Snack ideas for little ones

[hannamaren]

I feel like I am always giving L the same thing. MumMums, cheerios, pancakes and/or fruit.

Are there other ideas? Would it be weird to give her a bowl of peas? She likes them.

Also, at 11am she will eat a pancake, a few slices of pear and then at noon she eats half a bagel, some veggies, and one scrambled egg. Then at 1239, she polishes off 6 oz of milk. Seems like a lot to me. Should I just rejoice in my tubby baby?

[bunch]

I alternate cheese or yogurt, fruit and carbs (crackers). Every once in awhile I do frozen veggies (peas, mixed veg, shelled edamame - sp?)

we eats three meals and 4 + snacks a day. some kids are just eaters.

[hannamaren]

But bnch, is your kid 25lbs?
If she eats less, she just demands more formula. I am afraid to cut her formula again. She seems so hungry for it. I guess she is growing.

[bronxgirl]

DD really likes hummus so I try to give her some with veggies.

[caramia17]

DD loves edamame, avocado cubes, yogurt, cheese, asparagus spears, hummus, bacon (what? We buy the nitrate-free kind, so it's healthy?), pumpkin, nut butters on crackers, shredded chicken, and I'll also make smoothies that I add spinach or other greens to as well as berries and pineapple and creamy fruit like banana or mango. Yum! Lots of great options.

[Deleted]

DD loved peas too. (She still likes them, but not like she did.) She would often get a bowl for snack. DD also loved butternut squash. I used to be able to buy steam-in-bag at Whole Foods (do you have that in Canada), but they stopped selling it.

Other ideas:
Hummus and cucumber
cheese sticks (cut up)
whole wheat mini pumpkin muffins (I make ahead of time and freeze)
yogurt
avocado

DD still eats a lot of fruits and vegetables.

[jena]

My kids are a lot older (5 and 3), but they've grown up thinking that anything served in a cup is a snack.

So they are happy to have a snack of broccoli while watching TV. Starving for a snack immediately before dinner? Here's a cup of green beans that I was going to put on your dinner plate, knock yourself out. You want leftover chicken for a snack? Sure thing.

If she's happy with peas, roll with it, it's a good thing.

(full disclosure: DD has requested broccoli for breakfast before. I did cook it for her, but I am here to tell you that the smell of broccoli at 7am is unnatural and nauseating.)