If I had to pick one food item that has made my life with a picky and active toddler infinitely better, it would be the smoothies from Ella’s Kitchen. My friend Lauren, who works for Ella’s Kitchen, introduced me to these little wonders a couple of months ago and Wito has been hooked ever since. (THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THESE INTO MY LIFE, LAUREN.)
I’m not sure if I have properly conveyed to you how much my child detests vegetables, but let me bring you up to speed. Wito will not touch any vegetable known to man. (Not even potatoes! Or sweet corn! Or carrots! Even if I soak them in Ranch dressing! Kill me now.)
However, he’s a fruitaholic, so I was pretty sure he would love these 100% organic and totally portable fruit smoothies. I was not wrong in my assumption. In fact, I have to hide these in my closet to keep him from sucking down 2 or 3 at a time. (Just imagine…my Frye boots and J. Crew flats sharing space with a box of organic fruit smoothies. Good thing they don’t need to be refrigerated until opened, right?)
The true test, however, was to see how he reacted to the smoothies with vegetables. A couple of weeks ago, I introduced the green smoothie pouch. He was super excited to try a new color, so he twisted off the top and took a big swig from the built-in straw. And guess what?
He hated it.
Oh, COME ON. Did you really think I was going to tell you that my vegetable hater actually ENJOYED a puree of broccoli, peas and pears? Right.
But! He loves his orange and purple smoothie pouches, which contain carrots, parsnips, sweet potatoes and pumpkins. MY CHILD WILLINGLY EATS PARSNIPS. Take a look for yourself.
Ella’s Kitchen, I salute you.
If you are looking for a simple way to get more organic fruits and vegetables into your little one’s diet, you must try Ella’s Kitchen. Their Stage 1 baby food range (4+ months and up, but I serve these as smoothies to Wito) is a completely different concept in baby food, bringing together minimally processed, carefully chosen organic natural fruits and vegetables and extremely convenient and easy packaging. Both the baby food and smoothies are simply 100% organic fruit and vegetables, with nothing to dilute their goodness – not even water. All of the flavors come in squeezy packs that are super easy for toddlers to enjoy with making a mess. (Love that part.)
Ella’s Kitchen products are sold at Babies R Us and Toys R Us, and you can read more about the company and products at their website.
Now for the best part. Ella’s Kitchen is giving away a sample box of these little wonders to one lucky reader. The sample box contains one full-sized pouch of each flavor shown above, for a total of 8 stage 1 foods/smoothies. Just leave a comment on this post before Friday, December 11th at 6pm PST and I’ll randomly choose one winner. Good luck!
Those look excellent!!! What a great way to get the kids to get the good stuff, while making them think they’re getting the treat stuff (and the husbands too, my husband is worse than my kids for consuming healthful foods!)
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please let me win! my almost 6 month old breastfeeding baby girl is ready to sprout teeth and bite my nipples off, so if there is someone who needs this, i’ve gotta be that person
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Looks great! Thanks!
Any way to sneak veggies in is good by me!
My toddler would love these!
Would love to try these!
We are still trying to get Lu to gain some weight and these might be a great way to help. Not to mention a great on the go snack because it seems like more and more our meals are on the go.
Yes! Please get some veggies into my 3 year old!!
Can adults drink these too? Meethinks vodka would be a good mixer. Kidding.
These are a great idea!
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I like it! (Do they have a product to get adults to eat their vegetables?)
I have a vegetable hater too, and I’d love to try these!
oooh- Oohh… I hope I win. My 2 year old despises vegetables and loves fruit, too… If there is a way for me to get him to eat carrots then you can COUNT ME IN!
What a great portable food idea!
My toddler loves eating food out of packets!
Me, me! I would love to try these for my picky eaters!
I would love to try these! Some days I feel like my kids are on the all-beige-food diet and this would be a great way to get some healthy food into them.
Avelyn is just like Wito: all fruit, NO veggies. The only way she’ll eat a carrot is if it’s in a freaking cupcake.
I could totally use these!
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mmm…look at those heavenly combinations! Screw baby food, hello easy lunches! :)
These look great! I’d love to try them with my children, who are avid vegetable haters!
Wow, I think even I would love these for me.
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My boys have just recently decided that vegetables in almost any form are awful, so we’d love to try these!
Same case here. Really, potatoes?
I’ve been wanting to try these for awhile for my 18 mo old. My husband hates veggies too. Do they make these for adults?!!
Would love a sample pack of these to try out on the children!
ooh, my little guy would love these!!
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My veggie hating daughter would love these. Yay trickery!
Thanks so much for the suggestion! I’ve been looking for different baby food than the regular old ones sold in the grocery store!
I don’t know if they wil ship to Hawaii but I would love to try these on my super picky no veggie eating kid too!
Great find!
Sarah
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I don’t know if they will ship to Hawaii but I would love to try these on my super picky no veggie eating kid too!
Great find!
Sarah
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These look awesome! I would love them to try with my anti-veggie daughter (strangely, she will eat raw broccoli. But ONLY raw).
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I haven’t seen these before. Cool!
I haven’t seen these before. Cool!
Wow! I am running to Babies R Us right now! I can’t wait to try these out! I am all about the tricks when it comes to getting my son to eat things……so far, I have him convinced that prunes are candy! :o)
Yum. These sound delicious. Even if I don’t win, I’ll have to try them.
Would LOVE these for my picky eaters!
I’d like a box for myself, please ;)
this would be great for my daughter!!
PIck me! Pick me! Please! My son hates his veggies. :)
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