Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Feeding My Family: An Introduction


I've been planning this series for a few months, and I'm so excited to finally share it with you guys!


Feeding a family of six has definitely been a learning experience for me, and as the kids get older, it will continue to be a challenge.  Transistioning Henry and Tucker to table foods was a huge game-changer for our family, and um, three teenage boys?  I need to find a part-time job, like now.  All of this is just to say that as our family grows and changes, our meals and my approach to the meals will be evolving as well.



I plan on covering a pretty wide array of topics, and here is what I have so far on the docket:

Feeding Babies and Toddlers
Breakfasts
Lunches
Snacks
Weeknight Meals - planning, prep, and execution
Meal Planning
Feeding Picky Eaters
Grocery Shopping and Budgeting
Getting Your Kids Involved in the Kitchen
CSA's and Farmer's Markets

If you have any other suggestions or ideas of topics that you'd like to see, please leave them in the comments!  And of course any specific questions are welcome too, and I'll try and address them in the appropriate post.


Whether you are feeding a large family, just yourself, or anywhere in between, I hope this series will be helpful to you.  I am certainly no expert, and I definitely don't hold myself up as the standard of perfection.  I make mistakes.  I'm still learning, and this is just what works for my family.  Like I said, it's an ever-changing landscape and will be that way as long as these kids live under our roof.

My hope is that this will be a good resource for those of you in a similar season of your life, and that we can all learn as we go.  My personal goal is to have mealtime be a relaxing and happy time for everyone involved.  No battles, no stress.  Just happiness and togetherness.

Happy eating!


18 comments:

Josie said...

I'm very excited for this entire series!!

Josie said...

Yay! This is awesome. I'm so excited for this series. Even though I dont' have kids NOW, I do plan on it in the near future...and I need all the tips I can get!

Josie said...

I love series and even though I don't have kids yet, I know I will some day need these post, until then I am excited about reading them and storing away the knowledge!

Josie said...

This is great! I love feeding my tiny family of 3 nutritious meals but even find that to be a struggle sometimes. Easy, quick dinners are always on my radar as we have 1/2 hour from the time I get home to the time dinner has to be on the table. Yikes!

Josie said...

This is great! I have a six month old, so she is just starting solid foods. I look forward to hearing your ideas about meal planning for babies and toddlers and the ways in which you make weeknight dinners work. My husband and I generally don't get to cook/eat until almost 10 p.m., but I know that isn't going to work if we want to be able to have mealtime as a family, as she grows up.

Josie said...

Josie! This is going to be so fun for me to read! :) Thanks for having the idea. I have a 1 year old and aspire to having 4 children one day, but I'm already very aware of how crazy that is going to get! I've started using my freezer more as a tool to quick meals - it seems like you do too, so tips on that or recipes you like to freeze all or parts of would be great! Though I'm sure that topic will be weaved in anyway. Xo Jessamyn

Josie said...

Great series. Can't wait to read them. Feeding three boys now at the preschool age is hard and the thought of them being teenagers just scares me to death

Josie said...

What a great idea! I can't wait to read more.

Josie said...

What a great idea for a series! I can't wait to follow it. One thing I'd love to see is lunch ideas. School lunches and casual weekend lunches that possibly add a little variety to the standard lunches many fall in to on the weekend.

Josie said...

Yay I'm happy for this wonderful series, I need the help!!!

Josie said...

I'm so excited you're doing a series on this! I have a 6 month old who is just now eating any food and while it's so fun to prepare things we can all eat, it's also sometimes a bit overwhelming. Looking forward to each of the topics you shared!

Josie said...

Definitely! I may actually split it up into 2 posts and do one on school lunches and one for family lunches. Great idea!

Josie said...

Oh me too. And Caroline eats a TON, so I'm pretty much screwed, haha.

Josie said...

Yes! Like you said, i use my freezer more as a tool to quick meals vs having freezer meals in there - ingredients that make it easy to throw something great together on the fly! Maybe I'll add a freezer post too - thanks for the suggestion!

Josie said...

Weeknights are really tough - especially for working parents! I'll definitely do a post about eating together as a family. Thanks for the suggestion, and thanks for reading!

Josie said...

I can't wait to see the next installment on this!

Josie said...

I unintentionally took a little break from this series, but I have a new post lined up for next week! :)

Josie said...

That's great news! I cannot wait!

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