This is a whacky toddler fav in our house right now: slice and fry banana and apple in coconut oil and butter. She loves it and it keeps her going!

Dude, do not forget about hummus! We also eat a lot of edamame (unshelled) during the day. I will sometimes cook some and leave it out in a bowl all day and we both munch on it.

"If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?"

I know that there is a book out there by Jessica Seinfeld that my friend just bought. try checking out at the library. I think it is called deceptively delicious ( something or other). in any case, It is all about steaming & then puree-ing vegetables once a week and sealing it up in the fridge, then adding the puree to all kinds of tasty/ child friendly meals. I took a look at it & was really inspired. Some of her stuff looks pretty damn good. I personally make alot of whole wheat pizza dough, fresh tomato sauce and loaded with chopped raw vegetable pizza. I chop stuff like collard greens & Kale really fine & he'd never guess. I let the kids help measure the ingredients for dough and I shape out small six inch sized pizzas that they can do up themselves with the veggies I have set out. I also stick with what ascedarleaf calls a plow man's lunch: all kinds of healthy ( yet seemingly unrelated) foods just set out snack style. A good example of a plowman's lunch might be this:
a bit of scrambled egg (OR TOFU), a handful of fresh peas, a few nuts, or a slice of turkey, a few orange slices, maybe a few whole wheat crackers and a glass of water. Just a nice well balanced variety of nibbler type stuff can make a great kid meal when you are uninspired to make some huge production. Oh! I just thought of something else... check out the HM recipes. there are some really great ideas there.
Glad you are well mama!