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Tine Andersen wrote: "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. Tine, Denmark I wish mine liked liver. As it is, I'm the only one in this 3-person household who will eat it, so I hardly ever fix it. Clisby |
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Anyone have any tips for calorie-dense toddler snacks? My 15 month old
daughter isn't gaining weight well and I need some ideas. She only has four teeth (incisors only!) which I think is why some things, like cheese cubes, tend to go into her mouth for a while and come back out as a softened glob after being mouthed for a while instead of actually swallowed. [clip] but it's snacking I'm focusing on, as she tends toward the lower calorie things at snacktime (fruits, pretzels and so forth). Packable items are also needed... 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. Holly Mom to Camden, almost 3 EDD #2 6/8/04 |
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Hillary Israeli wrote:
Anyone have any tips for calorie-dense toddler snacks? My 15 month old daughter isn't gaining weight well and I need some ideas. She only has four teeth (incisors only!) which I think is why some things, like cheese cubes, tend to go into her mouth for a while and come back out as a softened glob after being mouthed for a while instead of actually swallowed. Hey, that sounds just like _my_ four-toothed, 15-month-old, skinny toddler! -- Sara, adding nothing useful to the conversation |
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I had (still have!) a skinny minnie boy. My ped directed us toward
"nutritionally dense" as opposed to simply "calorically dense" foods. We had lots of teeth by 15 months, but gums are amazingly strong things! Some examples of snacks suggested to us we Canteloupe cubes - VERY popular, and very nutritionally dense Cheese - DS esp. loves goat cheese Berries - raspberries, blueberries, etc. Sweet potato - baked, then either cubed or mashed Squash - steamed Tofu Cottage Cheese Yogurt - esp. Yo Baby by Stonyfield Farms We added to this list ourselves: Turkey hot dogs or sometimes Tofu pups Pasta (rotini, esp.) with butter or olive oil Naan (indian bread, often stuffed with potatoes and peas) Bananas Cereals like Cheerios or Kix Sushi - from a reputable source, safe after 1 year, according to our nurse practitioner. Not that we had a choice - DS stole it from our plates! Is there anything medical that could be causing the drop in percentile? 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. -Shannon "Hillary Israeli" wrote in message ... Anyone have any tips for calorie-dense toddler snacks? My 15 month old daughter isn't gaining weight well and I need some ideas. She only has four teeth (incisors only!) which I think is why some things, like cheese cubes, tend to go into her mouth for a while and come back out as a softened glob after being mouthed for a while instead of actually swallowed. She enjoys pretzels and raisins and fruits and beans... but she's gone from 45th %ile to 7th %ile for weight over her last four well baby visits and I've been instructed to up her calorie intake....She always has eaten well at mealtimes but it's snacking I'm focusing on, as she tends toward the lower calorie things at snacktime (fruits, pretzels and so forth). Packable items are also needed... thanks, h. -- 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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DeliciousTruffles wrote: New York Jen wrote: Wow...I guess in these parts liver is looked at more as a "punishment" type of food! Didn't mean anything by it...I guess I have to learn to expand my horizons a lil bit! I absolutely cannot eat liver as it is normally prepared (I gag on the texture and taste) but I love liverwurst. That's it. I hate Liver. But I and DS love fine liverwurst/liver paste/pate. (Tho I confess the stuff my folks brought back from France was YUK!) Fine herbed liver paste (fine as opposed to coarse) YUM! It's amazing what kids will eat if you offer it "without prejudice" I don't like mushrooms, but DS eats them happily. Even stuff he didn't like on first try I try to offer again without saying "you don'nt like XX" and let him try it. He eats tomatos now where he didn't at 12mo (REALLY didn't) Dawn |
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H Schinske wrote: wrote: I wish mine liked liver. As it is, I'm the only one in this 3-person household who will eat it, so I hardly ever fix it. Let's see, Hillary, your daughter's too young for peanut butter, right? I used to give Peter soy nut butter. You could marinate veggies or fruits in oil-vinegar dressing, too, or oil and lemon juice. Hummus with a lot of olive oil and tahini, maybe? Oh, yeah, hummus is a big fav here too. You can add tons of yummy stuff (garlic!) Dawn |
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H Schinske wrote: * *Let's see, Hillary, your daughter's too young for peanut butter, right? I used Not IMO. She eats it occasionally in a sandwhich. I gave it to her at about 13 mos. *to give Peter soy nut butter. You could marinate veggies or fruits in *oil-vinegar dressing, too, or oil and lemon juice. Hummus with a lot of olive *oil and tahini, maybe? She does like hummus, I'll have to whip some up and keep it around. I never really thought of marinating fruit in an oily dressing. I wonder if I could come up with something palatable. Thanks for the thought. -- 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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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 -- 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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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? grin just teasing, Holly. She actually does eat cream cheese on just about everything. I always spread some onto her strawberry slices before I give her those - the kid will eat cream cheese with a spoon if I let her (which I actually do, so I don't know why I say that...) Good idea about dipping the pretzels into hummus. Today for a snack I mixed some flax meal and some pastuerized egg white into a bowl of vanilla ice cream and started spoonfeeding it to her. She clearly wanted to drink it so I put it into a cup, let it melt a bit, and gave it back to her. She drank half, and poured half into her lap. Hee hee. She's actually eaten a ton today. She ate like 7 strawberries, plus a few bites of french toast, and two bites of bagel, and all the cream cheese sucked off the entire bagel. Then for snacks so far she's had about 2 oz of banana/oatmeal/peach puree, about 1/2 cup or so of elbow macaroni with a rich cheese sauce, half of a peanut-butter goldfish-cracker sandwhich, the ice cream drink thing, and a cube of frozen cherry/yogurt/egg white/milk smoothie eaten as finger food. She loves finger foods. Lunch today was maybe half a chicken finger and some fries - she wasn't really into it so much but she did snack heavily prior to lunch. She's napping now.... -- 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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