This is pretty much the breakfast Kate eats every single day.
Two pastured eggs scrambled or cooked over easy in plenty of grass-fed butter (usually raw; although I often use KerryGold). I add a couple of pinches of sea salt and freshly ground pepper.
It’s funny. At our last visit to the pediatrician, they asked me what I feed Kate. I told them proudly that she gets eggs for breakfast every morning. They said, “You probably only want to give her eggs once or twice a week.” I forgot that most people still believe in the lipid hypothesis, which of course has been debunked.
“I was surprised at how few scientists would defend this lipid hypothesis as the great answer to the questions of diet and health. Nevertheless, they move on because scientists don’t stop and come out and say, ‘You know, we were really all wrong about that.’” — Michael Pollan
I usually give her a banana as well. It’s often cooked in bacon or duck fat. I have also sauteed peach slices in butter, and apple slices in bacon fat.
Sometimes she also gets some raisins or pine nuts. Occasionally bacon or sausage (nitrate-free, from our local farmer). Sometimes I’ll fry an onion in butter or duck fat.
The key here is plenty of good saturated fat. Toddlers need a whopping SIX tablespoons of good fat a day (butter, cream, coconut oil, bacon, avocado, whole milk, etc.) That’s almost the equivalent of one stick of butter a day (a stick of butter is eight tablespoons).
I’m going to learn how to make custard as well as coconut flour pancakes so we can have something different every once in a while. Quiche is wonderful, too — but I need to learn how to make a crust with coconut flour.
Another great thing to make for breakfast is eggs with Hollandaise sauce. More butter and egg yolks!
Yogurt (with extra raw cream, for extra fat) and fruit is another yummy breakfast — but she’s too young to use a spoon yet. She just plays with it but she doesn’t actually feed herself. We’ll wait ’till she’s a little older. We’ll also do soaked oatmeal (with butter and cream) and buckwheat pancakes and sprouted flour waffles (with butter and maple syrup).
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Hah! How funny about your pediatrician’s “advice” on eggs. I try to eat two eggs a day myself — usually boiled, since they’re so easy to take to work.
Post your recipe for coconut flour pancakes and quiche crust when you figure it out! I just got some Coco flour and am kind of at a loss as to what to do with it. I’m going to try the blueberry muffins soon.
We eat eggs for breakfast every morning also. Oliver loves eggs, I normally cook his with coconut oil and cheese. We eat them nice and runny, it’s the best way haha! Then he either gets some leftover veggies or fruit sauteed up in some butter.
Custard is really easy to make, we make it 1-2 times a month but I should do it more often
http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/005156cheesy_crustless_quiche.php
hi, i thought you might like this recipe i found recently that is a crustless quiche. it is loaded with cheese and sprinkled with bacon. i am sure you could mix up the ingredients if you wanted. this would be an option if you didn’t want to have a crust.
Hi,
I recently started moving my family towards eating fully WAP/traditional foods- we have always eaten whole/local/organic foods, but with lots of grains- and I love your blog! I especially love your posts about what Kate eats because I have an 18-month old.
However, my little one’s diet leaves A LOT to be desired…. she rejects eggs and raw milk and can be very picky. *sigh* I’m not giving up, though! She does like meat so I am trying to get the fats in that way. I would love to know more about feeding toddlers/young children (I also have a 5 year old)… I have not found much information for this age range.
mmmmm – hollandaise. my favorite!
Good for you for sticking to your guns with Kate’s meals/care! I’ve been a professional nanny for years, then a mama of three (my oldest is 19 – cripes!) and it has always saddened me how cowed so many parents are by EVERYBODY. Whether it’s well-meaning family or friends, pediatricians, stupid magazine articles/books, or the government (behind most of our ills, I believe), parents are bombarded with scary, stupid messages about the “right” things to do. People can barely access their instincts anymore, much less follow them! It’s always a pleasure to read your blog, needless to say!
Thanks Amanda, for that — I think I did see that before. I should try it.
Ceece,
With Kate I just keep feeding her the same foods over and over again. She always makes a face and acts like she doesn’t like new foods at first. Eventually she eats them.
In fact, if she doesn’t eat her dinner, I just put her to bed and I put the leftovers in Tupperware — then serve it to her again the next day.
The rule is a minimum of 7-8 times to get used to a new food.
Keep at it — it will pay off!
Janja, I am reading a great book right now called “Dumbing Us Down” by John Taylor Gatto.
It was written by a public school teacher and it’s all about how compulsory education teaches our children not to think for themselves and become dependent on others to tell them what to do.
A fascinating book — and it is making me lean more toward homeschooling for Kate. Still more research to do… we’ll see…
Ceece, could she have a food intolerance/allergy to eggs and/or milk? They’re both quite common allergens; she may be avoiding them because she doesn’t feel well when she eats them.
Sometimes small bodies are very wise in what they want to consume.
Ann Marie, have you read about unschooling at all? I’ve known several people who found that worked really well with their kids/lifestyles/values.
Carys –
That is a good point. A lot of times kids who are allergic act picky.
And I have been reading about unschooling… I am leaning toward that. But Seth will need some convincing…
i try to have 2 eggs a day as well, we get our eggs from a local grass fed source a few miles from us in the next town.
The eggs have a deep orange yolk when cracked open, people at the health food store that the eggs from this farm, along with the local raw milk literally flys off the shelf!
people really are starting to eat better.
Joe – I think you are right — it is changing!
How do you store your bacon fat? What are your other uses for it? Our family is allergic to dairy so I am trying to find ways to get saturated fat in my kids (5,2,1) diet without any dairy sources…very hard.
I take care of my friend’s almost 3 year old who is I think lacking in fats. As an Italian, I’m always about “eating” so, lately, I’m making her “Breakfast Pasta” which consists of organic alphabet pasta with fresh healthy eggs and lots of high quality butter and milk Oh, I never forget the imported Italian fresh parmasean cheese! She chants, “yummy for my tummy” while she’s shoving it in her mouth. And we even get to spell.
Quiche is quite lovely without any crust at all.
That girl can sure put the food away! lol! And for me, I have got to try a banana fried in duck fat for breakfast! I bet it’s delish!
Mmmm eggs, nummy! I buy a dozen eggs a week and usually are gone by Wednesday! I use them for breakfast, to make baked goods, in my favorite mexican chocolate chile pudding, and just simple hard-boiled eggs for snacks. The perfect food!
My husband and I are trying to have a baby. I think about all I have learned nutrition-wise in the last year and how I plan to do things the not-so-conventional way, and how I know I’ll get comments from family and physicians. I’m ok with that, because the important thing will be that I know I am giving my child the best nutrition possible.
Question for you: If for some reason I can’t breast-feed, what do you recommend giving a baby as a substitute. Raw cows or goat’s milk?
Vanessa