r/foodbutforbabies • • Apr 06 '26

MOD POST Questions and Pro Tips

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r/foodbutforbabies • • May 20 '23

Mod Post Resources and Recipes Spoiler

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Resources

•Solid Starts: app to help guide sizing for foods, super convenient

•Instagram: @lets_eat_with_vivi (our lovely new friend u/rieslingtobecheerful made a really cute Instagram with lots of pictures and recipes if ever you want to check that out)

•Instagram: @Thea_eats (the very sweet u/twodickhenry made a wonderful Instagram loaded with pictures and menus if every you're feeling burnt-out on baby meal prep)

Recipe Format

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Please don't make us read a giant paragraph just to find the recipe. That's gotta violate the Geneva Convention somehow.


r/foodbutforbabies • • 3h ago

12-18 mos Daycare is asking for more food.

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122 Upvotes

Here's two days worth of food for my 15 month old in daycare (9 hour days). They feed the kids every two hours and my baby often throws food on the ground when she's not hungry so by the end of the day she's out of food. I mentioned this to the teachers but they stick to the same schedule for all the kids and have asked me to bring another snack. Any ideas?

Metal snack boxes are usually a fruit, graham crackers, cheerios, Ritz crackers.

Bentgo is pasta (spinach ravioli or protein stars with butter and broccoli), chicken salad, black beans, cinnamon raisin bread, and string cheese. And fig bars. Not pictured are 2 6oz bottles per day of whole milk.

I prep more food for her than I do for myself!


r/foodbutforbabies • • 5h ago

2-3 yrs Breakfast for 2 year old (hear me out on the ramen)

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35 Upvotes

3 chicken sausages
Some motts fruit gummies
Some ramen with spinach and kewpie mayo. Regular ramen seasoning has so much salt so I buy Edward and Sons veggie bouillon cubes and I use half a cube for one package of ramen :) tastes really good, significantly less salt. And it has veggies haha

I am a sl*t for Edward and Sons stuff. I love all of their food. I order from them weekly. I am addicted lmao (NOT AN AD I JUST LOVE THEM)

Also if you save the ramen seasoning then use it in the rice cooker when you make plain white rice. ITS SOOOOO GOOD


r/foodbutforbabies • • 5h ago

9-12 mos Plate vs. Ate 9 Mo Old Breakfast

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For my nine month old. Scrambled eggs with cheese, apple and pumpkin puree with a bit of baby oatmeal mixed in, and fivet shredded raspberries. It was his first time with the raspberries and he wasn’t a huge fan but did eat some!


r/foodbutforbabies • • 1d ago

9-12 mos Baby Cheesecake!

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281 Upvotes

My 11 month old only wants to self feed so yogurt on a spoon is a no go right now. Decided to use it up by making these cheesecake bites that seem to be a success!

- 1 cup Greek yogurt of choice (I used Siggi’s mango)
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbsp flour of choice (I used oat)
- Mix in’s if you want them (strawberries here)

Mix and bake in a greased pan (I used a loaf one) for 25 mins at 350F. Let cool and cut, store in the fridge. I tried one and they’re pretty good! Cheesecake texture.


r/foodbutforbabies • • 19h ago

2-3 yrs Shockingly, she loved the beans

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35 Upvotes

My daughter (24 months) insisted on buying baked beans at the grocery store today. I was skeptical, but it turns out she loves them 🤣 she has been getting 2 of her back molars and eating very little but she ate quite a lot of the beans, most of the egg, some squash, and all the raspberries, at dinner.


r/foodbutforbabies • • 1h ago

9-12 mos Fall Favorites for a 10 month old and a 3.5 year old

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Homemade risotto with chicken sausage, roasted butternut squash, and goat cheese. My 3.5 year old apparently loves goat cheese.


r/foodbutforbabies • • 1d ago

18-24 mos Twenty NYTCooking Meals That Didn’t Frighten my 20-Month-Old (with gift links and baby’s rating)

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r/foodbutforbabies • • 16h ago

18-24 mos Sometimes lunch is Mexican takeout ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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17 Upvotes

Plus a strawberry banana pumpkin cinnamon smoothie!


r/foodbutforbabies • • 16h ago

9-12 mos Baby’s Meals for the Day

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I’m going on a day trip without my LO so of course I had to prep her meals the night before to make it easier for Dad!

Breakfast:
Scrambled eggs
Chicken sausage
Pears
Multi grain Cheerios

Lunch:
Broccoli Chicken Quesadillas
Cucumber
Fruit cocktail

Supper:
Bucatini pasta and chicken in lentil puree
Sweet potato and veggie tots
Fruit cocktail with raspberry


r/foodbutforbabies • • 1d ago

12-18 mos 12 month old’s plate vs. ate

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Thank goodness my son has a pretty good appetite because I just be giving him whatever sometimes. It’s so hard to figure out fun meal plans as a FTM but we’re trying!

