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EAT => Eating For Toddlers => Topic started by: Colin Macs Mom on November 28, 2009, 04:18:24 am
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Continued from http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=148384.0
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Goodness me, the thread has reached 30 pages!
Leo at today
1 weetbix and milk
vegemite crackers
1/2 toasted tortilla wrap w cheese, tuna, tomato
yoghurt
1 pear, 3 anzac biscuits, several 100% fruit sticks
2 fish fingers and 2 bites of a new meal, couscous and veggies with slivered almonds! amazing :P
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Where did the time (or pages!) go? :o
Today went like this
B: Toasted brioche roll, small pot of fruit in juice, slice of malt loaf, milk
S: apple cereal bar - followed by a few roast chestnuts at a Christmas Fayre
L: couple of mouthfuls of home-made quiche, finished of chestnuts, slice of malt loaf
S: dried pineapple, water
D: root veg and bean stew, mashed potatoes (ate nearly an adult portion :o), yoghurt, 2 satsumas, small gingerbread biscuit
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Have spent the last week trying a new approach to eating here as Charles decided that nothing I served for lunches and supper were edible too often. Things have improved but he was woken early and v hungry a few times. :-[
Today
B: 2 weetabix with warm milk (didn't touch the sides)
L: 1 slice of grilled cheese on toast with 1 tspn of leek & potato soup (yeh, didn't go for the soup at all) & a petit fil-thingy yoghurt
AS (afternoon snack): little box of raisins (ate every last one)
S: chicken & veggie stirfry with thai rice (he ate 1 mini corn and a bite of pepper, no more), 1 pear (served whole, skinned), 1/2 bakewell tart - he ate all the pear and all the tart, funnily enough :P
Roll on tomorrow
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i don't often get around to writing, but i do read along!
b- not sure, now that i think of it. dh gave him breakfast and i slept in until 8:30!
s - 4 trisket crackers and 3 squares of cheese
l - not hugry - ate lunch at 4:30 and then had dinner at 6 for both he ate a chicken breast, a few mixed steam veggies and a few potatoe wedges.
not a great eating day today! well, there's always tomorrow!
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Things are rocking along here this week!! Today was especially fun:
Breakfast: stuck his fingers in the jam on his toast, put fingers up nose and in hair, but not in mouth.
Snack: one three week old stale cheerio found beneath his Duplo blocks in his wagon
Snack, take two: threw himself on the floor in a fit of tears as I am just not fast enough in peeling satsumas. Ate satsuma.
Lunch: attempted to spoon feed himself some raspberry yogurt. smashed spoon on highchair, ate none. Gave his cheese on toast to Tinky Winky, threw green beans under the table and gagged after putting a small piece of cheese in his mouth. Spat cheese into my hand.
Snack: put raisins under living room rug. Shocker, as raisins are usually like gold.
Dinner: (not sure why I bothered) smushed some baked beans in his hair, ripped up toast and threw it whilst making sign for "bird" (obviously was pretending he was feeding the ducks) and climbed out of his chair signing "finished"
::)
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Breakfast: bowl of porridge with raspberries, blueberries, blackberries and strawberries. ate a large bowl (just short of an adult portion), without touching the sides ::)
Lunch: swedish meatballs & beetroot salad with toasted pitta bread = 2 -3 meatballs, 1 toasted pitta (creamy b salad smeared lightly inside ;))
Snack: banana chips (the sugar coated kind as I was in a rush at the shops and didn't check the pack)
Supper: roast chicken & gravy pie (ate pastry & a couple of lumps of chicken ;D), roast parsnips (ate ;D), stumpy carrots ( :(), mash ( :( ), whole banana and a yoghurt ;D ;D ;D
Gotta say that I've seen such a massive improvement in his eating since I stopped stressing or trying to encourage him to eat in any way... I serve it up and that's it; he eats or he doesn't. If he doesn't, there's no spoon from me, no forcing, no tempting, no involvement. Just eat or don't. And serving foods whole (or in pretty big lumps at worst) really helping here. Eats apple and banana if served whole (banana in skin or apple whole but peeled).
Sorry - so excited... Charles ATE MEAT TODAY!!!!!!!!! ;D The 2nd time this week!!!!! I'll shut up now. :-[
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Felt like jumping in (mostly for more food ideas for los):
Breakfast-DH and I were in "cleaning mode" so gave DD a granola bar while we straightened up and did dishes as she can feed it to herself without much mess and she finished it and asked for more so had 2 and a sippy of milk.
Snack-Some cheerios and more milk
Lunch-Mac n' cheese with a hot dog cut up (not so nutritious :( )
Snack-Goldfish and milk
Dinner-Chicken pot pie: chicken, green beans, carrots, mushrooms, cream of mush soup, and pie crust.. and juice as had enough milk for the day IMO.
We were away for Thanksgiving and I haven't gone shopping so tomorrow is looking like it might be more of the same quick type meals again.
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mashimaro - sorry, your post made me laugh and feel a little better! a. has really not been eating all that much lately.
b - small bowl of multigrain rice crispies w/ blueberries - just a few bites, really
s - small croissant w/ butter
l - 1/2 salmon sandwich, a few peices of mixed veggies (you know, the frozen bag of mixed carrots, corn, green beans)
s - we were out for the afternoon and snacked on and off on raisins and terra chip sticks
d - a few bites of fish and a few french fries.
he just seems so picky lately. he loves sandwiches and will often eat some of pretty much any kind for lunch, but breakfast and dinner are just not his thing lately. i hate throwing out food, that's part of what really bugs me!
pair of charlies - yeah for you! sounds like charlie is eating up a storm. a. used to love bananas and went through a phase where he would only eat them whole, in the peel. now he's not interested in them at all
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Charlie--I'm taking that approach as well. It makes me much happier.
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charlie, think i need to start that approach too as it's driving me nuts lately!
mashi, hugs for the rough day but you certainly made me giggle :-*
breaky - 1.5 weetbix with dried apricot and sultanas, juice
snack - few dried apple bears (new product i found, he LOVES these), handful cheerios, water
lunch - baked beans and 1 slice toast, milk
snack - pear, babybel cheese, water
dinner - tuna and tomato mac and cheese, milk
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think we are on hunger strike!!! following for ideas.Cant post food cos is eating nothing due to being poorly!
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Little Leo managed a 1/2 hour tantrum because he didn't like dinner last night ::)
He's not eating as much, halved his breakfast pretty much, so thinking he's finished catching up on lost weight. But now I think I'll have to reduce snacks, as he's refusing a lot of lunch and dinners. grrr.
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Today was a mess due to a 20 min catnap while out shopping this morning. Fell alseep in the stroller at 11:30 am when I wasn't looking, I didn't have the heart to wake him. WRONG! Refused nap in the PM until 4pm(!) when he had 40 mins.
So no snacks at all today due to the out of whack naps.
Breakfast: Brown rice porridge with apple/strawberry puree. MSPI eggnog. 1/2 slice toast with MSPI spread
Lunch (out) Hainan chicken rice with broth, cucumber. Really wanted "mo" of this but he'd already eaten over a third of my lunch!
Dinner: Buckwheat noodles with beef, chicken, beet greens and zucchini. Apple, MSPI eggnog. He was so hungry he even ate the veggies!
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Well, just posting so i don't forget about this thread, but Spencer's weekend diet consisted of formula, cheerios and crackers. She has tonsillitis and refused food from fri am to sun am (except formula, thank god) Unfortunately Dh and MIL decided to force feed her some yogurt on Friday night because her meds are to be taken with food and now she hates her high chair! Hopefully she'll eat more at daycare today.
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Hugs all around for the tonsillitis stricken, the food throwing/wearing/refusing bunch.
Not much to add right now, did have banana pancakes and sausage this AM.
Report back later.
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Mashi - I know I shouldn't laugh out loud at your post, but have to admit I did ;)
We've been out and about the past couple of days so food / meal times have been a bit off.
Today
B: handful of raisins, bowl of porridge (left some - never does :o), couple of bites of my jam on toast, satsuma, lots of milk (kept asking for more - nearly as unusual as leaving porridge)
S: slice of malt loaf
L: couple of mouthfuls of baked potato, couple of mouthfuls of chicken/salsa/corn/bean filling - picked out all the beans and ate them (adores all kinds of beans ::)), kiwi, satsuma (also adores LOTS of fruit ::))
D: shared DH's sausage, mash and gravy dinner and my spinach and ricotta lasagne, few rice cakes, milk
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My poor LO is going through a growth spurt at the same time that she is getting her back molars! She eats like a starved person at one meal, then refuses all food at the next. Last night after refusing dinner, she had the worst teething meltdown I've ever seen. She was just howling and thrashing like a wild animal. We did not know what to do.
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Mashi - I know I shouldn't laugh out loud at your post, but have to admit I did Wink
Fortunately I was able to laugh at most of the day as well. Today was pretty much a repeat. Running on four days now, actually!!
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i never know what he'll eat! one day something is practically inhaled, then next it's not touched! one thing i have learned though, is that he seems to not like eating last nights dinner leftovers for lunch the next day!
b- 2 gluten free (brown rice flour) w/ blueberry waffles
s - oatmeal cookie, banana
l - after 15 min meltdown from being offered last nights dinner which he loved, had my second option of a cream cheese sandwich
s - w/ babysitter, she told me but i forget!
d - 2 big servings of my easy throw together when i can't think of anthing else meal - pasta, mixed with tomatoe sauce, brocoli pieces, red kidney beans and shredded cheese. mix together, add more cheese on top and bake
s - 2 pieces of flatbread with oregano seasoning. didn't think he would like it!
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Yesterday was:
B-oatmeal (barely ate)
B-at my mom's she got a banana and ate the whole thing ;)
L-tunafish sandwich
S-didn't really have one
D-Toddler meal as DH brought home take out chicken wings for me and him and didn't think she could handle them. I think it was mac n/ cheese with chicken or turkey and peas. She ate that pretty well, but not all..
Slow eating day for us. Oh well.
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yesterday:
B: waffle, banana, milk, juice
L: turkey slice, apple, milk, cracker
D:pasta with meatballs, green beans, milk, fig newtons
Not eating great, he's still sick...eating about 1/2 of his regular intake...
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I'm trying something new that seems to be working. I'm not separating Chandler's meat, veg, and carb anymore. I choose one of each that go well together and I mix them together in one bowl. Chandler now just eats it all instead of just going for the carb. I feel like we're going backward, but it seems to work.
Two nights ago, I mixed together brown rice, quinoa, white fish, and green peas
Last night, I blended Stouffer's spinach souffle with the leftover brown rice and peas
Tonight will probably be mac and cheese with minced uncured hot dog and green beans with carrots
I usually add a splash of olive oil for flavor and a nice dose of healthy fat.
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AshleyB-pretty good idea. We do a lot of all in one casserole or crockpot meals anyway so that ends up being about half of our dinners lol. :) But it might not be a bad idea for lunches as well. I've done some quiche type things for breakfast so there are eggs, cheese, sometimes meat and veggies all in one dish as well.
Grrr, I am making myself hungry at work!
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I feel like we're going backward,
I try not to think of food, sleep, speech and other developmental things on a linear scale - so that way there is no such thing as 'going backwards' as it's not a straight line, kwim? Like with speech children will say "I did it" and then 6 months later when they learn that "-ed" makes past tense, they start saying "I doed it." Not a step backwards when you look at WHY they are doing that, it is in fact a step forwards as it shows application of learning. Right?
So with food I try not to think that way also, and instead look for the reason...or at least something in it to make me feel better. So in Chandler's case I would see it as a maturation of tastebuds where she is learning to eat foods all mixed together, and enjoying it. As opposed to some children (like me!) who can't handle foods touching or mixing - beans are beans, carrots are carrots and keep them both out of my potatoes. But a child that can appreciate the tastes of them all mixed together is great!!
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Mashi-I always love the way in which you view things in the world :)
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I also have stopped stressing about what she eats, and how much. I also do not force her to take bites, I know as a kid I HATED this approach and spent many a meal sitting at the table while everyone else was gone so I would eat. Daisy does well, she however is not a fan of veggies.....neither are her dad and me, we eat some but not enough.
Yesterday:
2-eggs and toast with jam for breaky
Tuna and crackers, grapes, and a ew chips for lunch. We were out and I brought along those Tuna snackers, where you scoop your tuna on to a cracker...she loved it.
Supper-Macaroni, ham and fruit salad.
See the lack of veggies......
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Mashi-I always love the way in which you view things in the world :)
Me too :-* If only I had half of your optimism life would be so much easier LOL. DH always says that in my world it's black or white - there is no grey ::)
A has always been a good eater and therefore I haven't really stressed about it - but she's been a bit hit and miss over the past couple of weeks (maybe those infamous 2nd year molars ???)
Yesterday (mostly at CM - Breakfast at home)
B: a bit of weetabix (used to demolish 2, only put one in this time but still leftovers ::)), signed for banana and kiwi after (ate both of them), milk
S: raisins and milk
L: cheese & ham toastie, rhubarb and custard, water
S: shortbread and milk
S: banana and water
D: gave her plate with veggie sausage, mash and sprouts fried with apple, she picked up the plate and said 'no want that'. She was quite upset, so I took her out of the highchair. She had a big cup of milk instead . . .
She also took a while to settle last night and woke moaning / crying a couple of times - unlike her, so think something is definitely bothering her :-\
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Quote from: *Nicole-Ava's mom* on Yesterday at 06:54:11 PM
Mashi-I always love the way in which you view things in the world Smiley
Me too Kiss If only I had half of your optimism life would be so much easier LOL.
I have to admit, most of the time it is a forced optimism rather than my nature :-\
As for what my LO has been eating...I have to say that we are on an almost total milk-diet again. Sigh. I am hoping to get a dr appt this aft but it may have to wait until Monday. He's doing 13-15 hour nights, with 2hr naps and not eating a thing. Teeth can't be the only culprit? Can they?
Yesterday-
Bkfst - half piece of rye toast with cream cheese
snack - satsuma, half banana
Lunch - sugar coated German christmas biscuit ::) Should note that I didn't GIVE this to him, he fished them out of my shopping bag when we got home from the supermarket and took one. Half gone before I noticed him hiding in the corner giggling. Wouldn't eat any lunch, threw himself on kitchen floor crying his eyes out when I refused to give him another one.
snack - few spoons of yogurt
dinner - peas and corn. . think he licked some ketchup. refused everything else
920am and he's still sleeping.....went to bed at 6pm last night :o
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Mashi, Spencer stopped eating anything but formula because of her tonsillitis...which they said was caused by strep throat. Could he be coming down with something? She was also sleeping alot, 20 out of every 24 hours the whole weekend. I really hope you can get into the doctor! hugs for your little man
Yesterday was:
Breakfast - formula & toast
Lunch - no idea, was at daycare DH never asks!
snack - formula, crackers
Supper - veal, french fries (no veggies, can you tell DH cooked?)
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Yesterday Ava didn't eat much.
B-I think fruit with my mom, can't remember
L-toddler meal that she saw and wanted...only at 1/3 of it
S-goldfish crackers (again something she asked for as she climbed on a chair by the cabinet they're in)
D-bit of pizza (wow are we lazy this week)
Drank a lot of milk though
So far today she had a good helping of eggs for breakfast that she happily ate herself and used a fork some of the time!
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From Hiedi's post - "no veggies, can you tell DH cooked?"
What with these DH's and no veggies! I asked DH to take care of dinner last night and he brought home chicken wings and a bowties pasta with kasha dish - so yummy! We had had some brocoli in the refridgerator and I steamed some for myself when I got home (after they had eaten) both kids wanted some, I said to DH "despite your best efforts, both kids had some green vegetables tonight!" not sure how amused he was with my sarcasm! :)
So far a. has had
b - bowl of multigrain rice crispies w/ blueberries and milk, 2 apple slices and an oatmeal cookie
s - a few bites of banana (used to inhale them. now he asks for them all the time, but only takes a few bites!)
l - big bowl of leftover pasta dinner from day before yesterday
d - will be, but we'll see how much he eats! soup (or as he says "houp", don't know what kind, my father made it), chicken, parisienne potatoes, brocoli & portebello mushroom dish that DH made. There will probably be bread and houmous on the table too.
Have a nice weekend all!
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I said to DH "despite your best efforts, both kids had some green vegetables tonight!" not sure how amused he was with my sarcasm! :)
;D
Today for Spencer -
Breakfast/snack/lunch - toast, hashbrowns, ham, cereal (we were away and she kind of snacked her way through the morning.
snack - rice cookies, no formula, as DH got home with her 2 hours before I did and for some reason the 20 other sippy cups at home weren't the right ones to make formula in.
supper - oranges, veal, toast
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Yesterday, Chandler ate:
B: Cereal with milk, Superfood juice
S: (while grocery shopping) oatmeal Snackimals, fruit cup from the grocery store salad bar, ate the whole thing (won't touch grapes and canteloupe when they're on her high chair)
L: leftover beans and rice from Mexican dinner out, a few bites of yogurt (tried the new YoBaby Meals with fruit and veg puree--it's delish)
S: cheese crackers
D: teriyaki salmon mixed with mushroom risotto and green peas
The mixing of the protein, carb and veg in one bowl is still working out--the only exception being the night when she was able to selectively spit out only the broccoli (she's very talented).
On the food throwing front: Things have gotten better since I started giving her time outs for throwing. Now, if she starts to pick up her bowl, I snatch it away and tell her I have to feed her if she won't feed herself. I think she's starting to get it. Meal times are a lot less chaotic now.
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Today A has eaten:
B: half a crumpet (or so), half a bowl of porridge, signed for a pear (ate all), signed for banana (ate 2 bites and insisted the rest was Mummy and Daddy's ::)), milk
S: at playgroup - refused grapes but managed 2 mini animal biscuits ::), juice
L: baked beans on toast
S: none - out and about, very little sleep so early dinner instead
D: pasta bolognaise, blueberries and yoghurt, signed for banana (ate all), signed for orange (ate full satsuma), followed by 3 mini organix cookies and milk
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Another bad day here --
Breakfast - milk, 1/4 piece of toast with butter, few handfuls of cheerios, most of a banana shortly after while waiting for the bus.
snack - full brotchen and a popped corn granola bar. sugar laden, with "yogurt" covering. cried his eyes out for a second one...creid even harder when i offered another brotchen instead. ::)
lunch before nap - yogurt, slice of cheese, satsuma
lunch after nap - cream cheese (not the ham or bread), more cheerios.
dinner - three cooked baby carrots. few licks of zaziki, more yogurt.
Rock on canines is all I can say! He was eating soooo well a few weeks ago, willing to try new things and asking for more. Now he just shakes his head no at everything.
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(won't touch grapes and canteloupe when they're on her high chair)
ashley, hunter wouldnt eat watermelon, canteloupe or honeydew melon at all, wouldnt even put them in his mouth to try them. then i saw an idea in a mag to use a melon baller and put them on a stick to make them fun - turns out food is so much fun on a stick that he will eat heaps of melon this way and has even started eating pineapple and other diff foods that he wouldnt eat before if i put it on a stick occasionally. found this a good way to get meat into him when he is being fussy too. (of course takes a bit more supervision to give him food on a stick, i just cut the really pointy end off and have taught him to hold both ends of the stick at once and eat from the edges so that he's not waving it around). sometimes i give him a tooth pick to get his food with too and he gobbles it up.
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B-milk @ home and pancakes @ sitter's
L-leftover turkey, green bean casserole, stuffed mushrooms and milk
S-peaches
D-toddler meal as DH and I had more of the same leftovers and I didn't want to give her the same thing again. Was rice/chicken/black beans/corn and peas and milk
Not too bad.
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Well, something has changed and DS is eating again! Only problem is that I have not got the greatest foods in the house at the moment for him as he hasn't been eating well so there has not been much point! Will have to stock up tomorrow!
Breakfast -- 3 pieces of dark rye toast with jam. Ate the bread AND the jam ;D
snack - full brotchen including most of the crust :o 1 yellow kiwi and a satsuma
Lunch - bagel and cream cheese, whole banana
snack - small peppermint gingerbread biscuit, some cheerios and a fruit leather thing? not sure what they are really, label in German!
Dinner - huge bowl of pasta bolognese, fed it all to himself, even at the meat AND the mushrooms! :o and some apple & cinnamon yogurt which is so sugar laden it may as well be called pudding, but I was pleased!
Need to get back on track now with getting him a varied diet and new and interesting things again, will be watching closely for ideas!! Nicole I would love that green bean casserole recipe...DS loves his veggies and green beans!
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Mashi-It's just green beans (one can drained or one frozen bag thawed/drained or fresh of the same quanitity really) You can precook or microwave so they're more tender but it's not required. Throw in a baking/casserole dish. Add a can of cream of mushroom soup. Those french fried onions (seriously not the healthiest in the world) about 2/3 of the container (save some for the top). Some pepper to taste. Mix it all together, bake at 350 for about 30 mins. Take out and top with the remaining french fried onions (and cheese if you'd like) and bake for another 5 or so mins until they turn golden brown. I LOVE green bean casserole. BUT I bet it's a bit high in sodium, if you can think of something healthier to substitute let me know!
If he likes veggies, I made some glazed carrots/green beans the other night. Just cooked them stove top with butter and brown sugar until very soft and yummy.
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Glad Mini Mashi is back and eating!!
Today Nick ate:
B: cheesy scrambled eggs, banana, milk
L: whole wheat pizza with mushrooms, olives, and onion, pears, milk
D: sausage, bean, and spinach soup, carrot salad, milk
S:1/2 chocolate donut
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I have been following along ladies and I am glad Mashi your lo is starting to eat more. I was wondering if I can join in. My lo has become a fussy eater. Actually, she was always a fussy eater. She will no longer touch chicken or any meats. The only meat I can get her to eat is the processed stuff you put in sandwiches. :-\ here is what she ate today:
B-1 waffle, handful of cheerios. Had milk an hour earlier.
snack before nap: 1.5 oz of yogurt
L-2 tspn of rice, piece of bread, 2 green beans
snack-not interested
D-carrot french sticks. Threw the chicken on the floor. Had some dried cranberries and 1 pasta.
She did drink 12 ozs of milk before bed.
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Go Mini Mashi ;)
Yesterday A ate:
B: big bowl of porridge, some of mine and DH's toast and jam, pear, milk
S: shared packet of crisps with DH
L: shared pizzas with DH and I (one chicken with pesto and sweet peppers, one with spinach and mascarpone), 3 satsumas :o
S: lemon-infused raisins
D: pasta bake (turkey mince, mushroom, courgettes, peppers, etc), creme fraiche, pear, followed by 3 mini malted milk biscuits and some milk
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Yesterday was pathetic.
B-Handful of cheerios/cup of milk
L-Leftovers/cup of milk (DH was home with her...think he said mashed potatoes and more green beans) Said she didn't have very much
S-Can't remember what he gave her
D-Ziti, creamed spinach/cup of milk-also ate a smallish amount for her
Today so far was better but it's only been breakfast.
B-baby oatmeal mixed with fruit (hasn't wanted oatmeal in forever and I saw it in the cabinet and though...hey let me try so I can be rid of this almost empty container--she ate it all)
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today was a pretty good eating day here
b - bowl of multigrain rice krispies w/ almond milk and blueberries, oj
s - 1/2 banana, 1 marroc, 1 rugelach, 1 oatmeal cookie
l - small slice of bread dipping in houmous (really didn't actually get much houmous), small piece of chicken, bean/barley/potatoe stew
s - 2 crackers w/ cheese, marroc, small box of raisins
d - small amount of what he had for lunch, w/out the bread
i'd love to start serving oatmeal in the mornings, but y. won't eat it, it's too plain and too dry. doesn't like it mixed w/berries either. any suggestions - how do you make it? do you use quick oats or regular?
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Today, Chandler ate:
B: Cinnamon cereal with milk
S: blueberry cereal bar
L: entire avocado, half an apple, a few bites of organic instant mac and cheese
S: she asked for Snackimals, but didn't ate them, then asked for juice, then asked for milk
D: Vietnamese take-out: tofu with stir-fried vermicelli and a few pieces of carrot and snow pea; mandarin oranges; a couple of bites of cookie
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i cant fill Daisy at the moment...she is constantly asking for food!!!!
B-cheerios,toast and some banana....milk on waking
S-biscuit and juice
L-paste sandwiches,tomatoes,cheese cubes.pepper,...whole kiwifruit...milk
S-organix fruit bar and a satsuma..juice
D-pasta in veggie sauce,meatballs...small jelly....ds's chocolate buttons ::)...juice
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i cant fill Daisy at the moment...she is constantly asking for food!!!!
Lucy we had this about three weeks ago and it lasted for maybe a week? Then the following week the tiredness started, drastically short A times with great naps and uber-nightsleep (14-15 hours at night and then after 4ish hours of A he would take a 2.5 hour nap and then 4 hours later go to bed, and repeat again!) I posted because I was concerned and Jess pointed out that it is common with a growth spurt...the eat like piggies and then sleep like Rip van Winkle! Soooooooooooooooooo crossing fingers for you that's what it is and you have some great sleep coming your way!!!!
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oooh i hope so!!! its my turn for some of these good naps!!!!
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Joining in this thread again, it's great for ideas.
Yesterday:
Brek: cheesy scrambled eggs and wholemeal toast, 2 clementines
Snack: another clementine, cucumber sticks
Lunch: lentil and root vegetable soup, pear
Snack: small handful of mini cheddars
Dinner: HUGE helping of sausages, mashed potato, home made baked beans, gravy. followed by yoghurt, then grapes, then fruit cake (just would not stop eating)
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Not a particularly healthy day today (bad Mum, not feeling great, so food suffered :-[) . . .
B: boiled egg and toast, banana, milk, shared my OJ
Had an early lunch so skipped on the snack
L: cheese sandwich, sausage roll (ate the sausage, left the pastry ::)), grapes
S: shared some Monster Munch with DH whilst I was out - she gets 'treats' from DH ::)
D: vegetable pizza, 2 satsumas, couple of bites of DH's frangipan (I think) cake, milk
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Brek: milk on waking, later porridge, a few bites of my cornflakes, pear
snack: 2 bananas (I gave him one he helped himself to a second!)
Lunch: Lots of shepherds pie, peas, icecream, grapes
snack: -
tea: last of the lentil and roasted veg soup, apple, raisins. Milk before bed.
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Another day filled with lots of food!!!
B-cheerios, toast and satsuma
S-biscuit
L-crackers with cream cheese,chunks of cheese,cheesy wotsits ::) rice pudding
S-salmon sandwiches,pizza,breadsticks, (at a christmas party!!!)
D-cauliflower cheese with green beans and ham,small jelly and a kiwi fruit
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Sat. was:
B-out of MIL to diner....bowl of strawberries and blueberries, milk, some bites of egg with swiss cheese, bites of rye toast,
S-goldfish crackers
D-early, but had taco fixins-ground turkey, black beans, cheese, tomatoes, tortilla chips and milk then then ended up not having a true dinner and into bed early from short napping.
Today:
B-cheerios and milk
L-rice, mixed veggies, turkey burger
S-toast with margarine and jelly and milk
D-pizza bread and milk
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today a. had:
box of raisins, 2 crackers just after he woke up
b- 1/2 piece of french toast
s - 2 small potatoe knishes
l - few bites of pasta which he loved on friday, didn't want today. few bites of french toast left over from breakfast. just didn't seem hungry
s - small yogurt
d - chicken burger, israeli salad, 1 latke
now that i see what i've typed - no fruit, hardly any veggies! geez, gotta try better on that tomorrow!
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think his last tooth is finally easing up so back to good eating
yesterday:
breaky - bacon, egg, baked beans, slice of ww toast, juice
snack - cheese stick, kiwi fruit, water
lunch - tuna melt muffins (ww english muffin spread with mix of tuna plus a little ketchup, sour cream and spring onion, top with grated cheese and grill), milk
snack - half huge mango, slice of watermelon, yoghurt, water
dinner - bbq chicken drumsticks and bbq veg (corn cob, eggplant, mushrooms, potato, sweet potato), small bowl of tin peaches, milk (crazy kid - asked him if he wanted ice cream cake or peaches for dessert and he chose peaches :o)
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Kirry-That's too funny about him choosing peaches. DD tends to favor fruits and veggies over a lot of things....however, ice cream and cake are winners for her. I mentioned ice cream to DH and his friends over for watching football last night and she was right at my heals asking for some "i cweam?"
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LOL Nicole yep we have to spell it out i-c-e-c-...
Today
B: milk, porridge, dilute juice, pear
S: organic cereal bar, water
L: pasta with tomato/bacon/mushroom/redpepper sauce, yoghurt, water
S: handful of mini cheddars after swimming, 2 x clementines
D: very last of the lentil and veg soup! ww toast with peanut butter, milk
I'm so happy that Stan has decided he likes 'soup' in general. He doesn't question what kind of soup, if I tell him it is soup he runs round rubbing his tummy and saying 'delicious!!'. So I am making hay while the sun shines and getting him loads of good proteins and veggies in his soup!! :-*
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Chandler's been having those monster naps, too. It's awesome! Her eating runs hot and cold. She's either stuffing her face or spitting everything out.
Yesterday, she ate:
B: pancakes and veggie sausage
S: goldfish crackers, half a cereal bar
L: a few bites of avocado and some grapes; ignored strawberries and rice with green peas
S: asked for a snack, but wouldn't eat anything / asked for juice, water, and milk, but would only take a sip then throw the cup down. Sigh.
D: macaroni and cheese; ignored brussell sprouts and apple (which she specifically asked for)
Gave her a bottle of milk before bed because she hadn't had any milk for two days. She's on some kind of sippy cup protest. She doesn't like that they're hard to drink out of.
