oh and ditto that "tiredbuthappy" :)
Alex eats:
dry cereal for breakfast, and sometimes plain pancakes, or oatmeat w/fruit (changes daily)
turkey/chicken sticks and/or cereal bar milk for lunch (or whatever im having sliced up)
pasta/burger/chicken and veggies of some kind for din
he usually always has his soy milk throughout the day
struggling to get him to drink water right now
both of my girls liked seasoning. I am still surprised by what they like. My 3 yr old appreciates Frank's red hot on foods; my 12 month old loves things with onion, garlic, etc... The other day she was shoveling in hummus with her fists. She wont eat plain pasta- it has to have sauce! Now is the time to try flavors- once they get used to bland foods it's harder to get them to eat flavors later on.
I usually use spices .. Joel doesn't really like to eat the meat without some kind of flavoring .. He loves bbq chicken and ground beef with a little bit of roast beef seasoning on it. If I give it to him plain he won't eat it .. I try not to give him things with a lot of salt though.
thanks for sharing Janek drinks a lot of milk and eats a lot of fruits and vegies i am trying to give him ham , ,eat or chicken at least once a day , My girlfriend daughter is 3 years old and she told me that even know she cooks for her without spices. do u use spices or just plain?
Thanks! I must have jinked myself because this weekend his eating was not that great! I am hoping it is due to his runny nose and that we are not going back to the old eating pattern! : (
Well Cruz finally started eating mostly table food! This is huge for him! He would gag himself and throw up every meal for months! Hence the reason he is only around 19lbs!
He is finally on a good re- flux Rx and is eating well! When he turned one he went back to daycare I was off this summer with him (teacher) and he came home a new kid!
Every morning he eats 6 oz of Yogurt mixed with oatmeal. For lunch he normally eats what the daycare serves (some days not) For snack in the afternoon he eats 4 oz of vanilla pudding and eats table food or stage 3 jars for dinner. He drinks about 30 oz of milk and has water and a little juice throughout the day! This is a huge step up for us!!!! He will also eat soft cookies and finger foods (crackers, natural cheetos) for snacks too!
This is still experimental for us too! I am just letting him lead! I am tired of the fighting and welcoming this new change!
Joel will really eat almost anything. These are things that Joel regularly eats: cubed cheese cut into 4ths, any kind of fruit, chex or multi grain cheerios for breakfast and a banana, chicken or browned up ground beef for lunch, a vegetable usually corn that was frozen that I warmed up and a fruit, for dinner he eats whatever we eat: pasta, bbq chicken, hamburger, salmon, stir fry, hot dogs, mac n cheese. We just cut up things into small pieces for him. As a snack he usually has graham crackers and milk all day long.
At 1, my son liked sliced olives, dice-sized bites of ham, chopped tomatoes, cooked carrots and frozen peas (served frozen). I always had those things on hand (even the carrots -- I'd cook a bunch at a time and then keep them in a baggie in the fridge) so if the rest of the meal was just plain pasta, I still could toss the rest onto his plate and look like I tried hard. Fruit was either cut-up apple or cut-up banana, though he learned pretty early to peel and eat the whole banana. He liked scrambled eggs if he had helped make them, but otherwise not so much. I think I was still giving some Gerber's from jars then (the "naturals" ones -- they had a chicken & wild rice that he liked for a long time) when I ran out of time to fuss over something home-cooked. Mornings when we didn't eat eggs, we would eat oatmeal, Cheerios, or spoon-sized Shredded Wheat. I would give him peaches (those Del Monte ones that come in the refrigerator case in a jar) for dessert after dinner.
This is what Cooper had today, just to give you an idea:
breakfast: scrambled eggs, yogurt
lunch: green beans, string cheese, applesauce
dinner: ravioli, mac n cheese
snack: banana
milk with meals, and water in between