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So what do I feed this kid?

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Shelly
She's 7!!!

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So what do I feed this kid?

I feel like her diet is too dependent on dairy, and I want her to have a healthy diet. So what do you feed your kids who are over 1?

Our standard breakfast is yogurt, eggs, or cottage cheese and fruit.

Our standard lunch is a veggie, spinach or broccoli burger or chicken nuggets with some veggies (Sweet potato, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, beans, broccoli, diced mixed veggies). Fresh fruit for desert. Occasionally some mac and cheese. Sometimes some cottage cheese too.

Dinner is strikingly similar to lunch.

Snack is some cheese.

2 8oz cups of milk each day.

Jordana usually feeds herself.

I feel like this menu must be so boring- and too dairy dependent. !! Any suggestions?

Posted 6/21/07 8:06 PM
 
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Sharon
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Re: So what do I feed this kid?


I'd like to help, but all my kids eat is yogurt.








Posted 6/21/07 8:11 PM
 

nferrandi
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Nicole

Re: So what do I feed this kid?

How about pasta with meatballs or meatsauce? Waffles or pancakes for breakfast?
Luca isn't a year yet, but a typical day for him is a blueberry Eggo waffle and a 6oz bottle for breakfast. A 1/2 Yobaby yogurt and a fruit or veggie for lunch and a 6oz bottle. Then for dinner he has cereal and a little of whatever anyone in front of him is eating (some pasta, chopped meat, chicken, etc...) He will also usually have some puffs and/or cheese or fruit for snacks.

Posted 6/21/07 8:15 PM
 

BaroqueMama
Chase is one!

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me

Re: So what do I feed this kid?

Well, I can offer you all the non-dairy options in the world because Ava cannot have milk. So here's what a typical day would consist of for us.

Breakfast: One of the following....cinnamon raisin french toast, omlette, oatmeal, blueberry pankcakes, banana pancakes, whole wheat organic waffles. The only things I buy frozen are the waffles, everything else I make to control the ingredients.

Lunch: One of the following: organic turkey breast with soy cheese on a whole wheat pita, soy burger, veggie burger, potato pancake, pasta with sauce or oil and garlic, cinnamon raisin bread toast with jelly, hummus and pita, chicken soup.

Dinner: Homemade honey mustard chicken nuggets that I make out of a chicken breast and crushed whole wheat crackers, sweet potato "fries" that I make fresh with cinnamon and a little bit of brown sugar, chicken francaise, roasted chicken, grilled chicken marinated in lemon, garlic and olive oil, potato gnocchi with garlic and oil and broccoli, turkey meatloaf, turkey meatballs in a sauce, basically, if I make it, she'll eat it. THe onyl thing I never make is red meat since we do not eat it in my house. I'm drawing a blank, but I will think and keep suggesting stuff. Ontop of this, she has three servings of fruit a day, she's a fruit nut and tons of veggies.

Posted 6/21/07 8:18 PM
 

ckdk
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Cheryl

Re: So what do I feed this kid?

I can't help much with breakfast b/c DD doesn't eat much, occassionally a whole wheat pancake but she usually just has fruit and maybe some cheese.

Lunch... She likes all the pancakes from Dr. Praegers, veggie burgers, rotisserie or grilled chicken, cold cuts (low sodium ham or turkey), she loves veggies, gerber raviolis...

Dinner... turkey meatballs, chicken, anything i made that is leftover...she loves crockpot meatsChat Icon
lots of veggies, pasta with tomato sauce or garlic and oil, mac and cheese(never as a main, side dish only)...

Posted 6/21/07 8:30 PM
 
 

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