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EAT => Eating For Toddlers => Topic started by: rooby-rooby-roo on January 08, 2006, 22:51:34 pm
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So i need more inspiration for cooking meals for Ruby. I do the same old favourites day-in-day-out, and i figure most other people do the same? So what i thought was this - if we all post what our kids ate for their meals regularly, including recipes where appropriate, then we can all build up a bigger 'bank' of easy, tasty toddler meals. They can be as easy or as complicated as you like!
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So i'll start!
Today Ruby ate cheese on toast - i think you guys in the USA call it grilled cheese (am i right?) This is so easy to do - i just toast the bread, pop some shredded cheese on and under the grill for a minute or two. I cut it into strips and serve it in a flower shape (she's all about the presentation!) With a blob of ketchup. I usually serve with some chopped cucumber and tomato as a side salad.
Look forward to hearing about your meals x
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Good idea!
For breakfast, Nathan ate some scrambled egg (SO easy - just scramble egg in a mug, add a bit of milk and cheese, and microwave 1.5 - 2 minutes, then pop it out on a plate) and oatmeal.
For lunch, he ate some grilled quesadilla and apricots.
And dinner is still in the works... :wink:
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For lunch, he ate some grilled quesadilla
What is one of those and how do i make it??!!! :lol: :lol:
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Breakfast - Weetbix and Yoghurt
Lunch - Ham and Cheese sandwich and strawberries
Tea - French Toast (bread dipped in egg and then fried) and vegies in a cheese sauce.
Nothing very inspirational but dd lkes it!!! :D
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What is one of those and how do i make it??!!! :lol: :lol:
:lol: I guess I forget that not everyone eats Mexican food every day like us California people. ;)
Just a tortilla grilled in pan with a touch of butter or oil, cheese sprinkled on top, and fold in half.
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Ok so Tanner ate
morning: he had Peanut butter toast, and fruit
Lunch: We had bbq wings with ranch. I pick the meat off the bone for him, and a can of green beans.
Snack: He had cheese, and crackers
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he he he!!! :lol: :lol:
For whatever reason, Nathan eats more on the weekends than he does all week long combined!!
Breakfast - scrambled egg beaters (no yolks, with peppers and cheese mixed in).
Mommy's breakfast (that Nathan ate most of!) Pancakes with syrup
Snack - Fruit and cereal bar and milk
Lunch - Gerber Toddler meal - Chicken Stew, green beans, and fruit
Snack - Cheerios
Wake up from nap - snack - Goldfish crackers and milk
Dinner - he wanted cereal! :roll: Total Cereal
Snack - Dried Fruit
Snack before bed will be Biter biscuit and milk!
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This is a great idea! Today, Xavier ate:
breakfast: toast with some scrambled egg, a TON of strawberries, milk
snack: yogurt, wheat crackers
lunch: chicken fettucine (leftover from dinner last night), peas and carrots, apple, milk
snack: goldfish crackers, juice/milk
dinner: alphabet pasta, broccoli and brussel sprouts, cheese, watermelon, juice/milk (we offered him salmon, which is what we were having, but he didn't want any)
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ok yesterday my DD ate-
Breakfast-2 slices of toast and yoghurt
Lunch-Pasta with homemade vegetable sauce, cheese
Dinner-sausages, mash and carrots, jelly with fruit bits in
I cannot get her to eat sandwiches for lunch :roll: guess she's like her daddy....
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Yesterday Ellie-May ate;
:arrow: Breakfast: Crumpet with butter and marmite, coco pops with milk
:arrow: Lunch: Ham, cheese, bead and butter, cucumber, tomato and packet crisps
:arrow: Dinner: Steak, cucumber, chips, onion ring.
:arrow: Snacks:grapes,banana, strawberries
Thats a 'bad' dinner for us. Ellie-May eats whatever meal I make for me and dh and at the mo we are in a rut of:
:arrow: cottage pie(beef mince)
:arrow: stew(beef diced, parsnip, carrot, swede, mixed with gravy and tomato soup)
:arrow: spaghetti bolognese
:arrow: steak
:arrow: chicken breast and veg
:arrow: sausage and mash with beans
I really need to expand the menu!
x
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Great idea!!
Yesterday Clarissa had:
Breakfast: Milk and biscuits and some home-made apple cake
Lunch: Pasta home-made tomato sauce, chicken breast
Snack: Panettone (Italian Xmas cake) and juice
Dinner: More chicken, a little omlette, a little ham and apple.
Sinead
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Yesterday Ella & Jack had:
Breakfast: Weetabix/Cornflakes, Slice of toast, half a banana each
Snack: fruit bar
Lunch: Quorn and Cheese Sandwiches, tomato (refused!), Yoghurt & Fruit
Tea: Pasta with homemade tomato + veggie sauce, Jelly & Custard
Pre-Bedtime: Grapes and bread and butter!
I still cook up big batches of stuff and freeze them in pots. I find the kids either eat these, or else it's sandwiches, tins of beans or pizza!!
The kind of stuff I do (we're veggie), is courgette risotto, paella, aubergene casserole, baked bean chilli with veggie mince (real favorite), tofu + noodles, sausage casserole etc. If anyone wants any recipes I can post - mostly you could add some meat if you wanted I guess.
With sandwiches we quite often use plain tortillas as a change from normal bread, and the kids get to assemle and make their own. Also, I find buying plain pizzas and getting them to add their own toppings is a good way to sneak some veggies in.
The thing I really struggle with is desert - seem to have fallen into the yoghurt, fruit odd treat of jelly trap. I hate making puddings anyway - anyone got any ideas?
Clair - the only way Ella will eat cheese on toast is arranged in a flower shape with a splodge of ketchup in the middle - glad to see I'm not the only one!!!!!!
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DD ate what she has eaten every day for the past 3 months,
Breakfast 1 Weetabix
Lunch- home made meat balls, ( mince beef or pork or lamb, egg, breadcrumbs, salt, pepper, garlic, grated parsnip, sweet potato, and carrot- to get the veg in, cooked v slowly for about 2 hours in tomato sauce) with pasta. Natural yogurt with 2 cubes of fruit puree.
Dinner 7tbsp ready brek, snack yogurt with different fuit.
Looking foward to the day when she actually eats "properly"
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Yesterday Bethany (16m) had:
Breakfast:
Handful of Cheerios
Half a slice of toast
200ml of Yoghuts
Mid Morning Snack:
100ml of pureed fruit
Lunch:
3 Bites of a ham sandwich
19g Dairylea cheese strip
150g pot of Banana Custard
Afternoon Snack:
Goodies Fruit Bar 30g
Half a Biscuit
Dinner:
Half a fish finger
About 8 pieces of Pasta
A mouthful of my jacket potato
Sweetcorn, Broccoli and Carrots
100g Milkly Bar Dessert
Bedtime:
Nurses
Bethany doesn't have any milk though (refuses it, she is breastfed, only at night), hence she has alot of Dairy!
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Yesterday Tyler (just turned 2) ate:
Breakfast - whole grain waffle with peanut butter, Gerber toddler cereal with milk, couple handfuls of cheerios
Lunch - 4 oz sweet potatoes and carrots (Gerber meal), 4 oz applesauce mixed with wheat germ, whole banana
Dinner - peas, roasted potatoes, 3 bites of roasted chicken
Throughout the day, he had 24 oz milk. He rarely gets dairy other than milk during the day because he's a milkaholic. He hates meat (he's basically a vegetarian), so the 3 bites of chicken were cause for celebration!
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Melissa - Ruby is the same with meat, she just doesn't like it that much. I think it must be to do with the texture, as it is a fairly adult texture to deal with.
Today Ruby had:
Rice and peas! I cook a load of rice (brown or white, but we prefer brown!) then fry off a bit of chopped onion in a drop of olive oil, add the rice and a couple handfuls of peas and corn (fresh or frozen) and heat through. Sometimes i add chicken or pieces of chopped omelette too. I always make enough for me with this as it is yummy!
Yesterday she had jacket potato for lunch. I just cut it open, added some baked beans and some shredded cheese and she had it with some steamed carrots.
Great ideas ladies, keep them coming!
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These ideas are great! We have been in a rut around here for awhile. :D
Yesterday, Daniel had:
Breakfast: 1 strip of turkey bacon, half a bagel with peanut butter, half a banana
AM Snack: cheese, crackers, and raisins
Lunch: chicken nuggets, broccoli, half apple
PM Snack: Yogurt
Dinner: grilled cheese, salad, cheetos
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Funny, I was thinking of posting the same thread, with the same title!
Lilah is not so keen on eating at the moment. So we do what we can.
Yesterday:
Breakast:
I served: a scramled egg, half a veggie sausage link, and half a slice of whole wheat toast.
She ate: most of the toast, about two bites of egg, and one chunk of veggie sausage.
Lunch:
I served: a slice of cheese broken into bits, black beans, 6 quatered cherry tomatoes, and 6 1-inch wheat crackers.
She ate: most of the cheese, half the cherry tomatoes, 4 crackers and approximately 3 beans.
Snack:
I served: 3 small bear-shaped graham crackers, a banana-orange-yogurt smoothie.
She ate: everything!
Dinner:
I served: What I made for us, Indian Cauliflower, Potato and Kidney Bean Stew with brown rice.
She ate: all the kidney beans, nothing from the rest of the dish. So I offered her "pumpkin pudding": mix applesauce half-and-half with canned pumpkin puree. Add cinnamon, and a very tiny bit of cloves, nutmeg, and ginger. She ate about 3 spoonfuls of this.
Bedtime: nursing
She also drank about 8 oz of milk.
Today:
Breakfast:
About 5 bites of sweet potato pudding (really yummy, I had some myself), half a slice of toast.
Lunch:
Whole wheat spiral pasta with veggie pasta sauce and cheese. She ate the whole bowl.
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Thank you for posting this! Great ideas here.
Our ds ate yesterday:
Breakfast: 1 cinamon roll, 1 turkey sausage link
Snack: Peaches (4 oz cup)
Lunch: Grilled Cheese and sliced turkey sandwhich (he eats about 1/4 to 1/2 of it) and bananna
Dinner: Macaroni and cheese and cut up cherries
Snack: 2 small cookies and cut up strawberries
He also likes pasta salad, pizza, bean and cheese burritos, quesadillas(sometimes), and mashed potatoes.
He loves fruit, however the only veggie he'll eat is brocoli with cheese sauce :( He also drinks lots of milk. I have yet to see him eat chicken or steak. He chews up chicken and then spits it out - someday right???? He is a "cautious" eater.
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Good ideas, Sabrina. (P.S... I was married the day after you! :wink:)
Breakfast: scrambled egg with cheese, 1/4 banana, 2 oz yogurt
Snack: bites of mom's fench toast
Lunch: grilled cheese(probably eats 1/4 of it), applesauce with blueberries
Snack: crackers, cheerios
Dinner: roasted pepper pasta (really mild), chicken and rice baby food
I still give him 1-2 jars of baby food a day just because it is SOOO hard to get him to eat veggies.
I completely forgot who, but last week someone gave me a recipe for veggie patties, and those were a hit. You mix grated veggies (like potato, sweet potato, carrot, zuchinni, etc) with a bit of flour and egg, form them into patties, and grill in a pan. I also added shredded cheese. Thanks to whoever gave me this recipe!
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I'm taking notes for my dd's expanding meal options. My question is do you all keep this food at home normally, or do you buy it special for your children? I'm serious. I hardly eat regular meals (b/c dh works sooo much and is rarely home for them and who likes to cook for themselves) so I never have anything to offer her. I've made special trips to the store after getting ideas for food such as yours', but I feel that I should be doing a better job at this. I guess she'll eventually eat what I eat and I'll have reason to cook again. She's just getting the taste for table foods, so today she had shredded cheese, turkey lunch meat, toast, and a 1/2 jar of peaches/oatmeal puree. She likes chicken, breads, noodles, mac and cheese, but not fruit or veggie pieces. Am I doing right?
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Heather,
I think the best way to get a baby to eat what you eat is to eat with them, at regular times. I'm a big fan of family dining. My dh has to work all night about once a week, but I still eat dinner with Lilah. It also really makes you conscious of what you're eating... we can't expect our kids to love veggies if we never eat them ourselves. That said, my dh and I are vegetarians and LOVE vegetables, but Lilah doesn't seem to share the love yet... in fact, it seems the vegetables on her "good" list are falling off onto the "bad" list at an alarming rate. But then every once in a while she'll eat a veggie she's always refused or spit out before. So you just keep offering what you eat.
Your dd is probably ready to start trying some fruit and veggie chunks. But if she balks, there's no harm in continuing with the pureed stuff for as long as she'll eat it (my dd now will only feed herself, so we can't spoon feed her at all. She will use a spoon, but not consistently, so it's chunks all the way for us these days.)
Sheila,
How funny that you were married the day after me, we have kids about the same age (and we'll probably soon have another set of kids about the same age :wink: ), and we both live in Southern California (We're in West L.A.)! We'll have to try to get together some time. Oh, and I'm definitely trying those veggie patties! Thanks for the recipe!
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How funny that you were married the day after me, we have kids about the same age (and we'll probably soon have another set of kids about the same age :wink: ), and we both live in Southern California (We're in West L.A.)! We'll have to try to get together some time. Oh, and I'm definitely trying those veggie patties! Thanks for the recipe!
You are not far at all! I think a small group of BWers are meeting soon for our third get together. If I know anything about a date, I'll let you know, and hopefully you can come! :wink: I grew up in Redondo Beach , not too far. Small world, huh?
Oh, I hope the recipe helps. I am still trying to think of who gave it to me. Hmmmm. :?
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My 15 mo son eats alot despite still having 3 x 200 mL bottles of formula a day (he's dairy allergic). He's quite slim and tall and full of energy!
Breakfast: 3/4 cup porridge made with soy milk and sweetened with pureeed fruit, 1 x piece of toast with vegemite
Morning tea: 10 x mini crackers, 12 grapes
Lunch: 3/4 cup risotto, 1/2 cup custard
Afternoon tea: baby fruit gel, wedge watermelon
Dinner: 2 x lamb chops, corn cob, 3 carrot sticks, 4 cherry tomatoes, 1/4 small baked potato
Dessert: 1/2 tub soy yoghurt
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Hey there,
Here's Miss Ellie's menu for today. Served on a silver platter with linen napkins, of course (or perhaps, straight off the tray of her highchair with an ENORMOUS sheet tied around her neck):
Breakfast - piece of raisin toast, bircher muesli with chopped fruit mashed together, milk. (Muesli is great, she loves it, I make a batch every second day or so: just 1/3 cup rolled oats, 1/2 cup wheatgerm soaked in 2/3 cup fruit juice. Sometimes, I have some too).
Snack - 4 crackers, 3 strawberries, grapes, water
Lunch - ravioli (no sauce, she picks it up with her fingers), cheese, cherry tomatoes, peas, water
Snack - 1/2 piece cheese on toast, 1/3 yoghurt, grapes (Loves them grapes, has learned how to open the fridge herself and get them out of the bottom drawer herself. Little rotter.), water
Dinner - scrambled eggs with a bit of smoked salmon mixed in (well, it was in the fridge!), broccoli, cauliflower (wouldn't eat), carrot, kiwifruit, water
Before bed - milk
Great stuff, keep those recipes coming.
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BTW, best, most tender chicken recipe for LOs who find meat tough going.
Quick boil a saucepan of water (really bubbling)
Drop in 1 handful whole pepper, a few coriander stalks and some grated ginger
Drop in 1 whole chicken breast
Put lid on saucepan
Turn off heat
Leave for two (2) hours
Cut chicken into small strips
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Yesterday Aidan (12mths) had:
9oz milk upon waking
Breakfast - readybrek (made up with 4oz milk) and 1 clementine
Lunch - one slice of wholemeal bread with dairylea spread and 3/4 banana
Tea - fish, veggies (peas, carrots, cauliflower) and pasta in cheese sause, 1x60g yoghurt
90oz milk before bedtime
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It's funny for me to read these posts from moms of toddlers just 3-4 months younger than mine... they eat so much, and so many different things! Lilah did, too, at that age, but not anymore. Once in awhile she'll have a huge meal, but most of the time, I feel lucky if she eats more than a few tablespoons of ANYTHING.
Last night we went out to Moroccan food and Lilah ate everything in sight! I was so surprised. I think she liked the low table and sitting on cushions, and she loved the lentil soup she had.
For breakfast today she ate some rice pudding, made with some leftover brown rice and coconut milk from the fridge, raisins, a little vanilla and cinnamon, and a touch of brown sugar. I just tossed everything in a saucepan and simmered it until the rice had absorbed most of the liquid. She liked it! But mostly she ate all the raisins out of it :roll: .
Another thing she likes (which I made for lunch today) is spinach omelets. I chop the spinach really fine and saute in olive oil. Then add it to the beaten egg, with some finely grated cheese. Pour it all into the pan, cook until browned on the bottom, then flip (or pop the skillet under the broiler to brown the top). Then cut into chunks. This is oneof the only ways I can get her to eat spinach.
That's all I can think of for now!
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ooh i like that idea Sabrina - Ruby is really into omelettes - or hamlets as she calls them!!!
Am gonna try cooking the chicken like that too Sophie - cheers.
Sabrina - Ruby has always been on and off with food. Somedays she will eat nothing, and i mean nothing, and other days will eat more than a 15 year old boy after soccer practise!! :D :lol: Most of the time she will eat loads for a few days at a time then eat nothing for a week or so. Like a camel!!!!
We had pasta for lunch today. I fried off a leek, added some already cooked veges (any will do but today it was baby sweetcorn and brocolli) Mixed in some chopped tomatoes and a touch of marscapone chese. Yummy!!!
For tea it was salad - or as Ruby calls it Yettice, cubumber and amartoes!!! lol
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Hi everyone, we haven't been around for a wee while. The ideas here are excellent ladies, we now have list of your ideas on our frig!
Yesterday Megan ate (does not change much, hopefully that will change now):
Breakfast - cream of wheat (loves it and soo good for them), yogurt and slices pears and milk
snack - bread sticks and milk
Lunch - 1 oz cheese, 6 whole wheat crackers & avacodo
snack - mini muffin and milk
dinner - tofu cubed, whole wheat english muffin w/ cream cheese spread & carrots
snack - rusk and milk[/list:u]
Meg loves anything dairy: milk, yogurt, cheese
PS: do you mom have good ideas for a pack lunch to be served cold?
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PS: do you mom have good ideas for a pack lunch to be served cold?
yes please !! i am loving reading this thread not only for ideas but to see the realistic amounts that kids eat and are ok with (ie small eaters), but i sttruggle with cold food since my kids won't eat sandwiches (alex will eat PB and Jelly but not allowed at daycare) I always send her with crackers and cheese and salami sticks, need other non-sandwich options.
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Debra, i think the girls at nursery must think dd eats only cheese or tofu, w/ crackers or rice cakes or bread sticks and fruit...as that is all i can think of to pack!
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i know and they will even reheat stuff for us - but when i send mac and cheese, etc she won't eat it.
i do send sometimes: like a "ploughman's lunch": ham pieces, crackers, cheese, some veggies, a few strawberries etc all in a llittle linchbox thing. they have fruit for snack/morning tea so that part of our typical lunch gets eaten separately and sometimes her lunch looks too small and pitiful...
have previously sent: tuna in a container with a fork, i include 4 bean mix in her lunches and hopeshe will eat it (finicky about them - either gorges or refuses),will think of other things i tried and post back (you never know who they will work for)
what do you do with the tofu - have never offered as i have NO IDEA what to do with it as Dh would never consider it for us
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Re: tofu, i don't do anything other then cut like cubes and she pops in her mouth - plain. I think it is the texture she likes. I don't eat it personally either lol.
can you post your bean receipe please, sounds nice.
what about replacing cream cheese for PB, dd ate her first real sandwich this way, just this week. Also use tortillia for bread and cut like pin wheels.
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can you post your bean receipe please, sounds nice
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:lol: :lol: :lol: i so don't cook much! this is a tin of mixed beans that i drain and rinse and she eats as finger foods (i think it is chick peas, kidney beans, borlotti beans and butter beans - the last 3 are quite soft, some of the chick peas can be hard)
i have tried cream cheese - no go! when she was Meg's age she practically lived on avocado sandwiches but that ended at about 15-17 months
i had success for a few weeks with these great sundried tomato flavoured tortillas and the whole pinwheel thing - then triangles. something about things cut into triangles makes her eat them.
a friend always made this for her dd's: tortilla, spread cream cheese on it, add shredded carrot and raisins, roll up and cut into pinwheels. have never tried it but her girls ate it almost every lunchtime.
have you tried hummos? can do as dippers - breadsticks or crackers and she can dip them in and you can serve with cherry tomatoes (alex has never deigned to eat any tomatoes in 2.5 yrs) and carrots.
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I'll try those, txs
Silly question, when folks say shredded carrot - do you cook it or serve it raw?
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raw - i meant grated. same as you do shredded cheese with a big grater
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Nearly everything Ellie eats is cold (LOL) finger food. Both because cooking really isn't my thing, and because she seems not to like hot or even warm food.
Some ideas:
- frittata cut into strips (couple of eggs, some finely chopped veg and maybe some ham or very small pieces of chicken, cooked in a frying pan on the stove and then finished under the grill). Keeps for 2 or so days in the fridge.
- Great finger food veges - cherry tomatoes, cucumber sticks, raw baby zucchini, button mushrooms, cooked and cooled carrot sticks, cooked and cooled baby corn
- cooked and cooled ravioli with decent filling - vege ones etc - Latina are OK but the ones from our local italian deli are the best
- tiny meatballs (cooked. Well, obviously)
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Megan doesn't like warm food either, probably because she isn't use to it...i like to grab out of the frige or pantry and serve :shock:
Speaking of which here is a muffin recipes that she loves over and over. I wouldn't eat them, but she loves them.
INGREDIENTS:
1 1/2 cups Quaker® Oats (Quick or Old Fashioned, uncooked)
1 cup all-purpose flour (i use whole wheat)
1/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar (i use 1/2)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt (optional) (don't use)
1/3 cup chopped dates or raisins
1 (8 ounce) container plain nonfat yogurt (I use what i have on hand)
3/4 cup mashed ripe banana (turns out that is 1 banana)
2 egg whites
2 tablespoons vegetable oil (I sub for applesauce)
1 1/2 teaspoons grated orange peel (don't use, too much work lol)
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DIRECTIONS:
Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Line twelve medium muffin cups with paper baking cups or lightly spray bottoms only with cooking spray.
In large bowl, combine oats, flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and dates; mix well. In medium bowl, combine yogurt, banana, egg whites, oil and orange peel; blend well. Add to dry ingredients all at once; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened. (Do not overmix.)
Fill muffin cups almost full.
Bake 20 to 22 minutes or until golden brown. Cool muffins in pan on wire rack 5 minutes; remove from pan.
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I've been following this thread and have lots of new ideas. Here are some regulars at our house:
Popeye pasta (I received this recipe from fellow bw's)
4 oz frozen or 8 oz fresh spinach, washed
2 oz tiny pasta shapes, uncooked
1/2 oz butter
2 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons cream cheese
1.5 oz Gruyere cheese, grated (Note: Gruyere is unpasteurised and worried about that, so I use cheddar or any other cheese - i don't think it actually matters what cheese you use - it just makes it taste slightly different)
Cook the spinach following packet instructions or, if fresh, with just the water clinging to its leaves in a microwave or in a saucepan over a low heat until tender. Press out the excess water. Cook the pasta according to the packet instructions. Meanwhile, melt the butter in a small frying pan and saute the cooked spinach. Combine the spinach with the milk and cheeses, and chop finely in a food processor. Mix with the cooked pasta.
Note #2 - To save time I don't saute the spinach in butter...and never really noticed a difference
Chicken Nuggets
1. Dip chunks of chicken breast into a bowl of one egg white, slightly beaten. (I usually tenderize the chicken first)
2. In a plastic bag, mix:
½ cup plain bread crumbs (can include wheat germ here)
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
3 Tablespoons parmesan cheese
3. Put chicken pieces in bag and shake to coat all sides.
4. Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
Salmon Cakes
1 Can of salmon
¼ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons grated onions
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 egg, lightly beaten
½ dill (optional)
flour
8 soda crackers, crushed
oil (for frying)
1. Mash salmon, bones and all, in a bowl with fork.
2. Add onion, egg, salt, pepper and dill (if used)
3. Blend well.
4. Crush soda crackers and add to the salmon, mixing well.
5. Add just enough crumbs to make a mixture that will hold its shape.
6. Make patties and dip each in flour or more cracker crumbs to coat both sides.
7. Heat oil in heavy skillet.
8. Add patties and fry slowly until golden on both sides.
9. Drain excess oil on paper towel and serve.
Baked Salmon
4 (4 oz) fillets of salmon
3 tablespoons prepared Dijon mustard
Salt and pepper to taste
¼ Cup Italian-style bread crumbs
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a shallow baking pan with aluminum foil.
2. Place salmon skin-side down o foil. Spread a thin layer of mustard on the top of each fillet and season with salt and pepper. Top with bread crumbs, then drizzle with melted butter.
3. Bake in a preheated oven for 15 minutes, or until salmon flakes easily with fork.
Spinach Meatloaf
2 eggs
1 (10 oz) package frozen spinach, thawed
1-1/2 lbs. lean ground beef
½ cup milk
½ cup oats
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup wheat germ
½ teaspoon pepper
½ cup shredded carrots
½ cup steak sauce (or ketchup)
¼ cup onions
1. Mix everything together – EXCEPT steak sauce or ketchup
2. Shape into a loaf and bake 45 minutes at 350, add steak sauce at last 10 minutes
Note: It might be my oven but I have to bake it an 1-1/2 hrs.
Zesty Baked Fries
¼ cup grated parmesan cheese
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 teaspoons basil
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon garlic powder
4 medium red potatoes
1. Mix first 5 ingredients
2. Cut potatoes in sticks
3. Toss potatoes with cheese mixture.
4. Place on baking sheet coated with cooking spray.
5. Spray potatoes lightly with cooking spray.
6. Bake at 425 deg. For 15 minutes, turn potatoes over and bake 15 more minutes until crisp.
:D
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OMG, Noelle, you rock. Forget about Ellie - want to fly around the world and cook for me?
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These are what we have for lunches:
Baked beans
Cheese on toast (grilled cheese)
Cold lunch - Avocado/tomato/cheese/carrot sticks
Spanish omelette (regular omelette with cooked potato cubes)
Omelette with fresh herbs
Kedgeree (rice/hard boiled eggs/salmon/cream)
Red kidney beans straight out of the can
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OMG, Noelle, you rock. Forget about Ellie - want to fly around the world and cook for me?
Tee hee, you're too funny :lol: I'm not a good cook :lol:
Wanted to add...anytime a recipe calls for breadcrumbs, I add wheat germ :D
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We had fish today, piece of boneless plaice, dipped in beaten egg with herbs and coated in breadcrumbs and fried. Will actually try to bake it next time to see how it goes, I do the same with chicken.
Fiona
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A few cold foods that dd loves:
string cheese, if I cut it in thirds and "pre-string" it for her
cooked beans
thawed frozen peas
quartered cherry tomatoes
leftover pancakes, cut in squares (I make pumpkin pancakes to get a little veggie in her, and use whole wheat flour)
Today dd has eaten better than she has in weeks. She ate:
breakfast:
1/2 slice whole wheat-sunflower seed bread spread with peanut butter
2 tablespoons yogurt
1/4 of a large pear
lunch:
2 tablespoons beans
1 1/3 string cheese (she finished one and then signed and said "more" :shock: )
4 quartered cherry tomatoes
2 tablespoons peas
That's it so far. I'm definitely going to try that cream-cheese carrot roll-up sandwich-- I think dd might like it.
Oh, and last night she actually ate broccoli soup-- with a spoon, even! :D :shock: I was so impressed!
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I like this thread and hope it can continue!
Breakfast: 1 packet of oatmeal; offered strawberries but they were refused...water
Snack: Offered apricot and mandarin oranges...apricot was refused
Lunch: Offered 1/2 grilled cheese on whole wheat bread, 2T carrots, 2 strips of green pepper, and 1/4 cup mashed potato with broccoli...all eaten except any mashed potato and 1/4 of the green pepper
Snack: Offered banana and cheerios...refused banana
Dinner: cucumber, roasted chicken, ravioli and shredded cheese....refused roasted chicken
Snack: 5 wheat thins and water
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I know this thread is a little old, but I just found it. I was looking for some new ideas. It is so great and I have a whole list of goodies to make for Ree the next couple weeks. Here is our menu from today:
Breakfast - Fastcook oatmeal made w/ whole milk w/ mango & peaches & cinnamon, sliced prunes, and handful Cheerios; ate 1/2 cup oatmeal mixture, 5 prunes, & 2 Cheerios
Snack - 1/2 whole wheat waffle; ate whole thing
Lunch - 1/2 slice whole wheat bread with cream cheese & smashed mixed veggies & 1 slice turkey, Green beans, yogurt, peach; ate 1/2 sandwich, 1/4 cup green beans, 1/2 container Yo Baby yogurt, 5 bites peach
Snack - will be slice of cheese & whole wheat crackers & grapes
Dinner - will be tofu & black bean soft taco w/ avocado & sour cream, grapes, corn & yogurt
Would love to see some more ideas!
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Sabrina... I'm curious about your pumpkin pancakes... Can I have the recipe???
I make Isabella pumpkin muffins (very very healthy and delious, I make her mini muffins and me some normal sized ones ;D If your interested I can give you that recipe)
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I would like that recipe also Sabrina & your's too Tracy...Megan loves pumpkin muffins.
Would love to see this thread take off again:
Breakfast: same waffle w/ soy yogurt and fruit (taken her off all dairy for suspected MSPI)
snack: homemade cereal bar
lunch: avocado or almond butter & jelly sand & sweet potato mixed w/ apple sauce
snack: whole wheat crackers and cooked apple slices
dinner: mashed potates w/ mashed veg, 2 chicken fingers & fruit
snack: rusk, loves them!
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Michelle - I would love the homemade cereal bar recipe. Ree loves when I buy those and I would like to be able to make them.
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I would love the pumpkin and cereal bar recipes too!
Here was our day:
Breakfast - Offered toast, yogurt, and strawberries. Ate two bites of toast, a yo-baby, and 2 strawberries.
Snack - Offered cheerios. Ate handful (all).
Lunch - Offered mac n cheese, grapes, and blueberry applesauce. Ate maybe 5 bites of mac n cheese, 6 grapes, and 2 oz applesauce.
Snack - Offered applejuice, crackers, cheese stick. Ate two crackers, few bites of cheese, drank juice.
Dinner - Offered beef and veggie stew. Ate a couple bites of meat, a couple bites of potato, refused all other veggies or dumplings. Ate 2 chicken nuggets.
Of course, now eating cheerios again... ::)
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Hi, Shelia! Hope napping transition is /has gone well.
PUMPKIN recipe-
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup raisins
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cup packed brown sugar (i used 1/4 c)
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
3/4 cup canned pumpkin puree
1/2 cup vegetable oil (i sub apple sauce)
1/2 cup honey (left out)
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (left out)
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DIRECTIONS:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 12 cup muffin pan, or line with paper liners. Place the raisins in a cup, and add enough hot water to cover. Let stand for a few minutes to plump.
In a large bowl, stir together the whole wheat flour, brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Make a well in the center, and put in eggs, pumpkin, oil and honey. Mix just until the dry ingredients are absorbed. Drain excess water from raisins, and stir in along with the walnuts. Spoon into muffin cups so they are about 2/3 full.
Bake for 18 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the tops spring back when lightly touched. Cool in the pan before removing from cups.
I think i cooked them a bit longer.
Yogurt Cereal Bars
2 cups corn flakes
3/4 flour
1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2cup butter or margarine
1 cup Flavoured Lowfat yogurt (banana/strawberry etc..)
1 egg slightly beaten
2 tablespoons flour
Preheat oven to 350F
Combine cereal, 3/4 cup flour, sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl.
Cut in butter or margarine until co ar se crumbs form.
Press 1/2 the mixture firmly into the bottom of a greased 8inch square pan.
Mix yogurt, egg and 2 tablespoons flour in another small bowl.
Spread over cereal mixture in pan and then sprinkle the remaining cereal mixture on top
Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown; cut into bars when cooled.
from: http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/toddler/toddlersnacks.htm
Let me know how they turn out :-)
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Thanks for the recipes, Michelle! The cereal bars are in the oven right now. :D
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Thanks, it looks yummy. I marked that website and copied the recipes down. Thanks for the link.
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Here was today -
Breakfast - Scrambled egg, oatmeal, strawberries
Snack - Juice and cheerios
Lunch - Mac n Cheese, stew leftovers, Yo-Baby yogurt
Snack - Homemade cereal bar (thanks to Michelle!)
Dinner - Pea Soup, cheese stick
Does anyone else have kiddos who seem to eat close to nothing at mealtimes? I wonder how DS keeps the weight on, since he eats like a bird at most meals - maybe a bite of this, a bite of that, and then saying "all done." Hmmmmm. :-\
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Here is our day:
Breakfast: 1/2 Pumpkin Muffin (Thanks to Michelle. I think that I will do 1/2 whole wheat flour & 1/2 regular next time so they wouldn't be so dense, but Reegan loved them), few grapes, 1 prune, and Cheerios
Lunch; leftover Nacho Casserole, 1/4 plum, green beans.
Snack: Homemade breakfast bar (thanks to Michelle. I cut the butter way back and used part whole wheat flour and they are great!)
Dinner: Small Turkey burger, 5 spinach balls, green beans, 1/4 plum
I'm going to include the recipes for Nacho casserole and spinach balls. They are both super easy and Reegan loves them (and we do too).
Nacho Casserole:
2 tubes pizza crust or biscuits
1 jar salsa
2 Cup cheese
1 can black or pinto beans
1 pound chicken, beef, or tofu
1 small can corn
1 small chopped onion or green pepper
Cut uncooked crust into pieces. Mix with salsa and rest of ingredients. Pour in 9*11 pan. Bake 30 minutes at 375.
You can add anything that you like or not add anything listed. I have modified this a lot since the original. I make Reegan's without much salsa, lots of corn, beans, tofu and a little cheese. She loves it.
Spinach balls:
2 boxes chopped spinach
2 cups seasoned crumbs
3/4 cup butter (I use half this)
1 T Garlic
6 eggs
2 small chopped onions
1/2 cup Parmesan
Drain spinach and mix all together. Spoon balls on cookie sheets (greased if butter is reduced). Cook 350 for 20 minutes.
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Here's my pumpkin pancake recipe:
1 C pumpkin puree
1 C buttermilk
1/4 C maple syrup
3 T oil
2 eggs
2 tsp cinnamon }
1/8 tsp cloves }
1/8 tsp allspice } or, subsitute 1 tblsp pumpkin pie spice
1/8-1/4 tsp nutmeg }
1/2 tsp ginger }
Whisk all the above (wet) ingredients together in a large bowl
1 1/2 C whole wheat pastry flour
2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
Mix the above (dry) ingredients together in a medium bowl.
Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. Drop by 1/4 cup-fulls onto a hot griddle. Cook over medium or medium-low heat until bubbles form over the top surface, then flip and cook on the other side until golden. Makes about 16 pancakes.
I should make these again-- Lilah is currently eating pretty much NOTHING. Maybe I can convince her to eat again with these. It goes in waves; this weekend she ate everything in sight. Yesterday and today, next to nothing. And it seems Lilah may have dropped the morning nursing session, so I'm more concerned now about what she's eating, as I can't make it up as easily with my milk.
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Lilah's Mommy, thanks for the recipe..i am going to try them. Your's too MomtoRee!
MomtoRee wrote: I cut the butter way back and used part whole wheat
can you clarify..i am dense when it comes to cooking - used whole wheat for and how much, did you take away from something else?
The muffins are dense, i'll try your suggestion re 1/2 & 1/2.
Glad you all like them.
I try to remind myself all the time, she will eat when she is hungry and not to make food a battle. One mom told me she started using Pediasure as her toddler doesn't eat hardly a bit...now she says she doesn't worry. Have you looked at these sabrina? I think we you may have, sorry i can't remember. http://www.pediasure.com/homepage.cfm
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Michelle, Thank you for the yogurt cereal bar recipe.. I made them and Isabella liked them... Although, not as much as my dh ~ who ate the whole thing in a day & a half ::)
Here's my pumpkin spice muffin recipe.. they are terrific! And, they are very, very, healthy which is a really pluss! And, they are Isabella's (and my) favourite muffins!!
1 1/4 cup barley flour
1 1/4 cup maple or date sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup pumpkin puree
1/4 cup sunflower oil (or canola)
3/4 cup rye flour
2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
3/4 teaspoon unbuffered vitamin C crystals
1/2 cup raisons or dried cranberries
3/4 cup soy or rice milk
1/4 cup 'real' maple syrup
Oven to 375 F
~ Whisk the flours, maple syrup, pie spice, baking soda, vitamin C crystals & salt. Stir in raisons/cranberries.
~In another bowl, whisk pumpkin puree, milk, oil & maple syrup.
~Pour into flour mixture.
Don't ever mix
Bake for 16-18 minutes, or until firm in centre.
I know there are alot of ingredients and alot of steps, but they are sooo worth it! And you can feel really great about feeding them to your lo (and yourself ;))
If anyone tries them, let me know what you think...
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Michelle - sorry I wasn't more specific. I'm not really one who follows recipes, so it is hard for me to say exactly what I did. With the butter with the breakfast bars I used about half, maybe a little less than that. I just felt that it was a lot of butter for Ree. I have to agree that my dh liked them a lot too! With the flour instead of using regular white flour I replaced about 1/2 of it with whole wheat flour to make it a little healthier. Although, thinking about it later I would have used all regular flour and used bran flakes or multigrain flakes instead of corn flakes. As you can tell I alter recipes everytime I make something.
Reegan hasn't eaten much today. I think that her shots are bothering her because she is always a big eater. I think that we all probably worry too much about what they eat, but I guess that is what moms do.
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Today was one of those rare good eating day :). Charlie had:
- 5 am: bottle of milk
- breakfast: 1/2 piece of toast with honey Greek yoghurt on top + couple spoonfuls of Mummy's Readybrek + half of Daddy's yoghurt
- lunch: veg mash + beans + omelette and mangoes & plain yoghurt for pudding
- afternoon tea: Heinz Tropical muesli (2 g sugar/100 g :)) + Organix banana porridge + most of
Mummy's yoghurt + crackers
- dinner: roast chicken with rice, courgettes & red pepper and Weighchers' fromage frais (5 g sugar/100 g :)
- bedtime: 1/2 bottle of milk
Pretty good for him overall AND we had no teething or tantrums today :) ! Now all I'd like is for him to sleep through the night ;D
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Ethan (18months) had:
-Healthy Times Teddy Puffs cereal w/ raisins and milk for breakfast.
Snack: milk, crackers and grapes
-Bean and beef burrito for lunch
Snack: Apple and cheese
-Tortellini with tomato sauce, peas, strawberries and yogurt for dinner.
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Here was our day:
Breakfast - scrambled egg, oatmeal, strawberries
Snack - cheerios
Lunch - quesadilla, mango, yogurt
Snack - yogurt cereal bar
Dinner - chicken, veggie patties
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A tip on whole wheat flour...
For muffins, pancakes, etc., use whole wheat pastry flour. You can substitute it cup for cup for white all-purpose flour, as it is low-gluten and therefore makes a much lighter product. It's nearly as light as white flour, but much more nutritious. Another tip for muffins and pancakes-- use buttermilk (add baking soda to leaven-- about 1/2 tsp per cup of buttermilk). Buttermilk makes a much more tender product.
That's enough tips from the amateur baker. ;)
Lilah's eating better now. I think it was just one of those days.
I made another pumpkin concoction-- pumpkin french toast. I had a tiny amount of pumpkin left over in the fridge and got inspired.
Here's what I did:
Whisk together:
2 Tbsp. pumpkin puree
1 egg
some milk-- about 2-3 Tbsp?
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ginger
a tiny pinch each of nutmeg, cloves, and allspice
1 1/2 Tbsp brown sugar (though I suspect this could be cut down by quite a bit-- but haven't tried it again. I also would have used maple syrup if I had had it on hand).
