need new breakfast ideas and a bottle question

addison1060 · July 2012

My LO's use to love oatmeal and applesauce for breakfast. DS1 now will have absolutely nothing to do with being spoon fed unless it has yogurt on it. DS2 still loves the oatmeal. I also give them whole grain waffles and scrambled eggs with cheese. What are some other ideas I can give for breakfast? Also neither will eat fruit....weird, I know. They love veggies though!

As for bottles, both are still taking 4 7.5oz bottles daily. How much are your LO's taking? They usually have a bottle around 7 when they get up, breakfast at 815-830, another bottle at 11, lunch at 12-1230, bottle at 3-4, dinner at 530 and the last bottle before bed at 7.

Sorry this was so long and thanks for any insight!

SusieBW · July 2012

For breakfast, what do you eat? DD has yogurt with fruit and baby cereal in it pretty much every week day (I make it at home and send it for her babysitters feed her), but on weekends when I cook breakfast for myself at home, I just make some for her too. Scrambled eggs, veggie omelettes, pancakes, french toast, breakfast sausage . . .

For bottles, DD has 3 a day. Her morning bottle when she wakes up around 7:00 is 6 oz, breakfast at about 9, snack after nap time, lunch around 1:00, then 6 oz in the afternoon sometime with snack, dinner around 6, then an 8 oz bottle before bed. FWIW, her pedi said that I should be giving her between 18-24 oz of formula a day, and to aim for the lower end of that. So right now, she's getting 20 oz/day.

JenWhite123 · July 2012

DD has pretty much self weaned from the bottle. She gets 6 oz as soon as she wakes up and 3 oz before bed.

Breakfast:

Scrambled eggs

Yogurt

Toast

Cheerios

Fruit she can self feed like bananas, peaches, blueberries, etc

Cottage Cheese

Oatmeal

Pancakes - plain, no syrup

smilelari · July 2012

-Pancakes. Or you could do crepes that are savory and fill with veggies.

-Omlette/fritatta/scramble

-Toast with peanut butter or cream cheese

-Yogurt with fruit. Or, I used to mix yogurt with veggie purees for DS

-Smoothies

-Breakfast sandwich - english muffin, egg, cheese, maybe top with spinach and/or tomato

preggersin2011 · July 2012

On the weekends I make LO pancakes with banana inside, or apple cinnamon waffles. During the weekday LO gets two snacks and two meals at school. I'll send yogurt with a fruit/veg/cereal in it for breakfast and finger food for lunch and the two snacks.

I'm sure you can find a healthy oatmeal cookie type of recipe for breakfast.

blu-eyedwife · July 2012

My guy does a lot of fruit for breakfast, so maybe not so helpful. He usually has fruit and yogurt or eggs, or "French toast" - bread dipped in egg and then cooked. He loves muffins, breakfast sandwiches and quesadillas, pancakes, waffles, etc.

addison1060 · July 2012

Thanks for all the ideas ladies! I have no idea how to get them to eat fruit. We tried peaches again today and you'd think I was giving them sand! They will eat freeze dried blueberries from Trader Joe's. I'm not sure if it's a consistency thing and they don't like fruit because it's slimy/slippery. Who knows.....I can just keep trying!