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It is getting cool-er in South Florida (ahem, sorry northerners), and when the temps dip below 75 degrees you know what that means….soup! I am a huge fan of nourishing broths and my favorite, butternut squash soup. I love the warmth in my tummy, and the ease of making them in the crock pot. The scents wafting through the air all morning lure me to the kitchen for a healthy lunch or early dinner.
Since I started a new autoimmune healing diet things have been rough. No sugar or carbs for the first two days left me dazed, dizzy and confused. But the second week was a little easier, and I’m starting to get the hang of eating more whole foods. I’m hoping to now encourage my children to follow in my footsteps, and try their one new food happily this week. Our littlest one takes after her mama and loves soup too! Chicken soup is her favorite, but she’ll eat just about any type I cook up….as you can see. She also loves to ham it up for the camera.
Her big sister wasn’t thrilled, and that’s putting it mildly. I won’t show the full frontals, but you get the gist of how completely distraught she was over soup for dinner. Can you say one new food fail?
I base my broth from the Nourishing Traditions cookbook, which I highly recommend if you are starting a whole foods journey. But it’s just basically chicken, water, carrots, celery, onion, a bay leaf or two, and a couple bouillon cubes. But I assure you it’s delicious homemade chicken soup, despite Lila’s reluctance to try it.
ONE NEW FOOD GIVEAWAY WINNER
This week we were lucky enough to receive a NutriBullet to giveaway to one lucky #OneNewFood recipient. Congratulations to Allyson Tice! Check out what her kids tried this week….olives!
#onenewfood Corn and olives! New foods and they love them! pic.twitter.com/vEgUjC6xxB
— Allyson Tice (@sunflower101398) November 13, 2014
Thanks to all the other participants, and stay tuned because we have more great prizes coming up next week! And thank you so much to Nutribullet for supporting #OneNewFood!
DON’T GIVE UP!
I know things are starting to get nutty with the holidays lurking around the corner. We all have work, and school events, and holiday shopping and …and who has time to try one new food right? WRONG! All it takes is a couple minutes on a Sunday afternoon to prep a new snack or try a new breakfast. The sky is the limit for a healthier whole foods snack! (And with all the sugar being shoved down our throats in the next few weeks, God knows we need a little healthy to balance it all out!)
I love soup too. It’s the ultimate comfort food. We had chicken stew last night. It’s similar to the soup, but I include potatoes, thicken it with flour (or corn starch) and add my favorite part… homemade dumplings. Yum.
Isn’t it funny how one kid will try it and the other won’t have anything to do with it?
I love homemade soup because canned soup is so horrible! I feel robbed by that.
My little one loves soup and will happily eat it. Scarlet pretty much feels like the above photo!
Homemade chicken noodle soup is one of our favorites! Maybe your daughter will warm up to it? I am sorry I missed this week, we did however have a lot of homemade soup wit hour house full of sick people!
I think Lila and Jack would get along. Jack cries when he even smells a new food. :-/ And it’s crazy because Claire will try almost anything!!
Sigh…looks like they would be food BFF’s!
I love homemade soup! I like that you put macaroni in it – because kids LIKE macaroni – but then the pic of big sister… now that just says it all doesn’t it?
Thanks for sharing.
xoxo
Soup is so delicious! Especially right now since it is getting colder… for real (I’m in the Northeast haha). It’s funny how kids can be so different. Also, sometimes it’s just the time of year or time of day when they decide to be picky I think. My son, who eats most anything, will sometimes have moments where he is not into a certain food that he previous really liked the other day. Oh well. I think it’s best not to make a big deal out of it and keep offering it. I think eventually they’ll try it and like it.