If I hadn't run out the day before, I would have added a few drops of vanilla extract.
Soak three slices of whole wheat bread in the mixture, turn, and soak the other side. Grill on an oiled griddle on medium-low until browned on both sides and no longer soggy in the middle.
DD loved it!
Today I'm going to try out a pumpkin-cream cheese dip with the end of that pumpkin for her to dip her graham cracker in at snack (kind of like pumpkin cheesecake). I've got to sneak in those orange veggies where I can!
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Isabella (18months) had...
breakfast ~ one peice of whole wheat toast with sugar free raspberry jam & 2 strawberries & about 5oz of milk
Snack ~ cheese & goldfish crackers & 4oz of diluted apple juice (she likes the craft cheese strings, i cut them and they look like little circles)
Lunch ~ chicken sandwhich on a whole wheat wrap, cucumber & carrots and ranch dip (she's a dipper) and 10 raspberries for her fruit.
Snack ~ 4 oz of milk & an apple
Supper ~ rice (I mix 1/2cup white & 1/2 cup whole wheat ~ turns out softer than all whole wheat and makes everyone in my family happier ::)) cooked peas & carrots <ate the pea's, not the carrots>, chicken nugget, and I put some beans in maple syrup on her plate but she wouldn't touch them ::) ::)
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I never posted here before, but I've put all your recipes together and plan to try them one a week.
Meir mainly eats carbs and dairy. I'm trying to work within that instead of making it an issue. For example, he loves couscous and stopped being willing to always eat strained soup broth, so I used chicken soup broth instead of water for the couscous, and he loved it. (and a lot cleaner than eating soup. )
and Meir ate three peas today! (that's a vegetable!)
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Breakfast: milk, one slice of wholeweat bread with a little butter and honey
Snack: blended banana, kiwi and apple
Lunch: Fresh fish with vegetable soup
Snack: Banana and a cookie
Dinner: Cereal and milk
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Aidan 14.5mths had -
Breakfast - ready brek made up with 4oz cow's milk and half a pear
Lunch - one slice of wholemeal bread spread with dairylea and half a cup of plain yoghurt mixed in with a handfull of raspberries and blackberries
Snack - 3/4 of a banana
Tea - cod and pasta bake with peas and carrots and one pot of organix apple and prune rice pudding
Milk - 4oz sippy with breakfast and 9oz bottle before bed (only drinks half of the morning sippy as he's still protesting the withdrawal of the morning bottle a few days ago!)
Ideally I'd like to give him more veggies but don't really know how to without the need to cook. Tried giving him cherry tomatoes and cucumber for lunch but he didn't want to know. He's eating quite a lot of fruit so hopefully that will sort of make up for the lack of veggies.
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*sigh* My toddler is sick, I think. It's been a weird day. He ate:
Breakfast - 1/8 of a museli bagel, 2 pieces of bacon, OJ, a few bites of pear
Snack - yogurt
Lunch - two spoons of alphabet pasta, a couple of grapes, refused to eat anymore, got down from seat, then ate a few more grapes and a couple of pieces of cherry tomato
Snack - cracker, cheese, grapes, OJ
Dinner - couple bites of potato and salmon, then refused to eat again, gave him Cheerios, then started to eat his broccoli, and finished up with a ton of strawberries
I hate it when he doesn't eat properly. :(
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I was so happy to find this forum!! I feel like ds is eating the same thing all of the time--here is what he ate today!
Breakfast
Cheerios
Peach Slices
Milk
Snack
Grahm Crackers
Banana
Lunch
Sliced turkey
Cheese
Toast
Milk
Snack
Cheerios
Juice
Dinner
Mac and Cheese
Peas
Milk
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Today dd1 (25m) ate:
piece of toast with jam and peanut butter
2 plain biscuits
1/4 white bread sandwich with butter and marmite
4 rice crackers with hummus on
few pieces of ravioli pasta filled with spinach & ricotta
bowl of yogurt
drank some milk and water
(She's not much of an eater!! And pretty much never eats veges - and I see today she refused her fruit too!).
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Pre breakfast breast feed.
Breakfast - cup of milk, 2 weetabix with milk, raisins
snack - cup of water, rich tea biscuit, raisins
lunch - ham and cheese sandwiches made with whole grain seeded bread, grapes, drink - water
afternoon snack - cup of milk (anything more than this seems to kill his appetite for tea)
tea - poached salmon, mashed potato's, cheese sauce mixed with pureed cauliflower and broccoli (I over cooked these veggies so they were nicer pureed and made part of the sauce!) peas, sweetcorn and carrots, for pudding he had a fromage fraise. drink - water
I've just discovered this thread and think its great, it really makes you think about what your feeding them, I think if I thought I had to write a post every day it would definatly make me think a bit more closely about what I feed DS!
Hannah x
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hi every one,
my son aftab is 1 year 10 months old.he likes nothing other than milk.he ask for it when ever heis hungry. he ill drink5 cups of milk every day.he hates to be fed .some times he il have a biscut or two.he is 12kgs and very active i always wonder where his enery comes from.ask any doctor about this they say its ok as long as he is active . i never push him.but i know for brain development he requires protiens and carbohydrates too. we r indians and eat a very balanced food.i wish some one ill help me solve this problem. if at all anybody things its a problem.
???
hope some one ill help me
yda
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can you try making him healthful milk shakes in a blender? try putting in fruit, and can you add protein powder? (soy powder, or i think they make it from rice also.)
maybe someone else will have another idea of what you can put in it.
(if you need to make it sweet, use fruit instead of sugar.)
good luck. let us know how it goes.
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Hi Yda,
That must be really hard... :-\ So aside from a biscuit a day, he will not eat any other solids, even just snacking? Does he drink juice? Does he gag when he eats, or does it seem like he is just not interested. If milk is the only thing he will drink, I might ask the doctor for a referral to a nutrionist or feeding specialist. They hopefully can figure out why he will not eat any solids, and may be able to give you supplements for his milk to make up for vitamins. That must be frustrating... Let us know how things go. HUGS
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If your toddler will take milk shakes/smoothie, i found a great recipe for 2 here -
http://www.askdrsears.com/html/4/t040401.asp
HTH!
edited to add: if using Flax seed oil, as in the recipe, a toddler should have no more then 1/4 to 1/2 tsp of Flax seed oil per day as it can have a laxative effect.
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I never knew what to do when we had pizza and french fry night (we love pizza in this family ;D) b/c I didn't want her having the greasy pizza and fries we orderd in, so I found mini bite size pizza's and she loves that with McCain Smiles. I put some veggies on her plate and she eats the whole thing. (last night she had broccoli with it)
The pizza's aren't greasy (and there's (from Master Choice I think) and the smile are a tiny bit greasy but once a week or once every 2 weeks isn't too bad.
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thax so much for replying.
but my son will not eat if i try to feed him something.he doesn't ask for anything else other than milk if hez hungry. so i must feed him anything that looks white like milk. yes he had smoothies for a few days then he started gagging.but last week he had diaria and he looks so thin he might have lost weight.now hez ok. taking milk as usual.i wish he starts eating with us i always serve him what evere we eat.we have luch and dinner together. but he plays with the food and make a mess. he some times have a lil bit of rice and curd.i even tries once not to give him milk for brunch but still he didn't have proper lunch with us.will some one give me tips about how to get him to eat with us. he can have what ever we eat . but i think its attitude. that he ill not eat what mom gives him.why doesn't he undersatnad that therez food othe rthan milk. wish my eats healthy food.
luv,
yda
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scrambled egg (SO easy - just scramble egg in a mug, add a bit of milk and cheese, and microwave 1.5 - 2 minutes, then pop it out on a plate)
Omigosh, I didn't even know you do make it that way! Thanks!! I made scrambled egg yesterday the old-fashioned way, in a small frypan. I think DD would approve of the quicker microwave method... ;)
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what do you do with the tofu - have never offered as i have NO IDEA what to do with it as Dh would never consider it for us
I have no idea what to do with tofu either, but I'm trying to figure it out as it is a good source of protein.
My MIL puts large cubes of tofu in soups. When I go over to her place, I just fish out the tofu for DD ... she inhales the tofu, I think partly because my MIL buys the soft tofu so it goes down easy.
When I buy tofu at the store, I always choose a firm tofu, only because it's the one with higher calcium. Hey, it can't hurt, right? So far I have cut it into small cubes and tossed it into DD's spaghetti or noodles.
For spaghetti, I cook the spaghetti noodles, then cut it up into smaller pieces. Toss in the cubed tofu, plus lots of spaghetti sauce. Let all the flavors mingle while sitting in the fridge. ;) When I serve it to DD, I will add in a variety of cooked veggies, some more pasta sauce, stir it up, and DD inhales the stuff.
For noodles, I use Asian noodles
(something like this: http://www.wingyipstore.co.uk/print_view2.php?id=80558)
cooked in chicken broth. Chop up the noodles. Add tofu. Before serving, add cooked veggies & some broth.
I was trying to figure out a way to add tofu to our diet, since DD can't possibly eat the entire slab of tofu in the package before it turns bad. So I've cut it into larger cubes and tossed it into stir-fry and pasta dishes, and also threw it into salads. I even threw it into a chicken dish I recently made, Giada di Laurentiis' Roman Style Chicken, and it came out pretty well with the tofu in it.
(recipe here: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_33365,00.html).
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Can we get this thread going again? I need more ideas. These are pretty much Kelsey's usuals:
breakfast: grain and fruit bar, milk
snack: graham cracker, diluted juice
lunch: sliced turkey or a Gerber meal (like noodles and chicken/broccoli, cheese, and chicken/ravioli/mac and cheese), toast, cheese, fruit, milk
snack: graham crackers or yogurt, juice
dinner: chicken nuggets or grilled cheese or a Gerber meal, or our dinner if it's suitable for her (like a casserole, chicken, roast, mashed potatoes), fruit, maybe cheese (just to fill the plate), milk
bedtime: milk
I sneak veggies in by adding them to mac and cheese and in casseroles, otherwise she doesn't eat them alone. Sometimes she'll eat things like creamed spinach or tomatoes off my plate, but not if I were to place them in front of her. I usually make her a separate dinner and still try to offer her things from my meal to balance it out. I cook great dinners for myself and dh, but she won't always eat what we have. This week we've had chicken enchiladas, stuffed pasta shells with ground beef, pork roast, grilled chicken, and side dishes of rice, refried beans, green beans, potatoes, glazed carrots, sweet potatoes.
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I notice that Kelsey is a couple months older than my LO, I was just wondering, does she patiently wait for you to prepare her meals? My DD is always impatient if her food doesn't appear on her tray in what she considers a timely manner. It seems like she wanted her food yesterday, sigh... just wondering if they ever figure out that "it's coming" when they see mommy doing stuff in the kitchen.
I've never tried the Gerber meals before. Lately we have been giving her our dinners, just running it through the food processor to make smaller chunks so she can more easily manage.
How do you make creamed spinach?
At this age, do you still dilute fruit juice with water? Or do you give it straight? I know they advice giving 1/2 water 1/2 juice, which is what I'm doing now. Just wondering when to make the switch to 100% juice.
I do the same thing with cheese, to fill the plate as you say. Sometimes it's a snack before bedtime if her dinner was on the early side. I try not to give anything too "sugary" before bedtime.
Let's see, yesterday she had...
Breakfast: waffle, banana, milk
Snack: yams, yogurt, milk, juice
Lunch: Burrito (nibbled off my plate), strawberries, milk, juice
Snack: Cracker, avocado, milk, juice
Dinner: spaghetti, milk
This is a great thread for ideas. I have days when I wonder what in the world will I feed her??? And she seems to be eating more and more these days...
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Loving this thread!!!!!!!!!!
Today
Breakfast- Cereal with half a mango and some fruit
Snack; Cheerios and some blueberries
Lunch: Broccoli and cauliflower with cheese sauce followed by yogurt
Snack; Cheese and a piece of toast
Dinner; Chicken and rice cooked with carrots and onions
Tommorrow
Breakfast; Cereal with fruit and yogurt
Snack; Whatever I can rustle up
Lunch; scrambled eggs smoked salmon and cheese, fruit
Snack; Whatever
Dinner; Minestrone soup with pasta
Very open to new ideas..........
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Marie, no, Kelsey is NOT patient. Luckily she is still on 2 naps a day, before lunch and before dinner. Therefore, I prepare her meals before she wakes. Sometimes, however, she doesn't have the 2nd nap, so I distract her with the "Wiggles" while I fix her dinner, or I put her in her seat and offer her meal as it is ready. The Gerber meals I was referring to are the the ones in little cups, and I also buy Del Monte. I don't use them too much b/c she likes to self feed.
I usually buy the creamed spinach (spinach marie), but here is one receipe I've used before and it was delicious:
2 packages frozen spinach (10 oz), chopped
1 med. onion, chopped
1 T. margarine
1 (8 oz) cream cheese
3/4 - 1 c. Parmesan cheese (grated), save 1/4 c. for topping
1/2 - 3/4 tsp. cayenne pepper (careful, too much will ruin it)
Cook spinach as directed on box. Drain on paper towels. Saute onions with margarine on stove. Add cream cheese, spinach, Parmesan cheese and pepper to onions while on stove. Cook for several minutes until everything is mixed well and cream cheese is melted. Place in greased casserole dish. Put the remaining cheese on top. Bake at 350 for 25 to 30 minutes.
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i just love this thread.
breakfast: apple slices; toast with butter and some blueberry jam (rejected yoghurt) - there is usually little variation on the fruit/toast/yoghurt theme as dh is responsible for breakfast ;)
snack: quartered grapes; cheese slices
lunch: pear slices; homemade carrot muffin (rejected broccoli and homemade hamburger patty)
snack: pear slices; hard swedish bread
dinner: cauliflower; toast with teewurst; an orange
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HeatherC: Thanks for the Cream Spinach recipe, I will have to give it a try. Last night we gave DD some Spinach & Cheese ravioli. She seemed to like that, of course, it was drowned in spaghetti sauce. :)
I want to try melted cheese over veggies. When I went to the supermarket today and looked at the Velveeta box, I just couldn't bring myself to buy it. I think fresh cheese slices would be better. There's just something wrong about solid cheese that doesn't need refrigeration, you know?
We tried Mac & Cheese for the first time yesterday, it was a hit! It was really my lunch, a Marie Callendars Mac&Cheese frozen entree, and I just let her nibble off my plate. Mmmm... yum! Just don't look at the nutrition label. :-\
Here's what DD had so far today:
Breakfast: blueberry waffle. banana.
Lunch: chicken/veggie pasta. yogurt.
Snack: chocolate chip cookie. mangoes. (first time for mangoes, she liked them, made sure to do mangoes before cookie ;) )
Dinner will be spinach & cheese ravioli with some veggies, again.
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Marie-Del Monte baby food or Gerber makes a good pasta shells and cheese that Kelsey just loves. Of course, she also likes the Kraft brand, but the other way I don't have to make a whole box, just use a single size serving bowl instead.
I think your cheese on veggies ideas sounds good. If your dd likes carbs, Morning Star makes veggie bites that are bread coated with veggie and cheese inside.
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[My daughter loves eating thinghs out of her hands she doesn't like to sit down with a bowl of dinner in front of her any suggestions as to what to give her in her hand for a healthy hot lunch and dinner. I'm desperate sick of giving her cheese etc... :)
Mia
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Breakfast - Scrambled egg, toast, strawberries (always eats a good breakfast)
Snack - Crackers, Cheese (nibbled a bit of each)
Lunch - Spaghetti, rice pudding, grapes (ate a few noodles, and lots of rice pudding and grapes
Snack - Cheerios
Dinner - refused all dinner so MIL gave him red vines, ice cream, and cookies ::) (ARGGG - I love my MIL to death, but this drives me nuts, and DH won't say anything! Sorry if this turned into a MIL vent. :()
Miaria - My kiddo loves to eat chicken nuggets, fish sticks, veggie crackers, rolled tortilla filled with cheese and chicken, veggie sausage links. HTH
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just found this thread love it!!
Breakfast: nutra grain cereal, apple juice
Snack: watermelon
Lunch: Honey and penut butter sandwhich (MIL introduced this ) :p
snack: tub of yoghurt
Dinner: Steak, mashed potato, pumkin, brocolli, zuchnni, and corn
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This is a really useful thread as my 2 year old just refuses nearly everything I give to him!
Yesterday he had:
Breakfast: Half a weetabix, slice of wholemeal toast
Lunch: 3 slices of maltloaf, cereal bar - we were at a 3 year old's party and he refused everything they had!!
Tea: Pasta in a homemade tomato sauce, yoghurt
I feel that Benjamin just does not enjoy the whole sitting down to eat thing but I don't want to strap him in a chair now he is close to 3. Do any other parents still use a seat with straps for over 2's? I think I may have to resort to this again!!
xxx
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We are almost 2 and still need to strap her in her chair/boster seat (she is refusing to sit in her high chair lately). I resently started looking into texture aversion/sensory delays to see if this could give us some help w/ DD very limited menu (refuses all meats, table veg & anything that doesn't turn to mush right away). One site i found, recommended to have distraction during a meal. I didn't want to just put on the TV so instead i put on our signing dvds (we have been teaching dd ASL). It has helped greatly- her speech, her signing and her eating.
HTH
M
Here is a link to the thread we started on texture aversion: https://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=59022.new;topicseen#new
Also to some good sites regarding sensory issues/delays which cover food or picky eaters:
http://coco.essortment.com/sensorydisorder_rhky.htm
http://www.bridges4kids.org/Disabilities/SID.html
http://www.spdnetwork.org/aboutspd/whatisspd.html
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Looking foward to the day when she actually eats "properly"
Leah's mum - just curious - what did you mean by this? What she eats or how she eats?
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Today Neve had (she is 17 months):
Breakfast: bowl of toddler cereal with mashed banana and milk
Snack: 2 small marmite sandwiches and some raisins and otees (like cheerios) and a biscuit!
Lunch: Grilled cheese on toast with ham
Snack: half a home made cupcake
Dinner: scrambled egg with peas and corn and a whole naartjie (like a mandarin orange or tangerine)
Bedtime: 100ml formula milk
She eats tiny amounts and isnt a huge milk fan. Am trying to wean her off breastmilk which she still has once a night, other than that she has between 100ml and 200ml of formula milk a day as well.
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I have read through all the posts. My DD is refusing to be spoon fed now, apart from yoghurt ::) So I am taking tips off of the previous posters what they are giving their LO's are having.
Today I was going to give her a jar of fruit breakfast which she normally gobbles up, she refused, so I went back to the cheerios again, she ate all of them.
All UK ladies what sort of crackers do you give your LO's?
She is a big milkaholic, but I think she will take anything and give it a try, unless she gags, she refuses.
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we went thru this "spoon refusal" phase also and had to quickly find finger food she could eat. This will pass, i found if i didn't push her and stop trying to force the issue she came around and once again we were back to spoon feeding...took a few weeks at least.
at 11mo i didn't give any crackers (due to dry and crumbles), but stuck w/ cheerios and chex (some times called rice pockets). Waffles (cut into cubes) w/ apple sauce or yogurt on top. yorgurt and cheese shreeded (so can eat like ff), Cheese cubes, tofu cubes, can pear as very soft, that is all i can remember.
HTH!
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Michelle,
So glad this will pass. I couldn't think what to give her, so rang my mum, she suggested a fish finger with breadcrumbs cut off, peas, and potato, she ate it, I was so pleased.
All she really is having are (if she doesn't refuse) sandwiches, with marmite or jam or cheese (dairylea, cream cheese), cheerios, potato waffles, peas
But rest assured she doesn't refuse fruit as she is fresh fruit fanatic (peaches, raspberries, strawberries, banana, pears). I don't cut it up, I hold it for her and she gums it.
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This is a great thread! it's so good to see what other children are eating and whattheir table habits are like. For the past year we've been having a terrible time with Ted who will be 3 in July. He refuses to sit at the table for any length of time and we're still having to feed him most of the time. Ruthie our 13 month old is the complete opposite. She's still in a high chair so the staying put isn't an issue but she refuses to be fed which is a nightmare because I worry that she's not getting enough just feeding herself. Well today I think someone has changed my children for new ones while I wasn't looking. Today the pair of them have been great!! Ted had 2 slices of toast and a banana for breakfast. Ruthie had a quarter of toast and a handful of cheerios and some milk. They both drink apple juice in their sippy cups throughout the day. For lunch Ted had 4 fish fingers and 2 slices of bread and butter, a pear and some jaffa cakes. Ruthie had scrambled egg, a slice of toast, some ham and some pear and 6oz of milk. Dinner was the easiest dinner we've had for a long time. They both had lasagne and Ruthie had bread and butter, 4 slices of cold ham. some raisins and a yoghurt. Ted had yoghurt too. I'm still in shock that Ted actually sat and ate all of his dinner by himself and Ruthie let me feed her. What's going on? Where are the real Ted and Ruthie???
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Fingers crossed I am coming out of a food free week. Her appetite seemed have picked up today. For breakfast; a handful of cheerios, half a slice of toast with peanut butter and banana and then some raspberries. After her music class she had a bit of cheese; for lunch half a bowl of Ratatouille and a yogurt. Dinner was fantastic though; Fish fingers with mashed potato and peas. She fed herself the whole thing( mashed potato as finger food was interesting............) and finished off with 9oz of milk before bed. Let's see if this lasts...
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Thanks for all the ideas!
Breakfast - 1/2 slice of toast, yogurt, milk
Snack - 1/4 blueberry bagel, water
Lunch - 1/4 grilled cheese sandwich, rice pudding, watermelon, milk
Snack - peanut butter filled pretzels, few bites of banana
Dinner - bites of hamburger, bun, corn on the cob, milk
DS still has a hard time eating at meals (often eats one bite of dinner and says "All Done!!!"), but we are slowly working on that. ;)
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Honey Hoops cereal! I cover them with milk then tip the milk off just so they are moist, the only cereal she will eat
Bottle of Milk
Toast 10.30am
Banana 11.30am
slept 1 - 3.30pm
4.30pm sliced beef (Topside) Boiled Potatoes, Brocolli, Cauli, Carrots (julienne style not sliced, no way!) peas, she ate every bit on her own, I just cut the pieces small and she does it herself, won't allow me to feed her now.
Grapes (peeled and cut, what a potch!
biscuits (she went to nanas whilst I took DS to swim lessons, she always spoils her!)
Bottle of milk for bed
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Today she had...
Breakfast: sausage pasta (sausage, mushroom, tomatoes, broccoli, corn, & pasta mixture) with carrots & zucchini; banana
Snack: scrambled egg with carrots
Lunch: mashed potatoes; meatloaf
Dinner will be: spaghetti & tofu w/ carrots & broccoli
Of course she also gets a lot of cheerios throughout the day...
Yesterday she had a small appetite due to a very hot day...
Breakfast: sausage pasta with carrots & zucchini; banana
Snack: applesauce; rice cake
Lunch: yogurt
Snack: cantalope; banana again
Dinner: broccoli w/melted cheese; burrito
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we went thru this "spoon refusal" phase also and had to quickly find finger food she could eat. This will pass, i found if i didn't push her and stop trying to force the issue she came around and once again we were back to spoon feeding...took a few weeks at least.
at 11mo i didn't give any crackers (due to dry and crumbles), but stuck w/ cheerios and chex (some times called rice pockets). Waffles (cut into cubes) w/ apple sauce or yogurt on top. yorgurt and cheese shreeded (so can eat like ff), Cheese cubes, tofu cubes, can pear as very soft, that is all i can remember.
HTH!
Have you tried a little fork, my LO manages much better but also used her fingers!
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Hi all, im new to this site, like most i also have a very fussy toddler! she likes things like spagetti and currys that sort of thing but trying to get her to eat veg is another story! So my husband and i now puree up a selection of cooked veg and add it to the sauce in spagetti or curry! that way she is getting her favourite foods and we have the peace of mind that she is getting the goodness out of her food aswell! Hope this of some help to some people![/color]
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Little one loves her food, but has been rather sick and off eating and drinking. Fortunately springing back!
b/fast
50ml milk
1 weetbix and raw muesli on top with milk
m/tea
yogurt with 1/2 kiwifruit and 1/2 mandarin
lunch
beef and rice meal - steak simmered in beef stock, add rice, add tinned crushed tomatoes, add peas. She loves it! I have the leftovers in jaffles (toasted sandwiches)
a/tea
dried fig, 1/2 natural muesli bar, 1 cherry (learning to like this one), 1/4 english muffin with vegemite (yeast spread like marmite or promite for the non-aussies) :D
dinner
cheese and crackers
home made hamburgers -in the end she ate all separately = 1/2 mince patty, slice tomato, slice pineapple, 1/4 of multigrain bread roll, ONE baby spinach leaf ;D
100ml milk before bed.
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Hi all, im new to this site, like most i also have a very fussy toddler! she likes things like spagetti and currys that sort of thing but trying to get her to eat veg is another story! So my husband and i now puree up a selection of cooked veg and add it to the sauce in spagetti or curry! that way she is getting her favourite foods and we have the peace of mind that she is getting the goodness out of her food aswell! Hope this of some help to some people![/color]
Hi Eb's Mum, I see this is your very first post, Welcome to BW!!
We do the same thing. DD loves her sauce, so we throw it over her veggies also. Noodles with veggies. I just make noodles, cooking real well until soft, let cool, then chop it up into tiny pieces. I add soft cooked veggies (usually zucchini, squash, carrots) that are chopped into tiny pieces. I also add some tofu for protein (an easy protein that's soft for beginner eaters!), and a bit of sauce or broth for flavor. She just loves it, and usually inhales the stuff. I haven't tried curry sauce yet. I'm sure she'd like it though. How do you make your curry sauce?
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hello,
today my youngest daughter had
breakfast:
a beaker of cow and gate milk (for up to 2 years)
rice crispies with some cows milk.
snack:
beaker of squash
half an apple
dinner:
cherry tomotoes, cucumber, lettuce (some does go in her mouth), new pototoes in homemade garlic and parlsey butter.
half a bagel with soft cheese on.
banana
beaker of squash
snack:
baked beans on toast (as it was so hot today nobody felt like eating much)
cut up grapes, strawberries, yogurt.
beaker of water
before bed:
a beaker of cow and gate milk
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why does the word cu cu mber come up all weird!!!!
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Hi Fiona -
I think it is just because the software found an unacceptable word within that word... so it got rid of those three letters... Same thing happens when you write c!@!@at. (as in car seat) ;D
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Well my DD is having a lot more food again now ::) Its a good job as she had lost 10ozs when I got her weighed last week due to her having a viral infection
Breakfast
4oz formula mixed with 3oz of cows milk (I'm weaning her gradually as she couldn't handle cow's milk on its own)
1hr later handful of cheerios, 2/3 of toast and 2/3 of a breadstick
No snack, but about 4 oz of water
Lunch
Round of bread with filling of cottage cheese, 3 slices of Edam cheese, 2 organic carrot crunchy sticks and 5 tomato herb and cheese cruncy sticks (like crisps but without the junk) 2 strawberries 2 slices of kiwi fruit and a yoghurt with about 3oz of water
1 hr later 4oz formula mixed with 2oz of cows milk
Snack of 2 slices of turkey roll and 2 slices of edam cheese again and a breadstick with 4oz of water
Dinner
1 Fishfinger, 1 small potato, roughly 3tbsps of mixed veggies (carrotts, peas, green beans and sweetcorn) 2 strawberries 2 slices of kiwi fruit, 1/4 of a banana, and 1 yoghurt about 3oz of water
Before bed 4oz formula mixed with 3oz of cows milk
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bump
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Ok when DD isn't teething this is generally what she eats in a day.
Breakfast: 1/2cup porriage and apple or 1.5weetbix and fruit mixed with 4ozs milk. Handful of cheerios or 1/2slice toast with vegemite. 4ozs milk in a cup.
Morning snack: Stick of cheese or some crackers and 4ozs milk in a cup.
Lunch: Today it was a scrambled egg with cheese. Also she could have: a small tin of spagetti/bake beans,sandwich with cheese and vegemite,soup,maccaroni and cheese. 120g tub of yoghurt and water in a cup.
Afternoon snack: Fruit stick/cheesy bread stick and sultanas. Water in a cup
Dinner: 1/2-3/4 cup of what we have. Today is will be meat loaf with pasta and veges. 1/2cup dessert which is either: jelly&custard,custard&fruit or chocolate pudding. 4ozs milk in a cup
Before bed: 5.5oz bottle.
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How do you do soup with your LO? I'm always afraid of splashage. DD loves to hold and try to use the spoon today, and I can just see her hitting the soup with the spoon, causing a big splash.
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She still lets me feed her at the moment otherwise it would be a no go. Since it is winter here it is a great thing to have in the middle of the day.
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May I make a suggestion? Could you include your dc's age when listing what they ate? It helps in quickly figuring out if it's something to give to a young toddler or older toddler. (I suppose I could do the math based on what your tickers say vs when you posted but this way it's easier for the lazy (me! ;D) and/or sleep deprived (me also! ;D)).
TIA!!! :) :) :)
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Owen is 19 months. Somedays he can eat loads. The next day he'll eat next to nothing :-\
Yesterday was a good day :)
Wake and 6-8oz milk
Breakfast~half slice of toast, handful of cheerios, melon
Snack~banana
Lunch~cheese, ham crackers & yoghurt
Snack~biscuit
Dinner~macaroni cheese, peas and sweetcorn, followed by a probiotoc yoghurt drink
Bedtime milk
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Dinner~macaroni cheese, peas and sweetcorn, followed by a probiotoc yoghurt drink
Is the probiotic yoghurt drink Kefir by any chance? I've just found out about this and plan to add it to our diet.
Don't you get frustrated on the days that your ds doesn't eat? I keep worrying that, by not eating enough, my ds (now 17 mo) will wake during the night. :P *lol* Talk about being selfish, huh?
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on the days that your ds doesn't eat? I keep worrying that, by not eating enough, my ds (now 17 mo) will wake during the night. :P *lol* Talk about being selfish, huh?
How would you know whether he is waking up due to hunger? Does he "tell" you he's hungry?
DD has the occasional night waking. Sometimes I offer her water which she may or may not take a sip. I've never offered her food, thinking it'll just wake her up too much. When DD has a day of not eating much, she'll usually make it up the next morning/day (or sometimes days later) with a healthy appetite.
It's only 10:30am here, so I can't tell you what DD will eat today, but I can tell you what she had yesterday...
breakfast: chicken pasta; banana
lunch: noodles with tofu & carrots
snack: blueberries; nibbled off my burrito
snack: melted sharp chedder over broccoli; strawberries
dinner: avocado; chicken & mozzarela ravioli
and of course corn flakes and banana fruit puffs sprinkled about here and there during the day. :)
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Don't you get frustrated on the days that your ds doesn't eat? I keep worrying that, by not eating enough, my ds (now 17 mo) will wake during the night. :P *lol* Talk about being selfish, huh?
Same here! DS (20 mos) has days that he eats next to nothing. For example, one bite of chicken (more like a nibble), for dinner, and that's it. My biggest worry is that he will wake hungry at night, and it kills me to think of him sitting in his crib with a growling tummy. :P
Anyone have carb-only kids. DS will eat fruit, but aside from that, only wants plain noodles, cheerios, toast, etc. I worry that he isn't getting a proper diet, and I hope it is a phase! I guess all I can do is still offer a variety. :-\
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Sheila, carbs are a certainty around here. Fruit is good, but veggies are hit or miss. I still put them on her plate whenever they are served, though, but I don't force them.
Kelsey is 18 mos today:
Breakfast: waffle with sugar free syrup, milk
snack: cherrios, watered-down juice
lunch: 1/2 ham and cheese sandwich, slice of pear, slice of peach, milk
snack: cherrios (I only give a tiny bit here or she won't eat much dinner), watered-down juice
dinner: lasagna---loves, loves, loves it, milk
bedtime: milk, 1/2-whole graham cracker usually
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Anyone have carb-only kids. DS will eat fruit, but aside from that, only wants plain noodles, cheerios, toast, etc. I worry that he isn't getting a proper diet, and I hope it is a phase! I guess all I can do is still offer a variety. :-\
I've read that kids need carbs anyway. Don't worry about giving him protein at this point but also don't worry about making his diet low-fat (for example, don't substitute low-fat milk or other items). Give him the real deal. Also, if you can, try getting him to eat veggies (I know it's not easy... apparently my ds eats like your ds :)). Anywho, my ds also eats mostly carbs. He's not big on cheese, but he's getting to like it.
Marie, he wakes up asking for milk and gulps it down greedily when I give him some. Then, of course, he wakes up with a completely full or soaked through diaper. :-\ Btw, if your daughter eats like that most days, that's wonderful! :) :) I LOVE to see my ds eat and enjoy what he's eating.
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Good to know I am not the only one with a carb-addict. :P I do try to add protein and calcium, like egg in the morning, cheese as a snack, or peanut butter on a rice cake, etc, but the kiddo just loooooves his cheerios, crackers, and bread. You are right - I need to keep offering veggies, whether he eats them or not. One thing that semi-works - if I put a dab of sour cream on his food, he is more likely to try it. Sour cream on cooked carrots - yummmm. :-X
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DS used to eat one egg 5-6x per week but I think I pushed it to the limits. He rarely eats eggs now (he'll share one with me but only when I make 2 eggs for me rather than 1 for each of us... how does he know?! ::))
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Great idea about the meals, I'll post then continue reading.
My dd's got an Asian palate, so her meal looks different from others. I wish she would eat a pizza, sausage or pasta. Arggghhh...
Breakfast:
weetabix or cornflakes + strawberries or bananas
toast or bread with peanut butter or jam
eggy bread (french toast) in different cut out shapes (loves these). She can have 3 slices of this, but it has to be plain, without jam, honey or anything on it.
raisin toast
Snacks:
Yoghurt
Youghurt drink
fruit (grapes, cherries or banana)
muffin
biscuits
babybel cheese
Lunch & Dinner:
Rice with soup and chicken/fish/pork (steamed, broiled or fried)- 70% of the time
Rice with steam fish and tofu
Rice with steam egg and pork
Pasta elbows (only one she'll eat) with soup and chicken
Dim sum / yum cha (once every fortnight)
Fried rice with egg and chicken/pork/shrimp (not too keen on the shrimp if she sees it)
2-min noodles with egg
Chicken nuggets and fries (75% of the time when we are eating out)
Fish fingers (sometimes) with fries
Peanut butter/jam/nutella sandwiches
Roast chicken bits
Some Arabic meat-filled pastries
If you haven't noticed, there is no vegie on the menu. I try to make the soup with some tofu and vegies (cabbage, spinach or carrots) in it and mash it with the rice but it has to be really mashed otherwise she'll spend the entire meal pulling it out.
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DS used to eat one egg 5-6x per week but I think I pushed it to the limits. He rarely eats eggs now (he'll share one with me but only when I make 2 eggs for me rather than 1 for each of us... how does he know?! ::))
LOL... food is always more interesting, and possibly more delicious, if eaten off your plate!!! DD is the same way. She always has to have a taste of whatever I'm eating ... even if she is already full. ::)
I usually do a scrambled egg with cooked cubed carrots for DD. Sometimes I'll do that for her, put it on my plate. Scamble another egg for me, add it to my plate. And then I'll just feed her her egg/carrot mixture, while I eat my egg-only mixture. Sometimes that works better than when we have two separate plates.
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Georgia~I haven't heard of that make of probiotic drink (but we're in Scotland) :) I buy Munch Bunch and Owen LOVES it. I admit, I had to persevere with it. The first couple of times he wasn't interested. But I really wanted him to try because I drink them myself and swear I never have stomach bugs etc ;D Since he's been drinking one a day, he hasn't been ill either and that's been months now :)
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Ahh... Munch Bunch is a yoghurt drink. Kefir is "a creamy drink made of fermented cow's milk." (as defined on Answers.com). It's not yoghurt, though it's related... like a cousin. ;) You made a good point about it helping your digestive system. That's what the bacteria in there does (like acidophilus, etc) and very good for both lo and parents! I think I'll be "suggesting" it more to ds. ;)
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I am back and my 16 month old completely refuses to be fed now and also does not want to use a fork or a spoon so it is fingers all the way ( and I mean with everything) so she will no longer have cereal in mornings; I have had to resort to giving her cheerios with milk and she just picks on the Cheerios one they have soaked. Breakfat is therefore a bit difficult; once I give her toast, cheerios, fruit and yoghurt's etc.. I have kind of run out of ideas as I am not one up for cooking first thing in the morning.
Lunch today was Cottage pie ( minced meat and veg with mashed potatoes on top) followed by raspberries, snack was juice and a blueberry muffin and dinner was cauliflower and broccoli with cheese sauceand half a banana. I am very frustrated with this finger eating as I am constantly making croquettes of various kinds and it is getting boring.
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For breakfast, you could try pancakes, waffles, french toast.
Will she eat off the spoon/fork if you put the food on it, but let her bring it to her mouth? Or did she already know how to scoop the food herself?
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Bradley had
Breakfast: weetabix with milk and strawberries
Snack: Apple
Lunch: Scrambelled egg with mushroom tomato and cheese in it, its yummy
Dinner: spaghetti bolognaise with garlic bread!
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She does know how to scoop with a spoon ( not very well mind you) but she will not allow me to guide her hand, put food on the spoon for her or anything so I guess I will just have to wait and see if it improves. A muffin for breakfast today; as I said I can not bring myself to cook first thing in the morning.
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At least she can scoop with a spoon. I haven't yet dared to give DD cheerios in milk, like you have done. My 16 mos DD is still learning, she mostly "pats down" her food or hitting the spoon against the bowl. ::) Someday it will all click...
Right now she's going through an "I want to feed myself with my fingers" phase. So like your daughter, she isn't really letting me spoon feed her, or even helping her load up her spoon & guiding it to her mouth. If I guide her hand to scoop up some food onto the spoon. she'll use her other free hand to pick the food off the spoon. ::) So now I'm changing the menu to be more finger-friendly (no more mashed potato, apple sauce, yogurt). Like anything else we've gone through with her, I know it is just a phase. So yours is probably going through a phase also. Hopefully it won't last too long.
Like you, I don't like cooking in the mornings either. We always give DD banana at breakfast, and she usually has leftover dinner with it (there's a story behind that). We also like to give her "easy" foods like waffle, pancake and toast. During the rest of the day, she may have cubed yams, cubed potatoes, cubed flavored tofu w/dip (tried that yesterday, she loved it!), cubed ravioli, small pieces of pasta, cubed veggies (melted cheese on top is a hit), cubed avocado, and cut up pieces of fruit.
Breakfast: flank steak pasta; banana
Snack: grapes; cracker; carrots
Lunch: tofu w/sesame ginger dip; strawberries
Dinner: potatoes; cheese over broccoli
Snack: peanut butter on toast
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Off at daycare for the day, so the only meal she had at home was supper. Pasta rings with spaghetti sauce and squished peas mixed in. Banana pieces and lactose free milk. Amazingly, she did not spit the peas out. 8)
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Haven't posted here in about 6 months and think things have improved slightly. Have a carb baby here too.
Breakfast is always weetabix and very occasionally ready brek, she used to nibble on my toast but has stopped.
Lunch and dinner vary among the following, pasta with- cheese cubes ( cheddar), salami, turkey, ham, tuna, corn ( v occasionally), horrible alphabet soup to which I add my own pasta......... and that's it! She has 2 natural yogurts a day 170g with fruit puree, only way to get fruit in. She has aslo started to eat a tiny bit of meat, chicken and fish after main course and yogurt. Meat and chicken are breaded and fried, fish is oven baked cod or plaice, but not enough to consitute a meal. We don't really do snacks but if she is hungry she will usually have cheese, cheddar though on occasion parmesan. She has also started to eat sausages and I make quiche which I call pizza, I get to puree cauliflower and broccoli and sneak it in there, those are the only veg she eats. Yesterday I made a chicken supreme dish with a packet sauce and added mushroom, she ate a tiny bit last night and had some more today with pasta, was suprised as it was quite garlicky, and the other thing we do less now than before is home made meatballs, usually pork. And she will eat "crunchy bread" or "crunchy crackers" occasionally with bel paese cream cheese which she will lick off ;)
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One yummy thing we do that is easy for breakfast and encouarages more fruit is frozen waffles (popped in the toaster) and then spread with pureed strawberries or apricots. My DS loves waffle bites with fruit on them. Anyone have suggestions on alternatives to the lunch menu? What has worked for your kiddo?
