Reprinted from Start Fresh: Your Child’s Jumpstart to Lifelong Healthy Eating by Tyler Florence. Copyright (c) 2011 by Tyler Florence. By permission of Rodale, Inc.

“When your child tastes this for the first time, watch as he thinks about it for a second, and then smiles for another bite. None of the ingredients in this smooth pudding are cooked, so it’s as easy to put together as a smoothie.”

Photo by John Lee

Ingredients:

1 banana, sliced

1⁄4 pineapple, peeled, cored, and cut into chunks

1⁄2 Hass avocado

1⁄2 cup plain whole-milk yogurt

Combine all the ingredients in a blender and puree until smooth. Serve immediately.

Makes four 1/2-cup servings or two 1-cup servings