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anna-Pretty much besides "bath" or "walk"....it's just food related things we have to spell. r-a-i-s-i-n-s, c-h-e-e-r-i-o-s, m-i-l-k, c-o-o-k-i-e-s, c-a-k-e, f-i-s-h, hehehe
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Yes, we spell or make up our own little euphimisms or use another language (usually Korean when possible but he is starting to learn some Korean words now too!!!). No matter what we are doing, assuming DS is not listening, sure enough he is! Our euphimisms are constantly evolving and so no more mention of raisins, they are "dried sultanas" as even when we said "dried grapes" to each other he freaked and demanded grapes ::)
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You speak Korean?
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You speak Korean?
DH and I lived there for several years ;)
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spelling usually works here but he knows we are talking about icecream as soon as we get to i-c-e now!!
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Yes, the days of spelling are going to end soon for us, too. She now knows "g-o" and "c-a-k-e" and "d-i-n-n-e-r." I'm sure we'll need alternative words for "cookie" and "juice" pretty soon.
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There sure are a lot of bright BW kids out there - learning to spell already ;D
Yesterday A had:
B: Porridge, signed for banana but only ate a couple of bites, milk
S: Half a toasted currant teacake
L: half a tuna and sweetcorn sandwich, shared cheese and mixed pepper quiche, jacket and salad with me, small cookie
S: none - had a late nap so didn't get up til 3.30pm :o
D: 2 fish fingers, couple of chips and baked beans, creme fraiche and blueberries, milk
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LOL, I knew my days of spelling were over the day Masyn asked if we could go to the
P-A-R-K!!!
Today for Spence:
breakfast : cheerios, formula
snack: MumMums
lunch: orange, cereal bar, toast
snack: more Mummums, formula
supper: nothing...she chewed some chicken and carrots and spat it back out.
Not sure what is up with her, it looked like she was getting hives on her face, so i gave her benadryl, but I can't think of anything she ate that would have caused it!
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Speaking of hives, Chandler has a colorless rash all over her torso--just this prickly texture to her skin. Does that sound like any food allergy reaction you know about?
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Yesterday:
B-French toast with raisins mixed in and milk
S-banana, pear
L-spaghetti and milk
S-banana? (Not sure when the 2nd banana came in...mom just told me she had two sheesh)
D-ziti (made before I was told she had spaghetti for lunch) and toast with butter and jelly as was still hungry...and milk
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Speaking of hives, Chandler has a colorless rash all over her torso--just this prickly texture to her skin. Does that sound like any food allergy reaction you know about?
We've only ever gotten red hives from an allergic reaction, usually starts on her face and then if it's bad enough covers her whole body. Dry skin maybe?
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Speaking of hives, Chandler has a colorless rash all over her torso--just this prickly texture to her skin. Does that sound like any food allergy reaction you know about?
Oh I meant to comment on this. These dry colorless type rashy things were always mild eczema (according to her ped. when she was pretty young). Flared in the winter and subsided most other times. We just lotioned her up before bed. She got it mostly on her legs when younger, this winter it is showing on her belly and back a bit. It gets slightly red if she scratches it or gets hot, sort of like a heat rash mixed in.
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Thanks, Nicole-Ava's Mom. I almost had myself psyched into thinking she had Scarlet Fever!
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Doubtful without any other symptoms/fever! hehehe. If it persists you can ask the doc. about it, but I figure if they're eating/sleeping and not fevery it must be pretty benign.
Today:
B-more french toast (made a french toast casserole for the week) and milk
S-craisins
L-spaghetti (mom didn't change it up even though that's what she had yesterday...twice! ugh)
S-not sure, my mom tends to offer her tons of fruit though, so I bet she had some
D-creamy, chicken, salsa dish-ate by herself and did so so. Got bored and wanted to get out of her chair. I let her and didn't force it.
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Last night, Chandler refused her favorite dish, rice with green peas and teriyaki salmon. She was teething, so I offered her some applesauce with oatmeal cereal mixed in. She gobbled that down, then was enticed to have a few bites of her real dinner, but not much.
We bought a new dining room table, so her high chair is at the head of table now. She stood up in the middle of dinner (a common occurrence) and discovered something new: she could see herself in the mirror on the wall! Well, dinner was over at that point. She was kept standing up and sticking out her tongue so she could see the food in her mouth.
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Well, dinner was over at that point. She was kept standing up and sticking out her tongue so she could see the food in her mouth.
PMSL ;D
Yesterday A had:
B: big bowl of porridge, one slice of toast and jam (cos that's what I was having ::)), half a mango, milk
S: rice cakes
L: pumpkin soup and 3 slices of olive bread, other half of mango
S: more rice cakes
D: (at a friends and she was giving her 3 yo DS food, so A had to join him - and ate more than him ::)), toast, pasta shapes in sauce (tinned variety), hot dog and ham, home-made star biscuit (gluten-free for my friends LOs), juice
She's at the the CM today . . . which means she'll have a million snacks and very little of the food I give her for dinner ::)
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We bought a new dining room table, so her high chair is at the head of table now. She stood up in the middle of dinner (a common occurrence) and discovered something new: she could see herself in the mirror on the wall! Well, dinner was over at that point. She was kept standing up and sticking out her tongue so she could see the food in her mouth.
We have a lot of standing and trying to climb onto the table here as well. Sigh. The looking at the food in her mouth cracked me up though!
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We have a climber here as well ::) His highchair is wooden and our kitchen floor is ceramic tile (HARD!) and one of these days he is going to go right out, I know it. Whack his head on the chair on his way down to breaking his shoulder on the floor. Drives me crazy. DH says that DS will for sure climb out once just to see what happens, and then a second time to see if it really does hurt or if the first time was just a fluke ::)
DS back to being picky - started with a cold in the middle of the night last night and is full of it today. Can't complain really as it's the first time he's had a cold since he was 6 weeks old!
Breakfast -- oatmeal with maple syrup, half piece of Luneburger bread (no clue, a rye maybe?) toast with jam
snack - yogurt and a biscuit. bite of a chocolate Santa that I got caught eating :-\
Lunch - very little - few licks of spreadable Gouda and politely handed the bread back to me, a banana
snack - slice of cheese
dinner - huge bowl of pasta with meat sauce, half of a clementine
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Yesterday
B-eggs, and toast. Plus chocolate from advent calendar!!
s-Apple sauce, and a few gummy bears
L-Beef Veg soup, and hot dog with bun like a "big girl"
s-Cheese stick and more gummy bears
D-Rice and hot dog.....we were having a spicy indian mix with our rice so she opted for the hot dog.
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breaky - pancakes with banana, blueberries strawberries (ate nearly two HUGE pancakes), juice
snack - kiwi fruit, 2 mini rice cakes, water
lunch - yum cha (pork bun, noodles, half spring roll, half dim sim, rice, jelly), few 'cups of tea' (water in his tea cup), followed by banana and milk before nap when we got home as somehow still hungry!
snack - apricot, 2 lychees, half apple, ice block
dinner - salmon canneloni, salad (few cherry tomatoes, avocado, grated carrot, raw mushroom, refused cucumber and lettuce), milk.
think he may be having a gs as this is the third day in a row he has eaten like a horse.
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Yesterday was:
B-baby oatmeal with dried cranberries thrown in and milk.
S-Not sure...
L-Tilapia and green beans I think and orange juice
D-Chili with cheese and milk.
Same breakfast this morning as it was a hit and she kept asking for "Mores" !
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Yesterday, I looked at Chandler's clothes to see what she ate at daycare. I saw these stains:
tomato soup, grilled cheese, red jello, yogurt
For dinner, she ate: cheese risotto, two "bricks" of of baked tofu, and a two-bite brownie. She's teething, so I didn't even attempt veggies (tired of wasting them).
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Yesterday, I looked at Chandler's clothes to see what she ate at daycare. I saw these stains:
tomato soup, grilled cheese, red jello, yogurt
LOL!
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Yesterday ended up being:
B-the oatmeal with craisins and milk/some toast with butter and jelly
S-unsure, something with DH
L-cheeseburger and french fries at McDonald's with DH--only ate the fries he says
D-Toddler meal (I was packing to bring her to sleep over my sister's house) pasta with meatballs and corn....ate it all....at my sisters she ate more penne with chicken and had milk.
This morning she had:
B-bowl of apples, grilled cheese and milk
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Bits and pieces day today as we were at a party this aft - think she's had more sugar than usual ::)
B: Gave her rice crispies (bubbles) for the first time - she ate THREE bowls (and still asked for more :o ), also had a satsuma and a pear, milk and watered down OJ. We'd run out of porridge hence the rice crispies but I think I might have made a bit of a mistake - I remember someone saying that there's a lot of hidden sugar in breakfast cereals . . . or maybe I'm just a bit paranoid :P
S: rice cake, raisins
L: beans on wholemeal toast, some of Grandma's mince pie and some of Mummy's blueberry muffin, water
S: none - ate early at birthday party
D: party food; refused the ham sandwich she was given but shared my cheese sandwich, packet of snack / crisp things, bit of fruit in jelly, bit of chocolate covered gingerbread, fruit juice bottle thing
Milk and 3 organix cookies (given by DH) before bath time
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B: Porridge. Pear. Milk
S: Oatcakes, cucumber sticks
L: Red lentil, chickpea and spinach soup with cheese grated on (Yay! Still liking soup!). A Christmas mince pie, juice
S: apple, water
D: steak, potato/parsnip/carrot/sweet potato roasted wedges, edamame, broccoli, gravy. 1/2 a banana. milk.
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B: Bowl of porridge - polished it off and asked for more! Gave 1 weetabix instead - ate that too. Nearly half a mango, diluted OJ.
S: home-made banana muffin
L: half a cheese roll, shared some crisps with me, nearly 2 satsumas (bar the couple of pieces I pinched ::)), water
S: none - late and very long nap (think A's got a bit of a cold - so let her sleep til 3.30pm)
D: half a potato rosti, baked beans, boiled egg, pear, home-made almond biscuit and milk
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B: egg, ham, toast, milk, pear
S: 2 x clementines
L: leftover potato/parsnip/sweetpotato/carrot wedges with hummous dip, oatcakes, yoghurt
S: apple
D: spinach and ricotta ravioli, milk
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Sat:
B-apples and grilled cheese and milk
S-banana and cheerios
L-chicken, rice, broccoli and milk
D-none as had late lunch
S-blueberry granola bar and milk
Sun:
B-banana, blueberry granola bar, eggs w/ cheese and milk
S-none, as kept eating breakfast things
L-drove home (finally got my car shoveled out of the snow) and got chicken nuggets and fries at the drive-thru since she hadn't had lunch and it was late at fries and nuggets
D-haven't had yet
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L: Red lentil, chickpea and spinach soup with cheese grated on (Yay! Still liking soup!)
teach me, kitchen goddess, teach me. Charles LOVES your moroccan chicken... teach me!
right then. today :-[
B: 2 weetabix, milk, handful of blueberries (at popping stage as warmed up with milk), a bit of honey to sweeten
followed by half a croissant with apricot jam (stolen from my plate)
THEN a small cinnamon bun that Granny gave him ::) (all before 9am)
L: cream cheese on toast, grapes, yoghurt. funnily enough, he ate nothing aside from yoghurt
Snack: a yorkshire pudding
Supper: toast, sticks of cheddar, nasty cheap ham, olives (stolen from Granny's fridge) :-[, an apple - ate the toast and the cheese
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Sounds like we've got some hungry toddlers on this board!
Yesterday, Chandler refused scratch-made pancakes and banana for breakfast! Unthinkable.
S: goldfish crackers and banana at the zoo
L: avocado, then refused peas and brown rice
S: a few bites of yogurt
D: mushroom pasta from a box, half a veggie burger pattie, bowl of grapes
S: milk and peanut butter cookie
She's having growth spurt and teething at the same time. Makes for a very unpredictable meal time.
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think we are teething again so bang goes the eating!!!
B-few bites of banana,pushed away cereal and threw toast across the room!!
S-fruit bar made with oats.asked for milk.
L-few bits of tomato,cheese,squished up her sandwich and anounced 'Daisy throwing bread' ::) a satsuma
S-refused rice cakes which she loves
D-is chicken and veg...not holding out much hope for that!
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We had a request for toast so that's what she got. Toast with butter and jelly. AGAIN.
I sent her with chicken noodle soup to the sitter's and 2 clementines. We'll see if she eats them. Oh darn....I forgot to see if the soup had celery. If it does she won't give it to her so she'll eat whatever they have there. Oops.
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The cold is definitely coming along nicely :P
Didn't do too bad considering . . .
B: Bowl of porridge, some of my toasted currant teacake, milk, some of DH's OJ
S: refused mango - very unusual
L: some egg mayo sandwich (not even a half really), shared some of my cheese & onion crisps, half a mango (offered again), home-made banana muffin, water
S: none - late nap again (woke her a 3.30pm think she was stirring)
D: few mouthfuls of spaghetti with tomato based sauce topped with grated cheese, creme-fraiche, home-made almond biscuit, milk
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Not too bad of a day here...
Breakfast - his usual two pieces of toast with jam, handful of dry cheerios and some milk
Snack - half of a brotchen, two pancakes with maple syrup, two satsumas and yogurt - pretty big snack!!
Lunch - rice crackers with cream cheese
Snack - juice and cheerios
Dinner - half a tin of sweet corn (!!!!) few bites of oatmeal that I made knowing he would not like his dinner
Milk before bed
And that is what I consider a decent day!!!!!!!!!!
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A still has a cold (ie is full of snot :P) but she's doing okay food-wise I guess . . .
B: toasted currant teacake, pear, watered down OJ
S: packet of organix carrot stick snacks, water (at my Mum's)
L: brought back a sausage roll for her - she ate the sausage with brown sauce, left the pastry, 3 satsumas. (she'd also eaten a good half of crumpet according to my Mum - even tho I said not to giver her any lunch ::))
S: refused rice cakes, then ate 2 just before I gave her dinner, drunk quite a bit of water (which was good as she wouldn't drink much in the am)
D: spicy tuna risotto (only a few mouthfuls), 2 pears, milk
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Full of snot here too, Berni! Makes sleeping a total nightmare!
Another relatively goodish day
Breakfast - 2 oatmeal pancakes with maple syrup. Signed for more, again. Really only wants the syrup ::)
snack - entire satsuma and entire banana, dry cheerios and diluted juice
Lunch - slice of cheese, ate some of the remainder of last night's tin of corn but mostly played container swap with it which was fine as he was so preoccupied I managed to spoon a full bowl of oatmeal into him!
snack - brotchen to keep him occupied in his buggy at the supermarket
Dinner - pasta with pesto, spit out every trace of ham and mushroom, some yogurt
I NEED to get some meat into this boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Wow feels like forever since i posted here, max is having terrible eating times again so thought I'd mark my spot!
we are having issues with Milk during the night again which i'm cutting out as of tonight so hopefully we will be back on track with good eating soon, and with the holidays there has been so much food that i dont like him eating, but hey what are holidays for???
Bek
xx
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Marking my spot too. Miss all the lunch and dinner ideas and feel things are getting a bit repetitive.
Breakfast: Pancakes with cheese cubes
Snack: Cereal with apple and blueberries (DH was up this morning and thought he'd do snack first!)
Lunch: Sausages and bread, apple, pear
Snack: Raisins and crisps although threw crisps in the bin
Dinner: spaghetti, more bread and yogurts
mashi...what is brotchen? Sorry if its on previous page, haven't had chance to catch up.
Bek...hey! Have been wondering how you are! Sorry to hear Max's eating isn't great at the mo, hopefully cutting the milk will help xx
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we have a tooth cut so we are back on with eating!
yesterday-
B-porridge and toast
S-fruit bar
L-cheese sandwich,tomatoes,sausage,yoghurt and a biscuit!
S-satsuma
D-ham,mash,peas and parsley sauce and icecream (at grandmas ::))
you guys who give pancakes...are they homemade or shop bought??? i need some new ideas????
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I use shop bought but my LO will only eat ones made by ormo/mothers pride and will not touch tesco or asda own brands. To be honest the ones she likes are much liker but have you ever? She loves them with sliced cheese!
I also make pancakes for lunch and add cheese/ham/tomato and make it savoury or nutella. So I suppose more like a crepe when i make them from scratch!
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you guys who give pancakes...are they homemade or shop bought??? i need some new ideas?Huh
Lucy I do homemade ... I make a large batch and freeze them in twos, then take a pack out to defrost in the morning, and after about 20 minutes on the counter they are ready for the toaster. It only takes 20 seconds in the toaster to thaw them, and DS doesn't like them warm (won't eat anything that is not cold or room temperature ::) ) so it's really easy. I serve with a wee bit of maple syrup to dip them into. He screams for more every time - this from the child who refused to touch pancakes for months!
They are American style thick pancakes not English style crepe pancakes.
Oaty Breakfast Pancakes
225g (8oz or about 2 cups) plain flour
110g (4oz or about 1 cup) oats
2 tbsp baking powder
2 eggs, beaten
450ml (16 oz) milk
4 tbsp vegetable oil
Put dry ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Add the egg, milk and oil and mix. Heat large frying pan, add oil if needed. Drop spoonfuls of batter into frying pan, cook on medium until bubbles appeat. Flip and cook the other sides. Makes 16-20 pancakes.
Just realised you didn't ask for a recipe, but I've typed it now!!
I have some other ones that are just as easy, but this is the one I settled on as the oats in them are extra calcium and fibre and you can't even notice the taste or texture of them. Plus there is no added sugar or vanilla extract needed which I think most of my other recipes do need!
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Hey Shiv, things are great just been very very hectic, cant wait to slip back into normal life now all the festivities are over! Hope you are well. xxx
Well things arent going according to plan here with the milk, i guess i've created a vicious cycle cos he isnt eating well at night i give in and let him have milk during the night thinking he is hungry, and the weather has been ridiculously HOT here so he wakes thirsty aswell, last night i only offered water and he didnt wake til 4.45am which is good for us!
B: grated cheese and a few coco pops dry!
L: sausage roll (which he threw on the ground)
he then went down for a nap with 240ml milk :(
S: fruit plate and yoghurt (he is still napping so see how he goes)
D: will be finger food at a new years eve party we are going to, he prob wont eat there either.
I'm hoping the horrible cycle we are going thru ends as soon as all the parties and things we have had on end! I just want to feel normal again!
And lack of sleep from him waking all night is taking its toll again, he shouldnt be doing it now as he is 2 in a few weeks
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UGH we haven't gone shopping in forever and I ran out to get toothpaste and some diapers and grabbed some small toddler meals...one bowl things. I gave DD TWO of them today....and our friend watched her and let us sleep in this morning and fed her our leftover pizza from last night for breakfast. Not good....
B-pizza and milk
L-spinach and cheese raviolis toddler meal and water
S-mac n' cheese with chicken and veggies toddler meal as unexpectedly ran to her chair and requested food before she would normally be hungry
S-hungry again unexpectedly before dinner...gave her slice of cinnamon bread...she asked for more...got another 1/2 slice
D-leftover french toast casserole and a slice of turkey and milk(my sister and her DH came over and we ordered chinese but it wasn't even showing up until after DD's bedtime
What a CRAP food day. She was eating well in terms of quanitity just not quality which is totally my fault. I feel terrible :(
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Pizza for breakfast is not as bad as you think -- I suppose it depends on the type of pizza but if it is healthy enough for her dinner then it is fine for breakfast -- carbs, protein, veggies = fantastic!
What are these toddler meals that you mention Nicole? Just curious...would love to find something like them!
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I find these in the supermarket or in Walmart/Target etc. They are convenient for sending to the sitter or for when we are late making dinner or whatever. Nice to have around b/c they usually have a carb, cheese, meat, and veggie involved so I feel like she gets a decent meal even if I didn't make it. I know there are other brands that carry similar things.
http://www.gerber.com/Products/Lil_Entrees.aspx?PLineId=7510b910-e601-4a5c-97b2-331b4ce33e5b&PCatId=9772c526-b81c-45a2-80c7-dd7893122bea&PMilestoneId=e369128f-9a42-444d-9498-80f87937c8f8
She LOVES the ravioli bowls. "O-leez...O-leez." she yells for them!
http://www.gerber.com/Products/PASTA_PICK_UPS.aspx?PMilestoneId=e369128f-9a42-444d-9498-80f87937c8f8
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Chandler snacked her way through the day.
Breakfast: Cheerios with milk and blueberries
Snacks/Lunch: a bite of cheese, half a cereal bar, a sausage ball, three bites of banana
After-nap snack: YoBaby 3-1 Meal (peach and squash)
Dinner: blackeyed peas and cornbread, fruit salad
She also asked for milk five times today, then drank an ounce and threw it down
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Today was such a lazy day (tired from new years)
B-eggs, cheerios, and milk
S-eggs and toast (our guests ate break. later and she wanted some lol)
L-chicken dish we had for dinner last night after she went to bed and juice
S-raisins and some milk a little while later
D-ravioli meal and topped up with a bit more of the chicken dish and milk
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today was slightly better then previous days, sometimes i feel its not worth posting as he hasnt eaten anything!
B: strawberries and a small amount of scrambled egg.
S: dried fruit flakes whilst finally grocery shopping :)
L: yoghurt (thats all he would have)
S: iceblock
D: full bowl of beef and veggie risotto (yay i was so happy) then he had a left over chocolate marshmallow santa! :) a little treat for finally eating a full bowl of something!
I know its still down to having milk at night but he has now picked up a croupy cough so i feel bad not letting him have it when hes not 100% i know there will always be some excuse but just need to find the willpower within myself! ;)
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mashi...what is brotchen?
Just saw your question now, Shiv. It's more or less a bread roll, but to me, the translation of calling it a 'bread roll' doesn't really suit it, so I don't like calling it that! I guess just because bread rolls are different in England (and in Canada, me being Cdn) than they are here, so ... ! They are quite dense inside and crusty on the outside, I rip them in half and DS picks the bread part out. He likes them plain, just the bread. I do see most toddlers here eating pretzles (the thick bready baked German kind, not the hard ones that are in a bag like chips/crisps, iykwim?) but the pretzels are COVERED in salt, large chunks of it and even if you take the salt off it still tastes salty. So I prefer just the plain brotchens - and with a bakery every thirty steps it's a good bribe to get him in his buggy!!
Nicole thanks for that link...I'll have to look into them. I wonder if I can order them from some of the "American foods in Germany" online stores, I am out of Cheerios and Sudocrem so need to do an order next week, some of those would be handy. There are jarred foods in abundance here, all HIPP and Nestle brand though, no Gerber. We never did jars when he was younger but I tried a few when we were making the move because we had a few days where groceries were scarce as you leave one house to another, kwim, but he hated them. I find even the 18-24month jars are really "puree-ish" here, and he's been off purees since about 9 months so totally refuses. If I could get those toddler meals I bet they would be a 5 night a week thing (oops!)
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mashi-That's the ONLY problem with them. They are already pre-cooked so just need to be warmed 30 seconds in the micro. which makes it seem SOOOOO appealing to DH and I. DD really likes them..I think b/c they are actual pieces of food..not pureed, but usually have a sauce and they are usually softer and a tad "overcooked" for my taste...so easy to eat....but more importantly...easy for DD to use her own utensils hehehe. B/C they are pre-cooked you could serve them not heated up of course if you are out and about and if your LO doesn't care that is an added bonus!
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Thanks Mashi! I can't get DD to eat jarred food either. She'll eat the fruit ones which I add to cereal and yogurt but will not touch the meal ones at all. I found them quite bland to taste though. I like the idea of the toddler meals, must have a look about and see what is available here. She does like some of the Ella's organic range (come in pouches) and I generally have a few at hand to do for days when I am disorganised. There is a veg lentil one that I serve with rice and pasta and so handy! I imagine if I find a range she'll eat we'll be eating them a lot too!
Glad Max's eating is picking up! I'd tackle the milk when the excitment of the holidays has completely faded as it'll be hard to keep up the motivation before then xx
Today we've had:
B: Toast (DH doing breakfast...very imaginative!)
S: Cheese cubes and water
L: Tomato soup and bread (eats it with her hands...so messy!)
S: Fruit cup
D: Will be rice with veg and lentil pouch, yogurts
Really need to get a proper shop done!
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Yeah the jarred foods are bland and DD stopped wanting to eat them and would just spit them out. TBH I think she MIGHT eat them now as it was partially an independence thing I think as she preferred finger foods she could feed herself...but I'd rather not go backwards LOL
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Happy New Year Ladies and LOs ;D
So . . . haven't posted lately what with Christmas, a mini trip to Bruge and generally being lazy we've been winging it a bit on the food front - am starting to feel guilty that I've not been feeding A to well - but she's been a bit off her food anyway as the cold she had produced some HUGE ulcers in her mouth and I think it was uncomfortable for her to eat :(
Anyway, am giving myself a gently kick up the backside and trying to get some decent food into all of us . . .
Today went like this
B: bowl of porridge, milk
S: none - out and about, late breakfast too
L: cheese (new favourite thing), crackers, few crisps, banana, diluted OJ
S: had some rice cakes in a bowl when she was playing - think she only ate one tho
D: sausage and 'dutch potatoes' (mash pots with carrots, cabbage, onion, topped with seeds) was on her plate - think she ate a couple of bites of sausgage before she signed finished, asked for a banana which she demolished, then had a bit of DH's fruit cake with milk before bed
Mashi, thanks for the explanation of brotchen - I too was wondering what it was, Shiv beat me to it by asking you. Also thanks for the pancake recipe as I like the idea of the oats . . . tho have to admit that I've recently discovered Jamie Oliver's recipe (he did it with his girls on the Christmas specials) and it's so easy that I've made them for breakfast a few times over the festive period - just in case you want it . . .
1 cup of self-raising flour (I use quite a big mug as the one he used was HUGE)
1 cup of milk
1 egg
pinch of salt
whisk up all the ingredients in a bowl and then add anything you fancy - I've done grated apple and chopped up banana so far - but will also try with blueberries, grated pear, etc
melt a bit of butter in a frying pan - and put in a couple of spoonfuls, turn when starting to brown underneath (you can kind of see it happening) and then serve with whatever you fancy - we did creme fraiche and a drizzle of honey.
I've always made the English style pancakes - but these fluffy American style ones take some beating and they are SO easy - and they are a massive hit with DH and DD ;D
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Today was pretty good for food I think
B-was late (around 9:00)-rice chex cereal, avocado/banana fried in OJ, cup of milk
S-couple of cheese flavored crackers
L-pasta with a pumpkin sauce (used the leftover canned pumpkin from pumpkin pie cheesecakes I had made for New Years lol) and apple juice
D-Family gathering, buffet style: some green beans, some broccoli/sunflower see/raisin/mayo thing, some mac n' cheese with ground beef, some rice and black beans, some ham and milk
S-Cake and pumpkin pie cheesecake (little bits) -- BIG FAN LOL
Gave her some milk before bed as dinner was early (3:30/4:00 ish) for the family b/c they drove down 2 hours and didn't want to leave late.
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Jumping in as I need inspiration for DS - he seems to eat the same things over and over and over and over and over!!!!
Breakfast - Ready Brek (made with formula - too scared to switch to regular milk yet)
- about 1/2 chocolate chip brioche (other half he ripped into teeny tiny pieces before sweeping all onto the floor ::))
Snack - some yoghurt coated raisins, few bites of fruit and puffed rice cereal bar (he fed the rest to DH)
Lunch - 2 'fingers' of tuna sandwich, couple of organix corn snacks, 4 blueberries
Snack - 2 cheese 'thins' (crackers)
Dinner - Roast chicken dinner (ate some peas, some sausage, a minute piece of chicken, 2 pieces of sweetcorn and a mashed up roast pot fed by me)
- Small piece of Vanilla and pear cake with custard
I'm guessing that when pps say that their LOs ate 'Goldfish' they don't mean actual goldfish right???!?!?!?!?! ;)
Steph XXX
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thanx so much for posting that recipe Mashi...will def give it a go!
well after a week of eating i fear we are cutting yet another tooth as the food is a no go again!!!
B-ready brek..ate a few mouthfulls,tried toast and she threw it!
S-biscuit
L-out for lunch at a chinese restaurant..she ate a few bits of chicken, odd bits of noodles,threw her plate and announced 'i 'tinished!' ::)!!'
S-satsuma-sucked the juice out and threw the skin! what is it with the throwing!
D- lasagna and veg..refused and asked for toast.she ate 2 small squares and a yoghurt.
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squeakersmum--Goldfish are a brand name of small cheese crackers shaped like fish
Yesterday, Chandler ate her weight in fruit:
B: a few bites of banana bread and blueberries
S: half a pint of blueberries
L: blackeyed peas and cornbread and fruit salad
s: Snackimals
D: fish filet with macaroni and cheese, green peas, mini chocolate chip cookies
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Sorry about that. Yes cheese crackers shaped like fish LOL They come in a variety of flavors!
Today was:
B-I don't remember what my mom told me (she spent the night there so DH and I could go out oooh la la)
S-My mom was feeding her on and off, baked beans, leftovers from dinner the night before, some pumpkin pie cheesecake.
L-meatloaf, again with my mom, no idea how much and what entirely she ate there, but my mom said she was eating everything offered so I can't complain.
S-cheese and crackers
D-toddler meal of raviolis again (DH made dinner in the crockpot BUT added uncooked rice and it was still hard when DD needed to eat so I could get her to bed on time LOL so quick threw that in the micro and gave that to her. hehehe)
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Today, Chandler ate:
B: half a banana, banana nut bread, blueberries
S: oatmeal Snackimals
L: string cheese and crackers (she has a cold and said she didn't want to eat, so I just offered to them while she was watching a video and she ate them)
S: rice pudding, milk
D: beef stroganoff, pasta, broccoli, mandarin oranges
S: the rest of the oatmeal Snackimals from her morning snack, milk
She's been eating well at almost every meal lately, and she's really starting to get her baby fat back
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I still get a kick out of how they put on weight, then shoot up, put on weight, then shoot up. They go through such funny phases. DD has gone through spurts where her belly looks pregnant! Then she gets a bit taller and it evens out. Goofy.
