Day 4 – Breakfast

Meal prep is one of those things that when you do consistently it becomes easier to remember to do it. If I did it consistently I’d probably feel like it got easier and faster too. Guess who didn’t do meal prep for today?

Me.

And it would have been easy. I just needed hard boiled eggs and cut up sweet potato. On that note, how many different sweet potatoes are there? I grew up with the orange kind, later fell in love with the purple Japanese kind, and now I’ve discovered this flaky white flesh kind. For a second though, I was worried I’d grabbed something completely different. Like maybe this was a yam or other strange tuber. Nope, just a white sweet potato.

Luckily, I woke up before Malina and was able to get everything done while she slept some more.

By the way, today was my first day doing breakfast without any help or assistance from Eric. Today he got up to go in to work at 5am and as a result was gone before either of us woke up. It’s nice to have him around for help with the cooking, prepping, and just having an extra set of eyes, ears, and hands for Malina. Plus, I kinda really love the guy ❤

So, hard boiled eggs were done. Baked sweet potatoes wedges were done. All I had to do was smash some frozen blueberries after I let them defrost. which I set up and then went to wake up Malina and start her morning.

By the time we got back to our food, the sweet potatoes were just a bit warm and the eggs were now cold from the fridge. I peeled one up for us to share and split everything between our plates.

If anyone knows how to hard boil an egg that makes it easy to peel I’d be eternally grateful. I’ve tried vinegar in the water, tried baking soda in the water, and I’ve tried using cold water with the eggs sitting in it as it heats up to boiling. Either I’m doing something completely wrong or there is no such thing as an easy to peel egg.

Malina has already gotten used to breakfast being a part of our routine in the morning. She gets excited and starts reaching for the plate before I can suction it down on her tray.

So it is no surprise that once the food is in reach she snatched up a handful. Grabbing the sweet potato sticks first. However, she did not seem thrilled with the texture once it made its way to her mouth.

She did keep trying with the sweet potato and inevitably ate a few small bites of it.

She went for the eggs next, probably because the blueberries are on the small side and harder to put in her mouth. Malina got a good amount of yolk in her mouth right away and had mixed feelings about it. The worst for her was probably when it melted into a paste in her mouth.

She hated the egg white though and did not eat it after feeling the texture in her mouth.

Towards the end of our 20 minutes, Malina finally got a good grab of the blue berries and was able to get one in her mouth. I was so excited for her. The frozen blueberries were sweet and juicy now that they had defrosted.

Instead, Malina’s reaction was disgust. She definitely had to swallow some of the blueberries juices but the berry itself found itself on her smock.

So for day four we’ve had Malina successfully eat sweet potato as a new food. I’ll have to try blueberries again sometime since she did not swallow any of it. As for the eggs, I’m planning on making avocado egg salad for breakfast tomorrow, but I’ll probably go back to the fried egg since that did the best for the rest of her egg introduction this week.

Even when things don’t go according to plan just remember that you are doing great and you’ve got this!

– Erica

Side note: pictures for today were also done by me since Eric wasn’t home and they were also done on my phone instead of our nice camera. Mama did not have time to deal with that. It’s also why this post is up so early. Eric takes a lot of pictures and weeds through them before sending them to me. Then I pick only a few from what he gives me. I don’t take as many pictures, this can be a bad thing or a good thing depending on the situation, and as a result I just use what I think is best from what I have. So sorry if the quality is not up to par.