thread: Snack food ideas, please.

  1. #1
    BellyBelly Member

    Sep 2010
    North West Victoria, Australia
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    Snack food ideas, please.

    DD has chosen, by herself, to go along the BLS road (she's 13 months, but is behind in her eating and developmentally).

    I'm looking for snack food ideas, this afternoon she's having scrambled eggs as I just don't know what to give her.

    I'm sick of just giving her toast, and so is she.

    I'm looking for DEAD EASY recipes and ideas.

    I'm not worried about mess, I used to be but am over it. She's making one hell of a mess with her scrambled eggs.

    Thanks, ladies.

  2. #2
    Registered User

    Jul 2008
    Melbourne
    3,244

    • yoghurt
    • mini muffins - sweet or savoury. someone posted a recipe on here ages ago for a recipe that is simply creamed corn, flour & cheese & you use the corn can to measure the flour & cheese. i often add grated vegies to it as well. DS absolutely loves them & they're nice warm or cold. they freeze well & they're a great size to pop in a snack box if you're going out. it's also nice not to have to measure all different ingredients etc. plus you can make any sort of muffins as healthy as you want.
    • home made pizza - using pita bread & some ham, cheese & tomato. quick & easy
    • mini quiche - there are some nice, easy, quick recipes around
    • crackers/vegie sticks & dip
    • fresh fruit
    • stewed fruit
    • plate of salad & cheese
    • cheese & biscuits

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Nov 2009
    Vic
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    Being a very non-cook person lol I keep it simple.

    Big hits in this family are boiled pumpkin, sweet pototo and carrots cut into sticks, hash browns, mashed up cantelope, watermelon, bubble and squek, weet bix. Homemeda lentil burger were a massive hit as they are nice and soft. Custard, fruit salad.

    My DD is unusually happy with eating veggies and prefers them over everything else, and she loves her fruit. She went through a stage of not eating so we had to come up with things that we could just leave her with rather than us sit and watch her. So we would do up platters with alittle bit of this and alittle bit of that IYKWIM.

    GL xx

  4. #4
    Registered User

    Sep 2008
    Adelaide
    3,201

    Quick and Easy snacks in our house are the following

    Cruskits - either plain or with some butter/vegemite
    Fruit Platters - a colourful mix is usually a hit
    Mixed platters - eg half a sandwich, some cheese cut into sticks, fruit bars
    Pasta - DS LOVES spaghetti (hot or cold) hahahaha

  5. #5
    Registered User

    Sep 2005
    In the middle of nowhere
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    hard boiled egg
    cooked noodles
    meatballs a bit bigger (but not rissole sized) so they have to 'bite' and can't shove it in all as once IYKWIM?
    I often make the muffins Sloane posted about and add ham or herbs or grated vegies
    cheese cut into sticks

  6. #6
    Registered User

    Mar 2007
    Melbourne
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    • Cheese Sticks
    • Dried Cereals like Nutri Grain, Cheerios or Sultana Bran
    • Fruit platters
    • Cheese and Biscuits
    • Sultana's or dried fruit of any kind
    • Dried Biscuits such as cruskits,savoys, ritz, ryvita with vegemite or whatever topping/spread she likes
    • Rice cakes
    • Home made mini cupcakes..sweet or savoury
    • My kids like dried pasta..so spirals or whatever not cooked and also cold pasta
    • Toasted sandwhiches or cheese and tomato grilled on toast, you could also use crumpets or muffins
    • spaghetti or baked beans on toast or even cold straight out of the tin. Nai makes her own baked beans, not sure how though
    • toad or frog in a hole
    • French toast
    • Cold meats such as salami
    • Rice Wheels
      • Cherry Tomatoes

  7. #7
    Registered User

    Aug 2008
    Ouiinslano
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    My DD goes nuts over:

    yoghurt
    custard (I make it from custard powder and use half the sugar - you could use none, but we're norty here!)
    1/2 cup of peas
    hommus, either off a spoon or licked off a cracker
    rice cakes with cream cheese and chutney
    watermelon
    pineapple
    halved cherry tomatoes
    grapes
    dried apricots
    cubes of roasted sweet potato or pumpkin
    blueberries
    thinly sliced apple
    baked beans

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    Sep 2006
    Dandy Ranges ;)
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    rice cookies / malt-o-milks
    leftovers - rice / couscous
    polenta that's been pressed and grilled with some parmasen and some leftover spag sause
    ham / turkey / chicken chunks
    leftover snags

    Actually, I just keep most leftovers and reheat them the next day for Will.

    I also get him chicken kebabs and cook them for him, but pull them off the stick

    Cheerios / saveloys / "little boys" / ****tail franks (skinless)

    Toast fingers with vegemite & butter