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food
is the pediatrician worried about her weight? just a thought, but the growth charts are (I think) based on US population, and maybe she's actually closer to normal percentiles for her demographic.
some ideas anyway:
Land-o-lakes american cheese singles- it has some junk in it, but less than Kraft, it squashes up quite nicely, and doesn't have the strong flavor of cheddar.
pasta of a size and shape she can hold and stuff in her mouth- well cooked it pulverizes well, and the enriched pasta has a lot more protein than you think. Plus you can sneak other stuff on as sauce.
If she's into pancakes, you can make pancake batter with extra egg and some yogurt instead of the milk- she'll never know she's eating eggs.
mashed potatoes that you don't mash very well, so there's some squishy chunks she can grab- again, you can load up on the butter (really, fat is good at this age).
I never understood the baby food meats. They smell like an open grave, and I can't figure out why they don't turn kids off of food forever. I wouldn't sweat the meat group until she's ready to eat the real stuff- others might disagree, but you can sneak a lot of protein into them with other foods. If she's still drinking formula, she's getting most of her nutritional needs already, and just needs calories.
Also, do you eat with her? I only ask because I know when I'm on my own with the kids, I tend to feed them then forage for myself rather than sitting down like we do when the whole gang is here, and at her age watching mom eat sparks an interest in doing the stuff you do- learning how to hold a spoon, etc, and makes eating something interesting to do.
Final thought: if you don't care how much of a mess she makes, she can eat the things with her fingers that you'd rather have her eat with a spoon. Mine sucked a lot of squash off their fingers. I just fed them without a shirt on so I could hose them off afterward.
good luck, and unless the doctor tells you to worry, don't get too caught up in the percentiles.
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