Ideas for Easy, Nutritious Meals for 10 Month Old

I have a 6 week rotation menu on my daycare website. All the kids eat all the foods from about 10 mos on

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I feel like I'm in a similar rut, but I'll share my meals and maybe they're different than yours :-)

Pizza: You can toast some wheat bread or an English muffin, spread a little tomato sauce (or veggie puree), top with shredded mozz cheese and warm until it's melted. Cut into bite-size pieces

Veggie burger: warmed with or without cheese, cut up

Refried beans (vegetarian, low-fat) with shredded cheddar cheese

Pasta spirals cut up with spaghetti sauce; ravioli or tortellini

Whole milk yogurt mixed with fruit puree (you can puree big batches of pears or something, then freeze in ice cube trays, and pop into a freezer bag for easy access. I usually stick a fruit cube in with a little bowl of yogurt the night before, then by lunch it's melted)

Cubes of roasted veggies: butternut squash, sweet potatoes

Soup

String cheese

Peas

At 10 months, my son would also eat veggie purees if I let him eat them off of crackers. The Kashi Cheddar flavor are good and don't have any honey.

Good luck!

check out www.wholesomebabyfoods.com
They have great meal ideas!

Hi Christi,

I know what you are going through because my kids are so picky. Here are some suggestions for breastfast: Waffles, pancakes, scrambled eggs and toast, orange juice, french toast sticks, cereal, fresh fruit like sliced bananas, grapes, blueberries, melon. When my kids were little, (I did cut these items to finger food so that they can eat it with their fingers. I used a shot glass so that they can dip their waffle sticks or french toast or a pouch egg container was good too.) Also my kids got their teeth early so with the fruit, make sure she has enough teeth for that. Lunch/ Dinner, they liked spagetti, lasagna, hamburgers, grilled cheese and hot dogs (cut into small triangles), steak, cut into small pieces, potatoes, corn, peas, cheese pizza (homemade with crust recipe), banana bread. As you see, breakfast was easier than lunch or dinner. My kids ate more when they helped prepare the foods, because they are so proud doing it. My kids also like rice and chinese foods and you can easiler make pretty healthy foods and fish was easy to make for them too. I smashed it up to make sure all the bones were out. I hope this helps...I am always looking for recipes.

I second the wholesome baby food website. I got some great ideas there when my daughter was around 10 month. One recipe she really liked was baby meatballs. It was half lowfat ground beef or turkey and one half masshed potatoes. I used breastmilk to mash the potatoes. You roll them into baby-size meatballs and bake them. I froze them and saved for later. Have fun experimenting with foods- I loved trying new things with my little one!

Oh my god, I am in the same boat as you. It seems like everything I make for my 13 month old daughter, she doesn't want to eat. Granted she does eat, pancakes, waffles, toast, dry cherrios, scrambled eggs, bananas, apples, for breakfast, but when it comes to eating lunch or dinner, she seems to be on the cheese diet. She will eat grilled cheese, cottage cheese, string cheese, mac n cheese & that's it, forget the spaghetti oh's or chicken mcnuggets or mini ravioli's. For dinner she will eat meat but she will not touch potatoes, I have made all different kinds of vegies and versions she will not touch any of it. Tonight I was disappointed I made her plain white rice, the stuffing for stuffed green peppers, and creamed vegies, didn't want anything to do with it. So she ate about 10 spoons of pureed pears and 1 string cheese cut up. Needless to say because she eats like a bird she does wake up at least one time during the night for a bottle. So I can imagine what you are going through. Any suggestions?

Hi Christy Try giving her for breakfast some pancakes with sausage cut up, french toast, cream of wheat with raisins, scrambled eggs with toast and cereal with milk. For lunch, yogurt, turkey breast(cut up fine)on a slice of bread or some vegetable soup. For dinner, mashed potatoes,glazed carrots, rice with a dab of butter,cut up hambuger patty,fish stick, macaroni and cheese,string beans and cabbage. Just to name a few. I take it your daughter has most of her teeth to chew. Try giving her some Pedisure on does days she doesn't feel like eating. At that age sometime they get picky about what they eat. I hope my suggestion helped.

My son eats lots of different things.

Veggie burgers, you can nuke them in the mic for about 1:45. cut into small pieces.

Great northern beans & ham. Soak the beans over night and then put them in the crok pot with ham and a peeled potato (to absorb the gas, do not eat the potato) and water.

Any vegetable boil to make soft. sweet potatoes, carrots, broccoli, baby spinach, peas,squash, zucchini, Beets you need to cook in the oven. etc.

Turkey burgers
Pasta noodles (I make plain noodels and add my own cheese and spinach).

Chicken chunks.

I also get the msg free lunch meat, it is a little more costly, but my son likes to eat samwhiches. so I make one slice of meat and put a veggie and cheese. like squash or zuccini and cut it up for him.

Fruit, some you need to cook to soften and some they can eat raw.

They really can eat what you can to a point. My son loves soup also.

I would try giving her food first and then the bottle. but at this age they get most of their nutrients from the bottle.

I bought a book on how to make baby food. It helped a lot, since I never fed my son the jar food.

Good luck.

Very common! Kids go through stages and just when you think you got it..they change! Do not become a short order cook! Feed her what you are eating and if she does not eat it, well that is it! my oldest was this way and b/c we stuck to our guns she pretty much eats everything, except potatoes..does not like then any which way??!! Our kids are required to eat what is on their plates, there is no ordering what you want. They are not allowed junk food throughout the day, so if you eat well all day and finish you healthy foods they get a treat after dinner. There is no more arguing or fighting to finish their veggie. I say it is your choice what you eat, but no treat...make a good decision.
Keep offering her things of all varieties...she will come around!