Tuesday, September 16, 2008
mom corner
Help! I feel like I am need of some creative new foods for Maggie, espeically in the breakfast department. We do the old standbys: smoothies, eggs, Cheerios, tons of fruit, applesauce, oatmeal, frozen waffles, our weekly Saturday pancakes, yogurt. Ideas? I just feel that she is a bit bored with what we eat. But, that could just be me reading into one or two days of more picky eating.
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I make Izzy a toasted frozen waffle like a sandwich with peanut butter in it. It is perfect for the car or such because the peanut butter fills in all the little pockets. It is yum.
ReplyDeleteZoe LOVES Nutri-grain bars [breakfast bars or bar to her] and she loves pop tarts. She loves go-gurts too. She also eats everything you listed as well.
ReplyDeleteMy kids have always been strange in this area, but they haven't seriously eaten the same thing for breakfast for the last 4 years. E is all about the oatmeal and M has pbj toast. Maybe, just maybe, she has too many options...find something she really loves and stick with it for a few days see how she responds. Just a thought!
ReplyDeleteOOPS, I meant that they HAVE seriously eaten the same thing for breakfast...
ReplyDeleteshiloh's current absolute fav breakfast is extra firm tofu (sprinkled with wheat germ) diced up and sauteed in a tad of olive oil with cinnamon. i know that's not for everybody, but it's popular around here! :)
ReplyDeleteTry Colin's standby: a quesadilla. He loves them all the time but he asks for them in the morning often. He also asks for skittles so you be the judge.
ReplyDeleteMy kids also go for the same thing every day, but I was also thinking of the peanut-butter-on-waffle idea that Katchen gave. Does Maggie like to dip? You could cut buttered toast into strips and let her dip it in PB or a good jam. (Dipping is SUCH an incentive for my kids!)
ReplyDeleteJake loves applesauce muffins. They have oatmeal and veggie puree in them so I feel like it's a healthy choice too.
ReplyDeleteWe do breakfast burritos with scrambled eggs and cheese and little bits of bacon or turkey sausage ("ostrich" if you ask Brennen :o)--my kids love them because they can help build their own (granted, I'm not a morning person, so this "breakfast" is usually lunch :o) They do the PB and waffles too, or we have a local beekeeper who uses fruits in her honeys, so the kids like to squirt her fruit-flavored honeys on their waffles instead of syrup. Or you can do dry cereal with a cut banana--the cereal sticks to the end and its kind of fun to eat it that way :o) Gabby loves Life cereal and it doesn't have any of the high fructose or hydrogenated nonsense in it :)
ReplyDeleteHmmm... maybe try freezing pieces of fruit to make them seem different? Aliza eats frozen banana chunks like they are going out of style but she just plays with regular bananas.
ReplyDeleteAm I a bad mother because Brooks gets a bowl of plain oatmeal, a half a banana, a glass of watered down juice and a bite or two of whatever we're eating... every single morning?! You *and* some of your blog readers are putting me to shame!!!
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