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Yesterday A ate:
B: banana pancakes (one and a half-ish), with creme fraiche and honey, banana milk
S: none - late breakfast and by the time she asked for one it was nearly lunchtime
L: toasted currant teacake, another banana
S: few root vegetable crisps
D: made the dutch potatoes into a 'potato cake' (fried it up and melted cheese on the top), she signed finished as soon as I put it in front of her and pushed the plate away ::), ate one and a half veggie sausage rolls instead. 2 satsumas, small piece of Great-Gran's home-made honey-spice cake, milk
So much for getting back into the decent food :P
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Today went like this
B: one and a half banana pancakes, with creme fraiche and honey, milk
S: few crisps at toddler group, juice
L: baked beans on toast, water
S: raisins, water
D: half a baked potato with cheese, chicken with s-d toms, feta and olives, creme fraiche, 3 mini organix cookies and milk. Totally surprised me by eating every mouthful of her dinner - she started by picking out the olives from the chicken dish so I didn't hold out much hope, she normally spits out s-d toms, but she signed raisin (that's what she thought they were and I didn't correct her LOL!) so she ate all of them too.
Slightly better day - just could have done with a bit more fruit, but that's my fault cos I've not made it to the shops yet :-[
ETA: Just remembered as I was making breakfast that A also ate half a slice of my honey on toast with breakfast too.
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Today, Chandler ate
B: cereal with milk (daycare)
L: spaghetti with meat sauce, milk
S: yogurt
D: pasta with broccoli and pancetta in a parmesan cream sauce (just whipped it up out of leftovers), blueberries and mandarin oranges
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Today:
My sister minded her last night and kept her this morning so:
B: Porridge
S: yogurt, babybel
L: veg and lentil bake, bread, fruit cup
S: raisins, water
D: mash, beans and chicken, milk
Then asking for food again so had weetabix before bed. Greedy wee lump!
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B-Think eggs...with DH
S-raisins
L-mac and cheese
D-penne with broccoli and chicken and stuffing mix casserole
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Hi gals- miss you-
Today Nick ate:
B- scrambled eggs with cheese/mushrooms, raisin bran, yogurt, one banana, milk
L-milk, macaroni and cheese, brussels sprouts and rutabagas, grapes
S- blueberries, strawberries, grapes, popcorn
D- meatball sub with cheese, more sprouts and green beans, milk, popcorn, raisins, one chocolate Santa leftover from Christmas...
? growth spurt???
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I was wondering the other day if we were in one...then rethought that she was sick over xmas break and so was probably making up for a day or two of not eating much. hehe.
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Today B ate:
B: 4oz YoBaby Yogurt, oatmeal banana cereal, juice
S: 4-5 crackers, puffs, juice
L: 1/2 avocado, mandarin oranges, carrots, juice
S: handful of cheese crackers, 8oz milk
D: chicken, peaches and rice, pears, apple and grains (4 jars total), 5 honey graham crackers, water
Bedtime: 6oz milk
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B - ready brek and most of a waffle few blueberries
S - nectarine
L - tomato soup with bread, jam with rest of bread, mango, cucumber, some of my cheese and marmite sandwich and a blackcurrant cereal bar!!??!?!
S - clementine, pink wafer biscuit
D - Quorn chilli and pasta, rice pudding
He ate loads today!
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Hi gals- miss you-
Miss you too :-* Pleased to see that Nick's still eating anything . . . and everything LOL ;)
Yesterday
B: big bowl of porridge
S: none - slept til 8.20 :o ate breakfast and still wanted to eat lunch at the same time LOL
L: baked beans on toast
S: raisins, rice cake
D: half a baked potato with tuna, cheese and black olives, grapes, creme fraiche, organix gingerbread man, milk
Still lacking in fruit - can't get the car out to do a 'big shop' so keep having to do little trips to the shop :P
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YESTERDAY:
B-ready brek and half a banana
S- hot x bun and butter
D-mac cheese,ham and tomatoes,didnt want satsuma
S-biscuit,raisins
S-AGAIN! fruit bar
D-sausages,y.pudding,mash peas and bananas and custard
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Hi Cathie :)
Yesterday was:
B: Cereal with blueberries
S: Pancake, cheese
L: Spaghetti hoops, toast, yogurt
S: Raisins
D: Chicken, cheese pizza, apple and pear
Today:
B: Cereal, apple and pear
S: muffin with cheese
L: Tomato soup with bread, yogurt
S: Will be something like crackers and cream cheese
D: Will be chicken in tomato sauce with cheese and pasta, peaches
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I would do ANYTHING to get J to eat any one of your menus. We are just so limited here :(.
Yesterday was
B - 2/3 wheetabix, raisin toast, few cheerios, 1oz milk
S - Small pancake, refused banana
L - Cheese, breadstick, apple
No pm snack
D - Potato face, 1/2 a pork sausage, few peas
7oz of milk before bed
Today
B- Refused milk, cheerios and shreddies, strawberry fromage frais, 1 finger wholemeal toast
S - 1/2 banana, few organix sweetcorn snacks, few mini cheese crackers
Will be scrambled egg for tea tonight, I think. Lunch is always a disaster as he often refuses anything so will depend on his mood when he wakes up.
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we are currently in the process of eliminating all milk during the night, we have been 2 nights so far, and its going reasonably well excpet for a 3am meltdown this morning! :(
but today he actually ate FOOD! yay
B: weetbix and water
S: sliced apple, fritz, cheese and strawberries
L: yoghurt with slices of strawberry mixed thru
bottle before Nap time.
he is still napping so when he wakes up he likes to have an iceblock since its so hot here
so i have replaced the actual iceblock with a tube of frozen yoghurt and he loves them, i'm actually going to do a post for some yummy homemade iceblock recipes that are healthy for him!
Will post again later with an update of what else he ate today!
xxx
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Yesterday was:
B-eggs and milk
L-chicken nuggets fries and milk
S-raisins
D-chili and milk
Today was:
B-oatmeal mixed with applesauce and milk
L-veggie patty sub, chips and diluted lemonade shared with daddy at Subway
S-raisins, little bit of chili and milk
S-cheese crackers
D-spaghetti and carrots and diluted juice
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yesterday:
breaky - mini wheats, half banana, diluted juice
snack - small pack of wiggles cookies, few apricot bears, water
lunch - 1/4 avocado and cheese sandwich (refused rest prob because of big snack while out before), banana milkshake
snack - yoghurt, clementine, water
dinner - roast turkey, rosemary potatoes, steamed carrot and broccolini, peaches, milk
today:
breaky - sultana bran (asked for mummy's cereal ??? ), half clementine, diluted juice
snack - cheese stick, water
lunch - avocado on ww pita bread, slice of ham, half banana, milk
snack - yoghurt and fruit stick (pineapple, canteloupe and honeydew melon pieces on a kebab stick), water
dinner - will be chilli con carne with rice and tortillas, prob another fruit stick or two for dessert, milk
liz, what time is J napping? i'm sure you've already tried it, but would he do any better with 'lunch' before nap and snack after nap to hold him out til dinner??
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yesterday
B: one and half weetabix with milk, grapes, milk
S: banana
at CM
L: chicken, rice, yoghurt, water
S: biscuit, water
S: banana, water
home:
D: cheese on toast, grapes, refused creme fraiche, small piece of home-made cake, milk
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Today:
Milk on wake up and had a lot so did snack first:
S: Toasted muffin, babybel
B: Cereal with apple and blueberry
S: Apple and pear fruit pot
L: Veg and lentil bake, bread sticks with cream cheese dip, yogurt, 4 chocolate buttons which she spat out!!
D: Will be lasange and garlic bread
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Well he suprised me the other day and ate some beef canelloni for lunch ;D. Wouldn't eat his own lunch, but ate some of mine instead.
Not a great day today.
B Shreddies, fruit toast, no milk
S Sweetcorn rings, refused banana
L Cheese on toast, apple
S Refused
D Potato faces, scrambled egg
Kirry - he naps at 11.30am ish but we are having issues with this. I can't seem to move the nap back without him short napping, but the long A to bed keeps creating OT as well. So it IS at a really difficult time. His snack is too early to make it lunch, but if you push it he is getting too cranly as he needs to nap. It is all a body clock issue I think - rather than a routine issue.
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Lots of struggles with eating again this week - still in disagreement with DH about not making DS "whatever he will eat" as DH would rather cook him what he will eat and not bother with things that he won't - and I would rather offer him what I've made and if he doesn't want it, tough. Will muddle through - I usually make him see the right way in the end :D
Breakfast - toast with jam, milk, we went out and DH and I had McDonalds, DS went crazy in there having never been inside one before and loved it, ate their new griddle cake thingies (liek pancakes with the maple syrup cooked into them?, signed for more and cried because we had to leave ::)
snack - raisin roll, bit of cheese
Lunch - cream cheese on toast, some peas and carrots
snack - baby biscuit, few organix corn rings, soy milk
Dinner -- FISH!!!!!! he ate fish!!! slathered in zaziki so he couldn't taste it but still great! bakes beans, tomatoes and mango for dessert - then the cheerios I've ordered got delivered and he went crazy, so has had abotu three large handfuls of cheerios since then!
Not too bad of a day, eating wise, but it does still seem to be the same things on repeat day in day out :/
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today;
B-weetabix and a pear
S-xmas chocolate cos ds was eating some :-[
L-tuna sandwich.tomatoes,bits of ham(obsessed with ham ::)),bit of cheese.banana
S-dried berries
D-chicken,chips and baked beans yoghurt
A good day!
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Since DH has been home.....he's taken to skipping set snack times and just feeding DD whenever she appears hungry/asks. I think he also keeps her up too long before naps in general...but she IS napping and IS eating so I can't complain too much.
Fri:
B-Oatmeal with raisins and milk
S-no idea...
L-Chicken parm sandwich and hash browns at Dunkin Donuts with DH and a munckin (given for free b/c she's cute ;)--so DH says)
S-milk and raisins
D-pizza and water
Sat:
B-Milk and then went out to a diner with in-laws. She shared my veggie omelet w/ cheese and toast. apple juice.
S-cup of milk before nap (break was later than normal)
That's where we're at.
I want him to give her more set snack times and more VARIETY. The kid will eat almost anything so should NOT be having raisins for every meal. GRRRRRR
And also LESS fast food would be great. I feel like I am going to have to make foods ahead of time and leave them ready to go in the fridge, etc. And set up snacks other than raisins.
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Nicole...as frustrating as it is, I have to leave a list of what DD eats for DH. Otherwise he'd just microwave spaghetti hoops all the time. Such a pain. Told him to make her scrambled egg for lunch today and he looked at me like I was asking to him to cook something really complex. Men!
Today:
Breakfast: cereal with blueberries
Snack: Fruit pot, babybel
Lunch: Spaghetti hoops!!! (not scrambled egg like I asked!) and not even a slice of toast! Yogurts
Snack: Slice of pizza
Dinner: will be sweet potato and sauteed spinach, fruit
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My DH is the same - wouldn't dream of 'making' a snack, if it's not a raisin box or in a snack packet then it's obviously not a snack :P
Today
B: big bowl of porridge with raisins, milk, watered down OJ
S: half a toasted currant teacake, juice
L: chicken, lentil & veg soup with bread, water
S: piece of liquorice, yoghurt sesame snap
D: bit of naan bread - refused curry and rice and veg samosa ::), couple of grapes
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I know, seriously. I even have a CAN OF PEAR SLICES in the cabinet...and other canned veggies, etc. Frozen broccoli...all of these things can be microwaved or served straight up!
I think I am going to make a list. I am already working full time...he gets the winter off (laid off for the season to collect unemployment since he does landscaping). He can surely prepare some foods.
The rest of today:
L-I think it was spaghetti rings (I went to the library and wasn't home when she woke up from her nap hungry!) maybe milk
S-bread with peanut butter, also cheerios that she found in a ziplock baggie from some outing we had been on who knows when, ewww
D-green beans with part of mommy's chicken and cheese sandwich and milk
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Eating has been on and off since Chandler has both a sore throat and is cutting a molar:
B: french toast, veggie sausage (ate every bite after barely eating yesterday)
S: a nibble of oatmeal cookie
L: refused mac and cheese with peas and chicken meatballs
S:Offered her lunch again, and she ate about four bites
S: asked for banana--ate three bites
D: uncured hot dog, stuffing, mixed veg (ate all the hot dog, but chewed and spit out everything else), three bites of applesauce
Lots of water all day, and a fair amount of milk
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I know, seriously. I even have a CAN OF PEAR SLICES in the cabinet...and other canned veggies, etc. Frozen broccoli...all of these things can be microwaved or served straight up!
Yes - but even opening a can of pear slices or microwaving frozen broccoli is hard work you know ;)
Guess who gave Alice her snacks today ::)
Today:
B: toast with jam and honey, asked for a banana (ate half), milk
S: yoghurt coated sesame snaps, juice
L: banana pancakes with natural yoghurt and honey, asked for pear (ate half)
S: raisins, water
D: feta & olive quiche, boiled potatoes in herb butter, ignored leeks, cherries, asked for banana (ate the lot), water, small piece of cake, milk
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Breakfast - toast and jam. Again. (My DH isn't bad with snacks and meals, just can't bring himself to do anything but toast and jam for breakfast ::) )
Snack - cheerios, baked beans while we ate our breakfast
Lunch: A big fat Nought. Just didn't want to eat a thing. No idea why!
Snack: Two pumpernickel bread rounds and some soy milk
Dinner: Spinach ravioli, roast chicken in zaziki, tinned peas, corn & red pepper, few bites of mango
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Definately, definately winning on the dreadful meals here :'(.
B Shreddies, hot cross bun, 2oz milk
S Piece of muffin, sweetcorn organix snacks
L Few chips off DH ::), few bits of apple
S A breadstick
D Cheese on toast, fish finger, bit of grated cheese, refused yoghurt
Ugh....
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Ben seems to be wanting to graze throughout the afternoon at the moment - and then cries because he's hungry by dinner time ::)
- I think it's something to do with 2-1 and being tired at lunch though.
B - Ready brek, blueberries, 1/2 slice of toast and marmalade
Early L - Tuna sandwich, clementine, few cheese and herb organix snacks, few bites of cucumber, 1/2 strawberry fruit stick
S - cereal bar, raisins, some organix cheese and herb snacks
S - Because he just COULDN'T wait another 20 minutes until dinner was cooked - 1/2 slice of bread
D - Chicken casserole, fromage frais, 1/2 strawberry fruit stick
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Ben seems to be wanting to graze throughout the afternoon at the moment - and then cries because he's hungry by dinner time Roll Eyes
- I think it's something to do with 2-1 and being tired at lunch though.
We go through this as well - he's not hungry enough for lunch at 1100 before his nap, but then after nap he is too busy playing to want to sit down so only eats a bit, and then needs a snack at 330 and isn't hungry for dinner at dinner time. Or is climbing into his highchair 15 minutes before dinner is ready, so I have to give him something, and then he's not hungry for dinner. It's doing my head in!!
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{{{hugs Liz}}} I think J had a good variety of food today even if it doesn't seem like it to you. Some kiddos are just not so fussed on food, too busy to be eating, too much playing to be done. We have ups and downs here and I really try not to stress although thats easier said than done. I can't get Maeve to eat fruit and it drives me mad. She'll eat fruit pots of pureed fruit but not apples, grapes, strawberries, nothing. I have got so fed up buying fruit for it to be thrown across my kitchen and be wasted so I'm taking a break for a few weeks. Have just started peaches and she seems keen enough for the meantime. Picking my battles and all that!
Today:
Breakfast: Porridge
Snack: Pancakes and cheese
Lunch: (In BIL's for Sunday lunch) 2 sausages which were gone in NO time, threw roast potato and carrot
yogurt, some chocolate ice cream (never had before and was impressed!)
No snack as we were out and forgot...oops
Dinner: Sweet potato and spinach, yogurt, fruit pot
Doesn't look an awful lot looking across the day but tomorrow is another day!
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Ben seems to be wanting to graze throughout the afternoon at the moment - and then cries because he's hungry by dinner time Roll Eyes
- I think it's something to do with 2-1 and being tired at lunch though.
We go through this as well - he's not hungry enough for lunch at 1100 before his nap, but then after nap he is too busy playing to want to sit down so only eats a bit, and then needs a snack at 330 and isn't hungry for dinner at dinner time. Or is climbing into his highchair 15 minutes before dinner is ready, so I have to give him something, and then he's not hungry for dinner. It's doing my head in!!
We had this for a while and in the end I moved DD's dinner time earlier which was a pain as we all had started to eat together and eat the same thing but as she was half the time refusing dinner with us anyway as she'd filled up on snacks that it saved my sanity. Once we were well settled into 1 nap and A time stretched in the morning we were able to get a much better lunch in and then dinner went back to normal time.
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I'm enjoying everyone's updates- so cool to see the variety of eaters and eats!
Today Nick ate:
B: peanut butter crunchy corn puff cereal with milk (ick- DH's pick), banana, hot milk with a dash of cocoa, scrambled eggs
S: at church - juice box, popcorn, 1 cookie, 12 grapes, 1 apple slice, bite of coffee cake
L: some left over Pad THai noodles, rice with chicken, milk
S: raisin English muffin with butter
D: "hurricane" salad (black beans, corn, tomatoes with cumin, salt, pepper and lemon juice- made it up when we had to eat off the pantry during storms in FL), chicken noodle soup with extra beans thrown in, a peanut butter bar for dessert, milk, applesauce.
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It is interesting to see the variety...and also to get ideas!
Today was:
B: whole wheat blend pancakes (1 and 1/2), pears, and milk
S: Asked for "fruit" as she remembered the pears from breakfast...so gave her them. and water
L: Rice chex cereal and juice
S: out and about so missed...
D: used my packed snack from being out and about...to hold her off while waiting for food at a restaurant...animal crackers....then she shared my meal: green bean fries, parmesan chicken, tortellini, and tomato/mozzarella salad. She also shared my dessert: peanut butter pie ...and diluted apple juice.
I feel like I am missing something that she had....maybe something else in the lunchtime period...not sure...
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Baaad day today...
Unexpected, but very welcome, friends to chat and play with (LO 6 months older but same size as DS - sooo cute to watch them playing 'together'!) popped round and threw out my whole day!!
B - Readybrek, 1/2 slice of toast, blueberries
S - cereal bar, corn snacks, blueberries, banana, apple, slice of bread!!!! (all shared with/stolen from friend's LO)
L - slice of chicken, some cheese, bread and jam
S - yog coated raisins, cheesy biscuits
D - sweet potato and lentil curry, nectarine (threw most of it on the floor)
What a random food day! Back on track tomorrow hopefully!
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Not a bad day today!
B: Fruit muffins, yogurt
S: Cereal with blueberries, water
L: Bread with cream cheese, raisins, another yogurt, water
D: Lasange, garlic bread, fruit cup
Was really pleased she ate the lasange! Has refused it the last few times we've had it!
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Today was okay - working on juggling the afternoon around to make sure he gets enough to eat at snack that he isn't hungry vs not too much that he won't eat dinner.
B: milk, cheerios, oat pancakes with maple syrup
S: can't remember!!
L: 1/2 grilled cheese sandwich, 2 prunes, 2 organix carrot corn sticks, vanilla yogurt and bit of jello/jelly
S: bit of cheese, bit of mango, soy milk
S: small biscuit
D: lots of peas&corn, some baguette and pasta with pesto, ham and mushrooms, more jello/jelly
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Today so far:
B - cheerios, soy milk
L - slept in, so skipped snack and went straight to lunch - pears, peaches,pineapple (canned), hashbrowns, soy milk
Hopefully she likes the pork chops I am making for supper!
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I can't get Maeve to eat fruit and it drives me mad.
That's funny - I read these posts to see what all the LOs are eating and have never noticed that Maeve doesn't eat fruit - in fact I always think of her of one of the few LOs that seems to eat anything and everything - LOVE the new avatar BTW, keep forgetting to say. Alice is quite the opposite - think she would live off fruit if she could, in fact I worry that she eats too much . . . we're never happy are we ::)
Today
B: 2 x banana pancakes with natural yoghurt and jam, some of my jam on toast, asked for banana (ate half), milk, watered down OJ
S: pack of dried banana chips, water
L: beans and cheese on toast, pear, water
S: half a packet of organix cheese and herb puffs, juice
D: couple of bites of 'roast dinner leftover pie' with gravy, signed for bread - ate a slice of dry bread (thought she would dip it in the gravy!), cherries, slice of cake, milk
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A gr8 eating day today:
B-porridge
S-breadsticks and a rice cake
L-Ham,cheese and mushroom omelette,banana
S-biscuit
D-chicken curry(good old Delia Smith!),rice(ate loads)angel delight and jelly
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slice of cake
Ummm, can you specify what kind of cake next time?? I really like to dream of other people's cakes...mmmm.
Today Nick ate:
B: apple oatmeal, banana, milk
S: cherry bar, juice
L: leftover hurricane salad, Pad Thai, strawberries, and milk
S: water, raisins
D: a slice of cheese and bologna from the deli, bean and chicken and noodle soup, toasted potato bread, and a dish of chocolate swirl icecream, milk.
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we were out of town and are just getting back on track time wise. our meals were a little messed up for a while due to the time change. we were in israel, they are 7 hrs ahead so a. was waking hungry at wierd times and our usual lunch food was just not enough 'cause his body was feeling like it was dinner time!
ok, today was a pretty good eating day
b - multigrain rice crispies with blueberries and almond milk - 2 servings
s - raisins, 4 crackers w/ pea butter
l - 2 fried eggs, a few cherry tomatoes. refused to eat the soup that he insisted i take out for him!
s- not sure, w/ the babysitter
d - lots of poached salmon, rice and brocoli
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hmmm nothing much today and since he has been sleeping thru without a milk bottle i though this would improve :'( starting to be 50% worried 50% frustrated now...
All he's had is a handful of hot chips at the playcafe..
a milk bottle at nap time and a yoghurt once he woke up
Its dinner time here now and he has a yummy plate of cold meats and fruit (usually his fave) not eating any!
grrrrrr what else can i do???
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Does he have his 2 year molars yet? My DS is younger but often has random days when he doesn't eat anything.
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After DD stuffed her face at dinner Sun. night...she proceeded to have a bout of a tummy issue all night. Midnight to 7:30am she threw up every hour or two. BLECH. So Mon consisted of:
B:Rice chex cereal and water
L:Crackers and water mixed with pedia-sure
D:Chicken and pasta with water
That's only b/c she kept the crackers etc. down that we gave her dinner, but she wasn't very interested in food all day, which I certainly don't blame her for.
She also napped to catch up on missed sleep from 10:00-1:45 (we woke her) and then we had her in bed at 7:15 and she STTN til just about 7:00 (a tad before I think). So, hopefully she's feeling better today with DH.
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Hope she's feeling a bit better Nicole!
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I can't get Maeve to eat fruit and it drives me mad.
That's funny - I read these posts to see what all the LOs are eating and have never noticed that Maeve doesn't eat fruit - in fact I always think of her of one of the few LOs that seems to eat anything and everything - LOVE the new avatar BTW, keep forgetting to say. Alice is quite the opposite - think she would live off fruit if she could, in fact I worry that she eats too much . . . we're never happy are we ::)
No never happy! I don't worry too much about the fruit as demented as it makes me. How easy was it be to have a lovely bowl of grapes and strawberries for snack. She'll take small bits of fruit (like blueberries) in cereal etc. I am just not making it into a battle. it will come am sure!
New avatar...Getting very independent so thats how she looks after eating tomato soup with bread by herself!!!
Today:
B: Cereal with milk, cheese cubes, water
S: Toasted fruit muffin
L: sandwich with cream cheese, yogurt, raisins
D: Sausages, potato, fruit cup
Bek..do you think the heat is putting Max off eating?
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today:
B-weetabix,refused her toast
S-biscuit
L-rice with peas,ham and tomatoes,Bananas and custard
S-rice cakes,breadsticks and cheese
D-spag bol,garlic bread. jelly and custard ::) ,plum
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No he doesnt have his 2 year old molars yet but the not eating has been going on for ages and ages so no idea!
Siobhan I really do think it could be the heat here as it has been disgusting, he has just been carrying his water bottle around everywhere and i fill it up sooooo many times a day!
He did have a bowl of weetbix before bed last night though :)
We have a beautiful much needed cool change hit us today so hopefully he catches up on some eating while its cooler! :)
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nicole, hope she is feeling better soon :-*
yesterday:
breaky - 1.5weetbix with dried pineapple and sultanas, diluted juice
snack - mandarine, yoghurt, water
lunch - ham and tomato mac and cheese, half avocado, asked for more so cheese stick and asked for another so 2 cheese sticks :o, milk
snack - homemade pinapple and mango iceblock, few slices of rockmelon, water
dinner - 2 rashers bacon, 1 fried egg, small bowl of baked beans, 3 large mushrooms, 3 cherry tomatoes, ww english muffin with bbq sauce, half avocado, milk, wolfed all that down like he was starving and then asked for dessert - apple and jelly :o
definitely looking at food over the week at the moment as he will have a day like this and then eat like a sparrow the following day!
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i am really envious of everyones postings, somethings people post for a day max wouldnt eat in a week! should i be worried.....he's active, healthy enough and is now sleeping thru all night but i noticed and commented to DH a few days ago that his ribs stick out an awful lot!
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rebecca, hugs hun, if it's any consolation i think my little boy is having a gs. any chance max is filling up on too much water? maybe try offering only an oz at a time during the day and then a larger cup with a meal or snack?? where is he on the height and weight growth charts and is he gaining weight? and i'd try to look at what he eats over a week rather than what he eats in a day to give you more of an indicator of how much he is eating.
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Rebecca - my DS eats very little as well and very limited range. He is definately not filling up on milk, water or juice. He is very slim so I can relate to the seeing his ribs thing. He doesn't even weight 20lb yet and is 16 months.
I can only assume he has a very smalll appetite, and generally we just leave him to it. He is improving a little with this 'no pressure' approach. But for example a big breakfast for J would be 1/2 a wheetabix the same as a 6 mths old.
Not sure what J ate yesterday as my Mum was in charge of him - but apparently had some celery soup that he dipped his bread into :o. Not sure what possessed him really - but basically the first veg he has eaten in WEEKS!!
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well that makes me feel abit better, i'm unsure of what he is on the height and weight chart now, I'll take him again now he's 2 and see. We had a stage from 4 to 7 months where he gained NO weight so i have always been slightly panicky since.
He was always well below average on the charts!
Last weigh we did he was only 10.4kg and he was 21 months
Unsure what that is in pounds!
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I think Mums always worry about their LOs eating habits - either too much, too little, no fruit/veggies/meat etc. We can't help it I suppose, it's what we're programmed to do.
For the past couple of weeks DS2 has been an eating machine - now I'm worried about that! Rationally I know he can't overeat at this age but he's been having 7 meals a day! Can a GS last this long? It's amazing how much a little person can fit into his belly - at the end of the day he looks like a turtle. he's not overweight though - last weigh in he was 11 kg at 18 months.
Breakfast 1: banana, MSPI eggnog
breakfast 2: 1.5 fried eggs, bread fried in olive oil
snack 1: homemade blueberry muffin, strawberries, MSPI eggnog
snack 2: sultanas, apple and apricot fruit leather, freeze dried apple slices
lunch: pasta with tomato sauce
snack3: strawberries, leftover pasta, MSPI eggnog
dinner: pan fried calamari (ate his own, then had some of his Dad's and brother's as well), chicken fried rice, broccoli
bed: MSPI eggnog
I mean what the?
Lan
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For the past couple of weeks DS2 has been an eating machine - now I'm worried about that! Rationally I know he can't overeat at this age but he's been having 7 meals a day! Can a GS last this long?
We went through this about a month ago - DS was eating a big bowl of cereal and 3-4 pieces of toast at breakfast, two morning snacks that was usually a large slice of cheese, lots of yogurt, two full pieces of fruit and a biscuit (melba toast), then a sandwich and rice crackers plus veggies for lunch, an afternoon snack and would polish of a bowl of pasta bigger than mine at dinner, plus 16 ounces of milk in the day. I was getting groceries 3x per week for a while because we couldn't keep enough food in the house for him. Lasted at least 10-14 days!!!
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Thanks Mashi, it's reassuring to know it's normal! How can they fit all that food in their little bellies?
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Spencer is an eating machine lately too, some nights she eats her supper and most of Masyn's leftovers!!
B - cheerios, soy milk
S- we kind of free ranged all morning on cheerios, rice cookies, crackers
L- orange, more crackers, blueberry flavour snack puff thingys (I was trying to make a real lunch after we got back from the playland across the road, but they like this better)
S- don't know - at gymnastics with M
D - McDonald's!!! her fav meal - nuggets and fries
Need to go shopping and stock up, all we have left is cr@p food!
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not too bad a day today..
b- half a bowl of multigrain rice crispies. got interrupted half way through when we were packing y.'s lunch and he saw the granola bars i made! so he had a good chunk of the granola as well
s - 2 oatmeal cookies, a few crackers with pea butter and something else, can't remember what!
l - houmous sandwich about a cup of frozen mixed veggies (carrots, gr. beans, corn)
s - yoghurt, raisins
d - bowl of chili w/ rice, a few slices of pear.
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Ditto to the eating machine observations- I know Nick's had crazy eating some weeks and at one point grew 1.5 inches in 1 month...I guess they just need it some weeks. As far as ribs go- Nick is really solid, has the toddler belly, but you can still see ribs. Always ask a doctor if you have any question about health, but good energy level, shiny hair, bright eyes are all good indicators of health in my opinion.
