What to Do with Extra Baby Food & Cereal

The cereal I would mix with a banana. But if the other foods are unopened I would donate them to the local food bank. They could really use baby foods. Or the local womens shelter. I also donated my baby's diapers that they out grew. Anything helps them so much.

If you decide to donate it you can go onto freecycle.org and post it and most baby food is picked up right away as many single parents need it. As far as getting baby to eat it, I can not relate, my son loves it!

Make cookies. I use the traditional oatmeal cooky recipe but, I add in the cereal as a replacement to one of the cups of oatmeal, because of all the good vitamins they put into it. I also use 1/2 the sugar suggested and add in fresh shredded apple, bananna, or pears for natural sweetness. I add a scoop of mitamin enriched soy protien powder (in the muscle body building nutrition section) for even more vitamins and a big squeeze of infant liquid multivitamin with DHA (which stimulates the "happy" center of the brain). You could even throw in a few scoops of some old baby formula you never cracked open but saved for some reason. So there are vitamins in every bite whether they eat a little cookie or a big one. And the great thing is that the vitamins are hidden so subtly that you can't even taste them.

If she's eating solids, a Power Cooky, ought to fill her up -And no guilt from Mom for feeding her cookies for breakfast because it's actually less sugar, more calories, more protien, and more healthy nutrition than even pancakes. - which is also a great place to kick in some soy protien, liquid multivitamin, a few scoops of the formula, and even some of the cereal. -you can find ways to use it up.

But, don't forget the chocholate chips -no harm adding that in as a special treat. I also only add 1/2 as much as suggested.

Let us know if you use a recipe like this and if she goes for it.

Hi M. I had this same problem, untill I came across some recipes in Family Fun Magazine. It's a great magazine and since you have a computer you can be a member on the site. They have all kinds of great ideas and recipes for everything you could think of. After you become a member you can send them a message and ask them. I'm sure they will have some great ideas.

Hi M.,

I had the same problem, my daughter just didn't like the cereal at all. I actually donated them to a local food bank. There are several parents who need a little extra help with food, I myself have had to visit a food bank before. The place I went was more than happy to take the cereal off my hands, and I felt good knowing I was helping another family. If you aren't familiar with any food banks, most big churches do some sort of food ministry, and the Sunshine Division is always open to donations.

Hi M.,
What I did was mix the cereal in with yogurt, oatmeal, soups, you name it. Anything liquid I would mix a little cereal into. My kids never suspected anything. I also gave away any un-opened things to my friends with babies. You could mix baby food, like a jar of carrots into a stew, and I bet your baby would be none the wiser. :-)
I haven't read any other responses, but I am sure you have been given lots of good advice.
Good Luck!
-L.

Donate it to a single moms group, church or an agency in town. Many single moms run short of money mid-month and cannot afford the baby food their babies need. You would really be a blessing to one or 2 of these poor moms.

I don't know if this will help but I used to mix like bananas and baby cereal together. Both of my kids like that. Then I would start giving them little bits of table food. Things like beans or food I knew they didn't have to chew. My kids slept better and were more satisfied.

Hi M.!
We started our little guy on cerial around 3 months, then about a month later-baby food.
He doesn't like cerial too much, but I have a trick.
I make some of the rice cerial and mix it with a some baby food (frui).
This way he still gets cerial, but it also fills him up more since I put baby food in it.

I don't have any Ideas for that but I do know that churches love people who donate baby food. My kids both started eating things like hot dogs at 7 months. Once they get teeth they dont want baby food anymore.

Hi M.,

Some things I have thought of.....

freeze the fruits into popsicles
mix the veggies and meats w/ soups, stews, sauces (spagetti)ect. I also like the idea of donating the food to a homeless shelter or food bank.

H. B.

For the baby cereal I usually just add there baby fruit and sometimes really fruit to it and they love it, they eat it fine after that, especially with the real fruit. The baby food I just gave it away.

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My youngest son didn't like the cereal either. I made it thicher so there was more texture to it and I mixed it with fruit that I smashed up. Is your daughter still on formula? You can mix those together too. I had cereal left over, too and ended up throwing it away. The baby food I had left I gave to a neighbor so had a child just a few months younger than my son. Hope this helps. Good luck!!

Hi M.!

I went through the same problem after my daughter started eatting solids. My first idea was to pass them on to a friend who could use them, but their kids were on to solids too. I called my local shelter and asked if they had anyone there that could use them, and they did! It was a nice feeling passing the food on to someone who could really use it.

J.

mix the cereal with semi solid foods, applesauce, yogurt, things like that it will get the cereal in her diet but still be food she will eat. As for the baby food depending on the flavors the fruit ones put in a bowl and mix with cereal the others you might have to donate if she wont eat them.

I had the same problem, couldn't figure anything out so I donated it to the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery they will take it if it is not opened. Another idea someone gave me was to mix the cereal with oatmeal....however my son didn't like oatmeal either.