LO is 11 months old and only has 2 teeth (bottom middle). Right now he's only getting 3 meals of solids a day, but I want to start introducing 2 snacks as I get ready to wean 2 daytime nursing sessions. I'm at a loss for which snacks though...I give him a ton of fruit at breakfast and dinner, so I don't necessarily want to give him more, and I don't really want to always do puffs/cheerios/yogurt melts. He eats a lot of cheese (shredded in scrambled eggs or a cheese stick with lunch/dinner). Any other suggestions for easy to chew snacks? He doesn't like hummus, or else I would do hummus on bread!
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Tofu squares, cheese (C LOVES Babybels), yogurt, fruit, edamame, baby food muffins (made from baby cereal, purees and whole wheat flour), mini quesdadillas, whole grain cheerios, hard boiled or baked eggs, mini pancakes, sweet potato fries, fruit leather,
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@loveisstrange: ooh how do you do the baby food muffins? And when did you start with fruit leather and edamame?
I feel liek a lot of those suggestions I already do as meals (i.e. he has yogurt, eggs or pancakes as breakfast)--so would I just do the one I don't do for breakfast as a snack? I don't know why this seems so complicated to me, lol.
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@hilsy85: eh food is food I don't think LO will care ifcertain things are designated snack food! You could try different hummus recipes? We've done a few different ones with types of beans and spices changing. Peanut butter on bread? We're not doing snacks yet but I'm thinking I might do fruit as snacks instead of at meals.
Eta- we've done a few homemade crackers too
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@scg00387: I was also thinking about splitting fruit from meals...but he REALLY looks forward to his fruit!! But maybe I can try that, it would seem to be easiest. He looves peanut butter on bread, that's a good one! I found an avocado hummus recipe that I might try.
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@scg00387: Agreed! C doesnt really like plain hummus, but she loves the garlic kind.
@hilsy85: We just kind of grab stuff and give it to her. It does end up being a lot of the same stuff she eats with meals. I don't think it really matters too much.
Baby food muffins. You can also use any baby purees instead of applesauce. http://blog.goldmedalflour.com/category/muffins/baby-food-muffins.aspx
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Daycare usually gives DS cheese sticks, fruit, graham crackers, teething biscuit. At home we usually do cheese and fruit.
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i have this same issue. we do fruits with meals so at snack i'm at a loss. our go-to's are half a piece of toast with peanut butter, applesauce, yogurt melts, cheese crackers. i'd like to have a longer list.
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@hilsy85: yep same here he always grabs fruit first!
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