Hellobee Boards

how about quesadillas? They could have beans and other veggies in them (sweet potato and black beans are good!)

Avocados

Nut butter or hummus on a tortilla with spinach

Tofu & beans are the two proteins that come to mind. Not all beans cause gas. Garbanzo beans are a good one to start with

https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-baked-tofu-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-74358

First recipe is for quinoa broccoli bites.
http://www.hellobee.com/2013/11/12/our-favorite-recipes-baby-led-weaning/

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.foodandwine.com/recipes/oven-roasted-old-bay-chickpeas

We aren't vegan, but we are mostly dairy free, so these are some things my kids like. Even with BLW, you can help your kids eat runny foods with a spoon. I mean, if it's a spoonable food, just spoon feed them.

My kids like lentils--like Dahl style. Not spicey, but spiced.

They also like lentils mixed with green beans. They like to snack on baked chickpeas, and they love dipping things in hummus. But we do dip some "processed" things, like the baked peas from Trader Joe, or Plantain chips, but also sometimes carrot stick. My kids love rice and beans, and rice and beans together. They only drink milk alternatives, so we buy almond milk/coconut milk for drinking/cooking/baking.

Both of my kids like the Trader Joe quinoa with squash frozen side and it's dairy free so I assume it's vegan. Oatmeal balls, as PPs mentioned.

My kids LOVE paleo pumpkin pancakes with real maple syrup--I make those with almond flour and almond milk and they are so good! There are a lot of recipes online. The only like them if I make them tiny mini size pancakes. Otherwise, it's too spongy.

They also really like "taco soup", although I make their's very mild and you can easily do it meatless or with that meat substitute that looks like crumbled hamburger. It's just frozen corn, black beans, pinto beans, kidney beans, tomato paste, and then if you are doing all--natural, you'd have to make homemade taco seasoning and homemade paleo (dairy free) "ranch" seasoning, and have that on hand. We eat this 1x a week in winter and the kids looove it.

And then of course, my kids love a lot of vegetables and fruits.

We do eat chicken/seafood/cheese in our house (well, I don't eat cheese, but the kids eat cheese), so most of our meals

Oh, also, if you want a break from just eggs try the two ingredient banana pancakes - my son would gobble them up: https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-2-ingredient-banana-pancakes-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-218658

Re: spoon feeding - when DS was younger, I would load the spoon for him and put it back on the table. he would pick it up and bring it to his mouth on his own. It’s messy but now at 26 months, he’s awesome with silverware.

I just read an interesting article on NPR about Ripple. We're going to try it out the next time I go to the store! Since we are dairy-free, I make a lot of bread-items with alternative milk/butter. Then I spread peanut butter all over it

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/01/19/578880390/a-peas-offering-for-the-dairy-aisle-can-this-milk-alternative-rival-the-real-dea

And sometimes when my toddler is being extra picky, I make these cookies with whole oats: https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/easy-peanut-butter-oatmeal-cookies. You could probably swap out the sugar if you wanted.

@jennlin821: chiming in to say that my 9 month old eats oatmeal with his hands. It's messy but he loves it and refuses to allow me to spoon feed him. He has also eaten rice with his fingers. We've given him black beans, no issues!

You can grind quinoa and mix it in with oat flour or regular flour for pancakes+ coconut milk.

I have made quinoa casseroles which my toddler loved. The most popular flavour was veggie pasta sauce and cheese (but that can be omitted). Makes the quinoa sticky and easy to scoop with a spoon for self-feeding. Or with hands (my daycare toddler exclusively used hands for a few months and I made this weekly. Freezes well too)

My 2 year old loves cashews. She thinks they’re a candy basically. At that age I would sort of crumble them a bit before I gave them to her. I make a cashew/nutritional yeast “Parmesan” in the blender and she eats that on top of a lot of stuff and loves it.

Her oatmeal gets hemp hearts added to it and I did ground almond as well when she was younger.

For processed stuff she loves the crispy snap pea “chips”, baked beans from a can solo or mixed with white/brown rice or pasta. She also likes the fake ham slices and veggie hotdogs. I don't limit soy intake, but she probably has those or tofu 1-2 times per week.

Cottage cheese has a lot or protein and theirs a great cottage cheese pancake recipe online which she and I enjoy a lot. You can also make egg and banana flour-free pancakes to maximize protein intake.

We aren't vegetarian, but we eat a lot of vegetarian meals and DD1 is not a big fan of most meats. She gets a lot of her protein from eggs (sometimes multiple times a day), beans, and peanut butter (usually in the morning). At 3 she also really likes fish now too, although it took awhile for her to like it.

One question, have you let her feed herself with spoons? My toddler loves to feed himself.

In terms of foods, his favorites are black beans and corn, sweet potato risotto, paella, peas, any kind of bean, cheese, and yogurt pouches. We also do a lot of pasta and veggies. There's only one type of meat he will eat, so he eats a ton of vegetarian meals

@lamariniere: http://fooddoodles.com/pizza-quinoa-casserole/

I have made that a lot, but without fennel or nutritional yeast as I just use the recipe for inspiration and add mushrooms, olives, and finely chopped carrots and celery. It’s really tasty.

And this one was a hit too with the kids. http://ifoodreal.com/spinach-artichoke-quinoa-casserole/

@jennlin821: For finger-food friendly lentils, I tried these a few months back, they were actually pretty tasty: https://www.myfussyeater.com/lentil-veggie-nuggets-recipe-kids/