Today Nick ate:
B: waffle with maple syrup, orange slices, milk, juice
L: turkey and cheese sandwich with mayo, broccoli and cauliflower mix, banana, milk
D: spaghetti with marinara sauce and meatballs, broccoli, carrots, and milk. Chocolate and strawberry ice cream.
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Cathie - just remembered that you asked about the cake Alice had been eating ;) It was my Gran's 'Christmas Cake' as she calls it. She's Polish tho so it's not like the fruit cake with marzipan and icing that I think of as Christmas cake - it's more like a gingerbread/spice loaf, iykwim? I've seen pics and heard about some of the cakes you make - not sure it's in the same league tho it is lovely cos no-one else I know gets it for Christmas and when your nearly 88yo gran makes it you love every bite ;)
Yesterday
B: bowl of porridge with raisins, half slice of jam on toast, pear, milk, diluted OJ
S: half a toasted currant teacake, hot chocolate (trying to defrost after being outside!)
L: 2 veggie sausage rolls, kiwi and yoghurt (ate half), water (not great lunch - we were going out but buses were cancelled due to black ice so had to improvise)
S: half a pack of organix cheese & herb puffs, water
D: half a baked potato with veggie chili and cheese (ate a couple of mouthfuls, picked out a lots of beans, signed finished), asked for pear and satsuma (ate both), mini mince pie, milk
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DS1's growth spurts used to last only a couple of days - that's why I'm so amazed at this 2-3 week episode. I think he might actually be starting to slow down though!
B1: boiled egg, toast, MSPI eggnog
B2: Some of my banana, honey and yoghurt (we are starting to introduce dairy and he insisted he wanted some. So we'll see how it goes. Last time he came out in hives)
Snack: homemade blueberry muffin, mixed dried fruit
Lunch: ham and french toast (ate the ham, chewed up the french toast and spat it out). Blueberries
Early dinner: (we were going out): Leftover satay chicken, rice, broccoli
Snack while out: homemade currant scone with honey
Dinner 2: Roast duck and more broccoli - seems to be keen on broccoli again! MSPI eggnog
Hmm after reading all that, diesn't seem like he's slowing down at all. And thanks Cathie for the reminder for the doc - he has missed his 18 month checkup due to the holidays. Must book it.
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I'm not sure how she's eating at daycare, but she's not eating much at home for dinner lately. Even though we've served her favorite foods, she still won't eat but a couple of bites. The frustrating part is that she tells me she's hungry and eagerly climbs into her high chair. Then, she rejects the food. Last week I thought it was because she was sick and had a sore throat. She was also cutting a molar. Now, however, I'm not sure.
She's clearly still hungry and tries to mooch off anything we're eating later.
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Ashley we get that here a lot, too. About 10 minutes before dinner, DS is climbing up into his highchair, screaming, and then when I tell him he has to wait a little bit for dinner, he throws himself on the floor and cries. When he does get in his chair all of 3 minutes later, he has a pea or two, maybe licks some butter off of a slice of bread, sticks his fingers in whatever I offer him, shakes his head no, and then gets out and then doesn't want anything else to eat. Like, starved enough that he's crying his eyes out at having to wait, but yet perfectly fine with not eating any of it ::) If either DH or I gets caught eating anything then in the next couple of hours, he demands his share of it, but if we don't snack (or get caught!!) then he's fine with not being offered anything.
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Toddlers, who'd have them?!! If its not being picky, its eating us out of house and home and if not that then they are refusing to eat nothing at all!!!
Today:
B: Pancakes, sliced cheese, big bowl cereal with milk, then asked for a yogurt!
S: Fruit pot
L: 1 1/2 slices french toast, raisins, 1/2 innocent fruit smoothie (first time and she was fairly keen...I will get her to eat enough fruit some way!)
S: None as dinner is early as I am going out for coffee with the girls!! wooo!!!
D: Will be Bolonese, pasta, garlic bread, yogurt
May have toast before bed, depends on DH!!
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Weird couple of days b/c of the sickness. After DD had it, I got it...now DH has it. UGH.
My mom kept DD overnight last night so not sure what she had for today but I should be back around tomorrow.
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Spencer day:
B- cheerios, soy milk
S- MumMums
L - orange, small container of applesauce, toast
S - soy milk, was mad over a new sippy cup so not much else
D- applesauce again, half a pear, container of banana & prune babyfood, slice of pizza, soy milk- ate every last bit of food off her placemat!
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I will get her to eat enough fruit some way!
PMSL!! You sound like me - we have to try and 'win' the battle somehow LOL!
Yesterday:
B: 2 weetabix with raisins and warm milk, satsuma (which she insisted on peeling herself for the first time - little miss independent! - it took some time but she got there in the end), milk
At CM:
S: biscuit and water
L: chicken, mash, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, yorkshire pudding and gravy, yoghurt, milk
S: small milky way and milk
At home: (late dinner due to unscheduled visit to doctors*)
D: veggie chili and cheese in tortilla wrap (ate most of it - so I 'won' the veggie chili battle ;)), piece of home-made savoury flapjack, pear, mini mince pie, milk
*trip to the docs confirmed that A has chicken pox - tho she doesn't seem too bothered by them just now. Will see how it affects her appetite over the next couple of days . . . this morning has gone well tho.
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Chandler finally ate her dinner!
D:Basmati rice mixed with fr. asian vegetables and teriyaki chicken meatballs; apple sauce
She was still hungry two hours later and asked for a cereal bar, so we were happy to oblige since she ate so well at dinner.
Oh, and she also found YET ANOTHER stash of M&Ms. We're going to have to get more crafty with hiding them.
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Despite the chicken pox (which doesn't seem that bad to me?) A has eaten pretty well today . . .
B: porridge with raisins, pear, diluted OJ
S: half a toasted teacake with jam, shared hot chocolate with me
L: crackers served with some slices of ham and cheeses (double gloucester with onion & chives, wensleydale with cranberries) - DD LOVES cheese at the moment, can't get enough of the stuff, milk
S: piece of home-made savoury flapjack, juice
D: scampi, chips and (some) peas, pear, slice of cake (Cathie - 'traditional' Christmas fruit cake ;))
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Sorry to hear Alice has the chicken pox :-*
What's in your flapjacks Berni? I'm assuming those are flapjacks English style, not American style? BUt have never heard of them being savory, would love to try them!
My DS loves cheese as well but I would be dead shocked if he ate wensleydale! Well done Alice!!
Not a great day today and now he's been waking up coughing every 30 minutes since he went to bed so I wonder if he's coming down with something
B: milk, three handfuls of dried cheerios and one piece of cold toast with butter
S: rice pudding with cherries
L: would not eat ANYTHING because I offered pate on bread and didn't like it - so refused to eat at all
S: entire banana and half of an apple
S: two large pancakes with maple syrup, 1/2 bag of organix carrot sticks (obviously making up for lunch)
D: bit of pasta bake with ham, some garlic bread, some tinned apricot halves and more cheerios
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Shiv - J likes those fruit smoothies as well. Odd really as they are quite tangy. Again - one of the only ways to get fruit into him ::). Have you ever tried humzinger dried fruit bars? J likes those as well.
Today has been a bit dull really. Tried a few new foods earlier this week but seems bored of that again now ::).
B Shreddies, few spoons of wheetabix, silly amount of toast and butter
S Wanted Dad's muffin that he was stupid enough to eat in front of him - chocolate chip no less - so shared that.
S Apricot fruit bar, cheese cracker, bite of apple, few bites of my crumpet
L Cheese on toast, refused yoghurt, raisins, then ate some of my sausage roll as well
S Threw strop as I wouldn't let him eat his way through a packet of shreddies, so had a few
D Potato face, fish finger, scrambled egg, yoghurt
So not that bad on paper for here :P.
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Shiv - J likes those fruit smoothies as well. Odd really as they are quite tangy. Again - one of the only ways to get fruit into him . Have you ever tried humzinger dried fruit bars? J likes those as well.
That sounds like a good idea! Do you get them in health shops or just normal grocery stores? Have never seen them but any way to get fruit into her!
Hope Alice's chicken pox get better soon. Its good they aren't annoying her though. And hope mini-Mashi's cough doesn't get any worse. And hope you are are on the mend Nicole!
Oh, and she also found YET ANOTHER stash of M&Ms. We're going to have to get more crafty with hiding them.
Tell me about it! Maeve seems to be able to sniff out treats in our house. I'm going to have to eat it more quickly!!
Today:
B: Big bowl of cereal, yogurt
S: At music time at library they do a fruit picnic for the kiddies so I had 10 grapes, M had none!
L: Cocktails sausages, yogurt, chocolate bun (at SILs)
S: Raisins, sweet potato and spinach
D: Chicken, few chips, rice, fruit cup
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I'm so excited I'm finally joining this thread!! ;D :) I wanted to join months ago, but my lo would only eat purees and gerber!! But finally, with the help of some lovely BW ladies, he will eat almost anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!
So today:
B - 1/2 banana + beans with tortilla (you'll think this is weird, but that's what we eat here!! We eat beans with everything! haha)
L - fish + rice + fruit
D - french toast + 1 yogurt
I can see that some of your los eat A LOT compared with what Patrick eats, but he is not such a good eater, so this makes me very very proud! Also, our main meal is Lunch, not dinner, so he will have something light for dinner!!
Also, my lo doesn't eat snacks. He used to have 2 snacks, but he didn't eat anything for lunch nor dinner, so I stopped offering snacks. It has worked pretty well b/c now he is hungry enough to eat decent lunch and dinner!
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Woo Alexa!!! Glad you're here!
Patrick looks like he had a great eating day! Not a fruit loop in sight!!! xx
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Thanks Shiv!!! You're right! No fruit loops today!! ::) ;D wooohooo!
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breaky - porridge with honey, diluted juice
snack - few pieces of each of the following raisin, dried apricots, dried apple rings, almonds, pecan nuts, sunflower seeds, water
lunch - vegemite and cheese toasted sandwich, milk
snack - jelly and mango cup (he helped me make these yesterday), homemade pineapple and mango iceblock, water
dinner - will be ckn, sundried tom, fetta and olives with roast potatoes, choc cake, milk
also quite a few jelly babies today as rewards for toilet training when he tells me he needs to go ;D
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well max has improved quite abit and I'm feeling so much happier! :)
B: full piece of honey toast
S: 2 petit miam yoghurts :o
L: cut up fritz, cheese and strawberries
S: almost a full peach!
D: full bowl of veggie and beef risotto
S: iceblock and maybe a yoghurt or some fruit later on before bed!
I'm alot happier with his eating the last few days :)
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Looks like a great day for Max, Bek!!
Alexa, I think that if he is having beans in the morning for breakfast it is a great way to start the day! Beans are so healthy, lots of protein and iron and fibre! (Wish I liked them, will have to get some recipes from you of good ways to cook beans!) The main meal here is always at lunch as well, we tried it for a while because I think it's better than having a heavy meal sit in your tummy int he evenings, but we weren't able to get into the habit of it, it also means DH having his meal at work and m and DS eating alone which is odd. So instead DH eats a full hot meal at work with his coworkers and just has another one at home with us, the pig!!!
DS ended up with a fitful night, coughing and so stuffed up, none of us slept. Has hardly eaten today so no point in posting it! I think it is actually his last canines moving to the surface, he does a good week of congestion and a post-nasal drip cough the week before his teeth move up/down.
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Welcome Alexa :-*
Well done Max and Jacob - who both seem to have eaten quite well. Keep it up little men ;)
Thanks ladies for your comments re Alice's CP - but am not convinced that she's got them, we had a 'scare' once before and it never got any worse. Doc said it could have been a mild case of CP or possibly and virus that had caused a rash. The thing is that if they get a mild case you can't cross it off the list ::) It's 'worse' this time but TBH she doesn't seem to have many more spots than she did on Thurs when diagnosed and other than sleeping more than normal (which is a lot anyway!) she's much the same. Think I'll try and take her back to docs after w/end and see what they say . . .
Mashi - hope DS is feeling better and gets a good nights sleep tonight (and you too of course :-*)
What's in your flapjacks Berni? I'm assuming those are flapjacks English style, not American style? BUt have never heard of them being savory, would love to try them!
The savoury flapjacks are easy-peasy! Found the recipe online by accident the other day and as there were only 4 ingredients (all of which were in my cupboard!) then I thought I'd give them a try. They've gone down a treat - DH ate two slices when he got in from work the night I made them and I've had my fair share. There's only one piece left so I'm going to make another lot tomorrow. Didn't realise that there was an American style flapjack - you'll have to explain. I would say these are English style as they remind me of the sweet ones I usually eat ;)
Here's the recipe
150g rolled oats (I used porridge oats - I *think* they're the same)
150g grated cheddar cheese*
50g butter (I melted this)
2 eggs
Mix all the ingredients together and press down into a baking tin. Bake in oven 180 for 30-40 mins until golden brown. Leave to cool and cut into slices. When I took it out of the oven I didn't think it had worked as it looked quite 'wet' on the surface, but it set just fine.
*You can use less cheese - and the recipe suggested adding grated veg (carrots, courgette, onion, etc) but our cupboard was bare so I just went for the basic recipe. Will definitely try variations as well as the basic recipe again.
Do you get them in health shops or just normal grocery stores? Have never seen them but any way to get fruit into her!
I'd like to know more about humzinger bars too as I've never seen or heard of them.
And finally, this is what Alice ate today . . .
B: bowl of porridge with raisins, satsuma, asked for a kiwi too and then shared it with DH and I
S: yoghurt coated sesame snap
L: few bites of veggie pizza - it was late lunch as A fell asleep in the car at 11.40 (after sleeping til nearly 8 :o). She woke when I was transferring her to her cot so I half expected a short nap - but she slept til gone half past two!
S: DH shared some crisps (and juice) with her when I'd popped out - I did say not to give her snack due to late lunch but she wanted to share ::)
D: half a baked potato with grated cheese and lots of black olives, banana, small slice of fruit cake, milk
Also been drinking lots of water today.
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Ohhh those flapjacks sound good, nice way to get some oats into DS, and possibly some veg, I'll have to try them this week. The flapjacks that you make in England I had never seen until I moved there - for us (North Americans) flapjacks is another word for pancakes.
DS barely ate today -- I'm not sure if it's a cold or the congestion that he always gets before his teeth. He's still got top canines to come in, so it could be either.
B: handful of cheerios, refused milk, smeared his toast in his hair so I took it away
S: most of a brotchen in the trolley at the supermarket. thought he ate a few bites of tinned apricots when we got home but while he was napping I found them in one of his cars ::)
L: shared my apple, half of a zweiback (maybe like a melba toast?)
S: few spoonfuls of tinned mandarins, soy milk
D: 2 pieces of toast with butter, then a banana before bed
So a pretty bad eating day here!!
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Chandler's eating a little today, but not much:
B: pancakes, half a veggie sausage
L: (while shopping) Babybel cheese, cereal bar, milk
S: refused yogurt, three raspberries, half a pancake with strawberry cream cheese, ate half a piece of string cheese then spit it out
D: will be grilled hamburgers and sweet potato fries; will try yogurt again for dessert
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Going to try those flapjacks too!
Today Maeve ate:
B: 2 rounds of toast with butter, big bowl of cereal
S: Yogurt
L: Spaghetti hoops, yogurt (DH!!)
S: Fruit cup
D: In MILs...so sausages, bread and butter, some roast potatoes, offered her some mango chicken which we were having but she tasted it and said 'not like it' so that was that!
And yay Max...good boy for eating all that today!! And woooo Jacob....you'd a good day too!!
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B - Readybrek, blueberries, most of a Brioche
S - (in car) a few bites of a nectarine which he then dropped and howled for ages! ::) So found half a packet of cheese and herb organix snacks and he had those instead!
L - Beans on toast, sausage, bit of chicken
S - Nectarine (to make up for earlier!!) few bits of cheese
D - Bolognese and home made spaghetti (got pasta machine for Christmas!), biscuit
Mashi - hope your DS is feeling better soon
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Sorry for all the poorly kiddos! I've got one here too:
Nick ate:
3:40AM- up coughing and puked. Gave small amount of Gatorade
3:50-8AM sick kiddo puked 11 times! tiny sips of water only.
11AM- kept water and a saltine down.
slept till 4PM!
4:15PM felt much better! Drank more Gatorade, gingerale. ATe a banana, more saltines.
5:30PM tiny bit of chicken soup/noodles, ate another banana had more water/juice.
Refused the pedialyte popsicles.
Tonight will try some jello.
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we've had another pretty good eating day again although its not over yet heres his day so far:
B: a full pancake with a smidge of honey
S: yoghurt
L: cold meats and cheese with some fruit
He's Napping now so i will offer him a sandwhich when he wakes as he didnt eat a great deal of lunch. We are going to a friends for BBQ dinner tonight so i will give him some left over beef and veggie risotto before we go as he isnt a BBQ fan!
But he is doing much better, so i' feeling much happier!
Thanks everyone
xx
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You can get humzinger bars in a decent size supermarket - I get them in tesco's. They are on a shelf near the baking things and all the dried fruit snacks for adults.
They are these gooey bars made out of dried fruits all mashed up together and taste a bit like flavoured raisins. Look pretty grim but J likes them - plus they are in nice shiny packets like sweeties so I'm sure that helps. But things like dried pears, apple, spricits etc. Suger content is a bit high as it is a fruit bar - but they are all natural and so I give them twice a week or so.
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Thanks Liz - will look in Tesco next time I'm passing. Tend to shop at Morrisons or ASDA and haven't noticed them, but maybe I just haven't seen them as I wasn't looking for them.
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With those humzinger bars...do they have a thin paper coating on them that is really really difficult to peel off? I get what sounds similar, made by Hipp, and DS really likes them. But there is a thin paper on them, and it almost seems like it might be edible but I'm not sure? I really really really try to peel it off but it is so hard that it makes me think it isn't supposed to come off. I tried eating it myself and it tasted pretty ick, but most toddler stuff does taste pretty bad so I can't let that be my judge...anyone know what I mean?
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I often wonder what some of the things are that you list over there across the pond: shreddies, potato faces, and fish fingers (fish sticks?) are a few off the top of my head.
Yesterday was:
B-oatmeal with raisins, 1/2 an orange, asked for raviolis so gave her a toddler meal of them and milk.
S-2 bananas (a bit less as mommy shared) and raisins on the way to my Aunt's
L-lasagna (hardly touched), bread (lots of bites of everyone's before lunch was served as we all started sneaking them and she saw and begged), broccoli (a couple of bites) -- was mostly full from snacking on the way up in the car and water.
S-cheerios and milk
D-didn't have a real dinner as did NOT nap on the way up and I threw her in pajamas and we drove home hoping she'd sleep on the way home. (she had cheerios and assorted goodies my Grandparent's gave her up to this point)
Today so far:
B-scrambled egg, cinnamon toast, and milk
S-craisins
L-grilled cheese, a yogurt, and milk
That's where we are now. I think later will be:
S-crackers and juice perhaps
D-pierogies and veggies (not sure how she'll take the pierogies as she isn't a mashed potato fan. we'll see.
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Looking for ideas. Can I join you?
Breakfast - 1.5 weetabix
Snack - raisins, malt loaf
Lunch - Beans on toast ( a first and he loves it)
Snack - fruit bar
Dinner -bulghar wheat with veggies
Cant seem to get anything else on the breakfast rotation apart from weetabix or porridge. He's been the same since 6 mos old!
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Welcome BrodiesMummy (Emma?) - Alice is pretty much a porridge or weetabix girl, we do have the odd toast or pancake morning but she loves a big bowl of porridge (and it's a good start to the day, right?). Have started to add a mini box of raisins the last few days to make it more interesting . . . but now she'll probably not eat it without LOL!
Nicole - I find myself wondering the same thing but the other way round, iykwim?
Shreddies are a breakfast cereal - look like mini brown waffles. Potato faces are just that - smiley faces made of potato with a 'coating' on - straight from freezer to oven. Fish fingers are 'sticks' of fish with a breadcrumb (or batter) coating - again straight from freezer to oven . . . maybe the visuals will will help ;)
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Nicole - I find myself wondering the same thing but the other way round, iykwim?
Shreddies are a breakfast cereal - look like mini brown waffles. Potato faces are just that - smiley faces made of potato with a 'coating' on - straight from freezer to oven. Fish fingers are 'sticks' of fish with a breadcrumb (or batter) coating - again straight from freezer to oven . . . maybe the visuals will will help
Absolutely helpful. Shreddies are like "rice chex" a brand/type of cereal here. Potato faces I have NOT seen, however I did see alphabet shaped tater tots (breaded potato things) out shopping today, and the fish fingers are our "fish sticks".
Anything you want to know about, just ask away. :)
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Raisins in the porridge! POsted exactly 15 mins ago and already have got a great tip!! WooHoo. Thanks.
Emma xxx
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Glad the visuals helped ;D And as soon as I remember what it is I'm confused about I'll give you a shout ;)
Fish sticks here are a whole different thing - made of 'crab meat' but the term is used loosely.
Today - not brilliant, but okay
B: porridge with raisins (only ate about half), 1 apricot, lots of milk
S: yoghurt coated sesame snap, more milk
L: out for lunch - pulled the cheese out of her sandwich and ate it, then a couple of bites of the bread, pulled the pastry off her sausage roll and ate a few bites of the sausage, handful of grapes, juice
S: slice of savoury flapjack - spat the second half out :P (not that she needs the extra oats tho LOL!), water
D: spicy tuna risotto, couple of pieces of apricot, most of a banana, small slice of fruit cake, water
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Raisins in the porridge! POsted exactly 15 mins ago and already have got a great tip!! WooHoo. Thanks.
We do the same. I have added ALL sorts of fruit to DD's oatmeal (porridge). Pieces of apple or pear. DD loves fruit so it helps her eat something more substantial when it's added to the oatmeal. MMMM.
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Nicole, you don't know Shreddies??? Shreddies are very much available in Canada, I've been eating them my whole life, I never in a million years would have thought they were not an American thing as well, seeing as most of our products are actually American!! Wow...learning something new every day! (maybe it is Nabisco Shredded Wheat in the US?)
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I was thinking the same thing Mashi! Oh and the potato faces, I think at one time McCain marketed something like those as "Smiles", but I haven't seen them for awhile here.
Today so far:
B - Cheerios & soy milk - woohoo, no more formula finally!!!! (I had been mixing it to use what I had left)
S- rice krispie cake, water
L - banana & prune babyfood - gave her the pot to eat by herself, what a mess! Organic corn puff thingys, soy milk, toast with soy butter
S- probably will be apple slices & MumMums
D- pizza tonight, which should be interesting b/c Spencer's portion has no cheese, Masyn has decided she doesn't like the "red stuff" (aka pizza sauce), I want vegetarian and DH loves all meat. All I have is 18" frozen pizza shells, so I can't make individual ones.
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hunter is a big weetbix and porridge fan too and like others i add all kinds of things so that he can get some variety while still having his usual favourites (eg. various dried fruits -apricot, sultanas, pineapple, etc, fresh fruit or tin fruit pieces, chopped banana plus a squeeze of honey and a little cinnamon is one of his favs, puffed wheat is good in weetbix and other dry puffed cereals). he has also been occasionally requesting my cereal (sultana bran or special K) and wants it with yoghurt on instead of milk like i do (i cant stand soggy cereal ;) )
yesterday
breaky - porridge with dried apricot pieces, diluted juice
snack - dried fruit and nut mix, water
lunch - vegemite and cheese sandwich, half banana, milk
snack - yoghurt, apricot, half mandarine, water
dinner - roast pork and apple sauce, roast potatoes, steam corn on cob, broccoli, carrots. vanilla ice-cream, milk.
today - weetbix with dried sultanas and pineapple, diluted juice
snack - babybel cheese, water
lunch - ww pita bread filled with homous and grated carrot, half banana, milk
snack - will be wataermelon and canteloupe, yoghurt, water
dinner - will be fettucine with smoked salmon, cherry toms, dill, olives, milk
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Mashi-Shredded wheat tends to be bigger, rectangular and fairly and not as flat looking as that picture makes them appear. I have a hard time finding PLAIN shredded wheat now as most are frosted with an icing type coating. SUGAR ewww
Heidi-You're going to have one interesting pizza!
The rest of the night went off as planned
S: ritz veggie something or other crackers and cheese
D: pierogies (which Ava wasn't much of a fan of as usual, had a few bites) and milk she also mooched bites of our friends chicken parm sandwich before her dinner so that could have contributed. When she says "a bite. a bite. want some. Peeeeeze." he can't resist :)
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Awh Nicole, she is too cute. We get 'mummy's food...have share...please!'
Today:
B: Cereal, fruit cup
S: Pancakes and cheese
L: Pasta and tomato sauce, yogurts
S: Raisins (i think), piece of chocolate
D: Tomato soup, 2 slices WW bread
Supper: Toast
Not a great variety today. Online shopping arriving tomorrow pm!!
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Cathie, I hope Nick is doing better today! :-* :-*
Today was not a good eating day:
B- scrambled egg with ham
L - chicken broth with rice and veggies and chicken breast (he barely ate)
D - He kept asking for dinner, he ate 1/2 yogurt and started crying, so I offered him some beans on a toast, and he starting yelling and didn't eat anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I tried again after 30 min, but without success!! He didn't have dinner! >:(
I hope tomorrow is better!
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Thanks Alexa- How about Patrick, do you think his teeth were bugging him? Or was he feeling poorly to refuse supper? Tomorrow he'll probably be super hugry!!
Today was better. No puking- eating is soso.
Nick ate:
B: banana pancakes with maple syrup, diluted juice, grapes
L: toyed with his lunch, grapes, macaroni and cheese and broccoli, milk, jello
D: roll and a few bites of hamburg, apple slices, milk
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nicole, what are pierogies?
cathie, glad little nick seems to be doing better, at least he is keeping something down.
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I was going to ask the same question about the pierogies! :)
Today:
B: pancake, water
S: apple slices
L: honey sandwhich, cheese slices and chicken meat
S: yoghurt and half a vegemite and cheese roll (that was mine)
S#2 1.5 bowls of fresh homemade chicken soup (I just finished cooking it and he couldnt wait til dinner)
D: will be more chicken soup and bread roll for dipping!
So i think Max has done extremely well today!
Does anyone have a yummy healthy mini muffin recipe that i can make for him, he likes cake someties but i'd prefer him to have a healthier option!
Bek
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Pierogies are eastern European, usually Ukranian, Polish, Slovakian cooking. Think of a ravioli, sort of, made with a dough on the outside (diff than pasta dough but I can't explain how) and filled with a mashed potato filling, often some cheese or meat as well. I used to buy them frozen and boil them, and then fry them up with onions and chopped bacon and serve with sour cream. I looooooove perogies. Every country makes them and fills them slightly differently though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierogies
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I looooooove pierogies.
I LOVE them too - part of my staple diet growing up as Gran is Polish so always made them for us. Haven't ever made them myself tho . . . must get her to 'share' some of her Polish recipes as I think she keeps them in her head. She's 88 tomorrow and won't always be around to make us lovely Polish treats :'( For some reason my Mum (her daughter) didn't pick up the recipes . . . shame.
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Does anyone have a yummy healthy mini muffin recipe that i can make for him, he likes cake someties but i'd prefer him to have a healthier option!
I've got a recipe for banana muffins that I make for my DD - not sure how 'healthy' they are, but they use wholemeal flour and brown sugar, so I figure they're much better than the shop bought ones? If you want it, just let me know and I'll dig it out - it's really simple (only 4 ingredients I think) and a good way to use up 'old' bananas.
Today
B: mini shredded wheat (different to shreddies ;)) with a handful of raisins (not porridge or weetabix woo hoo!), half a slice of jam on toast, most of a pear, diluted OJ
S: none - late breakfast, early-ish lunch
L: beans on toast, shared a gingerbread man with Mummy (Emma - DD and Brodie would get on well with their love of the same breakfasts and if he's now discovered DD's second love - beans on toast ;D)
S: dried pineapple 'chips' and raisins, water
D: root veg and bean stew with cheese & mustard mash (ate all the beans, left some of the root veg ::)), yoghurt with chopped up apricot, banana (she insisted on sharing with DH and I), mini mince pie and milk
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I've got a recipe for banana muffins that I make for my DD - not sure how 'healthy' they are, but they use wholemeal flour and brown sugar, so I figure they're much better than the shop bought ones? If you want it, just let me know and I'll dig it out - it's really simple (only 4 ingredients I think) and a good way to use up 'old' bananas.
Thanks that would be great! XXX
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mumofalice--I would love a simple muffin recipe. Chandler's obesessed with cake as well.
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Today was a holiday, so I got to feed Chandler all her meals. We did a great job cleaning out the fridge!
B: organic Cinnamon Crunch cereal
S: blueberries, a couple of bites of banana, and a bite of Babybel cheese
L: leftover cheese ravoili, half a leftover veggie burger, mandarin oranges
S: Superfood juice, oatmeal Snackimals with peanut butter, more blueberries
D: avocado chunks, macaroni and cheese with peas, a few bites of uncured hot dogs, banana
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Mashi is spot on with the pierogies info. We buy them in a BIG bag froze. LOVE THEM. We usually get the potato and onion flavored ones. But sometimes they come with cheese and other things. I haven't had them with meat. It's been a staple in our family as well since my grandmother's family is from the Ukraine and Czech. (which part I don't know as when I knew we were from there as a kid it was still ONE country lol)
Today was:
B: oatmeal with raisins, toast, and milk
S: crackers and juice
L: chicken nuggets and fries (did so so)
S: lunch was late so didn't have one (she napped until 3:00 and had lunch after that!)
D: tacos (ground turkey, black beans, taco seasonings, cheese and tortilla) and tortilla chips, juice and then milk.
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well those pierogies sound delicious! havent ever seen them in oz before but will certainly keep an eye out.
