Sandwiches and LO

BC&LM

I was talking last night with someone with a 2+ year old, and when I mentioned my LO eats sandwiches, she seemed surprised; I don't think she serves them to her son. So I was wondering, how many of your LOs each sandwiches?

Bonus question: What kinds do you make? I am always looking for more ideas.

BC&LM

As I mentioned in the OP, LO eats sandwiches. He eats them most days for lunch and occasionally for dinner. Off the top of my head, the ones I can remember doing are peanut butter & jelly, peanut butter & banana, cream cheese & banana, cream cheese & strawberry, turkey, cheese, & mustard, and hummus & cheese. There might be more that I forgot.

WasNotWas

We do (in addition to your list) grilled cheese and tuna

BC&LM

WasNotWas said:

We do (in addition to your list) grilled cheese and tuna

Oh we do grilled cheese too. I forgot about hot sandwiches! We have not tried tuna yet.

JessicaKS

Do you cut up the sandwhichs into bite size pieces or do your kids pick up the sandwhich and take bites out of them. I do cut up sandwhichs that will stay together cut up (PBJ and grilled cheese for example) but never tried whole sandwhichs. What do you guys do?

BC&LM

JessicaKS said:

Do you cut up the sandwhichs into bite size pieces or do your kids pick up the sandwhich and take bites out of them. I do cut up sandwhichs that will stay together cut up (PBJ and grilled cheese for example) but never tried whole sandwhichs. What do you guys do?

We cut them up into one inch squares. He used to pull them apart but doesn't anymore. We serve them on whole-wheat toasted bread.

sndravt

She has grilled cheese regularly, toast with peanut butter, and peanut butter and jelly. I still cut it super small though because I'm paranoid she will choke.

bumpuser7846882

We've only done grilled cheese so far. He's getting better at biting now that he has a top tooth to help out. We ordered it a restaurant, so it was cut into triangles. That seemed to work pretty well for him. Previously I had only given him toast with peanut butter or cheese, cut into 1" squares.

cynthia2007

We do grilled cheese that she loves. Most times its a deconstructed sandwich like turkey, cheese and toasted bread cut into little pieces. She's had some of my homemade chicken salad sandwich and loved those too. Need to try some simple pb&j soon

MorganWP

andreamarie77 said:

I've given her strips of a sandwich and toast as well, but she doesn't have the hang of the whole biting thing yet. She just holds it and gnaws at it till it's mush and she can shove it all in her mouth.

This. DD also does the gnaws to mush thing with bananas too.

Her favourites are grilled cheese and open faced tuna melts (with lots of pickles!).

LaBellaVida

Peanut butter, sometimes toasted.
Turkey and cheese, ham and cheese. Egg salad, chicken ect. ...

He'll take whatever kinda sandwich we make him.

Eta: grilled cheese.

I make a sandwich and cut it in half. I'll hold him and he takes bites. If I don't hold it for him, he'll play with it. He'll eat a whole sandwich! He's a great Eater.

ASmallWonder

Gah, life is going to be so much easier if we find out he doesn't have a nut allergy.  PB is such a good binder for sandwiches  He eats grilled cheese and at school they do tuna and ham & cheese.

BC&LM

Sympkin said:

We do a salmon sandwich, egg salad, smoked salmon and cream cheese, tomato and/or spinach on a grilled cheese plus many of the previously mentioned.

I used to cut all sandwiches bite-sized but now we've moved on to strips. I still roll a rolling pin over them to help them stick together and make it a little easier to eat.

For the salmon sandwich, do you do canned or fresh salmon?

BC&LM

Great idea ladies! I have a few new ones I definitely want to try!

dmlk413

DD eats grilled cheese all the time. It's one of the few things she will consistently eat.

daffy2k

Grilled cheese is a hit in this house.  Everything else she pulls apart (including peanut butter) so she basically has a "deconstructed" sandwich several times a week.  

nikel13

She eats them, but I tear them apart.