feeding them need ideas if i look at another waffle im gonna puke ! 16 months olod

hi can i have ur schedules and food ideas... when are u giving the milk..with meals? the girls do not drink out of bottles any longer..they eat all table food and fresh fruits daily but i am running out of ideas...... help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

7am wakeup
7:30am breakfast (w/ milk)
9:30am morning nap, if they feel like it
11:30am lunch (w/ milk)
2:00pm afternoon nap
4-4:30pm'ish snack (w/ milk for Grace, juice for Lily)
6:15pm dinner
7:30-8Pm'ish bedtime (we give them some water before bed)

Food ideas:

Breakfast
pancakes with apple butter
any kind of fruit
scrambled eggs
yogurt with cereal
cinnamon toast
waffles
hot cereal (cream of wheat, oatmeal, etc.)

Lunch
leftovers of dinner the night before
grilled cheese
veggies (always, love those Steamfresh things)
nitrate/antibiotic free lunchmeat with cheese
frozen meals (mac & cheese, fettuccini alfredo w/ or w/o chicken)
ravioli
antibiotic/nitrate free hot dogs
turkey burgers

Dinner
whatever we are having (except shellfish)

 

After I stopped bottles at 12/13 months I only give bottles at Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. As for Ideas I find Lunch to be the hardest for me to think of new things but here are some of the things I give...


Schedule
7am Wake
7:30 Breakfast with milk
9am Snack with water
10am Nap
12pm Lunch with milk
2pm Snack with water
3pm Nap
5pm Dinner with milk
5:30 Bath (sometimes I do every other night)
6:30 Snack with water
7:30 Bedtime



Breakfast
fresh fruit
cereal in bowl w/ a little milk
pancakes/waffles with sausage
french toast/sticks
sausage, egg, cheese on bagel, english muffin..cut up
cereal bars/yogurt bars
breakfast dogs..sausage wrapped in pancakes (grocer's freezer)
omletes (just starting to eat eggs, never liked yet)
hash browns

Lunch
hot dogs/hamburgers
chicken nuggets
grilled cheese
lunch meat sandwhiches
leftover dinner which can be anything
pizza bagels

Dinner
pork/chicken/turkey/ham
noodles/veggies
dinner rolls..love them
soft tacos
pizza/cheesesteak cut up...take out night
Really they eat anything and everything I cook for dinner

 

i have said this before..
i inlcude vegies in every meal..

i rotate between.. peas/ carrots/ greanbeans and broccoli.

then we add a meat.. chicken/ beef..

some times we do real meals like spagetti.. but vegies are first..

 

Susan gave some great food ideas. We do the things she mentioned and anything else they can eat. We just basically do anything for any meal. But mine do like oatmeal at breakfast and I always give yogurt with lunch. Dinner is whatever we are eating.

Here is our schedule now, but it will change a bit next week since this is my oldest DD's last week of school and we won't have to work around her school schedule. :banana:

7:30-wake
7:45-breakfast and milk
9:30-11:30-nap
11:45-lunch and milk
1:30-3:15-nap
3:45-snack with juice
5:30-dinner with milk
7:15-small milk sippy
7:30-bed

I do give them a sippy of diluted juice to drink throughout the day in between meals.

But at your girls age, I would think they could pretty much eat anything that is not too hard. We do not give peanut butter as we've been told to wait until 2 that and honey. But everything else is fine. Just experiment and see what they like.

 

Our shcedule:
6:00-wake
6:15- bfast with milk
8:00-9:00- nap
9:15- snack with water
11:00- lunch with milk
12:00-2:20- nap
2:30-snack with water
4:45- dinner with milk
6:30-sippy of milk & bed

Our menu consists of what many pps said but our faves:
bfast:
pancakes, banana, yogurt
blueberry waffles


lunch:
chicken nuggets
Healthy Choice Soup- Chicken Noodle- I drain the broth heat, and serve noodles, meat and veggies, they love it

Dinner-
what we have

 

We do milk first thing in the morning and during dinner. I only do water during lunch and throughout the day.

Breakfast is a bit of a rut, isn't it? I have been thinking the same thing. We do toast/waffles/pancakes on rotation. Yogurt and oatmeal are a given every day, though.

People think it's gross, but mine really love soy "hot dogs" and tofu. They are packed with protein and are lower in sodium. Kidney beans and black beans are fabulous, too. Packed with protein and Whole Foods sells them with no sodium added.