Food Ideas for LO

[14joa31]

Breakfast for DD is usually fruit or cheerios. We give her a lot of blueberries (cut in half), raspberries (ripped in half) and mandarin oranges from a jar/can. She also eats of lot of raisins and craisins.

We give her everything that we eat - just cut up really small. Last night we had baked fish and she had some of that. She eats a lot of peas, corn, pasta (cut up) ...

She loves pointing at what other people have on their plates. So we will just cut up what's on our plate and give it to her

[silverspoon]

I just bought a bunch of pouches because I've given up on the fresh fruit and veggie thing for now. At daycare he eats basically everything, at home he refuses most things.

On the weekends this is his typical breakfast and lunch:
Breakfast is usually oatmeal or a waffle with peanut butter on it. Lunch he gets a peanut butter and jelly sandwich normally. Kid loves peanut butter.

Dinners are rough. I will confess that at least once a week he and I split a can of Spaghettios. He loves them. I love them. It is what it is.

We do tend to give him whatever we eat if we are cooking dinner so nothing is really off limits there. When we don't he gets a lot of fish sticks, tater tots, chicken nuggets. If I can put ranch on it, he will normally eat it. Unless of course it's a vegetable.

He snacks a lot during the day on Annie's Honey Bunnies or Cheddar Bunnies, cheesesticks, applesauce, cheerios, Veggie Straws, etc. things that might not be the best, but it's what we do.

I don't cut up much for him. He really has almost a mouthful of teeth and he's good at biting and chewing at this point.

[silverspoon]

His favorite meal is pasta, alfredo sauce, with crab and tomatoes mixed in. So, you never know until you try something. I honestly thought he would spit it out, but he gobbled it right up.

Also, I normally start out by feeding him things like pasta, rice, messy stuff like that you would need a utensil for. If he starts refusing I just dump it on his tray and let him have at it. He will finish up as he wants then.

[dizzycooks]

She eats everything we eat.
Today she's had:
Breakfast- banana, scrambled eggs with salsa and a tortilla
Snack- apples, blueberries and a baking powder biscuit
Lunch- chicken pot pie, French bread slice, clementine, grapes and animal crackers
Snack- brown rice cake with peanut butter and craisins
Dinner- (last night) beef roast, sweet potatoes, carrots, and green beans, French bread slice

[scorpioscuba]

DD eats everything we do.

Breakfasts: mini bagel with cream cheese, toast with cc or pb, waffle with pb, yogurt, scrambled eggs, and I add fruit of course to any of those things. She likes bananas, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, etc...

Lunch: pb&j when I send her to my sisters with some fruit. Sometimes I just heat up leftovers. Black beans, pasta, cheese, deli meat, cucumbers, etc. She likes to dip things in yogurt dressing or hummus. Also, we've been doing a lot of avocado lately.

Dinner: literally whatever we are eating, just cut up smaller. Yesterday was a Blue Apron udon noodle bowl. I pulled out some of the noodles, the egg whites, chicken, carrots, etc added some cut up avocado and she loved it.

[NellieOleson]

kelltothekell - Just out of curiosity , on the nights you don't cook dinner what do you and your H usually eat?

EDited for clarity...

[NellieOleson]

Dd2 eats what we eat for the most part.

Today she had:

Breakfast - Bowl of cheerios with milk. Strawberries on the side.

Snack - Toaster waffle with PB.

Lunch - We were at a restaurant and she and dd1 shared chicken strips, fries, and fruit.

Snack - whole milk Greek yogurt with a little drizzle of maple syrup mixed in. A couple pretzels. Orange.

Dinner - this, but with chorizo added. I thought the chorizo might be too spicy for her, but she didn't seem to mind at all.

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I swear she eats twice as much as dd1 right now. Dd1 was a great eater until about 18 month, and she's gotten pickier and pickier every month since it seems. :/

[scorpioscuba]

NellieOleson, I say the same thing about DD and DS! She definitely eats more than DS and he is almost 6!! Also, did DD2 eat her cheerios with milk with a spoon?? I'm trying to figure out how that worked cause I can't get DD to do much with actual utensils.

[sjames2015]

DD2 eats everything we eat. If it's too spicy ( curry chicken) I'll rinse off the chicken a little. Other than that she eats everything I just cut it smaller.
Breakfast is cereal out of my bowl or oatmeal that I feed her.
She snacks all day on crackers or nilla wafers or cheese
Lunch is whatever I cook for DD1 and I. Hamburger and French fries, mac n cheese, tacos, pancakes, chicken fingers, pizza, whatever I make.
Dinner whatever I make for the family.
She uses her utensils somewhat well but she'll will throw the bowl or plate if I give them to her.
She eats so much more than DD1 at this age. DD1 at this age hardly would eat anything. She still was all about the boobs.

