Hi everyone...What do you give your babies for breakfast (of course outside of breast milk or formula)? DS is 9mths and almost to all table food and I want to give her something different for breakfast. Can't have any eggs (eczema). She's been eating mostly baby food fruit because it's easy, but do you have other suggestions than regular fresh fruit? Thank you!

By Andi on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 03:35 pm:

I make frozen waffles for the kids and then cut it up into pieces without syrup for DD, she loves Blueberry. She also eats yogurt, Cheerios, Pancakes and Breakfast Bars. That is about all I can think of right now.....

I just bought my DD some Spinach nuggets for lunchtime and dinner meals at Cost-Co today and she is gobbeling them up. She loves them.
She also loves cheese, rice just baout anything I put infront of her.

By Trina~moderator on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 04:23 pm:

Cheerios, Kix, rice or wheat puffs, cottage cheese, yogurt

Cut into small pieces of course:
buttered toast, waffles, cheese...

By Reds9298 on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 05:05 pm:

Do you give the fattening cottage cheese, like whole? I always have the 1% for myself. Love the frozen waffle idea...all of your ideas. I always seem to limit myself because of her age and I don't think it's necessary but I still do it. You guys give me courage!!

By Imamommyx4 on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 05:29 pm:

The frozen waffles are what my dd caught on to at about that age. I would sometimes get the flavored one like blueberry or strawberry and cut them in to strips so she could hold them and let her eat it that way. She was probably over a year when I would do that. Otherwise I just cut them into very small bites.

By Frasersmama on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 05:58 pm:

Always give whole fatty cottage cheese or any other dairy product. Babies need the fat for neural development.

By Reds9298 on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 09:45 pm:

I thought so Frasersmama...assumed it went for the cottage cheese as well as regular milk.

By Emdee on Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 12:29 pm:

My dd is older (almost 2), but right now she is on an oatmeal kick (wants it every morning). Apart from that, she loves Nutri-grain bars and has loved these for some time now. Also, the french toast sticks that are frozen are nice. My dd eats them without the syrup and still loves them.

By Mrsheidi on Friday, April 1, 2005 - 04:11 pm:

The frozen waffles have egg in them, but my pediatrician said today that it's no big deal. Wish I had known this *before* I went grocery shopping this morning.

By Reds9298 on Friday, April 1, 2005 - 06:31 pm:

My ped just told us last week that if there is egg in it it's okay as long as she doesn't eat too much (mostly because my dd has a little eczema and egg aggravates it). No whole eggs though.
We tried the frozen waffles this morning and she wasn't interested. They were apple cinnamon...we'll try blueberry in a few days maybe.

By Annie2 on Friday, April 1, 2005 - 10:30 pm:

Whole wheat toast strips to dip into yogurt, a bowl of banana slices sprinkled with oj, large curd cottage cheese slighty mixed with favorite puree'd (sp)fruit....these come to mind.

My kids loved feed themselves. It was fun experimenting in different textures, flavors, eating techniques, messy, neat, etc....