Snacks for 10 months-old????

[MrsHuxtable]

DD is doing well with weaning but still breastfeeding a couple of times a day, at bedtime and during the night. Now that she's reaching 10 months and I need to think about returning to work next year , I'd like to slowly cut out her mid-morning and afternoon feed and get her to eat a healthy snack instead. No rusks ect.
She has porridge and half a banana for breakfast, wholemeal bread with hummus or avocado and the other half of her banana for lunch and dinner at the moment is mostly pasta with different thick vegetable purees as a sauce with peas and broccoli etc.
I'm at a loss at what to offer for snacks. Other than yoghurt with fruit, I can't think of anything. She can't handle raw veggies yet or I'd go down the hummus and veggie route.

Any ideas??? Oh, and we are vegetarian...

How ong is it until you return to work Mrs? The current advice is to cut out one feed every two weeks to reduce your risk of mastitis. You might want to talk to a BFC about your plans to return and the best way of reducing feeds and when to start. If she is still feeding in the night I would probably start cutting down on the feeds nearer the time.

How about things like Cheese and broccoli muffin, baby breadsticks with Philly or hummus, cheese straws, flapjack. There are some good recipes on the babyledweaning website too

Thanks for replying, Jilted. I still have 2 months before I return to work and it'll only be 3 days a week for 6 hours. I want to continue her bedtime feed for quite a while as long as she wants it and am also quite flexible with the night feeds as long as it doesn't stop me from getting pregnant again in a wee while (but that's a whole other issue) so it's really only the day time feeds I want to cut.

So should I start with the afternoon feed? I guess the other issue is that a lot of the time she still feeds to sleep so I need to break that habit as well. Starting to think I should have posted in breast/bottle feeding .

What are baby breadsticks? Do they have a lot of sugar? Would I give the cheese string just by itself? She's never had cheese so far....Will have a look at that blw page again.

I'd reconsider the wholemeal bread with what is a high fibre diet, I'd say it's not too surprising she's keen on high calorie liquid food with tummy so often full of fibre.

What JJJ says otherwise, DD had lots of apple and cheese sticks as an out and about snack, fruit, chicken, potato, hummus, yoghurt when at home.

It's one slice a day of wholemeal bread a day. Is that too much? Will try the cheese sticks and push the yoghurt thing but that's quite a lot of dairy then, no?

Was it just boilded potato you gave DD, Fred?

It's also not that she is "keen" on the breastfeeds, it's just what I have offered so far. I've never tried to cut out these feeds as I've considered them quite important so far.

MrsHuxtable No, never boiled - but not for any other reason than I'd never have boiled potatoes in the house. They'd be left over mashed (which would have other root veg and cheese in almost certainly) or roast or baked - just whatever there was in the fridge.

On wholemeal, whilst it's not completely terrible food for babies, high fibre food both fills up the stomach with stuff that can't be digested and also inhibits absorbtion of nutrients that are in the stomach. So it's mostly advised to be avoided, especially given that the rest of your foods are also not super high calorie and can be quite fibrous too.

Remember a healthy diet for a baby is not the same as one for an adult - they need more fat, more protein and more calories per volume! Dairy is a good source of this.

Snacks:
houmous/ nut butters and oatcakes
Avocado
Homemade muffins ( spinach/ carrot/ cheese/ apple/ banana)- can freeze
Bananas/ blueberries/ large oranges into 4 giant segments/ cucumber ( any fruit really or veg)
Pitta bread/ wraps
Raisens
Cheese
Leftover chicken/ any meat etc..

Salt, equivalent of I slice of bread a day max

Sticks of cheese are fine, my DS used to enjoy those, but I also used to bake cheese straws, very yummy and last for a few days in an airtight container. Don't know about the sugar in baby breadsticks, I used to bake my own no salt ones.

Raisins, peas, sweetcorns, blueberries, little bits of cheese, little breadsticks, and we also offer the Organix rice cakes and 'crisps' occasionally.

I'm always trying to come up with healthy snacks. I serve plain breadsticks which do have a bit of salt in, cheese, fruit, oatcakes and rather than paying extortionate amounts of money on those nice, flavoured rice cakes, I buy large plain packets and then use a nut spread (e.g. almond butter) which is full of goodness. I've also tried to make some healthy 'biscuits' (without sugar and salt and added good stuff) and posted them on my blog, e.g. banana banana biscuits are a hit. You might find other pages useful because I stash all our vegetarian recipes up there (we are veggie too) and any research where I've found helpful nutritional info. Good luck!