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calorically dense toddler snacks?
Hillary Israeli wrote: In , HollyLewis wrote: *Try offering her usual snacks with dip. Guacamole, sour cream/cream cheese *based herb dips, or hummus would work well with pretzels; yogurt or whipped *cream based sweet dips with fruit. Because dips are SO packable, right? Not TOO bad, if you make the hummus or cream cheese ones pretty stiff and use those tiny little containers. Get a big smock bib and you're set. Packable how....like so she can eat it in the car, or so she can have it with her somewhere else, iykwim? If she's into drinking her icecream, you can do lots with that...high quality icecream, with additions like the flax seed or a blob of flaxoil and eggwhite and fruit. Dawn |
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Shannon wrote: *Some examples of snacks suggested to us we *Canteloupe cubes - VERY popular, and very nutritionally dense She likes those a lot, but it's something she's already got in heavy rotation and I'm thinking I need to up the calorie content of her diet, which is already nutrient dense *Cheese - DS esp. loves goat cheese She eats a lot of cream cheese and loves that. I will have to try some good full fat goat cheese if I can find it. *Berries - raspberries, blueberries, etc. She loves these too. Of course her favorites are strawberries - just way too filling for too few calories, I think. I put cream cheese on them to help in that regard. *Sweet potato - baked, then either cubed or mashed Not a favorite of hers but she will sometimes eat them. *Squash - steamed Eats this in bean stews all the time. *Tofu Not a favorite of hers although she did eat a bit out of our pad thai the other night *Cottage Cheese She loves that! I have to buy more. Thanks for reminding me. *Yogurt - esp. Yo Baby by Stonyfield Farms Not a favorite. *Turkey hot dogs or sometimes Tofu pups She's eh on those. *Pasta (rotini, esp.) with butter or olive oil A constant favorite. I also put cheese sauce on it sometimes. *Naan (indian bread, often stuffed with potatoes and peas) She loves breads - often with cream cheese or peanut butter *Bananas Yep. Any fruit, really. *Cereals like Cheerios or Kix Yep. *Is there anything medical that could be causing the drop in percentile? Not as far as we know, but of course that's why I am supposed to up her caloric intake and reweigh her. I assume (I know, I know) that if her weight does not jump up despite a documented increase in caloric intake, we'll be doing more diagnostics. *Does she *look* healthy, just thin? I tend to put much more stock in how *kids look than what the numbers say, but that's just me. Looks darn healthy to me, but I have seen plenty of healthy-looking animals with weird failure-to-thrive stuff happen during the first year, so I don't want to write it off without looking into it. -- hillary israeli vmd http://www.hillary.net "uber vaccae in quattuor partes divisum est." not-so-newly minted veterinarian-at-large |
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Because dips are SO packable, right? grin just teasing, Holly.
They're not any less packable than the pureed stuff you undoubtedly carried around for her when she was younger! :-) Just put 'em in a bowl or jar with a tight lid and there you go. Or, of course, there's the packaged crackers-and-cheese-spread option. And I think they sell little packages of chips with dip now too. :-) Holly |
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Shannon wrote:
Yogurt - esp. Yo Baby by Stonyfield Farms Why Yo Baby in particular? It's astoundingly sweet, and the containers can't be resealed if yo' baby doesn't finish it; I'm not convinced it's a good product. We buy large containers of plain organic yoghurt, which we all prefer (and we eat a _lot_ of it.) If only a store near me sold Brown Cow... ahh.... -- Sara, accompanied by the sweet-food-rejecting barnacle |
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Hillary Israeli wrote:
In , Clisby wrote: *Whole-milk yogurt? She has been eating that, about 2-3 oz a day if we're lucky. It's not really her favorite thing. I plan to continue offering it but am looking for some other ideas Sour cream is about 15%mf I believe. She might like that instead. -- Brigitte aa #2145 edd #3 February 15, 2004 http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/j/joshuaandkaterina/ "Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare." ~ Harriet Martineau |
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"Hillary Israeli" wrote in message
... *Does she *look* healthy, just thin? I tend to put much more stock in how *kids look than what the numbers say, but that's just me. Looks darn healthy to me, but I have seen plenty of healthy-looking animals with weird failure-to-thrive stuff happen during the first year, so I don't want to write it off without looking into it. Good point. It just seems odd that a clearly good eater, as you have described her, would not be putting on weight sort of normally. Friend of mine had a boy in a similar situation - falling far behind his fraternal twin in growth, but still looked darn healthy. He was diagnosed with borderline renal acidosis (I think that's what it was) and given the medication for it (no side effects, so couldn't hurt). He's rapidly catching up, so they're glad they checked. What about eggs? I forgot about that - we used to make cheese omelets all the time, and DS gobbled them down. I think someone mentioned smoothies - you can pack quite a lot of calories into a smoothie if you try. -Shannon |
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It's one of the few organic types that uses sugar instead of honey, for
young babies. Of course the OPs baby is a toddler, so that wouldn't matter now, would it? I think I suggested it because I liked YoBaby, and the small containers were easy to send to daycare. Your suggestion is far more frugal! -Shannon "Sara" wrote in message ... Shannon wrote: Yogurt - esp. Yo Baby by Stonyfield Farms Why Yo Baby in particular? It's astoundingly sweet, and the containers can't be resealed if yo' baby doesn't finish it; I'm not convinced it's a good product. We buy large containers of plain organic yoghurt, which we all prefer (and we eat a _lot_ of it.) If only a store near me sold Brown Cow... ahh.... -- Sara, accompanied by the sweet-food-rejecting barnacle |
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Here in CT, the ONLY full fat yogurt that I can find is Stonyfield (both the
'regular organic full fat' in the big container and the YoBaby in the tiny containers). Sigh. I wish there were other choices. "Sara" wrote in message ... Shannon wrote: Yogurt - esp. Yo Baby by Stonyfield Farms Why Yo Baby in particular? It's astoundingly sweet, and the containers can't be resealed if yo' baby doesn't finish it; I'm not convinced it's a good product. We buy large containers of plain organic yoghurt, which we all prefer (and we eat a _lot_ of it.) If only a store near me sold Brown Cow... ahh.... -- Sara, accompanied by the sweet-food-rejecting barnacle |
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Hillary Israeli wrote:
Anyone have any tips for calorie-dense toddler snacks? You've gotten lots of good suggestions. The one thing both of mine liked were beans. Baked beans, bean soup, refried beans were the biggest hits (messier) but really any kind of bean. Olives. They might have to much sodium though? -- Nikki Mama to Hunter (4) and Luke (2) |
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"Tine Andersen" wrote in message k... "New York Jen" skrev i en meddelelse t... "Dawn Lawson" wrote in message news:fBaRb.279970$JQ1.82205@pd7tw1no... Hillary Israeli wrote: Anyone have any tips for calorie-dense toddler snacks? avocado? I wonder about something like smoothies? cream cheese, liver paste, etc on crackers? EWWWW Liver?! Why would you do that to a child?!! :-) Mine love it. On the other hand they love broccoli as well so they are probably just weird. Mine do to.My son loves Brussels Sprouts, which he called "lettuce balls" until I told him the name. |
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