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Today DD had a grilled soy butter and banana sandwich cut into bites. Too young for peanut butter. She ate all but the crusts. Love the waffle idea!
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I always have trouble thinking of something to give ds for lunch.
Breakfast is either some sort of sugar free cereal, toast, croissant, bread.
Dinner will be a little of what we have, usually some sort of meat with either potatoes, rice, pasta or noodles. I try and get in as many veggies as possible then.
Snack he will have bananas, apples or sometimes cheerios.
But my mind goes blank for lunch. He won't eat sandwiches of any description and doesn't like ham or pork either.
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Hi Debs,
What about cold cuts as in turkey, salami, mortadella? dd loves these. Also toasted sambos ( made in sandwich maker), she likes tomato and cheese, tuna and mayo, and cheese and ham though you could try turkey. Also mini pizzas, quiche, piece of oven baked fish, fish fingers, sausages, do a savoury croissant even, french toast, pancakes, omlette............ too bad my dd wont eat most of these things ::) Oh and there is always "crunchy bread" which my dd loves and crackers and cream cheese, always followed by yogurt and fruit in our house
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I made dd a Boca Burger (veggie burger) with a slice of cheese on top and pulled apart for her in small portions and she absolutely loved it! Wasn't quite sure if she would eat it or not.
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I made dd a Boca Burger (veggie burger) with a slice of cheese on top and pulled apart for her in small portions and she absolutely loved it! Wasn't quite sure if she would eat it or not.
Aleisha
How did you make that ?
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Lauren, I'm pretty sure that Boca Burger is a brand you can buy in the store.
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Sheila, carbs are a certainty around here. Fruit is good, but veggies are hit or miss. I still put them on her plate whenever they are served, though, but I don't force them.
Kelsey is 18 mos today:
Breakfast: waffle with sugar free syrup, milk
snack: cherrios, watered-down juice
lunch: 1/2 ham and cheese sandwich, slice of pear, slice of peach, milk
snack: cherrios (I only give a tiny bit here or she won't eat much dinner), watered-down juice
dinner: lasagna---loves, loves, loves it, milk
bedtime: milk, 1/2-whole graham cracker usually
Heather, I notice that you give milk with all her meals, and Kelsey is nearly the same age as Alex, How much do you give her, Alex loves her milk, but I worry that she won't have enough to eat if I give her too much milk. Do you give it to her in a cup or bottle etc. Her eating is not bad, but due to a bad teething bout she is not as good as she used to be, so perhaps giving a little more milk through the day might help. She currently drinks a whole bottle in the morning after breakfast and a bottle at bedtime. (sometimes through the night if she is having a really bad time settling. She doesn't drink it so well from a cup though, she loves her bottle and to be quite honest, I have no worries about that, I'm not eager to stop a bottle, she uses a cup ok for her water, so it's not like she can't use one.
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Hi Lauren
Yes, they are the kind you buy in the store. They are just a certain brand of veggie burgers. There are others as well. One other I can think of is Morningstar.
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sorry about previous post, Heather. I am not much good with quotes!
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Mari, Kelsey used a sippy cup for her drinks. I usually pour 3-4 oz at each meal, as that's about all she'll drink. She doesn't get the recommended 16 oz per day, but she does have other dairy products, so I'm not worried. I offer milk post meal if she's still thirsty, but then usually give her half-strength juice while she plays and with snacks.
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Breakfast: Cheese spread on toast & a banana. lunch: sausages, corn on the cob, cucumber & tomatoes. Dinner: Spaghetti bolognaise, a nectarine. Snacks: grapes and a chocolate chip cooke & 2 beakers of milk
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Yesterday was an odd day, as we were gone all day long since family came from out of town.
Breakfast - milk and nutrigrain bar
lunch - taquitos, refried beans, and chicken enchilada casserole
dinner - chicken and beans
snacks - right now we are usually refusing veggies, except for freeze-dried corn and peas and tomatoes. (I just found these at the Henry's market - they are rather expensive, but I figured it was worth a try). He also eats the kids organic pack snacks - oatmeal cookies, cheese ducky shaped crackers, and lemon vanilla cookies. He LOVES the vegetable beech nut toddler crackers.
Usual breakfast is Barbara's Spoonfuls cereal - a lot like "Life" cereal, except more whole grain and either a fruit serving (Peaches, mandarin oranges - his favorite!, berries, bananas, or a steamed apple - peel, cube and steam in micro (covered) for about a minute...it makes the apple a lot sweeter and softer to eat) and milk.
We also make smoothies - which he thinks is a treat. YoBaby yogurt (whole milk yogurt) with a *little* milk and sometimes some fruit in the blender.
He is hit and miss with eggs, but will always eat cheese, and likes banana bread - made with less sugar and oil and no nuts. When we are in a hurry, it's fruit bars for breakfast.
Lunch, soup or sandwiches or pasta dish. Sometimes fruit and bread and cheese. Sometimes a smoothie.
Dinner - we try to get him to eat what we eat...chicken, beef, ham, pizza, pasta. The sushi didn't go over so well last week - he didn't care for the crab or the seaweed. The avocado was green, so he spit it right out.
Right now, we are eating a lot of dinners from "Dream Dinners" - just one of the companies where you got and put the dinners together in freezer bags or containers. They give you all the main dish and usually side dish ingredients and you cook at home. I was running out of ideas for meals, too! There are many companies who do this all over the US - all have a different name, but they are about the same price and the same concept. A few of the places will even let you pay a bit more to put the meals together for you - you just pay and pick them up. Some companies even have ready-made meals you can drop-in and pick up. This is not a plug for any particular company - just a convenient and healthy dinner option I wanted to present. We had 24 meals for about $200 last month...as a working mom (3 days a week), it was a big help to me.
I loved reading all your ideas and got several of my own....I know I'll keep checking when I run out of inspiration!
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Luvin' the smoothie idea, why didn't I think of that?!?! :D Some were saying needing help with veggies - the gerber veggie crackers are great and we found that our son loves the soup vegetables....yea, veggies from a can of soup...get that! Oh, also I made squash the other night and he loved it because it had a bit of teriyaki glaze on it!
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Right, just been to a birthday party and they ate loads of junk (as they do) so they needed something quick but half decent so I chucked together :- Pasta, chopped courgette,chopped onion, blanched and chopped tomato, ham and boiled them together until pasta was soft, then added a vegetable stock cube and left to simmer for a couple of minutes, then drained the water and served. They both really enjoyed it! I never experiment with food but I needed something quick so that's what I did. simple, I just threw together what I had and it made a nice little meal and at least I feel that they have had something tidy after all the sweets, cakes and chocolates, and that's before they get to the party bag. (I swoop that away from them when they are not looking and keep them in a box in the top cupboard and give them as treats as and when!)
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Daniel is 19 months. This is what he ate today (if I can remember it all!)
Breakfast: weetabix and milk and raisins.
Snack: Tangerine and a couple of bitesize pieces of cheddar cheese.
Lunch: ham and cream cheese sandwich, cucumber, grapes and another slice of ham.
Snack: banana and some more raisins.
Dinner: leftovers - potato, carrots, tomato and bacon made into an omelette. Followed by fruit salad and ice cream.
Milk offered at bedtime but only ever drinks about an oz if we're lucky.
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Like you, I don't like cooking in the mornings either. We always give DD banana at breakfast, and she usually has leftover dinner with it (there's a story behind that).
Marisa's Mom - I am dying to hear the story behind the dinner for breakfast thing - DS eats dinner for breakfast, too, because Daddy does it! LOL...Not every day, but quite frequently. I have been embarassed to admit that to many people - I guess I just outed us to the rest of the world!
DH got into the habit of eating leftover dinner for breakfast all those years he was single...never lost the habit.
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Rachel is 12.5months and yesterday she ate:
Breakfast - 1 weetabix with blueberries and cows milk and a drink of cows milk
Snack - 2 apple rice crackers
Lunch - roast chicken, mashed potato, carrots, peas and gravy and then yoghurt
Snack - an apple eaten as is
Dinner - pitta with humous and avocado, cheese and then vanilla creme pudding
Cup of cows milk at bedtime
she drinks about 3 cups of water through the day as well.
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My dd is 2.5 yrs old:
breakfast: cereal with milk and a cup of milk
morning snack: blueberries with yogurt and granola and a cup of milk
lunch: Mexican casserole (ground beef, pasta, corn, tomatoes, chili powder...) and a cup of milk
afternoon snack: crackers, cheese and ham and a cup of water
dinner: went out for dinner, stuffed sole, garlic shrimp, fried shrimp, crab, rice, broccoli, and a cup of milk
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Haven't been cooking this week for one reason or another...we've been out to dinner 5 times! Yikes!
Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that a lot of restaurants have what they call a "baby plate" It's usually the kind of food the restaurant serves, but cut up and arranged interestingly. Most places, it is free. We haven't eaten out much since DS was born, so this was new and news to me! ;) DS has had a ball...lots of attention from others in the restaurants. He tends to get quiet when we are out and about. People comment on what a "good" baby he is...if they only knew! ROFL!
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Got some veggie burgers to try at lunch today - might try half with cheese and half without. Do you think I'm better off making on the Foreman grill or in a frying pan with little butter or Pam?
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Got some veggie burgers to try at lunch today - might try half with cheese and half without. Do you think I'm better off making on the Foreman grill or in a frying pan with little butter or Pam?
I've found that veggie burgers taste better when made in the microwave! Mind you, I don't like even warming most foods in the microwave but veggie burgers taste better... juicier. Whenever I've tried grilling, frying, etc they end up tasting dry. Of course, it does depend on the brand of veggie burger, too.
Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that a lot of restaurants have what they call a "baby plate" It's usually the kind of food the restaurant serves, but cut up and arranged interestingly.
I've yet to come across restaurants like this. Most restaurants have children's meals that consist of chicken strips, hamburgers or mac and cheese... with fries (this is especially true at banquet halls where we attend weddings)! Why do they think that high-fat, greasy food is appropriate for children?! I just end up sharing part of my own meal with ds.
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Good to know, Georgia. I ended up buying Boca burgers - the cheeseburger flavor... Have you tried those? You think microwave as opposed to cook on skillet?
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Good to know, Georgia. I ended up buying Boca burgers - the cheeseburger flavor... Have you tried those? You think microwave as opposed to cook on skillet?
Yes, I've found that's especially true for Boca Burgers but I suggest trying both ways to see what tastes better to you. :)
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I've yet to come across restaurants like this. Most restaurants have children's meals that consist of chicken strips, hamburgers or mac and cheese... with fries (this is especially true at banquet halls where we attend weddings)! Why do they think that high-fat, greasy food is appropriate for children?! I just end up sharing part of my own meal with ds.
I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. We had to take DS to the ER after he swallowed a large bite of food whole without chewing and started gagging and vomiting repeatedly. After the ER (everything was just fine), we ended up going to Claim Jumper (which was across the street from the hospital). Not a restaurant I expected to be kid-friendly or healthy, though they have many healthy options. Their baby plate was cheese, turkey, home-made applesauce, carrot shreds, and mandarin oranges. The other places were local and had things like the chicken fingers and "trees" (brocc) and fries, not incredibly healthy. We are back to home cooking this week. I don't want him to think this is the norm!
Tonight for dinner we had Rice with chicken stir fry. Back in the groove again! Poor kid - he's had a very unusual couple of weeks.
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Thanks again Georgia - how long do you microwave them for? Only skillet instructions are on back I believe.
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I always cook my veggie burgers in the oven and find them better this way. Microwaving makes them too juicy for me and reminds me of meat too much. I prefer Morningstar Farms burgers.
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Today my 13.5month old has had:
Breakfast: 1/4oats mixed with 2ozs milk,slice of toast with cream cheese 9ozs milk. She ate the lot ;D
Morning snack: Heinz museli bar,box of sultanas and water in her cup.
Lunch: Peanut butter and honey sandwich,120g tub of yoghurt water in her cup. She ate the lot ;D
Afternoon snack: About to have fruit stick,apple puree water in a cup.
Dinner: Will be spagetti bol,100g tub of chocolate custard and 7ozs milk.
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Natasha - what are sultanas anyway? I have always wondered!
Krista
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Sultana's are a type of raisin
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Thank you Mom 2 2!
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NP, I'm a huge foodie at heart!
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Marisa's Mom - I am dying to hear the story behind the dinner for breakfast thing - DS eats dinner for breakfast, too, because Daddy does it! LOL...Not every day, but quite frequently. I have been embarassed to admit that to many people - I guess I just outed us to the rest of the world!
DH got into the habit of eating leftover dinner for breakfast all those years he was single...never lost the habit.
I've been so busy that I haven't visited this site in a while, and I only just noticed this. Um, why is my reply window so small? Didn't we used to have a bigger window to type up our reply? How do I get the larger window?
Anyways, there was a time when DD was very fussy during dinnertime (well, she still can be), and it was hard to get her to eat her dinner foods at dinnertime. So we decided to throw her a curve ball by giving her dinner foods at breakfast time ... cuz she's usually in the best mood in the morring. Her mood is usually best in the morning, and gradually deteriorates throughout the day. So we thought, why not get the "hardest" meal out of the way and feed her the "easy" foods at the end of the day? She was more receptive to eating dinner foods in the morning with her banana (every other bite, alternating; plus DH feeds her breakfast, and she's always easier on him than she is on me). And it was easier on us to give her "easy" foods near the end of the day. So we would sometimes give her a waffle at dinner. I know, it just plain sounds weird. Since her dinner mix (eaten at breakfast) always includes veggies, it was nice to know that we usually got in one good serving of veggies for the day right off the bat, and then we didn't have to stress as much about squeezing veggies in during the rest of the day. It's like I don't have to try as hard to get veggies in again later in the day. Hey, the system works and we don't want to mess with it now. lol. She still tends to be fussy late in the day, but she's definitely happier eating her "easy" and more desirable foods at that time despite her mood.
I'm sure there was something else I wanted to mention, but I'm tired and my brain feels like mush. I'm not too concerned with DD being confused over what's dinner and what's breakfast, she'll get it all sorted out as she grows up.
I can tel you what she ate yesterday:
Breakfast: beef stew with veggies; banana
Lunch: Noodles with carrots, zuchini, & turkey; strawberries
Snack: Caifornia roll; rice cake; kix cereal
Dinner: Cheese; avocado
The day before that she had:
Breakfast: beef stew with veggies; banana
Lunch: scrambled egg with carrots & zucchini; cracker
Snack: fries
Dinner: Yams; avocado; white peach
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Actually, Marisa'a Mom, that doesn't sound strange at all! It sounds like a very clever way to get your daughter to eat a variety of foods.
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I like this thread...
Here's what Luke had today....
Breakfast: Scrambled egg and toast
Snack: Applesauce and Goldfish
Lunch: Loads of saltine crackers and cheese quesadillas
Dinner: Two pieces of lunchmeat (roasted chicken) sweet potatoes and yogurt
Yesterday he had
Breakfast: Nutragrain Bar and Banana
Snack: Nilla Wafers
Lunch: Green Beans, Gerber meatsticks, applesauce and yogurt
Snack: Goldfish
Dinner: repeat lunch minus the yogurt
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Remember me? I was posting on here just a couple days ago about a food strike. I'm so chuffed about how things are going I thought I'd tell you all what dd's been eating
Yesterday
Breakfast: porridge with a pear and dried fruit, a finger of rye bread
snack: a rice cake
Lunch: mashed potato (not popular) with carrot and kohlrabi and a whole pot :o of yogurt
snack: piece of schuttlebrot - strange dried bread crunchy stuff, but very good, honest!
Dinner: minestrone with wholegrain pasta, rice pudding with pear made up with almond milk, half a banana
Today so far:
Breakfast: porridge with apple, cinamon and dried fruit
Lunch: vegetable brown rice risotto with ham, yogurt with stewed prunes, half a banana and a few crackers
this is chalk and cheese to last week, I wonder what happened!
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congrats katie! sounds as if lisi's found her appetite! :D
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mashed potato (not popular)
Mashed potato is boring for us too, I think it could be the colour, they don't like anything white, ie cauliflower, white cabbage, so I mashed the potato with either sweet potato or swede and it goes down a treat. ( I tried sweet potato on it's own but they don't like that, but mixed with normal potato and they enjoy it)
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Yesterday DD had:
Breakfast: 9ozs milk then 1/4cup oats mixed with milk and a slice of toast with vegemite on it.
Morning snack: Muesli bar and handful of saltanas and water
Lunch: Peanut butter and honey sandwich and a 120g tub of yoghurt and water
Afternoon tea: fruit stick and some more saltanas and water
Dinner: 7ozs milk then a HUGE bowl of beef cassarole with zucchini,eggplant,mushroom and tomatoes mixed with pasta (homemade). Then a slice of fruit cake.
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Any ideas on what to give a poor boy who is cutting 4 eye teeth and 3 molars all at once? :'(
All he seems to want is nutragrain bars, bananas, peanut butter sandwiches and peanut butter crackers, yogurt and applesauce
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Oooo, I've never joined in here before, so here goes:
On waking: 200ml growing-up milk
Breakfast: Bowl of porridge w/milled flax seeds mixed in & cup of smoothie (poured most of it on his tray though ::))
Mid-morning: 150ml rice milk
Lunch: Small tin sardines in tomato sauce on wholewheat toast / carrot sticks (refused) / one fruitpot (Organix brand pureed fruit)
Mid-afternoon: 150ml rice milk
Dinner: Homemade spagetti sauce left-over from our meal last night (lots of veggies hidden inside ;)) w/wholeweat pasta shapes / 1 peach / 1 pot soy yoghurt
Before bath: 150ml rice milk
Bedtime: 200ml growing up milk
He has a sippy cup of pure apple juice (diluted) to hand all day, too
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Since I was in ACLS class yesterday, Aidan had an interesting day:
Nutrigrain bar and banana for breakfast with milk (Daddy breakfast)
Cheese sticks and crackers for lunch with water (Daddy Lunch)
steamed potatoes and a bit of sausage (ate about 2 bites of each - wouldn't touch the cabbage) and milk.
Banana and popcorn.
Water throughout the day.
He was boycotting veggies yesterday again. What are you going to do? I wasn't home until after his nap to sneak the veggies into his meals.
The "safer feeder" with frozen or really cold fruit (or an ice cube) really saved us when he was teething. He would just worry it away with his teeth. He also like the vibrating teethers, but didn't care for the frozen washcloths.
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well, today was a good food day for us.
b/f upon wake up
breakfast: 1 weetabix with whole milk and a tub of prunes; slice of wholewheat toast with butter and scraping of marmite; nubbins of banana; few gerber fruit puffs; about 2oz of whole milk from sippy
snack: half a banana; 1 arrowroot cookie; water
lunch: slice of wholewheat toast, baked beans with melted cheese and a few pieces of cut up hotdog; 2oz of oatmeal with pears and cinnamon; 1/2 a pear; few gerber fruit puffs; about 2oz of whole milk from sippy
b/f after nap
snack: half a banana; pieces of ritz crackers with avocado; some whole milk
dinner: leftover beef stew mashed up with sweet potato; handful of frozen peas; 2oz of yoghurt with 2oz of oatmeal with pears and cinnamon; half a pear; few gerber fruit puffs; about 3oz of whole milk from sippy; some water
b/f before bed
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5.30 am ::) 8oz milk
breakfast: oatmeal with pear, bread and butter, piece of apple
lunch: spinach ricotta tortellini with butter and parmesan, chunks of tomato and cucumber, bit of yogurt, clementine, couple crackers
snack: 6oz milk and a couple baby cookies
dinner: mixed veggies with polenta and cheese, zwieback (dried bread), umm, I think that's it.
before bed 6 oz milk
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Can DS be considered a toddler at almost 11 months? He eats like one, lol!
Today...
6 oz bottle at waking (just got weaned to 4 bottles from bfing so I haven't cut to 3 yet)
B - raspberry/oatmeal/yogurt cereal, half a baby yogurt, handful of cheerios, bites of pear, banana and cantaloupe.
snack around 11:45 after swimming - handful of gerber puffs and 5oz bottle
L - about 1/2 cup of pasta casserole made of ww pasta, green/red peppers, onions, mushrooms and lean ground beef in white cheddar sauce (leftover from our dinner last night), 1 cube of squash, more bites of melon and pear
5 oz bottle before pm nap at 2:25
Snack - 1 gerber wagon wheel and half a breton low salt ww cracker
D - same as lunch but with a cube of broccoli instead of squash
6 oz bottle at bedtime
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Noone has posted here in a while.
I am dealing with a very picky eater also. He just got over a stomach virus and was in the hospital, so I am sure he is going to be even more picker now.
Today was his first day back at eating (5 days no food).
This is what he had:
Wake: 8 oz. Rice milk
Breakfast: 1/2 bowl of cereal with rice milk
Snack: Few bites of pear
Lunch: 1/2 corndog (that I made with safe ingredients), He can't have milk or soy
Snack: 3 crackers, few bites of pears
Dinner: Refused vegetables, fish and pototoe. Cried to get more corn dog.
Ate maybe 1/2 of a 1/2 of a corn dog and a few bites of pear
Rice Milk: About 16 more oz throughout the day.
It is so hard to get a picky eater to eat.
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A week short of 1 year, here goes!
7am 6 oz bottle (3 oz formula, 3 oz whole milk)
8am breakfast - 1/2 slice toast with cream cheese and no sugar jam, few cheerios, 1/2 baby yogurt, fruit (one of 1/3 banana, small orange, 1/2 pear, etc.)
1130am bottle same as before
1230pm lunch - handful of veggies, steamed, a few oz of chicken and 1/2 slice ww bread or grilled cheese or quesadilla, fruit
230pm bottle same as before
430pm small snack (cracker or a few cheerios)
530pm dinner - similar to lunch
715pm bottle same as before
He pretty much eats what we're eating now and is rejecting baby cereal in all shape and form!
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WOW, Seems like he eats really good. Our problem is picky and does not consume a lot either...
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Today Riley had:
Breakfast: Bowl of multigrain baby cereal made with 6 oz Rice milk, half slice toast with butter, guava juice (we usually don't have juice in the house because we don't drink a lot of it, but DH bought this over the weekend)
Lunch: 8 oz yoghurt, chickpeas, ricemilk
Snack: Wheat thins and most of a peach
Dinner: Pasta tossed in butter, broccoli, peas and carrots.
More rice milk before bed.
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Stacy, what's a "mini go"?
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Lol, everyone says they have never seen a baby eat like DS! He is NOT picky at all so I always know when he is sick (last time he wouldn't eat anything but steamed carrots!!!) I really try to keep his food healthy since he has a pretty decent appetite. He goes nuts for any veggie or fruit so I'm pretty lucky. Red meats seem to be his least fav which isn't the worse thing ever.
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OK, I'll play, I haven't done it for a while (and this is the first day ds has eaten properly since being poorly before and over Christmas):
On waking: 180ml (bottle ::)) rice milk
Breakfast: Weetabix with 2tsp ground flax seeds and rice milk mixed in / handful of yoghurt covered raisins / sippy rice milk
Lunch: My 'fish on toast' concoction (his fave so ate it all) - Mackerel in tomato sauce cooked with a good handful of chopped fresh spinach on wholewheat toast / Organix raspberry and pear fruit pot / cup of water
Snack: 1 'beow' (banana ;)) / sippy rice milk
Dinner: 1 pork & apple sausage / 3 new potatoes in butter / roast veg, but played with that really / cup of water / 1 pear (eats it all, pips and all :o) / 1 pot of strawberry soy yoghurt.
Before 'byes': 180ml (bottle ::)) growing up formula / liquid vitamins
Ate most of what he was given (and asked for 'maw') but I think he's especially hungry as he hasn't eaten much for the past few weeks.
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Wish I could say that DS is not going through the picky stage, but he is! 2 yo in February and (I think) getting his 2 year molars.
Breakfast - yogurt (spoon hugging kind - or he'd be wearing it), 1/2 of WW bread slice, few bites of ham, milk.
Lunch - refused food, apple juice
Dinner - making beef carbonara - we'll see what he'll eat.
I offer snacks, but am trying to limit them now as he will eat ONLY snacks if I let him!
DS refuses to eat when I am trying to feed him. He will eat at his table, from his plates and bowls, with his utensils and hands. I found (at babies R us) bibs that go all the way down to his thighs and have short sleeves. I push up his sleeves before he eats, as well. We still end up with food all over his face and hands (and sometimes, his hair), but what are you going to do? ::)
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I know, I know.....it doesn't hurt to hope, though, does it? Lol! ;D
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Hello.
Two questions, please.
1). How do you "guys" prepare the tofu? Do you put any sauce on it when you serve it?
2). How much flax seed would I give a 1 year old -- throughout the entire day?
Okay, that was 3 questions. Thanks very much! ;)
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nwmm: Sorry I can't help with the tofu (never gave it to my lo), BUT
I do give him flaxseed meal (it is grounded up). I put 1 tablespoon of it in his cereal, pudding or whatever.
I don't know if there is a right or wrong amount to give, so I would be interested in knowing also.
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I am sure on the packet there is a guide.
With the tofu, Riley likes it best just cubed up, or cut into thin strips, no cooking required. I use it in stirfrys a lot as I am veggie, it absorbs the flavor of whatever you cook it with.
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I have only tried tofu a few times but I just cut it into cubes and he didn't seem to mind it. Friends that use it have stirfried it with some veggies. Another mommy I know also said you can fry it a bit in a non-stick pan and then sprinkle it with a tiny bit of cinnamon and brown sugar.
As for flax seed, I take some but haven't even thought of giving it to ds. I'd be interested to know, too. Have you looked on www.wholesomebabyfood.com ? There might be something there. I will try to head over there some time today and check it out!
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Aidan won't do the Tofu thing - any style unless it is super sweet. Bummer.
Flax Seed - I give him a few drops from a capsule of oil in his food. (usually just when he is constipated). He didn't care for the texture of the ground flax seed. He will, however, eat bread made with flax seed, so I get it into him that way sometimes.
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Not done tofu yet
Ds gets 2 teaspoons of ground flax seed in his porridge or Weetabix every morning :)
Oh, and I use flax seed oil for all his cooking, too
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I've stuck tofu and a banana in the blender together, comes out like a smoothie. Flax - no idea sorry.
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Just wanted to point out a recipe I've posted - a slightly different way of having potatoes. Ds LOVED them, maybe you all might have some luck, too?
https://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=82088.new#new
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I make something very similar to this. DS usually will eat it, but with a cold is on a bit of a food strike. He is only eating oatmeal (mixed with applesauce) and yogurt these last couple of days. Not a whole lot of that, either. He is drinking a lot of water and juice (given after meals, or he wouldn't eat at all). I'm sure the munchies will come back soon!
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Thanks for the replies on tofu and flax seed everyone!
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Caroline, I'm going to try those potatoes today - if dd doesn't eat them, I will ;D
yesterday my toddler ate:
150 ml milk
1 soft pretzel
1 banana
2/3 of an apple - lightly stewed
some gold fish crackers
150 ml milk with a bit of oatmeal and meal replacement powder in it.
Scarily, this was a good day at the moment - we've got a bit of a food strike going on caused (I hope) by evil teething giving her the runs. Seems like she's self medicating a bit.
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That's great. That's a big plate of food!
Stacy, he looks a LOT like you!
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13mos and still not picky!
Breakfast - slice ww toast with cream cheese/jam, 1/2 baby yogurt, 1/2 pear
Lunch - small piece of fish, green beans, broccoli and cheese rice, banana and pear pieces
Snack - slice of cheese, 2 strawberries, ww cracker
Dinner - pork from Daddy's famous ribs, bit more fish, more green beans and leftover rice from lunch, fresh fruit salad (pear, strawberries, grapes, oranges)
18oz milk (still at about 1/3 formula, 2/3 whole milk until we get back from a trip mid-Feb.)
Still HATES anything sweet except fruit and yogurt. Not a bad thing I guess! ;)
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WOW!!!! Gosh, why can't my toddler eat like that :( :(
Breakfast: Refused everything
Snack: 2 cookies, Refused anything healthy
Lunch: 2 bites of ham snadwich
Snack: Peach, Bananna Smoothie
Dinner: 6 french fries, half peanute butter/jelly sandwich
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I think his eating is in the minority - none of my friends' los around the same age eat like this. The only thing I can think of to explain it is his crazy level of activity. I'm also waiting for the picky stage to hit - I'm sure it's only a matter of time!!!!! My biggest feeling on toddlers and eating is that if you can manage to hit all of the food groups over the course of every few days, you are doing ok!
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We had a hungry day today, too! It amazes me how much they cycle. Some days it seems that he lives on air!
Breakfast - Oatmeal mixed with applesauce, banana, milk
Snack - Cheese
Lunch - refused regular food - ate a NutriPals PB&J bar.
Dinner - (after a LONG nap) - Rice, teriyaki meatballs, yogurt, milk, water, refused the broccoli
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I am excited she had fruit today:
Wake 7ozs milk
Breakfast: 2weetbix&fruit,slice of toast with vegemite
Snack: 2 heinz museli bars
Lunch: Peanut butter sandwich,slice of cheese and a 100g tub of yoghurt
Snack: Puree apple and heinz fruit stick some dried fruit
4ozs milk
Dinner: 1/2 sausage,spoon of mash potato,2spoons of vege carrot and peas with gravy. Some of Daddy's icecream.
She has water with all her meals and drinks about 15ozs a day.
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:P :P :P :P :P
One of those weeks.
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13 months:
7 oz bottle
Breakfast - 1 slice ww toast with light cream cheese and sugar free jam, 1/2 baby yogurt and 1/2 banana (plus nibbled on some cheerios and drank some water)
Lunch - mixed steamed veggies, two ww low salt/fat crackers, baked chicken, 1/3 mango, water
6 oz bottle
Snack - 12 goldfish crackers
Dinner - broccoli mashed with some shredded cheese, a couple of oz of cream of cauliflower soup, slice of ww bread with a little bit of margarine, more baked chicken, slice of mango and about 12 grapes, banana cookie and water
4 oz bottle
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Amazing how much things change from day to day!
Breakfast - Oatmeal, applesauce, 1/2 banana and milk
Snack - Cheese crackers and nutri-grain bar
Lunch - strange - grapes (which he always refused before), yogurt, and bean sprouts (getting the stir fry veggies ready for dinner and he had to eat some!) Water
I doubt he'll eat much for the rest of the day - he's eaten a LOT this morning!
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Another awful day here:
Wake: 9 oz. Rice milk
Breakfast: 2 bite of toast, 2 bites of pear
Snack: Banana, Peach Smoothie ( 5 sips, split the rest)
Lunch: at 3:00 (after nap) 2 bites of chicken salad sandwich
Dinner: Refused soup, 1 whole grilled cheese (that is good)
Before bed: 4 oxz. Rice milk
AWFUL!!!!!
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Wendy, Zach is eating grilled cheese (dairy)?
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This is the first day Riley has eaten quite a bit in a while. We started him on vitamins + iron and his appetite dropped completely on it, so now we have stopped it and he is starting to eat again.
B'fast: One peach, handful of cheerios
Lunch: yoghurt, most of a banana
Snack: Ritz veggie crackers
Dinner: Little bit of pasta, mixed veg
Rice milk am and pm
Better than we have been doing lately :) :P
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Karen: Yep, grill cheese. We have really watched what dairy we have given him lately and he can handle very small amounts of it.
My husband still seems to think IT DOES NOT matter with him. He still whines all day long with or without dairy... I have just given up, I think....
Sorry, just a bad day.... Pregnancy hormones, Zach's constant whinning and not eating....
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Wendy,
I know you have a lot on your plate right now. It is possible if he is getting dairy one day, then none the next, that he is still suffering the effects of it days later. Remember it takes weeks to clear the system fully.
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?????? I have no clue at all. He does not whine like he is in pain, he just whines.... I think because it is the only thing he knows how to do. His poops are normal (one a day), no mucus, etc. He does get stinky gas if he has alot of dairy, but does not seem to bother him much.
Whenever he is distracted or at a playgroup or our weekly gymnastists class he is fine for the most part.
His sleep does not seem affected at all either. He is a great sleeper now. 3 hour nap, bed at 8:00, awake between 6:45-7:30. No crying, nothing..
My husband just feels like we are using "food" being dairy,soy as a cause for his whining. Maybe he is right.
I just wish there was some magic answer, that's all.
Maybe all the whining is just normal... He is just bored.
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Wendy - of course it's up to you and your DH what to feed Zach. I only keep harping on the milk issue because you've said in the past how much better/less whiny/happier he was off milk and then it seemed like the problems started again with hidden milk (McDonald's fries) and cheese, etc. So between that and what the immunologist said about no dairy until at least 2, I'd be inclined to stick strictly with that myself.
That said, of course any diet is not a magic bullet. Babies/toddler certainly are often high needs and whine, etc. Marsia often does too. And of course she does so less when she's had a good night of sleep, eaten well, is distracted (at gym class, play group, etc) but she still does it some and that's just how they communicate right now. It helps when I work with Marisa on her vocabulary (read books, look at flashcards) and work on challenging skills like stacking, sorting, coloring, etc.
Also, Zach doesn't seem to eat much period - could he be whining because he's hungry? Sometimes a drink or healthy snack helps stop Marisa from whining/fussing.
IMO I'd be REALLY strick about Zach's dairy free diet for at least 2 weeks and see if it helps - at the same time realizing it won't be a cure-all and also focusing on really keeping Zach occupied and teaching him skills to ease his frustration. And like Stacy said, it's also important to focus on yourself, your marriage, etc. Good luck with whatever you decide!
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Stacy: The whining sounds like a motor cycle. mmmmmmmm uuuuuuuuu mmmmmmmm (sometimes), sometimes he is pointing at something and wanting it and jsut whining and then sometimes he walks around holding his mouth whining in pain (teething).
He aslo has "wet burps" still. Not always, but sometimes. You will here him burp and sounds like it comes up and he swallows it. We have tried prevacid for 12 weeks and it did not help.
Karen: I agree, I think alot of his whining is not eating. He loves to snack, but hates to eat a meal. Sometimes just out of the blue, he starts whining really loud (almost screaming) adn runs in the kitchen and points to the cabinet. I do give him a cracker or apples or something and it helps.
I really want to try the MSPI free diet again, but Dh will not do it and he thinks I am just looking for an excuse. He does not think his stomach hurts at all.
So...... Just hard.....
Anyhow today this is what he has eaten:
Wake: 8 oz. Rice Milk
Breakfast: 2 bites of cereal (with rice milk), 1 bite of bagel with natural Peanute butter
Snack: 3 crackers, 2 oz. juice
Lunch: 5 french fries (at home) refused sandwich
NAP now....
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Stacy, Karen, Michelle: I just went back and read through that post I started back in Novemebr "the test results are in". It made me realize that I WAS doing the right thing with the MSP free diet.
Zach's whine is sometimes just a normal whine I think, but he does it all day and does not sound the same all the time.
I know when my tummy hurts or I have idegestion, you would not know it, but I sure do. I just sit there and make this whining noise, like ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm .... Gosh,just like he does...
LADIES: My husband is just going to have to kiss my a**, because I am not giving Zach any milk or soy at all for 1 month. Hell, I am with him 24 hours a day anyhow.
I sware though, my whole family (mom, husband, sister) thinks I am stupid and not doing the right thing. It is just hard when you don't have family support.
BUT, this is the LAST damn time I am going to keep going back and forth. The end!!! I am sticking with it and I could care less what my family says... In a few weeks, we will know for sure.
To be honest I had forgot about how good he felt before when we stopped dairy and soy. when he got that stomach virus and was in the hopsital, I just forgot everything and felt like I was back to square one. After eading the post, now I realize how much it did help !!
Thanks everyone for kicking my butt in the right direction.
Wendy
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Wendy, I'm SO happy to hear it!!! Best of luck to you - stay strong and keep me posted - and feel free to PM me anytime if you have questions, want advice, recipes, etc. I know it's hard if family and friends don't support you but remember, we do! Also, if his reflux is bothering him (wet burps, etc) have you tried Mylanta Cherry Supreme?
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That is correct. Also, if I remember correctly, when Zach was on Prevacid, wasn't he on too low a dose and only once a day? I would do as you say and do the strict diet (really strict) for 1 month. If still seems like reflux is bothering him, then I'd push the GI doc and/or feeding clinic to restart the Prevacid 2xday at the correct dosage for his weight.
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Yeah he was on 15 mg. only once a day. I still have about a 6 month supply left in my cabinet. A friend of mine had 6 months worth left over that she ended up not needing and gave it to me. So...... if I really wanted/needed to, I could start him on 2 x's a day, but I am going to wait and see if the no dairy/soy helps again.
Stacy: That is the sound that I make when I have acid reflux or a really sour stomach. It does not feel good at all.
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Good luck and keep us posted Wendy.
Today Marisa had:
- Breakfast: Oatmeal mixed with pear/raspberry puree, milk (4 ounces)
- Morning Snack: 1/4 whole wheat bagel toasted with butter, some Just Bananas, milk (3 ounces)
- Lunch: 1/3 uncured all beef hot dog, 1/2 yo-baby, milk (2 ounces)
- Afternoon snack: Diluted apple juice, half hard pretzel
- Dinner: Milk (4 ounces), 1.5 homemade meatballs (beef, about size small golf ball), few pieces spaghetti, 1 baby carrot, one cheese breadstick
- Bedtime: Milk (3 ounces)
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Riley had:
B'fast: Yoghurt (4 oz)
Peach
Lunch: pasta and tofu
Dinner: mixed veggies & rice
full banana + Cheerios for dessert
Snack: Ritz veggie crackers
Rice milk as well>
GO RILEY!!!!!
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So far today Zach has eaten:
Breakfast: Organic Van's Bluberry Waffle (dairy/soy free) with safe butter- He ate the entire thing :)
1/2 banana
Snack: 2 graham crackers
Snack again: 1/2 homemade banana/peach smoothie
napping now: Will eat lunch once awake
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wendy, just wanted to add to the PPs that we're here to support you in keeping zach MSP free even if your family and DH aren't. happy to kick your butt anytime ;D :-* (and will now feel free to do so if i hear it's necessary!). seriously, *you're* the primary caretaker. *you* know what's right. how *can* your (D)H just not be bothered to do something when zach feels so poorly? it makes me want to cry.
please feel free to PM me any time you need support on this. you're a wonderful mum to be so concerned, and i so want you to have your happy little boy back again.
bear in mind that whiny is developmental too -- i keep hoping for my sunny little boy back, but i think we have one more eye tooth left before that happens.
big {{hugs}}
katy :-*
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Thanks Katy: Yeah I know alot of the whinning is just him, but I also know a lot of it is not because he has done it since he was born bascially. It was always something we blamed it on. Once he went on hypoallergenic formula he seemed better, but still whined (looking back it was reflux).
Anyhow... No milk/soy today!!!
An okay eating day, not much as usual though.
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Today we had:
- Breakfast: oatmeal mixed with fruit puree (small portion), few dry golden grahams, one bite of Mama's bagel, 5 ounces milk
- Lunch: 1/4 grilled cheese sandwich, 1/2 yo-baby, veggie booty, 4 ounces milk
- Afternoon snack: Refused, drank 3 ounces milk and later 3-4 ounces diluted apple juice
- Dinner: 2 Perdue chicken nuggets, 1/4 whole grain English muffin (toasted/buttered), applesauce, 2 ounces milk
- Bedtime: 3 ounces milk
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That sounds like a great eating day to me...
Hey Karen how did you know she could handle milk again??? Didn't she have a lot of problems when she was a baby? Just wondering.
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Came across this site and thought it was interesting http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/toddler/feeding_your_toddler.html
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Kaleb seems to like his sandwiches. I wish Riley would eat some. I keep making them and end up eating them myself...
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Kaleb seems to like his sandwiches. I wish Riley would eat some. I keep making them and end up eating them myself...
yuh, most of my meals seem to be eaten off the high-chair tray ::)
well, let me see. today theron had:
breakfast: 1 tub la creme yoghurt mixed with frozen blueberries & handful of cheerios. about half a slice of wholewheat toast spread with soy butter and blackberry jam. few craisins. about 4oz milk.
snack: five or so grapes. milk
lunch: left over home-made macaroni & spinach cheese, left over cheesy baked beans, few gerber veggie crackers. milk.
snack: third of a banana. half a hob nob. a few raisins. milk.
dinner: half an amy's organic veggie lasagne. five or so grapes. few gerber veggie crackers. about 2oz of jarred oatmeal with applesauce and banana, mixed with some cheerios. few dried raspberries. milk.