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yuummm perogies! with lots of fried onions and maybe mushrooms too - my mouth is watering! :)
i have a good banana muffin recipe, i'll try and remember to post it.
not such a good eathing day today, but 3 full to overflowing dirty diapers. somethings going on there...
b- life cereal w/ blueberries
s - small chocolate chip square, 3/4 of a pear
l - didn't want the pesto pasta that he loved last night, but had a half a pea butter sandwich
d - fish cake, brocoli and a few potatoes. half a sliced apple.
probably not the best choices given the stomach day he had, if it continues, it'll have to be plain stuff tomorrow.
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I'm also interested on that banana muffin recipe!! yum!
Patrick had a good eating day today!! yay! ;D
B - 1 banana + 1 yogurt + fruit loops
L - soup + veggies + chicken
D - quesadilla (tortilla with cheese) + 1 petit suisse
Wish me luck...I'll be giving him fresh mangoes tomorrow!! He looves them in gerber, but tomorrow they'll be fresh! i'm nervous! haha
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well Max has had another great eating day, yay Max! :) the difference taking the bottles away during the night has been great! :)
B: half a weetbix, toast with honey
S: yoghurt
L: hot chips and gravy (not my fave but we were at the indoor playcafe here and they dont really serve alot of kid friendly healthy foods) :(
S: 1 fruit cup of diced peaches, bite sized apple and cinnamon muffin
D: will be chicken soup again with bread for dipping. (his fave at the moment)
and maybe another bite size muffin as he really enjoyed it! :)
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Yay Patrick and Max!!!! Both eating great today! Good luck for the fresh mangoes!!
Yesterday:
B: Pancakes, ate half then just said no, yogurt
S: At baby gym, toast and grapes...gave grapes back!
L: Cream cheese sandwich, raisins, yogurt
S: Fruit cup, babybel
D: Sausages, mash and brocolli. Did REALLY well with brocolli for first 5/6 bits and then she spat the next bit out and was rubbing her tongue as going 'yuck' as if she'd been poisoned!
Today:
B: Toast, half my muffin, babybel
S: Yogurts
Rest of day will be:
L: eggy bread, fruit cup
S: Smoothie, raisins
D: Chicken in tomato sauce, corn, peas, potatoes, fruit cup
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Today was:
B: dry cheerios, toast with jam...we are oooh so creative with breakfast ::)
S: satsuma and apple juice
L: quarter of a grilled cheese and little bit of deli turkey, cherry rice pudding
S: organix corn sticks, another satsuma and some soy milk; baby biscuit an hour later and he nearly wet himself when i offered it to him, was quite hilarious "OH!!! OH!!!"
D: loads of spag bol with cream cheese mixed in, made sure to shovel as much of the mince into him as I could! was eating a bowl of mixed veg (carrots, peas, corn) until he found that some of the corn was tiny bits of uncooked yellow pepper and was so unimpressed that he spit everything out, stuck his finger in his mouth to pull any remnants out and threw the bowl on the floor. no more yellow peppers! some animal crackers for dessert
we've done from a very dairy-based diet to a child who now does not want yogurt (used to eat a pot a day) or milk (until last week was taking loads of it) and rarely wants cheese anymore. i'm giving him soy milk which he loves (vanilla) but it's lowfat so am not too happy with that.
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B - Readybrek (again!!!!), banana, piece of toast and peanut butter (had about 3 bites and then ripped each piece up and threw it on the floor)
S - 1/2 a Fruit and oat bar thing in supermarket, some organix corn snacks
L - Tomato soup with cream cheese and marmite sandwich to 'dunk', few bites of nectarine, some yoghurt coated raisins
S - grapes
D - Big bowl of Pasta carbonara, big handful of blueberries
I'd love a simple muffin recipe too!!
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Okay ladies - here is the simple (if I can do it anyone can ;)) banana muffin recipe. I think it was originally from a lovely BW lady - way back in the days when I was BLW . . . a lifetime ago LOL!
300g Self-Raising Flour (wholemeal)
115g Butter (melted)
75g Light Muscovado Sugar
4 Large Bananas
2 Large Eggs
Mash bananas. Add melted butter. Add sugar and eggs and stir together. Add flour and stir (don't over beat!). Put mixture in muffin tins. Bake for 10-15 mins at 170 - skewer should come out clean. Pop on to wire rack to cool. Voila - easy peasy banana muffins ;D
I don't own any 'proper' muffin tins. When I first started making them I would use the mini muffin cases and just fill a baking tray with them - and would freeze most of the batch and just take out in the morning for a lovely afternoon treat for DD. Now she's a bit bigger I tend to use 'fairy cake' cases (not as big as muffins) as she can handle a bigger cake ;)
Today A ate:
B: porridge with raisins and chopped up apricot - the apricot was a bad move LOL! As we were running a bit late this morning I thought I could pop in the fruit to save time on the 'fruit course' after the 'porridge course'. Alice wasn't having any of it - mummy had to pick out all the bits of apricot ::) Prob ended up taking more time LOL. Left a bit of porridge (prob in protest!). Diluted OJ.
S: few dried apple 'chips'
L: cheeses (wensleydale with cranberries, double gloucester with onion), slice of ham, black olives, bit of toast, asked for banana and broke it in to 3 pieces - gave one to me, one to my friend who was having lunch with us, and kept the last one for herself and signed 'share' ;D, water
S: few more of the apple chips which mummy had forgotten to tidy up!
D: went to visit my Gran to wish her Happy Birthday. As always my Gran offered to feed her - I said she wouldn't be bothered as it was prob an hour or so earlier than her usual time, but she signed eat to prove me wrong ::). She had a couple of bites of salami, then Gran's home-made meatballs with sauce and rice. Couple of bites of apple (she wanted pear, but there weren't any), water
Back home she had a small piece of Gran's home-made chocolate birthday cake (a new recipe she was trying out at 88!) and half a biscuit, milk
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Chandler had a crazy food evening. When we got home from daycare, she climbed into her high chair demanding birthday cake. She was very unhappy that there was none. Half an hour later she ate for dinner:
uncured hot dog, rice mixed with corn, peas, and carrots, avocado chunks, mandarin oranges
Two hours later, she climbed into her high chair again and said, "Fruit!" She wolfed down some applesauce, then said, "Cheese!" I gave her a babybel cheese. Then she ran around the house yelling, "Snack! Snack!" I told her to go ask Daddy in the kitchen. So, she ran to her PLAY KITCHEN in her bedroom then let out a bloodcurdling howl when Daddy was not standing there with snack in hand. She threw herself down on the floor and just sobbed, saying "snack, snack" over and over. I quickly rousted Daddy from the REAL KITCHEN, where he was standing with a cereal bar, and managed to get them to meet in the hallway. Phew! The drama!
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Today:
B: half a banana pikelet (a new recipe i thought i'd try all 3 kiddies werent a fan) wont do it again!
S: fruit cup of peaches and a yoghurt (must have been hungry since B was a failure)
L: nothing as he was tired and wouldnt have a bar of anything.
S: sandwhich with honey and apple slices (made up for NO lunch)
D: huge bowl of chicken soup, some of what we had for dinner and DH treated all the kids to an icecream after dinner :)
S: vanilla yoghurt before bed
milk bottle
So Max is still doing pretty well! :)
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Glad to see Max eating better for you Bek!!
Thanks for that muffin recipe Berni, can't wait to try it. Alice is soooo quite, btw!
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Thanks for that muffin recipe Berni, can't wait to try it. Alice is soooo quite, btw!
Mashi - what does 'quite' mean? I feel like I should be thanking you for a compliment - but wondering if you might be using a Canadian-ism? ;)
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HAHA! Ahhh, pmsl here!! CUTE. I meant CUTE!!!! How on EARTH I have managed that typo, I will never know! Probably was swinging DS off of my leg at the time or something!
Alice is very cute :)
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mumofalice thanks for the muffin recipe...tried it out today and DS had half a muffin (I of course had to eat the other) still warm this afternoon!
B - Readybrek WITH raisins...which he picked out, sucked and threw on the floor! I guess he just likes it plain! Banana
S - none early lunch
L - tuna, cucumber and red onion sandwich (bought), 1/2 a nectarine, few bites of oat bar
S - 1/2 banana muffin, handful of grapes
D - (will be) Breaded sole, peas, carrots, mashed new pots.
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Not a good day here at all!
B: about 6 cheerios, 1/2 ounce of milk and half of a slice of dark rye toast, very small plum
S: bit of a brotchen (bread roll) but not much, few bites of yogurt
L: two bites of baked beans, nothing else
S: one animal cracker, didn't want the rest, bit of a shock really!
D: refused his dinner, ate a few bites of toast and then 1/2 kiwi that I slathered in creme fraiche to make up for some lost milk fat in the past week!
Horrible day, really - he's got a cold and I think upper canines must be starting as well.
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Alice is very cute :)
Aww thanks - but you don't live with her LOL!!
mumofalice thanks for the muffin recipe...tried it out today and DS had half a muffin (I of course had to eat the other) still warm this afternoon!
You're welcome me dear. Hope your DS (and you ;)) likes them as much as Alice (and DH and me LOL!)
Today:
B: slice of jam on toast, banana, pear, diluted OJ
S: none (very late breakfast and early lunch)
L: cheese sandwich - pulled out her beloved cheese (think the bread must contaminate it ::)), ate all the bread once it had been dipped in my country vegetable soup, sausage roll (or should I say sausage with a couple of bites of the 'pastry roll'), grapes, juice
S: half a pack of organix cheese puffs, water
D: sausage, apple & onion pie topped with cheddar & mustard mash (new recipe I tried), brocolli, carrot & sweetcorn mix - ate the sausage, bit of the mash, broccoli and couple of bits of sweetcorn, couple of bites of apricot, pear and a kiwi (this girl could live off cheese and fruit!), small piece of Gran's choc birthday cake, milk
Does anyone else's LO like to pull their food apart into tiny little pieces?
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Complete dinner failure tonight. Offered some veg. egg foo yung with rice. She ate two bites and started throwing it everywhere. Took her down from high chair. An hour later she was hungry so Daddy gave her a couple of Ritz crackers with processed cheese spread (yuk). She then ate two bites of banana and drank one ounce of milk.
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Does anyone else's LO like to pull their food apart into tiny little pieces?
Yup, especially bread, I'm never sure if she actually eats any of it because it all ends up squished to her bum!! (she stuffs it down the side of her booster chair after she picks it apart...)
Today I have no idea what she ate, was a daycare day...all I know is she had McDonald's for supper and is finally busting out another tooth. Besides the McD's all she wants to eat is applesauce!
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Today:
B: chicken soup (he ate the last bowl so he will be asking for more tomorrow), dried nutrigrain,,
S: yoghurt
L: Chicken Nuggets, watermelon, bread roll...(we were out for lunch)
S: iceblock
D: spaghetti bolognaise, yoghurt
milk bottle before bed
So we are still on th pretty good eating side :)
This might sound like a silly question but what is a readybrek????
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Wow Max!! Thats great Bek. Chicken soup for breakfast!!! He is loving that soup!!
Ready brek is a breakfast cereal here made from oats. Its LOVELY!!
Quote from: mumofalice on Yesterday at 07:04:56 PM
Does anyone else's LO like to pull their food apart into tiny little pieces?
Yup, especially bread, I'm never sure if she actually eats any of it because it all ends up squished to her bum!! (she stuffs it down the side of her booster chair after she picks it apart...)
LOL! Maeve does that. I always think she's ate loads and then when I lift her down there is half the food stuck to the chair. Gross!
Today:
B: Toast, some with jam, some just butter. Ate all the jam ones and then looked at me like I was a bit daft and
said 'mummy more jam'!! Won't normally eat jam which is why i gave butter option too!
S: Cereal bar, babybel
L: Will be scrambled egg and toast, fruit cup
S: Will be Raisins, yogurts
D: Going to my dad's so its anyones guess. I'll bring an Ella's kitchen veg lentil pouch just in case and some crackers and cream cheese.
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Does anyone else's LO like to pull their food apart into tiny little pieces?
haha, ooohhhh yes! I walked him up to the doctor one day and had given him some of a raisin bread roll, looked down and he had finished it, so gave him more. Walking home from the doctor we followed his little Hansel&Gretel trail of raisin bread on the sidewalk all the way home!!!
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Been at daycare for the last 2 days so outta my hands!
Breakfast - honey porridge
Snack - Raisins (of course!)
Lunch - pork casserole ( leftovers!)
Snack - breadstick, malt loaf and yep.....raisins
Dinner - tuna pasta
Mumofalice - I love the sound of the sausage,apple and onion pie!
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Glad it's not just Alice who likes to break up bread, crackers, etc into tiny pieces ::) It's quite a recent thing but to be fair she doesn't leave a trail of food, normally eats it (she's like her Mum - doesn't waste much LOL!) it's just quite painstaking to watch as she breaks a cracker into a thousand pieces!!
Mashi - PMSL at the hansel and gretel trail of raisin bread ;D
Today
B (at home): mini shredded wheat with raisins (of course ;)), half a mango and a pear, diluted OJ
At CM:
S: Raisins and water
L: Roast beef, mash, yorkshire pudding & gravy, jelly and milk
S: 2 small chocolates, biscuit and milk
S: banana and water
At Home
D: cheeses (as previous posts) with crackers and olives, other half of mango, organix gingerbread biscuit, milk
Mumofalice - I love the sound of the sausage,apple and onion pie!
It was lovely - having the other half for tea tonight ;D Shout if you fancy it and I'll post
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Ooooooh, pleasey. :-* :-* :-*
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Ooooooh, pleasey. :-* :-* :-*
Okay me dear - here you go . . .
Sausage Apple & Onion Pie
700-900g (1 1/2 - 2lb) potatoes, peeled & diced
knob of butter
milk
1 packet of thick sausages (meat or veggie)
1 medium bramley apple (or other tart apple), peeled, cored and very finely sliced
half a medium onion, very finely sliced
vegetable stock or stock cube and water
Pre-heat oven to 180.
Boil potatoes until soft. Mash with knob of butter and enough milk to make stiff but smooth mash. Meanwhile brown the sausages lightly in a pan to give them some colour (optional).
Cut each of the sausages in half width ways and arrange to cover the bottom of a large casserole dish. Lay a layer of apples over the sausages, then a layer of onion, followed by apple, then onion til it is all used up.
Pour in enough stock to cover the sausages.
Put the potato on the top in an even layer.
Put the casserole dish in the over for 30-45 mins until the top is golden brown.
Serve on its own or with more veg as accompaniment if you want it to go further.
Variations: You can also add cream cheese to the mash or grate cheese on the top, or top with breadcrumbs. Experimenting with the flavours of sausage can change the flavour of the whole pie.
I made my own variations - I mixed grated cheese and a a couple of teaspoons of wholegrain mustard in the mash. I used turkey sausages (as I don't eat red meat) and rather than stock I used gravy - was worried that the stock might be a bit runny. For a fairly simple pie I thought it was lovely - a 'posh' variation of sausage and mash (one of my all time fave comfort foods ;)).
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Bek-So glad Max is eating well these last few days. :)
Ashley-Sheesh Chandler ate a lot the other night.
I will try to remember yesterday and today.
Yesterday
B: waffles I think and milk
S: crackers
L: ravioli toddler meal
S: none
D: pork chops, mashed potatoes and corn (a couple of bites of pork, LOVED the corn and I got mashed potatoes into her only by mixing it with the corn--was overall a so so amount) and milk
Today:
B: cereal-only a few bites...so DH gave her a waffle and milk
S: none
L: toddler meal-spaghetti o's (did not eat and was really fussy, DH was concerned she had a tummy problem)
S: crackers, cheese, fruit salad (strawberries, grapes, pineapple, melon, blueberries), bread (attended a baby shower at my job)
D: fish and rice....ate well...and milk
It seems we are missing one snack time per day b/c she either has no morning snack and lunch earlier before her nap.....which makes snack afterwards OR the other way around...a morning snack, her nap and then lunch late meaning no afternoon snack and just dinner. Dunno why it works out that way, but it just does. Although I bet DH offers her things at random when/if he has his own "snacks" b/c if she SEES you she asks for some.
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tear food apart - a. would never go for that! i can't even give him cracker that has a piece broken off, he throws a fit "no broked, no broked"
there's something going on with a., poor guys bum is so red! everything seems to go right through him. not diarhea, just full diapers! eating as usual, but he cries as soon as i mention a diaper change :(
b - multigrain rice crispies w/ granola in almond milk
s - banana muffin
l - cheese sandwich, about a cup of mixed frozen veggies (carrots, gr. beans, corn)
s - not sure, w/ the babysitter
d - pasta w/ brocoli and cheese. clementine, some pear slices
definitely more cheese that i would have like for the upset stomach...just the way things turned out...
have a good night all!
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DH was in charge today...I heard tell of hotdogs for lunch and she had applesauce for supper again...top right canine has finally broken through the gum, so maybe she'll want more variety soon! DH is in charge tomorrow, so more hotdogs I'm sure!!! (even though there is lots of veggies and fruits in the kitchen, it's quite invisible to him)
Nicole, we have been sort of having a teeny morning snack (like 1 cracker) to hold her off a bit for lunch, otherwise we'd have only one snack too. No way to jam it in with one nap.
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bf - weetbix
s - muesli bar
l - popcorn, zucchini and potato soup (loved it! phew) and toast
s - 1/2 banana, 1/2 thick raisin toast, dry cheerios
d - zucchini slice, tuna sushi roll
Won't have a bar of eating apricots and peaches (we have both trees in our backyard) so put them in smoothies which he loves!. Has banana, peaches, yoghurt and milk. So glad he likes them, as he wouldn't drink milk for the longest time. ::)
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Today:
B: spoonful of weetbix and a few bites of toast with honey
NO snack
L: bits and pieces (fritz, cheese, strawberries, hot chips) yoghurt
S: iceblock
D: spaghetti bolognaise, yoghurt
S: apple pieces, boiled egg, dried nutrigrain
Bottle before bed
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No point me posting what J has eaten - as it has been nothing short of absolutely nothing - he has been down with some viral thing and not eating well at all ::).
Rebecca - Max's menu looks so good now :). Just wondered - were they things he had liked in the past or are they new things he would have never eaten before?
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Today A has eaten:
At home:
B: Porridge with raisins (tho left some - maybe she's finally getting bored LOL!), strawberry & banana innocent smoothie
At CM:
S: cookies and hot chocolate
L: Pasta bolognese, yoghurt and water
S: raisins and milk
At home:
D: Put sausage, apple & onion pie topped with mash, green beans & carrots in front of her and she had a complete meltdown. Signed finished in between the tears, so took her out of the high chair. She then signed for biscuit but wasn't happy when I said no - cue more tears. (Never really sure how to react - don't want to make the biscuit a treat, but also don't want that to be her meal, kwim? Stuck between a rock and a hard place :-\). I went in the kitchen about 10 mins later to make a hot drink for DH and I - A followed me out and signed eat. Put her back in the high chair and gave her dinner back to her - she ate most of the sausage, a couple of mouthfuls of mash and a bite of carrot. She then signed for mango - was a bit disappointed there wasn't any (she ate the full thing yesterday), so had a pear instead. Then she had a mini mince pie and milk.
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We end up in the same situation with biscuits ... but looks like it turned out well with her dinner!!!
Have put your sausage pie on our menu for next week - sausages are such a staple here, and we can't get really nice flavoured ones like in England, they mostly are just plain pork and so we are always looking for ways to change them up a bit! Can't wait to try it!
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We end up in the same situation with biscuits ... but looks like it turned out well with her dinner!!!
Glad it's not just me - and yes, it did turn out okay-ish in the end.
Have put your sausage pie on our menu for next week - sausages are such a staple here, and we can't get really nice flavoured ones like in England, they mostly are just plain pork and so we are always looking for ways to change them up a bit! Can't wait to try it!
Hope it turns out okay - think the pork sausages should work well with the apple - am sure my DH would have loved it even more if the sausages weren't turkey ::)
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B - Readybrek (of course), Nectarine, toast and jam
S/L - (started eating in travel agents so S sort of turned into L!) Raisins, 1/2 pack of organix corn snacks, some chicken mayo and sweetcorn sandwich, some of my tuna sandwich (few bites of each)
S - 1/2 a banana, tried to get him to try some prunes as he seems really constipated ATM, was having none of it so then didn't eat the rest of his banana either. Stuck the prunes in some hot water and gave it to him to drink once it had cooled, only had a few mouthfuls (with grimaces!).
D - Sweet potato and Lentil curry
Not such a good day today!
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B: toast and yogurt and milk
S: rice cakes (caramel flavored) - kept trying to steal other kids snacks at a playgroup w/ my mom
L: not sure, was with my mom
S: raisins/crackers and milk
D: pizza (only a few bites) 1.5 yogurts and more raisins (battling the wanting to stand up and climb out of the highchair again---wanted to sit on my lap---told her no---she could sit in her chair or go play. she cried----etc etc. she got back in the chair at one point---repeat the whole event. ugh. i refused to feed her out of her chair b/c it's becoming a game--so that was annoying) and juice
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Rebecca - Max's menu looks so good now . Just wondered - were they things he had liked in the past or are they new things he would have never eaten before?
Liz, max is starting to try more things now and it also helps when his older brother and sister eats the same things! :) he has always liked most things i his diet but because he wasnt eating at all for awhile he wasnt used to them so i guess they all seem new to him again!
The onlymeal we do have trouble with is breakfast for some reason I ake so many different things and he only takes a bite or a spoonful! he did like chicken soup for brekkie though, have to make some more as we are all out now and he keeps asking for it! :)
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TODAY:
B: a forkfull of poached egg and 3 spoonfulls of weetbix :-\
S: apple slices, diced peaches
L: honey sandwhich, yoghurt
S: wiggles biscuits
D: chicken schnitzel, fried rice and mash potato. (iceblock after dinner)
S: yoghurt
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B - Readybrek (trying something new tomorrow!?!?!?), blueberries, few bites of toast and marmite
S - Blueberries and grapes while out shopping
L - Cheese sandwich, some of Dh's sausage roll, mango and apple smoothie, rest of snack pot of blueberries and grapes
S - 1/2 pack of organix corn snacks, raisins
D - Big bowl of pasta with Tuna, tomato, carrot, and courgette sauce and cheese on top (LOVES this, but would eat pasta everyday for every meal if I let him so have been limiting him a bit - his face was a picture when he took the first bite of dinner and realised what it was!!), Yoghurt
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Thanks for the recipe mumofalice ( sorry dont know your name.... :-[ :-[) Will let you know how it goes when I actually get round to making it!
Breakfast - 2 x weetabix
Snack - fruit bar
Lunch - Scrambled egg and toast then some banana
Snack - carrot stick crisp things
Dinner - mac and cheese and a fruit pot
Not the most exciting day for him, would only eat the eggs if he had ketchup on them and if Daddy fed them to him!
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Today:
B: Cereal, fruit pot
S: Something but can't remember
L: Babybel, tomato soup which she tipped all over DH as he wouldn't pass her the spoon (oops!), yogurts
S/D: Went to a birthday party with my sister. Had sausages, some plain pringles but refused sandwiches and all the sweets!
Before bed: Pancake, 1/2 weetabix
Not a great variety. will have to make up for the veggies tomorrow!!
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Today, Chandler ate:
B: whole wheat french toast, half a piece of bacon, milk
S: (turned into lunch while shopping) TWO apple cereal bars and a snack trap full of goldfish, Superfood juice
L: two bites of spinach souffle mixed with green peas
S: half a rice krispy treat at the park, milk
D: a huge quantity of mushroom risotto, one bite of meatloaf and refused broccoli. For dessert she refused tapioca, then wanted the rest of her rice krispy treat
She used to love veggies, but now it's nearly impossible to get her to eat them unless they're mixed in with something fatty
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Max is napping at the moment so we are only half way thru the day here
B: 1 spoonful of weetbix :( apple & banana slices (which he didnt eat) Breakfast is the most frustrating meal at my house for Max....he asks for weetbix every morning and then doesnt eat it. I have no idea what else to try for him, i've tried everything
S: yoghurt and a few grapes
D: honey sandwhich (his new fave)
After he wakes from his nap i will try some more fruit and maybe let him dip it in yoghurt, he might eat more that way :)
But i'm in the middle of making chicken soup again as thats all he has been asking for, so if thats reay when he wakes he will want that. He LOVES, LOVES, LOVES it....:) he ate that for brekky the other day, maybe he likes that sort of stuff for brekkie
He will also have chicken soup for dinner with bread to dip!
The soup I make it very thick with rice and noodles so its very very filling.....
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Today was alright...
S: raisins, cheddar cheese and milk (to hold over until Breakfast out with Nana and Pop Pop)
B: fruit cup (oranges, grapefruit, grapes, melons), a bit of toast, a bit of fried potatoes, and diluted cranberry juice
L: not sure, at my mom's but I think it was tuna fish or pizza??
S: grapes (KEPT asking for them) and cheerios
D: beef roast, rice, and salad (didn't eat much and wanted to get down-then brought me snacks she found in her diaper bag--I told her no snacks until she ate more dinner. She took a bite of dinner and ran off--found more snacks and brought them to me--I again told her no she needed to eat more dinner. She again ate a bite and ran off.) and milk
It's like she's too "busy" to eat.
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As predicted Max had a huge bowl of chicken soup for his snack then another one for his dinner followed by a slice of our pizza! :)
good job Max!
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breaky - vegemite and grilled cheese on toast and some of my fruit muffin, diluted juice
snack - fruit stick and small muesli bar (out and about), some donut, water
lunch - quasidellas (kidney beans, salsa, avocado, cheese), milk
snack - 1 apricot, 10 lychees (his new fav fruit of the week), one mouthful of yoghurt and refused rest, water
dinner - egg fried rice, tuna, beans, milk
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TODAY:
B: big bowl of chicken soup ::) half a piece of toast with jam
S: yoghurt
L: another big bowl of chicken soup
S: a mixture plate ( honey sandwhich, apple slices, strawberries and grapes) he didnt eat it all but a small amount was eating whilst watching the wiggles!
D: a small bowl of chicken soup ::) (yep he loves it) some stirfry noodles and small diced steak pieces
we were at my mums for dinner so his specialty there is icecream so he had a small bowl after dinner :)
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Yesterday:
B: raisins, applesauce, crackers (knew we were going food shopping and bringing snacks to distract her so didn't wan her to be full already lol) and milk
S: cheerios at the store
L: peanut butter and jelly sandwich, kiwi, and milk
S: applesauce
D: chili w/ cheese and bread and water
She ate pretty well all day. Except when she started throwing cheerios on the floor at the grocery store. Mean mommy took them away and she was crying for them back but nope, she didn't get them after throwing them purposefully on the floor. I had to move them to the side so no one would slip...let alone continously crunch them and make a bigger mess stepping on them.
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Chandler started asking for dinner the second I picked her up from daycare. When I finally got it to her, she ate:
macaroni and cheese, peas, uncured hot dog, avocado chunks, goldfish crackers, raspberries, and papaya (phew!) She would have eaten my hand if I had gotten it too close.
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Today was:
B: oatmeal with mixed fruit and milk
S: not sure DH was with her
L: tuna fish sandwich -didn't do well so DH quickly gave her grapes and cheese and juice
S: 1/12 banana after her nap another 1/2 a banana before dinner.
D: spaghetti and meatballs and milk
Sometime around the 2nd snack...DD found a sippy of old spoiled milk and drank it! DH didn't realize she found it and when he did he grabbed it and dumped it in the sink and said it was ... chunky....EWWWWWWWW
I HOPE HOPE HOPE she doesn't get sick.
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Another big dinner. Expect a new size in clothing shortly.
Teriyaki tofu, basmati rice, broccoli, avocado chunks, raspberries, water, dark M&Ms
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Ashley-What size is she in now?
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She went up to 2T about a month ago. Shoes are a 7. It was such a bummer--all her winter boots are size 6, and there are no longer boots at stores like Target. It's all sandals! In January! We just got her some sneakers.
Oh, and about two hours after last night's huge dinner, she asked for a snack, then put away a cereal bar and an entire banana. I overheard my DH asking her if she had a hollow leg.
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This is a great thread! Love to know what others are doing food-wise.
Just realised that at 13 mths my DS is now classed as a toddler even though he is not officially toddling yet!! Scary..
Today so far
B - Almost a whole banana - cheerios and warm milk - some of my toast and jam - water
L - My mum's homemade Shepherds Pie (veggies in it) and peas- a few of my crisps- strawberry yoghurt - shared my cupcake with me (I sound healthy don't I?!)- water
D - will be my homemade soup (Carrot,onion,garlic,potato,mushroom and red lentils) and bread - malt loaf - raisins and slices of apple
Supper - will be weetabix and warm milk
Nell xxx
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Ashley-Someone just gave me a bunch of shoes in size 7....boots included....and DD is only a 5! Hoping they will fit next year, but a bit worried she'll spurt before then as she turns 2 in Aug. She is mostly in 18 mo...but wears some 24 mo/2t tops. I was considering buying her some stuff while it's on sale for next year but I'm scared I'll mis-judge and get the wrong size!
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Nicole-Ava's mom: I know exactly what you're talking about. I bought shoes last spring and completely misjudged the size/season combo. There's just know way of knowing when they will spurt. It made me not buy sale stuff this year, too!
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LOL at Chandler's hollow leg!!!
Today:
B: Toast with jam (new fav!), babybel
S: Big bowl of cereal
S: Yogurts (we were heading out)
L: coffee shop with my sister...offered scone, not interested, had a 1/2 fruit cup and a bite of a bun
D: Sausages, 1/2 slice bread, some of my spaghetti bolonese, crackers and cream cheese
I'm with you on the sale stuff ladies! I bought stuff last year and she's only going to be wearing them in spring and they are winter clothes. So didn't bother with the sale stuff this year!
