What Marlowe Eats: Meal Ideas For Feeding A Plant-Based Kid

Hi friends! How are you? Thankful it’s friday? I am. This weekend is Marlowe’s birthday weekend. Not sure how it snuck up so quickly! Marlowe’s diet has been discussed over and over again this week. I know I mentioned it (maybe three times now) that I might be changing my diet up a bit– but it looks like we might be slightly tweaking everyone’s around here. We’ve been doing it in a very slow process though. I don’t know, I’m still trying to figure it all out. I’m hoping to get a full post up about the plans soon. Or the idea maybe— since we might not go full force. Again, I’m always confused and super back and forth in life. It’s just in my nature maybe. But for Marlowe, I think the biggest difference in her diet is we’ve cut out grains more and more. Lately we’ve added a bit of rice back into our lives, but we’re massively lowered Marlowe’s gluten intake. Bread or some sort of pasta used to be an almost daily event in this home. Now it’s only a tiny bit every few days for miss Marlowe. Now she’ll have brown rice pasta maybe once every other week, but we don’t eat a whole ton of pasta over here anymore. I mean, I def. don’t think gluten is the devil, like a lot of gluten-free people think. I just believe that it doesn’t add a whole lot to your health, so there is no need to eat it often. After cutting out gluten for so long for myself, I can see the benefits in avoiding or minimizing it and I can feel the very notable difference in my body when I do eat it now. Nothing drastic, but slight shifts that I prefer not to have. Anyway, this week Alex and I have plans to sit down with Marlowe– and I guess— menu plan? Dinner is super easy for us, and lunches at home are too. We haven’t had a shortage of school lunches, but for someone like me, I’m always thinking (and over-thinking) on how to improve things. And if we can improve her school lunch or make the mornings easier, even just a tad, then I’m happy.Also, I always think this, but I don’t know if I’ve ever written it, but dinners for Marlowe and I look very different than dinners I would actually serve friends, haha. They’re so lax– such a hodge-podge. I usually tell her to pick a veg, pick a base, and a protein and we somehow throw it together 😉

Alright, this week has not been a super successful sleeping week for me. Dreams of the end of the world and hooking up with ex-boyfriends who magically have rainbow hair in my dreams (same thing). It’s been interesting. Hoping to sleep peacefully and disaster free tonight!

sprouted corn tortillas, more black beans, guac, cole slaw, and crispy baked okra (sharing the okra recipe on IG soon).

Marlowe had been asking for pizza for weeks. But we never did it– it’s been busy and it takes work to make pizza! And it’s not really “healthy” haha. But one late night when I had friends over we decided to get pizza. Marlowe woke up to pizza boxes in the kitchen and we woke up to a very loud “WHAT IS THIS”— I felt so bad! The for girl had been asking forever and then we had it behind her back when she was sleeping. I picked up a frozen vegan pizza and made it for her. #parenthood

At this point, I think we might start giving away all our eggs. She eats about one egg every two weeks. I haven’t in a few weeks. I dunno, we’ll see what happens. + cole slaw (still one of her favs), millet, + guac.

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