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That's a lot!
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yeah -- he has a weight gain check on monday (he's slipped down to the 5% for weight since 50% at 2 months), so we've been trying to tempt him with a variety of goodies. bits and pieces of them all seem to go down well; i'm just hoping it amounts to something calorie-wise!
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Yahoo for Kaleb and thanks for the article, Michelle. Wendy, we never had a severe problem with milk - but it did aggravate her reflux and cause rashes when she was really small. She was on Neocate from 3-7 months and then Alimentum until 10 months and then transitioned to regular Enfamil and was fine and then transitioned from that fine to whole milk a little after a year. We have had mucousy poops as of late but think that may be teething related.
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Today my horse ate:
Boobs upon wake up then toast with hummus and a pot of yoghurt and sippy of milk
No A.M. snack today, too busy destroying my house.
Lunch: Pasta with my secret/sneaky veggie medley (finely chopped in food processor: carrots, parsley and spinach) that is literally added to everything (I once added it to pancakes! LOL!) and tomato sauce with one turkey meatball. 1 cup of water. He has taken to drinking from a real cup now, it all started when I let him drink from a plastic shot glass a while back, so he has moved up to a small plastic water cup (like the ones in bathrooms rinse teeth with) and he is ever so careful with it, I am quite proud!
P.M. Snack: Went to my Mum's whilst I tidied house (more like came on BW site! ::) ) and she said he had (very) milk tea with aher and a vanilla wafer biscuit and a fruit leather later on.
Suppper: Chicken, mash potato and broccoli. I mash the broccoli and add to his mash potato and also add some apple puree for flavour for him. I also find mash taters can be quite dry, so that helps moisten them up for him. A cup of water.
Bed: Boobs only. Sometimes he has almost up to 6oz of cows milk too, but he ate loads at dinner, so he passed.
A x
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Very bad eating days for the past 3 days. So far today:
Wake: 8 oz. Rice Milk
Breakfast: 2 bites of Waffle
Lunch: 2 bites of snadwich
Has been napping now for 4 hours :-0 He had shots today (18 mos check-up)
Hopefully this evening will be okay.. Going to wake him up now.
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Poor pet.
How was his weight/height at his check-up, was the doctor happy with him?
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Hey Michelle: Yeah the doctors were really happy with everything.
He is almost 24 pounds and 33 inches tall. 25% for weight and 60% for height. Right where he has been since birth.
He deft. is sick or sick from the shots today. He woke from his nap with a fever.
He did not eat nothing today except 2 crackers :(
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WOW...just found this thread and have skimmed it...LOVE IT ;)
I have been looking online for more ideas...because my son Weston just doesn't eat much at all...he's certainly not LEAN (32 pounds at 20 months of age) but he doesn't eat much of anything. I don't cater to him, he gets what he gets offered and he either takes it or leaves it...he's not PICKY...just doesn't eat much.
So this is a typical day for us.
Breakfast = I typically put some cherrios, scrambled eggs or other snacky cereal out on the table for him to snack on (I do this because I have spent many mornings making great breakfast options and he won't eat them) But the morning option is usually something relatively dry because he'll scatter it on the floor (and it must be something the dog will eat as well...fruit is a 'high chair' only food, because the dog won't eat fruit and I don't need fruit in my carpet...lol :)
If he eats anything, great...
Then around 11am -noon...he might snack on some cut up fruit or veggies...again total toss in the dark if he'll eat anything. Many times his first meal of the day is in the afternoon AFTER his mid-day nap.
He naps a few hours and then when he wakes up, I offer him "LUNCH"
Lunch = cut up fruit, veggies, sandwich meat, chicken, etc...not really 'meal' items, more or less 'separate' items...I attempt making him a sandwich or pita pocket or something that is PUT TOGETHER and he won't eat it, he just pulls it apart to check out all the bits. (future engineer lol)
Afternoon snack = grazes on whole wheat bread (1 slice cut up) juice, crackers, cereal, etc...(whatever is offered) but again most of it lands on the floor and the dog eas it.
Early Dinner = I'll wonder if he's had ANYTHING all day to eat, so I'll feed him a jar of 'baby food' and he loves those...(just would prefer him to eat more 'solids' at this point) and some cut up fruits or veggies
Dinner Time = He'll eat whatever we are eating and eats well...So basically he gets most of his daily meals at dinner time...and that does bother me to some degree...not overly bothered, but do think about various ways to change that...then wonder if it's really possible to change since that is how both daddy & mommie eat...neither of us eat much during the day, we are grazers (healthy options, but grazers not meal eaters)...However we will always sit down as a family and eat a nice healthy dinner. So is it worth trying to force him to eat differently when everyone around him eats like this? I don't know?
The one meal that I wish he would eat but won't (this is the one picky part of him) is oatmeal...he will have NOTHING to do with oatmeal of any kind...the texture makes him gag and he literally throws it back up. I love oatmeal and would love for that to be an option. I'm not certain why it gags him...and have been told to offer it to him every day for a week, by the end of the week he should like it? (don't know if that's true?) but oatmeal is sooo good for you and filling, I'd really love for him to add oatmeal as a food option to his diet. (you can mix in fruits, flax seeds, black strap molasses (iron) and many other healthy additions to oatmeal...but he won't have any flavor or style of oatmeal that I have been able to try...and we have about 14 different oatmeal containers in our pantry from my various attempts. LOL ;) good thing we (DH & I) eat oatmeal...because we have enough to choke a horse LOL
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I did find this site as well if anyone is interested.
http://www.wholesometoddlerfood.com/
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Hello Ladies! Boy am I glad I checked this board tonight. I've been going nuts the last 2 days with my daughter.
Stacy you probably recall that I've always been a bit neurotic about how little she's always eaten but at her 1 year check up she dropped to the 30% for weight (from the 50%) and stayed at the 50% for height. This really only enforced my craziness about her eating.
The last couple of days she's had a couple bites of this and that. I was jumping for joy when tonight she ate 2 sweet potato fries and almost an entire jarred dinner. She's got to be teeting because she's also been sleeping more so our routine is a bit off.
Do any of you get bored with what you offer your LO's? I feel like I'm running out of ideas. The hard part is that for the next 13 month's I'm a single mom as my DH has deployed to Iraq. I am finding it so hard to make meals for just the 2 of us. Is that crazy? Before Elizabeth was born and Tim was away it was so easy to kind of graze through my meals and now I have to break that habit. It's also hard to sit at the dinner table with her. I feel like it's just shoveling food in our faces. I completely run out of conversation topics since I get no reply. Man I sound so lame.
But, Elizabeth is an unusual one! She doesn't like grilled cheese, pasta or quesadillas. I think it's a texture thing so I still offer them every month or so.
I saw in one of Stacy's posts that she offers milk after the meal. Stacy, do you offer water during the day? or only milk?
Also, I don't think she likes to eat in the am. I think it would be 3pm if I waited for hunger cues. With that in mind here's our routine
7am wake couple sips of milk
8:30 brekkie (yogurt, banana, nutra grain bar or cream of wheat or wheatabix usually a couple bites)
10:30 nap
1pm Lunch:PBJ, chicken, fruit, cheese, dinner leftovers amounts vary ugh
5:30 dinner whatever I make for me
6:00 bath
7 fast asleep.
Her nap times and bed times have varied. Yesterday she took a 3 hour nap and went to bed an hour early. With those short A times I was lucky to get anything in her.
Thanks ladies for letting me vent. If you have any ideas let me know. I appreciate them.
Margie
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Thanks Stacy, Great tips. I have some good friends who had a very preemie baby last week and I'm driving up to Denver tomorrow to visit. I'm making some vegetarian lasagna and a quiche so I'll have plenty of meals here for a couple of days. I have to just figure it out and hope for the best. I wish this eating phase just didn't exist at all. It makes me crazy.
This am she had 1/2 a wheatabix w/milk and 1/2 yababy yogurt. Better than nothing.
Thanks for your help.
You are a voice of reason in my crazy life!
Margie
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Stacy, you'll LOVE this - we get back from Mexico and DS gets a tummy bug (complete with nasty poos and barfing) - he wisely connects eating to these nasty occurances and boycotts eating. Now that he is almost over it he still isn't interested. I think yesterday all he ate all day was half a slice of bread and half a banana. Maybe he is hitting a picky phase at long last? Also a possibility that he is boycotting his highchair as I was fed up with it today and chased him around the living room with a plate of chicken and green beans which he happily ate as long as he wasn't in his chair. What a little bum!
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LOL, I know! I'm just trying to make light of a crummy situation. I know it's likely the tummy bug passing but it's so weird to see your kid that would scarf down a whole slice of toast, whole yogurt and entire banana just for breakfast and then change to this:
Breakfast - 3 bites bread, 5 bites yogurt, 1/4 banana
Lunch - 1/2 cheese stick, 3 more bites of bread, 2 grapes
Dinner - 1/2 chicken thigh offered on fork as DS is chased around the living room by mommy, whatever green bean made it down before it was spit out, 2 cheerios found on the living room floor and 1 slice of mango declared "mmmmm!" by DS.
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LOL!
No offense meant to you at all, Stacy! You rock!
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Also a possibility that he is boycotting his highchair as I was fed up with it today and chased him around the living room with a plate of chicken and green beans which he happily ate as long as he wasn't in his chair. What a little bum!
I find it MUCH easier to feed Weston when he's contently watching a program...He will sit nicely in his highchair for resturant meals and dinner...but to get him to sit at the table for Breakfast or Lunch is a joke...UNLESS of course the WHOLE family is sitting and eating, he will always sit nicely if the whole family is doing it...but if it's just him & I or just him...he won't have it...so I will at times wait until he's involved in a program and then offer him some food and he'll generally take it.
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Just wanted to add with the whole boycotting the highchair. You could try 2 things:
1.) Move him to a booster chair, they fee so much more like a big boy/girl
2.) I bought a child size table for my son and he eats his snacks at his table and if for some reason will not go into his booster, then he can just eat there.
Just some ideas.
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I think Marisa has been taken over by pod people - she's eating so much better! I know we'll be in for another strike soon but this is nice for now. We still have issues with fresh fruit but she'll lick/nibble at apple slices and banana slices. And she loves dried fruit and fruit puree. But she's finally eating VEGGIES! She LOVES broccoli and green beans apparently. Last night I made homemade skillet burgers (no buns) - or hockey pucks as they are called here. She had almost a whole puck (about the size of a golf ball flattened out), probably like 8-10 green beans (steamed with little salt), 2-3 strands of spaghetti and a lot of sauerkraut!!! How weird is that? My picky daughter is addicted to pickled cabbage... A few nights ago we brought in chinese and she was grabbing broccoli out of the beef and broccoli dish! Crazy. Lately she has a medium sized breakfast (usually baby oatmeal mixed with fruit puree followed by cheerios and/or part of a pumpernickel bagel), tiny lunch (often half a yo-baby and few bites of turkey or grilled cheese or something like that) and medium-big dinner (last night was HUGE). And this morning she grabbed the tomato slice off my bagel and sucked it down LOL.
Wendy - how is Zach doing?
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YAY MARISA!!!! ;D
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Ah yes, the highchair issue. We actually brought up the booster chair with a table tray on it from the basement (we usually use it when we are going out to dinner at someone's house who doesn't have a high chair). It was either coincidence that he was hungry again on the same day we did this OR the highchair was part of the issue because he ate TONS yesterday in his booster and today for brekkie he had a whole slice of toast, a whole baby yogurt, half a banana and 1/4 of my bran muffine PLUS a 7 oz bottle and good sized handful of cheerios/puffs when he got up this morning. Crazy!
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Marisa tends to make up for lost eating after being sick too.
So after last night's eating event she had her normal breakfast and a small lunch but only a small dinner too - one chicken nugget, one piece of steamed broccoli and a few veggie chips (real dried veggies from Whole Foods). But her teeth seem to be bugging her and her neverending cold flaring up so who knows...
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I have been talking with a few friends and it seems that across the board within our playgroup kids...that the ones that got teeth early, eat more independently and the ones that got teeth later, still prefer to be spoon fed.
I did a test because Weston is WAY LATE on getting his teeth, he's one of the last in our group to get teeth...and so I decided to make him a meal (real food, nothing pureed) and feed it to him myself...and sure enough he ate the whole plate full...day two: gave him a plate with food on it...nibbled on one thing...and then signed all done...I put a piece of banana in his mouth for him and he ate it, I put a piece of quesadilla in his mouth, he ate it...INTERESTING...now am I planning on feeding him myself for all meals...NO! I'm going to have a baby in the picture soon that will demand that from me, I need Weston to be more independent...but I did find that 'small sample of kids' study interesting and I did find it interesting that Weston ate better when I fed it to him.
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I also started to dilute his formula and juice A LOT! So he's mostly getting water instead of the extra liquid calories...my hope is that he'll eat more...and so far it appears to be working to some degree.
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I started out first by cutting his formula and juice back and I think it left him without enough fluids, because his poops got hard and less often...then came gas pains and miserable sleeping...so we are back to same amount of liquids, just more water involved and that seems to be solving the issues... :)
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formula could definatly rob his appetite, as it has more in it then milk. Good plan to super dillute!
Kaleb doesnt get much juice, if any for same reason. If he does its like 1/3 juice, 2/3 water.. and not more then maybe 6 ounces in a day (thats the full amount, so 1/3 of that is juice)
Weston's formula bottles are 1 scoop (which is for 2 ounces of water) to 4 or 6 ounces of water...2 scoops for 8 to 12 ounces of water.
His juice cup is filled with about 2 ounces of juice the rest water and then as the day progresses and he drinks half of it, or so, I just add water until by the evening it's basically all water.
I'm not sure I can dilute any more then that...but with time we'll see...at least he's pooping again, the tummy cramps have stopped, he's playing and sleeping well again...and eating nicely (not nearly as much as some kids, but he's by NO MEANS loosing weight either (32 pounds at 20 months) so I'm not worried, I just really hope he has a good outlook on food in life...that's more of my concern...I want him to enjoy various foods and not get stuck in the cracker/bread mode!
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can he not have milk, is he allergic?
No he gets milk on occasion as well...he just likes formula better and the doctor said it's no different that he could have formula until he's 20 if he wants. Weston will ask specifically for MILK (signing and saying milk) when he wants it...and I give it to him anytime he asks for it.
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cool you would think he would not prefer stinky formula!
Yeah...he's never cared really if he was getting breast milk or formula in his bottle as an infant and then as a toddler, he'll take milk or formula, but will 'finish' formula..often times milk will have left overs and that can be stinky if not caught in a hot car in time! LOL ;)
When it comes to fluids I don't think he's all that picky really...I just think over all he has more liquids (calorie liquids) that cause him to have less room for real food...but we are getting that straightened out (can see slight differences in this past week) ... watch now he'll get a cold and it will all go to crap...lol ;)
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I'm all paranoid now...doc cautioned us at 2 year old visit about DS's weight. Quizzed me about fast food (VERY seldom - usually only if dad is required to cook), Juice (only a couple of times a week, and diulted, never more than 4 ounces) and eating. He made a comment about weight b/c ds had a belly that day! Argh. He is a normal little kid, as far as I can tell. Somedays he seems to live on air, and other days he eats and eats! He's 90th for weight and a more than 90th percentile for height.
Breakfast - Oatmeal mixed with unsweetened applesauce, 1/2 cup milk, water.
Snack - handful of freeze-dried pineapple
Lunch - special treat - one small slice pizza, green beans, 1/2 cup milk.
For dinner, he'll eat very lightly when he's eaten like this. The portions are consistent with the toddler's food-guide pyramid - am I just being paranoid?
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That's pretty sad that your doctor made you feel bad. Your lo looks lovely and healthy to me. It's not like his weight is not in proportion to his height kwim?
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I agree with Michelle and his/your menu looks fab too!
Aisling x
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I'm all paranoid now...doc cautioned us at 2 year old visit about DS's weight. Quizzed me about fast food (VERY seldom - usually only if dad is required to cook), Juice (only a couple of times a week, and diulted, never more than 4 ounces) and eating. He made a comment about weight b/c ds had a belly that day! Argh. He is a normal little kid, as far as I can tell. Somedays he seems to live on air, and other days he eats and eats! He's 90th for weight and a more than 90th percentile for height.
Breakfast - Oatmeal mixed with unsweetened applesauce, 1/2 cup milk, water.
Snack - handful of freeze-dried pineapple
Lunch - special treat - one small slice pizza, green beans, 1/2 cup milk.
For dinner, he'll eat very lightly when he's eaten like this. The portions are consistent with the toddler's food-guide pyramid - am I just being paranoid?
I agree...if he's 90/90 in both catagories, he's perfect...no different then if he were 50/50 in both catagories...now if he were 90 in weight and 10 in height, then you might be thinking he's a bit off kilter...but even then, it would depend on if he were 90/10 his whole life...or if he were 50/50 and then boom went 90/10...that is when it's a problem...those numbers are tricky, but often don't mean a ton...your son looks beautiful in the photos I see!!!
Maybe the doc didn't realize he was making you nervous and if you call back and ask for clarification, you'll come off the tele with a different feeling???
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I agree, your lo looks great to me! My DS is also 90/90.
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A friend of mine was just told yesterday that her son is too low in the weight catagory (5%) and she needs to add olive oil or flax seed oil to all of his food to plump him up...but he looks AOK to me...some people are thinner then others and some or more solid...you can tell FAT from solid healthy weight...IMHO.
I also think people put too much pressure on being perfect...none of us are perfect that's for sure...and yet we are all perfect in our own way!!! :)
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Well said! There has just been a really interesting series on our local news this week about the mixed messages that kids are getting about eating healthy and exercise. It made the point that in the efforts of society and school to try to push healthy eating and exercise, it's actually going too far in the other direction at times which is just making the problem of body image issues (ie. being thin) worse.
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Oh, and I should add with DS being 30lbs at 14 months, he eats really healthy, too. He hasn't had any fast food yet whatsoever, save the odd few bites of mom or dad's pizza and gets very little sugar. His breakfasts usually consist of ww toast with light cream cheese and sugar free jam, half a baby yogurt and some banana. Lunches and dinner include a veggie, some starch (mashed potato, 1/2 slice ww bread, small serving of ww pasta) and a protein (chicken, fish, cottage cheese or a small serving of cheese), fruit and sometimes an arrowroot cookie. He is getting one small snack a day in the afternoon, usually some cheerios, puffs or a ww cracker and some fruit.
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You all are going to laugh at me again with this worry I have. So today at Gymboree some lady made the comment about how tiny Elizabeth was. Ugh! Not again... So tonight my girlfriend said her scale is even with our docs. (military hospital) so she weighed Elizsbeth and it appears that she hasn't gained any weight in 2 months. She is still 20lbs. I'm ready to cry! Eizabeth just started walking so she's got to be burning calories but how can I get more in her? I don't want to give her junk but I feel desperate to get her calories.
She hasn't liked oatmeal but I'm thinking maybe I should give her the instant kind since it isn't so dense. I've been giving her a pancake w/cream cheese and some fruit for breakfast sometimes she'll eat some sausage. But the last few days she's eaten 1/2 of what she normally does. I just keep thinking that the more active they are the more of an appetite they should have. What gives?
Also, can anyone help me with fluid intake? How much milk and water should she have in a day. I keep hearing different things. When I give her water I always mix in some apple juice with it. I'm wondering if I reduce her fluids then she might be hungrier. How do I do this without her getting dehydrated?
Sorry to sound so manic about this. I hate the idea that she's dropping in the percentile scale.
Margie
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At her 1 yr appt she dropped fromthe 50 to the 30% in weight and stayed 50% in height. He said to come back at 15 months (next month) to see where she's at. At this rate she'll drop tot he 5% by next month.
Just to clarify: Your LO drinks about 16oz of milk a day the rest is water and juice? Any idea how much water and juice he drinks? I see 4oz of juice but what about water? I'm tempted to just give straight juice for the calories and of course her milk.
I'm so sorry to be a broken record about this.
Margie
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Margie, they do start to eat less at this point because they are so interested in so many things that they don't want to stop and sit still to eat! I've even noticed B's appetite changing!
B gets about 16-19oz of milk. He doesn't like juice right now. He probably goes through at least 6oz of water a day from his sippy.
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Riley stopped gaining weight after the year mark, the doctor said it was totally normal. That after a year, they don't go as much by the scales as they do by their overall appearance and development ie healthy and active, meeting milestones etc.
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I wouldn't suggest giving her more juice, she won't want regular food then (which has more nutrients). I can tell you that my friends daughter was like this and she is just a perfect weight now at 6yo. The doctor had them add olive oil (light) to her food to help with weight gain. (I should clarify that she kept dropping weight, not just maintaining).
I feed DS the instant oatmeal, and I add a little bran to it while it's cooking. After the microwave (to cool it down) I mix in a couple of tablespoons of cold applesauce (unsweetened). I also mix applesauce with his peanut butter (after he was 21 months - he got it a couple of times when I wasn't around and had no adverse reaction) and put it on his bread - he loves it.
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Thanks for the advice ladies. I've got to try to relax about this. Right now she gets about 12 oz of milk and 120z of watered down juice a day. I took a good look at what she usually eats and I think I need to add more bread and grains. If I could get some oatmeal in her I'd be so happy! She hasn't wanted much to eat in the am these days.
She's napping now so if she's up by 1 I think I'll try to make her a cheeseburger w/o the bun but we bought some nice Italian bread at the market today that she likes. Let's hope for the best.
Please keep the advise coming. I' just stumped at how to get her to eat.
Margie
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Margie, she looks so healthy in the pictures...it looks like you are doing great with her.
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Margie, my E is in the 10th percentile for heights, 50th for her cranium and 20 or 30th I cannot remeber for weight, so you are not a lone. Our Elisabeths are just dainty little girls, however very strong at the same time.
Okay here is what dd aate today, i am sucha bad mummy.
Breakfast and luch were okay then it all went to crap.
Breakie- Package of apple cinomon instant oatmeal, she refuses regular oatmeal. 1/2 sippy of milk
Lunch- Bowl of vegetable soup, low sodium with 6 whaet crackers, water and a little milk. One whole yogurt-peach
Snack- baby mum mum - Frozen vanilla yogurt, water
Dinner- nothing- Thats right anything we tried to give her (we were out at the mall) she refused or threw on the floor, even broccoli
8pm- Gave in and bought an 8 month old baby food- she ate 1/4-1/2 of the jar and a small jar of pears. water.
she had milk and water through out the day aswell.
Ug, Is it always going to be this hard.
Stefanie
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Margie,
my dd's on the 10% line for height and just under 3% for weight. We've had a rough time lately, she even lost weight :'( however, after 6 weeks of food strike and monster teething things have gotten better, gaining 1.5 lbs in the last 5 weeks :o ;D
How are your LOs teeth? Could it be?
You can't force feed, the bigger an issue that's made the worse seems it seems to get, but she won't starve herself. I agree though, sounds like a lot of juice.
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You all are going to laugh at me again with this worry I have. So today at Gymboree some lady made the comment about how tiny Elizabeth was. Ugh! Not again... So tonight my girlfriend said her scale is even with our docs. (military hospital) so she weighed Elizsbeth and it appears that she hasn't gained any weight in 2 months. She is still 20lbs. I'm ready to cry! Eizabeth just started walking so she's got to be burning calories but how can I get more in her? I don't want to give her junk but I feel desperate to get her calories.
She hasn't liked oatmeal but I'm thinking maybe I should give her the instant kind since it isn't so dense. I've been giving her a pancake w/cream cheese and some fruit for breakfast sometimes she'll eat some sausage. But the last few days she's eaten 1/2 of what she normally does. I just keep thinking that the more active they are the more of an appetite they should have. What gives?
Also, can anyone help me with fluid intake? How much milk and water should she have in a day. I keep hearing different things. When I give her water I always mix in some apple juice with it. I'm wondering if I reduce her fluids then she might be hungrier. How do I do this without her getting dehydrated?
Sorry to sound so manic about this. I hate the idea that she's dropping in the percentile scale.
Margie
Try not to worry so much...it will influence your daughter's image of food and her body...she's just fine!!! :) I know it's easier said then done, but do try to stop worrying and let people's comments roll off your back...the woman was probably giving a compliment and not realizing that it would cause you to worry more. My son has wieghed the same weight for several months now...and the docs here are not concerned in the slighest...after a year they slow down and once they start walking they burn those calories and can even loose some weight and still be AOK! She's beautiful and doing JUST fine!!! try to relax and enjoy her every day!!! :)
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At her 1 yr appt she dropped fromthe 50 to the 30% in weight and stayed 50% in height. He said to come back at 15 months (next month) to see where she's at. At this rate she'll drop tot he 5% by next month.
Just to clarify: Your LO drinks about 16oz of milk a day the rest is water and juice? Any idea how much water and juice he drinks? I see 4oz of juice but what about water? I'm tempted to just give straight juice for the calories and of course her milk.
I'm so sorry to be a broken record about this.
Margie
Weston dropped from something in the 85% range to 60% range at his last check up and the docs felt that was AOK...maybe it's not anything wrong with your daughter...maybe you need to change docs ;)
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Too strange - the veggie boycott has ended with green beans. He will eat a whole can of them if I let him (but not the frozen or fresh ones). He would not eat the chicken on his plate along side the green beans for dinner. He wanted yogurt, but we are out...boy did he have a tantrum about that! Daddy and Mommy were eating chicken and salad (which he will not eat) so he got chicken and green beans with milk to drink. 2 bites of chicken and 2 helpings of green beans. Too funny. Maybe I will have to try canned corn and canned veg-all. Not crazy about the canned idea, but if he will eat veggies, it's a start.
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Do you ever try mixed frozen veggies, DS goes nutty for them!
We are on an almost all fruit/veggie diet these days, with dairy thrown in - I'm starting to wonder if he'll be vegan!?
Breakfast - ww toast with cream cheese/sugar free jam, 1/2 yogurt, 1/2 banana
Snack - a few more bites of banana
Lunch - 1/3 cup mixed frozen veggies, an orange, a few bites of a ham and cheese quesidilla
Snack - a few goldfish crackers
Dinner - another 1/3 cup of mixed frozen veggies, a few bites of chicken, a few bites of ww cracker, a pear.
Boy are his poos loosey goosey with all the roughage he's eating, lol!
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For veggie boycotts I'll have to pass on Aislings patented swamp mix - it's been having miraculous results over on the Sept Oct 05 birth thread
take some carrots, peel them, stick them in your food processor, take some spinach, add it to the carrots (and maybe a bit of parsely if any's on hand) and chop away until it's all finely chopped and swampy looking. You can sneak this in almost anything - I usually add it to pasta sauces, or anything saucy (shepherd's pie, stews etc etc) but people have even got lo eating it snuck in with grilled cheese.
This can be then frozen in ice cube trays to be whipped out as and when, oh and you can use any veg really - I did a pepper, zucchini, carrot combo the other day which went down well cooked together with rice and a dollop of cream cheese on top.
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I have tried the frozen mixedd, believe me, I tried everything I could think of.
I actually have been sneaking veggies into his meals pretty regularly - we have a vita-mix. I'll put zucchini or snap peas or carrots in his smoothie, zucchini and carrots into banana bread, pureed veggies into every sauce and on pasta. He's been getting veg, but it's nice that he will eat them on his own. For a while, anything green was "No."
He started to skip breakfast at the new daycare. Still gaining weight though, so I guess he is OK. Mom and Dad have a hard time eating breakfast (though I force myself many days), so I guess he comes by it honestly.
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Aidan has an ear infection, so we ate whatever he would eat today.
Breakfast - Nutrigrain Apple bar with a little milk.
Lunch - fruit snack, a few raisins, and water.
Dinner - refused pasta, chicken and spinach hubby and I ate, so ate PB&J, strawberry applesauce (2 containers), and a little yogurt.
Not rounded, but he ate a little and was a little lethargic all day. Started the antibiotics and had to give tylenol every 4 hours for the temp of 102 F.
Hope we are better tomorrow!
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Poor Kaleb. Hate the teething. Do you do green or black olives? The Nutragrain bars, have not tried them, they are good? They are filling it sounds, that would be good in a pinch or for a bedtime snack if the day's eating was not good. Although, we are so far so good. The 2nd yr molars have begun but as soon as the appetite goes, I'll know they are coming out, so I think we are still a bit far off.
Breakfast: Almond milk with bran flakes and corn flakes. Toast and Peanut butter
Snack: Raisins
Lunch: Fried egg and pitta with hummus dip dip
Snack: Carrot sticks
Dinner: Salmon, spinach & rice that I added cottage cheese to, to bind up the rice mainly because rice is so messy everywhere and it is easier for him to feed himself!
Aisling x
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Weston will eat almost any pureed food I offer, so if I can't get him to eat veggies (or any other food for that matter) I'll pop open a good old "Earth's Best" jar of baby food and get that in him ;) I can see it now, he'll be 10 with a jar of baby food in his lunch pail...lol ::)
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Sorry to hear with Kaleb - hope it passes soon. BTW, home do you make your tuna casserole?
Been eating really well the past few days. Yesterday was:
- Breakfast: 2/3 of half a whole grain English muffin (toasted with butter), one piece turkey bacon (she likes this but due to high sodium content I only offer 1-2 times a week), few cheerios, 3 ounces OJ
- Lunch: almost half a grilled cheese sandwich, little bit of shredded chicken (I make this chicken she loves), some Just Strawberries
- Afternoon Snack: Diluted white grape juice and handful of Just Bananas
- Dinner: Homemade beef stir fry - she had very nice amount of beef and lots of green beans, 1-2 pieces broccoli and barely any rice
Also aobut 16-17 ounces milk during day
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That is great Karen. What are Just Strawberries? Fruit is our challenge.
Stacy: As soon as those eye teeth come out, he'll be good again and it should hopefully happen before you go away. I guess you better pack those Nutragrain bars in case! LOL!
I am trying Chicken and lentil chili tonight as he loves beans.
Aisling x
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Just Strawberries are freeze dried strawberries with nothing else added. Made by a brand called Just Tomatoes (www.justtomatoes.com) - I get them at Whole Foods or my local organic market. Marisa loves the strawberries, blueberries, bananas and peas.
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Karen, Aidan loves the Just strawberries, Cherries, Corn and peas. Actually, anything from them except the carrots, peppers, and tomatoes. I found them to be a little expensive after a while (since they were the only veggies he would eat for a while) so I started to buy the big cans of freeze dried foods from all the "emergency preparedness" websites. Much cheaper and comes in a huge can. Thought you'd like to know. I asked some of my friends who are LDS for their suggestions on good companies and have been really happy with them. The freeze dried pineapple is really good!
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LOL at the loosy, juicy poo, Stacy! A few days ago, B had a day where he refused almost everything but did eat a whole banana, a whole orange and a whole pear (brekkie, lunch and dinner, respectively with a few bites of bread, veg and meat thrown in for good measure)! Whoa! Did we see some bodily revenge the next day! He's teething right now - got two upper teeth within a day of each other this week and his first molar cut through around dinner time today. That would explain the weird eats and naps!
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Green olives with pimentos lol WEIRD!
Weston would eat an entire jar if I let him...green and black olives...he loves ALL olives, any flavor, color, style, etc...
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Just Strawberries are freeze dried strawberries with nothing else added. Made by a brand called Just Tomatoes (www.justtomatoes.com) - I get them at Whole Foods or my local organic market. Marisa loves the strawberries, blueberries, bananas and peas.
I have seen those Just "fruits" etc at our food store and wondered if Weston would like them...I think I'll give them a try now that I hear so many kiddos love'm ;)
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I'm curious if you consider their teeth when you feed your toddler? Weston is really slow compared to all his tot friends in the teeth department...he just started getting molars (has two now...one top and one bottom) and just got the 4 lower front tooth...
I have pretty much given him what I eat, but when I see some of the other kids eat, they CHOW down and devour food with their teeth, he's still learning to bite off bits of apple, cheese, etc...with his teeth...I wonder if that is why he likes pureed foods better? Weston will have a bit of cheese in his mouth for what seems like days working away on it...or on the other hand he'll swallow a bit whole, without chewing at all...
...how long did it take for your kiddos to master their toofers?
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I don't think teeth make that much of an impact that they would cause him to still eat mostly purees. When you consider that some people do babyled weaning and their children eat straight from the table at the get-go, biting out of whole fruits etc.
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I wish teeth made things a little safer on our end. I have to cut everything up because LO would eat and swallow huge bites of everything if I let him. We are working on "Chew, Chew, Chew!" -ing.
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Yeah...Weston doesn't chew either (with the few teeth he does have) we have to remind him all the time..."Chew your food" And when it comes to apples, cheese, etc..things he has to BITE a piece off of, he tries to use his one molar in the back to do it, he doesn't really use his front teeth...SOMETIMES he will with an apple, but rare...so I do believe he's teeth challenged...I still give him all the same foods we eat...so he has plenty of practice at it...just seems to prefer the pureed, which is fine since it's all good stuff anyhow, I don't really care what form it's in, but might be 'cleaner' to eat 'whole foods' LOL ;)
I will admit that he actually ate a WHOLE adult sized serving of Mac n Cheese the other night without one bit of chewing...he just took in big mouth fulls and swallowed, it was going down faster then juice! :o
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JUST FRUITS ~ I took your advice and bought some today, he ate half the tub at lunch! Prefers the dark berries, I got the mixed pack to test them out...but will probably go back and get him a few of the dark berry packs. Thanks for the suggestion! :)
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Ok so have a question to see what you all do:
** Do you give your lo milk as soon as they wake up and then breakfast about 15/30 minutes later
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** Do you give breakfast as soon as they wake up with a little bit of milk???
- Zach has been waking up and drinking about 9/10 oz. of Rice Milk Mixture and then not wanting breakfast of course. Our PED told us to give him breakfast AS SOON as he wakes and then do milk as a snack.
Just wondering. If you do give breakfast as soon as they wake up, how do you hold them off long enough to make the breakfast????
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Riley is never overly hungry first thing in the morning, if he was hungry, thirsty, I might give him a couple of ounces in a cup to tide him over. I usually have fruit cut up in the fridge anyway, so that's always good to go.
We always do meals, with a little drink of milk or water about half way through.
At this age, I really just see milk as his drink, I am more concerned about the food intake overall. There is no way he gets offered that much milk or water before meals. Or even after meals unless it's bedtime.
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Ok so have a question to see what you all do:
** Do you give your lo milk as soon as they wake up and then breakfast about 15/30 minutes later
OR
** Do you give breakfast as soon as they wake up with a little bit of milk???
- Zach has been waking up and drinking about 9/10 oz. of Rice Milk Mixture and then not wanting breakfast of course. Our PED told us to give him breakfast AS SOON as he wakes and then do milk as a snack.
Just wondering. If you do give breakfast as soon as they wake up, how do you hold them off long enough to make the breakfast????
Wendy DD has her milk first thing in the morning i limit it to 8ozs(that is all she gets all day) and then about 1hr later she has breakfast. She often has some cheerios before breakfast as a snack. She usually has 1.5wetbix mixed with fruit and milk and SOMETIMES a slice of toast.
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Ok so have a question to see what you all do:
** Do you give your lo milk as soon as they wake up and then breakfast about 15/30 minutes later
OR
** Do you give breakfast as soon as they wake up with a little bit of milk???
- Zach has been waking up and drinking about 9/10 oz. of Rice Milk Mixture and then not wanting breakfast of course. Our PED told us to give him breakfast AS SOON as he wakes and then do milk as a snack.
Just wondering. If you do give breakfast as soon as they wake up, how do you hold them off long enough to make the breakfast????
Weston sleeps with a bottle (shhh don't tell anyone!) ;) so when he wakes in the morning, most of the time he is finishing up a bottle as he wakes...(4 ounces or less) so yes he does get a drink at wake up time...and he rarely wants to eat Breakfast until an hour or two later...
But the E.A.S.Y. plan never has worked for us, I have tried and tried, but he's NEVER wanted to eat (even as a newborn) after waking up...he's always been unusally alert after waking and wanted nothing to do with food after wake up...so he had more of an sleep, alert, eat, alert, sleep routine. :)
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Marisa usually plays in her crib for about 30 minutes upon waking (unless she drops teddy) and after that she has 4 ounces tops of milk right away. Breakfast is anywhere from 15-45 minutes after that depending how she seems. She usually has a small but healthy breakfast. Trying to hold off milk until with/after breakfast didn't help her want more breakfast and only made her angry - but 9-10 ounces of rice milk is a HUGE amount. Why not put half that in and see if that helps?
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This morning I tried breakfast right away and he threw a fit. All he wanted was his drink.
This is what we have been doing:
Wake: Come downstairs, Milk (of course way to much, so will limit that) watch Sesame Street while we both wake up..
I give him breakfast when he starts to go in the kitchen and point at the fridge for food. He does not eat a lot though, but then again he never eats that much.
I will just stick with what works for us and limit the milk to 4/5 oz. in the morning. This morning though, he jugged it within 3 minutes and wanted more.
So far today he has eaten:
Wake: Milk
1 hour later: Breakfast: almost whole piece of toast
Snack: 1 apple slice
Lunch: 1/2 yogurt, refused sandwich
Napping now
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Right now, at 14.5 months, DS has a 6oz bottle at wake up and eats breakfast 1-1.5 hours later - he isn't hungry before that but eats a good breakfast, usually a slice of ww toast or a ww waffle, about half a baby yogurt and half a piece of fruit. Now that daylight savings has come, though, he is sleeping until 8am which means he doesn't have breakfast until 9:00-9:30. I think within the next few weeks, I'm going to slowly work towards less milk and breakfast earlier until we can move milk to accompany breakfast shortly after he gets up. I'm not too worried about his milk/bottles right now where he's at (he gets 3 bottles, 6oz and 2X5oz) but is a good eater. Around 18 months, we'll look at weaning from the bottle.
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How do you hold them off to wait for the breakfast until you have fixed it??
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Depends what you are making. He could always have some cheerios in his booster/high chair while you make something quick like toasting a waffle or something.
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I guess Aidan is the strange one. I give him milk right away and he drinks it for the minute it takes me to heat up oatmeal, mix in applesauce or get some cereal, fruit and yogurt. Then, once the food is in front of him, he is not interested in the milk until he's done. He is always really hungry at breakfast, so sometimes I sneak in a protein (that he could've eaten the night before) if he asks for "more".
M2W - you have to try the corn and peas - they are really sweet, too. I had to tell DH to stop eating DS's corn! The corn tastes a bit like KettleCorn - but no fat or salt. You can reconstitute the freeze-dried stuff, too. I give him the dried stuff in his snack bowl, and on his plate when those were the only veggies he would eat. I add the reconsituted fruit to his smoothies...loves that! It makes them a little sweeter than fresh fruit.
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Found two other hits with DS today - just started eggs but he's not into them so far so I tried making a slice of ww french toast for him this morning and he gobbled it up! I got 1/2 an egg in him via the toast and just added a bit of cinnamon to the egg mixture and the tiniest bit of syrup to the toast. He's be balking at meat a lot lately so I tried a soy hotdog at lunch and he loved that, too.
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M2W - you have to try the corn and peas - they are really sweet, too. I had to tell DH to stop eating DS's corn! The corn tastes a bit like KettleCorn - but no fat or salt. You can reconstitute the freeze-dried stuff, too. I give him the dried stuff in his snack bowl, and on his plate when those were the only veggies he would eat. I add the reconsituted fruit to his smoothies...loves that! It makes them a little sweeter than fresh fruit.
I also got a bag of frozen veggies (mixed) yesterday and put a cup of veggies in smaller baggies and ptu them back into the freezer and those are a HIT on a hot day! I took out a small baggie of frozen veggies and popped it in his snack bag...off to a friends for a playdate and sure enough all the kids were CHOWING on the frozen veggies as if they were popcycles! LOL
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Not at all judging, but like wouldnt it be kinda bad to have milk sittign around for 11-12 hours and then drink it?