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I never know what to do about the snack request just after dinner time? J doesn't do it often but when he does I never really know what to do. J still has bedtime milk and I think I am perhaps still in baby mode by thinking that will do in half an hour?
He also seems to have taken to going into the kitchen and helping himself to a load of dry shreddies from the cupboard. I guess I need to stop that to keep a tabs on what he is eating, and to try and encourage better meals.
Yesterday Jacob ate
B 1/2 wheetabix (off the tray after unturning the bowl), loads of shreddies, toast
S Dried fruit bar, loads of mini chedder crackers, a few bites of banana
L Cheese spread sandwich, some bites of apple, fed the tomato soup to me and told me if had spilled everywhere - but didn't eat it ::)
S Can't remember!
D Potato face, fish finger, few peas, yoghurt (that needs checking out as it smelt so sweet that it can't possibly have good things in it - Mum brought them)
S Rice cake, and 9oz milk before bed
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Liz--I don't have any problem with Chandler asking for a snack after dinner, IF she actually ate her dinner. I don't want her refusing her dinner, then asking for a cereal bar an hour later. However, if she's still hungry, I have no problem giving her more food.
Last night Chandler ate:
Breaded fish nuggets (Dr. Praeger's), sweet potato fries with ketchup, mixed veg (carrot, grean beans, corn, peas), tropical fruit chunks (papaya, mango, pineapple)
Later, she had a chocolate chip cookie and milk
Chandler discovered that she can bypass the fries and fish and just eat her ketchup with a spoon. She was very disappointed that I would not refill her dipping cup after she had eaten three spoonsfull of ketchup. [yuk] It reminded me that when she was a baby, her favorite babyfood was pureed tomatoes and carrots. Maybe I should make her some more of that.
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LOL at the ketchup. Maeve has recently started doing that too although she just scoops it off her plate with her fingers. YUK!
Liz..I have no problem with after dinner snack if she's asking so long as she's not refusing dinner. If she hasn't eaten a lot overall in a day we tend to do toast or cereal before bed anyways as she doesn't take milk.
Today:
B: Toast and jam, babybel
S: Offered grapes and strawberries at library. Wasn't interested
S: Big bowl cereal ( was so whiny I am sure she was hungry as she perked right up after it)
L: Yogurts, raisins, another babybel (bit of an obsession here at the minute). Am sure i offered her something more substantial but can't remember
D: Will be stew and bread roll
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DS has had a cough and cold the last couple of days and today was SOOOO grumpy. Despite that he ate-
B - half a banana, half a weetabix and warm milk, few pieces of a choc chip brioche and some apple slices
S - breadsticks and ricecake
L - spaghetti bolognaise, piece of malt loaf, fromage frais
S - raisins
D - homemade soup, breadstick, organic carrot sticks, banana pieces
S - weetabix and warm milk
He also has a bottle first thing in the morning and bedtime.
Not bad for a poorly boy I suppose!
Nell xxx
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dd1 is 2 1/2...
B - one bite of banana, big bowl of yogurt, raisin toast with jam
snack - grapes
L - hotdog and ketchup ...did not eat the bun, carrots or broccoli (broccoli is usually a favorite)
snack - mandarin oranges, whole wheat rice crackers
D - 2 black olives...picked out of her pasta with veggies and cheese
1 animal cracker
2 cups of milk
not a good food day...she usually starts strong but dinner is hit and miss. at least she willingly sat at the table!
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We've had the worst few eating days so i'm not even going to post what he ate (or didnt eat)
Yesterday was THE WORST day, we had a treat day at the movies ( Max's first movie day) so he had a nice treat there and the day went downhill from there with food.
Today is lookin better so will post later
xxx
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We're having trouble with some meals the past few days. DH said she didn't want lunch on Thurs. I think it was...and also wasn't interested in much dinner (hadn't pooped all day-so may have been partly why). I think Friday was similar. Not so keen on lunch, picked at dinner but I got some man and cheese into her and a whole cup of milk so she was fine. She has been eating a lot of snacks though as she goes to storytimes now with DH or my mom and "steals" the other kids snacks...even though we pack her her own!!!! So that might be playing a part.
Today so far:
B: eggs, toast, and milk
S: fruit cup and yogurt
Hoping for a better than usual lunch.
Partly I also think she wants to get out of the chair and can't be bothered to sit still for long enough to eat. She is busy busy. I am trying out her booster seat rather than her highchair after she gets up from her nap for lunch. Maybe she'll feel more "big" and stay seated longer? Who knows.
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Today so far:
B - cheerios & soy milk
S - rice krispie squares & water
L - 2 slices of bread (she picks out the insides and leaves the crust!) dipped in ketchup, oranges, soy milk
She gets very angry now when she sees we are eating things that are different than what she has, and due to allergies she can't have them, or I am waiting to feed them until she is older (like seafood, nuts) I feel so bad that she can understand that we are having something I won't give her, but on the other hand I can't really cut eggs,milk,seafood & nuts out of our diet either.
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DS had a day with Daddy today as i had to go on a course. They went to my Inlaws. This is what DH said he ate - don't know if i believe him!!
B - raisins and dried apricots, banana, weetabix and milk
No snack
L - Tuna and Veg bake, fromage frais, half an apple, rice cake
S - carrots sticks,half a biscuit, chocolate wafer
D - homemade soup, peanut butter sandwich,raisins and apple slices
S - apple porridge with honey and couple of breadsticks
Really happy with his eating at the mo - just an issue with not wanting to be in his high chair!!
Nell x
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Hope Max ended up eating well today Bek xx And Miss Ava too Nicole xx
Wow Nell, you LO ate well today. I laughed at you writing your DH went to his mums as you were out. My DH always want to do that too (even if I'm only out a few hours). Drives me mad as then his mum just runs round after my LO and he sits and watches TV with his dad! But anyways...
Today:
B: Toast with jam (again!)
S: Cereal
L: Yogurts, crackers and cream cheese, sandwich
S: Fruit pot
D: Lentil veg bake, pasta with tomato sauce
Ate really well although not so interested in drinking water and i think the lack to fluids is making her a bit constipated. Have to make an effort to encourage her to drink more tomorrow.
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Very interesting to see what other LO's are eating.
Today was a GREAT day for us, as far as eating goes.
B - 1/2 eggo waffle, cereal bar, goldfish crackers (DH was in charge ::))
S - milk
L - mandarin oranges, 4oz yogurt
S - milk, banana, yogurt melts
D - milk, spinach and cheese ravioli, blueberries, 1 scrambled egg, 3 animal crackers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May it continue.
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Strange eating day yesterday:
B: Refused DH's oatmeal with apples--screamed for a while, then ate bowl of cinnamon cereal
S: blueberry cereal bar, string cheese
L: wolfed down huge portion of leftover lasagna and green beans, asking for more so gave here a blueberry muffin I had just baked
S: (with DH at sister-in-law's house) two oatmeal cookies and another cereal bar
D: a few bites of lentils and rice with (yuk) ketchup (this was an hour after the snack above)
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LOL about the ketchup on lentils and rice! Ketchup makes most things edible to some kids! That or cheese sauce. LOL.
Yesterday we traveled to SILs, so a different eating day too:
B: cheese and mushroom omelet, banana, vegetarian sausage, milk, juice
S: 1/2 turkey and cheese sandwich, chocolate-oat snackbar, milk
L: Thai food: Pad Thai, Pad See Ew, Tom Ka Gai soup, (so basically narrow and wide noodles with a variety of veggies, chicken, and shrimp), juice, S: about 4 cookies and hot cocoa courtesy of SIL- LOL
D: at the mall on the ride home: Indian food: masala dosa (crepe with savoury potato mix), basmati rice with chickpeas and spinach, mango lassi (shake) and some of DH's vanilla malted shake too!
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So although SHE did well eating...the foods we provided her were horrible yesterday
After the breakfast and snack...
L: 2 hotdogs (some got fed to the dogs, but she asked for more so I made another. She ate most of them) w/ ketchup and grapes and milk or juice I forget.
D: Made her pasta with parmesan and tomato sauce. Only had a couple of bites (I think mommy overdid the cheese). We were at a friend's house who BBQed (in a snow storm!) and the only other choices were buffalo chicken wings (thought too hot/spicy) and TWO salads with celery (DD is allergic), burgers and hot dogs. She ended up with another hot dog!!
I will say since yesterday afternoon and this morning she has sat much better in the booster seat than her highchair.
Today so far has been:
B: Cereal (mommy's special K lol) and milk
S: Cheese crackers and juice
L: peanut butter and jelly and 1/2 banana
I plan on lasagna for dinner (baking now) so we'll see how that goes.
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Ben is either getting a cold or his teeth are bothering him again as he has been really miserable today and only had bites of things he would usually gobble up.
B - Shreddies and milk, few bites of banana, threw his own toast on the floor, had a few bites of mine
S - Most of an organix cereal bar, couple of cheese biscuits (although I'm suspicious as the cat likes these and was following Ben round while he had them)
L - Few dips of bread in tomato soup, couple of blueberries, just not interested
S - Few raisins - definitely fed most of them to the cat this time
D - Cheesy mash (most of), pork and mushroom casserole (I think he may have licked a bit of pork), peas (LOTS of), couple of carrots, Yoghurt
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Hi!
Shiv - yes hes doing well at the mo. I'm sure my DH watched football with his Dad while his mum looked after Bram, just as you said!!
Today was good too although he seems to HATE his highchair at the moment!!
B - dried cherries and strawberries, apple porridge, banana pieces
S - breadsticks and raisins
L - homemade Grandma's shepherds Pie with peas and sweetcorn, apple pieces and 1 of mummy's biscuits
S - dark chocolate rice cake
D - peanut butter on toast, strips of Leerdammer cheese, pot of fruit puree and pot of fromage frais
S - weetabix and warm milk
DS tends to have his big meal at lunch as this is what happens at Nursery.
Is it normal at his age to have an absolute fit in his highchair because he wants to get out? Lately he seems to be quite short tempered generally frustrated about things!
Nell xxx
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Max did do much better Siobhan, thanks have been so busy getting older kiddies school stuff ready (yay)
yesterday:
B:2 teddy bear shaped toast with honey
S: 2 bananas
L: airoplane and puppy shaped sandwhich
S: yoghurt and some fruit salad
D: huge bowl of spaghetti bolognaise, iceblock after dinner
today:
B: ricebubbles with milk and teddy bear toast with honey
S: a few dried apricots
L: leftover bowl of spaghetti and half a toasted cheese croisant
he's napping now but i'm cooking corn beef in the slow cooker and he loves that with lots of veggies, so i'm sure he will eat it all!
So doing much better but we are going away in about 4 weeks and I hate going away cos i feel like i neglect his good eating habbits as we are on the go all the time. need ideas on how to keep his good eating up while on the run........
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Really glad Max is back on track! How long you going away for Bek? Its hard when you are away. Will you be eating out a lot? The last time we were away Maeve really surprised me by what she would eat in restaurants. I normally just order sausages or nuggets but last time I got her soup and bread and pasta etc and she ate great. Is he hard to get back on track when you get back? If not, try not to let it bother you and enjoy your time away xx
Today:
B: Toast, babybel (didn't really eat)
S: (At gym) toast
L: Crackers, cheese cubes, yogurts
S: Humzinger fruit sticks (Thanks Liz, BIG hit!! I can't believe one of them is a portion of fruit for the day!)
D: Will be lasagne and garlic bread
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DD did eh with out lasgna. I ended up giving her a fruit cup and yogurt as a snack to "top her up" later on (we had dinner rather early)
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We are away for 3 days and yeah i'm guessing we will be eating out alot as we are away for a wedding and some time with my parents :) i'm really looking forward to being away just not Max's eating habbits on the run! Its so hard to make sure they eat right when your away! I'll try my hardest but then i stress myself out! haha
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If its only three days I wouldn't worry a bit! Am sure he'll be grand x
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I can relate- I always worry about eating when we travel- I usually run into the nearest grocer's for fruit and healthier snacks...
Today Nick ate:
B: bowl of raisin bran, banana, juice, hot cocoa
S: oat and fruit bar, milk
L: chicken salad sandwich, mixed veggies-broccoli, peppers, zukes, milk, grapes
S: raisins, peanut butter
D: noodles, chicken sausage, sauekraut, green beans, rice, and juice
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Chandler's still eating like a champ. Tonight for dinner she had:
A brown rice/quinoa pilaf with green peas, fish nuggets and ketchup, banana
She ate every bite.
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Was a daycare day, so I only know that supper was ribs, corn, slice of bread, & soy milk...
Sunday, though was good -
B - cheerios, soy milk
S - rice krispies cake
L - olives, peaches, bologna, toast, soy milk
S - AshleyB's Peach Quinoa recipe I saw on another thread...she let me FEED IT TO HER!!! This is a kid who has not let me spoon food in her mouth for about 10 months...I snuck a bit too, it was delicious!
D - ham, noodles, carrots soy milk
tomorrow is daycare too...I know she eats good there, DH just never pays attention to what it is she has eaten!
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B-yogurt with blueberries, half a bagel with jam
S-yogurt tube, 1/4 peanut butter and jam sandwich
L-soup, crackers
S-carrots, broccoli
D-crackers, olives, carrots, broccoli, all dipped in ketchup, and chicken casserole with noodles
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Nursery day -
b - apple and raisin porridge, half a banana, water
s - oatcakes and milk
l - mushroom fricassee, millet, peas and sweetcorn, wholewheat sponge cake and custard, water
no snack
tea - jam sandwiches, apple pieces, grapes, juice
supper - weetabix and warm milk
Nell xxx
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Hi ladies - not been around for a while . . . some of you will know that I've had to deal with some other stuff :(
Have been popping on to see what the little folk have been eating - and they're doing well ;D
Cathie, I do have to say that I'm amazed at what your little man puts away - he seems to eat anything and everything! (That's a compliment BTW ;)) I think Alice does quite well with amounts and variety - but Nick puts her to shame LOL.
Anyway - here's what A has eaten today
At home:
B: Porridge with raisins, asked for satsuma but played with it rather than ate it ::), diluted OJ
At CM:
S: raisins and milk
L: chicken, mash, carrots, broccoli, yorkshire pudding, gravy, yoghurt and milk
S: chocolate bun and milk
S: banana and milk
At home:
D: home-made cabbage and bean soup, slice of toast, blueberries, water, few mini raisin biscuits, milk
Also found humzinger bars in Sainsburys today (thanks for recommendation - Liz?). Just wondered if there are different varieties - thought they were 'cereal' bars but the ones I got were more or less pure fruit (which isn't a bad thing at all ;)) but was just expecting some oaty / cereal type of snack.
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LOL Berni! He IS a good eater- it's truly a spirited trait, yes? Your Alice has an excellent variety of foods she'll eat too!
WHat is Yorkshire Pudding? I've always wondered!
Today Nick ate:
B: apple oatmeal, banana, milk
S:hot cocoa
L:chicken and cheese sandwich, strawberries, mixed veggies, milk
S:granola bar and juice
D: at the hospital with me and DH- ground meat/tomato/taco casserole thingee, rice, honeydew melon, grapes, milk, bite of turkey.
bedtime S: asked for a banana and milk.
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Little dude is surprising me today! I think he might be having a growth spurt of sorts, he spent so much of yesterday grumping, then going straight to the pantry.
Amazingly he ate a whole large jar of organic mango and rice pudding! We went to the supermarket and they had samples of watermelon and babybel cheeses and he ate both! Watermelon can be hit and miss and he's refused babybels in the past. Needless to say I was so chuffed I bought some of each!
he's eating so many new foods the last 2 days it's amazing, he tried then ate fetta cheese and olive, he tried carrot again but didn't eat. So chuffed! He also ate fried egg (we usually have it scrambled and he's not big on changes to his eating).
B weetbix, weetbix bites, milk with added formula
S jar of mango and rice pudding, 1/2 banana
S freddo frog, watermelon and babybel cheese
L fetta cheese, baked beans, toast
S will be babybel cheese, popcorn, grapes.
D whatever falls out of the pantry and hits me :P
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WOOHOO! Great that he's finding so many new foods! awesome day, eh?
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B-raisin toast and jam, blueberries
s-fruit bar, 4 whole wheat crackers
L-full bowl chili, carrots, broccoli
s-2 whole wheat crackers, juice
D- NOTHING!!! :o
2 cups of milk
last 2 days she has flatly refused dinner despite me really trying to make something she likes.
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I think I need to make a sheet for DH to fill out so I know what DD is eating each day. Otherwise I have to make him try to recall everything to give me a run down each night.
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Haven't posted in ages because it's been a lot of same-same here! :(
But, we did get him to eat a bowl of tomato soup the other day and he really liked it so I was thrilled with that, and we had pasta with tuna and pesto the other night and he ate that as well- he likes the pesto but won't even look at fish, so getting the tuna into him was HUGE for me!
He's so anti-new things that today when I tried to give him a spoonful of honey for his cough he wouldn't touch it...until I told him it was chocolate, and then he stopped dead in his tracks and beelined it right back to me with his mouth hanging open. ::) A bit cruel I suppose but he was pleasantly surprised with the honey, and at least now when he asks for chocolate I can pass it off with letting him stick his finger in the honey jar ;D
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B - grapes, weetabix and milk, half a cinnamon raisin bagel, water
S - organix blackcurrant bar, water
L -(at soft play centre) Peanut butter sandwich, organic cheese and herb puffs, tangerine pieces, grapes, half a cherry bakewell tart, water
No snack
D - beef lasagne, grapes, (big grape day!) raspberry yoghurt, water
Supper - weetabix and warm milk and some carrots from our dinner!
He also has a morning bottle and a bedtime bottle every day but I always forget to write that.
N xxx
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Could one of the mum's in the US tell me what tater tots are and a fruit cup ( unless its just a cup filled with fruit?!) please?
Thanks,
Nell xxx
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i'm in canada...but tater tots are a convenience food - like french fries that come frozen...they are bites of potato breaded, different shape than french fries or chips as you probably call them in britain. fruit cup is a cup of cut up fruit but also a convenience item that you would buy premade and doesn't need to be refridgerated.
what are weetabix? is it a cereal? my lo won't do cereal and milk...breakfast would be much more convenient if she would!
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yes, and what is yorkshire pudding???
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ummm, if it's the same thing my Mom makes with roast beef, then this is it...yummy!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_pudding
Have no idea on Spencer's menu the last few days...daycare, but for supper the other night she devoured a packaged mix of a cajun style rice and beans...odd because won't eat rice or beans separately and it was too spicy for me to eat! She ste her portion and mine too!
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yes, and what is yorkshire pudding???
Sorry I didn't get on sooner ;)
It is the same thing as Heidi thinks it is - Roast Beef and Yorskhire Pudding is the 'traditional dish' as it were, but we tend to have it with most roast dinners. It's basically pancake batter that you bake in the oven - I totally LOVE it but then I'm a Yorkshire Lass so am biased LOL.
We sometimes had it as a pudding as kids - my gran used to make a HUGE one in a baking tray (rather than individual muffin tray ones) and we'd have a big piece with jam, or some type of conserve (lemon or orange curd, etc).
You can also turn it into 'toad in the hole' - bake it in a tray with sausages in the batter - also very yummy ;D
what are weetabix? is it a cereal? my lo won't do cereal and milk...breakfast would be much more convenient if she would!
yes it is a cereal - I thought you could get weetabix everywhere but with a different brand name maybe? Adding a visual for you HTH :)
the 'biscuits' tend to go mushy when you put milk on them, iykwim?
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Ug - we're having a rough week eating wise. Have teething (1st molar has been on the way out for at least a month but seems to be nearly poking through now) and a cold to contend with but even so there have been a large number of things that he normally loves that he is point blank refusing now!
So today so far...
B - flesh from a plum chewed up, spat out and thrown on the floor, Readybrek (fed him), 1/4 slice of toast and jam that joined the plum on the floor.
Then he whined all the way round the supermarket because he wanted a snack so had a few yoghurt coated raisins.
L - pasta with tomato, salami and courgette (he did eat this but it's probably his fav dinner - we're at mum's tonight so he will prob not eat very much there hence dinner at lunch today)
S - will be whatever I can get him to eat!
D - no idea!
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So far today:
B-waffle and juice
S-2 or 3 crackers, raisins, yogurt, fruit cup (at varying times)
L-Butternut squash casserole (like a mac n' cheese mixed with the squash and baked)
S-found cookies in her diaper bag!
D-Not sure but I'd better think of something good b/c she seems to be in an eating mood.
:)
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Yesterday at soft play DS was whiney and hot and last night he woke 3 times which is very unusal so didn't have high hope sfor today food wise! However....
B - grapes and banana pieces, apple and raisin porridge,1 sausage, water
No snack and early lunch as went swimming
L - veggie lasagne, grapes, a jammie dodger biscuit, water
S- at swimming - organix blackcurrant bar, bread sticks, water
D - Homemade soup (onion,garlic,carrot, mushroom,lentils and spices), few dry cheerios, pieces of apple, half a slice of fruit loaf, water
Supper - weetabix and warm milk
Thanks for replying to my questions about tater tots and fruit cups!
As for weetabix - its a staple here! Always for supper and most of the time breakfast too!
Hugs,
Nell xxx
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I haven't seen anything like weetabix over in the US.
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No, when I moved to the UK everyone was pretty shocked that I didn't know what it was! The closest thing that we would really have is large shredded wheat - probably the same thing content wise but weetabix is even more "shredded" and goes soggy really fast!
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today. :-[. i'm at my folks so lots of special treats for DS from others.
B: 2 weetabix with milk, greek yoghurt (honey), 1 pear. then 2 skorpor (Swedish rusk thingys)... and half a pot of greek yoghurt... and a few mouthfuls of my hot cross bun
L: nothing. funny that, given the breakfast grazing and treats
Snack: 1 little box of raisins. 1 massive tea cake and several mouthfuls of carrot and orange cake stolen from my plate while i went to get a fork (Godmother's treat)
Supper: 5 apricots and a banana. there was real food on offer but just painted with it.
{creeps off hanging head in shame. today was a good day}
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thanks for the explanation...sounds a bit like shredded wheat i guess.
B-peaches, yogurt
s-fruit bar, OJ, bite of brownie
L-1/2 turkey sandwich, carrots, broccoli
s-?
D-will be leftover chicken and pasta with cheese and veg, she loved it yesterday and ate a whole plate full (covered in ketchup of course).
never heard of skorpor...are they like a swedish cracker?
love hearing about different food ideas on this thread!
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DD solved the dinner dilemma for me. She found a spaghetti rings toddler meal in her diaper bag. (after she ate those cookies AND found a bag of cheese puffs which I gave her) She also found a fruit cup but I drew the line. So she had those spaghetti things for dinner and a cup of milk.
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Kroger, which is a chain grocery store in the south, sells Weetabix on the cereal aisle. A bit pricey too. At least it does where I live. I just happened to notice one day.
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I just googled weetabix and found the USA website. They DO sell them here but only in a small number of stores. I put in my zip and there are a couple of stores not too far away but I don't know exactly where they are and if they'd carry other things I'd want to make it worth a trip.
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TBH, weetbix/weetabix is an acquired taste - you either love it or hate it. I absolutely can't stand the way it goes all mushy but DH and DS1 love it.
Mashi, funny what LOs think is chocolate! DS2 walks aroudn with one of his brother's lollipops and calls it chocolate. He even sits i nthe stroller with it (still covered) in his hand. He's never tasted either and long may it stay that way!
We went to a birthday party for DS1 today so there was lots of whining for treats that he couldn't eat because of his MSPI. He used to be OK with substitutes from home but now he's wised up. Next time he will stay at home while either I or DH take his brother.
Breakfast: Toast and boiled egg, MSPI egg nog
Morning tea: Some of my scrambled egg, bacon, pineapple
Lunch: whined for pizza, cake and lollies at the party, refused his cevapcici and ham and veggie muffin (poked his finger in it, tore it to bits and threw it on the ground), ate dried fruit, melon, popcorn and currant cupcake (brought from home)
Dinner: sliced steak, potato slices (first time ever! Yummy, he said), threw his sweet potato and cucumber on the floor. MSPI eggnog.
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Cathie - is that 'true' about spirited LOs being into everything - including their variety of foods? A does okay food-wise but she's definitely not in Nick's league ;) but then she was a touchy / textbook baby rather than spirited - which reminds me, keep meaning to do the toddler quiz.
Yesterday A did okay - not great cos she was burning up, she woke up with rosy cheeks and was very warm to touch - have never known her have such a fever. Got worse during the day - all she did was sit on the sofa with DH and/or I pretty much all day - called the out of hours doctor's line (as it was Saturday) and they gave us advice over the phone (calpol, lots of fluids, etc) and this morning she's woken up back to her normal self - she has one hell of an immune system that girl LOL!!
So yesterday went like this:
B: 2 banana & pear home-made pancakes with honey, juice
S: fruit humzinger bar, water
L: offered her soup and toast - she ate some toast, water
S: cheese flapjack, water
D: she wanted cheese - so DH made her some 'pizza toast' (tomato puree and cheese on toast), she also had some sausage from a sausage roll (pulled off the pastry ::)), bit of apple muller rice, pear, hot blackcurrant juice
2 small shortcake stars, hot chocolate
Not bad for a sick day I suppose
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WOW- even Nick doesn't eat like that when sick! I'm glad she's feeling better today, and I daresay her healthy diet helps with her immune system.
You and I must enjoy a psychic bond- we had pear pancakes this AM! LOL
Yesterday Nick ate:
B: shrededed wheat with milk, juice, banana
L:mac and cheese, brussels sprouts, chocolate donut hole, milk
D:cheeseburger with extra pickles, milk, apple slices, apple pie (McDonalds- as we were out on a family date and suddenly realized it was 6:30PM and poor Nick was saying, "I'm really hungry")
S: banana and water at 9PM!!!
Kid pooped 3 times yesterday and was a bit fussy. ATM he's pretending to puke in the potty- LOL.
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so DH made her some 'pizza toast' (tomato puree and cheese on toast)
Hahaha. I've totally made this for DD! Mmmmmmmm
Cathie-Ava pooped 3 times yesterday as well and short napped as a result of one of them. Sheesh.
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Hahaha. I've totally made this for DD! Mmmmmmmm
It's one of DH's signature dishes LOL - very tasty though ;D
Alice is better temp-wise today, and much more like herself . . . however she's sleeping even more than ever (3 1/2 hr naps yesterday and today - had to be woken from them :o) - and she's not eaten a great deal, tho not bad either.
You and I must enjoy a psychic bond- we had pear pancakes this AM! LOL
Indeed we must - we had them today too :-*
B: 2 banana & pear pancakes with honey, pear, hot blackcurrant juice
S: home-made cheesy flapjack, water
L: baked beans & mushrooms, topped with grated cheese on toast, water - ate about half but NOT the mushrooms ::)
S: fruit humzinger bar, water
D: baked omlette (with carrots, potatoes, mushrooms, tomatoes) topped with grated cheese - picked the cheese off, left the rest ::), hot blackcurrant juice
DH told her that she couldn't have any treats after dinner (ie biscuits, yoghurt, etc) if she didn't eat any of her main - she seemed ok with that - am still not sure which way to go with that . . .
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She's definitely eating well despite her illness Berni!! Do you think it is a growth spurt? Eating well and sleeping LOADS are sure signs of it here!
Not too too bad today....
Br: French toast!!!!!!!!! He has refused this and anything with egg for months so I was thrilled!!! Going to add it to brekkie rotation and keep getting the eggs into him!
Sn: homemade oatmeal muffin. ate it like a dog while watching a Barney DVD about dogs ::) vanilla soy milk
Lunch: some sliced deli turkey and toast with cream cheese, some of DH's crisps and a bit of juice
Sn: zweiback biscuit and some water
Din: few bites of sausage risotto but did not like it at all, 3 helpings of baked beans (hoping tomorrow's poop is before DH leaves for work!!), toast, a full kiwi dipped in cherry yogurt and 2 licks of a dishwasher tablet that he's been desperate to get into his mouth for a week.
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2 licks of a dishwasher tablet that he's been desperate to get into his mouth for a week.
lol!!
Just checking out this thread for the first time and this is what I come across. Too funny.
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Chandler is now past her two-week eating bonanza. Now she's only eating a few bites at each meal and pulling the old trick of refusing food before she tastes it. Then she asks for a cereal bar or a "chocolate cookie" an hour later. We bought her some whole grain granola cookies with dark chocolate chunks in them to give her when she's really asking for Oreos. Mean, I know.
Yesterday:
B: a couple of bites of pancakes, a couple of bites of bacon (unthinkable!)
S: at the zoo--cereal bar and goldfish crackers
L: refused cheeseburger and sweet potato fries (again, unthinkable)
S: (really lunch) macaroni and cheese with green peas
S: tropical fruit cup
D: Cheerios with milk due to a dinner mishap and raspberries
Today so far (home for a snow day)
B: half of a half of a whole grain English muffin with strawberry spread, half of a veggie sausage, refused orange slices, milk
S: raspberries and brownie(if she ever refused this I would take her to the hospital straight away), water
L: A few bites of Annie's organic box lasagna thingy (last night's dinner) and green beans, milk
S: probably more brownie and fruit
D: red beans and rice with chicken andouille sausage in honor of The Saints' win!
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Well today was interesting!!
After several days of refusing/throwing/eating like a sparrow today was -
B - huge bowl of readybrek, 1/2 a plum, few bites of my toast
No S early L
L - insides of a jacket potato with tuna and sweetcorn mayo, 1/2 slice of raisin bread
D - wait for it... (this was over the course of about 2 hours eating in restaurant with ILs)
3/4 pack of organix corn snacks
2 Olives (never tried before)
Insides of bread roll
Some of my cheese and bacon potato skins
About half of a pasta bolognese children's meal from the menu
Begged for some of my haddock
Yoghurt coated raisins
Some ice cream from DHs pud :o :o :o :o :o
Unsurprisingly we had a very VERY dirty nappy before he went to bed!!
