My Healthy Eater

I am ashamed to admit that my child has never really been forced to try new foods. We have not always eaten healthy. Honestly, we used to eat a whole lot of fast food/takeout/delivery. I'm not proud of it. This year is all about making good choices. I'm also going to admit that in the last 2 weeks, we haven't gone back to our old habits. I've made dinner every day for the last 2 weeks. Yes, that is a feat for me, One that I'm proud of. We have only eaten out twice and both times were at Subway.

For dinner, I'm really trying to focus on getting lean meat, complex carbs from vegetables and complex carbs from good starch. This for us, is kind of new. Since we started this new way of life, Dechlan has been much more open to eating good foods. Like a lot of children with special needs, we have a hard time getting him to eat. Now that we are eating better, he is eating better. We do have a bit of a fight when it comes to him eating salad or green beans, but he does eat them. He's been great with trying new foods. I made turkey soup last week and loaded it up with carrots, butternut squash, leeks, onion, celery and potato and loved every single vegetable in it. He even went back for seconds which is very rare. Then I made spaghetti squash with vegetable tomato sauce and he adored it. He's been asking for it for dinner ever since. Tonight, I made chicken, baked potatoes, baked sweet potato for me(I hate white potatoes) and brussel sprouts. I cut them open and put some nonfat sour cream on them and he gobbled them up without a fuss. It's amazing!!

We have been trying to find healthy snacks for him. He loves to snack and I'd love to get him into eating healthier snacks. Tonight I got him to try almonds and he loved them. He does love strawberries and apples but I'm trying to find other healthy snacks for him. I'm thinking plain popcorn(which we know he loves).

So my question is, what kind of healthy snacks do you feed your picky eaters?