Well I imagine if it sat around that long, it might be a little nasty! Weston gets a bottle when he goes down...(which he finishes most of the time) and then when I get up to pee in the wee hours of the morn, I stick another one in there...so it sits for a few hours, but not 11-12 hours, heck he doesn't even sleep that long...lol Weston's bottle is formula...and I'm sure there is MICRO bateria in there, but it builds the immune system...he's never had a problem with it at all.
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Thinking about the bottle after an hour or two...laughing to myself...it can't be worse the some of the misc stuff they put in their mouths when on adventures of their own...lol...Weston has been caught with BUGS in his mouth and his friend Branden ate dog poop once...lol...I'll take an old bottle overdog crap anyday! LOL they survive...
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Frozen vegetables.. I would have never ever thought of that, guess I though they had to be cooked.
This is what Zach ate today: He is just getting over the flu and now it has turned into a nose cold :(
Wake: 6 oz. milk
Breakfast: 1/2 piece french toast and piece of a biscuit
Snack: Cheese-Its and Juice
Lunch: 1/4 of ham/cheese sandwich, 1 cookie, and juice
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Wake: 4 oz. milk and a few bites of pear and crackers
Dinner: 4 mini corn dog (adult bite size peices), 1 entire peach fruit cup
Dessert: 1 Oreo cookie
Snack before bed: a few cheese-it's and 2 oz. milk
Yeah NO vegetables at all. I tried cabbage at dinner and of course NO..... He just hates vegetables.
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How much juice do you give Zach? Is it diluted? You may want to cut back so he doesn't fill up on that. And/or offer V8 Fusion instead (has a full serving of fruit and veggies).
Today Marisa had:
- Wake and 4 ounces milk after playing in crib
- Breakfast: About 1/4 of whole grain English muffin, handful of cheerios, few Just Blueberries
- Morning snack: About 3-4 ounces OJ, some more cheerios
- Lunch: 1/2 of Whole Kids cheese quesadilla, bunch of Just Peas, 4 ounces milk
- Afternoon snack: 3 ounces milk, about 10-12 whole grain goldfish, 4 small apple slices, water
- Dinner: 3 ounces milk, 3/4 of one small skillet hamburger (adult serving would be 2-3 hamburgers, no buns), 5-6 steamed green beans, some lettuce from our salad, little bread
- Bedtime: Will probably be 2 ounces milk
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Hey Karen, I just sent you a PM about the Just Peas, Blueberries, etc. to see what you recommend (toddler approved) I am on that Just Tomotatoes Website and am going to order some.
Zach maybe gets 2 to 3 oz. of juice a day, he actually does not even like juice anymore. I am just trying to give him something other than milk (because that is all he wants these days).
Oh and I do dilute it unless he has a juice box.
I tried the V8 Fushion and he did not like it. I am going to try a differnt kind though.
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Catherine is a little off her food at the moment due to a small cold and teething:
Wake up: 8ozs milk
Breakfast: 2wetbix mixed with 2tbls fruit and milk
Morning tea: muesli bar
Lunch: Slice of cheese peanutbutter and honey sandwich
Afternoon: tub of yoghurt,saltanas
Dinner: 1/2 meat pie with pasta and veges
HEAPS of water through out the day.
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Wendy, are you back on dairy again?
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LOL Natasha, even when Riley is not sick, he would probably not plough through all that in a day!
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Michelle: Yes we are back on dairy again per our Ped. He is doing just fine with it. really good.
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LOL Natasha, even when Riley is not sick, he would probably not plough through all that in a day!
What can i say she loves her food like her mummy :P
I think she is eating more than me at the moment since being pregnant.
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Not quite 1 and just changed to this
Waekup: 1 weetbix with milk and honey
AM snack: usually fresh fruit slices
Lunch: multigrain bread with cream cheese, avacado and sandwhich meat
PM snack 1: fresh fruit slices
PM snack 2: yoghurt
Dinner: Meat and vegies in some combination of finger food/mash (about 3-4T of mash)
Bottle: 7-8oz formula.
Probably about 8-12 oz of diluted apple juice during the day. Am also offering formula in a sippy whenever she is in the high chair, so far not interested (only just started using a sippy incidentally).
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Natasha, what kind of fruit do you mix with the Weetabix? Is she eating pieces of fruit now?
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LOL Stacy.
Is he trying to scoop up the food with teh spoon himself? Zara has serious spoon refusal, but at this stage she allows me to load it up and hand it to her, then she manages to get MOST of it in her mouth. She has tried the scooping a couple of times, but isn't ready, and thankfully, isn't yet insisting!
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Stacy, Riley is that bit older than Kaleb, and it has really only been recently that he can manage to spoon feed himself something. Up until then, he would work on loading the spoon, to have to all fall off again before it reached his mouth. He got quite proficient with yoghurt as compared to other foods in the beginning. Kinda glops to the spoon, so some of it usually finds its way in there!
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Something to look forward to I guess. A the moment, if I do let her try to scoop herself, she is so distracted by concentrating on that that I can get several mouthfuls in without her even realising LOL.
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I think I have everything you mention except the cluing in thing. This morning I made the mistake of seeing if I could put a spoonful of weetbix into Zaras mouth (while she wasn't busy concentrating on something else), and she want absolutely APE on me, yelling and throwing things and trying to get out of the chair by leaning way over to one side, then the other side etc. When she finally stopped (I was sitting there in open mouth amazement not sure what to do or say) I handed her the spoon, and she silently and calmly took it and put it in her mouth. She usually manages the right way up!
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Tonight Weston didn't want his potatoes (chicken, broccoli, potatoes was the dinner option for tonight) Anyhow, when I told him they were 'round french fries' he couldn't get enough of them! LOL ;)
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;D
I have a friend who had similar success with telling her girls that the drink she offered them (water) wasn't water, it was H2O!
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Natasha, what kind of fruit do you mix with the Weetabix? Is she eating pieces of fruit now?
Pureed fruit i buy in small tubs generally apple,stawberry. We are slowly working on the fruit pieces she has started taking an interest in grapes she puts them in her mouth eats most of it but spits out the skin at least it is a start. I put the puree in her cereal so at least i know she is getting some fruit.
Stacy, Riley is that bit older than Kaleb, and it has really only been recently that he can manage to spoon feed himself something. Up until then, he would work on loading the spoon, to have to all fall off again before it reached his mouth. He got quite proficient with yoghurt as compared to other foods in the beginning. Kinda glops to the spoon, so some of it usually finds its way in there!
We are the same Catherine use to let me load up the spoon for her now she pushes my hand away if i try and help her. She is getting really good at it she eats all her cereal on her own even her yoghurt out of the tub. Dinner she sometimes gets frustrated with so she just uses her fingers.
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Tonight Weston didn't want his potatoes (chicken, broccoli, potatoes was the dinner option for tonight) Anyhow, when I told him they were 'round french fries' he couldn't get enough of them! LOL ;)
LOL :P
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Well, today I TOTALLY spoke too soon. When I picked DD up from daycare, they asked if I want to encourage independant feeding - I asked why - they said she was very intent on scopping the good onto the spoon herself. She did OK at daycare, because it was yoghurt, which sticks to the spoon.
Then dinner. In the end I had to give her the bowl and the spoon and let her practice. She cannot do it, but luckily after a bit of practice and once she was fully engrossed in practicing, she let me get food from the bowl with another spoon (she was still holding the bowl though) and put it in her mouth.
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that's exactly what we have to do with DS. Today he was bent on eating his whole dinner with a fork. Yeah, right! We had to put the food on his tray (mashed potatoes, mixed steamed veggies and little home made meat pie) and guide his fork in his hand to pick it up so he could bring it to his mouth on his own. He is such a stubborn little guy! Usually, though, if I give him a spoon or fork to muck round with, he'll let me feed him with a separate one.
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Weston will eat on his own and has decent success with the silverware...but we let him use "real" silverware because the kiddy plastic stuff just can't stab anything or scoop enough out considering 50% of it falls off the spoon/fork...with real silverware, he gets to taste success...some food makes it in there and he's pleased with himself. ;)
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At 14.5 months, I'm too nervous about DS using "real" forks, I'm afraid he'd poke himself in the face! I could give real spoons but the ones we have for him scoop things up fairly well - the biggest challenge right now is getting him to leave a bowl on his chair tray long enough to scoop things out of since it's pretty hard to use a spoon on blobs of things we put directly on the tray.
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Oh I have always put blobs on the tray...I use bowls, but many times Weston will take it out of the bowl, put it on the tray (dump it or just relocate specific items to the tray) and then after a while, he starts working on the stuff off the tray...so at times I just forget the bowl completely...with practice he'll get it...
...I prefer to let MOST of the practice time happen during summer...I will have Weston eat outside in a plastic booster chair (that I can hose off when he's done, along with him) and then fill the kiddy pool and easy peasy clean up...When he's finished with his lunch, off to the kiddy pool for a rinse and fun...not so messy that way! ;) Along with practicing using a "REAL CUP" while in the bath...again, if he spills, no biggie, he's in the bath. ;)
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I like the idea of practicing the "real" cup in the tub. Any suggestions from anyone on teaching how to use a straw? Since taking milk from a sippy (even his nuby ones) isn't going anywhere right now, I thought straws might be worth a try.
Oh boy, I can't wait to have the summertime here to do eating and hosing down outside, lol! Gee, way up here that's only another 3 months away! :P
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Zach loves to drink out of a real cup and does great.
Yeterday he did not eat a single thing (no joke), well maybe 1 bite of something but not enough to count for. He is still has this really bad cold.
So far today he has had:
Wake: 6 oz. milk
Breakfast: 6 bites of eggs, 1 little piece of french toast sticks, 2 bites of banana.
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Hello everyone. Sorry to bust in on your thread but I had a quick (well kind of quick) question for you....
Right now I give mostly pureed food (jarred ones :P). I want to start giving more finger foods. Right we give her a few finger foods (Gerber puffs, dried fruit, etc.) but not for the main part of her meal.
I don't cook that often so I need some simple ideas for breakfast, lunch and dinner (easy stuff ;)).
I just need to come up with a menu of ideas to post so we know what to give her each day.
Does anyone have any ideas for us? Thank you so much. :D
Melissa and Grace
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Thanks Stacy! :D
Melissa
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I'd also look at the library for books - save some $$.
When it is super hot outside and I don't feel like cooking, we have something on his plate from each food category - I just cut them up in sticks or triangles so he is more interested in eating them. Children don't really care how interesting the food is, as long as it looks interesting to eat. Today is already 90 degrees in Arizona, so I didn't feel like cooking...we had:
Instant oatmeal - micro for 30 seconds, add cold unsweetened applesauce to cool it down. Milk.
Snack - strawberry banana smoothie - the fruits, a couple of cooked carrots, and some yogurt and ice in the blender.
Lunch - kind of full on smoothie, so paremesan cheese sticks (you can buy it that way now) and cracker sticks (the long, skinny breadsticks - he loves those)
Dinner - have some leftover turkey breast, so we'll probably have it warmed in the microwave and some veggies. Frozen are fine!
BTW - I have got to try the frozen veggie thing - he goes nuts for frozen banana chunks or frozen banana on a stick (started this when he was teething). Thanks for the great ideas!
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Wake: 6 oz. milk
Breakfast: 6 bites of eggs, 1 little piece of french toast sticks, 2 bites of banana.
wendy -- milk?? rice milk, no?
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Hey there... He is drinking whole milk now (per our Ped.) and doing great. No symptoms at all. All his test were (-). We think all his problems before was from so many antibotics (5 in 3 mos.). His system needed time to repair itself.
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Melissa - my DS's meals are pretty close to what Stacy gives.
Breakfast - always some kind of grain (muffin, toast, waffle, pancake, oatmeal, wheatabix cereal, etc. always whole wheat stuff with a bit of light cream cheese and jam), about 1/2 a toddler yogurt and fruit (usually banana or pink grapefruit)
Lunch - either leftovers from dinner or from the freezer (when we have meals he really likes ie. mac and cheese casserole, home made meat pies, etc, I freeze them in small portions for fast lunches or to pull out a dinner once in a while when we have something that might be too spicy for him). Quesidillas are a big hit around here - I throw in whatever with some cheese (chopped up chicken or whatever other meat is kicking around, veggies, salsa, you name it) and make a quarter quesidilla (1/2 a bread cut in half again) and warm it in a non-stick frying pan for a few min each side until the cheese melts. Grilled cheese is also a fav, again, I toss whatever in it - the one he currently loves best is ham, cheese and tomato. I also always offer a veggie and a fruit.
Dinner - whatever we are having. He will usually eat at least part of this but on the odd time that he won't touch a thing, he gets something quick like some chunks of cheese and a buttered slice of bread. Again, a veg and fruit are always offered.
He usually has a small morning snack about midway between his wake up and nap, usually a small handful of fruit and some cheerios or gerber puffs. After his nap, he might eat a little piece of cheese, 1/2 yogurt, a cracker or two, etc. Sometimes he's not interested in a snack.
In addition to throwing leftovers in the freezer in serving sizes for him, I also make a big batch of sweet potato fries or a roasted veggie mix (red/green peppers, zucchini and sweet potatoes) and then freeze small bags of these, very easy to pull out for a quick veggie!
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Thanks so much everyone. What great ideas! :D
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I like the idea of practicing the "real" cup in the tub. Any suggestions from anyone on teaching how to use a straw? Since taking milk from a sippy (even his nuby ones) isn't going anywhere right now, I thought straws might be worth a try.
Oh boy, I can't wait to have the summertime here to do eating and hosing down outside, lol! Gee, way up here that's only another 3 months away! :P
Weston took to all 'sucking' type cups (straw, sippy, bottle, etc) easily, but when it comes to straw cups he doesn't always realize that he doesn't need to tilt it up to get more out...so that is the only issue we have when it comes to straw cups...and that's something he'll have to sort out himself...I can encourage the proper 'non-tilt' method, but until that 'clicks' in his head, he only finishes about half of the cup...lol
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Hello everyone. Sorry to bust in on your thread but I had a quick (well kind of quick) question for you....
Right now I give mostly pureed food (jarred ones :P). I want to start giving more finger foods. Right we give her a few finger foods (Gerber puffs, dried fruit, etc.) but not for the main part of her meal.
I don't cook that often so I need some simple ideas for breakfast, lunch and dinner (easy stuff ;)).
I just need to come up with a menu of ideas to post so we know what to give her each day.
Does anyone have any ideas for us? Thank you so much. :D
Melissa and Grace
I don't cook often either...and so the more basic the better for me...
I found that if I spend a few minutes and make a few bowls of various cut up fresh foods, and keep them in the fridge ready to go, it was easier for me...to just grab a bowl out of the fridge and offer it...not too exciting, but easy to know if Weston was getting fruit, veggie, meat, etc...and when I'm feeling ultra lazy, I use frozen fruit/veggies and salmon in the can...and to be honest...Weston loves the frozen fruit and mixed veggies as if they are popcycle treats or if he's teething they work well for that too.
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Looks like Zach's appetite is back from his cold..
He ate an awesome breakfast:
1/2 scrammbled egg with cheese
1/4 piece of french toast stick
1/2 orange
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I prefer straw cups so i dont care but i sure wasted money on those 5 sippy cups!
LOL...5...that's nothing...I think I have literally about 30 in our sippy cup drawer! And just as many bottles to boot! LOL I would never want to be left without one...lol
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I got rid of all the bottles at one year when Pediatrician told me to go home and Throw them OUT! BUT, I have about 20 sippy cups. I admit that we still have them - I hate putting milk in the straw cups...worried about bacteria. He drinks all other liquids out of straw cups or open cups.
Suggestion on the straw drinking - I tried and tried and DH took DS out to dinner (just the boys) when DS was about 13 months. DH showed DS how to do it at that dinner and he was able to do it from then on. I don't know if all the teaching I tried finally clicked, or he just wanted to please Daddy, but that's how we got it done.
DS ate BF - oatmeal with applesauce (his SAH with Mom today BF), Milk, water, dried fruit
Lunch - wouldn't eat hot foods - 2 parmesan cheese sticks and yogurt.
Snack - 2 breadsticks (the really skinny cracker kind)
Dinner - at Grandma and Grandpa's - corned beef, cabbage (very little), carrots, Irish soda bread, and a chocolate chip cookie for Aunt Kelly's b-day. I am not fond of corned beef, but apparently DS loves it.
Not the best eat day, but enough calcium and protein and fiber.
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hello,
breakfast: rice crispies with milk.
snack: 2 finger biscults
dinner: baked beans on toast, yogurt, banana
and for tea im doing spag bol made with turkey mince and loads of different veg. followed by either apple, pear or grapes.
then drink of milk before bed.
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Oh yeah - the take and toss are the only straw cups I will put milk into. I was talking more about the silicone straw type cups. THey are so hard to clean.
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I'll just keep offering the straw, then! He is such a chewer - everything goes in this kid's mouth, so he is more interested in chewing the straw, of course!
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I don't understand how children have issues with the straws, only because "sucking" is a natural reflex...they do it from birth... ??? Our only issue is he wants to tilt it and then the straw is not touching liquid...but as for actually using a straw, Weston's been drinking from a straw cup since he was 6 months old and got the AOK to have non-breast liquids. ;)
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I think so too, DS was a champion boob sucker and now he slurps back his bottles and nuby sippies in no time. This straw thing just isn't happening right now!
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I agree. I think there is also a psychological element, as my DD would not suck anything but a teat until last week, when suddenly she knows how to suck both sippies and straws all in one day. But we do have the tilting the straw cup issue ;D
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The point is, they do it when they're ready, not when we are! ::)
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The point is, they do it when they're ready, not when we are! ::)
Now that's the truth!
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Absolutely, I just wasted 6 months offering something she didn't want...
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Hmmm...maybe it is a different muscle or tongue action? I don't know, Weston has always excelled in the sucking department...now 'figuring out the tilt' would be a bonus in our house! LOL ;)
He was breast fed, bottle fed, sippy cup and straw cup ready from the first try at any of them. really easy in that area...now let's talk SLEEP...he was NOT a sleeper and took a year to figure out how to do that! LOL ;)
Tonight he did not eat much for dinner, so I'm hoping he'll wake up hungry and we can get his eating back on track this week...Friday - Sunday was too much junk food, st. patty's day, b-day parties, zoo trips, playgroups, etc...so this week we are aiming to get naps and eating back on track! healthy choices!!!
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Yesterday DD ate:
Breakfast: 8oz milk,2weetbix mixed with fruit and milk. Vegemite toast
Snack: Muesli bar
Lunch: Cream cheese sandwich,tub of yoghurt,slice of cheese.
Snack: Saltunas and crakers
Dinner: Bowl of Penne Bolognase
Water throughout the day probably about 20ozs.
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I'll just keep offering the straw, then! He is such a chewer - everything goes in this kid's mouth, so he is more interested in chewing the straw, of course!
My daughter is the same way. Will not suck from a straw. She either chews on it or opens her mouth around it but won't touch her lips on it.
We just recently started on whole milk for bottles 1 and 2. She is only taking in 2-4oz each bottle (more like 2oz). She won't drink one sip of it out of a sippy. Is it normal for some babies to not be that interested in whole milk? Do I just supplement with more yogurt, cheese, etc. when she doesn't drink enough in one day?
Thanks.
Melissa
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Was she on formula before? I have heard of people mixing it, gradually lessening the amount of formula and increasing the amount of milk.
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Yes, she was on formula. I have thought of that but then someone mentioned they heard that mixing the two causes the milk to break down or something. Not too sure. Definitely something to look in to.
I am sure she'll eventually get use to it and will gobble it all up. It may just take some time.
Mel
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Finally get to post here (now that R's a toddler) and our meals have been... less than spectacular. Lazy mommy!
Today...
breakfast: about 1/2 daddy's banana, dry cheerios, 2-3oz milk
pre-nap snack (since bfast was light): infant cereal w/milk & peach-mango-applesauce
(practiced eating w/spoon... until he dumped it out on the tray - just a few bites)
lunch: 1/2 grilled cheese sandwich & about 1/2 cup fruit cocktail
pre-nap: 2oz milk
after-nap: 2-3oz milk
early dinner: veggie meatloaf (leftovers)
family dinner: tuna casserole (2/3 cup?)
refused bedtime bottle (this is ongoing)
5 oz milk @ 9pm
This was just a really weird eating day. He does usually have snacks, but... I dunno, weird day.
The 9pm milk is something we're working on. A couple months ago, he suddenly decided he didn't want to eat during the day... which resulted in 1-2 hungry NW/night. Daytime appetite has improved, but still hungry NW... so we re-instituted the DF so we could move it earlier & drop ozs, and get RID of the NWs.
Oh, yeah... and we're teething.
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Stacy - how do you make your jam? I wonder what flavor Marisa might like...
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Yes, she was on formula. I have thought of that but then someone mentioned they heard that mixing the two causes the milk to break down or something. Not too sure. Definitely something to look in to.
I am sure she'll eventually get use to it and will gobble it all up. It may just take some time.
Mel
I'm going to guess the 'break down' if any is on such a micro-level it won't make that big of a difference unless she's taking several hours to drink it...it's going to 'break down' once it's in her system regardless...
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Weston's Breakfast Today (which happens to be the biggest breakfast he's had in a LONG while!) :)
2 grapes, 2 strawberries, 1/4 piece of toast with jam, about 1 ounce of milk
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today...
breakfast - a few bites of egg, a few bites of toast, ~ 1/3 banana, ~ 3oz milk
pre-nap - 2-3oz milk (finishing from b/fast)
early lunch - ~4oz cherry vanilla yogurt, couple bites of a whole grain mini bagel
late lunch - ~1/4 pb sandwich, ~1/2 c fruit cocktail, 3-4oz milk
post-nap snack - 1oz cheddar cheese, 1 whole grain fig newton
dinner - southwest chicken (chicken breast, beans, corn, tomatoes) & spanish rice
(4-5 bites of each), 3oz peach/mango V8 juice
bedtime - 3oz milk
wow... our eating routine is really beginning to suck. :(
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Tonight for dinner Weston did really well with his oodles of noodles. (meaning he actually ate something, he really doesn't eat much) ;)
As you can see in he pics (and video if you clicked on it) he's using a real fork...having more success then he ever would with those plastic kiddy forks. ;)
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Hinnrichs/CIMG8174.jpg)
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Hinnrichs/CIMG8176.jpg)
Here is the video if you want to see him in action. ;)
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Hinnrichs/th_WestonMarch232007EatingSpaghetti.jpg)
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Lisa, they do go through those strange eating cycles. Aidan has just learned to eat a pretty big breakfast. He tends to eat more in the morning than at night (except tonight!) He did wake to eat a few times when he was teething, but learned that chewing on something like his blanket (yes, I know) or paci helped as much as eating. When it got really bad, I gave him teething tablets (homeopathic) or tylenol. When is was really, really bad, he got frozen banana chunks or ibuprofen.
M2W - I agree. The kiddie forks are too slippery and the tines aren't long enough or pointed enough for them to work well. He does better with the soft spoons (the ones where the bowl is flexible) and regular forks. He really likes adult sized utensils, but ours are kind of heavy for him to use well. I tend to give him plastic (adult sized) utensils when he's eating regular food and baby spoons for wet and messy stuff like oatmeal or yogurt.
For dinner Aidan ate: 2 pickle spears (went out to eat), some potato salad, a few bagel chips dipped in dad's clam chowder, milk, challah bread, chicken, 2 french fries. It was a lot, but only a few bites of everything. He wanted to go to bed after that - I think he was having a food coma! (no veggies, though...we'll do better this weekend)
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OMG! That video was adorable with a capital A!!!!! I'm starting to wonder if I should just get it over with and give DS real utensils, too!
Mel - we had to introduce whole milk by mixing it with formula except it wasn't so much a taste thing for DS as a tummy tolerence thing. Every week we replaced 1 oz of formula with 1 oz of whole milk until he was completely off formula.
Breakfast - 1/2 yogurt, almost a whole slice of ww toast with PB and J, half a banana
Lunch - about 1/3 cup ww macaroni mixed with tbsp sauce and some shredded cheese, 2 chicken meatballs, 1/4 zucchini sauteed with garlic and olive oil (his fav meal!), 1/2 a pear
Snack - a few cubes of cheese, a few bites of fruit and a few cheerios
Dinner - about 10 bites chicken, 2 potato wedges and 5 small broccoli spears mashed with some shredded cheese, a strawberry and 1/4 of a mango.
Also had 3X6oz bottles and about 8oz H2O
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Weston has been getting formula more often then milk (he'll take either, but some days I feel like the formula has a little more in it then the milk) anyhow, before I end up rambling about something I wasn't going to mention...I should mention what I intended to say ;)
Since we have diluted his night time / bedtime formula (drastically) 1 scoop to 10 ounces of water. (it's supposed to be 1 scoop to 2 ounces of water) he has been drinking less at night and slowly I think he'll wean himself of the night night ba-ba...however, he still won't take straight water...which is ODD, since the bottles he's getting now are pretty much water!
Oh and the point (it's late and I'm preggo, please forgive me)
the point was, since he's getting more water and less formula in the night time bottles, he seems to eat more food at breakfast now (still getting a lot of fluids, but I'm not sure water fills him up like formula, milk or juice...what are you thoughts?) Not eating a ton, but more...and that's a start. :)
By the way...thanks for the comments on the video...we think he's pretty cute ;)
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BabyBsMommy ~ okay I have to say...I love your cycle ticker...that is TOO FUNNY with the humping rabbits!!! LMAO! ;)
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ROTFLMAO!!!!! I can't believe you noticed the humping rabbits! Over in my birth club, someone else put up that ticker and we were all laughing at the humping rabbits!
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ROFLMAO at the bunnies too.
Today Zara ate:
Bfast - 1 weetbix with milk and honey adn 1/2 banana
MTea - 1/2 banana and 2 strawberries and 1/2 teething rusk
Lunch - (went to bday party) - 100g yoghurt, 3 potato chips, 1/3 sausage, 1 chocolate crackle, 2 small pieces watermelon and a couple of lollies, 1/2 teething risk
ATea - a thick slice of cheese and about 1/3 plum
Dinner - 4 cubes pureed veg, few bites of silverside, and a tin of pureed pears
Bottle - 200ml formula
I think we may be hitting the 12 month growth spurt, she is just eating lots!
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ROTFLMAO - I didn't even think the bunnies were doing that! I am so naive sometimes - I thought they were just standing next to each other! :P
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Wow, everyone's lo's eat so much compaired to Grace
Yesterday she ate....
Breakfast
1oz of milk
2oz of Oatmeal (used whole milk to make)
4oz of cherry/apple puree
Puffs
Snack
2oz of yogurt
and a few sips of juice
Lunch
1 Gerber grad ravioli and then spit it out ::)
8 bite of chicken (taken out of mommy's wrap since she didn't want her ravioli)
4oz jar of Carrot, Apple, Mango puree
Puffs
A few sips of juice
Bottle: 4oz of whole milk
Snack
Cheese and Veggie Crackers (very little)
A few sips of Juice
Dinner:
A few bits of a Veggie burger
A few pieces of apple
the other 2oz of her yogurt
6oz bottle of formula
Yeah for humping rabbits ;) What a funny thought.
When can they start eating with a fork or spoon? I don't think she is ready yet, but I guess we can always start trying.
Ok, off to wake the monkey.
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ROTFLMAO!!!!! I can't believe you noticed the humping rabbits! Over in my birth club, someone else put up that ticker and we were all laughing at the humping rabbits!
Oh I noticed...guess my mind is in the gutter...lol...I think it's CLASSIC!!!!!! I love it!
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Wow, everyone's lo's eat so much compaired to Grace
Yesterday she ate....
Breakfast
1oz of milk
2oz of Oatmeal (used whole milk to make)
4oz of cherry/apple puree
Puffs
Snack
2oz of yogurt
and a few sips of juice
Lunch
1 Gerber grad ravioli and then spit it out ::)
8 bite of chicken (taken out of mommy's wrap since she didn't want her ravioli)
4oz jar of Carrot, Apple, Mango puree
Puffs
A few sips of juice
Bottle: 4oz of whole milk
Snack
Cheese and Veggie Crackers (very little)
A few sips of Juice
Dinner:
A few bits of a Veggie burger
A few pieces of apple
the other 2oz of her yogurt
6oz bottle of formula
Yeah for humping rabbits ;) What a funny thought.
When can they start eating with a fork or spoon? I don't think she is ready yet, but I guess we can always start trying.
Ok, off to wake the monkey.
She eats WAY MORE then Weston that's for sure!!!!!!!! As for the fork, you can see in the pics above what I think...lol...I'm all for letting them try, you won't know if they can do it, unless you let them try...if it doesn't work out at first, give it another try in a few weeks, month, etc... :)
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I LOVE that video. So cute.
Not sure what has gotten into my son, but he ate CHICKEN 2 days in a row. He never eats meat other than hamburger and hotdogs.
Last night he ate this mexican dip I made with chicken and black beans in it. Today he ate some pieces of fried chicken.
He has been eating very good lately!!!
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Hi, does any body mind if I join in?
Luke is now officially a toddler and I need some more ideas about the kind of things I can start trying him with. I'm also abit worried about what to substitute for his afternoon bottle (he's still has 3 bottles a day) - he LOVES his milk. I haven't changed his bottles to cow's milk yet either.
Today he had:
Breakfast - cheerios, slice of raisin toast with butter and jam, grapes and dried apricots, 1oz cows milk
Lunch - tuna and sweetcorn pasta bake in cheese sauce, custard with pears
Snack - 5 oz bottle of milk, 1 clementine orange
Tea - creamy chicken pasta with broccoli and carrots, yoghurt, 1oz cows milk
He also had 8oz bottle of milk when he woke up and 6oz at bedtime and water throughout the day
Does this look ok??
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Thanks Stacy! ;D
I must admit, today was a good day. He's really got the hang of walking over the last week and is doing it all the time - just walking back and forth from one side of the room to the other - I think he doesn't know how to stop! ;D I'm sure that's the reason for an upturn in his solids at the moment.
I'm going to start to reduce his afternoon bottle this week (hopefully phasing it out by the end of the week) so that should keep his formula intake below 16oz in just a morning one and bedtime one.
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Hi, does any body mind if I join in?
Luke is now officially a toddler and I need some more ideas about the kind of things I can start trying him with. I'm also abit worried about what to substitute for his afternoon bottle (he's still has 3 bottles a day) - he LOVES his milk. I haven't changed his bottles to cow's milk yet either.
Today he had:
Breakfast - cheerios, slice of raisin toast with butter and jam, grapes and dried apricots, 1oz cows milk
Lunch - tuna and sweetcorn pasta bake in cheese sauce, custard with pears
Snack - 5 oz bottle of milk, 1 clementine orange
Tea - creamy chicken pasta with broccoli and carrots, yoghurt, 1oz cows milk
He also had 8oz bottle of milk when he woke up and 6oz at bedtime and water throughout the day
Does this look ok??
Of course you can join in...everyone is welcome ;)
I'm not one to ask when it comes to bottles. Bottles don't bother me in the slightest, nor do they bother Weston's doc...so my son still gets them when he's going down for sleep or in the car. I give cows milk and formula (just depends on my mood and if Weston specifically asks for milk or not) ;)
As far as I can tell your little one is eating great :)
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Thanks Stacy! ;D
I must admit, today was a good day. He's really got the hang of walking over the last week and is doing it all the time - just walking back and forth from one side of the room to the other - I think he doesn't know how to stop! ;D I'm sure that's the reason for an upturn in his solids at the moment.
I'm going to start to reduce his afternoon bottle this week (hopefully phasing it out by the end of the week) so that should keep his formula intake below 16oz in just a morning one and bedtime one.
Also, what I have been doing is diluting the formula bottles quite a bit...the one Weston gets at night is 80% water really...because he uses the bottle more as a prop during the night then for nutrition, but he doesn't like straight water (rarely will drink straight water no matter what I put it in, straw cup, sippy cup, regular cup, bottle, etc) He will drink it from a water bottle with a sport cap...so when I have those, I take advantage of it. ;)
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As far as I can tell your little one is eating great :)
Thanks! ;D He does have his moments!!
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I am really loving this thread now, gives me loads of ideas :)
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Breakfast:
Bottle 1/2 oz of whole milk :P
1/2 Organic Waffle
1/4 of a banana
1 Jar of Pears (oz)
Had about 5 sips of whole milk from her sippy which is a HUGE improvement :D
Snack:
Yogurt
Sippy of Water
Lunch: We were out at the mall
1 4oz Jar of Beef and Veggies
Puffs and a few small bites of strawberries and banana
4oz of whole milk before nap
No snack today
Just juice
Dinner:
1/2 of an all natural hot dog
10 small bites of carrots
a few bites of cheese
3oz of squash
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My child hardly eats at all, yet look at that bootie cheese! He's certainly not starving! LOL (he gets that from his father's side...I'm sure of it! LOL) ;)
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Hinnrichs/CIMG8199.jpg)
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LOL, he is a little chunk :)
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Miche - I don't worry about bottles. DS is almost 15 months and still has one in the morning, before his PM nap and before bed. He has about 6 oz in each bottle. We have been trying to switch him over to milk in a sippy (attempt almost everyday) but he still isn't into it although he has taken water from a sippy since 6 months and we FINALLY got him to take juice from one yesterday. He eats well and is maintaining his place on the growth charts for his weight so I'm not concerned at all about the milk he drinks. We'll eventually start to wean down off of the afternoon one but it settles him nicely for his nap right now so I figure, if it ain't broke, don't fix it! It's not like he's going to be going to kindergarten with a bottle hanging from his mouth!
Today: His second molar is about to cut so he was pretty fussy with eating until dinner...
Breakfast - almost a whole ww eggo waffle with cream cheese and jam, a few orange wedges
Lunch - almost a quarter of a quesidilla with cheese and chicken, a few bites of carrots (he seems to hate them these days!), 1/2 a yogurt and a strawberry
Snack - a few bites of fruit and the other 1/2 of his yogurt
Dinner - one good sized slice of turkey loaf (meatloaf made with turkey and lots of mushrooms), large serving of green and yellow beans (picked out the carrots and threw them on the floor, lol) - tried the tortellini and spit it out, a WHOLE banana :o and about 1/4 of a 1/2 OJ 1/2 water homemade popsicle
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Yesterday was Zara's party so forgive the junk food, but she ate:
2 weetbix with milk and honey
1/2 banana (refused the strawberries completely and plum too)
some cheese (which she picked off her multigrain vegemite and cheese s/which ::))
1 yoghurt
1/2 banana
about 1 doz (at least :o) salt and vinegar potato chips!! (thought the taste would be too much, she LOVED them), a lollipop, some sausage, maybe 1/2 - 3/4, and some chocolate birthday cake (which she mostly squished and threw, probably only ate 2 mouthfuls)
200ml formula
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Anyone find their kid eats more with dad ?
Weston ALWAYS eats more with dad...and I'm not sure if it's because dad feeds more 'fun food' (crackers, etc) or if dad's perception of what he eats is different then mine, or if Weston really does eat more with dad??? But whenever they have the day together, it sure sounds like he's had a lot to eat compared to what he eats when I'm with him. Maybe mom's worry more about their child's intake? Maybe our kids have our number and are playing us for the fool. ;) LOL
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Today went much worse than previous days. She was off on her sleep too, and I can feel that 6 teeth are on the move in her mouth, but she is the slowest teether >:(
Breakfast 1.25 weetbix with milk and honey + a few cheerios
Morning tea - nothing - refused pear, and didn't eat a rusk
Lunch - 2/15ths of toasted cheese sandwhich + 1 yoghurt
Afternoon tea - 1/2 a pear, 1 arrowroot biscuit and a rusk, couple of little mouthfuls of birthday cake
Dinner - 4 large icecubes of Beef and Red wine casserole, with rice and mushrooms.
Bottle - 180ml formula
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Yesterday she had:
Breakfast: 200mls milk,2weetbix with fruit and milk a slice of peanutbutter toast
Snack: 2 muesli bars
Lunch: slice of cheese,jam sandwich,tub of yoghurt
Snack: Dried fruit and saltanas
Dinner: 2 fish bites,peas and corn and chips.
Not bad considering she is teething with her 2yr old molars.
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Natasha, what exactly are your "chips" over there? Are they fries or potato chips?
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Today Zach ate:
Wake: Milk
Breakfast: French Toast Stick (2) and fruit
Lunch: 3 mini Corn dogs, watermelon
Wake: Milk
Snack: Icecream -- Opps this was my fault, I HAD to have some, PREGGO..
Dinner: Few bites of Ravoli, 1 cup of peaches, green beans
Snack: About 50 Just Blueberries, 2 graham crackers
Few sips of milk before bed
THANKS TO KAREN... He loves these things. I am not looking forward to that diaper though.
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Natasha, what exactly are your "chips" over there? Are they fries or potato chips?
Ohh i keep forgetting everyone has different names for them. I meant french fries :P
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Typically in the UK..chips are french fries ;) (and footballs are really soccer balls) ;)
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Lol M2W, I am from Ireland originally, I usually think chips are fries, but you never know. I am still getting used to calling them "fries" after 5 years of living in the USA, you would think it would have been easier since fries are not really chips anyway, at least not as I know them!
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Lol M2W, I am from Ireland originally, I usually think chips are fries, but you never know. I am still getting used to calling them "fries" after 5 years of living in the USA, you would think it would have been easier since fries are not really chips anyway, at least not as I know them!
yeah...when in rome do as the roman's do...we always switch gears back and forth when we are traveling between the UK and the states...it's funny how sometimes we will say "chips" when we mean fries after a UK visit...one way for me to remember is even in the states, fish n chips is still fish n chips...all the same there and here...but when you want a sandwich and chips, you'll be gett'n potato chips not fries here in the states. ;D
And you hoover the rug over there...or put your stuff in the boot of the car...all kinds of funny differences in a language that is basically the same. ;)
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BTW ~ Weston ate a great dinner...he's been eating more and more 'real' food lately...which I'm glad for! Harder to ensure a balance and healthy intake,...but the independence is a must before Baby #2 arrives and she's potientally coming a month early (if the lungs are ready...the OB wants to induce early)
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So are potato chips what we in the UK call 'crisps?' ???
Luke was at nursery yesterday and ate -
Wake - bottle 8oz
Breakfast - raisin toast and yoghurt
Snack - crumpet with butter and jam
Lunch - chicken hot pot with potato and broccoli, custard with stewed apricots
Snack - banana and raisins, 5oz bottle
Tea - egg sandwich
Bed - bottle 8oz
Water throughout the day
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Today:
1.5 weetbix for breakfast with milk and honey
Not sure what she ate at daycare, but I sent - 1 tin pureed fruit, 1 banana, 1 cream cheese sandwhich (2 slices bread), 1 arrowroot biscuit, 1 yoghurt.....
Dinner - at 5 mouthfuls (with much coercion) of pureed vegies, 1 bit of fish, and 1/3 of a "french fry' ;)
We will offer her a 250ml bottle of formula, but I just know she wont' finish it.....
Yep potato chips are crisps....I think.
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I'm having lots of luck at the moment with risottos...
I take a bunch of veggies (at the moment I'm using a mix of peppers, zucchini, carrot and green beans), chop them in the food processor, freeze in ice cube trays and then throw the mix into anything and everything.
Lunch today was brown rice with 4 cubes of veggie mix cooked in, bit of left over chicken cut small and added, then a bit of cream and grated cheese to make it all good and sticky - dd has to be able to get some of it in herself else she gets mad! Then some apples chunked up and stewed with cinnamon and cloves for 5 mins.
Dinner most days is some sort of soup, probably veggie noodles soup today.
Breakfast is our problem. today she had 200ml milk on waking then about 3 spoons of cereal (dry is prefered ::)) and a bite of banana. I should probably ditch the milk, but she normally only wants to eat dry bread...
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My DD did not start eating breakfast until I ditched the morning bottle also. Now, since it is one or the other, I give the morning bottle if I am in a super super hurry....it is quicker and cleaner LOL.
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How long 'should' lo's eat pureed fruits, veggies, etc.? I am sure there isn't a time limit but I was wondering if anyone knew what the average was? Grace still loves them and eats very few bites of 'adult' food so I have to offer pureed stuff to finish off most meals anyway.
