Your child can eat anything you can that isn't hard (frozen veggies are a choking hazard until your child is about 3 years old) and is cut into tiny pieces. Buy small cans of veggies-- yellow and green beans, carrots, peas. Cut into bite sized pieces. My daughters loved baked beans straight out of the can. Small pieces of melon, bananas. Frozen dinners like beef stroganoff or spaghetti and meatballs are great--cut into small pieces. Buy some individual sized frozen veggies like broccoli. Lunch meat in small pieces, soup as finger food, fish sticks, small pieces of pasta (especially the curly kind is easy to eat). Gerber has a whole line of cooked cut up fruit, veggies and meat sticks which is very convenient. They have pasta pillows which are awesome for first time eaters. At that young age I found that we needed to get the Gerber jars just to supplement other table food. Try to get away from the "restraunt kid type foods". I realize you aren't a Spaghettio fan--neither am I--BUT check out the label; they are pretty much ok on the nutrition side and kids love them. Look at the other individual canned meals--if they look ok nutritionally then go for it. If you give her a wide variety now she will develop great habits life long. Our 4 and 6 year old's favorite meal is salmon, broccoli and rice. Good luck!!
I am so sorry for your loss :(
For your daughter, you might try some frozen pierogies (or make your own!). My son likes ravioli so I gave him so pierogies the other day and he LOVED them. They are very quick meal when boiled, and another great variation is to bake them for a few mins and serve with a side of salsa. yum!
Also I found this week that he LOVES tomato soup! Really messy...but good and healthy :)
Good luck!
I am responding to the 'So What Happened post. I am so sorry for your loss. I know your 2nd baby is well taken care in heaven, and you two will meet some day. I don't have a reason on why these things happen, but I know the Lord won't give you anything you cannot handle. Here is a verse that I hope will be bring you comfort,
"He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." Isaiah 40:29-31
I wanted to thank everyone for giving me advice for my special daughter Nattalie who’s almost 15 months now, but I also wanted to find a way to let you all know and for the one’s that I hear from more then once, that I had lost our second baby this week. They had found a blood clot in the baby’s sac when I was 7 weeks and at the time they didn’t think it was causing any harm, but this past Tuesday I had a regular check up and I told my doctor that I was curious if the blood clot had lowered and she decided to do an ultrasound herself and it did lower, but it had already caused damage. It caused no oxygen and no nutrients to the baby and it stopped growing since my last ultrasound on the 14th of December. If any of you have some comforting words it would greatly be appreciated and or scripture verses. I just wanted all of you to know.