The Food Journal Begins

Through February and March 2010 Toby began to eat more and more different foods, and I had to keep finding ways to keep up with his appetite.

It was here I (re-)discovered tofu.

My mom always made stir-fries with it, but those were usually the dinners that I loaded up on pasta, and then three carrot chunks from the fry pan.
I eventually didn't mind tofu much, but mostly because my mom cut it in tiny cubes, marinated it in soy sauce before hand and then cooked the heck out of it. I've seen Asian soups where there's a two inch square chunk of steamed tofu in it, and that I can't handle.

Toby and I were still watching what we ate, plus meat is really expensive, so I was looking in to a lot of vegan alternatives and how to get more protein in out diet. Tofu was up on the list, along with other soy products, so I figured, why not.

I found a fantastic herbed tofu. President's Choice Blue Menu. It's so good... a lot of flavour... and I still cook it to death in soy sauce.

Toby LOVED it. He ate it with more enthusiasm than I'd seen him eat anything. And then wanted more. Twice.






My not-quite one-and-a-half-year-old loves tofu.
My mom walked by us after a few of these meals and asked if I'd gotten a picture.
I took one.
My mom said I bet no one believes he eats this sort of thing.
I said not really, but other people have said their kids like tofu too.
and my mom said 'with black olives??? And red pepper???'

You have a point.




















And so I started taking pictures of all the things  we were eating and posting them to facebook, as many of you are aware.
And then the challenge began to grow.... is there anything my kid WON'T eat?? How AWESOME can I make these meals??

Slowly but surely I'm going to post it all here....

Keep eating!.. I mean reading!!....or both...