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Oh HK I'm right there with you. I stull have scars from the stares in the supetmarket when I Wouk exclaim to my toddler "Don't touch the fruit! Makes you sick!.... Here, have some chips..."

That said the kids all eat sausage or eggs with, oats, porridge or toast. Lunch boxes tend to be weird due to the intersection of the limitations on what they CAN eat and what they WILL eat...

Cute:

Break the Grains

As far as the smoothie, I make it in the blender for my two boys at the same time. I have a VITAMIX (with the pushing tool) which works really well since I use a lot of frozen items with very little liquid. It tends to get stuck and just spin in a regular blender. If you have a regular blender I suggest you let the frozen items sit out for a bit to defrost. This is what I put in it for 2 kids (all organic):

3/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
1 banana (put half the banana in first along with the kale ONLY, blend. Then add the other half and the rest of the ingredients)
1/2 cup frozen blueberries
1/2 cup frozen raspberry/blackberry
4 -5 cups kale (I use the baby kale from COSTCO. I freeze it so that it keeps longer)
1 cup frozen spinach
1/2 cup oats
Hemp seeds, chia seeds, flax seeds, walnuts
1/2 tbs spirulina
1/4 tsp Cinnamon
Multivitamin

After it is all mixed I pour it into bowls and add Vitamin C, Probiotics, Fruit/veggie powder, Elderberry powder, liquid OMEGA-3. I mix this all in. Then top it off with Vitamin D drops.
They eat it with a spoon although you could probably drink it too. For the vitamins I use caps and just open them up and dump it in. Like I said, they CRAVE this and can not go without...fine with me...:-)

On Friday, I took my 7.5-yr-old son to a homeschooling Lego car engineering event at MIT. Everyone seemed to have sandwiches (bologna, turkey, or pb). My son had spirulina and cherry-almond bars (lol). I forgot how far we depart from the norm now.

We're a nearly sugar-free, grain-free, dairy-free, processed/refined-free, etc. free household. We started the diet about a year ago when ds started neurofeedback. It's nearly eliminated my husband's Crohn's and greatly reduced ds's ADHD symptoms and helped with the mood swings.

I'd make the smoothie above from 1111 minus the oats.

Forgot to mention banana pancake recipe - two eggs, one mashed banana. That's it. MIx them and then pour on a skillet.

There are tons of recipes on pinterest for paleo or other breakfast foods. Type in paleo breakfast, spirulina bars, or homemade larabar.

Where do you get spurlina bars? Are they good?

If there were a "like" button, this recipe would get my vote! +1 oz of protein for me, please.

1111, thank you so much for taking the time to write out the recipe. I wish someone would make it for me every morning.