Food for sitter

[laouli]

For those of you whose LOs are eating food other than purees.. what do you send to daycare/sitters/ etc?

Right now I jsut send enough purees for the week and a container of puffs and the cheesedoodle-ish puffs....

I'm thinking I need to start sending more finger foods...

[laouli]

Buehler... Buehler...

[dixeedeluxe]

Does your DCP have older kids there? What do they do for them?

[Deleted]

I send oatmeal, a puree for lunch and puffs. That seems to be enough so far. So I'm not much help since I send the same as you.

[laouli]

She has 4/5 year olds and Nicolas... They all have lunch sent with them everyday.... I guess I'm just trying to find more options to send with Nicolas as he grows with his eatin...

[Deleted]

Besides puffs & purées, I also send yogurt cups.

[dixeedeluxe]

My sister has found that her DCP is an excellent resource. Is N in an in-home daycare? You could ask the DCP what parents usually brought at that age.

[Deleted]

I send purees, puffs/yogurt melts, yogurt and they get her stuff from the cafeteria that she likes such as steamed carrots.

[laurack]

My daycare give her the infant foods now that she's old enough that they are comfortable with it. But she doesn't consume much so I still send some puree as well.

They give her things like - baked cheese sandwiches, turkey meatballs, pasta, vegetables, fruits etc.

You could make a batch of meatballs, muffins, pancakes etc. and freeze them, then defrost on a day by day basis. Cut up vegetables and send those. Mine also loves yogurt a lot.

[Deleted]

I sent a whole bunch of puffs, rice cakes, unsalted saltines and mum mums to daycare. he gets any of those around lunch time but he gets purees and oatmeal at home for breakfast and usually table food and/or purees at home for dinner

[EnchantedSoul]

He just eats whatever my aunt cooks. When DS1 was in daycare, I just sent dinner leftovers for his lunch. So, he would have oatmeal (regular, not baby) and fruit for breakfast. Then my leftover dinner (diced chicken, rice, veggie etc) and snacks. E doesn't eat puree's anymore, he's totally on table food unless we are having something that he can't eat. I have frozen puree's in the freezer for those days.