What is your LO eating?

[ellabee]

Thought I'd throw a new thread out there. I'm always scouting what other parents are sending to daycare with their kids for new lunch ideas, so I might as well get ideas here too!

What is your LO eating nowadays?

Favorite foods?

Easy go-to foods that you always try to have on hand?

Treats?

Drinks?

[fish8412]

Current staples: Peanut butter sandwich, grilled cheese, yogurts, goldfish, almost any kind of fresh fruit, fruit/veggie pouches, scrambled eggs, frozen pancakes/waffles, Cheerios, black beans, chick peas, chicken nuggets

[fish8412]

Forgot about drinks...DD drinks milk at nap and bedtime. At meals and throughout the day she has water. She doesn't like juice.

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Our staples are PB&J sandwiches, grilled cheese, cheese and ham sandwiches, quesadillas, bananas (she won't eat any other fruit....what is wrong with this child?), animal crackers, goldfish.

Drinks are just water and milk (at meal times only), no juice.

[fishbulb]

Short answer is that he is eating everything but most veggies and bananas. He even demanded some of my steak last week!

For daycare lunches I try to keep around pasta and red sauce, black beans and rice, and cheese and tortillas for quesadillas. Another trick is that I will mix Stouffer's mac and cheese 50/50 with plain elbows. I always send him with some sort of fruit too.

He drinks just milk and water though I have seen him sneak sips of MH's sodas. We give diluted juice only when he is sick.

[fish8412]

I wish DD would eat a quesadilla. She likes all the ingredients (black beans, cheese, tortilla) separate, but not together in a quesadilla for some reason.

[g33kyg1rly]

Our lunch staples are PB&J (or PB&Banana) sandwiches, ham/turkey & cheese, tomato/mozzarella/basil sandwiches (although not so much now that tomatoes are out of season), and sometimes leftovers from dinner.

She eats almost any kind of fruit (typical offerings are bananas, apples, or grapes).

She drinks milk at meals and water at her afternoon snack/in between meals.

Veggies are very hit or miss lately She likes sweet potatoes, LOVES corn (she can eat a whole ear of corn in a sitting). Ones she'll eat sometimes but not others include tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, zucchini. She hasn't touched carrots in a while, and hasn't been willing to try leafy greens yet (other than in smoothies).

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meals:
breakfast (one or more offered) cheese eggs, yogurt, banana, waffle or pancakes

lunch: mac n cheese, pnut butter jelly sand, grapes, almost any kind of pasta, peas/beans of any type, cheese/chicken/ and or black bean quesadilla

dinner: what we eat unless too spicy then as above

snacks: crackers, yogurt, apple slices/grapes/strawberries, He still LOVES cheese puffs, vanilla wafers with peanut-butter, spoon of pnut butter, slices or stringed cheese,

edit to add: drinks water throughout the day, milk in the am, at nap and before bed, diluted juice offered as a distraction on car rides!

[babycaps]

Our go-to meals:
For breakfast, DH and DS togetter make a organic turkey sausage, 2 eggs and bread.
lunch is at daycare and daycare takes care of it (thank god!!!!!).
dinner: our staples include noodles with tomato meat sauce, meat balls, sweet potato tots, veggies or pretty much any kind, any fruit, carnitas, beans and rice, chicken noodle soup, coconut milk yogurt.

We have tried several times and he dislikes PBJ. We also are limited in the dairy isle as he can't really eat cheese, cow's milk yogurt, or milk.
He drinks Califia Farms Original Almond milk with meals. Occasional freshly squeezed (at home) orange juice. No other juice. He loves water.

For snacks, pretzels, trail mix, fruit, veggie sticks, baby carrots, apples, crasins, raisins...

I can't complain. M eats anything!

[zandeela]

Anything I put in front of her, but will eat the fruit first, then veggies, then whatever is left. Favorite fruit, maderine oranges, nanas and grapes.

For travel food I prepack grapes in a spill proof bowl, the tuna fish salad lunch packs, and recently lunchable snack duo (meat, cheese and mini ritz) perfect size meal for her

[angelsnight]

E loves bananas, grapes, oatmeal(this is my go to food when she won't eat anything else, sometimes she gets oatmeal for dinner), mac n cheese, pb and j are ok. She likes most of the gerber meals, especially peas out of the mixed veggies.

I'm having a hard time with protein, she isn't much of a chicken eater. She's very picky about her chicken. I'm going to try squished up chic peas. She likes cheese so that's a good source.

[northernlghts]

Staples: peanut butter, jelly, mac & cheese, sweet potatoes, pouches, fruits (frozen and canned that I drain and rinse), oatmeal, black beans and I bake up muffins for her

Tonight I cut up sweet potatoes, parsnip, carrots and apples with some cinanmon and baked it until everything was soft. It took some coaxing but she seemed to like it with her raviolis.

For lunch I've sent grilled cheese, quesadillas, turkey with humus on a tortilla, meatballs, gerber raviolis, sweet potato muffins, tuna fish

DD only drinks water and milk (with meals and before bed)

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Oct 28, 2015 13:53:09 GMT -5 @babylentilbean said:

Our staples are PB&J sandwiches, grilled cheese, cheese and ham sandwiches, quesadillas, bananas (she won't eat any other fruit....what is wrong with this child?), animal crackers, goldfish.

Drinks are just water and milk (at meal times only), no juice.

I saw this post and was like, hey that kid eats just like DD! Then I looked at the screen name and it was my old post! It's official, I have reached exhaustion!

[younglove316]

We go through days of being picky and days of wanting everything. She absolutely loves cheese though and just stands at the fridge trying to open it saying cheese.

She also absolutely loves fruit and vegetables, green beans, blueberries, mandarin oranges, & bananas are her favorite. She also loves black olives a lot as well.

My go to is pasta because she never turns it down so I started buying whole grain for her and then switch it up how I dress up the sauce.

[pearlvirus]

Mine LOs favorite food is meatballs. Preferably dipped in ketchup. She loves all condiments, I once turned around and found that she was sucking the mustard bottle like a baby bottle, lol. She also loves all kinds of berries, citrus and apples. Sandwiches of any variety are popular. I think she'd live on nothing but cheese and crackers if I let her. She never seems to eat soup, no matter what kind, however she is happy to eat yogurt, applesauce, oatmeal or cereal/milk with a spoon. Her favorite veggies are peas and corn on the cob, others are usually ignored. She eats breakfast sausage most mornings but mainly ignores the eggs. Unless they come from this one restaurant, down the street, in which case she will eat an entire omelet by herself! I don't know what kind of crack them put in there, but I cannot replicate it at home :/ oh an she loves pancakes and waffles with loads of butter and preferably dipped in syrup. She will eat fish as long as there is tartar sauce. See what I mean about the condiments?!? Just like her daddy