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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
kellyjojo
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What food do you pack your 1yr old for daycare?
kellyjojo
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I have been leaving stage 3 Earths Best fruits and veggies, yogurt & puffs for daycare to feed Luke everyday. I also, of course, send him with a few 8oz bottles (and he has a sippy cup). At home, I try to feed him more table food. I usually make him sweet potatoes, pastina, apple sauce, biscuts, spinach, broccoli and carrot puree, cheese, scrambled eggs. I want to stop buying jar food and send him with some reg food that I put together. Would love to hear what some of you have on the menu for a typical week at daycare. Thx!
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Re: What food do you pack your 1yr old for daycare?
Breakfast
Frozen waffles, pancakes or French toast sticks along with yogurt or applesauce
Lunch:
Cream Cheese & Jelly sandwich
Cream Cheese & banana sandwich
Fish sticks w/veggies
Chicken nuggets w/veggies
Leftovers from the night before
Snack
Puffs, Goldfish, Animal crackers, fruit
Grilled chicken, tuna, homemade Mac and Cheese, spaghetti, turkey, meatballs, leftovers. She always has a veggie with lunch and sometimes a fruit if she is still hungry.
The Take and Toss containers are great. I actually cut up chicken and make small servings of spaghetti and put them in the freezer to have as backup for a day when I am running late and don?t make it home in time for dinner or I am not feeling well on one of my food prep days.
Breakfast
Oatmeal & Applesauce
Waffle (or pancake) & scrambled egg
Banana & toast
Lunch:
If I don?t have leftovers to send it will be one of the following?
Almond butter & Jelly sandwich
Turkey and cheese (small bite size pieces)
Chicken nuggets w/veggies
Snack
Yogurt, puffs, Earth?s Best cereal bars, fruit, cheerios, mum mums
I love the idea of the cream cheese sandwich. I?ll have to give that a try.
We have always made our own baby food, so what we do has naturally evolved out of that. DD is 13 months (today!) but is not able to eat chunky food yet, except cereal, puffs, crackers. She chokes and gags. We send our own food to daycare, which we make on the weekends and freeze up in small containers or food cubes. She also gets this stuff for dinner, btw.
This last weekend we made coconut chicken curry w/ added barley, beef and veggi stir fry (broccoli, snap peas, shrooms, red bell pepper, garlic sesame oil, soy sauce, etc) with brown rice, beef raveoli (frozen organic) with mushroom pasta sauce (from jar) with added cheese, split pea soup, grilled zuchini (loves!!!), sauteed asparagus, and roasted carrots and tomatoes (toss whole tomatoes and baby carrots with olive oil and herbs and throw in the oven for 45 minutes. A favorite). Everything gets ground up in the food processor or immersion blender to a consistency DD can handle.
Other favorites are mixtures of frozen veggies. Just grab bags of whatever looks good, throw in the steamer, and then grind up (or not if your LO doesn't need it ground). DD gets a large serving of fruited yogurt as her post-nap snack every afternoon. We puree our own fresh and frozen fruit, freeze in cubes, and then thaw as necessary and mix with plain wholemilk yogurt (that way she's getting real fruit and no added sugar). We top it with toasted wheat germ. We also pop out cubes of fruit anytime we want to give her a fruit serving (always 2 at dinner, and sometimes in her morning oatmeal as well). You can mix and match the fruit cubes to make great combinations. example: last night DD had pineapple-mango-strawberry sauce!
About a month ago I made DD pot roast. Chunks of stewing beef (comes pre-cut!), potatoes, carrots, celery, salt and pepper, some water, and tomatoe paste - throw all in a dutch oven or tall roasting pan and cook in oven until done. We then grind it up, but you don't have to.
DD also LOVES roasted pumpkin. Good substitutes this time of year are butternut squash and sweet potatoes. I bought a spaghetti squash sunday but haven't cooked it yet. Can serve with any pasta sauce.
Breakfast (one of the following):
"baby" Oatmeal and fruit puree (jarred), pancake and applesauce/yogurt, yogurt and a cereal bar (I like the Gerber Graduates), cereal and milk (typically one of the various Cheerio flavors)
Lunch:
She gets a Gerber Pasta Pick Up meal and fruit every day for lunch. DD is extremely picky, eats almost no meat and isn't a huge fan of vegetables. So, this is what she gets for lunch, because this is what she'll eat. I know it's not the "best" food out there, but I don't like the idea of her going hungry at daycare.
Snacks:
Anything from applesauce (if she didn't have it with breakfast/lunch) to goldfish. DD likes most snack foods and often eats the snack that's provided by the daycare.
Our daycare provides breakfast and snacks. Here is what I usually pack for lunch:
Veggie (DS doesn't like fruit, weird, I know) such as cooked carrots, broccoli, asparagus or peas
Chicken nuggets (Earth's Best makes a pretty nutritious option), grilled cheese sandwich cut into sticks, cubed cheese, hummus sandwich cut into sticks
Rice, pasta with butter or soy crisps sometimes.
My 15 month old is THE SAME WAY!