Food ideas for 9 months+

chimer33

I'm running out of ideas for breakfast and DESPERATELY need ideas for the afternoon snacks!!!  Breakfast we usually do oatmeal and fruit (we're going to try yogurt this week and can't do eggs b/c of DH allergies), but it's getting boring, even for me!! What else do you do for breakfast?  We have one DD with only 2 bottom teeth and the other we're still waiting for ANY!!! so we can't do anything that really requires chewing.

And for afternoon snacks - we've been doing applesauce, and I'm going to steam some carrots and cut them up but I have no clue what to do for snacks!  They dropped the 3:00 bottle and we've replaced it with snacks, but I'm having a hard time finding things that are enough calories to replace the bottle.

Any advice for other meals is great too, those are just my 2 biggest holes right now. I've been trying to make most of their meals, which has been going really good (if you haven't seen Superfoods for Babies and Children by Anabel Karmel it's great!), so any advice on that would be MUCH appreciated too. 

Thanks ladies!!!

Mrs. Destructo

My favorite high calorie snacks for our kids are avocados and hummus. At that age we would just spoon feed hummus or mashed avocados to them. Now they get hummus spread on bread or on little meat chunks or something, and they eat small slices of avocados.

MNheidi

Few ideas:

- avecado/banana mash

- toast w/ thin spread of sugar free jam or apple butter (i think they could gum it)

-  pears (the real ripe ones practically melt in their mouth)

- string cheese

- cottage cheese

 

armo

My girls have been having:

- hummos (Trader Joe's)

- whole milk yogurt (TJ's)

- banana, mashed

- sweet potato boiled and mashed

- whole wheat puffs cereal (store brand since i'm cheap)

- dehydrated apple slices (they LOVE these- my mom buys them for me from BJ's or Costco in little bags) - they are very easy to eat since they melt in the mouth

- little bits of baked chicken

- little bits of fish (they've had white fish like haddock and also salmon - good for you fats)

MetalMonkey

Thanks for asking this.  I feel like the worlds most boring mom because my DDs get the same thing every day.  One DD has decided to only drink 4oz max at each bottle so I need to increase the calories any way I can.  I gave her some yogurt juice by gerber and she loved it.  I think letting her drink it with a "grown-up" straw helped.   In one 4oz serving there are 110 calories and it has a decent amount of vitamin C and Calcium too.