Mel
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UK ~ Crisps = Chips ~ USA
UK ~ Chips = Fries ~ USA
;)
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How long 'should' lo's eat pureed fruits, veggies, etc.? I am sure there isn't a time limit but I was wondering if anyone knew what the average was? Grace still loves them and eats very few bites of 'adult' food so I have to offer pureed stuff to finish off most meals anyway.
Mel
Ha, ha..Gracie has a way to go before she catches up with Weston...Weston still prefers pureed over non-pureed foods...so I let him have them...he's getting quite good at eating a full container without making a mess on his own...but I'm sure most people stop the baby food long before I have.
For us, Weston has days where he eats mostly pureed and other days where he won't eat any, he'll prefer the whole food version of veggie or fruit, etc...I personally don't see any harm...he eats both non-pureed and pureed, to his liking...and I know the pureed food is healthy, so I actually feel good knowing he's getting a good dose of veggies or fruit, when he won't eat it in the 'whole' form.
What I wonder is those baby jars come in 4 or 6 ounce servings and what is that equal to in the scheme of serving sizes for a toddler? (he's not quite 2, you can see his age in my signature ticker) :)
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MEL: I would give anything if Zach still ate the pureed vegetables. He want touch vegetables at all now. If I were you I would give them to her as long as she wanted....
Does she eat any finger foods, etc. Oh.. I just saw she is only 11.5 mos. old.... I would not worry to much with it right now...
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Riley ate:
Breakfast: Bowl of cereal and some apple slices
Lunch: 8oz yoghurt, brocolli cheese quiche and lots of peas
Dinner: really thinly sliced turkey, jar of pureed sweet potatoes. Lots of peas, lima beans and brussels sprouts (he loves all those vegetables)
Rice Milk and water throughout day. Oh, half a banana for pm snack.
This is so much for him. I usually don't have much of a list to post, mostly lurk for ideas.
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WOW.. He does eat a lot of vegetables. That is great...
Zach ate chicken nuggets today.. That is huge for us... He never liked them before.
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Weston is liking cheese lately...the little round bonnie bell cheeses are his favorites this week...sometimes it's string cheese, sometimes it's just slices of whatever cheese we are eating, but this week it's been the round bonnie bell's wrapped in wax. :)
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Stacy - DS loves the fruit smooshies, too - they were fantastic through his last illness and teething round. Have you tried their zippy fruit? - kind of like sunrype fruit to go but not that same, gummy, sticky texture and there's a whole apple in each one
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Yesterday Luke had ~
Wake - 8oz bottle
Breakfast - slice of raisin toast, cheerios, LOADS of grapes and apricots
Lunch - tuna and sweetcorn pasta bake, creamed rice pudding, raspberries (wasn't too keen on them though)
Snack - 5oz milk
Tea - ham and cheese roll, tub of pureed fruit, a whole banana
Bed - 8oz bottle
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Wendy: Grace eats finger foods, but she doesn't eat enough to make it count as a full meal, kwim. After the finger foods I then offer a veggie, fruit or dinner puree to make up the difference.
-Yeah, she'll be the big 1 on Monday! :'( ;D
HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY ZARA! :-*
Yesterday
B-fast: 2oz of milk from bottle, 2oz of milk mixed with oatmeal and some strawberry/apple/banana fruit puree (4oz), Puffs to distract her while I made the oatmeal
Snack: 2oz of Yogurt
-Before lunch while at Gymboree she shared some puffs with the other babies
Lunch: 1/2 a piece of bread broken up with cream cheese (1st time trying this and she LOVED it) and carrot/mango/apple puree and some freeze dried apples
-I left the puffs in the diaper bag, she pulled them out, figured out how to open the jar, spilled them out all over the floor and then proceeded to eat them all up off the floor. ;D ::) So, lots of puffs today. :P
4oz of whole milk
Snack: 2oz of yogurt
Dinner: 1/2 hot dog, carrots (very few) and then a Chicken dinner puree (4oz)
6oz of formula
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I have seen that a lot of the lo's on here eat frozen peas, etc. So you just give them frozen peas (right out of the package) and they will just chew them or suck on them???
I wonder if Zach would eat them..
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I have seen that a lot of the lo's on here eat frozen peas, etc. So you just give them frozen peas (right out of the package) and they will just chew them or suck on them???
I wonder if Zach would eat them..
I buy frozen veggies...peas, mixed, carrots, broccoli, etc...and mix them all together in a bowl when I get home...and then put them in zip lock (one serving size) bags...and all the bags into one big zip lock freezer bag...so then when we are heading out the door, I can grab a small zip lock bag to go...it stays frozen or cold all day...and he eats them in the morning, noon & night...so at times they are rock hard frozen and towards the end of the day, they are just cool finger food veggies. I do this with frozen fruits/berries too. Typically I put 1/2 cup in each zip lock bag. Then whatever he doesn't eat by the end of the day I toss in the composer.
When Weston was smaller I would give him frozen green beans to chew on during teething jags. And that was something he'd chew on...was never interested in teething rings...but a frozen green bean, he'd chew on that for sure. ;)
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Wendy: Grace eats finger foods, but she doesn't eat enough to make it count as a full meal, kwim. After the finger foods I then offer a veggie, fruit or dinner puree to make up the difference.
-Yeah, she'll be the big 1 on Monday! :'( ;D
that is what I have been doing for almost a year now...
if Weston eats well then I don't offer him pureed, but if he nit picks all day and doesn't seem to get anything good in him or enough, then I pop out a pureed bit for him and he loves it...eat's all the time. He's almost 2 years old...I wouldn't worry about it really...heck when we all get old and loose our teeth, we'll be back in diapers and eating pureed foods again...why break the cycle...lol ;)
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today Luke was at nursery, he had ~
Wake - bottle 8oz
Breakfast - 2 slices of raisin bread, grapes and apricots (he is loving this for breakfast at the mo!)
Snack - chocolate rice krispie cake
Lunch - roast turkey, roast potatoes and carrots, fruit and custard
Snack - 5oz bottle
Tea - egg sandwiches, yoghurt, a whole banana
Bed - only managed 5oz bottle tonight!
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Wow, Luke is a great eater!
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Today Zach ate:
Wake: 8 oz. milk or more...
Breakfast: 1/2 peice french toast, small bowl of cheerioes
Snack: Cheese, crackers
Lunch: Not much at all, a few bites of corn dog and peaches
Snack: 8 oz. milk, cheese Its and Icecream :-0 opps my fault again, had to have it.
Dinner: WOW.. Almost a whole mini pizza, 2 green beans, tons of watermelon
Dessert: Bread Pudding
Snack: Crackers and More milk..
He had a good eating day for us...
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Wow! a lot of 'good eaters' around here ;D
Andrew is almost 1, and he prefers the purred foods over FF also...We always start the meals with FF, but end up pureeing everything :P
The purees get chunkier, and chunkier lately, but sometimes he still gags on them...just not ready, I'd say...We'll keep trying ;D
...we make our own food, and he gets a variety of soups at lunch, the only foods that he'd eat bite sized veggies without fuss...
Today
whole milk upon waking 4oz
Breakfast
mixed cereal 3oz, and 2oz milk
pineapple 1 slice
Lunch
cabbage & turkey casserole with polenta 3oz
strawberry, apple and pineapple 2oz
Snack
yogurt and 2 toddler biscuits 5oz
Dinner
mixed veggies and chicken 5oz
formula 7 oz
Alina
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Wow, Luke is a great eater!
Rina ~ thanks! ;D :-*
He's been eating so well for a good 3-4 weeks now. Mind you, he's also been walking properly since then as well and the boy loves to walk! I think he's burning off lots of energy. ;D
He's also a big guy - tall and chunky - just like his dad, so there's plenty of space to fill with food! ;)
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Kaleb ate like Luke just before a year old then hit the appetite drop and hasnt since!!
LOL Stacy - I'm making the most of it while I can - I know it's not gonna last forever! ;D
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LOL, Zara Almost ate that well the last couple weeks, now we are back to normal - growth spurt I think....but it was such a pleasure to feed her during that time ;D ;D
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Hehe, I know what you mean!
And when he's shovelling it in this well, he doesn't play around or mess with his food so there's hardly anything to clean up after as well! ;D ;) ;D
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Zara ate today:
Breakfast : 1 weetbix with milk and sugar (we rant out of honey :-X) and 1/2 a hot cross bun with butter
Morning snack: dried fruit mix (dates, sultanas, pawpaw, pineapple coconut etc etc) and some rice snack thingys....a really decent amount, she suprised me, I thought she would eat about a 1/3 of what she did, and that I would polish off the rest ;) ;D
Lunch : 1/2 a ham stick, 1 slice cheese, and about 3/4 of a sandwhich made with 1 slice bread, 1 slice cheese, cream cheese and avacado
No afternoon tea
Dinner: probably 3 cubes mixed vegie purree and a good handful of frozen peas
Bottle: 200ml formula
Thank for the frozen peas idea guys, that was a hit!!!
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Hmh we have not tried frozen peas, but peas in general and cooked carrot are big thing in our house
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Hmh we have not tried frozen peas, but peas in general and cooked carrot are big thing in our house
I love the frozen veggie/fruit options...they travel so well and are so easy to 'prepare' lol ;)
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So you just give your kid frozen vegetables right out of the bag?? I need to try that..
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I didn't think that you could eat frozen stuff 'straight from the freezer' - or am I getting that wrong??? ???
Yesterday Luke had -
Wake - 8oz bottle
Breakfast - a whole hot cross bun with butter and jam, grapes, apricots, yoghurt and whole milk in a sippy cup
Lunch - creamy chicken pasta with broccoli and cheese sauce, a whole clementine and some cheerios
Snack - 5oz bottle
Tea - tuna and sweetcorn pasta bake, creamed rice pudding with custard sauce and a whole banana
Bed - 6oz bottle
I think he's still stuffed from yesterday - he hasn't eaten much so far today! ;D
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i am wondering the same thing. Do you cook them first and them freeze them or just take them right out of the bag??
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He gets them right out of the bag...frozen...so far most of our mommies in our mommy group have done this for about a year now and NO SICKIES...so if you hear something none of us have, let us know...but we all give'm straight out of the bag. :)
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Makes sense.. I am going to try to give Zach some today. Oh..if he liked them.. That would be GREAT.
So far today he has eaten:
Wake: 8 oz. milk
Breakfast: 1/2 scrammbled egg, 3 bites of pancake, watermelon
No snack
Lunch: Almost 1 whole soft taco with meat and cheese
Napping now..
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Frozen veggies are cooked before they are frozen, they are blanched. You can eat most of them raw even. There isnt any real reason to need to cook them as in for a health concern.
Its not like its raw frozen meat, its just veggies!
that's what I always thought...never crossed my mind that you would need to cook veggies or even fruit for that matter...you can eat all of it raw typically....so I've always given Weston frozen veggies and fruits...(good for teething too when they are younger...in those net things)
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Re: the frozen fruit / veggies .. what about them being a choking hazzard? Are they really able to chew them or are they just swallowing them whole?
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Jenifer ~ that's what I was thinking about as well...
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Thought I would join in today hop you dont mind
Tom had eight ounces formula first thing
8.00 am half a bowl of ready brek
9.15 toast
10.30 banana
12.30 lunch spagetti and sausage - one yogurt
2.30 - yogurt and milky bar
4.30 chicken, potato and broccilli - only ate 1/4 of this and 1/2 a custard.
7.00 took about twelve ounces of milk befroe bed :o
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Wow that is a lot of milk Tom! :)
Do you all find now that the weather is better and are outside all day that your LO's appetites are huge? Nello ate like a horse today and in very weird combinations:
BF
I combined some raisins, shreddies and cheerios (dry) as a mix whilst he was playing so Mum has her tea in peace!
Porridge and cantaloupe
Snack: Halved a biscotti with me
Lunch: Veggie Burger with a hot cross bun!
8oz Cows milk
Snack: Went into fridge and brought out a Tupperware of cooked cabbage form night before's dinner, so he took a few handfuls-cold no less!
Dinner: Sausage, boiled potatoes and greenbeans and some barley soup (I'm trying to use up all my leftovers before Easter!) ::)
DH said he had a slice of toast and peanut butter before bed after an 8 oz bottle! I was at pilates.
That's it!
Aisling x
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ok, I'm thinking my son eats ALOT, is it too much? he has always been in the 75th percentile height and 50th weight. but wow he loves food and milk.
here was today and its fairly typical:
breakfast--6oz milk, 1 slice toast with creamcheese, 1/2bannana, handful cheerios
snack-a cracker
lunch-1/2avocado, 2tbsp cooked carrot, 1/4cup leftover sidekicks, 2 cheese slices, 1 cracker, 1 kiwi, 5oz milk
snack-yogourt
supper-6-7oz milk, 1/4cup cooked veg, 1 cup pasta/sauce, 1 cheese slice, cookie
I think he may actually eat more then me...
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Good for him!
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Re: the frozen fruit / veggies .. what about them being a choking hazzard? Are they really able to chew them or are they just swallowing them whole?
Weston chews on them...when he was younger and only had a few teeth, I would give him frozen green beans to chew on and relieve his teething pain...he loved it, never choked, would hold one end and chew on the other...
...the bits I give Weston are pretty small...at the largest the size of blueberry, which is another frozen favorite of his...he'd eat the whole bag if I let him, but that would be one blue poop!
I'll take a picture and post it so you can see what I am offering Weston...the only thing in the fruit bags that is big, are the strawberries and those I typically wait until they are partically thawed. However, Weston loves to chew on ice...(small bits)...so he likes cold frozen...some kids might not like that cold of food unless they are teething.
Also, I might add, that if tossed in the to-go bag for the day out...by noon, they aren't really that frozen...just cold.
BRB with a photo or two... ;)
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When you hold one of these bits in your fingers for a few seconds, you can feel them getting softer and thawing with your body heat...so I'm sure by the time Weston picks it up, and puts it in his mouth it's softened up and then one bite down and it's mush...just my personal opinion (that's what happens when I just tested it out and popped one in my mouth) :)
Here you can see I have a bunch of smaller bags ready to grab and go in the bigger freezer bags
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Hinnrichs/CIMG8382.jpg)
This veggie bag is a REALLY FULL one...most of them are about a quarter of that size...but it happens to be the one I grabbed out. :)
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Hinnrichs/CIMG8383.jpg)
You can see I have one bag that is only blueberries, one that is mixed fruit and one that is mixed veggies. I keep the blueberries separate, because they are a favorite and sometimes I get tired of him picking them out of the fruit bag, digarding the other berries for his favorite ones...lol ;)
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Hinnrichs/CIMG8384.jpg)
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Gosh, you are very organized! Mind if I steal your ideas ;)?
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Gosh, you are very organized! Mind if I steal your ideas ;)?
No go right ahead, steal away!!!
It literally takes minutes to separate and put in bags, but saves hours on the day when you are trying to toss healthy in a snack bag and go...(Weston eats less 'fish crackers' this way...he still has the crackers, but I can get fruit and veggies in him while we are out and about as well) We spend most mornings out and about, so I'm typically feeding Weston lunch on the go...
When I get home from the market, I toss all the frozen fruits in a big bowl...using a 1/4cup scoop, I pop 1/4 cup into small zip locks and then toss them all into a big one and in the freezer...honestly it doesn't take but a few minutes. Well worth it IMHO. :)
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Obviously I meant to say the same process for the veggies as well...
...but if you buy a bag of carrots, a bag of peas, a bag of corn, etc...(all separate) then it's a good idea to mix them up well in the bowl before scooping (but I'm sure you would come to that conclusion on your own)
I typically buy a mixed veggie bag or two...and then a few of the single veggie bags in things Weston prefers. mix all those up in the bowl and make my to go baggies.
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Oh I also take Weston's food with us, when we eat out...because I hate to pay for a meal he may or may not eat...and these baggies come in very handy for that purpose too!!!
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And like I mentioned above...by noon, they are almost completely thawed...unless kept on ice
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See how sad I am, I can't wait to go shopping tomorrow for supplies!
Riley adores veggies and fruits, but I never bring them out with us much for snacks as it seems like too much hastle when we're on our way out the door, but with little grab bags, it would make it soooo much easier!
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Our stand bys are :
Ritz veggie crackers
Graham Crackers
Cereal bars
cereal
Wheat Thins
...so mostly dry stuff like that, time to mix it up a bit!
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I should also add he doesn't tend to eat a lot of snacks anyway, maybe one a day...or sometimes we do 4/5 mini-meals.
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I am still thinking about whether or not the veggies would be okay without cooking beforehand..I know they are blanched, so slightly precooked, but wouldn't some of them be hard to digest without being cooked. I know lots eat veggies raw...
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I'm not talking about whether it's "wrong" like that Stacy, I said people eat veggies raw.
It was more of a ponder I should have just kept in my head. Nevermind...
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I know what you mean :)
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Some veggies are better cooked as far as digestion goes (we could take this over to the Debate board if you like, ladies!!! ;)), but I think the ones you would get frozen (green beans, carrots, etc.) are fine even if completely raw. But they are blanched like someone else mentioned, so it doesn't really matter!
I'm definately going to try that idea - about the frozen veggies and fruit! I wonder if Marshall would go for it...
Here is what was on his menu today:
Breakfast: 1 slice french toast and some banana
Snack: applesauce
Lunch: 3 chicken nuggets and steamed broccoli
Snack: sliced apples (we love apples right now!!!) and a yogurt smoothie (plain yogurt mixed with about 2 oz. juice)
Dinner is in the works. He probably won't eat much of it though - I'm 'lucky if I get 2 decent meals out of him each day!
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LOL Maggie @ putting this on the debate board.
I guess I was trying to work out in my head what veggies I would put in the bags, so I have decided not to do the beans types etc. Or Brussels sprouts, which he loves, as that would just be off :P
If my post came across snippy, Stacy, I apologize.
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Yesterday: (and she is doing pretty good ;) ;D)
Breakfast 1 weetbix with milk and honey, and then about a slice of raisin toast she kept begging from my sister LOL
Snack - 2/3 of a pear AND 3/4 of a sandwhich size slice of cheese and a very tiny amount of milk in a sippy
Lunch - penne pasta with arrabiata sauce (chilli tomato) and some grated cheese - prob about 15 pieces of penne
Snack - small piece of her birthday cake (very sweet tonnes of bright red icing :P LOL)
Dinner - about 20 frozen peas, about 5 mouthfuls of puree beef and red wine casserole with mushrooms and rice, and 1/2 a hamstick.
Bottle - 200ml formula
I think dinner was only small because she had her needles the day before, and she had a temp yesterday she wasn't feeling good before bed.
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Rilen's day...
6:45-8:15am - 1 slice ww toast w/pb & honey; ~4oz milk; a few bites of dad's banana
(he ate about 1/2 of this before 7am and didn't want more, then finished it off after we took dad to work)
11:45 - offered dinner leftovers (eggs w/salmon, spinach, mushrooms & cheese). Ate 2 bites.. acted interested, then changed his mind. Offered apple/peach sauce... same thing.
1pm - 4oz blueberry yogurt; 4oz apple/peach sauce.
2:45 - 1/2 oz mozz cheese, 1 ritz cracker
4:45pm - 6oz milk
6:15pm - dinner: a few bites of grilled ham & cheese (1/4 sandwich?), a few bites of veggies from tomato vegetable soup
Veggies have been really light, lately. :( And he really wants to eat w/a fork... but he tries to use it like a spoon and absolutely doesn't want our help. Will actually take the food off the fork & put it back on the plate, if it's food we put on the fork for him or guided his hand to spear.
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I find frozen berries get really juicey when they thaw so I cant really let kaleb have it on the go. Literally he gets it ALL OVER. He also tips the bowl up to drink the juice and honestly I dont need him pouring a ziplock over his head! It would be ok if he ate them totaly frozen but most t imes they thaw lol
I dont have that m uch organized, but when we do go out I do have stand byes and well its mostly fruit lol. Dried fruit, fruit leathers, canned fruit in fruit juice.. sense a theme? Kaleb doenst really care for any really like a snack food, mostly fruit!
Yes, they do, but I stuff a paper towel in the baggie with them and it soaks it up, pull the towel out and it's pretty good for finger foods...but not something I'd give in the car, definitely something I'd have him sitting down to eat while we were at a park bench, resturant, the table at playgroup, etc...because regardless of the juice, some berry fruits are stainy fruits no matter how dry they are...the purple drool that comes out of the mouth and drips on the bib is messy enough. lol ;)
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Our stand bys are :
Ritz veggie crackers
Graham Crackers
Cereal bars
cereal
Wheat Thins
...so mostly dry stuff like that, time to mix it up a bit!
Yeah I found that to be us too...and it bothered me that Weston wasn't getting as many fruits and veggies while we were out and about...this works out just great for us. :)
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Hi ladies.
DS eats well, but peas have never been his cup of tea. Or so I thought. He was in my freezer with me the other day and he kept grabbing the frozen peas and saying mmmmm and I said you don't like peas but after reading your recent posts, I opened the bag and offered him one. You guessed it. :) Loves them, gave them again as a snack today. Fantastic. :) Thanks for the tip.
Aisling x
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WOW...I had no idea there were such 'feelings' towards frozen fruits and veggies...lol ;) I hope my personal tip and what we do does not offend or concern anyone...I eat all fruits & veggies raw as well as cooked, so IMHO if it's good enough for me, it's good enough for my son ;)
I like the idea, it works for us...but as this board is all about...to each family their own...we have to do what feels right for us :)
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Hi ladies.
DS eats well, but peas have never been his cup of tea. Or so I thought. He was in my freezer with me the other day and he kept grabbing the frozen peas and saying mmmmm and I said you don't like peas but after reading your recent posts, I opened the bag and offered him one. You guessed it. :) Loves them, gave them again as a snack today. Fantastic. :) Thanks for the tip.
Aisling x
LOL...that's awesome!
I told Weston (since he loves "ice") that the veggies he's not fond of are 'iced peas' etc...and he thinks they are ice cubed peas...and for some reason that's AOK in his opinion.
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I totally get the stains, i use this wiked stain stick. You put it on the stain when you remember and just have to wash the clothes within a week. Everything comes out for me.
I hear ya! Juice and fruit (those berries especially!) are stainy. I have one of those stain sticks too, but when that doesn't work, I've had to use Oxyclean. Oxyclean & I are becoming fast friends...
A month or so ago DD spilled green tea on herself while she was trying to drink it out of a cup (her insistence, she wants to do things the "adult" way these days). I didn't think much of it, I mean it's almost like water right? Ha! Boy was I wrong when I looked at her white shirt and blue pant a few days later after the tea had dried out. Major stain marks. Who woulda thunk? Spray & Wash before laundering did not do the trick. I had to give it 2 passes of Oxyclean soaking before most of it came out, and now you don't really notice the stains much if you're not staring too closely.
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I totally get the stains, i use this wiked stain stick. You put it on the stain when you remember and just have to wash the clothes within a week. Everything comes out for me.
I hear ya! Juice and fruit (those berries especially!) are stainy. I have one of those stain sticks too, but when that doesn't work, I've had to use Oxyclean. Oxyclean & I are becoming fast friends...
A month or so ago DD spilled green tea on herself while she was trying to drink it out of a cup (her insistence, she wants to do things the "adult" way these days). I didn't think much of it, I mean it's almost like water right? Ha! Boy was I wrong when I looked at her white shirt and blue pant a few days later after the tea had dried out. Major stain marks. Who woulda thunk? Spray & Wash before laundering did not do the trick. I had to give it 2 passes of Oxyclean soaking before most of it came out, and now you don't really notice the stains much if you're not staring too closely.
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We get WAY BETTER results from SHOUT vs Spray-N-Wash (we have both and use both, but for US...shout has always worked, spray-n-wash works sometimes and oxyclean never worked for us)
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I just wanted to say thank you BW ladies for the frozen veggies idea! My DD loved them today! Veggies are back .. for now .. ;)
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I just wanted to say thank you BW ladies for the frozen veggies idea! My DD loved them today! Veggies are back .. for now .. ;)
You're welcome...it works out well for us :)
ok ladies, everyone ready!
HE USED A SPOON TODAY!!!!!!!!!
Yeah...congrats!
This reminds me of a funny story...well we thought it was funny :-\ ...the other night at the dinner table Weston wanted a knife, so we gave him a butter knife (definitely not ready for the steak knife yet)
anyhow, he was cutting his cooked carrots, etc..and saying "DID IT" very proud of himself...a few minutes later he was concentrating very hard on cutting the carrot, when he let out the LONGEST & LOUDESST fart one could release and it finished at the same time he also successfully cut the carrot and proclaimed very proudly..."CUT IT" ;) My hubby replies, "yes indeed you did cut it!" then mumbles under his breath, you cut the cheese is what you cut! .....all while I'm trying to give the lesson of 'how one should say 'excuse me' when a fart is let out...but just had a heck of time, because hubby was cracking up laughing, I'm was tearing up trying to hold back my laughter and Weston just ever so proud that he "CUT IT" at the dinner table! He keeps proclaiming "CUT IT" over and over again ;D
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LMAO! ;D
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I think I've missed a couple of pages, Oops!
Question: Grace loves to put her hands all in her hair while eating ::)...peanut butter, jelly, fruit, you name it and it's a huge mess. Everytime she puts her hands up we say "Hands down!" but she won't stop. Any suggestions on how to get her to stop? I know she still young, but I don't want her to think something like this is ok, kwim?
Well, Grace is 1 now!!!! Walking and everything! Crazy toddler years here we come. ;D
She had her 12 month check up and we found out she now weighs less than she did at 9 months. She is so tall and thin. They aren't worried but said she eats too healthy and I need to get more fat into her (naturally occurring fat that is) so they suggested tons of Peanut Butter, Cream Cheese, Eggs, Bacon, etc. especially since she won't really drink milk (we are down to about 3 oz ::)). So, this should be fun trying to fatten her up ;D ;D
So far today she has had
3 sips of milk
Eggs and Cheese (very little) and a fruit cup
1 travel package of puffs and a few apple bites
4oz yogurt (made with rice and fruit) and about 6 bites of pureed veggies (she wasn't interested today)
4 sips of milk
now she is up for her nap after only 40 minutes and is having a blast thowing her paci's and lovey out of the crib and then yelling for me ::) ::) ::) Oh joy! This evening should be tons of fun with 5 hours of A time (usually 3.5) and I'm all alone as DH is at work all night. What a monkey.
Happy Easter Weekend (to those that celebrate)! He is risen indeed!
Oh boy, the yelling has started back up....all paci's must be overboard....any suggestions (you can pm me if you like).
Melissa
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Melissa, one thing I did a long time ago was get rid of things like puffs out of the house. Nutritionally, there is not much in there, and I found they filled Riley up too much, leaving him not hungry for the more nutritious foods. Cheerios are a much better option for snacks.
Avocados are a wonderful food, full of healthy fats and nutrients. Does she like it, Riley enjoys guacamole.
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Good idea on the puffs. :D
She does like avocados, well at least a few months back. I haven't tried them in awhile but I think I may have to go get a few.
Thank you very much.
Melissa
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I like the frozen veg & fruit idea, will keep that in mind.
Today Lily had
Breakfast 1 bowl Rice Crispies & some juice
Snack 1 banana & juice
Lunch 1/2 buttered hot cross bun, fromage frais & 1/3 packet Organix tomato & cheese puffs
Snack few marinated olives & feta cheese
Dinner Pasta with leek, cauliflower, broccoli & cheese sauce & 1/2 apple chopped up into chunks nuked in microwave for 30secs to soften & custard
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So far, Riley has had:
Breakfast: 1/2 large pear, dry cheerios
Lunch: Tri-color pasta just tossed in butter, lima beans, small bits of turkey (using up leftovers, hence the weird combo)
About 12 ounces of rice milk, and some water
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I think I've missed a couple of pages, Oops!
Question: Grace loves to put her hands all in her hair while eating ::)...peanut butter, jelly, fruit, you name it and it's a huge mess. Everytime she puts her hands up we say "Hands down!" but she won't stop. Any suggestions on how to get her to stop? I know she still young, but I don't want her to think something like this is ok, kwim?
That is a normal progression of development...unfortunately it's not a "lesson" you will easily teach because they have a need to 'feel the different textures' and eating in this age time frame is messy beyond belief.
HOWEVER, fortunately it does pass...I would personally try to not make a big deal of it, because that will prolong the behavior in most kids. But rather prepare for it, maybe have her wear a special "HAT" at meal time if you're going somewhere and don't want to bathe afterwards...or during the summer feed her meals outside so she can make a mess and then hose her down outside with a kiddy pool fun time...or let her feed herself the non-messy foods and you feed her the more messy foods for now.
Trying to teach a 1 year old the concept of messy and no hands in the hair is one battle I wouldn't choose...I'd save my energy for a battle that really counts. This is a developmental stage that passes with time. She won't think it's cool to wear her food in her hair later in life...promise! ;)
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Thanks M2W. You're right. :-* I'll definitely try to not care as much.
Melissa
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Thanks M2W. You're right. :-* I'll definitely try to not care as much.
Melissa
I had similar feelings...but realized I couldn't do much about it, except on the days I just didn't have time to 'deal with the messy hair' I would let Weston eat the finger foods and I'd feed the messy foods...and as this next year passes for you, you'll start to feed less pureed and more 'finger foods' so when the hands go in the hair it's not as bad. ;) although I will mention those little round soft cheeses that are individually wrapped in wax, can be some what tricky to get out of the hair! :P
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Hinnrichs/WestonsCheesehead1-3-07.jpg)
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Hysterical ;D
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Weston looks so much like you.
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Lukie's appetite has definately deminished over the last couple of days compared to what he was eating last week!
Yesterday -
Wake - 6oz milk
Breakfast - cheerios, 1 weetabix with milk (not interested), some grapes
Mid morning - wanted some more milk - took 5 oz
Lunch - chicken and broccoli pasta, 1 clementine,
Mid afternoon - at my mum's BBQ - 1 pot of orange jelly, 1 lemon fairy cake, milk in cup
Tea - jacket potatoe with cheese (1/2), LOADS of cold chopped melon, mango and grapes,
Bed - 6oz milk
He's teething at the moment so that's gonna have something to do with it, probably why he down so much cold jelly and chopped fruit! ;D
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Stacey ~ Since you mentioned it before - I've been anticipating it with baited breath! ;D ;D
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Yeah, I read that Grace will most likely only gain 3-4 pounds over the next year. So crazy as they gained so much the first 12 months!
Today:
BREAKFAST
1/2 Waffle
Apple Sauce
SNACK
crackers
LUNCH
1/2 slice of Turkey lunch meat
1/2 Veggie Burger
Shredded Cheese
4 Veggie Crisps
SNACK
2/3 yogurt
DINNER:
PBJ Sandwich (1 slice of bread)
Corn
2 organic animal crackers
She drank milk and water from her sippy through out the day! She is doing much better with her milk. The Dr. suggested since she doesn't really like to drink that much whole milk to add just a tad of Ovaltine to it and it has helped some ( a healthy dose of chocolate ;))
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Weston looks so much like you.
Yeah we're still not sure who his father is...lol ;)
My hubby always used to say "I'll be your daddy, but I sure don't know who your father is" ... I just noticed for the first time a few days ago, Weston's lip does a funny little crooked lift on one side (with a certain expression) that my hubbys does...so Brad's in there somewhere and maybe with time, daddy's features will surface...
...makes me wonder if baby #2 will look like daddy or mommie??? We'll find out soon!!! :)
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He's teething at the moment so that's gonna have something to do with it, probably why he down so much cold jelly and chopped fruit! ;D
He might like the frozen veggie/fruit treats if he's teething...
but I would agree that after that 1 year mark they stop eating everything in sight...
Weston was almost 30 pounds (like 29+) at his 12 month check up...and he's 33 pounds now (almost 2 years old) it is odd how they grow soooo fast in the first year and then slow way down...just amaizing.
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Just wanted to have a little brag ;) ;D
Dinner last night (we were at a restaurant):
1 tin of purred apples
1 chicken nugget
5 hot potato chips
1 piece of spiced roast pumpkin
3 snow peas (stir fried)
1 whole piece of smoked salmon
1 piece of fetta
1 piece of sundried tomato
3/4 tin of vanilla custard
MANY small spoonfuls of icecream ;)
All followed with a late bottle (about 9:30) 200ml formula - drank all of it.
Breakfast this morning:
1 weetbix with honey and milk
1 whole peice of toast (shared from us quarter by quarter so a variety of toppings)
1 handful of nutrigrain pieces
several oz of orange juice (not diluted) from my cup with a straw
She is eating AWESOME ;D ;D
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Just wanted to have a little brag ;) ;D
You are entitled!! ;) And I find they sleep so much better when they eat well...that darn triangle of eat, sleep and play is such a fine balance, but when all are in check and balanced out, whoo hooo what a perfect child one can have!!! I love it when Weston eats well, plays well, sleeps well!!! :)
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You are entitled!! ;) And I find they sleep so much better when they eat well...
LOL I wish, she had an awful night due to being kept up :P, plus she doesn't sleep well anywhere but home ::) and we stayed in a hotel. I am CERTAIN she would have slept well if we were home though ;)
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OM, she indeed ate well. Good job Zara.
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Yeah Zara! :D
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Here is what Weston ate yesterday ;)
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Hinnrichs/th_WestonTheEasterChocolateBunnyApril8.jpg)
Amung other things...but definitely too much junk on Easter Weekend...today is back to healthy healthy healthy!!!
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Zach is not eating much at all. he is teething with his 2 year molars and has a small cold...
Now if I was to give him junk all day, then he would eat great.. But.. Not going to do that.
Wake: 8 oz. Milk
Breakfast: Bowl of cheerios, 1/2 piece toast, few bites of yogurt
Snack: Graham Crackers and a pickle
Lunch: Refused Pizza, Ate about 5 bites of a chicken salad wrap (I was shocked)
Wake from Nap: 8 oz. Milk and Just Blueberries
Dinner: Refused Pizza again, Ate 3 mini corndogs, 2 bites of watermelon, 1/2 yogurt
M2W: Weston weighs 33 pounds :-0 WOW.... How do you carry him around being pregnant? Zach is only 25 pounds, Thank God, because there is no way I could tote him around.
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I actually think you get used to the weight, you build up muscles as they grow. Riley is about Weston's weight, he will have a check up soon, so I'll know then, and is about 2ft 11 now, and I am small and tote him around quite a bit. But I am not pregnant either lol!
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Carrying Luke around has definately toned my arms up!
He's about 30lbs right now and I carry him a fair bit - I've noticed the tops of my arms are the thinnest they've ever been (and I've always been on the smaller side - 5ft 4 ins and 7 1/2 stone) - in fact as he's been growing and putting weight on, I've been losing it - I'm sure it's down to running after him during the day and picking him up/carrying him around!! ;D
But again, I'm not pregnant - not sure I'd be carrying him round so much if I was - hat's off to you M2W!! ;D
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LOL, Zara is only about 20-21 lbs, and i hate carrying her around - unless I have the sling to strap her to my hip ;) ;D which we do ALOT!. And even my arms are getting stronger!
Don't know that she will be that light for long though, today she ate:
Bfast: 1 weetbix with milk and honey, almost a whole piece of raisin toast with butter
Lunch 1: a yoghurt, almost a whole banana, and many rice snacks and burger rings
Lunch 2: penne with arrabiata sauce and cheese on top (didn't eat heaps, but not too bad)
snack: some of her easter chocolate ;D
Dinner: 1 ham stick, 3 cubes of purred vegies mixed with 1 cube of beef casserole
Bottle: 200ml - drained it.
;D ;D ;D
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so you guys give your kids chocolate!!! I do too, but only in very small amounts.
I was feeling very gulity!
we had company the other day and after supper I offered to give her 17month old daughter a cookie. I did ask if her if any kind of cookie would do, but when I split a chocolate on one side digestive VOORTman cookie to give her daughter half-she was shocked.
she said she wasn't expecting a chocolate cookie because none of the parents she knows gives their 1 year olds chocolate!!!
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Some people are really funny about giving there kids choclate, sweets, etc.
Zach is almost 2 and he gets it in small amounts. His favorite thing is Oreo cookies and I wish I never started that.. I actually had to hide them and they only come out for a reward.
It's not like that is all we are giving our kids.
So far today he has ate:
Wake: 8 oz. milk
Breakfast: Feed himself an entire bowl of cereal (it was a pretty good size bowl)
Snack: Just Blueberries, Graham cracker
Lunch: 1 chicken nugget.. woooo
Napping now.
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M2W: Weston weighs 33 pounds :-0 WOW.... How do you carry him around being pregnant? Zach is only 25 pounds, Thank God, because there is no way I could tote him around.
It's not always 'easy' but you do build up your arms...and I sort of half way expect my back to go out one of these days...and if that happens, well then the bright side is DH will be cleaning the house and tending to Weston while I lay in bed reading with a heating pad. ;) (might be worth the brok'n back? LOL) ;)
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so you guys give your kids chocolate!!! I do too, but only in very small amounts.
I was feeling very gulity!
we had company the other day and after supper I offered to give her 17month old daughter a cookie. I did ask if her if any kind of cookie would do, but when I split a chocolate on one side digestive VOORTman cookie to give her daughter half-she was shocked.
she said she wasn't expecting a chocolate cookie because none of the parents she knows gives their 1 year olds chocolate!!!
Well Weston gets sweets in SMALL amounts...his first experience was his 1st b-day, he made a giant mess of his birthday cake...but honestly he JUST started to like sweets, up until recently he would always say NO, when offered to him (even at Halloween...he collected all that candy, but guess who ate it! yup ME!) :( as if I need it! LOL...
and the amount of chocolate you see him eating in the video was IT...I convinced Weston after that video was taken to wrap up the "pop pop" and save some for later! ;)
We have a friend that is very strict about her daughter eating sweets and it's causing a HUGE issue now...her daughter throws tantrums and cries constantly if any other child has something she wants at playgroup (food wise) and she can't have any...it's one of those things that I think if you monitor it and allow it in small amounts under your supervision, you'll have less battles on your hands, then if you forbid it completely...when she's away from mom, she'll sneak it and go over board...I'd rather know what my kids are up to, then having them learn to sneak behind my back ;)
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Luke's first experience of something 'sweet' was also his 1st birthday. He had 2 bite size cubes of his cake (Victoria sponge with jam and buttercream filing, iced) which went down well. TBH I kept forgetting to give him any more (and I really liked it! ;))
This Easter he has had 3 or 4 white chocolate buttons as a treat after his lunch or tea from DP's easter egg (DP couldn't not have one ::)) - however I noticed tonight that he was much more 'hyped up' after tea and he took about 45 mins to settle into bed (he usually is asleep within 10 mins) - not crying or anything, just walking around his cot, throwing things out and giggling - so I will be watching his behaviour quite closely when ever he does have chocolate or sweets (which won't be often anyway) just in case! ;D
Anyway today he had ~
Wake - 8oz milk
Breakfast - 1 hot cross bun with butter and jam, 1/2 banana
Snack - cheerios, grapes and dried apricots
Lunch - chicken and vegetable soup, pot of raspberry jelly, 1 clementine orange
Snack - 5oz milk
Tea - cottage pie with carrots, cauliflower and broccoli, yoghurt and 4 white choc buttons!
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1st Birthday cake is the best!
Today Grace has not eaten too well
2 sips of milk :P
a few bites of egg and cheese
1 4oz jar of vanilla/apple puree
2oz of yogurt and a few sips of water
We were out for lunch and it was pretty much a disaster...she kept spitting everything...all the things she normally wants
-corn ( a few pieces)
-a few very small pieces of my blueberry bagel and poppy seed muffin (dh's)
-2/3 jar of beef and veggie puree (3oz)
-A few sips of water
No MILK :P :-\ :-\
2oz of Yogurt
Not sure yet....we'll see.
She just won't drink her milk!
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glad to hear I'm not the only one with a few sweets here and there!
Totally agree that moderation is best. Like Stacy, I try not to make a big deal of it either, sometimes he doesn't even want the cookie anyhow! I was just a bit surprised at my guest's reaction.
the new thing is eating a Mcintosh apple whole, he holds it like an adult would and just munches away. This works for me, I never liked peeling and coring apples! Discovered this one day when he snuck in the fridge when I was putting something away and just grabbed the apple and ate it up!!
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I've really been limiting sweets and junk food so far - mind you she's only just turned one.
