Confessions from the Pouch

Our Real Food Journey Continues

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Amanda Holliday | 0 Comments

We’re now in week two of our 100 Days of Real Food initiative. We hope you’re on board! The time is nigh to provide a little inspiration (and motivation?) by letting you know where to find great Real Food Pouch Recipes.

First, we’ll go ahead and toot our own horn, and point you to our Real Food Pouch Recipes page, which is a fantastic resource for tasty (and easy) Real Food recipes. There you’ll find Real Food Pouch Recipes like Roasted Apple and Parsnip Puree (with an awesome instructional video), Baked Quinoa e Fagioli with Veggies, Homemade Yogurt (in a Crockpot!),  Spiced Up Yams and Broccoli and Carrot and Nectarine Smoothie. These and other Real Food Pouch Recipes are tagged as Real Food, for your convenience, and stamped with our handy Real Food Badge.

Next (horn toot number two), on our new Real Food Pinterest Board you can find a great collection of Real Food Pouch Recipes that meet our Real Food (and tasty) standards. Make sure to follow along. (We apologize in advance if you spend two hours in the “Pinterest Time Suck” after taking a peek at our new board (Melissa is probably there as we speak.))  

Finally, we are excited to share a fantastic new Real Food Pouch Recipe from Lauren Kelly, CN (awesome recipe developer, cookbook author, food blogger and nutritionist). Lauren’s put together a Real Food Pouch Recipe that she says “is so easy to prepare, there is no excuse not to make it.” Lauren’s Unsweetened Pear Applesauce in the Slow Cooker is so good that there’s “no turning back after you try this.”

We’ll check in with you next week to see how all is progressing on the Real Food front, and give you a few Real Food Pouch Recipes for the holidays (we can’t believe they are here so soon!).

Happy cooking,

Maggie & Melissa

PS. We’re giving extra credit when you mark your calendar for the 10-Day Real Food Pledge starting January 6th. Let’s do this together!  

Posted in 100 Days of Real Food, Holidays, Lauren Kelly, Little Green Pouch, Little Green Pouch Real Food, Pureed Contents, Real Food, Recipes, Resolutions

Enter the 2nd Annual Pouch-Friendly Thanksgiving Recipe Contest

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Amanda Holliday | 0 Comments

Send us your favorite Thanksgiving recipe that you think would make the perfect puree for a Little Green Pouch. The top recipes will WIN a Little Green Pouch Starter Kit. Submit a photo along with your recipe through the tab on our Facebook page or this link. Don't forget to vote for your favorites! 

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Posted in Contest, Giveaway, Recipes, Thanksgiving

Join Us for a Pouch-Friendly Thanksgiving and Win!

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Amanda Holiday | 1 Comment

Ok, we know that there have been a lot of Little Green Pouch contests going on lately. But we really can’t resist doing a Thanksgiving Dinner Recipe Contest. I mean, one of the main reasons we started this company was so that we could do a Thanksgiving Dinner Recipe Contest! So we’ve decided that we’re going after it, and we hope you do too.

What are we looking for you ask? Well, you tell us! We aren’t necessarily looking for a recipe that incorporates the whole dinner shebang (for example, we would not advise this). But there might be a really great recipe that does just so. Or perhaps you have a special recipe that simply does one of the courses really well, like succulent sweet potatoes, turkey and cranberry or (dare I even say it?) green bean casserole. Or perhaps you have some other Thanksgiving inspired recipe altogether. 

We can’t wait to see what you come up with.  And don’t fret, there won’t be just one winner, we’ll award several recipes that we think merit it. The winners will each receive two 4-packs of Little Green Pouch! As we’ll want to post the winning recipes, any pictures or images you can submit along with will of course help your cause. As we know pouch-friendly food isn't always the most photogenic, feel free to share a photo of the ingredients pre-puree! Please feel free to contribute your recipes here by the end of the day after Thanksgiving (November 23rd). We will announce winners on Monday, November 26th. 

One last thing (and we’ll remind you again when it is closer to the actual day), we really, honestly and truly cannot tell you how thankful we are for all of you.

Posted in Contest, Little Green Pouch, Recipes, Thanksgiving

Lauren Spurchise Contributes To LGP

Posted on November 06, 2012 by Maggie Crawford | 1 Comment

We are excited to announce that Lauren Spurchise of Bloggy Moms has contributed to our recipe page. Lauren prepares great recipes for the entire family – “Mommy, Daddy and Baby.” We love this approach to cooking, and you’ll see it in her Baked Quinoa e Fagioli with Veggies for the Whole Family.  Lauren “kind of stumbled on this meal when [she] was making dinner the other night.”  Her plan was to make one of her family’s favorites, Pasta Fagioli. However, when she opened the pantry, there was no pasta.  She decided to try quinoa instead, and the results were delicious.  Lauren says parents and little ones ready for finger food can eat the dish as is, and little ones 8+ months can eat it as a puree in their Little Green Pouch.  What’s better than making just one meal for dinner?  Thanks Lauren!

Posted in Recipes

Ghee Treat

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Melissa Winn | 0 Comments

Aleishall Girard Maxon, of Berkeley, California, sent us these great pictures of her daughter Matiz enjoying her little green pouches.

When I commented on how cute Matiz was, Aleishall said “she would look happier but she was so busy sucking down her lunch she couldn't smile :)”  Turns out Matiz was having sweet potatoes, carrots and kale mixed with Aleishall’s own product, Ancient Organics Ghee, which is a premium cooking oil made from butter from Straus Creamery. Aleishall says it is “[f]illed with not only fantastic health benefits but also a caramelized sweet taste that kids go crazy for. We drizzle it over rice and veggies, bake with it instead of butter, stir it into oatmeal and my girls even ask for it by the spoonful!” Sounds amazing to me. Thanks so much for the pictures Aleishall!

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