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Anyone else feed LOs odds and ends??

Rachel5782Rachel5782 member
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LO goes to bed at 7pm... so basically before I usually even finish cooking dinner (DH usually comes home around this time).  He takes a bottle right before bed, which leads me having to feed him dinner around 4:30 or 5.   If I have leftovers, I feed him those, but many times I don't.  Lately for dinner, I've been feeding him random stuff I have in the fridge.  For instance, last night he had some banana, some cherry tomatoes, some wheat tortilla, and some pieces of turkey.  I suppose I could cook him a seperate meal, but honestly I'm so exhausted from working all day, the idea of cleaning after two meals a night makes me want to throw myself out a window.

Anybody else feel the same way? lol

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Re: Anyone else feed LOs odds and ends??

  • Syncronicity09Syncronicity09 member

    I do. We usually don't eat until really late, and Ash has been pretty picky about his finger foods, and sometimes refuses purees. So I tend to give him bits of something new or something he is resistant to, followed by one or two things he likes. For instance I will introduce Broccoli, and then let him have some cheese, bananas or beans, etc. afterwards or once I am sure he is definitely not going to eat the broccoli.

    He will however eat anything if MH and I are eating it, even if he has refused it when he is in his high chair, so I am considering figuring out how to push our dinners earlier. (I did make him food and put it on a plate in front of me trying to trick him into wanting to eat it...but he was on to me. Apparently I am not as clever as the 10 month old!)

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  • klvklv member

    I totally do this all the time. Was just wondering the other day if I was the only one who did this.

    Today Hannah had sweet potatoes, peas, spaghetti and Cheerios for lunch. Dinner will prob be carrots, meat stick, toast and an animal cracker. The other day she had pears, spaghetti and peas for lunch....that's what got me thinking this in the first place! 

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  • imoveritimoverit member
    I do this a lot. Im a SAHM that does everything on demand so his naptimes vary around dinner time. 
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  • hepcatshepcats member
    When we feed finger foods, it's very odds and endish lol. Just whatever we have available. Even if you don't work, it's a PITA to put together something separate for them. I'm hoping it will be easier once he's a toddler but I doubt it.
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  • M&M227M&M227

    Lately I've been making pasta for her for dinner.  I'll make enough for like 3 nights and usually add a veggie in while cooking.  I've been giving her that and then fruit for dinner.  If we have something she can eat I'll give her some of that.  I usually feed her at 5 and we eat at 6.  If I wait til 6 to give her dinner she doesn't really take her last bottle before bed (around 7:15).

    At the very least she'll eat some puff or freeze dried fruit while we eat dinner. 

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  • cassoppeacassoppea
    Can you save some of your dinner from the night before? Sometimes I do that for my LO if i dont get around to cooking before her dinner time. Its so hard to juggle putting her to bed and making dinner! Lunch for A is generally odds and ends though. I've been doing lots of steel cut oatmeal mixed with purees, cheese, fruits and veggies and sometimes pasta or meat that's in the house. I try to buy stuff that I can scrape together but it's not always easy!
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  • jellybeanjeanjellybeanjean member

    imagehepcats:
    When we feed finger foods, it's very odds and endish lol. Just whatever we have available. Even if you don't work, it's a PITA to put together something separate for them. I'm hoping it will be easier once he's a toddler but I doubt it.

    Ha!  Yeah, you're right, it's not.  I was just saying to a friend today that I dread the day I have to feed them consistently cohesive meals and not just throw a bunch of random food that doesn't really "go" together on their trays.  Stick out tongue

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  • CarlaAndJamesCarlaAndJames member

    Yeah, it's a lot of odds and ends. I keep some stuff made in the freezer that's easy to take out, or I steam a bunch of veggies all at once so I've usually got something on hand. But a normal dinner for her is some leftover chicken, steamed veggies, maybe some pita/hummus, kinda whatever I can scrounge up. She usually eats in her highchair while I fix dinner.

    And like PP said, a lot of times I give her dinner leftovers for lunch/dinner the next day, so that helps!

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