Have you noticed I stopped including the times? I decided that it didn’t really matter for the blog when Malina was eating, though I do keep track in case of allergic reactions, and decided to drop it. Plus, our schedule is all over the place, especially recently. Malina used to sleep until 7:30 or 8. Now she wakes up closer to 6. That can impact the whole morning and, if I let it, the whole day. I like schedules. She likes schedules. Messed up schedules make both of us cranky.
Today was an off schedule day but we still did our morning ritual and then started Malina’s breakfast.
Broccolini with nutritional yeast, orange slices, and mozzarella cheese sticks (commonly referred to as “strong cheese”).
Protein is great, I’m a big meat eater, but every meal does not have to have protein in it. That being said, every meal also doesn’t need carbs or fruits, or vegetables. I personally try to have one vegetable or fruit with every meal and then build from there. Since I’m focusing on dairy this week I wanted to do cheese at least once and so went for mozzarella.
Now, back to breakfast.
Malina, as you can see in the above picture, went for the broccolini right away. I’d steamed it and then brushed the florets in olive oil and then nutritional yeast. I got the recipe from one of my BLW cookbooks and was pleasantly surprised by the flavor of the nutritional yeast and what it added to the broccolini. Malina was equally impressed as she ate most of it off the broccolini and then continued to eat the florets off the stocks. Someone likes broccolini, I hope that translates to broccoli as well.
When she was done with the broccolini, Malina moved on to the mozzarella. She gummed on it for a while, mostly because she’s teething, and seemed to like it.
I don’t think she actually bit off any of the cheese, but she did enjoy chewing on it. So I say she liked it at least. I’ll have to try introducing it again some time.
Next and last was the orange slices. I’m not sure on the etiquette for slicing an orange for BLW, but I figured we wanted less pulp and less of the fibers that hold the slices together. so I peeled the orange, separated the slices, cut off the inner firm piece, and then cut off the outer pulpy flesh. All that work was worth it for peace of mind. Too bad Malina did not like the orange.
Yeah, probably not doing oranges again for a few weeks. She did not like it at all. Bright side was our dog loves oranges and was happy to take her discarded slices.
So, at the end of the day Malina likes the broccolini, mozzarella, and nutritional yeast. She did not like the oranges, but that just means I’ll have to try offering them again later and probably find another way of presenting them. Like muffins. Muffins are good.
So as always, you are doing great and you’ve got this!
-Erica
Malina’s BLW Food Adventures 