I notice when she's had some ice cream that she takes WAY longer to go to sleep at bedtime (and that's the healthier ice cream too!).
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I have decided to let Zara eat pretty much as we eat...which for the most part is healthy. It also stops and makes em think before I have an unhealthy snack - do I want Zara to eat that now. With her chocolate - not at dinner time.....(so then I just wait til she is asleep ;))
I am not using food, even chocolate, as a reward for anything. It is just something we have sometimes. That's all. Nothing exciting. Often we don't even have any in the house - right now we only do because of easter.
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Rinajack, I think thats my problem too---I love chocolate and good luck on me eating it without giving him any! Maybe I should stop eating it ;)
Thats like coffee, whenever I'm drinking it--he's so curious and seems to want to drink from my cup!! I usually have to divert his attention and offer him water instead...
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I offer her drink then too, but have been known to allow her to sip some coffee off a spoon (only because I can't stand when she backwashes in my drink!)
So, off to make myself a coffee right now! 8)
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LOL... True..
Well.. I tried the frosen veggies and as I thought, NO GO.... I tried peas, may try something else...
My kid just hates vegetables...
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I have decided to let Zara eat pretty much as we eat...which for the most part is healthy. It also stops and makes em think before I have an unhealthy snack - do I want Zara to eat that now.
Rina, I am doing exactly the same- Sophie just wants to eat anything we eat at the moment so it is really stopping me snacking and making me eat healthier- which can only be a good thing!
Today she ate:
breakfast- 1 weetabix, slice toast
lunch- breaded fish, new potatoes, mushy peas :P
tea- sandwiches, salad, jelly, one banana (all at daycare)
supper- 2 crackers, cheese, Organix fruit pot (extra meal as tea is at 4pm at daycare)
plus 8oz milk at 7am and again at 6.30pm
She is a very good eater and loves her food (like her mummy, lol)- I am very lucky
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I am sure we will be giving Grace some coffee sometime soon as DH is a huge coffee drinker.
Today Grace had...
2 pieces of shredded oat cereal
1/2 waffle
4oz fruit
4oz yogurt
3 slices of cheese
crackers
1 4oz jar of mixed veggies
banana
???? Haven't gotten here yet but I'm going to make her a fish stick (just bought some from the health food store so we'll see if she likes it), and veggies
Pretty much zero milk and zero water. We offer it all day long but some days (most days) she just doesn't want too many fluids. As long as she's peeing regularly right?
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Rinajack, I think thats my problem too---I love chocolate and good luck on me eating it without giving him any! Maybe I should stop eating it ;)
Thats like coffee, whenever I'm drinking it--he's so curious and seems to want to drink from my cup!! I usually have to divert his attention and offer him water instead...
I should stop eating chocolate too. Yesterday, Riley saw me buy a bar in the store, and when we got home, I put it in the fridge as usual (love Twix when they are cold). Anyway, after dinner, Riley asked for "a bar" and I offered him one of his usual granola bars as dessert. He refused it and went to the fridge and said, "Moma bar" and wanted it! They notice everything!
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ok that funny Michelle. we stll seem to be out of sight out of mind (kind of) allthough he certainly knows where the food and the treats are kept. ::)
I can definately tell when he is standing at the pantry sort of yelping for a snack. And if he's sees me in the pantry.....he is very curious
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Today Lily ate
1 bowl oatibix & juice
1 Philadelphia & cucumber sandwich, 1 fromage frais & 3 milky buttons & juice
few raisins while out running errands and few more before dinner
stir fry - quorn pieces, onion, broccoli, carrat, baby corn & rice with soy sauce & herbs, 1/3 mango & custard & juice
+ 2.5ml calpol to stop pesky tooth stopping her getting of to sleep tonight as it has done last 3 nights (I got this out of cup'd while giving her dinner, she loves it so much she almost refused any more dinner as she wanted the calpol)
she still BF 3xday
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LOL Calpol really does taste great. I am bummed we can't get it here in the US. Although the orange one for older children is bleuch.
Good idea on the cream cheese and cucumber sandwich, I will have to try that.
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LOL... True..
Well.. I tried the frosen veggies and as I thought, NO GO.... I tried peas, may try something else...
My kid just hates vegetables...
Do YOU like veggies? I ask, because often times we inflict our likes and dislikes subconsciencely onto our children...but if you LOVE veggies and have a positive excited vibe going when they are offered, the kiddos may change their tune one day...
Toddlers in general will hate one thing for a long while, but then suddenly love it and love it for a while before hating it again...so don't give up...veggies are sooo good for them! :)
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Yep, and you need to offer it at least 20 times before giving up on it for now.
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Weston eats better then we do... :( sad to say...but with this pregnancy I have had overwhelming urges for SUGAR, FAST FOOD, over all JUNK...and I try to eat healthy, but for myself it's been very difficult during this pregnancy...I am actually looking forward to having the baby so maybe I can get back on my normal healthy eating style and exercise some...feel like a lump these days...
I do allow Weston to taste my tea (not a coffee drinker really) and 90% of the time when I go to give him a spoonful, he backs off and says "Mo...Hot" and is over it before he ever gets any...(the funny thing is I like my tea luke warm, so it's rarely that hot) LOL ;)
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I do like vegetables, alot, BUT.. I never cook them. So I know that has a lot to do with it. He used to love green beans, but now will not touch them.
I have tried giving him brocilli, of course he hated it. BUT.. that is the one vegetable that I cannot even stand to smell, so I don't really ever make it.
I have tons of frozen vegetables and i am going to just start making a little at each meal for him and keep trying. He suprises me everyday.
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I try to sneak in veggies whenever I can. If I'm making DD some ramen, I'll throw in a package of frozen veggies in there (usually peas or peas/carrots).
I always keep some cooked & diced veggies on hand, and I'll throw that into her food too. If I'm heating up leftover mac & cheese for her, I throw some veggies in too. She eats it all. :-) I throw in the veggies into many of her meals, which is usually some sort of noodle (spaghetti & meatballs; ravioli; tortellini; ramen; rice noodles; mac & cheese; etc).
-Marie
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Ok, what is mac & cheese?
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macaroni and cheese
OK so I am very glad that I bragged when I did, cause all reasons to brag are gone, her intake has halved in a day ::) Teething. Not sleeping, not eating :P :P :P
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Mac and cheese is very N American, especially the boxed kind. In the UK at the Canadian Store in Covent Garden they sold imported Kraft Dinner for £2.50 a box! (around $5 CAD :o) I had friends who bought it (insane) or if they had vistors, ask them to bring some! DH and I used to laugh and say that when we go home we should bring back boxes and sell them on the side as a business!! LOL. They sold Kraft mini marshmallows, Kraft Peanut Butter, Pop Tarts, Mott's Clamato Juice and Stove Top Stuffing as well. LOL!
In Italy, a lot of children eat white pasta with butter and parmegiano. In restaurants, it is not on the menu usually but it is understood that it is available for LO's. All my little cousins live on this in Napoli.
Aisling x
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Oh, yes I do know macaroni & cheese I knew it was an American dish so wasn't sure on the abbreviation. Haven't eaten it since I was little, didn't really like it so its not something I have made for myself. I do make pasta & cheese sauce with broccoli, cauliflower & leeks/baby corn but I have to admit until Lily started eating grown up solids I always bought the packet cheese sauce (just add milk) now I make it properly from a rue (not sure on spelling of that). My mum taught me how to make a rue as a teenager but being a lazy cook I always thought packets where easier and forgot how to make it, now I'm a dab hand at it and quite chuffed that I can make it without following a recipe. I'd say its one of Lily's favourites, that & stir fry. Regards Italian food I tried Lily on Pasta & Pesto with some veg tossed in and that went down quite well too. Parmegiano, is that a cheese? sorry, I'm a lazy vegetarian cook who was very stuck in her eating habits, for years when I left home I had to do my weekly shop on £10/week so I ate a lot of pasta with tinned chopped tomatoes spiced up with Tabasco or Lea & Perrins and if I made a batch of something I would eat it for 3 days running! at the weekends I ate at my boyfriends mothers I think thats the only reason I stayed fairly healthy!
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It is tough to get veggies in when you have a picky eater, which I do.. VERY PICKY
So far today:
Wake: 4 oz milk
Breakfast: Bowl of cheerioes and 1/2 apple nutragrain bar
Snack: Cup of Just Blueberries
Lunch: Refused chicken nuggets and applesauce
Ate a few bites of corn dogs and yogurt
Napping now..
I have a hard time with meats and vegetables. He hates them both.. Loves his fruit though
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New Mum-Parmagiano is Parmesan cheese. My DS loves risotto (as do I ) I must remember to do it more often. You can add the kitchen sink to it and it is nice and sticky so easy for LO's to spoon or fork up. Oooh, love pesto too, thanks for reminding me of that too! I sometimes add half spinach and half basil for my pesto and I have also used Kale with the basil too, much more healthy too!
A x
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I love mac and cheese! I eat it ALL the time. It is pretty cheap here too if you buy just the regular kraft kind. We buy an organic kind and it's a bit more expensive but not too bad.
TODAY:
We ate at Chick-fil-A and they made her scrambled eggs and cheese
She also had some bacon and 2oz-3oz of fruit
-A few sips of milk
Snack: 4oz of yogurt
Lunch: Chicken pieces, crackers, 4oz of sweet potatoe/corn mixture
A few sips of water
A few sips of milk
Snack: 1/2 banana
A few sips of water
Dinner: Hot dog, cheese pieces and squash (we are having a baby sitter some tonight so we can go out on date night!!!!)
-Water
5oz of formula
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Aisling - You are good, you make your own pesto! mine come from a jar, my stir fry tends to end up like risotto (when done with rice not noodles) as I have a bad habit over overcooking the rice, so instead of it being light and separate it comes out of the strainer in one strainer shaped lump! Also I call it stir fry but all I fry is the onion & quorn, the rest of the veg I cook in microwave and add with rice, chuck in some low salt soy sauce, yummy!
Mydreamcametrue - can you get quorn, not sure where you are, Lily doesn't really like chicken much and I haven't offered any other meats yet, but quorn really goes down well. I think it has a much softer texture and more subtle flavour. I also give Lily fish fingers, in UK you can get mini ones, I just remove the bread crumbs and give her the fish. I think they are made from Pollock, she loves them.
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New Mum: Your own pesto is easy!
Basil
Spinach or kale (this is the healthier version)
Olive oil
Pine nuts
Parmesan cheese
lemon juice
Whizz it up in the food processor. Freeze if you make big batches.
Ax
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I do like vegetables, alot, BUT.. I never cook them. So I know that has a lot to do with it. He used to love green beans, but now will not touch them.
I have tried giving him brocilli, of course he hated it. BUT.. that is the one vegetable that I cannot even stand to smell, so I don't really ever make it.
I have tons of frozen vegetables and i am going to just start making a little at each meal for him and keep trying. He suprises me everyday.
Weston wouldn't eat Broccoli (sp?) either...but when we started calling them "TREES" he loves them! :-\
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macaroni and cheese
OK so I am very glad that I bragged when I did, cause all reasons to brag are gone, her intake has halved in a day ::) Teething. Not sleeping, not eating :P :P :P
Whenever I mention something great, I always end up jinxing myself...it's Murphy's Law! :)
Mac and cheese is very N American, especially the boxed kind. In the UK at the Canadian Store in Covent Garden they sold imported Kraft Dinner for £2.50 a box! (around $5 CAD :o) I had friends who bought it (insane) or if they had vistors, ask them to bring some! DH and I used to laugh and say that when we go home we should bring back boxes and sell them on the side as a business!! LOL. They sold Kraft mini marshmallows, Kraft Peanut Butter, Pop Tarts, Mott's Clamato Juice and Stove Top Stuffing as well. LOL!
In Italy, a lot of children eat white pasta with butter and parmegiano. In restaurants, it is not on the menu usually but it is understood that it is available for LO's. All my little cousins live on this in Napoli.
Aisling x
WOW...you can get it for like 10 cents a box in some stores here! CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP!!! You can also get a better quality of it, for like a dollar...but still CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP!!! ;D
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new Mum: I am also sure i can get quorn here in the US. Isn't that some type of bird??? I will give that a try.
My kid just has weird taste buds (I think). He loves pickles and Lemons.... He really likes sour stuff.
Maybe he is going to be a vegetarian.. Oh no... can't be, wan't eat vegetables.. Maybe a fruitarian..
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new Mum: I am also sure i can get quorn here in the US. Isn't that some type of bird??? I will give that a try.
My kid just has weird taste buds (I think). He loves pickles and Lemons.... He really likes sour stuff.
Maybe he is going to be a vegetarian.. Oh no... can't be, wan't eat vegetables.. Maybe a fruitarian..
Weston loves pickles and lemons too...I think they just haven't developed their taste buds yet...lol
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Is this what I have to look forward to with a daughter??? I thought they said boys were the messy ones...but I have yet to see Weston do an art project with his yogurt :o
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Hinnrichs/110439281110_0_BG.jpg)
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Rilen chose to have a one-nap day, so things got a little weird this morning. If he goes light on bfast, I usually offer a snack before nap (usually 9am-ish). Today, he was awake until 11am, then slept until 2pm. So...
6:45am
4-5oz milk
infant barley cereal made w/applesauce, milk & cinnamon
(ate less than 1/4 cup)
8:30am
2/3 banana, chunked & tossed in mixture of
- pulverized bran flakes, vanilla whey protein powder, cinnamon
(2 nap attempts here)
10:15am
peach yogurt smoothie, about 5-6oz
- mixed 3oz plain yogurt, 4oz pureed peaches, 1-2oz milk & tiny bit of honey
(finally, a nap!)
2:15pm
1oz cheddar cheese
1/4 cup canned pears in juice
2oz more of smoothie
few bites of ww bagel w/smart balance margarine
couple bites of (mom's) baked salmon
4:00pm
6oz milk
a few cheddar goldfish
6:00pm - a couple bites each of...
steamed broccoli
chicken breast (w/garlic & rosemary)
carrots
about 3 oz diluted orange juice
6:45pm
2-3oz milk
He's been on a dairy kick, lately. Tried the frozen veggies/peas... SO not interested. Will keep offering.
Anyone who feeds their LO veggie burgers... I get the kind with grilled peppers & such, and he eats about 1/2 burger when I offer. Do you count it as protein serving, veggie serving, ??? Does it matter? ;)
M2W: I'm one of 3 girls (no brothers). We were all pretty messy, in our own way. ;D
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Mydreamcametrue - Quorn is a meat substitute, its completely man made. Its a type of fungus, so mushroomish in origin but they ferment it in big vats. It sounds pretty gross when you try to describe it but it is actually really nice and comes in all shapes & flavours. I use the chicken style pieces which is just little chunks and has no flavouring for Lily, but you can get mince meat, beef burgers, southern style chicken burgers, chicken nuggets, pies, lamb grills, fillets, roasting joints and a huge range of ready meals. I know low fat isn't an issue with LO's but its very low fat and full of protein so very good for whole family. Sorry I'll get down of my Quorn soap box now!
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I actually dont think we can get Quorn in the US. I looked on the internet.
He actually ate chicken today. I made chicken salad wraps and he liked it.
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Wendy, you can get Quorn. My local safeway used to stock up, but lately I have had to go to a Whole Foods for it.
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I thought I had seen it, but then I checked online and it said only avail. in the UK..
Sounds really gross though, but then again it is deft. worth a try..
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It does 'sound' gross, but I'm fairly sure you'll be amazed how nice it is, even my DP (the worlds fussiest eater, even compared to toddlers) really loves it and if I do a roast dinner he is gutted if he doesn't get some on his plate as well as whatever meat hes having. 2 points when cooking it, it soaks up alot of oil so you will find you use more oil than usual and if you get the plain chicken style pieces or fillets I find they need cooking until it is a little browned on edges, when like this it has most flavour.
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Here you go : http://www.quorn.com/
I always oven bake the fillets, and as newmum says, it tastes better when well done.
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Breakfast: Waffle (we are sooo boring) apple sauce
Snack: 4oz yogurt (like always ::))
Lunch: 4 spoonfuls of spaghetti and meat balls (doesn't like chunky stuff so then she started spitting it out)
a few pieces of beef from daddy's steak sub, 1 jar of green beans, apple chunks and 2 small pieces of my spinach/broccoli pizza
Snack: Cheddar Cheese
Dinner: Fish, 4oz of veggies (sweet potato/corn), a few veggie bites, 1 animal cracker
6oz of milk
Mel
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Yesterday:
Breakfast: 1 weetbix, with milk and honey, and 1 piece raisin toast with butter and a few sips juice
Lunch 1: 1/2 - 2/3 of a pear, a couple biscuits (including a chocolate wafer biscuit), 2 grapes and some water
Lunch 2: Scrambled egg (made with some milk) on toast (with butter). Ate I think about 3/4 of the piece of toast, and probably about 1/2 an egg mixed with the milk. Plus a yoghurt and more water.
Snack - couple bites of cake, more water
Dinner: while I was cooking chewed on and kind of grated some raw carrot off with her teeth, then dinner: 1 cube purreed mixed veg combined with 1 cube of beef casserole. Then tuna/vegie/pasta bake as finger food - at an OK amount. More water
Bottle: 200ml formula.
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Lets see what did Zach eat today..
Wake: 8 oz milk
Breakfast: 1 bowl of cheerioes w/ blueberries, almost 1/2 piece toast, few pieces of orange
Snack: 1/2 apple nutragrian bar, cheese its
Lunch: 1/2 chicken salad roll up, 2 bites of applesauce
Wake: 8 oz. milk, almost a whole apple (cut up)
Dinner: 1/2 cheeseburger, 10 french fries, 1/2 apple nutragrain bar
Snack: Orange Popcycle
Snack before bed: 1 oatmeal cookie and 4 oz. milk
Not to bad...
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This thread is great for ideas!
Yesterday:
Waking: 8oz milk
Breakfast: 1 bowl of mixed fruit blitzed in blender with 1 banana, half of mummy's raisin muffin
Snack: 3 strawberries, plus one bit of melon which was quickly spat out, bleurgh
Lunch: Cauliflower cheese with 2 slices garlic bread, mixed bowl of strawberries, blackberries and raspberries, 1 yoghurt
Snack: some cheese
Dinner: 1 fish finger, mashed potato and baked beans, Organix fruit pot
Bedtime: 8oz milk
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Breakfast: 1 weetbix, with milk and honey, and 1 piece raisin toast with butter and a fair bit of heavily diluted apple juice
Lunch 1: 3/4 of a hotdog sausage and about 1/6 of a hot dog breadroll with butter and tomato sauce, 1 yoghurt, more apple juice
Lunch 2: dried fruit stick thingy - seemed to like it but then only ate about 1/4. A Handful of "honey smacks" cereal - honeyed puffed wheat - dry, 1 marshmallow, more juice
Snack :-X :-X mummy having small glass of 6yr old Shiraz....thought if I gave her a taste she wouldn't like it and would leave me alone....she LOVED it, and kept asking for more (each taste was only enough to wet her lips, not actually take a swig). But she was licking her lips and begging for more ;D
Dinner: Almost 4 cubes of tuna/vegie/pasta bake leftover - like it better tonight - pureed this time.
Bottle: only drank 100ml formula
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lets see.....
Breakfast: weetbix with milk
Snack: banana and biscuit
Lunch: baked beans and some chocolate easter egg (just a tiny bit of tia's)
Snack: yoghurt
Dinner: hamburger ;) well she ate some bun and some pattie
Drank water throughout the day!
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Today Lily ate
breakfast - 1 bowl rice crispies ( we only do them and oatibix, I cant find anything thats not too coated with sugar but is still nice to eat) apple juice
lunch - 1 slice of toast with marmite ate about 1/2 then decided she didn't like marmite, 1 fromage frais 1/3 bag organix cheese tomato & herb puffs ( I actually think she would easily eat a whole bag of these, that and wotsits she loves them) blackberry & apple tropicana go
snack - few raisins to keep going till dinner
dinner - 2 mini fish fingers (gave these with breadcrumbs still on for first time and cut them up into little bites, I think she would of eaten 3 or 4 of them the speed they dissapeared) sweet potato, cauliflower, baby corn & broccoli ( have decided she doesn't mind broccoli at all but it goes in easier mixed in with something like pasta & sauce, when presented with it on a plate of veggies she wont pick it up and eat it herself), strawberry jelly with peach pieces ( this was a bought pot we tried for first time, she seemed to like the jelly but started spitting it out when we got down to the peaches), 1/2 banana more tropicana (she really like these and maybe I should water them down more but she likes her juice unwatered down, so I'm not that fussed)
so far today
breakfast - oatibix, juice
snack - tried jelly & fruit again (definitely likes jelly), juice
lunch - cheese on toast fromage frais 2 milky buttons, juice
suck on mums fruit pastel lolly pop, mmmm she liked that!
haven't got to dinner yet but I fancy a BBQ, have to see what I've got in freezer...
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new mum- have you tried cheerios and porridge/ ready brek for breakfast? they are healthy alternatives.
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Hi Kathrink
Yes we have got some cheerios she doesn't mind them but isn't to keen so we only have them every so often. Doesn't like porridge or readybrek at all, not even with some sugar added. Might try her on wheatabix minis see how they go, only problem is if she doesn't like them will have to throw them out cos I dont like them, neither does DP, hate waste, but who knows she might love them.
today ended with
snack some grapes & cheese/tom/herb puffs
tiddlers tortilla (aka Spanish omlette) (only ate about 1/3) mango/banana & rice pudding (had about 4 mouthfuls, then it was Bo Bo Bo (no no no) + juice
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I noticed the difference between daddy and mommy and Weston's eating this morning...as he's under daddy's care...I'm having the day off ;)
Daddy doesn't have a million things to do while watching Weston...so he sits at the table for a LONG time with Weston while Weston is deciding what to eat, when and how...and eventually Weston eats a ton!
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LOL we're the other way round- dh hasn't got the patience to wait for her!
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Does anyone have a good guacamole recipe? I bought some freshly made today at a farmer's market and it had avocado, tomatoes, onions, olive oil, etc. in it and I would love to make some myself since this guy's is so very expensive. Thanks. :)
Today:
Breakfast: PB&J on Toast (very messy), some fruit
Snack: Yogurt
Lunch: Guacamole, veggie crackers, apples, 3 small bites of cold stone ice cream 8)
6oz of water....we were out and it was super HOT out.
Snack: I bag of travel puffs (very lazy today :P)
Dinner: Chicken and Apple puree, Mango dessert (no sugar/just called dessert)
Last night of formula for her bedtime bottle!
Does anyone use toddler formula?
Grace will only drink a few sips of regular milk but still loves formula. I was thinking of keeping formula just at night but using the toddler version. Wasn't sure if anyone was doing that or had advice on if that is a good decision or not.
Mel
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If she will take the toddler formula, then I would deft. do it (just to make sure she is getting all the vitamins, etc. she needs). I would still try to slowy introduce milk, but if she will not take it, keep her on the formula as long as she wants.
I have not idea what got into my son today (growth spurt??) This is what he ate:
Wake: 8 oz. milk and 4 crackers
Breakfast: Bowl of cheerios, 1/2 garnola bar, 4 more crackers
30 minutes later: 2 hard boiled eggs
Snack: Freeze dried fruit
Lunch: 3 mini corn dogs, 1 green bean (wooo)
Nap:
Wake: 1 apple and milk
Dinner: Kinda off because we were at a B-day party, but had hotdog, chips, and cake.
Milk before bed
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I would not bother with the toddler formula, seems like more of a marketing ploy and gimic more than anything. You just need to make sure she gets calcium etc from various sources.
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Does anyone have a good guacamole recipe?
Does anyone use toddler formula?
Here are a few links to some Guac Recipes: (not sure if they are GOOD, but IMHO, all guac is GOOD) :)
http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/000159perfect_guacamole.php
http://www.avocado.org/recipes/guaccentral.php
http://www.dltk-kids.com/world/mexico/easy_guacamole_recipe.htm
As for Toddler formula...if it's on sale, I'll buy it instead of the regular formula...but most of the time I use regular formula and dilute it...which our doctor said is AOK for toddlers...he said that formula is basically like a protein shake for adults...they can have it for as long as we want to buy it and offer it...doesn't hurt them to have it...however, if you're concerned about calorie intake, you can dilute it (which is what I typically do...half water half formula mixture, sometimes even less...like 1 scoop for 8 ounces...Weston will take it any way I offer it, full strength all the way to basically water) however, the "TODDLER" formula is pretty thin...seems fairly watered down when it's in full strength, so I personally prefer plain regular formula that I can dilute or not dilute as I wish. :)
Long story short...Weston gets it and he's almost 2
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Also, should mention that just recently has Weston decided he likes milk and will ask for it...so it's not a lost cause that your daughter will eventually enjoy milk...she might just want formula for a while longer then you had expected...Milk can be harsh on their tummies sometimes and I have read plenty of studies that believe children should not get cows milk until the age of 3...but rather offer Goats milk because it's closer to breast milk composition. I offer MOSTLY formula, more recently more cows milk...but when Weston was younger (1ish) I offered all three and he always went for the formula.
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Luke still has regular formula for all his bottles (he's still on 3), I've started to water them down slightly too - he has 8oz water with 6 scoops of powder or 5oz water with 3 scoops etc. He has cows milk in his cup which he drinks quite well but for the minute I prefer him to have formula especially in his bedtime bottle - I think it fills him up more :)
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Thanks for the formula advice. I think we'll offer regular milk in her sippy during the day like we have been and offer formula before bed. :D
Also, M2W: Thanks for the guacamole recipes. I can't wait to try them out. ;D
Mel
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Luke still has regular formula for all his bottles (he's still on 3), I've started to water them down slightly too - he has 8oz water with 6 scoops of powder or 5oz water with 3 scoops etc. He has cows milk in his cup which he drinks quite well but for the minute I prefer him to have formula especially in his bedtime bottle - I think it fills him up more :)
I think (don't know personally, but feel like) Weston gets more nutrients from formula then straight cows milk...so I too prefer it...but as he's rounding the 2 year old mark and eating more and more of what we are eating, he's wanting milk...and so that's fine too...(Milk blocks the absorbtion of Iron, and he's borderline anemic like me...always have been and even taking 2 extra iron pills a day in addition to my prenatals, I'm still borderline anemic and the docs think it's because I drink too much milk) :)
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today we had:
waking: 8oz milk
breakfast: 1 banana mashed & mixed with assorted blended fruit, half of mummy's raisin muffin
snack: fruit rice pudding
lunch #1: cheese & crackers, some bits of avocado
lunch #2: plate of mixed berries, yoghurt
dinner: (wierd one, this!) homemade mini pizzas, wouldn't eat them so I started to cook something else, by which time she'd eaten some of the pizzas so she then had a mini sausage and some broccoli, then a fruit pot and a biscuit
bed:3oz milk
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Has anyone had the hot weather this weekend (UK) I'm not sure, could be several things I suppose, but Lily has eaten well all day then not wanted too much dinner or BF before bed for last few days, even not wanting to finish her pudding! All this week we've had battles over her wanting "ding, dind, ding" (pudding) after only just a few bites of dinner, theres been some serious distraction techniques put into practice to get her attention away from 'ding' and back to dinner. I just wondered if it may be the heat putting her off her food, what do you think? any one else noticed the heat affect their LO's appetite?
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not for food, but Sophie definitely drinks less when the weather's hot- she was the same last year, although obviously still young then. Drives me mad, this is when I want her to drink more , not less! ::)
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Today we had:
Yoghurt, Banana and Cheese (yep, she likes what she likes!) Milk
Apple
Lunch:- Roast Pork, onions,mushrooms, boiled potatoes and green beans (yummy dinner she said!) Yoghurt, Juice
Cheese and biscuits
Ice lolly (School holiday, he always comes and if she hears she usually gets!)
Dippy egg and soilders (soft boiled egg and toast fingers)
Milk
We usually have supper but tea was late but if we have and earlier lunch and tea then we will have something like cereal or toast at bedtime, she refuses mostly but at least I know that she doesn't go to bed hungry.
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Rilen slept in 'til 7am (yay!) so b-fast was a bit late...
b-fast: apple-cinnamon instant oatmeal (organic & not too high in sugar; ate almost all of regular serving!); 5oz milk
snack: 4oz blueberry applesauce (no sugar added)
lunch: grilled cheese sandwich (2 slices ww bread, 2 slices cheese, ate almost all); about 4oz strawberry-banana V8 Fusion (100% fruit-veg blend juice)
-- Dad fed lunch while I was at laundromat; the juice was his way of fulfilling "and a fruit or veg w/the sandwich" LOL (I highly doubt he remembered to dilute)
early afternoon: a few bites of hollow chocolate bunny; about 3oz yogurt smoothie (plain yogurt & apple-grape juice)
late afternoon: 6oz milk (seems to prefer it this time of day, rather than bedtime); a few goldfish crackers
late dinner: a few bites each of zucchini, tomatoes, mashed potatoes, burger
Rina: LOL about the Shiraz.
formula: It did take R a couple weeks to really warm up to cow's milk, but now he'd drink milk & eat cheese all day, if I let him. ::) That said, we did save back one can of formula, in case he gets sick or just stops eating well/much. Kinda nutritional back-up, since our ped said not to worry about multivitamins. ???
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Yesterday Luke had
wake - 8oz milk
breakfast - bowl of cheerios and cows milk, chopped melon, grapes and dried apricots, 1/2 tub of yoghurt
lunch - 1 slice eggy bread, 1 pot orange jelly, cheese and tomato herb puffs (organix - he loves these too!), 3 or 4 white chocolate buttons
snack - 5oz milk
tea - tuna and sweetcorn pasta bake, 3 or 4 bites of my chocolate brownie (didn't think he would like it but he gobbled it up even picking the crumbs up off of his tray!), chopped melon, grapes and apricots, 1/2 tub yoghurt
bed - 7oz milk
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I made a new recipe I found tonight called 'oodles of noodles' it was really nice and Lily liked it too! thought I would share I wont be too exact with measurements for everything as I tend to go by eye a lot.
ingredients
broccoli
egg noodles (I used 1 pack amoy straight to wok)
veg oil
1 chopped garlic clove
1 tsp fresh grated root ginger
1/4 tsp coriander
Quorn pieces (could use chicken or cooked prawns*)
French beans finely cut (didn't use as Lily not keen so used carrot sticks instead)
1/2 tin sweetcorn
1/2oz creamed coconut
2fl oz hot water
2 heaped tbsp smooth peanut butter (next time I will use just 1 very heaped tbsp was a little too much peanut)
Juice of 1 lemon (I used bottle and just guessed)
2 tsp soy sauce (again I just guessed this)
Cook noodles (if dry) and veg. Heat oil in wok add garlic, ginger & coriander saute 1min add quorn stir fry until cooked. Mix together coconut, water & peanut butter then pour over chicken, cook until reduced & thick. Add noodles, veg, lemon juice & soy sauce and heat through stirring continuously, chop to desired consistency & serve. (* if using prawns add them with the noodles)
It was really yummy, very filling (in fact I felt a bit ick after from stuffing too much!) and its also lovely and sticky so perfect for LO's learning to use a spoon/fork
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Hey guys
How on earth do you ensure a decent dinner when at hotel/restaurant?
Zara will not eat jarred/tinned dinners - she only eats homemade, the only prepared stuff she eats is fruit purree, little bit of custard. Anyway, we finally found a flavour she will eat, butter chicken, but then she had a rash on her face when she woke in the morning, took all day and overnight for it to go away - no other new foods at all....
What can I give her to eat, she does finger foods but doesn't eat as much that way....
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Riley will usually eat soup at least when we are out, also finger foods like fruit and veg. I always pop a jar of fruit puree into my bag in case he doesn't eat all that much. I think eating out with him has gotten easier as he has gotten older, as he doesn't get so distracted by the novelty of it all. We go out usually once a week to eat, he is used to it by now.
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So basically if I do finger food, and fruit for the puree instead of meat/veg it should be fine? I just feel bad for her not having so much veg those days, and she does eat some veg finger food, but like I said, not enough....
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I go through stages feeling "bad" because Riley doesn't eat enough of something. Protein group is our issue. But I offer various foods to him, it's not like I am denying him, that is all I can do, it is up to him to eat it (or not eat it). I assume you offer it to Zara, that's all you can do too!
I think what you described sounds fine!
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Rina, I think that you do so well all other times of the day/week that once in awhile of going out and not eating the absolute best won't hurt her. I am sorry she broke out in a rash. I can't imagine if Grace didn't eat jarred stuff....we'd be in big trouble :o You are such a great mom....always making home made stuff for Zara and your hubby! I wish I had the patience and creativity for it. You inspire me to cook more!
Today
Breakfast: Oatmeal and Fruit Mix (refused milk)
Snack: Yogurt (Banana) (1oz of water and diluted juice)
Lunch: Veggie burger, cheese, 4oz of carrot puree (refused milk)
Snack: Banana and puffs (I know these are bad but I need to use them up before substituting them for something else...can't waist, you know?) (2 oz of water and diluted juice)
Dinner: CFA (Chick-fil-A) kids meal....3 chicken nuggets, 3 pieces of Mandarin orange, 2 grapes, a few small bites of apple and about 10 smalls bites of all natural ice cream and some water.
6oz bottle of formula
Mel
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I just wanted to say that I lurk here every day to get ideas for mealtime. Thank you all.
Mel, why do you say the puffs are bad? Is it because they're not really much of anything?
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Yeah, I said that because I am sure I could be giving her something better, kwim. We are in the process of getting Grace to gain some much needed weight and puffs aren't the best source for that. I don't think they are wrong to give just not what Grace needs at the moment. :)
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Well after a few days of being off her food yesterday she ate more than me i think:
8oz milk
Breakfast: 2weetbix with fruit and milk,slice of toast with peanut butter she ate the whole lot
Morning Tea: 2 museli bars
Lunch: Vegemite sandwich (she ate the whole lot usually leaves some) tub of yoghurt (tried giving her some left overy Spag Bol but she said NO NO)
Dinner: Roast chicken,roast potato,green beans. A chocolate easter egg (as a treat) 6ozs milk.
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Good news Natasha! By the way, what is Vegemite?
When you all say they are eating cereal. Do you literally mean that you are giving them cereal with milk just like we eat? Or is it just dry cereal?
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Cereal in our house - both - she has some dry to amuse her while I prepare the cereal with milk. Nothing tooo crunchy since she doesn't have molars yet.
Vegemite....it is a spread, kind of like marmite, or promite, but way better. It is Aussie ;D
Cheese sauce - put some on vegies tonight, never seen her eat so much...thanks for that idea!
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Hey guys
How on earth do you ensure a decent dinner when at hotel/restaurant?
Depending on how long you'll be gone would make a difference in what I'd do...if gone for several days (hotel) then I would bring formula to give a little extra boost to whatever she's missing...and then just over the course of the days assume that she'll start getting hungry and will eat more each day.
if just going out to a resturant...I always pack Weston's foods with me in a small cooler bag and offer him some of what I'm eating and if not interested whip out his personal pouch of food options. ;)
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That said, we did save back one can of formula, in case he gets sick or just stops eating well/much. Kinda nutritional back-up, since our ped said not to worry about multivitamins. ???
We still give formula for that reason as well...on days Weston just isn't eating as well as I'd like...but he also gets a liquid multivitamin...I'm not THAT great at giving it daily...but I'd say on more often then not, I do remember to give him his vitamins.
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Today went like this....
wake ~ 8oz milk
breakfast ~ bowl of cheerios with milk, grapes/melon/apricots, yoghurt
lunch ~ Tuna and mayonnaise paste spread on one slice bread and butter, clementine orange, 1/2 banana
afternoon ~ 5oz milk
tea ~ cottage pie with crunchy cheese and potatoe topping, carrots, cauliflower and runner beans, orange jelly, 1 lemon cup cake, grapes
bed ~ 8oz milk
I have a few questions:
1. Does any body know any reason why DS shouldn't have tuna paste? It's Princes sandwich spreads, I didn't think he'd really like it (he had a small bite of mine to start with) but he absolutely loved it. I cut the bread into soldiers and he ate each one straight down, folded it up and down in one! :o
Now I'm thinking, is it something toddlers can have though?
2. Luke loves dried apricots which I chop up for him. But when he has a poopy nappy, it looks like the apricots have passed straight through him (sorry if TMI!) without being digested? Is this ok? Surely he won't get any goodness from them if they aren't digested? Has anybody else had this where some food just passes 'straight through?' - should I be worried?
Thanks
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Miche: What is in the tuna paste? I have given Grace a tuna sandwich before and she loved it. It had mayo mixed in and that's about it. Not sure about the apricots.
Breakfast: Vanilla Organic Waffle, Blueberry Applesauce, 3 bites of a banana (2 sips of milk)
Snack: 4oz of Raspberry/Pear Yogurt (few sips of water)
Lunch: 1 Natural Beef Hot Dog, Corn, few small pieces of banana/strawberry (few sips of milk and water)
Snack: Veggie Puree
Dinner: Not sure yet...we'll be at Gymboree Open Gym so probably pureed dinner with extra veggies.
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Hi Miche
I don't know about the tuna paste, I cant see what could be wrong with it, other than for ecological reasons I would only ever feed DD fish caught using dolphin friendly techniques from renewable sources, but I'm a greeny! I don't buy a lot of fish but there are little logos on some products confirming these points.
Regards the poop content I quite often notice some things have gone straight thro' particularly raisins, the obvious sweetcorn and sometimes veg. I don't worry too much I'm sure some of its getting digested and passing on its nutrients as DD is not exactly a slim Jim. Who knows how it would pass thro you, we don't tend to scrutinize or our own, do we?
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I have a few questions:
1. Does any body know any reason why DS shouldn't have tuna paste? It's Princes sandwich spreads, I didn't think he'd really like it (he had a small bite of mine to start with) but he absolutely loved it. I cut the bread into soldiers and he ate each one straight down, folded it up and down in one! :o
Now I'm thinking, is it something toddlers can have though?
2. Luke loves dried apricots which I chop up for him. But when he has a poopy nappy, it looks like the apricots have passed straight through him (sorry if TMI!) without being digested? Is this ok? Surely he won't get any goodness from them if they aren't digested? Has anybody else had this where some food just passes 'straight through?' - should I be worried?
Thanks
Not sure if TUNA PASTE is the same as TUNA out of the can??? Anyhow, Canned Tuna (like "Chicken of the Sea") is fine for tots to have IMHO...
as for items that pass through...yes they still get some goodness out of them...blueberries pass through at times too...as well as raisins, grapes, mango oranges, etc...but not ALL of it passes in complete form...just like (TMI coming) when you as an adult eat CORN...if you were to examine your own poop, you'd find bits of CORN in there...but yes your body did grab a few bits of corn and digested them just fine. ;)
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Thanks for your answers ladies - I feel better about the apricot issue now! ;D ;D
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it's always disturbing to be able to identify various items in your child's poop...but I'm sure all is AOK ;)
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oh the things we talk about!! ::) ;D ;D
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Raisens in the diaper are just plain gross...it's like they hydrate up for the event...YUCK! Too many raisens is NOT A FUN DIAPER! (just did this yesterday!)
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Today Weston ate more strawberries then I thought was possible...two whole baskets full...he scarfed them down in a matter of 30 minutes...while we were out for a stroller walk thru farmer' market! He just ate and ate and ate strawberries...so many I had to buy another basket full.
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This past week has been pretty horrible. She just won't really eat. Toddlerhood here we come! She will put food in her mouth, chew it all up and then open her mouth and let it all fall out ::) :P And she does it over and over again. She won't eat veggies (whole or purred and she use to eat 7oz a day of purred veggies) or fruit or almost anything else for that matter. She won't even really eat but a few bites of yogurt...her favorite. ??? If it's pureed she open her mouth, take a bite and then push it all out with her tongue and it falls down her face and all over her. I only lets this go on once or twice and then I say, "all done, you must not be hungry anymore" and I take the tray away. She hasn't had any NW so I assume she is still getting enough (not sure how though). Because of this I am giving her a night time bottle of formula each day since she isn't consuming much of anything.
For those of you that have been through this already, how long did it last? It's so frustrating and I am not going to keep offering food because it's just so wasteful. I know she likes what I am offering, she just being a silly turkey. ::)
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Sounds like teething to me - might Grace be working on molars?
