SIMPLE & SATISFYING BREAKFAST, LUNCH, & SNACK IDEAS
With our three combination cards, you can discover the ease you crave all while creating meals your entire family will enjoy, even amidst the hustle!
Does this feel familiar?
Deciding what to feed your family has gone on auto-pilot due to your busy life.You lack the time or energy to think up new ideas or make elaborate reciples so your kids can be exposed to new foods.You've started to make the same few foods over and over while watching the list of foods your child likes decrease.You're already tired and you know you can't see another complicated meal thrown in the trash (after you spent way too long cooking it).
What if you could add variety to your kids’ meals
without the additional effort?
Instead of offering the same foods on repeat, establish a new norm for nourishing your kids and offering their favorites at breakfast, lunch, and snack time!
Combination cards show you how you can combine different foods for well-rounded, easy meal ideas that can be packed or eaten at home.
These “staple” meal combinations give you endless ways to help your children learn to like more variety and ultimately improve the nutrition they get at breakfast, lunch, and snack time.
“I love that the options are specific and I can easily add recommended products/brands to my shopping list. With picky eaters, it’s easy to get in a rut and buy the same things over and over. The combination cards have helped me try new foods with my kids or try familiar foods in a new way!”
- Kristi
The Combination Cards are for the mom who…
Is tired of being in a lunch-time rut (same meal, different day)
Is out of ideas for healthy, interesting meals their toddler will actually eat
Needs more variety to help their kids try new foods for breakfast
Struggles with variety at meals and expanding picky eating
Here’s what you’ll get
Each breakfast and lunch Combination Card Deck comes with 10 common, kid-friendly staple meal options.Each deck also includes ideas for how to utilize the Love It, Like It, Learning It ® framework, including different combinations!Each deck also includes five ways to modify the sample meal to help create variety for your kid's meals.The Snack Deck also includes ideas for filling nutritional gaps and breaks down each staple snack into five different food groups.
“I usually whip them out when I have no mental energy left for meals at various busy times in the month, they’re a great go-to for making a fast decision and getting their balanced meal on the table ASAP.”
- Rachel
7-Day BONUS MINI COURSE
While you’re waiting for your Combination Cards to arrive, I want to help you prep to put them to good use! You will get a mini workbook and an email every day with a video. There, you’ll find activities to do to get ready for your Combination Cards.
Then, when your cards arrive, you’ll know how to use them to the fullest.
Hey friend, I'm Ashley!
I’m a pediatric dietician and mom of three who “thought” I would have kids who were just born adventurous eaters. Instead, I faced years of tongue ties, trouble breastfeeding, and all of the woes of extreme picky eating. I have not only found the balance between professional advice and personal application but also feel it is my calling to share it with moms. Through my Love It, Like It, Learning It Framework, I help moms navigate offering known favorites and exposing new foods on the table and around the kitchen. Far from the pressure of making every meal or snack look straight off Pinterest, I want moms to see that they already have the creative freedom to make the most of every opportunity to introduce learning it foods in the way kids’ learn best - PLAY!
Are you ready to have endless, effortless variety on your kid’s staples?
Combination Cards help free you from elaborate recipes and involved meal ideas to come up with straightforward combinations, nourishing options, and endless potential to prevent picky eating.
These cards are going to help your child eat a more balanced diet and become a more competent eater, while giving you more options to offer that they accept.
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Frequently Asked Questions
+ How much are Combination Cards?
Combination Cards sell for $20 each physical deck or $10 for the digital download of each deck. You can bundle and save to get all three decks for $50, or get the digital downloads of all three sets for $25.
+ What can I expect with the breakfast deck of Combination Cards?
The breakfast deck of Combination Cards gives you ten staples to have on standby each morning. If you are currently offering the same few breakfast items on repeat, these cards will help you work through the Love it, Like it, Learning it ® framework to help you gain more variety in your family's diet. By offering options of breakfast foods that your child "loves," "likes," or is "still learning," these cards help you to exercise the habit of ongoing exposure to new foods alongside known favorites. These cards provide you with different variations of common breakfast foods, so that you can expand your child's lists of preferred foods to include more whole grains, fruits, vegetables, protein, and healthy fats both at breakfast time and beyond.
+ What can I expect with the lunch deck of Combination Cards?
