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| can you help with good and healthy foods for my 11 month old we eat frech toast and pancakes AND eggs but all of that get tirening what can i make that dosent take alot of time for breakfest and lucnh so if can please give me some advice |
| Posted by ashley on 04/08/2008 02:02 AM
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| Have you tried oatmeal, or fruit. My son loved bannanas at that age. I wish I could get him to eat eggs, he won't eat them and I have tried about 50 times, they say if they don't like them the first time just keep trying, well he is not having that he just doen't like them so you are lucky there. We eat wheat toast w jelly or a thin spread of PB you can also serve a fruit with it. I always give him a fruit after he has eaten the main thing and he loves all fruit so far. In a real crunch you can get the eggo whole wheat waffles, my son loves those as well. |
| posted by amy on 04/08/2008 09:19 AM
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| I am crunched for time in the mornings as well but I alternate oatmeal and cream of wheat-plain packets. I usually add whole milk, flax seed, ground nuts and brown sugar. I always give her bananas in the morning, that is a must for her! We also sometimes have Keffir in a sippy cup along with waffles. You can make a smoothie with keffir and frozen strawberries. I usually end up making lunch for the week on the weekend since I don't have a lot of time. I make homemade whole wheat mac n cheese with broccoli, lentils and brown rice casserole, sometimes I just give her cottage cheese, a veggie and a fruit. I'm running out of lunch ideas myself so I would love to hear more ideas from people as well! |
| posted by Mindi on 04/08/2008 09:50 AM
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For breakfast my twins eat dry cereal (Chex is good until they can handle the harder cereals like cheerios) and they have a milkshake given to them in a sippy cup. The milk shake consists of canned milk (I used formula before they turned one), powdered milk and fruit done up in the blender. I try to vary the fruit every day. Some alternative ideas are to use peanut butter, pumpkin, or cream cheese - you can use with just plain fruit or with spices but you dont need to add sugar. If you dont think it is quite sweet enough (pumpkin needs a bit of sweetner) then you can sweeten it with applejuice.
Lunch is usually a grilled cheese, blended cream cheese (like with spinach or salmon or tomatos), tuna and cheese or peanut butter sandwich, with a can of Healthy Request soup. - I drain the can and rinse it under very hot water. This serves to lighten the sodium content and heats it up a bit without over-heating it. The babies can then pick the vegetables and noodles up with their fingers and feed themselves. Healthy Request makes a wide variety of soups that you can choose from. The reason I use them is not so much because of the low sodium (since I rinse them) but because they put alot of veggies in their soups. One sandwich and one can feeds the both of them - so since you only have one perhaps save the broth for yourself with part of the "good stuff" and the other half of the sandwich. I just had a thought though about the sandwiches - you can add an egg sandwich into that. I dont feed my kiddos eggs because my son tries to shove too much in his mouth and ends up choking. He is very much into self feeding and wont let me spoon feed him so for now we are not eating eggs.
They get two snacks a day usually a cereal and fruit or toast and fruit. Once or twice a week I allow them a fun snack like cheetos (I get a low sodium variety from the health food store) or teddy grahams (cookies).
For dinner they have some of what ever we are eating. This usually consists of a meat, a starch, a veggie, and a fruit.
For an 11 month old you may not be feeding him as much as I do here but this is the basic diet plan my children have been on since about that age. Remember that children that young need more fat than we do so while you want to try and eat healthy make sure they do get a bit of fat in their diet too. I usually accomplish this in the lunch I serve - both cheese and peanut butter are high in fat and I use regular mayonnaise on their tuna sandwiches. Things like that. I cut their sandwhiches up into bite size pieces for them to handle easily. Also for a variety you can use a pita bread when your child is a bit older - they need to have molars to handle that because it can be a bit tough.
Hope this helps give you some ideas. |
| posted by Nyteglori on 04/08/2008 10:11 AM
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Oh I wanted to point out you can add yogurt to their diet too. I dont feed mine yogurt because my daughter is allergic and my son refuses to be spoon fed but it is a good healthy food that can be added.
My dry cereal in the morning stems from the lack of time and that they can eat the cereal while I blend up their milkshakes and get things ready for the day. I mean what is easier than pouring a handful of cereal out for them to eat. |
| posted by Nyteglori on 04/08/2008 10:17 AM
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| my daughter will be a yr old in may. For breakfast she's into a lot of different things. But one of her favorites is 2 oz of cottage cheese, mixed with some diced peaches (or whatever fruit available), and some gerber oatmeal. Careful not to make it too dry. I lay out a handful of cheerios on her tray so she can snack on those in between spoonfuls of the cottage cheese mix. Wash that down with a cup of water. Its really a very nutritious breakfast and quick to make! |
| posted by JC on 04/17/2008 01:35 PM
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