Snacks for a 1 year old

sunshinegirl_3

Hi

My LO is quite adverse to fruit and whilst I continue to try and give it to her I also give her Organix biscuits, bread sticks and rice cakes.

The breadsticks and rice cakes are okay, they aren't too expensive and I don't think I can make them cheaper so I'm happy to buy them. The biscuits however I think are overpriced for what they are. I doubt she cares what shape they are or whether they have a letter embossed on them.

I'm happy to bake for her - so does anyone have any ideas and recipies of things I can make for her as snacks. I don't want to add too much sugar to things but a little won't harm her.

Thanks in advance

Ishtar

Hi

I do sympathise - it's really tricky trying to find the right balance. My little one is now 2, so heavily into demanding anything sweet! When she was younger I used to make little cheesey biscuits for her - just like cheese straws, but cut into different shapes. She loved these.

You could try roasting some vegetable sticks...carrot, parsnip, potato, etc, these always went down well with a hummous dip. Just cut them up into a bowl, add some olive oil, then into a hot oven - probably for around 10 minutes until soft and lightly charred. Cool and serve.

Does she like eating cheese? You could try some cubes of cheese and apple. My LO loved eating dried fruit - although you'd have to keep a close eye in case of choking! (I speak from experience...v. frightening)

Hope this helps - and keep persevering with the fruit, they do grow to like it after a while....

D.

Penny-Pincher!!

Grapes go down well....I used to freeze them for DD when little. Orange segments are nice too. Kiwi fruits cut in half like an egg. Maybe puree the fruit and put on top of yogurt ...freeze fruit juice and have as lollies.

HTH

PP
xx

Zed42

Dried raisins
Dried apricots
Cucumber slices / sticks
Carrots sticks
Pepper sliced up
Blueberries
Grapes
HM flapjacks, substituting honey for the golden syrup
jacobs cream crackers

Maisie_M

Hi

other ones I used with my little one were;
- pitta bread with humous
- dried apricots
- half slice of toast with marmite or jam
- Home made biscuits I made normal ones and then just used very small cutters and limited to one every other day.
- home made pancakes

I was lucky and still am in so far as my little one loves fruit and veg but you could also try humzingers (fruit sticks - normally in the dried fruit aisle). The tube style yoghurts people sometimes use as a snack. Maybe carrot sticks would work as they are quite sweet and strawberries now we are heading towards the summer.

have you tried fruit with a yoghurt to dip in as the novelty of dipping may help and you can do that with banana, apple, oranges/satsumas, kiwi etc

Claudie

We loved the frozen lollies as well. My DS loved anything he could hold - bread sticks. oat cakes etc. You can also make little banana loafs or muffins and freeze them. You can also freeze yogurt or fromage frais pouches and serve as a lolly.

I also gave him a lot of cereal - I can't remember exactly how old he was but I remember having little pots of cheerios mixed with raisins in my handbag as emergency rations

I am a bit paranoid with grapes; I still cut them in half now out of habit. I read that they are as, if not more, dangerous for children than peanuts.

sunshinegirl_3

I think the problem is that she doesn't like picking things up that are moist or sticky in any way - or if she does pick them up sue just throws them on the floor! I can only get her to eat banana if I hold it in the skin and take a bite myself then offer it to her (and then that's only if she's in the mood!!!)

I do keep trying and one day I hope she goes for it. Dried fruit goes down as well as regular fruit i.e. onto the floor!

Does anyone have recipies for biscuits? Or breadstick things - the cheese ones sound great. If it's dry, she'll try it. She's not too bad with toast so I'll try the pitta bread idea. I don't think she's really got the hang of finger foods yet - I hope she will soon as I want her to feed herself at some point in the next few years but the way she's going I'll still be spoon feeding her when she's in her teens!!

mikeywills

How about making fruit smoothies, that she can drink through a straw, they seem to grasp what I thought would be a difficult task like sucking on a straw with ease. My DD used to love this, banana blitzed in milk being a favourite.
We didn't encounter not wanting to pick sticky things up, but our DD was trying to use a spoon by about 11 months and used to get very frustrated if you tried to assist. In the end we used to have two spoons which could be loaded and swaped with her empty one.
Have you encountered chocolate yet, it was at about 1 our daughter got her first taste of chocolate. Its strange how some sticky substances are never a problem.:rolleyes:

Just reread this, I am not suggesting that chocolate is a good snack for children, far from it in fact, just that some things especially sweets rarely have issues. That is until they become little monsters having eaten some!!!

nodwah

my ds2 used to love 'cold bread' ie a slice of frozen bread! maybe the cold was nice on his gums. I also caught him several times eating a frozen fish finger!!!
Popular snaks for us are still a tub of breakfast cereal for nibbling in the car esp a quaker oats one that we call oaty puffs but I can't remember the proper name for it. THree of us crunching away at these drives myDH crazy - so worth it just for that really

sunshinegirl_3

mikeywills wrote: »

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Have you encountered chocolate yet, it was at about 1 our daughter got her first taste of chocolate. Its strange how some sticky substances are never a problem.:rolleyes:

Just reread this, I am not suggesting that chocolate is a good snack for children, far from it in fact, just that some things especially sweets rarely have issues. That is until they become little monsters having eaten some!!!

Too right. It is the only thing she will happily get messy over! After Christmas we had some of the chocolate money and found these great - just the right size for her to hold and just enough for a treat - pity they only do it at Christmas!

tryingtobegood

sunshinegirl wrote: »

Too right. It is the only thing she will happily get messy over! After Christmas we had some of the chocolate money and found these great - just the right size for her to hold and just enough for a treat - pity they only do it at Christmas!

Marks and Spencers still had chocolate coins in my local store last month. I stocked up as my ds loves these. It may be worth a try!