What food do you carry around for your 1-year-old?

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Following on from my restaurant food thread (I was caught out with no food in my bag for DD yesterday - other than a couple of rice cakes), what should I have been carrying? She doesn't like being spoonfed any more so jars don't go down well. I can always pop a banana or something in bag for a snack but I'm thinking more in terms of when we're out and about at mealtimes and she wants something more substantial - also I'd particularly like some 'storecupboard' type ideas as I often run out of fresh stuff just when I need to pack a bag for the day. Inspiration please!

Had you thought about carrying round bananas, Anteater?

Dry Cheerios

chopped cheese
raisens
bananas

I relied on: Bread sticks, raisins, rice cakes, water, and boobs!

bread & breastmilk

Small tupperware with a mixture of cereals that can ge picked up. Multi Grain, OTs (NZ cheerio type thing), raisins and chopped up apricots. Takes ages to eat one at a time. BUT ds needs a table for these. (a toddler thing)

When we go somewhere a table will not be available I take a rich tea biscuit.

Right, I'm going to get stocked up! Thanks all

this thread has made me feel so guilty. I did all of this for DD1, carried several tiny plastic tubs of healthy stuff wherever we go but for poor old DD2 (13 months) I am so rubbish at remembering to take anything at all. I feel it an achievement to remember to restock the change bag with a nappy and wet wipes and pop in a water cup
Gonna add a new resolution to my growing list - healthier snacks in tubs for both children rather than grabbing something from the newsagent (usually so unhealthy I dare not write any of the usual suspects down).
Batch freezing mini muffins - my admiration for you lot just continues to grow. I know it isn?t hard and I don?t go out to work so I must try to be a better mum

none!

Stripeymouse and Cod - glad you both said that I was wondering if it was just me! If we are out round lunchtime ds1 (3) and ds2 (1) either wait till we get home, or eat whatever is on the menu at the cafe / restaurant that we go to. Never carry anything just in case once they can eat anything and everything.

Stripymouse, 'twas I who made batches of mini muffins. I didn't intend to make you feel guilty. Nor am I Annabel Karmel.

I don't often bake, but when the mood strikes DD and I we do tend to go overboard. Hence the freezing. Don't think I could do it weekly (I would be a heifer!!)

no
think it encourages snacking
they have meals dont they?
I dont carry snacks aroundfor me!

btw mini muffins ar e a piec of piss and make you lok great

( see lakeland catalogue)

Coddy, I used to carry stuff when I was out and about not as a snack, but instead of the crap food often found in cafes. Often the only thing suitable on the menu was a scone or bread roll.

I once tried asking for a bowl of plain pasta and cheese for DD and they looked at me as if I had asked for caviar!

but no more as you are so slender

It never crossed my mind to carry anything for mine to eat once they were a year or so old. They either ate off our plate or I'd give a breast-feed. The thought of crumbs and other food detritus in the pram makes me shudder!

I wasn't asking about snacks, honest!! I do carry fruit for back-up (I do believe in eating between meals if it's healthy - eating little but often is, I believe, highly recommended as long as it's not junk), but was asking more about a replacement for jars as I got a bit stuck at a restaurant recently. (See original post.)

Oh i see
never did really

I will probably get shot but have always (still do) carried around snacks for dd and she's nearly 3 - it hasn't ever stopped her eating proper meals. Faves are bread sticks, mini rice cakes, oat cakes (preferabley organic/salt/sugar free), grapes, carrot sticks, baby bells, and sometimes white choc buttons - she has these after her Gym Joeys session and of course a drink - water or dilute juice.

i carried around rice cakes and farleys teddy biscuits. once we got a flat tyre in the middle of nowhere and i told dh 'you have til dd finishes her 3 rice cakes to change that tyre or she will start screaming' it was teatime, dd was hungry but sleeps in the car only if its moving

he did

Every bag I own has a container of Cheerios in it. (Nice, US Cheerios, I hasten to point out, having discovered on another thread that they are not at all the same in the UK) DD can and will eat most restaurant food, but it can be tricky getting something appropriate fast enough to keep her amused, plus sometimes I want to distract her in other situations. Cheerios last a long time if you dole them out one at a time, and are more interesting than anything else that involves sitting still and being quiet. (DD is only 10 months, mind you.) Sometimes I also have big crackers or apple slices, which if she's in the mood last quite a long time between interventions (with Cheerios you have to hand them out continuously)