Paleo baby diet

Our son is picky. He simply refuses to eat any gluten, legumes, corn, soy, processed food or sugar. So, we make him other things. All kidding aside, our diet is filled with wonderful foods that any child can eat (as long as they are allergy free, of course). I have a lot of people look at me like I must be starving because we don't eat processed foods or like I restrict everything and must have a very sad diet. I wanted to share a few of the daily things we eat. 

Breakfasts:

Every morning we eat eggs. Been doing this for 8 months now. Nope, not tired of them yet! Why eggs? Why not..they are the best thing you can feed yourself and your child. Eggs are filled with lutein and zeaxanthin which help your eyes from macular degeneration, cataracts and other problems. They are amazing for your brain as well. The choline in eggs is huge for baby brain development. While I was pregnant I took a choline supplement after reading articles about how rats on a choline supplemented diet showed dramatic processing, storage and retrieval improvements over the non-supplemented rats. This was a lifetime improvement based of the diet of the mother. That is worth eating a few eggs.  Check out these studies on how it is not made in human body but is a newly discovered essential nutrient. Essential nutrient study, a study on how eating choline while pregnant lowers an infant's risk of stress related illness and finally a study on why bacon and eggs are good for you. 

Lunch: 

Alton is pretty easy going about lunch. We sometimes puree a bit of food just for ease of feeding or traveling but he is pretty much all solids and has been since 9 months old. He eats what I eat, minus salad. I made a bbq salad for lunch and he had the chopped steak, onions, tomato, carrots and bbq sauce. The sauce was a farmer's market blend made with no corn syrup or corn vinegar and used apple cider vinegar instead. Just the way we like it :)

Supper:

Just like lunch, Alton hangs with his folks and eats at the big kids table. This makes like sooo much easier. Who wants to be a short order cook? Here Alton is eating one of my delicious soft tacos made with almond flour. We have cooked onions, peppers, tequila marinated flank steak, avocado and lettuce inside. He was in heaven. Thank goodness he is an adventurous eater. I truly to blame the processed food industry on all of the picky eaters out there. When food is engineered to be the best flavor you can scientifically create and is designed to trick your palate into craving more, who would want silly old nature? It is understandable why kids chose crackers and chips over apples and peaches. Besides, peaches require effort and our whole society has trained us to think that requiring effort is a bad thing. 

Snacks: Alton is really limited by the traditional kid's diet of what he can snack on. Thankfully we don't feed him the traditional kid diet! He has a love affair with raisins that is precious. He squirrels them away in his cheeks like he is saving them for winter. He will eat handfuls of raisins, chopped dates, chopped figs, fruit, etc all day long. 

As far as fruit goes, hand him an apple and watch him work! He loves grabbing apples and just helping himself to a disaster. He does the same for ripe peaches as well. Now that we know that the skin bothers him, we peel it and problem solved. I like to core the apples, slice into layers and eat it with almond butter. For my own apples, I throw in a layer of Justin's chocolate hazelnut butter.