What Food To Take?

We adopted from India. DD was 18 months when she came home. I'd suggest Cheerios, although my dd was completely uninterested in them until she'd been home a while. She was very fond of sort of a cookie/cracker thing and would hold on to them for ages. When we got home, we gave her graham crackers. Animal crackers are good too. In desperation on the plane ride, we gave her a protein bar that my mother had in her purse. Honestly, she was so upset and exhausted, she barely ate anything, although I did manage to get yogurt into her. We pretty much introduced her to new foods right away, although we did serve a lot of dal (lentils) the first few months--which approximated something she was eating in the orphanage. We didn't give her a lot of meat--she didn't like it. We gave her oatmeal, yogurt, cheese, bananas and expanded pretty quickly when it became clear she didn't have a lot of digestive issues. For a while we avoided tomatoes (after an exploding diaper)--although I think it had more to do with the pediasure she was on, rather than the tomatoes. She love, and continues to love, bread. The dr. had us keep her on formula until she was 2 and then on whole milk until she was 2.5 (actually we switched to low fat on our own then because she wasn't eating enough). We had asked the orphanage what they were feeding her -- and tried to give her those things (hence the lentils) for a while.