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I forgot--I've gotten banana Wheetabix at Wild Oats Market in the states. It was pretty good. It would be good cereal for a baby.
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She's definitely eating well despite her illness Berni!! Do you think it is a growth spurt? Eating well and sleeping LOADS are sure signs of it here!
GS hadn't crossed my mind - as she isn't actually eating as much as she usually does. Also, although she's sleeping more in terms of time - she's having broken sleep due to mammoth coughing sessions :( She didn't eat much at all yesterday and last night was her worst night of sleep yet - she's got HUGE ulcers in her mouth (again :'( - which is probably why she's not eating) - I ended up sleeping on the floor next to her cot last night (which I've NEVER done before :o) as I'd had to get up so many times to reassure her - DH is taking her to docs today . . .
So yesterday was:
B: porridge and raisins (didn't eat all), warm blackcurrant juice
S: fruit humzinger bar
L: spinach and gnocchi bake - DH said she had a meltdown when she saw it so offered her some cheese on toast - she ate a couple of bites and a pear
S: few of DH's wheat crunchies
D (out): couple of bites of garlic bread, couple of bites of macaroni cheese, juice
At Home: mini mullerice, 2 mini shortbread stars, bit of hot chocolate
2 licks of a dishwasher tablet that he's been desperate to get into his mouth for a week.
PMSL Mashi - your LO is so funny (and super-cute in the most recent avatar :-*)
Squeakersmum - that was one hell of an impressive dinner ;D
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Berni- HUGE hugs for poor Alice!! I hope she gets sorted out soon! My heart goes out to you, I've done the sleep on the floor bit for Nick's worst breathing nights...get well vibes.
Squeakersmum- welcome to my world, girl! That is one crazy dinner! Great stuff!
Ashley- LOL about the brownie comment- that's how I KNOW Nick is feeling crummy- he'll refuse chocolate.
and LOL Mashi about the dishwasher tablet incident.
Let's see if I can conjure up yesterday's meals:
Nick ate:
B- raisin english muffin with peanut butter (made it by himself with supervision with toaster/knife), cantaloupe chunks, milk
L-homemade chicken soup , carrots, blueberries, peanut butter/oat bar, milk
S- raisins, juice, grapes, an olive
D-pot roast with onions, carrots, celery, bread, milk, applesauce
Today so far:
B- scrambled eggs, Kix cereal with milk, grapes, banana, juice
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Can I join? :)
Seriously need some inspiration - ds has totally gone off his food (I'm guessing/hoping teeth as he cuurently only has one :P) and I am at a loss as to what to give him as he's turning his nose up at almost everything. So far today he's eaten like a bird....usually eats like a horse!!
B - about 6 bitesize weetabix, few cheerios, few sugar free wheat puffs and milk. Threw loads.
S - couple of breadsticks
L - couple of mouthfuls of tuna and pineapple from a pitta bread 'pizza' (I obligingly finished off the rest!), few blueberrries
S - homemade maltloaf and now asking for more ::)
xx
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Ya, the dishwasher tablet is getting to be a bit of a game for him now. After the first night, he's tried it every time he helps me with the dishwasher. Tonight he even pointed to the tablet, pointed into his mouth and then shook his head no. I asked if it was ok to put it in his mouth, he shook his head no. I asked where it went, and he pointed in the soap dispenser. I handed it to him, and in one superhero swipe, yanked his dummy out of his mouth, gave the tablet a lick, threw it and ran away.
Sigh.
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That made me laugh out loud :D!! Oh, gosh, whenever I read your posts it's like looking a couple of months down the line - I can so see Ben doing exactly the same thing ::) :P.
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Mashi, I can't believe how much they love to defy us already!
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That made me laugh out loud
Me too ;D
Sorry Mashi ;) It's probably not that funny for you me dear . . . but you do make it sound hilarious, he's a cheeky wee man that's for sure!
Cathie - thanks for the hugs honey :-* Turns out A's got a chest infection :'( Nights are the hardest as the coughing is at it's worst - tho last night was an improvement and I did manage to sleep in my bed and only had to get up to her a couple of times - she whimpers my name, it's so sad.
Ashley - don't know how I missed the brownie comment the first time - but I went back to read it, LOL. At the moment I don't really think A knows what chocolate is (mean Mummy!) but if she refused cheese (or biscuits maybe) then I would be really worried - totally obsessed by cheese just now!
Yesterday:
B: shreddie and muesli mix - few mouthfuls, milk
S: None - DH took her to Docs and it was time for lunch when he got back
L: 2 slices of 'pizza toast' (minus the crusts ::)), blueberries, juice - quite a good lunch
S: humzinger fruit bar
D: home-made roast dinner leftover pie with root veg mash (carrot, parsnip, swede/rutabaga) with gravy - needn't have bothered offering it as I think if I said she had a teaspoonful I would be exaggerating :P, she did eat a little fromage frais and a pear, then her usual after dinner biscuits (2 shortbread stars) with a bit of hot chocolate
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Sorry Mashi Wink It's probably not that funny for you me dear . . . but you do make it sound hilarious, he's a cheeky wee man that's for sure!
Well I do admit that the most frequently muttered sentence in this home is "Oh you little....!!" but he does make us laugh, even some of his naughties make me have to turn my back and stuff my fist in my mouth to keep from laughing!
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Mashi - it's a good job you have such a great sense of humour :-*
Okay - today was a okay food-wise, right up until dinner.
B: porridge, couple of bites of my jam on toast, pear, juice
S: humzinger fruit bar
L: home-made cabbage & bean soup, slice of toast, blueberries
S: organix cereal bar
D: gave her the roast dinner leftover pie & root mash again - she had a few mouthfuls. DH wouldn't let her have anything else . . .
I really struggle with the after dinner treat thing - have mentioned it before, I know. Part of me thinks that if A isn't hungry enough to eat her dinner then she's not hungry enough for biscuits, etc. And the other part of me thinks that food shouldn't be seen as a reward - and we shouldn't encourage our children to overeat iykwim. Just wish I knew what was right :-\
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Nursery Day today...
B - weetabix and milk, grapes, toasted fruit loaf
S - Corn cracker and milk
L - vegetable and chickpea casserole, rice, millet cake with jam topping, water
No Snack
D - vegetable pate sandwiches, banana pieces, water
Supper - Weetabix and warm milk, biscuit
DS has a cold and is teething but strangely he is eating and sleeping really well. Think he may be having a GS too!
Nell xxx
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I really struggle with the after dinner treat thing - have mentioned it before, I know. Part of me thinks that if A isn't hungry enough to eat her dinner then she's not hungry enough for biscuits, etc. And the other part of me thinks that food shouldn't be seen as a reward - and we shouldn't encourage our children to overeat iykwim. Just wish I knew what was right Undecided
as a family we don't usually have dessert. but sometimes dd1 will ask for cookies after dinner and if she hasn't eaten any dinner or only a few mouthfuls then i tell her no. i agree - if she's not hungry enough for dinner then she's not getting a treat instead of veggies. so i will tell her how much i need her to eat (usually 3 more bites or something like that) and if she does then she gets her cookies and if she doesn't then she doesn't get a cookie. so far she's been fine with this. no tantrums when we say no about this.
B- 2 bowls of applesauce, banana
s-banana bread
L-baked beans. carrots, broccoli
s-fruit bar, animal crackers
D- 2 bites of baked beans, 1/2 PB&J sandwich
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Thanks for your input Brenda - I really struggle with what's right and wrong on this . . . think I've heard or read so many differing opinions that I'm not sure what's 'right'.
Think A is definitely on the mend - she had a great night of sleep last night and has eaten quite well today too. I left her with my Mum for the morning while I was at work so she had snack and lunch there
B: porridge with raisins, few strawberries
S: organix cereal bar
L: scrambled egg and half a slice of toast, 2 satsumas, water
S: fruit humzinger bar
D: home-made quiche (with cheese & tomato), half a jacket potato with cheese, few strawberries with fromage frais, few little raisin biscuits and hot blackcurrant juice.
Just realised when I typed what she'd had - think she may well have overdosed on cheese and eggs today LOL!
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Not a bad day, apart from he's still throwing lots - keeps putting food in his mouth and then starting to chew, pulls a face and then takes the food out of his mouth and chucks it on the floor ::)...think it must be his teeth as his nappies are *really* horrid at the mo..sorry tmi
so yesterday,
Breakfast - mini weetabix with some rasberries and yoghurt, couple of little chunks of cheese
snack - piece of raisin bread, breadstick
lunch - cheese and fruit pickle sandwich, half a banana, some milk
snack - pear, three tiny children's bicuits, cup of milk
dinner - pasta with white fish in a white sauce, peas and sweetcorn, yoghurt with some tinned prunes
today started off ok with breakfast of eggy bread (french toast?!), and a tinned pear. Lunch will be leftovers from dinner - so pasta and fish in sauce. Dinner will be homemade pizza with tuna, pineapple and mushrooms.
xx
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Jacob's eating is pretty much rock bottom again due to teething. They get so many flippin' teeth at this age don't they? I'm thinking I will let these canines come in and then tackle the issue properly - so will be asking you all for a 'game plan' in a few weeks. Top 2 have cut and are descending, and bottom 2 still to cut through.
Sigh - they are pretty rough though :(.
Yesterday J ate
Breakfast - shreddies, bit of tea cake
S - few mini cheddar biscuits, humzinger bar, found a packet of finished childrens biscuits in my bag and ate all the crumbs out of it
S - 2 slices of cheese, 2 bites of banana, few raisins
L - wouldn't even consider trying (was a bit of spaghetti bolognase and pasta, and breadstick)
S - few little chocolates as he found his unfinshed advent calender in the cupboard ::)
D - potato wedges, half a fish finger, fromage frais and a small bit of fruit cake
So essentially he is snacking and not eating meals properly again. But I don't feel it is fair to force too much structure when he is teething as I don't really know how much they hurt iyswim?
Bernie - I always offer something for dessert regardless of what he ate so that food isn't a reward for doing something right. That is why I am always trying to think of things that have *some* nutritional value ::). Lunch I tend to do fruit and dinner I tend to do homemade cake or fromage frais. I tend to do the yoghurt if it has been a rubbish meal rather than any cake iyswim?
NO idea if I am doing it all wrong though. TBH I am often desperate for him to eat something :(.
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Thanks Liz - problem with Alice is that she always wants fruit AND yoghurt AND a biscuit LOL.
Having said that - today she has eaten much better but it must be one of the only days I can remember her NOT having any fruit :o (unless raisins count as a dried fruit?)
At home:
B: porridge with raisins, refused strawberries, milk
At CM:
S: raisins and milk
L: spag bol, cheesy garlic bread, water, yoghurt
S: cookies and milk
At home:
D: chicken and leek casserole with rice, 2 small fromage frais, refused strawberries (again ::)), few mini raisin biscuits, hot chocolate
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Mashi-He is too funny. Ava keeps wanting to eat her playdough. She SAYS no eat, but if I turn my back......dun dun dun...right into the mouth.
Let me see if I can even remember wednesday:
B-Scrambled eggs with mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, and cheese / milk (didn't eat too much)
S-?
L-peanut butter and jelly I think. Did okay...maybe about 2/3 of the sandwich with no crusts / juice
S-?
D-Pasta w/ meatballs and sauce (later some bites of a concoction--see below)
Yesterday:
B-Pancakes with raisins / milk
S-pretzel chips / juice
L-Leftover rice, sausage, mushroom, onion tomato sauce thing I concocted / water
S-? (at some point she helped herself to raisins by climbing onto a chair and getting the container where mommy had left it on the counter. Can't remember if it was this snack time or earlier)
D-Pizza toast / milk
Today:
B-Scrambled eggs / milk
S-?
L-DH gave peanut butter and jelly...wasn't interested...instead gave peaches / juice
S-crackers / milk
D-pizza night / milk
Something like that anyway. She's been taking a few bites only and wanting to get down again.
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Today's been okay . . .
B: 2 x home-made strawberry pancakes with fromage frais and honey, milk
S: (in supermarket!) cheese twist from in-store bakery, couple of chunks of cheese from deli-samples
L: baked beans - left the toast (prob cos the cheese twist was HUGE!), juice
S: apple crisps, juice
D: on the plate was: 2 x fish fingers, mash potato, carrots, broccoli and cauliflower - DD ate 1 fish finger, tiny bite of broccoli and tiny bite of mash then signed 'finished' ::), signed for a banana, signed 'share' to me so had a bite of my savoury flapjack (cheese & courgette - DD I made them today), signed for yoghurt so had 1 x fromage frais, milk
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We have had a few days of bad eating due to a sore throat, now he's better so he's makign up for it!
Breakfast 1: Fried eggs and toast, MSPI egg nog
Breakfast 2: (some of mine) scrambled eggs, banana
Snack: watermelon, pineapple
Lunch: Leftover Rice and chicken satay from last night, fruit puree pack
Snack: none. Left him with DH while I took DS1 to a party. Big mistake!
Dinner: Pan fried calamari, broccoli, beans and fried potatoes. was absolutely feral. Ate his calamari, most of DH's (I think he learnt his lesson!) and pinched more calamari off his brother's plate. Cried when it ran out. MSPI egg nog.
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Not really any point in posting what Ben has eaten over the past few days as we seem to be having the same problem as lots of you and if it's not a cold then it's teeth!
For breakfast he had 3 grapes, chewed them up and threw them on the floor. Had 5 spoonfuls of readybrek with plum puree in and then refused any more.
He found some Organix cheese and herb puffs in his changing bag (about the only thing he'll eat and enjoy ATM) about an hour ago and ate those.
I have no idea what else I'll tempt him with today!
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Still got a cold here and a VERY runny nose!
B - Weetabix, half a banana, toast and jam, warm juice
S - breadsticks, marmite ricecake
L - Pasta bolognaise, yogurt, malt loaf, apple pieces, water
No snack
D - 2 veggies sausages, peas,sweetcorn, toast, apple pieces, water
Supper - weetabix and warm milk, water
My DS loves warm drinks and I was wondering if I could give him a weak fruit tea if it is caffeine and chemical free? Is this ok do you think? He likes blackcurrant tea.
Nell xxx
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Rest of the day was just as good
L - 2 pieces of cheese - 1 of which ended on the floor, about 1/4 slice of ham, a couple of soldiers of bread with jam on.
S - 1 bite (seriously) of a Humzinger bar
D - tried to give jacket potato and ratatouille, he had about 5/6 spoonfuls happily - started coughing violently and threw it up. Thus refusing any more. Gave him some rice pudding so that he had at least some carbs! - had a few spoonfuls but wasn't really interested.
Poor thing.
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Yesterday A had
B: 2 strawberry pancakes with fromage frais and honey, asked for a banana (shared it with DH and I), watered down OJ
S: none - we were out and had early lunch
L: mixed olives with sourdough bread, shared pizzas with DH and I (one with smoked ham and olives, one with spinach, mozzarella and mushrooms), water
S: organix cereal bar, flavoured water
D: chicken provencal with boiled pots in skins, (ate a couple of pots, couple of bites of chicken, picked out and ate ALL the olives!), fromage frais, asked for a banana and did the same with it as she did at breakfast - broke it in to 3 pieces and gave 1 each to DH and I, kept the small one for herself!
Gingerbread heart biscuit and hot chocolate
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Yesterday wasn't bad:
B: Fruit loops (DH gave as a treat after she slipped on our bed and landed on the corner of one of our night stands--bruise and cut right under her eye ick) and milk
S: mandarin oranges and crackers
L: chicken nuggets
S: dried strawberries, some crab meat, and juice
S: "funfetti" MIL's neighbor mixed all the last of her cerals together and DD was in LOVE (of course, it had cocoa puffs, apple jacks, kix, honey grahams, etc.) and she gave her a cup of milk which DD downed so was given another--this time with chocolate ovaltine added!
D: pork loin, penne pasta, and peas and juice
Today not so much:
B: 1/2 slice of toast and milk
S: oranges
L: 1/2 granola bar
S: oranges
D: few bites of chicken and about two small bites of mashed potatoes...then was spitting out chicken. I convinced her to take a few more bites with ketchup. She asked for a granola bar to which I said no to until she ate more chicken. She had a few more bites but then tried climbing out of her chair...while still whining for a granola bar. We had the "you can have the granola bar IF you sit in your chair" battle. She said NO, I put her on the ground..no more food...she wanted food, I offered the food if she sat in the chair, etc. etc. The last time she said YES and sat and ate it.
DH said she did NOT want to eat today and that's all he could get into her. Oh well.
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Hmm. Can I remember what my child ate today??
B: scrambled eggs, banana, milk, Kix cereal
L:whole wheat rotini with meat/mushroom tomato sauce and cheese, lima beans, carrots, broccoli, grapes, juice
S: grapes, baba ganoush + hummus on pitas
D: veggie burger, yams, veggie risotto, milk, applesauce, strawberry ice cream. (sort of cleaned out the fridge)
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Alice has eaten quite well the last couple of days . . .
Monday
B: porridge with raisin and fruit flakes, couple of bites of my jam and toast, diluted OJ
S: none - no good reason other than I forgot and she didn't ask until lunchtime!
L: put out lots of bits on her plate: cheese cubes, some turkey ham, cheese & courgette flapjack, crackers with hummous - she ate everything except the crackers (only a bite or two), but also wanted to share my hummous and red pepper sandwich so had a couple of bites of that too, blueberries
S: sesame snaps with yoghurt coating
D: spicy sausge & eggplant casserole with mash (ate most of it), banana & custard, biscuit and hot choc
Tuesday:
B (at home): porridge with raisins and fruit flakes, couple of bites of pear, diluted OJ
At CM:
S: banana, raisins, grapes, water
L: ham sandwiches, sausage roll, cheese cubes, yoghurt,water
S: pancakes with jam, milk
S: rice crispie bun, milk
D: (at home): home-made savoury pancakes stuffed with chicken provencal and rice (ate a decent amount - whatever that is LOL!), home-made banana & blueberry pancake with vanilla ice cream, water, biscuit and hot choc
Can you tell it was Pancake Day yesterday? ;)
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Wow I'd have liked Alice's food yesterday. YUM!!
Today Maeve ate:
B: Toast (without jam as she wanted to carry the jam over to the shelf and then shouted 'catch' and threw it at me while I was holding milk and butter so I didn't 'catch' and it smashed all over the floor!)
S: yogurts
L: Pizza -refused, said it was too hot and then just no. So had bread sticks and cheese and raisins and a smoothie
S: Bread and butter, some chocolate she found goodness knows where
D: Lentil and veg bake, fruit cup
And then weetabix before bed.
Not a great eating day at all.
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Wow I'd have liked Alice's food yesterday. YUM!!
It wasn't bad at all was it ;) We had the same dinner of pancakes followed by pancakes and have to admit I was quite pleased with myself as I'd made them ;D
B: Toast (without jam as she wanted to carry the jam over to the shelf and then shouted 'catch' and threw it at me while I was holding milk and butter so I didn't 'catch' and it smashed all over the floor!)
Sorry - but PMSL at your LO shouting catch to you with the jam!!!
Yesterday was a very poor eating day for Alice - esp after the last couple, she was obviously living off what she'd stored up the last couple of days . . .
OR it has something to do with PT which we're doing at the moment and am worried that it's stressing her out :-\ But that's something else I need to post about.
B: cereal medley (shreddies, mini-shredded wheat, fruit muesli) with milk, diluted OJ
S: none - we were at music group and had early lunch
L: cheese on toast - was going to give her some fruit / flapjack / whatever when we got home but A was having a meltdown (poss OT cos that's all I could think of!) so put her down for nap - and had to wake her nearly 3 hours later :o
S: none again - went to meet friends, offered her savoury flapjack on the way but she refused - think she was still annoyed at being woken up!
D: (at friends' house) savoury mince, mashed pots, broccoli - ate a few mouthfuls of each, soya yoghurt, water
Had another meltdown when we got home :P
S: "funfetti" MIL's neighbor mixed all the last of her cerals together and DD was in LOVE
Have never hear of 'funfetti' - but it's sounds just like what I like to call my 'cereal medley'. I LOVE cereal and can never decide which one I want so most days I put 2 or 3 in a bowl and have the lot - voila! Cereal Medly a la Berni - aka Funfetti in the States ;)
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Lucas has become quite the fussy eater so its hard to get things in him but yesterday wasnt too bad...well for him that is...
B-a big bowl of rice crispies and a pear
S-cup of pear juice and about 12 grapes
L-crackers and an apple with a cup of milk
S-1/2 tub of yogurt and a chocolate milkshake(this is a homemade version i make with eggs,milk and a little choco syrup...the only way i can get eggs into him)
S-peas,corn and broccoli and maybe 3 spoons of potato,cup of milk and a homemade oatmeal cookie
We always offer whatever meat we are having but he wont eat meat....he used to but now he refuses.Of course he will eat hog dogs but that doesnt count as meat lol.
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We're getting into a food rut here. Chandler seems to only want one of these meals. She's refusing any vegetable that isn't sweet, like a pea. I won't list all the vegetables that DIDN'T cross her lips. I'll just post the week's meal assortment:
Dinners:
Stouffer's mac and cheese with green peas; orange slices
Stouffer's spinach souffle with green peas; grapes
Teryaki tofu with brown rice and sugar snap peas; banana
uncured hot dog and sweet potato fries with ketchup; grapes
meat lasagna or ravioli and any fruit available for dessert
You can see the pattern: anything hot, savory, fattening, and salty with a token sweet-ish veg and fruit for dessert.
Lunches:
A general disaster all-round. Refuses almost everything we offer (usually veg burger or some kind of sandwich), then asks for a cereal bar, cheese, cookies, or crackers a few hours later when it's snack time. :::sigh:::
Breakfast:
Some kind of non-sugary cereal and fruit
Homemade pancakes and veggie sausage
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Hi, hope you dont mind if I join in here. DS is 18mo and this is what his usual day consists of - food wise -
cup of milk when he wakes up (sometimes drinks it, sometimes doesnt touch it!)
breakfast - rice crispies and milk or toast and fruit and water
snack (at nursery) - some sort of cereal or bagel and cream cheese or toast and fruit and water
lunch (at nursery) - always 2 courses, either starter (soup) and main (veggie lasagne, spag bol, fish pie etc) or main and pudding (yoghurt, fruit etc) and water
snack (at nursery) - crackers and cheese or toast or birthday cake if it one of the childrens birthdays and water
dinner - cheese sandwich or spagetti and toast or fishfingers and beans or leftovers from prev night and a yoghurt and sugar-free diluting juice.
cup of milk before bed which he nearly always drinks. :)
DS usually finishes everything that he is given and is very independant in wanting to feed himself always. He is getting very good at getting the spoon in his mouth before the food falls off :D
Just some advice needed - should ask nursery to offer him some milk during the day? im not sure if he is gettin enough?
Thanks, Kelly. xx
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Have never hear of 'funfetti' - but it's sounds just like what I like to call my 'cereal medley'. I LOVE cereal and can never decide which one I want so most days I put 2 or 3 in a bowl and have the lot - voila! Cereal Medly a la Berni - aka Funfetti in the States Wink
I had never heard of "funfetti" either! This lady just chose that name for it hehehe. Cereal medley is a good one as well :)
Ashley-We're in a food rut. At least Chandler is eating dinners. Ava just wants "ola gars" ie: granola bars. I have the fruit filled kind...but nothing organic/sugar free etc. Just the ones *I* would buy for myself so that's what she's eating. I'm sure they're not too healthy overall. Although better than some things.
Kelly-I think a lot of LOs at that age (same as DD) drop to about 2 cups a day...depending on the amount of oz. in the cups. Here is a link for ages and milk amounts..which says min. 12 oz and max of 20. and to discourage too much milk consumption b/c nutrients should be gotten primarily from food. http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=67569.0 It also mentions that the oz. include cheese/yogurt etc. I've also read that if your LO flat out refused any milk but had a well balanced diet at this point they would be fine but that b/c it's an easy/good source of calcium etc. that's why we encourage milk but it's not the end of the world if they don't like milk as there are other ways to get what you need with other foods. Hope that helps!
So far today we have had:
B-granola bar and diluted juice (out of milk!) hasn't been too hungry in the morning recently.
S-banana, cheese crackers--at the store
L-chicken nuggets w/ ketchup and milk
When she wakes up I will likely give her yogurt and maybe some crackers.
We will be out for dinner visiting so not sure what will be offered. I'll bring her milk.
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Well, I've been working all week again and DH was in charge, so I can guess that most days were junk!
So far today:
B- soy milk & cheerios
S- skipped, had early lunch
L- applesauce, banana, slice of bread dipped first in applesuace and then in ketchup! (Her new fav condiment)
Supper will be ribs and homemade fries!
I think I may have screwed her guts up though, I tempted fate and fed her some mac & cheese on thursday to see what would happen and that night she had a NW, she has had a snotty nose, red cheeks and a super EW this am (she has not had a NW or EW for anything other than food reactions since she was 7 months old!!!) I have cold though, so it could also be that she is coming down with one too...
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I had never heard of "funfetti" either! This lady just chose that name for it hehehe. Cereal medley is a good one as well :)
I thought 'funfetti' was a proper name LOL - glad that you approve of my not-so-creatively named cereal medley ;)
Today has been okay - though the cheese obsession continues LOL
B: 2 x home-made pancakes with banana & pear, diluted OJ
S: 'samples' at farmers market - bread with pesto, cheese, fruit cake
L: home-made cabbage & bean soup with fresh bread & selection of cheeses (cheddar, maasdam, smoked stilton!), small pot of peaches in juice
S: humzinger fruit bar, water
D: we had fish & chips with my folks - so A had a bit of fish, chips & mushy peas on her plate with ketchup, small pot of custard, water
At home: organic biscuit and hot chocolate
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We had a day worth posting ;D
B - shreddies, toast
S - bit of sausage sandwich at farmers market
L - cream cheese sandwich, humzinger bar
S - cherry cake ::)
D - potato wedges, bread, leek and potato soup, yoghurt and mango pieces
Milk before bed.
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I can't keep up - some days Ben wants to eat me out of house and home and others (most of them tbh) he eats like a bird!
Today -
B - Readybrek, about 1/2 a pear (breakthrough here as he has been refusing all fruit - even the revered blueberries!!)
S - malted milk biscuit in car, 2 cubes of cheese at market
L - in car - 1/2 pear, 3/4 pack corn snacks, yog coated raisins, rice cake, then at home had some more cubed cheese and sliced chicken
S - raisin and puffed rice cereal bar
D - sweet potato and lentil curry with carrots and peas, blueberry and apple jar pudding thing!
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I can't keep up - some days Ben wants to eat me out of house and home and others (most of them tbh) he eats like a bird!
I *think* most toddlers are the same - I reckon they build up a stash (like hamsters!) and then live off it for a couple of days - just gives us Mums something else to stress about LOL
Today has been another okay day:
B: boiled egg and toast, asked for pear - ate a bite or two and then signed finished ::), juice - refused milk
S: sesame snap
L: great-gran's home-made tomato soup with rice, half a cheese & hummus sandwich, couple of mouthfuls of pineapple rice pudding thing, water
S: pack of yoghurt coated fruit flakes
D: platter with hummus on crackers, various cheese cubes (as yesterday), olives, tomato and cucumber - ate ALL the cheese (of course ::)), most of the olives, bit of tomato, tiny bit of cucumber, scraped the hummus off the crackers, youghurt with 'grains', biscuit and hot choc
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Haven't posted for a few days - but this thread has been quiet . . . am keeping fingers & toes crossed it's NOT because all the LOs aren't eating and just because we (as very busy Mums) haven't had time to post ;)
Yesterday:
At home:
B: jam on toast, pear, diluted OJ
At my Mum's
S: pack of organix snack, slice of savoury flapjack (with cheese & courgette / zucchini), water
L: baked beans on toast, small pot of custard, water
At home:
S: pack of yoghurt coated fruit flakes, juice
D: few mouthfuls of sausage risotto, little yoghurt, satsuma, juice - hot chocolate and a biscuit
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HAven't posted for a while, been preoccupied.
B: boiled egg and toast, some of his brother's egg, MSPI eggnog
MT: strawberries, MSPI eggnog
L: leftover beef noodles (picked out and threw away all the zucchini), apple berry fruit puree, the filling from his Dad's beef and veg pasty
AT: watermelon
D: chicken wings (including some stolen from his brother's plate), broccoli, MSPI eggnog
Seems like if we want to get him to eat something we tell him it's his brothers!
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We've had a pretty rubbish week eating but to be honest its more than I am sick morning,noon and night and everything make me feel nauseous so poor Maeve hasn't had the greatest variety. Getting back on track though!
Today:
B: Toast with jam
S/L: Big bowl cereal (asked for it), cheese cubes, humzinger. Offered her a biscuit and she took a bite and said 'i don't like it' so I ate it for her.
S: Yogurts
After her nap she'll have a snack, probably cream cheese sandwich and raisins and we're heading out for dinner so prob pizza or pasta and garlic bread.
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Today has been a good day for us!!
B-weetabix and honey,half a banana
s-chinese food.(noodles,rice,sweet and sour chicken and prawn crackers)they were tasting food at toddler grp with it being chinese new year...she loved it!!
L-2 cheese and broccoli mini quiches (from the jennie maizels book...anyone else got this??...these are a huge hit!)cherry tomatoes,the other half a banana
S-chocolate buttons :-[ i was having my hair cut so good distraction!
D-smoked haddock pasta bake with peppers,mushrooms,and courgettes,2 small yoghurts and a plum!!!!
;D
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Sadly , Berni, in our case it's been a matter of nothing being eaten so nothing to report. Hmph. We are trying to find the balance between saying "if you don't want your dinner that's fine but there's nothing else" and in determining if he's just being difficult or if he REALLY doesn't like it. If it's something he doesn't like, I'm not going to let him walk away hungry, but at the same time, need to encourage him to try things and what not -- finding it hard to feel out the right way to approach it all, kwim?
