Easy Meal and Snack Ideas
You and your baby do best when you eat regularly throughout the day. Drink plenty of water as well.
Here is a sample menu using some of your WIC-approved foods:
Breakfast
Eggs, whole-wheat toast or English muffin, banana, and low-fat milk
Morning Snack
Plain yogurt and orange slices
Lunch
Chili with beans, cornbread or tortilla, broccoli, and water
Afternoon Snack
Wheat crackers, sliced cheese, veggie sticks, and 100% juice
Dinner
Baked or grilled chicken, brown rice or quinoa, carrots, salad with lettuce and tomato, and low-fat milk
- Apple slices or banana with peanut butter
- Applesauce or fruit cup
- Cheese slice on whole wheat toast with tomatoes
- Carrot sticks dipped in hummus
- Unsalted nuts and raisins
- Low-fat yogurt with fruit
- Vegetable or fruit smoothie
- Hard-boiled egg
- WIC-approved cereal
Mini Meals
If you don’t feel like eating, try a mini meal. Pick a food from each group.
EXAMPLE: Cold cereal + Lowfat milk + Banana
- Bagel
- Sweet potato
- Cold cereal
- Whole-wheat tortilla
- Crackers
- English muffin
- Graham crackers
- Hamburger bun
- Noodles
- Noodle soup
- Oatmeal or grits
- Pita bread
- Raisin bread
- Brown rice
- Whole-grain bread
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