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My daughter is 11 months old and is very uninterested in purees and very interested in table food. I wanted to see what other mothers were feeding their children this age. We thought Brianna might have been MSPI, but I think now she has outgrown it. ( Long story, but both she and I have had dairy and it hasn’t seemed to cause the same problems as before.
) But I am still cautious about dairy. I give her chick nuggets, hotdogs, any fruit and green beans (she doesn’t like carrots) and her favorite is bagels (she is a carbo-addict, like her momma
). But I am sure this stuff gets old…any other ideas? She only has two teeth, but she eats like she has 12!Wow! She’s really eating well for her age. I can’t believe she can eat chicken nuggets with only two teeth!
My little guy just started eating table food at 13 months. His absolute favorite food is whole grain crackers. (I try to avoid white flour as it is addicting for some people and it really does start young. I’ve known plenty of toddlers and pre-schoolers who would eat nothing but crackers, toast, bagels and other white flour foods, so I am trying to avoid this trap with my carb loving kids).
That’s great that she eats fruit!!
Anyway, Myles is just starting out but he loves:
grilled cheese sandwhiches
almond butter and jam sandwiches (almond butter is healthier than peanutbutter…less sugar/salt etc.)
dry cereals (cheerios, puffed wheat and others whole grain cereals)
He’s starting to eat dried fruits and veggies from http://www.justtomatoes.com (I love their products)
My girls used to eat (as toddlers and still do)
All types of fruits, melons, berries and veggies (Myles isn’t yet, but hopefully soon)
pancakes (whole grain of course
)french toast
scrambled eggs (a little cheese can make them a little tastier)
broiled or baked chicken breast
meatballs
Noodles with tomatoe sauce or butter and parmesan cheese. Usually when I make tomatoe sauce I cook it with some ground turkey, beef or veggie meat to add some protein. Also you can add some pureed veggies to the sauce and they will never know.
Pizza (homemade on pita bread, english muffins) or Frozen.
Vegetarian (Morning Star Farms) chick patties, veggie burgers, sausage… (We’re not vegetarian, but it’s nice for some variety and we’re not big meat eaters. Also these products seem to have a good consitency for toddlers, I think).
Ravioli…a big favorite (white flour so we don’t eat it often but they love it).
I think Laura’s intro link has some links for toddler foods…I should check it out myself.
Finger foods: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1653
Toddler foods-mspi safe& otherwise: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2599&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1
‘Safe’ Fish chart: http://www.checnet.org/healthehouse/education/quicklist-deta il.asp?Main_ID=716
Jill, the frozen cherries sound great. I’ll have to look for them.
Heather, thanks for the info on nuts….I didn’t know that. Now researchers are actually saying it’s better to give kids these things earlier to avoid allergiies. There was a recent thread about it. It’s one of those things that keeps changing so we’ll probably never really know.
I guess I wasn’t too worried about it because there’s no real food allergies in my family except that my mom is allergic to shell fish. But I think you’re probably right….if there’s a history of food allergies you probably need to be more careful about what you give your children.Wow, those are great ideas for foods..I do have one of those mesh bags, but Brianna is so funny.,..she wants to be just like the adults, that she won’t eat out of the mesh bag! 🙂 Christine, I ordered some of those just veggie things last night…I think that is a great way to give Brianna variety. You know, I think it is funny about the food recommendations pediatricians give out.. my mom told me that she gave my brother solids when he was one month old because that is what the pediatrician said to do! Go figure
…but he is still alive. 🙂 I think I might try the almond butter and meatballs would be another good one. Thanks again everyone!B’s mom,
You’ll love the just veggies!! They’re great. My girls love the peas…they won’t eat frozen or canned peas but they go nuts over these!!
About the almond butter, I’ve tried a few brands and some are pretty bland or dry. The best of the ones I’ve tried is the Kettle Roaster brand. I find it at my local health food store. When you get it you’ll want to scrape it all out and put it in big bowl with a tight fitting lid and then mix it thoroughly to get the oil blended well. Since it’s not highly processed like peanut butter the oil tends to rise to the top and you end up with a useless cake of dry almond butter on the bottom of the jar. That’s where the big bowl comes in….it gives you room to mix it up really well. A PITA, I know, but it really will make your almond butter experience much better.
Myles won’t use the mesh bag either. He looks at me like I’m nuts when I give it to him.
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