breakfast and lunch foods to bring to daycare for a 13 month old?

DS goes to an in home provider so I drop him off with all of his food for the day. She provides food from time to time, but I'm primarily responsible for this. I've been sending him with an eggo, french toast sticks, and cheerios. For lunch, I make him a cheese sandwich and he gets a yogurt, fruit, and sometimes a cheese stick. I'm looking for some other choices. Can you make a suggestion?

Message edited 10/28/2009 7:01:01 PM.

Re: breakfast and lunch foods to bring to daycare for a 13 month old?

DS is 13 months he likes to snack on regular crackers, the no salt ones.

for lunch I make him pastina w/ chicken broth. sometimes I cut up veggies and put it in the pastina like carrots, broccoli or peas

Breakfast my DS eats quick oats, and I put a scrambled egg in it while it's cooking so he gets his protien.

or farina mixed w/ pureed fruit like apple or pears.

Message edited 10/28/2009 7:25:47 PM.

Re: breakfast and lunch foods to bring to daycare for a 13 month old?

My DS is 17 months, he goes to a center but they do not provide lunch. He has only been going for 2 weeks but so far some things I have sent-

pasta with butter and parmesan cheese
macaroni and cheese
soy butter & jelly sandwich (his center in peanut free)
Chicken Nuggets with peas & carrots
grilled cheese
ground turkey or beef with mashed sweet potatoes

I also usually send in a cheese stick, a "dessert" (applesauce, yogurt, or pudding), and fruit.

Re: breakfast and lunch foods to bring to daycare for a 13 month old?

DS usually gets pancakes and a banana for breakfast here. For lunch I send PB&J, pastina with a baby food veggie, diced fruit, chicken tenders, tuna sandwich. When he goes to grandmas they will make him grilled cheese. DS is 13 months also

Re: breakfast and lunch foods to bring to daycare for a 13 month old?

DS is 13 months.
for breakfast I rotate this:
pancakes, french toast, waffles, oatmeal, or yogurt and a cereal bar. I also occasionally send in a lenders bagel with cream cheese or a muffin if we have them in the house. He also always gets a fruit with breakfast. Either peaches, pears, pinapples or mandarin oranges in the fruit bowls or cut up grapes, banana, strawberries or any other fresh fruit I cut up.

For lunch he rotates with ham and cheese slices, roastbeef and cheese, mac and cheese, grilled cheese (notice a theme here LOL), pastina and cheese, pastina and peas and butter, rigatoni and meatballs and sauce, chicken nuggets, yogurt, raviolis or leftovers from the night before (turkey meat or chicken). I am also going to try to send in pizza if he likes it ( I know he likes pizza, just don't knowi f he likes the frozen kind)
He also always gets a fruit like above and sometimes will get left over veggies or Dr. Praeger's veggie bites.

Re: breakfast and lunch foods to bring to daycare for a 13 month old?

I make his food or use earth best, Annies pasta dishes or happy bellies.

parmesan cheese
macaroni and cheese
Chicken & carrots
grilled cheese
ground turkey or beef with mashed potatoes
homemade spaghetti w/ meatballs
raviolis
lots of veggies
puffs
pancakes
fruits (bananas, apples, mangos,)
brown and/or white rice and beans

Re: breakfast and lunch foods to bring to daycare for a 13 month old?

DD is nearly 2, but I send in all her food b/c 99% of what she eats is organic, and the other 1% is all natural.

For breakfast I send:

oatmeal, yogurt, cereal bar, yogurt rice bar from Earth's Best, pop tarts

For lunch I send:

Frozen stuff from Amy's Kitchen (pizza pocket, burrito, enchilada etc); grilled cheese, PB&J (her center is not peanut free as none of the kids there have peanut allergies), mac& cheese, turkey & cheese wrap, pasta w/sauce

For her afternoon snack I send:

fresh fruit, applesauce, cookies, pretzels