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more filling meals for 13 month olds..
Disclaimer: Please note I am from the south and we love southern food!!! 
Our girls seem to be not getting full from their meals. They are still on toddler formula and they are doing about 5- 6 oz bottles a day and sucking every bottle dry. They are very low in weight not even on charts and so that's why the formula. I don't want to increase amount of formula b/c I know eventually we have to move away from that.
They normally eat a good lunch and dinner and snacks but lately just don't seem full. We do grilled cheeses, beans, sweet potatos, bananas, eggs, peaches, toast, gerber pasta meals and we just tried chicken nuggets on Tuesday. I am thinking of trying Fish Sticks. I just need more suggestions.. Thanks!
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Re: more filling meals for 13 month olds..
I make baked ziti for the girls and they love it! Every time I make it I try adding different things. Like last week I made it with sliced zucchini, chicken, and mexican blend cheese. Mac n cheese is also a big hit. I've done stir fry as well. I always try to incorporate a dairy, protein, carb, and fruit/veggie in every meal. I also do sandwiches (turkey and cheese) then some diced fruit. My girls also love rotisserie chickens. We'll get one and I just cut the meat up for them and they'll eat it. Basically they'll eat whatever we eat. I also will make frittatas or omlettes for them. Do you offer several things at a meal?? Like I mentioned I try to give them a balanced meal and then they get their WCM when they are done eating. We also offer sippy cups of water during the day.
Oh another thing my girls love are baked apples and sweet potatoes. I just peel and cube them, shake them in a bag with some olive oil and cinnamon. Then bake at 400 for like 20 min (until sweet potatoes are soft). I'll make a big batch and then split it up in smaller containers for the week.
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I used the crockpot on Sunday and made a pot roast with cut up carrots and potatoes and they loved it! My one son is quite picky too. Then we did leftovers for a few meals after that. I actually started doing a weekly meal planner (just for the babies) to make it easier on myself.
In the mornings, some things they love are: nutrigrain blueberry waffles with a little honey butter. Turkey sausage. Cut up canteloupe and bananas, blueberry muffins, wheat toast with butter. English muffins. Scrambled eggs with cheese (but the picky baby won't eat them). Cheerios. Yogurt.
For lunches and dinner, we do things like cooked pasta (we try to do wheat pasta) in small pieces and mix it up with cooked veggies (frozen packages of broccoli, asparagus, green beans, etc.), cut up pieces of cheddar/mozzerella cheese sticks and maybe cut up pieces of chicken breast. We also do mac and cheese and hot dogs cut into tiny pieces, chicken nuggets, sweet potato fries, pieces of deli meat, grilled cheese sandwiches with either deli meat or veggies snuck in. We also will do veggie loaded pizza. I'd also love some other ideas!
Disclaimer: my girls have dairy issues so we can't do many dairy items, and we did a peanut challenge test at 12 months that they passed, so we have introduced peanuts to them.
For breakfast we rotate between 2-3 of the following: precooked sausage patties, scrambled egg with cheese, toasted peanut butter and jelly, waffle with peanut butter or cream cheese on top, 1/2 a banana, cut up strawberries, mandarin orange slices, applesauce.
Common lunch items: string cheese, cut up lunch meat, leftovers from previous night's dinner, drain a can of chicken noodle soup (Progresso, etc) and warm it up, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, usually another fruit
Dinner: We're working now at 20 months to be more consistant in trying to get them to eat what we eat, but at 13 months, their favorites were chicken alfredo, meatballs with a little sauce, tortolinis (went over better than ravioli as they are smaller), steamed veggies with a bit of butter or parmasean, mashed potatoes, cottage cheese, and breadsticks.
Have you moved on to sippy cups yet? I found that our LOs drank far less and ate more food when we got them off bottles. The pedi said that they likely find the bottles a comfort, so they love sucking them and eating from them. When we changed to sippies, they drank far less and only enough to satiate their immediate hunger. We also offer them a few whole wheat crackers with their sippies of milk. We do water with meals.
I know you said you tried fish sticks but have you tried regular fish? It's nice and soft and easy for them to eat and it's also really good for them. My boys gobble down pretty much any kind of fish (tilapia, salmon, haddock etc.). I just bake it in the oven with some olive oil and seasoning and we all eat it (they are at the age where they just eat what we eat).
I always check the fish counter to see if there are any good sales and then I freeze them. Recently, I just realized that if I am freezing the fresh fish anyway, I might as well save money and buy the frozen filets so I bought a bag of frozen tilapia filets. I got it on sale and it ended up being less than $1.00 per piece so that might be something you can check into.
Also, it sounds like maybe they could do with a little more protein in their meals and maybe that would fill them up more. You can do turkey burgers, turkey meatloaf (which is great because you can also sneak vegetables in there plus you can make it at the beginning of the week and eat off it all week), frozen veggie burgers, etc. too.