The Good, the Bad, and the Scrum-diddly-umptious

This is Jax. He's 14 months old. He eats like a 10 year old.

Partly because he eats so much, I have a complex about giving him the processed, nil nutrition, completely artificial, "toddler snacks." I MUCH prefer to make all his food. However, it's quite exhausting spending so much time going through recipe after recipe and trying to find things that he likes. So I guess this post is devoted to those other moms who like to make food for their toddlers...

I love to cook. I'd love to cook even more if I had a dishwasher... Slowly but surely I've been adding recipes to my repertoire, mostly through trial in error. I go through cooking phases, for example right now I love to cook anything from Pioneer Woman  because everything I've cooked from her has been stellar. However recently I've been trying to cook more for Jax so I've been going through recipes from Weelicious. The thing is, so far the recipes from Weelicious have been either total hits or total misses, without anything in between. One of my friends has the cookbook and has been having the same issues, so we make sure to share the good ones and ones to avoid in an effort to cut out the bad trial in errors. That's kind of what I'm going to post about today. Here's my hits and misses!

1) Animal Crackers - AWESOME!
Yes I realize the picture below has star-shaped cookies, not animal shapes, but that's the smallest cookie cutter I had. These are so good though! We demolished a whole recipe in like two days. The good thing is, they're not too sweet, but sweet enough. And they're incredibly addicting. But they're the perfect "sweet" snack for toddlers, and Jax loved them.

2) Chocolate Zucchini Bread - Not so awesome...

My mom has a killer chocolate zucchini bread recipe but I really wanted to try this one because it's part whole wheat. Not great. It's way bitter and only like an inch tall. However, after making it I read the comments, and all of them were recommending to add a bunch of sugar and chocolate chips, which I just really don't want to add for Jax. I'll stick to the zucchini muffins.

3) Zucchini muffins - AWESOME!

I am always trying to find a way to get more veggies into Jax and this muffin recipe is a great solution.

4) Parmesan Zucchini Cakes - AWESOME!

Another great veggie alternative. All of us loved these.

5) Veggie Pancakes - Yuck.

Yup, that's all I have to say about them.

6) Sweet Potato Muffins - Meh.

Yup, that's all I have to say about them. 

7) Apple Banana Muffins - AWESOME!

These have now replaced my previously awesome banana muffin recipe.

8) Carrot Snack Sticks - Pretty good.

We actually really liked these, especially because of all the grated carrot in them!

These are the ones off the top of my head that I experimented with. I'm really grateful for the ones that came out good, more healthy snacks for Jax to choose from! Hope this helps those looking for healthy snack food for your family!

Emily