The lunch deck of combination cards gives you ten staples to have on standby. While this is far from an exhaustive list of lunch options for your family, it offers ten nourishing, simple combinations that you can effortlessly rotate through without the overwhelm of too many options (or excess food that ends up wasted!). You are encouraged to try the lunch ideas shown at home or on the go/in a packed lunchbox. Both will include the same base meal and then on the back of every card will give you additional ideas for how to make other variations of the meal shown.
+ What can I expect with the snack deck of Combination Cards?
The snack deck of combination cards gives you ten staples to have on standby whenever snack time rolls around. Intended to make what to offer easier on you or a more independent task for your growing child, these cards offer a continuum of snack ideas. On the front of each card are snack variations ranging from those you prepare from start to finish (requiring more planning and prep) to ones you can purchase premade and enjoy as is (plus some options in between). On the back, you will find satisfying combinations for how to better fill nutritional gaps through snack time. While this is far from an exhaustive list of snack options, each card offers a range of economical to easy snack ideas plus enough combinations to ensure your child's diet stays diverse and nutrient-dense day after day!
+ How do I use combination cards?
Bored of the basics? Add some variety to the breakfast, lunch, and snack options you offer by pairing well-rounded combinations of fruits, vegetables, starches, protein, and healthy fats. If you want more inspiration outside of the original idea shown, flip the card over for several other variations. By rotating through different cards, you will keep your family from getting in a rut with the same foods - further expanding what nutrition your child gets to enjoy at the beginning or in the middle of each day!
Combination Cards are ideal to offer to kids to help get their ideas and promote interest around what's on the menu for the week. Give them options from the card ideas to help come up with new ideas they may be most interested in.
+ Will my child accept the variations?
Ideally, you want to make variations that are big enough for a child to notice and yet small enough they will still eat them. These variations are ideas that add range to the diet, but may need to be modified into smaller, more subtle changes for some children. For children who already love a given option, keep branching out with other variations to help them learn to like these lunch time options in as many ways as possible!
If your family has historically always offered items one way or bought a particular type of product, Combination Cards give several ideas that you can start to incorporate. While most kids don't do well with big, sudden changes, slowly starting to include new breakfast, lunch, and snack ideas into your family's rotation can help promote variety over time as more "new items" become accepted as everyday staples.
+ Where can I find more recipe ideas and inspiration like those shown on my Combination Cards?
You can search for Veggies & Virtue on Pinterest to find a folder that was created for each of the main menu items included on these Combination Cards. While not all of the recipe ideas pinned have been sampled or screened for nutritional balance, the recipes chosen may give ideas for healthy variety.
To connect on Pinterest, go to: www.pinterest.com/veggiesnvirtue/
+ What age are Combination Cards intended for?
Children of all ages can benefit from the ideas and inspiration shown on these Combination Cards. Each child's appetite and calorie needs are unique and vary, however, so you may notice that the amounts shown seem like "a lot" or "not enough" for your child based on how much your own child eats. That's perfectly normal. You are encouraged to adjust what "small," "regular," and "large" servings mean to your child. Additionally, each deck of Combination Cards comes with a food portion size guide for children ages 1-10.
+ What if my child has a food allergy or special dietary need?
Combination Cards are intended to provide inspiration and may be easily adapted for a variety of dietary needs. By having these sample cards available, you will be able to easily insert in or substitute out whatever food options best fit for your family in the given menu idea. However, the cards do not fit any special dietary needs and will need to be adapted to ensure safety and compliance with your family's dietary needs.
See what this mom, Catherine, said about her experience with them, "I thought the suggestions were super doable, even for moms like me who aren’t super creative with food. We have food allergies so sometimes it can feel daunting to provide variety when not all foods are safe, so I loved the ideas/perspective of how to implement variety."
+ Do you include grocery lists for these ideas?
Yes, the lunch deck of combination cards gives suggested shopping lists for each lunch shown. The snack deck gives up to date visuals of what the snack items are so that you can easily identify recommended snack options in store. You can also buy a tear-off grocery pad separately, which works as a great compliment since it has the meal planner on the back of each grocery list.
Just got my combo cards and I’m SO excited! Just did the math and if I take your 10 ideas from each pack (I got breakfast and lunch decks) and do one variation from the back each time I serve them, then I will have 150+ breakfast variations and 100+ lunch variations (not even including changes to sides!!) to work with with almost no brain power. This is exactly what this tired mama of three needed for meal planning. The quality is great too! Thank you! If you come out with snack* or dinner cards in the future I will absolutely be purchasing and recommending to friends!
- Chelsea
*Snack cards are now available too, based off of requests like this!
