Making Toddler Food, Organic, Local Meats, Pick Your Own Farms & Community Garden Plots

http://www.rockyplains.com/pdfs/lamb_list.pdf

https://www.tetonwatersranch.com/buy-now/store/burgers-and-dogs/grass-fed-beef-extra-lean-ground-beef-1-lb-pkg

http://www.rockyplains.com/pdfs/bison_list.pdf

http://www.rockyplains.com/pdfs/turkey_list.pdf

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Organic ground lamb is excellent for making into a high altitude friendly toddler food.

Things you'll need:

-Crock pot
-Rice cooker (a good quality one can be found at Pacific Ocean Market in Westminster usually)
-Freezer-safe, microwave-safe tupperware, in single serving sizes
-Organic brown rice

Organic ground lamb is especially beneficial for children under age five.  It doesn't tend to cause food allergies, is easily digestible, nutritious for high altitude and safer for those who don't have all their baby teeth (e.g. toddlers).

Put thawed and skillet-browned organic ground lamb into crock pot with:

-Organic, fresh, not frozen, peeled carrots, julienned/finely minced
-Organic frozen peas (always keeping a little bag of that in the freezer is also great for soothing boo boos)
-Organic mushroom broth (in the waxed cartons)
-Organic, steamed brown rice (rinse the brown rice grains, by filling the rice cooker pot with the grains, sift the grains while they're submerged in water, then drain the water out twice.  Add at least 1.5 to 2 cups of water per cup of rice grains at high altitude.

Let it cook thoroughly, at least four hours on high in crock pot.  For the last one to two hours of cooking, add the steamed brown rice.  Transfer to little single serving containers for storing in the freezer.  Use sticker labels (e.g. file folder labels) and a sharpie marker to date and identify each container.  Thaw needed amounts in fridge (not at room temp), and reheat in microwave.  Stir well, so there are no hot spots in it.

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Feeding Your Pick Eaters (Dr. Sears)
http://www.askdrsears.com/topics/feeding-infants-toddlers/feeding-picky-eater-17-tips

If you're too challenged on time, space, energy to garden, live in an apartment, condo, townhouse, or in the city, consider taking your child to a berry/fruit/vegetable farm (pick your own).

http://www.pickyourown.org/COdenver.php

Or check this out for fruit/vegetable gardening with the children, when you don't have a yard of your own:

http://dug.org/gardens/
You can organize a large group of children (Scouts, MOPs or mother's groups, local schools and places of worship), to divide the gardening labor and share a plot.  You can have a Releasing of the Lady Bugs Day and use a portion of the plot to breed worms for composting for the garden.  Toddlers and underage seven year olds tend to love wiggly worms and freeing bags of lady bugs into the garden.