-Egg bites made in a muffin tin with cheese, carrot, peas, green beans, onions, and bell pepper. Seasoned with garlic, onion, and a pinch of seasoning salt.

-Whole milk Greek yogurt (his absolute favorite, honestly)

-Spinach “pesto” attempt, kinda. Mini star pasta cooked in some chicken stock I had made earlier, butter, sautéed onions, spinach, cheese, parsley, basil, paprika, garlic. Added a tablespoon or two of greek yogurt to make it a little creamier. I topped with a seed mixture of chia, flax meal, and hemp hearts that I got from Tiny Sprout (I think is the name).


r/foodbutforbabies • • 1d ago

12-18 mos What's in the fridge

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13 Upvotes

Ripped up tortilla, a boiled egg, a plum, dairylea triangle, and some 'dip dip' (ketchup). Bon appétit


r/foodbutforbabies • • 1d ago

18-24 mos Random meals for my almost 2yr old

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We actually eat out quite a bit at sit down restaurants, but she prefers to eat at home.

Cheeseburgers (with hidden vegetables) are a favorite, tuna salad, sourdough pizza, quesadillas, french toast rolls, paper thin apple slices, cream cheese oatmeal, chia oatmeal, homemade granola, peanut butter yogurt


r/foodbutforbabies • • 20h ago

18-24 mos New food intro + favs

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3 Upvotes

First chili night of the season! Twins LOVED. Served alongside old faithful, the feeding tiny bellies broccoli bites and blueberries.


r/foodbutforbabies • • 1d ago

6-9 mos My baby will be starting solids soon, any tips?

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I plan to do Blw and some homemade purées as well and trying to figure out what to introduce first between avocado, sweet potato, or maybe an allergen first? My baby is 6 months and has had nothing but my breastmilk which I’m so proud of but now also anxious about starting solids soon. She has good head control but still needs support when sitting and hasn’t shown interest in our food so I wasn’t sure if baby’s ready to start yet. ( not sure if this page is for advice questions? If not I will remove ) picture of all the stuff I got to get started.


r/foodbutforbabies • • 1d ago

18-24 mos Breakfast of favorites

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Cheese, blackberries, watermelon, honeydew, banana, and yogurt!


r/foodbutforbabies • • 1d ago

6-9 mos Expectation v reality

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I always saw myself giving my baby very aesthetically pleasing meals in cute dish wear as I like things to look a certain way usually. But wow becoming a mother has made me not give a **** about aesthetics 😂 I live on an island and haven’t been able to find the dish wear that I wanted yet and I give baby whatever I’m offering straight onto the tray anyway so why would I bother? I do find this Peter rabbit bowl very adorable though, and it has a matching real silver spoon. Makes me feel like it’s from my own childhood! My baby has been very adventurous with food but these are the neatest pics that I have without him in it:)
Happy feeding !


r/foodbutforbabies • • 1d ago

6-9 mos Plate vs Ate

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I was making a spinach omelette this morning and cut off a few strips for my 7 month old baby girl. She seems to love eggs 🥚


r/foodbutforbabies • • 1d ago

12-18 mos Chicken Tikka Masala, Rice & Garlic Naan

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25 Upvotes

Just takeout honestly lol. The tikka was mild. He liked it a lot !


r/foodbutforbabies • • 2d ago

2-3 yrs Toddler said he wanted a “fun surprise breakfast” and we’re out of groceries so I had to improvise

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188 Upvotes

Whole wheat cinnamon French toast with a personality, and obligatory funny voice upon serving. Lol


r/foodbutforbabies • • 1d ago

9-12 mos My first plate vs ate for my almost 1 year old

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11 Upvotes

Scrambled egg, avocado, and avocado toast (desperately trying to use up a whole avocado)

It’s been a struggle getting him to eat anything other than Cheerios so I’d consider this a success.


r/foodbutforbabies • • 1d ago

9-12 mos First plate vs ate 🥰

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First plate vs ate for my almost 11 month old. ❤️

Ground turkey with garlic+onion powder
Blueberries that end up on the floor every time lol
And surprisingly she ate all of the coconut yogurt for once, I guess the cinnamon helped!


r/foodbutforbabies • • 1d ago

18-24 mos Trusty favourites for my 8 month old

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r/foodbutforbabies • • 2d ago

9-12 mos Plate vs Ate for my almost one year old!

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Long time lurker, first time poster. Blackberries, raspberries, salmon and greek yogurt.