7 Easy Plant-Based Dinners For Your Toddler

  I know coming up with easy and nourishing plant-based dinners night after night for your toddlers can be so time-consuming and sometimes even stressful, so I thought I would share what my kids ate this week to hopefully make your life just a little easier.Us busy mamas have to help each other out.

Easy + Nourishing Toddler Dinners:

I have a few simple guidelines that I follow when creating my kid's Dinners;

• I need them to be super easy (normally under 30 minutes)
• I need them to be balanced. I follow my simple plant-based meal guideline for this and I make sure I tick off each of the four main groups. Download my Book for more information on this.)
• I need them to be Iron rich. I normally include at least 1-2 iron-rich foods in each main meal to ensure that both Georgia and Luca are meeting their daily iron needs.
• I need them to include a source of vitamin C. This helps with the absorption of iron and also normally offers a delicious starting point for my little cuties to start eating. Sometimes that’s the biggest battle of them all.

7 Easy Plant-Based Dinners For Your Toddler

1. Brown rice pasta with Matt Famous Tomato Sauce and cashew parm + broccoli + green Beans + The Cool Gardener kumara hash brown + avocado
2. Lentil Pasta with homemade pesto sauce + green beans + mango + kumara bites
3. Maple Tofu Bites + cheesy greens + peas + hummus with pita + avo
4. Five Veg Lasagne + strawberries + carrots + edamame + Tonzu vegan sausage
5. Green pancakes + vegan nuggets + edamame + mango + cheesy greens
6. Tomato Tofu Bites + potato wedges + soy berry yogurt with hemp hearts and peaches + green beans and peas
7. Peanut Butter noodles (soba noodles) with peanut butter tofu + capsicum + broccoli + edamame

My Plant-Based Family Book

Funny enough I ended up cooking from my book every night this week without even realising it. I think I’m just loving having a hardcover copy in my kitchen that I naturally just gravitate towards it each day when I start planning out their meals.If you would like to re-create each meal from above, you can get ALL the recipes to make these meals in my book ‘My Plant-Based Family. That includes;

• Matts famous tomato sauce
• Cashew Pram
• Cheesy Greens
• Easy Pesto Pasta
• Maple Tofu Bites
• Five Veg Lasagne
• Green Pancakes
• Tomato Tofu Bites
• Peanut Butter Noodles and Tofu

I hope this post is really helpful and makes your week just a little bit easier knowing you have some easy and nourishing plant-based dinners all sorted for your kids this week.If you would like to see this post on my Instagram so you can SAVE it for later then click here. Please let me know if you would like me to do this more often and I will.

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My Plant Based Family Weekly Food Shop: My Second You-tube video where I show you all the plant-based essentials I buy week for my family of four. Watch it here.My Top 14 Accessories for Your Toddlers Mealtime: I share my absolute favourite plates, bowls, spoons, drink bottles and more with you. Click here to read it. Have a beautiful day.Renee x