LO is almost 13 mo and I need snack ideas! I'm looking for things that take no prep (my pinterest motivations/time are few and far between) and are decently healthy. LO is very fickle about whether she'll eat a pouch or not so that doesn't even always work well. These are our main go-tos:
- cheerios (I'm seriously embarrassed about how many she eats on a daily basis, tell me I'm not the only one!)
- raisins
- cheese sticks
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grapes, cherry tomatoes, goldfish crackers or Pirates booty (not healthy per se but not terrible), raisins
Oh you said raisins
LO likes yogurt covered raisins
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Pretzels, Greek yogurt, hummus, bananas, rice cakes, dried or freeze dried fruit
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@travellingbee: Oh man, LO loves cherry tomatoes! I forgot about those. Also cucumber slices, but they have to be drenched in red wine vinegar, ha!
@MrsSRS: I like the rice cakes idea! I think I feel guilty giving her crackers and things, but I should just find the low sodium ones and get over it. -
@MenagerieMama: but (tmi) pair those suckers with raisins not cheese or bananas so you don't end up dealing with constipation!
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Fruit like bananas, grapes, tangerines, etc
Yogurt
Graham crackers -
We do Cheerios and raisins a lot, in the snack catcher. I read somewhere it's good to pair raisins with something crunchy so they don't stick in their teeth.
Cheese sticks
Goldfish or cheddar bunnies
Apple slices
Fruit bars (like nutrigrain, or these organic fig bars from Costco that are less messy)
Bananas
Other fruit but it's more prep (slicing all the grapes, peeling oranges) -
So I know she's a bit old for them but I still feed my lo melts every day at 17 mo! She loves them and they are decently healthy and they are easy. Otherwise we do pouches, yogurt squeezers, cheese sticks, Annie's cheddar bunnies, oyster crackers, inner peas (trader joes), Apple sticks (trader joes) or fruit
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We buy the Toasted O's in the organic section, which are basically sugar free Cheerios. Makes me feel better since he eats so many
- Cheddar Bunnies
- Bananas
- Applesauce (I keep a spoon in the diaper bag)
- Pretzel sticks with those jiffy-to-go peanut butter cups -
@Mae: chedder bunnies! good idea, that seems like a less guilt version of gold fish.
@MrsSRS: luckily between LO still nursing a lot and her love for fruit, she can eat a whole banana and cheese stick in a day and it just gives her normal poops! which makes this CD mama happy, haha. I'll have to watch out when she's less of a boobaholic I think. Though I also have to bribe her with raisins to change her diaper so that helps too as she gets a regular ration.
@Tanjowen: I did buy her organic Os the other day (Kashi I think) though I realized they're not iron fortified like regular cheerios, which is a bummer. So I think I'm mixing them half/half to even it out
PB to go is brilliant!
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Grapes/fishies/cheese are the most common snacks for my 1.5 year old.
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LO eats a lot of pancakes, she loves them! I make a big batch and freeze them, 30 seconds in the microwave and you're all set. Since they are flat, I just throw them in a sandwich bag and don't have to worry about them getting squashed in the diaper bag. Once she figures out what syrup is I'm screwed, though.
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@Rocker2014: What recipe do you use? I'm interested in the pancake to go option!
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@Rocker2014: I do this for breakfast! She eats them every day she doesn't have breakfast at daycare, never thought about them for snacks. I make them with leftover baby oatmeal cereal (bought too many and barely fed her any as just oatmeal!), bananas and some of my freezer stash that's a little too old for bottles.
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I heat up frozen peas to room temp in the microwave and my kids eat them like they're candy. They're relatively mess free and obviously pretty healthy. It makes me feel less guilty about all the goldfish they also eat.
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@twodoghouse: peas are mess free until they get knocked off the tray and bounce Everywhere. I have found them several feet from the high chair. But yes my LO likes them too.
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@Foodnerd81: Ha, that's certainly true! My dog is a pretty efficient pea picker upper. But at least they don't stain clothes like blackberries, which is what my LOs would really like to beating all the time!
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olive loooooves tofu. like seriously could eat an entire container by herself. add some sesame oil and soy sauce to it!
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@Tanjowen: It varies, but I find that the boxed Aunt Jemima brand mix holds together much better than any I make from scratch when freezing and re-thawing. They don't come out mushy or deflated after microwaving! I sometimes add a little vanilla extract or cinnamon for added yumminess.
I also like to slice bananas and dip them in the batter, and then cook like usual. E loves these, but they can be messy when microwaved after being frozen so not the best thing for on the go.
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My LO loves freeze-dried fruit. I buy a case of individual packs at Costco.
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@MenagerieMama: Annie's everything! granola bars and fruit pouches.
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I go crazy with snacks from TJ's. PB stuffed pretzels, Inner Peas chips, frozen berries, fruit leather, cheese sticks, pouches.
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cheese, crackers, organic baby cereal bars, other dry cereals (mini wheats and shreddies LO loves), grapes, raisins, blueberries, bananas,
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Goldfish
Craisins
Applesauce
Cheese and crackers
Fruit strips
Gummies
Cut-up fruit
carrot sticks
Slices of raw zucchini -
Freeze dried fruit, craisins, dried blueberries, tiny bites of Larabars cut up, baby goldfish, oyster crackers, yogurt melts, sweet potato puffs, bites of soft rolls, a big slice of apple of gnaw on, small grapes, blueberries, bites of fruit leather.
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I just bought DS a bunch of snacks yesterday. I got him greek yogurt pouches (in the dairy section), freeze dried fruit, cheese and crackers, cheese sticks, cut up cucumbers, veggie straws.
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Nutragrain bars
Squeeze applesauce
Yogurt
Teddy Grahams
Grapes
Bananas
Goldfish crackers
LO likes yogurt covered raisins
PB to go is brilliant!
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