NUTRIENT-PACKED BIG KID SALAD
Recipe from Ellen Fisher
This recipe is vegan
Ingredients:
1 small avocado, mashed
3-5 tender lettuce leaves, diced
(like romaine, red leaf, or green leaf lettuce)
1/4 c. cucumber, diced
1 small tomato, diced
1-2 Tbsp lime juice OR sauerkraut
2 Tbsp hemp seeds
2 Tbsp sea veggie dulse (optional)
Directions:
Mash the avocado into guacamole texture. Then dice the lettuce leaves into small pieces. And if your baby is just starting out on chewing greens, finely dicing the lettuce leaves into super small confetti size pieces will be really helpful. Mix all the ingredients together into a small bowl until well combined and the avocado is coated evenly among the vegetables. Feel free to mix up the recipe based on what veggies your child or toddler prefers!
T I P: If your child is just learning to enjoy chewing greens, or if your child is a very young toddler, start out with adding just one small lettuce leaf to the salad. The dish ends up being mainly guacamole with a little lettuce. Then, as your child grows and enjoys the mixture, work your way up to slowly adding more and more greens until it becomes a full kid-sized salad that he or she begs for every day!
A NOTE ABOUT DULSE: Dulse is a great source of iodine. But it can be an acquired taste, so if your child does not enjoy the raw flavor of it in salads, consider trying other sea veggies or adding dulse into soups or other cooked dishes that make sea veggies palatable and enjoyable for them.