What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!

[speechie]

Kirry- big hugs for the gastro illness! Goodness, poor Hunter, poor you, glad he's feeling better...
I started nick on popcorn when he scavenged some from me at about 15 mos, he didn't have his molars yet, and seemed to do well, I know some kids have trouble with it, but he's a really good chewer- LOL about the steak, we did that too at 9 mos, same thing, he MOOCHED it off my plate and kept pinching me for more!

[AshleyB]

I am really ready for my LO to get some molars so she can eat regular food!

[speechie]

Ashley, what does your lo's diet look like?

Today, nick ate:
Breakfast: 1 waffle w/butter and maple syrup, 3 strawberries, 1/2 banana, 8 oz milk, 1 veggie sausage.
Snack: watered down juice w/vitamin shot.
Lunch:1/4 egg salad sandwich (spat out a lot of it), carrots, pears, 8 oz milk
Snack: raisins and apricots, water
Dinner: ziti w/tomato sauce and 2 small meatballs, wax beans, green beans and carrots, garlic toast, 8 oz milk.

[AshleyB]

Speechie--

7 a.m. 8 oz bottle of formula and a nibble of banana or cheerios
8:30--breakfast at daycare, usually a carb, like a muffin or a waffle with some milk.
11:00--a large bowl of oatmeal mixed with fruit and yogurt plus whatever finger foods she can eat from the daycare menu, like green beans or pineapple tidbits (I don't usually let her eat their menu because it's all processed stuff like canned ravioli)
2:30--8 oz bottle of whole milk and some organic arrowroot cookies
6:00 dinner with some kind of protein, like chicken, tofu, or scrambled eggs, a veg, like sweet potato or carrots or tomato puree, and a fruit. (If she doesn't get a green veg at daycare, I add that in at dinner)
7:30--8 oz bottle half formula/half milk

She's not a big morning eater. Right now she's 12 months and only has 8 teeth (no molars). Any meat we give her has to be chopped very fine. If we give her big chunks of food, she just stuffs it in her cheeks, then spits most of it out when she finds she can't chew. I wish she could have more protein at lunch; that's why I send the yogurt and oatmeal as an alternative to what they're serving.

On the weekend, we give her a big breakfast with eggs and either toast or pancakes, and she gobbles it up. I tend to make her some veg/fruit/grain combo foods in the food processor, like butternut squash/apples/quinoa or banana/sweet potato/amaranth. She really likes these because they're sweet, but she's getting so much more nutrition than just feeding her fruit.

[speechie]

Wow- sounds like she's doing really well- and 8 teeth! nick only had 4 at that age! Gotta love that toothy grin!
I hear you on the processed foods, we do try to avoid them too...
Nick's been saying "toe-foo" very cute elongated "tofu" and he gobbles that up too! LOL.

Today he ate: 1 piece of toast, 1/2 banana, spat out the mango, and 8 oz of milk
Lunch: ziti w/ meatballs, meatsauce, carrots, beans, 8 oz milk, 1/2 banana, and 1 spice cookie.
We'll see what dinner brings.

[gpmom]

Ashley, D had no teeth until her birthday but she ate like a champ.  She would even eat apples!!  For extra protein, have you tried hummos to toast?  That was a big fav here.
Yesterday
6oz milk
Breaky-cereal (mutli grain rice Krispies) and taosdt with PB&J, water and raspberries.
Lunch-fries, chicken and oranges.
snack dry cereal, raisens, and a few marshmallows
supper-chicken curry, rice, toast with red pepper hummos and water
bed 8oz milk

[grahamsmama]

dinner - chicken tikka masala with chickpeas and rice

Can I have this recipe?  Thanks!

[lilac83]

UGH, I need new ideas! I'm horrible in the kitchen and DD is refusing to let me spoon feed her most of the time. Here's today:

Breakfast - 6oz formula, 1/2 blueberry waffle, applesauce
Snack - water, fruit puffs
Lunch - 6oz formula, hot dog, turkey and veggie pasta pick-ups by Gerber, banana
Snack - water, string cheese
Dinner - turkey sandwich, baby food sweet potatoes, few spoonfuls of my oatmeal, 6oz 2% milk

Is that absolutely horrible? Oh, and she does get another 6oz formula before bed in a bottle. All the rest is from a sippy cup.

[LucySol]

just reading along and getting some ideas! this is gr8!

[speechie]

Hey Robin- no that's not horrible, sounds like she's a good eater! You know that you can give whole milk at this age, and it's preferred until they are 2 yo, unless there's another reason.
You'll get loads of ideas from reading back through this thread- when Nick was that age, I did a lot of whole grain breads/crackers, soft cooked veggies, and fruits. Would have loved if he would eat cheese, but he still is not wild about cheese. I actually got frozen veggies and cooked them till very soft as it was so convenient and has almost as much nutrients as the fresh veggies- somethimes fresher!  It was already peeled/chopped, etc. So easy easy.
If you do hotdogs at this age, do you peel and chop them? I'm still quartering Nick's if he has one. Plus, I've searched for nitrate free hotdogs- any recommendations?

Okay, so far today Nick ate:
breakfast: 1/2 large blueberry buttermilk pancake w/butter and maple syrup, 1 scrambled egg, 1/3 cup blackberries, 8 oz milk.
Snack: chex cereal and watered down juice w/vitamin shot
Lunch: 1/2 thai burger w/peanut sauce and bun, 1/4 cup yogurt, carrots and wax beans, 8 oz milk.

[fifibobandmore]

Well so far today Edward has eaten:
breakfast: apple and sultana bite-size oatibix warmed with 125ml milk followed by a slice of toast with pineapple jam and 125ml apple juice
snack: 125ml full-fat milk, 2 cream-crackers with soft full-fat cheese, 2 cherry tomatoes and cucumber and carrot sticks
Lunch: Tomatoe, onion and basil pasta with 2 satsuma's
Snack: banana and strawberry smoothie
And for dinner tonight he is having: chicken and ham pie with mashed sweet potatoe, califlower and brocollia followed by jam roly-poly and custard

[Colin Macs Mom]

Since this thread is on page 30 I am going to lock it and start a fresh one.

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