So the past week it's been a lot of bread and fruit and nothing for dinner. :(
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Mashi - I totally understand what you mean :-* As you know I've posted before about how I find it difficult trying to get the balance right because Alice (just like her Daddy ;)) always has 'room for pudding' - that's DH's favourite saying as he's a big fan of anything sweet, he will always eat his main course and no matter hotw full he is still finds room ::) However, it's a bit different with Alice who will sign finished after a mouthful of main course (or even before she's tried it ::)) but will immediately sign yoghurt or biscuit as soon as you take the plate away :P I struggle with this for a couple of reasons - we were always brought up to finish our main course before we could have our pudding. I've since heard that this can encourage your child to overeat :o (that's my excuse for carrying a few extra pounds . . . or stones!!) I also remember reading (possibly on a thread here, but not certain) that food shouldn't be seen as a reward - and saying you can have the yoghurt or biscuit if you eat your dinner is making it a reward :-\ I beat myself up about this all the time - as you can probably tell . . . way too much time worrying about it. Can't remember who said on here that they ask their LO to take X more bites (was it Brenda?) - have tried that a couple of times ie have said I need you to have 1 more piece of pasta, 1 green vegetable and one piece of sausage (tonight's tea) and it seems to have worked - tho have to admit would prefer not to! Think it's because I always thought of Alice as being a good eater and she would always clean her plate and quite often ask for more - it's rare for that to happen these days. I do *think* that she is better suited to a BIG lunch and a smaller snack type dinner - but we tend to eat the *wrong* way round :P At the end of the day they always say that a child won't starve itself and will eat when it's hungry . . . and the last couple of days Alice has been hungry ;)
Today:
B: jam on toast, satsuma, milk
S: (at my Mum's) think she said pack of Organix snacks
L: (out) egg mayo sandwich - even ate the crusts dipped in my vegetable soup!!, 3 cocktail sausages with brown sauce, grapes, juice
S: savoury flapjack
D: sausage, courgette & tomato pasta (ate a reasonable amount), yoghurt, small pot of peaches in juice, biscuit & hot choc
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Today we went out with my folks shopping and had lunch at the supermarket cafe so the kids meals weren't the healthiest! we usually only give DS veggie sausages but todays were pork ( I hope!)
B - 2 sultana and lemon pancakes, whole small banana, some of my apple, warm fruit tea
S - berry rice cakes and water
L - sausages, mashed potato, baked beans, yoghurt, small cookie, water
S - rice cake and grapes, water
T - homemade veg and barley soup - 2 bowls full! Grapes, malt loaf, water
Supper - weetabix and warm milk
N xxx
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Can't remember who said on here that they ask their LO to take X more bites (was it Brenda?) - have tried that a couple of times ie have said I need you to have 1 more piece of pasta, 1 green vegetable and one piece of sausage (tonight's tea) and it seems to have worked
yes that was me. it's funny...my lo was such a great eater until about age 2...before that she ate a lot and mostly healthy food as we didn't give her cookies as an option. and then with playdates and birthday parties and christmas etc she "found" cookies and of course prefers them to any other kind of food. she wakes up asking for cookies but can be persuaded that cookies are only for after dinner. tonight she ate 2 bites of dinner and then said she was done. she left the table and 15 min later was asking for a cookie so i said well if you finish the dinner that is still on the table (maybe 5 bites) you can have one and she ate every bite without hesitation. she certainly is not overeating, she is so skinny!
B-1/2 raisin toast and cream cheese, mandarin oranges, OJ
s-juice, mandarin oranges
L-1/2 peanut butter and jam sandwich, crackers, jello
s-rice cakes
D-turkey casserole, cookie
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I seem to always do 'One More Bite' at the moment as Ben is eating so little. Funny...I never have to do it with pudding ::) ::)
He's very good about it though and knows that 'one more bite' or 'last one' means that he's done.
Nothing to report here either...he's even stopped eating his beloved blueberries completely :-\
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Funny how different these little things are - 'one more bite' here is a sure way to end up with the food on the floor or my head :o. But he is a little younger so might not have that degree of comprehension yet. To date I have found no form of encouragment to be helpful - he either eats it or he doesn't.
Yesterday was a reasonable day
B Shreddies, rice crispies, toast
S Humzinger bar, organix sweetcorn rings
L Bit of banana, few blueberries, cheese, bread roll
Went a bit wrong after that as he was having a hungry day I was not prepared for
S Cheese, blueberries, raisins, cheerios
S Plain pancake (after going mad in the supermarket - but the late snack ruined dinner ::))
D Teacake, few bits of salmon, yoghurt and mango
But look at that - REAL fruit ;D
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But look at that - REAL fruit ;D
Yey! Go Jacob :). I see he's having humzinger bars too - Ben has them sometimes and I find their uncanny resemblance to dog chews slightly gross ;D!!
We're having a bit of a random time here....for days he barely ate anything as he was ill, but now he pretty much says/signs "eat, eat, eat" ALL day ::) ???....and I am unsure what to do really. He eats healthily, but he is getting chubby and I'm really not sure what to do??!!
This is what he ate yesterday:
Pre-breakfast snack(!) - Tiny bowl of cheerios
Breakfast - big bowl of porridge with some frozen rasberries and a touch of vanilla bean paste mixed in, whole pear.
Snack - box raisins, whole pear :P
Lunch - whole banana, cheese and pickle sandwich (2 slices of bread), more pear (spot a theme?!)
Snack - half a piece of toast with banana, small chunks of cheese, small scotch pancake. Milk. Still wanted more - so had a small pot of chopped up peaches.
Dinner - Huge bowl of thai red chicken curry (homemade) with carrots, peas, onions. Rice. Plain yoghurt with some prunes mixed in
And today:
Small bowl cheerios. Bowl of Mini wheetabix, bit of blueberry cereal, milk. Whole pear. Toast with banana. Ran out of ideas (and food!!) and he had a couple of animal biscuits
Snack - raisins, shouting for "more eat" but we were in the car so he didn't get anything ;)
Lunch - we went out for a treat lunch (he started walking today ;D) and Ben had an American style banana pancake. Pear. More raisins. Chunks of cheese. Couple more animal biscuits. 2 cups of milk. And he STILL was saying he wanted more!!
Snack - piece of toast with sardines, and now is shouting "EAT!!!". Ammended to add that he has now eaten a pot of plain yoghurt and a box of raisins and is STILL shouting "more" ???
Dinner will be leftover thai red curry from yesterday, and dessert will be yoghurt and fruit again.
Does this sound like too much?? I'm just not really sure what to do when he just keeps asking for more and more....he'll head off to the kitchen and started rummaging through the cupboards shouting "prune! Fruit! Toast! Biscuit!" if I don't feed him - so I know he is genuinely wanting food rather than just saying it out of habit :-\ :P.
By the way - I do know it is much more stressful having a child who is *not* eating, and so I am not moaning at all - I just want to make sure that I'm not over-feeding him, or if anyone else has any similar experience.
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Claire, my LO falls into the category of odd and very little eating. However, my nephew would eat all day long if allowed. My SIL asked her ped about this because he will really keep eating at meal times if there is food there and all day long he is asking for more. Her ped said just feed him when he wants it and since he is only in the 50% for weight, that it isn't a problem. Just wanted to let you know, since you are worried about your LO's huge appetite. It does happen!
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Claire especially if he was ill for a few days and not eating, he may be taking in the extra to make up for it, kwim? Or could he just be having a growth spurt? When DS has had growth spurts he eats and eats and eats - though for him it might mean he takes in 1000 calories in a day instead of his usual 200 ::)
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Claire - I echo what PPs have said and just let him eat when he wants as Alice used to be the same and would eat for England. Wouldn't surprise me if you're worried about how little he is eating in a few months time ;)
Brenda - my DD was the same. Very healthy diet until she discovered (at CM when spending time with older LOs) that biscuits and cakes were available ::) And with here Dad's sweet tooth and my love of chocolate and ice cream there really wasn't any hope for her LOL!
Liz - J's doing really well at the moment - even REAL fruit.
Claire - PMSL when I read your comment about humzinger bars and dog chews - uncanny resemblance indeed :P
A has eaten quite a bit today, but not necessarily her healthiest day ::):
At home:
B: jam on toast, satsuma, water
At CM:
S: banana and milk
L: spaghetti hoops on toast, yoghurt and water
S: biscuit and water
At home:
D: mutton stew (inc carrots, pots and onions) with onion bread - ate more than I expected (have to say it was more like a soup as Mashi already knows!), banana, yoghurt, biscuit and hot choc
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Ladies, thanks :-*. That makes me feel better - I think I would be more concerned if he was like it *every* day, but I suppose he must have some sort of appetite control as there are the occasional days where he eats a bit less. He has just started walking too, so perhaps he will finally start to burn some of it off :D.
Saying all that however, he did, true to form, go to bed after eating a huge dinner, shouting "MORE EAT!!", and then scraping crumbs off a random plate into his mouth ::) :P!!
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WOW Claire - that is a lot of food :o - I don't envy your shopping bill in a few years time!
I don't get the humzinger bars either as they taste pretty gross to me as well - but he seems to like them. Especially ATM. I think it is a teething thing.
Today wasn't awful, but not great either.
B shreddies, wheetabix, few bites of toast
S sweetcorn rings and chocolate buttons (pure bribery as in the middle of his hair cut which he DOES NOT like ::))
L banana chunk, few bites of cream cheese sandwich, few bites of pancake
S Apple, nicked a bit of bacon out of my sandwich, rest of pancake
D Potato wedges, chicken nuggets (MEAT ;D), yoghurt and blueberries (refused cake after ;))
It is slow progress, but it IS progress :)
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Soooooo - today was interesting...again.
B (after 4 disgusting nappies)- most of a nectarine, decent amount of readybrek
No S early nap as v early wake this am
L - tucked in most happily to best part of a sausage roll from the Bakery, and some of my tuna sandwich...
...thought about it for a bit and threw up most of a nectarine, a decent amount of readybrek, the best part of a sausage roll from the Bakery, and some of my tuna sandwich...all of which was identifyable. Ew.
He whinged and whined because he was hungry (wonder why?!?) so for snack had a box of raisins and a banana even though I was dubious about letting him have anything.
D - Carrot, pea and tomato risotto - some puree fruit pot
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So far today..
B - apple and blueberry porridge, banana pieces, grapes
S - breadsticks, malt loaf
L - Moussaka and mashed potato, Yoghurt, mini cookie
S - rice cake and piece of mummy's chocolate
D - going to a friends B'day party so lots of party food and cake no doubt
I have said it before but I love this thread!!!!!
Can you tell me what humzinger bars are and can you get them in the UK?
Nell xxx
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HI everyone, Ive been lurking on this thread for a while as my ds is having a few food issues and I was looking for ideas. I feel better now as it seems you all have the same thing with eating well for a few days then not so good for a few days. My major issue is getting him to try new things, we've had some success but just now gave him pasta with a different sauce to normal and Ive just had to scrub the whole lot out of the living room carpet!! He even said 'no different pasta' it hardly looked any different the monkey.
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Can you tell me what humzinger bars are and can you get them in the UK?
I asked the same thing a couple of weeks ago ;) They are a fruit bar (that look like dog chews LOL!) and can be counted as 1 of your 5 a day (I *think*). You can definitely get them in the UK - think it was LizJ who I asked about them. I bought mine in Sainsburys but I think Liz said she got hers in Tesco. I found them by accident they were in the section that sells dried fruit snacks and cereal bars - I was going to buy some of the naked cherry infused raisins and bought a box of humzingers as well ;D Very handy they've been too - need to get another box now!
My major issue is getting him to try new things,
Hi emz1907 & welcome!
Keep trying with the new things - I was reading something the other day something about having to put a food (whatever it might be) in front of a LO about 10 times (can't remember the exact number - sorry this is a bit vague :P) before they will actually try it. Quite often they will then eat that food over and over again until they become obsessed by the next food . . . which makes me wonder when my DD will get sick of her beloved cheese LOL!! Hope you managed to get the 'different pasta' out of the carpet ;) Had to giggle at your LO's comment!
Today:
B: boiled egg, couple of bites of toast, oj
S: humzinger bar ;)
L: home-made cabbage & bean soup, onion bread, cheese selection (smoked stilton, mature cheddar, maasdam), asked for a banana (which she broke into 3 pieces and shared with me and DH)
S: yoghurt coated sesame snaps (DH gave her them - think she had 2)
D: sausage, tomato and courgette pasta with cheese - she didn't eat much at first but DH encouraged her with a few more bites as she wanted a yoghurt after the first bite ::), strawberries with creme fraiche on the side for 'dipping', satsuma, hot choc and biscuit
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I will keep trying stuff, Ive read that too. The 'different pasta' was covered in tomato sauce so was really hard to scrub off! He normally will only eat pasta with red pesto, how dare mammy try to trick him eh? LOL
It's hard though to keep preparing all these 'new' things knowing that he will refuse them. I hate seeing all my effort and the left over food going to waste.
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Emz1907 - I tend to do new things when DH and I are eating with DS at the weekend (usually DH gets in way too late for us to eat as a family). I give DS a portion of what I know he will eat - but give him a bit of what we're having too - then it's not going to waste. That said, DS is pretty good at tasting new things so after a couple of times he's usually ok with it.
Nell - I got Humzinger bars from Tesco too - DS won't eat them though so I have 18 (boxes were 2 for 1) humzinger bars filling a shelf in my cupboard! ::)
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. . . I have 18 (boxes were 2 for 1) humzinger bars filling a shelf in my cupboard! ::)
If you didn't live so far away I'd come and empty that shelf in your cupboard ;) Alice at the last one today - and they weren't on special offer when I bought them in Sainsburys - might pop to Tesco tomorrow and see if they still are LOL!!
Think that's a really good idea about offering new foods when you're eating together as a family - I would say on the whole Alice always eats better when she's eating socially - either with us or at the CM. In fact, she eats things at the CM that she quite often refuses at home - CM always says it's because LOs like to do what everyone else is doing!
Today:
B: 2 x home-made banana & pear pancakes, served with strawberries, creme fraiche and honey (left the strawberries - so I ate them!), asked for a banana (which she shared 3 ways again!), diluted OJ
S: humzinger bar
L: (out) cheese sandwich (ate all inc crusts which she dipped in my carrot & coriander soup), cocktail sausage with brown sauce, grapes, juice
S: dried cranberries, water
D: potato rosti and scrambled egg with brown sauce, mixed fruit in juice (pear, peach, pineapple) with custard, hot choc and biscuit
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Berni I love that Alice seems to always share here bananas 3 ways!! DS gets things stuck in his head sometimes and it becomes ritual, he does it once and likes it so has to do it EVERY time. For instance, if you recall a few weeks ago he took a lick of the dishwasher tablet, well...... ::)
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Chandler woke up sick this morning with red, goopy eyes, so her eating was off.
B: two bites of frozen waffle and apple butter; two bites of veggie sausage; Superfood juice
S: (while shopping at Target) an apple cereal bar, then a chocolate cereal bar
L: (after nap) refused uncured hot dog and grapes
S: dry cheerios instead of the cookie she demanded non-stop for an hour
D: (late, so ate like she would never be full) lentil soup with carrots and brown rice mixed in; tropical fruit mix
S: more lentils and carrots from Daddy's bowl; carrot cake muffin
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This is a great thread!!!
I've having lots of problems at the mo with my DD. She used to be such a great eater and now she isn't!! >:( So it's great to get some fab ideas!
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Thanks for that! Will look out for them.
Today DS was with my parents.
B - Grapes, pieces of banana, 1 spoon of weetabix (used to love these but now won't entertain them) toast and jam
S - apple rice cakes
L - cottage pie, sweetcorn, hot X bun
Tea - peanut butter on toast, rice pudding pot, apple
Supper - cheerios and warm milk
Not as healthy a day as when he is with me or at Nursery! But ok...you know what Grandparents are like!!
Nell xxx
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Nursey day..
B - porridge, banana, water
S - rice cakes and milk
L - vegetable and barley bake with onion gravy (ate loads) Carrot cake, water
Tea - mushroom pate sandwiches, raisins and apple, watered down apple juice
Supper - cheerios and warm milk
Nursery is a veggie place and they do really interesting dishes that DS loves.
Nell xxx
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I'm confused with my little guy at the moment - he's waking really early in the morning but I think it may be from hunger after not having eaten very much during the day for the past week or so. Not sure what to do about it though - I really don't want to be giving him his milk at 5.30am!!
A bit better today eating wise (understatement) so we'll see what tomorrow morning's like.
B - 1/2 large banana, readybrek, couple of 'soldiers' of my toast and peanut butter
S - found a biscuit in his changing bag and insisted on eating it (this was 30 mins after B!)
S - In supermarket - packet of raisins, pack of organix cheese puffs
S - (yes, again) - back at home - handful of blueberries
L - Baked beans and jacket potato with grated cheese, chocolate chip cake bar
S - 1/2 a cottage cheese + sundried tomato muffin (very yummy, made them today)
D - Salmon in olive and tomato sauce with rice, puree fruit pot
S(!!!!!!!) - Saw me eating a custard cream and decided that he'd quite like one thank you very much!
So although he's eaten a lot today, it's not exactly been healthy!!
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B-huge bowl of yogurt
s-mandarin oranges, juice
L-meatloaf, cottage cheese and strawberries
s-animal crackers
D-pasta and tomato sauce with brocoli and peppers, blueberries
2 cups of milk
today was a good eating day but she's not eating much lately
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Don't know if 11.5 months constitutes a toddler, but my cooking has taken a shift in that direction.
So far we have 3 rotating "meals" frozen in baby cubes: beef stew done in slow cooker (just beef, carrot, celery, sweet potato), chicken stew on stove (poached chicken legs, took them out, added sweet potato, carrot, and noodles, then put chicken pieces back in), and veggie soup (mostly made of the veggie puree she rejected, but loves in this reconstitues recipe!).
B: dd screams for toast with almond butter (well, she actually just screams until I give it to her), and how dare I try to give her yogurt and applesauce FIRST.
S: mini home-made muffin and chunk of cheddar
L: whole fried egg, 1/2 piece toast, a few grapes, a few peas.
D: ground beef/ricotta mixture that I put in canneloni pasta for us (not a big hit actually), avocado + plain yogurt, 1/2 toast, 1 brussel sprout, more peas.
Finally a few oz of whole milk in a sippy cup (tried heating it for the first time)
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So although he's eaten a lot today
He sure did eat quite a bit ;)
Have to say tho (healthy or not) I always love it when DD eats a lot - why is that?
Monday:
B: 2 (and a half) home-made banana & pear pancakes with yoghurt and honey, OJ
S: raisins and dried cranberries
L: (out) DH and I got New England breakfasts (not sure if that's just a name they give or whether it's traditional?) - DD shared them with us. She ate fried egg, sausage, bacon, mushrooms, baked beans & potatoes - and she seemed to eat loads. She was a big fan of fried egg - not sure I've ever given her one before.
S: dried pineapple snack
D: Roast dinner leftover pie with root veg mash (carrots, parsnip & suede/rutabaga) and onion gravy - had a couple of mouthfuls and then spat one out - I wasn't happy (not something she generally does) so we got down from the table and dinner finished there :-[
Yesterday:
B: (at home) mixed fruit in juice (peaches, pears & pineapple) served with yoghurt and muesli, OJ
At CM:
S: crumpets, raisins and milk
L: spag bol, bread, cheese, yoghurt and fresh pineapple, water
S: biscuits and milk
D: (at home): home-made quiche (cheese, olives & sun-dried toms) served with baked potato & cheese - ate a decent amount, yoghurt and banana (shared of course ;)), biscuit and hot choc
Berni I love that Alice seems to always share here bananas 3 ways!! DS gets things stuck in his head sometimes and it becomes ritual, he does it once and likes it so has to do it EVERY time. For instance, if you recall a few weeks ago he took a lick of the dishwasher tablet, well...... ::)
Still giggle about the dishwasher tablets ;D I do think toddlers suffer a bit from OCD - once something has been done once it seems to become a ritual. We had a friend round for dinner last night and Alice even gave him piece of her banana - so it was shared four ways!!
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Ok...well I think the not eating thing has gone out of the window for a few days at least so far today (bearing in mind it's only 9.20am and he's only eaten breakfast) he has had -
1/2 cottage cheese muffin, 1/2 large banana, bowl of readybreak, a whole piece of toast with marmalade.....and he's just appeared with half a biscuit and a huge grin on his face (hate to think where he got the biscuit from).
I think I need to go shopping! lol
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SqueakersMum - Hi! Could you let me have the recipe for your cottage cheese muffin please?
Thanks ;)
Rachel x
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Hi, sure. Actually it came from another BW (Jess) from the meal planning thread - the link to the website it came from is here...
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/cottage-cheese-muffins-recipe.html
...Highly recommended. I love them as does DS - DH moans like MAD about them because they're muffins so 'supposed to be sweet' ::) ::)
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That's great, thanks so much.
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B-yogurt, almost all of my bagel with cream cheese...OCD is right - whenever i have a bagel she needs half because she did it once!
s-2 fruit bars
L-3 bites of pasta with meat and veg and tomato sauce, cottage cheese
s-animal crackers
D-crackers, guacamole, carrots, broccoli, blueberries
i like it when she eats a lot too but that is not happening recently, unless it's cookies.
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I was inspired by the pancake suggestion, and now that dd is EW, there is sooo much time before her 8:00 breakfast, I decided to make some.
B - wholewheat blueberry pancakes, cheese chunk, plain yogurt with applesauce
S - mini home-made muffin
L - home-made veg soup, avocado puree and plain yogurt, pear pieces, 1/2 toast with almond butter, some leftover sheppard's pie from my plate, milk
D - chicken/noodle/veggie stew, 1 piece toast, peas, cheese chunk, peach puffs, milk
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As always J's eating is boring but I was so pleased with his tea that I am posting (and you will all laugh and say 'was that it?')
B - shreddies, cheerios, toast
S - allsorts!! Was out at BW meet and he had a 'snack box'. Breadstick, humzinger bar, animal biscuits, piece of Daisy's cheese etc, few bites of banana.
L - Cream cheese sandwich
S - biscuit (bribed to behave in supermarket)
D - hot cross bun, pieces of ham ;D ;D, melon ;D ;D, yoghurt
Meat AND fruit. Horaay!!
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I think I have come to the conclusion that Ben grows in week long spurts as he seems to eat NOTHING for a week and then eat me out of house and home for the next week ::)
B - readybrek, banana, marmalade on toast
S - (after 'bounce' so he was pretty hungry but only 10.40am so not lunch, but even so!) blueberries, bit of hot x bun, humzinger bar (actually ate it today), rest of banana from brekkie, Organix corn snacks, 2 toddler biscuits :o :o
L - toast with honey, salami, grapes (so more S than L)
S - raisin and oat cereal bar
D - Pasta with ham, carrot, courgette, tomatoes and mushroom sauce, puree fruit pot (which I tried SO hard to let him eat totally on his own...but after wiping it in his hair, painting with it on his highchair tray, throwing bits on the floor and tapping a lovely rhythm in it with his spoon...I gave him a couple of spoonfuls!)
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We are on an eating hardly anything kick so I haven't bothered posting.
Today was:
B: 2 granola bars. DH says she has been refusing other things (waffles) and he didn't feel like making eggs so since she actually wanted a second he just said okay b/c she normally wouldn't even want more than 1/2 of one. and milk
L: chicken nuggets.
S: 3 bites of chocolate easter eggs (mini sized)
D: few small bites of steak, baked potato and cauliflower w/ cheese. and milk (the only reason I got her to take more than one mouthful was to let her walk around awhile and then finish feeding her on my lap. Not a very proud mommy moment...but I'm tired of her not eating! I know she isn't going to starve...but I hate that she is dropping percentiles ugh)
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B - my lovingly made blueberry pancakes that were a hit yesterday, as leftovers, were a flop.
So, back to the toast with almond butter and a chunk of cheese.
2 bites plums with yogurt.
S - mini muffin, always a hit
L - whole fried egg, 1/2 spear asparagus, a little broccoli, totally spit the brussel sprout out after feeding it to herself, a few bowties.
S - peach puffs
D - beef stew, 1/2 spear asparagus, a little broccoli, more bowties.
Had to warm out the milk again today, didn't like it cold.
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Funny day so far - DH home poorly and hope and pray we don't get it too.: (
So far...
B - Handful of cheerios, weetabix and warm milk, banana
S - mini rice cakes, some of Mummy's bombay mix with raisins
Nell xxx
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L - homemade moussaka and few potatoes, yoghurt
S - organix cheese puffs
D - homemade soup (onion,garlic,potato,carrot,swede,red lentils) more yoghurt. toasted hot X bun
Supper - large bowl of cheerios and warm milk
N xxx
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B - yogurt and applesauce, toast with almond butter
S - mini-muffin
L - veg soup (squash, zuc, onion, tomato), toast, cheese, avocado and yogurt
D - chicken/noodle/veg stew, peas and broccoli, vanilla yogurt.
(just realized, that's a lot of yogurt)
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B:a whole waffle!
L: one chicken nugget :(
S: cheese crackers
D: mixed veggies and a couple bites of mozzarella sticks
milk and diluted juice throughout.
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A's been eating fairly well the last few days (apart from my home-made leftover pie!) - just haven't managed to get on a post - where does the time go? Just not enough hours in the day :P
Wednesday:
B: porridge with raisins
At my Mum's
S: organix cereal bar
L: cheese & ham pasta with veg (tho Mum said she ignored the veg ::)), banana rice pudding pot
At home:
S: humzinger bar
D: couple of bites of home-made pie - dinner came to abrupt end again when another mouthful was spat out :P
Thursday:
B: peaches in juice with yoghurt and muesli, banana (shared with us of course ;))
At CM:
S: cheesy bread sticks, apple, water
L: spag bol, yoghurt, milk
S: crisps, banana, water
At Home:
D: spicy tuna risotto (ate all ;D), yoghurt, biscuit and hot choc - plus a bite of DH's birthday 'cake' (home-made rocky road)
Friday:
B: jam on toast, half a mango, OJ
At CM:
S: crumpets, cheese, milk
L: chicken sandwich, sausage roll, sponge & custard, juice
S: cookies, water
At home:
D: spicy tuna risotto (ate all ;D), yoghurt, kiwi fruit, pear (asked for both pieces of fruit), hot choc and biscuit, plus a couple of bites of birthday cake again ;)
The tuna risotto has always been one of DD's favourite meals, but the last couple of times we had it she would stop eating it when she came across a sun-dried tomato - scandalous, don't you think?!! She didn't turn her nose up this time cos she'd had dried cranberries a couple of days ago (or red raisins as she likes to think of them ;)) and she thought the s-d toms were the same thing so ate the lot - naughty Mummy just told her that s-d toms were like red raisins and she should try one - it worked and when she had it again tonight she even told Daddy that there were raisins in her risotto ;)
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Me again with today's food intake - eaten quite a lot again
B: bowl of porridge with raisins, slice of toast with jam, half a large mango :o
S: humzinger fruit bar (after we'd been swimming)
S: few little gluten & dairy free biscuits at my friend's house (both her LOs have allergies)
L: (at great-grandma's) home-made beetroot and veg soup with bread and butter for dipping, greek yoghurt with some strawberry jam mixed in (GG couldn't bear the thought of Alice eating plain yoghurt ::) LOL!), couple of pieces of licorice, water
S: dried cranberries and apricots
D: bulgar wheat with broccoli and cream cheese sauce - with the added extra bonus of black olives. Alice picked out all the black olives and a couple of pieces of broccoli before saying finished - but the 'four more spoonfuls' worked tonight! Small yoghurt, biscuit and hot choc - plus bite of DH's birthday cake which is now finished - not sure if I'm happy or sad about it yet LOL
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Snacky day again here due to shopping in town and a VERY late nap (no idea how tonight's going to work!).
B - blueberries and grapes, readybrek, 1/2 a piece of lightly toasted bread and marmite
S - banana, few corn snacks
L - 1/2 bread roll and dairylea, yoghurt, grapes, few sips of apple juice, 1/4 chocolate chip muffin
S - raisins
D - pasta with ham and veggie sauce, more blueberries, some yoghurt coated raisins
And today the bottles went ;D ;D
Both morning and night milk was not in a bottle and he still drank it all! Yay!
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B- bowl of cheerios with milk eaten with a spoon (a first), 1/2 a banana
s-banana bread
L-chicken roll up, olives, couple bites pasta salad and chicken chunks
s-mandarin orange, blueberries
D-1 bite chicken pot pie, 3 olives, 1/2 chicken roll up (not a good dinner)
2 cups of milk
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Both morning and night milk was not in a bottle and he still drank it all! Yay!
Hooray - your little man is growing up ;)
Yesterday:
B: porridge with raisins, 2 pears
S: fruit bar (ASDA 'great stuff' range)
L: cracked bulgar wheat with broccoli, peas and cream cheese - with some cottage cheese (don't ask ::)), mouthful of pineapple rice dessert pot
S: none - late nap and we ate dinner early
D: sausage apple & onion pie topped with cheddar & mustard mash, peas (ate a decent amount), yoghurt whilst waiting for apple crumble & custard to be served (ate both puddings!), 3 mini cookies and hot choc
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Sunday...out for lunch for Dad's birthday
B - porridge,dry cheerios,apple
S - none
L - chicken curry, rice and peas, mini doughnuts and chocolate sauce
S - none
Tea - a toasted hot X bun, a banana, yoghurt
Supper - weetbix and warm milk
Nell xxx
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Hi ladies--
As this thread has reached 30 pages, I'm going to go ahead and lock it. You can continue exchanging meal ideas at this new thread: http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=167026.0