddler-bites/, http://babychaser.blogspot.com/search/label/Toddler%20Menus