[NellieOleson]

Feb 28, 2017 22:41:13 GMT -5 scorpioscuba said:

NellieOleson, I say the same thing about DD and DS! She definitely eats more than DS and he is almost 6!! Also, did DD2 eat her cheerios with milk with a spoon?? I'm trying to figure out how that worked cause I can't get DD to do much with actual utensils.

I give her a small plastic bowl with a spoon. I don't put in a lot of milk because it will eventually end up on her or on the floor - as will a lot of the cereal. She is messy, but does seem to manage alright. She is pretty good with spoons, and has been interested in using them for a long time. Dd1 was the same way, not sure why! Definitely not something I've tried to teach or anything.

[silverspoon]

Feb 28, 2017 23:00:15 GMT -5 kelltothekell said:

Feb 28, 2017 22:14:33 GMT -5 NellieOleson said:

kelltothekell - Just out of curiosity , on the nights you don't cook dinner what do you and your H usually eat?

EDited for clarity...

We have frozen pizza once a week typically. Other nights will do leftovers. I guess we cook but not really "cook." We make things like bertolli's.

This is us. We only really cook dinner 2 nights during the week.

I would like to get to a point where we eat cleaner (I don't know if that's the word I want, but I'm using it). We just aren't there yet.

[14joa31]

I will second the fact that my baby eats more than my toddler! When DS was a baby, he used to eat everything by the truckload! Now he eats a couple of bites of his dinner and is good :/

Toddler issues!!

[NellieOleson]

Feb 28, 2017 23:00:15 GMT -5 kelltothekell said:

Feb 28, 2017 22:14:33 GMT -5 NellieOleson said:

kelltothekell - Just out of curiosity , on the nights you don't cook dinner what do you and your H usually eat?

EDited for clarity...

We have frozen pizza once a week typically. Other nights will do leftovers. I guess we cook but not really "cook." We make things like bertolli's.

Bertolli's is pasta, right? Can she have some of that with a fruit or veggie on the side? Could you add some kind of healthy side dish to your frozen pizza and have her share that with you?

I had a hard time switching up our dinner routine when dd1 was around this age. My H and I used to make dinner after she would go to bed, but around a year old I started making it earlier so she wouldn't be eating alone every night. I also wanted her to get a better variety of foods.

My H still hates eating dinner at 5:30 and would much rather eat at 7, but at this point there's no way I'm going through the trouble of preparing and cleaning up two different meals.

[scorpioscuba]

Mar 1, 2017 18:45:18 GMT -5 kelltothekell said:

NellieOleson this is my life goal! I would love to work towards this. I think I'm going to sign up for hello fresh once a week as a start. We are also starting to do things like tacos that are relatively quick and easy.... problem is she doesn't eat the taco meat. We need to find some quick and easy things she likes.

Have you tried shredded chicken or pork for tacos? I also buy the tortilla crusted tilapia filets from Costco that are flash frozen. 10 minutes in the oven and you can use them for fish tacos. My kids both love them.

[kcrkcs]

She eats what we do although I sometimes feed her something slightly different for dinner becasue she usually eats first.
She does not like eating repeat meals so that can be trying.
Finding good on the go foods has been tough. We are always on the go and coming up with new non messy easy traveling snacks is taxing my brain.
Also need to find a way to get more vegetables in. She does love asparagus.

[pinktartan9]

Similar to what others have said:

Breakfast: bananas, apples/pears, fruit/veggie purée

Snack: Cheerios, owlies spelt cookies, homemade carrot or zucchini muffins, all kinds of raw fruit, yogurt, veggie straws, homemade kale chips, cucumbers, tomatoes and get this: olives!

Lunch: soup or stew of sorts. Mostly veggie but sometimes will have meat.

Dinner: variation of what we eat: chicken, fish, roasted veggies, black/kidney beans, anything dipped in hummas, sweet potatoes, rice, rice pasta.

I used to be vegan, so meat cooking/eating is not my strong suit. We do eat it, just not everyday which seems to suit DD just fine. I am not especially worried since she loves her veggies and beans.
One thing she definitely has is a sweet tooth! This kid will do anything for a Timbit!

[crimsonandclover]

Yep, she eats what we eat, and at the moment she's a better eater than DDs 1+2. The only things we've discovered that she refuses are bananas (too slimy, maybe? DD2 didn't like them for a long time too) and fish sticks. She loves curry, Mexican, pasta, pizza (crust), and all the snacky stuff that DDs 1+2 eat (sigh). If we forget to close the pantry door she regularly raids it for crackers.

Yesterday they had a party a preschool with a bunch of healthy food. I tried dark whole grain bread (think pumpernickel-type texture) with a tuna spread and let her try some, thinking she would spit it out. But she ate half a piece of bread with it on there. Shrug.

My hopes aren't high that this will keep up, though. DD2 used to eat everything and then just stopped. Now all she wants for main meals are chicken nuggets, pizza, brats, and pasta.