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Possibly....didn't think of that. :) Thanks.
-It's just so weird because it's already chewed up, she just refuses to swallow it. It seems like it would take more effort to kick it out of her mouth then to just swallow. I have no clue though as we have never had to deal with molars before. Also, would molars cause her to be in pain with fully pureed foods (no chunks)?Thanks again.
Mel
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My DD did this for a few weeks before finally getting her molars - not sure why but apparently it's not uncommon. Who knows - but now my DD is on hunger strike too - think her eye teeth are finally almost here.
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Oh I remember that phase, it is one of the most annoying things to see. Of course, Riley thought he was great when he did it. Like everything, they get sick of it eventually and go back to eating. Not much help, I know :-\
I think it lasted maybe a week where it was almost every time food was offered, and then just got better. I had forgotten about it totally until I read your post, now I can laugh at it, but at the time it was not funny at all.
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Karen: Does the Just Blueberries make your lo regular?? Zach still loves those things. I have ordered 3 times from Just Tomatoes. They make him pretty regular and when he goes it is black... Sorry TMI...
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Black sounds about right for blueberries!
How is Zach doing on the dairy? I gave Riley some milk today, bleuch, big mistake.
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We're having similar food issues w/Rilen. About all he's eating lately is apple-cinnamon instant oatmeal, bananas, cheese (mozz, cheddar, colby, anything like that), mac & cheese w/broccoli & tuna... hmm... and crackers. Now & then, some toast w/smart balance (non-hydrog margarine). If he's really hungry, a few grapes. Today he ate some leftover pasta w/spaghetti sauce. A few bites of peach yogurt.
Found out yesterday that he apparently likes watermelon. We were at Whole Foods & they always have lots of food samples out. I gave him a good-sized chunk of watermelon. He took a couple small bites... and then shoved the rest of it in his mouth. :o I swear, we made it through half the store before he opened his mouth again! I think he just sucked it dry, then figured out a way to get it down his throat... sure wouldn't let me get it out of his mouth! LOL
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For those of you that have been through this already, how long did it last? It's so frustrating and I am not going to keep offering food because it's just so wasteful. I know she likes what I am offering, she just being a silly turkey. ::)[/color]
Sorry to LOL...but it's sooo true how frustrating it is...it's part of your child learning to express her independence...which is a good thing (if you can remember that thru the frustration of offering wasted food)
It comes and goes for the next couple years really...some days they eat like a champ and other days NOTHING...some days they will LOVE a food and can't get enough of it...then just when you feel confident to buy a bunch of that food item, they start to refuse it and you have a TON of fresh fruit rotting in the fruit bowl.
One key thing is to offer what you offer and if she doesn't eat it, then she can go play...but do not continue to offer this or that throughout a meal...she gets what you offer and if she doesn't eat it, she won't starve...she will eat it at the next meal or she'll eat what was offered if she's hungry enough...it is because parents worry sooo much about their child eating enough, that they run around like a chicken with their head cut off trying to please their toddler with various food choices...but in reality the toddler is simply exericising her independent rights and may or may not abilige you. AND you run the risk of 'creating' a picking eater...I have read loads of articles, studies, etc on picky eaters and it is almost ALWAYS caused by the parent's actions. So before falling into that trap...stop your urge to offer too many choices at one meal...she'll be AOK and will eat when truely hungry. :-* Of course you do end up wasting some food along the way!
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M2W
Thats really sound advice, I have on occasion (mainly lunch times not dinner) started to offer a variety of things after DD has eaten say, 2 bits of sandwich chucked the rest on the floor, then refused her yogurt. I start to think 'you've got to eat something' so offer some raisins of which she might eat 2, spit out the third then dump the rest of the edge of high chair, so then I've offered a toddler biscuit, which gets a suck then follows the raisins over the edge ::) By this point I normally assume she simply cant be that hungry and lunch is over but in future I will stop at what I had intended on offering and no more. One thing that so far has not been refused is Organix cheese & tomato puffs but following what you said I don't think it would be wise to offer these in the circumstances or that could become trouble.
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Just thought I'd add. Following DD's 1st birthday and far too much sweet stuff, I have realised she really cant handle anything loaded with sugar. 3 milky buttons after lunch today led to 30mins hyperactive loony baby. 1 very slim slice of birthday cake with icing peeled of (the day after her birthday, we didn't eat it on the day too much excitement and other stuff going on) led to an afternoon of extreme highs and crying miserable lows, she really didn't know if she wanted a s**t, shave or a haircut! :D :o :'( ;D So for a little while yet sweets and sugary things are definitly out.
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Hey Michelle: He is doing WONDERFUL. He drinks about 3 cups of milk a day, has cheese, whatever. No issues at all. Either he grew out of it or something else (unexplained) was going on at the time. OR..... when I removed all dairy from his diet for a couple of months or however long it was, it could have gave his system a chance to heal.
he loves his milk, icecream and cheese though.
How are things with you these days?
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M2W
Thats really sound advice, I have on occasion (mainly lunch times not dinner) started to offer a variety of things after DD has eaten say, 2 bits of sandwich chucked the rest on the floor, then refused her yogurt. I start to think 'you've got to eat something' so offer some raisins of which she might eat 2, spit out the third then dump the rest of the edge of high chair, so then I've offered a toddler biscuit, which gets a suck then follows the raisins over the edge ::) By this point I normally assume she simply cant be that hungry and lunch is over but in future I will stop at what I had intended on offering and no more. One thing that so far has not been refused is Organix cheese & tomato puffs but following what you said I don't think it would be wise to offer these in the circumstances or that could become trouble.
Thanks for appreciating my comment :) I agree too about the not offering the cheese puffs at meal times that she's demostrating her independence, because then she may become picky and decide that is the only thing she will eat. ;)
Just thought I'd add. Following DD's 1st birthday and far too much sweet stuff, I have realised she really cant handle anything loaded with sugar. 3 milky buttons after lunch today led to 30mins hyperactive loony baby. 1 very slim slice of birthday cake with icing peeled of (the day after her birthday, we didn't eat it on the day too much excitement and other stuff going on) led to an afternoon of extreme highs and crying miserable lows, she really didn't know if she wanted a s**t, shave or a haircut! :D :o :'( ;D So for a little while yet sweets and sugary things are definitly out.
Weston would always refuse sweets when offered until just recently...about Easter time is when he decided sweets were AOK in his mind. :-\
Hey Michelle: He is doing WONDERFUL. He drinks about 3 cups of milk a day, has cheese, whatever. No issues at all. Either he grew out of it or something else (unexplained) was going on at the time. OR..... when I removed all dairy from his diet for a couple of months or however long it was, it could have gave his system a chance to heal.
Weston also had some 'milk' (or maybe lactose) issues when he was younger...and offering lactose formula instead of milk for a while seemed to help and now he loves his milk, cheese, etc...so I would venture to guess some of those studies I read up on were right about their digestive track really not being ready at age 1 for cows milk, but rather age 2 or better yet age 3 (according to some studies) I'm sure (from MY experience) Weston's digestive system just needed some time to mature and prepare for milk a little while longer then some kids. :)
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Hey Wendy, in general we are doing good re: eating. Still loves his fruits and veggies, some pasta, rice, yoghurt etc., started to eat some fish and a little bit of eggs. I was just hoping he would be able to drink the cows milk as it contains so much protein compared to Rice Milk, which has basically none.
Horrible mucosy diapers still today. Bleuch.
Glad Zach is doing sooooo much better than he was even a few months ago!
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Binxyboo
Can you get goats milk? I have in my mind that its not as hard for LO's digestive system to cope with. I could be wrong, maybe someone else can confirm this.
Re cows milk in general, I am very fortunate that Lily takes cows milk OK, although I don't offer it to drink she has it on her cereal every day and eats lots of cheese. From experience tho I know cows milk can be very bad for LO's, my niece almost died, yes died, from cows milk allergy she was about 1 I think although she is 18 now so my memory is a little fuzzy, she was just constantly throwing up and had chronic diarrhea to the point where she was admitted to hospital she had lost so much weight and was so dehydrated and even then it took over a week for them to figure out it was the milk causing it. As soon as she stopped being given cows milk she got better. Bless her tho when she first went to school, at the first morning milk break she got in such a panic because she knew she couldn't have milk she got quite hysterical thinking they would force her to drink it, she didn't realise they knew she wasn't to have it and had got juice instead. It actually took till she was 6/7 before the odd bit of milk in cereal was OK.
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Wow newmum, that's scary.
Thanks Stacy, I have tried the Lactaid too, it is the same result. Mucous all the way.
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Binxyboo
Can you get goats milk? I have in my mind that its not as hard for LO's digestive system to cope with. I could be wrong, maybe someone else can confirm this.
When I was researching it back when Weston had issues....I found LOADS of info saying Goats Milk is the closest milk to Human Breast Milk...and MUCH easier on the digestive track of a baby/toddler...
so using that info I'd have to say YES, I believe Goat's milk is far more easy on the system then Cow's milk...and Weston did fine with Goat's milk...I used the power kind most of the time, because it didn't go bad so fast...I didn't offer it all the time, so I needed something that would not spoil too soon...but you can buy it in liquid form as well if you prefer...
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today DD had:
Wake: 4oz sippy milk
breakfast: half weat and blueberry frozen waffle, pinapple and watermelon, cottage cheese
lunch: quarter turkey burger patty, frozen green/yellow beans ans carrots, rice (basmatti) 4 oz sippy
supper: chicken fried rice, frozen veggies, sweet potato fries, mini go, 4 oz sippy
bed 4oz sippy
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I have heard that about goat's milk before too. I don't know why, it makes me a bit squeamish, yet cows milk doesn't.
No sense to that whatsoever, but there you go!
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Today Zara ate: (and this is about average lately)
Breakfast: couple sips of milk, couple oz of orange juice (undiluted), bowl of adult muesli with milk (yummy stuff with oats, bran, seeds, nuts, and dried fruit), and 6 grapes
Snack: 1/3 choc chip cookie, 4 grapes, couple oz of diluted apple juice
Lunch: Salad (tinned corn kernels, beetroot slices, avacado, cheese and ham) - threw the asparagus, tomato and lettuce on the floor, more diluted apple juice, and a tin of baby custard, and about 8-10 peices of fruit from a bowl of fruit salad (including pineapple, rockmelon, honeydewmelon, and watermelon)
Snack: bowl of mango greek yoghurt, and 1/2 a toddler yoghurt muesli bar, more diluted apple juice
Dinner: handful frozen peas, mashed up our dinner (chicken breast with cream of celery soup, with carrot and pumpkin). About 5-6 pieces of fruit from the fruit salad
Bottle: She still has a formula bottle before bed, takes anywhere from 40-200ml - average 100ml (hasn't had this yet).
Water throughout day also.
Not bad huh? ;) ;D
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Zach's biggest meal is breakfast. He will eat SO much at breakfast.
Today he ate:
Wake: 6 0z. milk
- 1 egg, 1/2 pancake, and then 1/2 nutragrain bar...
- Snack: Goldfish and grapes
Lunch: Cheese and watermelon
We are having big issues with meat, he just hates it. He was eating hamburger, but now he will chew it and spit it out.. Yuck.
He gets his protein from eggs (which he loves) and milk. Thank goodness
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rinajack,
When did you introduce salad and how do you prepare it?
Yesterday Lexy had
B- 1 pancake, 4 oz milk
L- cheek peas, chiken fried rice, fruit, 4 oz milk
Snack - half a mango
S- pasta with tomato sauce, ricotta cheese and colby cheese, frozen veggies, frozen yogurt and raspberry pop, 4 oz milk
bed- 4oz milk
Renee
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Nee - salad...we eat it often, but it isn't a salad prepared with all the ingredients mixed. I just cut up foods that I like to eat without cooking them and put them all sepereately on my plate. Over time, Zara has tried most of them. Honestly we are only just starting to get success with salad, because of not cooking the vegies, they required more chewing etc.
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I have heard that about goat's milk before too. I don't know why, it makes me a bit squeamish, yet cows milk doesn't.
No sense to that whatsoever, but there you go!
You know I tasted goat's milk once (well a couple times actually) and when it's slightly close to room temp, GAG...it's NASTY! But if it's cold...it tastes exactly like cows milk. IMHO...but come to think of it warm cows milk is nasty too...lol
So long story short...drink it COLD!!! Nice n COLD!!! :)
We are having big issues with meat, he just hates it. He was eating hamburger, but now he will chew it and spit it out.. Yuck.
I think meat is a 'strong' taste and as they develop they will grow to like it more, Weston would eat almost anything when he was a young baby...I honestly think I could have fed him pureed dog poop and he'd love it...but give him meats (turkey, chicken, ham, beef, etc) and he would spit it out...then one day he ate venison like it was going out of style...
..to this day, most meat & poultry products he's 50/50 if he'll eat it, but pretty good chance he'll eat venison...doesn't make sense, other then maybe it's leaner meat and he doesn't like the 'fat'??? I don't know, but I do have hope that with time, he will grow to like meat a little more...as you can tell we aren't vegetarians in this house...lol ;)
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Venison, yuk! even when I did eat meat, that was one of the few I didn't like :P
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OM I have missed so much.....
How can I get her to eat veggies? I am getting worried becuase she use to eat 6+ oz of veggies a day and now I can't get her to eat barely any (except Gerber Lil'Crunchies - baked corn snack). She will eat a good amount of fruit (is that bad?).
Today so far...
B-fast 4oz of milk (between 7-9am)
1/5 scrammbled egg ::)
and refused fruit
However a few minutes later let me actually feed her pureed oatmeal/pear/cinnamon (aobut 3-4oz worth) :o
Snack- 1st time in 2 weeks that she actually ate an entire yogurt :D
Lunch: A few bites of fruit and puffs but refused the expensive sandwich I bought becuase she acted as if she were hungry and wouldn't make it until we got home. ::) It was good turkey and she just laughed at it. ;)
We haven't gotten to dinner yet but it makes me the most 'nervous,' as I want her to have a real meal but she ends up only eating a nutragrain bar or something along those lines becuase she refuses everything else. :P
It's good to know I'm not the only one.
Mel
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No they eat ALL fruit some days ... other days ALL veggies ... toddlers just have funky eating patterns...your LO will be fine ;)
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Ds goes through the same phases. He will love something one day and hate it the next. He is actually pretty good with veggies and goes nuts for fruit. Our problem is sometimes that is all he will want to eat all day. Guess we should enjoy it while it lasts.
Haven't posted for a while so here was our day:
6oz milk in the AM
Breakfast - 1/3 cup chopped strawberries and almost a whole small homemade bran muffin with blueberries and 2oz juice (we were on the run doing errands)
Snack - 1/2 a yogurt
Lunch - 1 1/2 mini homemade meat pies (lean ground beef with stuff in a crust made from a slice of bread), frozen mixed veggies, 1/2 orange
6oz milk before nap
Snack - a few dry shreddies and 5 skinny apple slices
Dinner - 1 scrambled egg, 3/4 slice of ww toast with margarine no crusts, about 3 broccoli trees mashed with a bit of grated cheese, 1/2 kiwi
6oz milk before bed
He always has water in a sippy with his meals and snacks.
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Today:
Breakfast: Offered her scrambled eggs and mandarin oranges but only ate 1/2 piece of toast with raspberry jelly on it. Milk
Snack: Gerber veggie snacks (just a few as we were on our way to swimming)
Juice
Lunch: 1/4 of a tuna fish sandwich- Juice
Snack: More Gerber veggie snacks and some puffs (we were in a rush and heading out the door)-Juice
Dinner: Turkey, Banana and Mango- Juice
6oz of Formula
I just realized I didn't offer a yogurt or cheese today (I guess because she totally refused it yesterday). Need to add some extra calcium tomorrow.
-Melissa
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Just tried to give Zara lunch...she refused sausages, ate some bread with tomato sauce and butter, refused jar of apple berry ripple, refused yoghurt, ate some pear slices, then I gave her a spoon, refused teh yoghurt again, let her dip the spoon, at teh whole yoghurt, gave her the empty pot, and while practicing her dipping, and scooping, ate the whole jar of fruit....
So, I wonder how much is food refusal mel, and how much is independance? Cause that is what is getting us!
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We are back on track now with eating this was yesterday:
Breakfast: 8ozs milk,1/2cup oates mixed with fruit and milk. Slice of raisin toast
Snack: 2 heinz musli bars
Lunch: peanut butter sandwich,tub of yoghurt.
Afternoon tea: Was at her grandparents so probably lots of biscuits :P
Bowl of gnocchi (her favourite) and tub of chocolate mousse.
Water through out the day about 400-500mls.
Today so far:
Breakfast: 8ozs milk,1/2cup oates mixed with fruit and milk. Slice of raisin toast
Snack: 2 heinz musli bars
Lunch: Hotdog with sauce (loves these ate almost the whole sausage and half the bread)
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Rina ~
We are at that stage too. As long as Luke has a spoon of his own which he can dip in, he will eat much more. Over the last week though he has really come on with it and will dip his spoon in, get a good load of yougurt or whatever he is eating, onto it and then gets it into his mouth without much mess/spillage!!! ;D
Of course there are also the times that he loads the spoon up and drops it over the side.....we seem to have gone back to that too...... ::)
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Zara is not showing any interest in putting the dipped spoon in her mouth...she just makes a massive mess of the highchair, her hair, her face, her hands and the floor. But she is busy enough doing that that I can actually get her to eat something. Her ability to scoop food onto the spoon is improving though.
She is less difficult with finger food in terms of her cooperation, however she spends most of her time breaking the food into tiny peices or squishing it as hard as she can in her fist, then shaking her hands to get it off them (not a fan of dirty hands this one) at which time it usually ends up ALL over the dining room... ::) ::) ::)
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Rina...Zara sounds a lot like Grace. :D However, when I give her the spoon with food on it 1/2 the time it will end up in her mouth the other times she flings the food off of it and it goes in her hair, on the floor, etc.
-Grace will also squish the food as hard as she can in her fist, forget it's there and then grab for more food.
-What silly girls we have.
Today:
1/3 jar of Oatmeal, Pears, Cinnamon and Raisin puree :)
Then we went to Howleys (50's Diner) and she had some pancakes, 2 small bites of egg and a whole lot of freeze dried strawberries and banana's.
Snack: Cereal Bar
Lunch: a very small amount of blueberry waffle with Peanut Butter on it and that was it. She really didn't eat lunch.
-We went grocery shopping after this and towards the while we were checking out she wanted some of the snacks we bought so we opened up one thing and let her have a few pieces.
Snack: She actually ate an entire yogurt ;D
Dinner: We tried a Gerber Graduates Lil Entrees for the first time and she ate a few bites of turkey and mashed potatoes but would not eat any of the veggies. We also gave her a fruit stick.
8oz of formula
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DS is big time independent. He is starting to master the spoon in goopy stuff like applesauce, yogurt and cereal. The rest of the time we give him a utensil and he either lets us feed him with another one while he manages a few bites on his own with his spoon/fork plus he starts to pick up more food on his own or sometimes he will let us guide his hand holding the utensil to the food to pick it up that way. I just figure it's yet another case for patience and this too shall pass, lol!
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Luke decided he wanted to eat jelly by himself yesterday - that took alot of patience!!!.......from both of us!! ;D
He's been off food abit lately - seems to be going through the motions of teething - yesterday he had:
wake ~ 6oz milk
breakfast ~ slice of bread with butter and jam, few apricots
snack ~ some banana
lunch ~ 1/2 tuna sandwich, 1 tub of jelly ::), grapes and strawberries
snack ~ more grapes and 6oz milk
tea ~ 2/3 cottage pie with carrots, yoghurt, 1/2 a mini choc muffin
bed ~ 4oz milk
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The title of this thread should be "what did your toddler refuse to eat today" ::) :P That sums up how our day went.
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LOL Rina ;D
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Not much eating going on here. Zach just got over a tummy bug. Today is his first day of eating again.
Wake: 6 oz. milk
Breakfast: 1/2 egg
Snack: A few goldfish crackers
Lunch: 3 oz. milk, 5 bite of watermelon, 2 bites of chicken roll up and 1 small cube of cheese
He also has his 2 year molars coming in.
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Glad Zach is feeling better!
Today Grace ate...
b-fast: 10 or so heerios, 1/8 of a banana, 1 bite of a bagel w/peanut butter, 1 bite of left over egg
snack: Corn Puffed Snack
Lunch: 2 Chicken Nuggets, Corn (offerend turkey/veggie ravioli but she wouldn't even try it)
Snack: 4oz of blueberry yogurt
Dinner: Cheddar Cheese, Turkey Lunch Meat, 1 broccoli/cheese Nugget thingy
7oz of bottle (formula)
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At what age did your lo's start using utensils?
How did you teach them?
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lol stacy we are the opposite :p aliera uses a spoon now quite well... but havent tried a fork yet! might try that with dinner ;D
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Lily fed herself a spoon full of cheerios this morning, well 3 cheerios anyway. She dipped the spoon in scooped some up I said can you put it in your mouth? and in it went ;D
I have one concern tho' does anyone else have a left handed LO. I'm positive she is left handed as everything she does starts with her left hand and the forks & spoons I bought, which have ergonomically shaped handles and the bowl of the spoon projects out to one side are clearly meant for right handed feeding. Has anyone else encountered this, can you get ergonomic left handed cutlery for LOs.
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My DS is 17 mo and i'm trying to get him to feed himself with a spoon. He will do this at nursery and has been doing for some time but at home he wants me to feed him. If i leave him to do it by himself he cries and puts his arms up for me to take him out of his high chair. Any suggestions??
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At what age did your lo's start using utensils?
How did you teach them?
We have always from the beginning (4 months) given Weston his own spoon while we fed him and he would mess with it...eventually started using it...and then when he had good hand / arm control...no more random movements flinging about, we let him have adult forks (oh gosh, I'm not sure of age, but a long while ago...at least 6 or more months ago)...never bothered with the plastic ones because they just plain don't work well and cause too much frustration. Then I'd say it was about 2 months ago that we let him have a knife to cut his food with...but that has only been a few occasions and suprvisied closely...and a butter knife, nothing too sharp, the fork is sharper really :)
A few nights ago we let him have his own fondue fork and those are SHARP SHARP SHARP...so he was watched closely with that and when he decided he was finished eating & it was time to play with it, we took it away.
Here is a pic of Weston having his first meal (& you can see he has a spoon of his own) so we have always given him his own spoons, forks, etc...and let him decide when he was going to attempt to use it...we didn't do ANYTHING to teach him, other then feed him and let him figure it out. (can be messy at times) and then here are also some pics of him now eating his fondue with the fondue fork (sorry they are a bit fuzzy)
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Hinnrichs/Westonsfirstmeal10-22-051.jpg)
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Hinnrichs/CIMG8819.jpg)
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Hinnrichs/CIMG8821.jpg)
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Hinnrichs/CIMG8822.jpg)
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My DS is 17 mo and i'm trying to get him to feed himself with a spoon. He will do this at nursery and has been doing for some time but at home he wants me to feed him. If i leave him to do it by himself he cries and puts his arms up for me to take him out of his high chair. Any suggestions??
Yes I do have a suggestion as a matter of fact...because we recently had a similar issue... :)
Take him out of his high chair and let him go back to playing... :)
He will eat when hungry enough...promise you that! And the amount they require is A MILLION times smaller then you think!!! :)
I also noticed that Weston will eat FAR MORE FOOD when I ignore him while he eats...if I'm right there talking to him or interacting or give him too many food options at once, he pushes it all away and says ALL DONE. :(
BUT if I give him one item let him completely finish it before even having something else in eye sight, he will eat far more foods. For example...before I would put a plate down that had some grapes, mellon, blueberries, etc on it...and he would often times push it away...but if I give him a bowl of blueberries, wait for him to finish it, before even getting the bowl of grapes out...then give him some grapes, wait for him to finish, etc...he will eat them...and when I say ignore, I don't mean leave the room...I just don't interact with him as much...I try to carry on a conversation with my husband, read a magazine (and glance out of the corner of my eye to see what he's up to) etc...I'll sit at the table with him, but I don't really give him any attention during the meals he is being fussy about eating. And when he doesn't get my attention he decides that maybe the food might be worth trying. :)
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I realized that about Weston (the food options and eating more when not being interacted with) when I watched what DH did when he fed him, because Weston always eats more for my hubby...and that is what he does...it's one food option at a time...most of the time DH is eating his own meal, not just sitting their paying full attention to Weston...and when Weston pushes his food away and says all done, regardless of what he ate, DH always took him out of the chair and put him back in the play area.
And amazingly that very logical way works...moms just get too emotional worrying that their babies aren't eating enough...Dr. Brazelton's book lists the min a toddler needs to thrive and it was SHOCKING how small the amount of food per day was.
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I have one concern tho' does anyone else have a left handed LO. I'm positive she is left handed as everything she does starts with her left hand and the forks & spoons I bought, which have ergonomically shaped handles and the bowl of the spoon projects out to one side are clearly meant for right handed feeding. Has anyone else encountered this, can you get ergonomic left handed cutlery for LOs.
You can find them...but why not just get regular old cutlery? That way she can learn with which ever hand she wants to...Weston often trades back and forth, but he is for sure more dominate with his right hand (which is strange because both DH & I are left handed)
He will at times be struggling to get the last bit of a bite into his mouth when both hands come up to manuver the fork...and then depending on how the situation needs to be handled, he uses both hands..and sometimes the wrong end of the fork or spoon...so at this age ergonomic cutlery is somewhat useless. They would be fine to use a flat stick really ;)
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Thanks for the tip M2W, I will miss you when new baby arrives so don't stay away too long ;)
I think I will let Lily use normal cutlery and I will use the funny shaped ones to feed her at same time. I like the tip about only giving one food at a time I have noticed when Lily has say fish fingers & veg, she stuffs the fish fingers in like theres no tomorrow and hardly touches the veg, so I will give her the veg first then fish fingers, hopefully more will go down this way.
We are having fun at the moment anyway, shes teething and it looks like there are 8 teeth coming at once, I knew she was in a lot more pain this time and was sure it must be a molar coming but it looks like she is getting ALL of her remaining front & canine teeth. Havent been stressing tho, just letting her eat what she wants then were all done. One thing tho I'm sure this morning she was hungry when she woke up at 6am as she didn't eat much at all for dinner, do you think it will be OK to give her a snack before bed while this is happening? dont want to start a bad habit of not eating dinner but 'doesn't matter cos I get a snack anyway'
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M2W: I just noticed that you are about to have your baby any time now! :D How exciting for you all.
-Thanks for the tips. I am definitely going to try only giving one food at a time and giving her a utensil to 'play' with at the table.
Yesterday:
Fruit Cup (only ate a few small pieces)
Waffle and cream cheese (ate only about 6 or7 small bites)
Milk
Snack: Apple and Juice (fruit and veggie juice)
Lunch: PBJ Sandwich (ate 1/2 of a 1/2 of sandwich) and a broccoli and cheese veggie bite (ate almost one)
Snack: Veggie Puffs (Gerber) and Juice
Dinner: Homemade Mac n Cheese and fresh broccoli (did eat any broccoli)
-Wasn't eating so I gave her a Nutrigrain bar and she ate almost the entire thing.
6oz Bottle
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We are having fun at the moment anyway, shes teething and it looks like there are 8 teeth coming at once, I knew she was in a lot more pain this time and was sure it must be a molar coming but it looks like she is getting ALL of her remaining front & canine teeth. Havent been stressing tho, just letting her eat what she wants then were all done. One thing tho I'm sure this morning she was hungry when she woke up at 6am as she didn't eat much at all for dinner, do you think it will be OK to give her a snack before bed while this is happening? dont want to start a bad habit of not eating dinner but 'doesn't matter cos I get a snack anyway'
WOW 8 teeth at once...OUCH! especially the canine's! :( poor baby!
as for snacks...I'm fairly liberal there...I let Weston have snacks.
I give a milk bottle (or formula) directly before bed while Daddy is reading stories...and I think that sort of fills the tummy enough to drift off to sleep...(part of bedtime routine)
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Typically, when Weston wakes from a nap, we (if going somewhere) jump in the car for the park, playdate, etc...and he will snack in the afternoon while he plays...(more of a lunch was given before the nap on most days)...and then when we get home, Weston is typically hungry, but it's far too early for me to have dinner on the table for the whole family...so Weston will snack or have his dinner before DH gets home from work. Then When DH is home, we all sit at the table (Weston to) and he will be offered what we are eating...and he may or may not choose to eat it...but we have him sit with us as a family regardless...we talk about the day, etc...Then after dinner it's get Weston ready for bed time. DH does the kitchen clean up, I get Weston ready...then Daddy reads stories while Weston has his bottle...
so you see he's snacking, eating all afternoon/evening...
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Thanks, yeah Lily has a snack after am nap generally, although sometimes I do lunch if nap is late then offer a snack later before next nap, she is generally hungry before dinner is ready, dinner is at 5pm but by 4.30 shes generally rattling on kitchen gate smacking her lips together, for the most part tho a few raisins tide her over till dinner, I guess it wont hurt to offer a small snack during story time before last BF, maybe a digestive biscuit or something, haven't got time at this point in day to do anything specific, so it will have to be something low sugar & no mess that i can grab and she can eat while I read.
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Today:
Breakfast: Cheese Eggs and fresh strawberries
Snack: Banana
Lunch: Turkey and Provelone, 4 small spoonfulls of apple sauce
Snack: Veggie bites
Dinner: Hot Dog, Cheddar Cheese and I offerend Zucchini and Squash but she refused to eat it
7oz Bottle
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Well I have been reading this thread for 2 weeks now wishing that my little Emily ate as well as some other los. Today at 13 mos. she finally ate all table food. She had a piece of toast with applesauce for breakfast. Spaghetti with vegtables in the sauce for lunch. Cheerios and banana for an afternoon snack. And finally, green beans a few bites of potato and 4 bites of BBQ meatball for dinner.
I am so proud we have made it this far. Just a few weeks ago it was nothing but Stage 2 baby food. Thanks for all the ideas and tips!!!
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Congrats on the good eating day. :) Her day looks great.
My daughter never would eat stage 3 foods and still won't eat anything with an odd texture ::) :P. Like Mother like Daughter ;D
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I can already see myself in Emily too. I can't stand to eat different foods at the same time. I see Emily finishing all of the first thing before moving on to the next.
I did not mention the first time that Emily takes 4 6oz sippy cups a day. Is that too much for 13 mos.? She does not drink milk with a meal usually after she is finished.
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I think the recomended amount at that age is a pint (20oz) in the UK. I would say that if she carries on eating like you mentioned then it is not a problem as its only slightly over the recomended amount.
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Well I have been reading this thread for 2 weeks now wishing that my little Emily ate as well as some other los. Today at 13 mos. she finally ate all table food. She had a piece of toast with applesauce for breakfast. Spaghetti with vegtables in the sauce for lunch. Cheerios and banana for an afternoon snack. And finally, green beans a few bites of potato and 4 bites of BBQ meatball for dinner.
I am so proud we have made it this far. Just a few weeks ago it was nothing but Stage 2 baby food. Thanks for all the ideas and tips!!!
sounds excellent to me...
...Weston still gets pureed foods when I don't have time to 'make' something healthy or if he's had too many non-healthy snacks I'll pop a jar of pureed foods in him :)
as for fluids, I think 20ounces is recomended, over that amount you are dipping into their potiental hunger level for other food choices...but with that said, I definitely go over the fluid amount...especially when it's hot, I try to keep it to water or VERY diluted milk, formula, juice, etc...so that most of what he's getting is water. :)
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M2W thanks for the tip to water down the milk. I see you are about to become very busy!!! Good luck.
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We have the opposite 'problem' with milk. She only drinks 1 sippy of it a day and it usually is about 1-5 oz max (usually 2 oz total). This why I give her formula before bed still.....to make up for not having any calcium during the day (except for cheese and yogurt of course). Silly Monkey. ;D
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M2W thanks for the tip to water down the milk. I see you are about to become very busy!!! Good luck.
Yes...I believe I am!!! ;) Yesterday we had a false alarm, but the trip to the hospital definitely reminded us of just how UNPREPARED we are...so today we have been "NESTING" whether we want to or not... :-\
We have the opposite 'problem' with milk. She only drinks 1 sippy of it a day and it usually is about 1-5 oz max (usually 2 oz total). This why I give her formula before bed still.....to make up for not having any calcium during the day (except for cheese and yogurt of course). Silly Monkey. ;D
That is why I still give Weston formula...and our pedi said it wasn't a problem to give it for how ever long you want...there is nothing in it that requires them to be 'babies' in order to drink it :)
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You know I never went through the whole "nesting" stuff. I was so tired right before I delivered I just rested. Through all your nesting take time to relax and enjoy any moments of peace you have.
As for Emily yesterday she ate
B-scrambled egg & 2 oz yogurt
L-couple of bites of grilled ham and cheese
S-cheerios and juice
D-Gerber ravioli
She still had around 20 oz of milk yesterday. I noticed that the Gerber ravioli has lots of sodium. Have you found any other quick meals on the go that are any better. She actually ate dinner in the car last night after a long Mother's Day visiting the our moms and grandmothers.
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I have not posted here in a long time. Yesterday, Riley had:
Some shredded wheat cereal and 1.5 hashbrowns for B'fast
8oz yoghurt and vegetables for lunch
Mac 'n' cheese, broccoli and a banana for dinner
Nutrigrain bar and peach for snack
Rice Milk throughout day.
He is also drinking tons of water in the hot weather.
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Haven't posted here - but I like reading it so I thought I should post! ;)
Today Sophi had:
Breakfast - corn flakes, milk, banana
Snack - baby cookie, water
Lunch - mushroom, cheese, and sour cream in pastry dough (made them for dh and she LOVED it!)
Snack - yogurt, cheese
Dinner - corn, chicken (boiled in soup) and LOTS of carrots!
WATER - she drinks water all during the day ;)
Bottle - formula before sleep
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I definitely nested while preggo! It was such fun. I was suppose to be on bed rest but I couldn't help but organize and prepair! ;D
Yesterday:
Breakfast: We went out for breakfast so she had a few bites of our food...
-1/3 jar of oatmeal, pear, cinnamon puree
-ham
-creamcheese with blueberries
-cantelope
-eggs
-apples
snack
Nutiregrain bar
Lunch:
Cream Cheese sandwich and something else but I can't remember
Snack:
Cheese Lil' Crunchies and Puffs
Dinner:
Corn
1 meatball
1/3 banana muffin
2oz of formula
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Weston has been puking all day...so far he's kept 3 ounces of water down and maybe one saltine cracker (still waiting to see if that stays down)
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Get better Weston. M2W hang in there!
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Oh no Weston. :'( Feel better :-*
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{{hugs}} Weston :-*
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I'm a lurker here and get lots of inspiration and ideas from your posts - thanks! :) I hope to find the time to add my LO's menu one of these days .. ::)
One question: when you all say your LO had a tuna sandwich .. do you make it with mayo? If so, are you using regular old mayo or are you using some healthier alternative?
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We use regular Mayo as our Dr. said to give her as much fat as possible (she a small little thing). ;D
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Ooh... poor Weston!
Off-topic... M2W: is that an amber teething necklace he's wearing, in your avatar pic? If so, does it seem to help? Curious about those, but haven't really investigated.
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Hope Weston feels better today.
Hope you are doing well too, Linds, the big day must be very close now!
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Poor little guy, poor you, heres hoping the bump remains in situ until the puking has stopped ;)
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Ooh... poor Weston!
Off-topic... M2W: is that an amber teething necklace he's wearing, in your avatar pic? If so, does it seem to help? Curious about those, but haven't really investigated.
Yes it is an amber teething necklace, I bought it from a woman who sells them on Ebay. I do believe it works...you have to leave it on ALL the time...but we were giving him motrin & tylenol all the time before I got it, and now I happen to realize he has a new tooth when I am brushing his teeth and never even noticed him in any 'mouth' pain...in fact, just yesterday I noticed one of his canine's popped through and everyone says those are horrid when coming through...so I do think it does something...however, my hubby thinks I'm nuts. (we are dharma and greg...if you've ever seen that show) LOL I will say, regardless if it works or not, Weston loves it...I take it off at times when I'm bathing him and he will always ask for it back on if I forget to put it immediately back on. And I think it's a cute fashion statement too...so for me it was a plus plus plus win win situation when I bought it... :)
Poor little guy, poor you, heres hoping the bump remains in situ until the puking has stopped ;)
He's better today...think it was a 24 hour bug...and so far I haven't gotten it...and I hope I don't!!! Been taking loads of probiotics to try and ward it off. :)
One question: when you all say your LO had a tuna sandwich .. do you make it with mayo? If so, are you using regular old mayo or are you using some healthier alternative?
regular old mayo here...
Hope you are doing well too, Linds, the big day must be very close now!
Very close...if she doesn't come on her own this week sometime (say a prayer it's not tomorrow...any day but tomorrow would be good for me) anyhow, if she doesn't come this week...then this weekend we are inducing...so Sunday May 20th is the latest possible day. :)
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Back on TOPIC...
Today Weston has been eating the BRAT diet to try and keep his tummy calm and heal nicely from yesterday's puking...
B.R.A.T. = Bananas, Rice, Apples, Toast (in case you're not familiar with that term) :)
So he's been having apple juice, water, banana, blan crackers and apple sauce. :)
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Gald he is doing better. We have used the brat diet a few times ourselves. We might should get a necklace. I think Emily has major teething going on. This makes three days we have given Motrin. Still no teeth, we can see them at the top of her gums though. So of course she has not eaten well at all today. Saltine crackers were about the most that she has had all day.
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Gald he is doing better. We have used the brat diet a few times ourselves. We might should get a necklace. I think Emily has major teething going on. This makes three days we have given Motrin. Still no teeth, we can see them at the top of her gums though. So of course she has not eaten well at all today. Saltine crackers were about the most that she has had all day.
Yeah...for us, it has been great..I honestly was giving him WAY TOO much motrin or tylenol...and about a week or so after he started wearing the necklace he was a happy boy...I can't recall actually giving him motrin or tylenol for teething since...and he's been wearing it for at least a year now :)
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So Lindsay ~
do you just go onto Ebay and search for 'amber teething necklaces'? I would love to get Luke one but never thought of looking there! TBH I've never used Ebay....I know!!! Shock!! Horror!! :o
About the tuna ~
When Luke has tinned tuna, he just has it as is - no mayo, nothing.
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Yesterday
Egg, toast with butter and fruit cup (she really didn't eat any of her fruit cup)
Yogurt (strawberry and banana w/ added rice cereal)
PBJ Sandwich (1/3 of a 1/2 a sandwhich) and a 1/2 a banana
Pirate Booty (puffed corn and puffed rice with cheese....kind of like popcorn but organic and all natural) and 2 carrot wagon wheels
2/3 veggie burger (I made pasta but she didn't eat any), and ate some shredded cheddar cheese
So far today....
Oatmeal with 4oz of pureed banana and pear
peach yogurt and dried apples
Egg salad sandwich, corn, 1 carrot wagon wheel (didn't eat much of her lunch....the dog ate most of it ;))
The rest is still to come....
Melissa
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Sorry to hear Weston was feeling yucky but glad he's on the mend!
Breakfast - a weetabix with milk and a bit of brown sugar, 2/3 yogurt
Lunch - 10 oven fries, a low-fat hotdog (sausage only), 1/3 cup of mixed veggies, 1 kiwi and 1 strawberry (little piggy!)
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What is weetabix?
B- 1/4 cup oatmeal with apples
S- 1 slice of cheese
L- green beans, a few bites of potato and juice
Who knows what will happen for dinner. I have not been to the store in a while.
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weetabix are great! They are wheat cereal compressed into ovals about 2" X 5". There is almost no sugar in them and they taste yummy. For DS, I pour a bit of whole milk over it and then microwave it for about 35 s. They get nice and soft and smooshy. I sprinkle a little bit of brown sugar on top and others serve it with yogurt and/or fresh fruit. DS loves it. He has hated baby cereals since well before he was a year old so it's a nice alternative for breakfast. It's full of fibre, protein, etc..
Here's a link to some info about it:
http://www.weetabix.co.uk/products/1/weetabix.html
It is a product from the UK but you can buy it here in Canada so I'm sure it's available in the US, too. It's about $4-$5 a box here but there are about 20 biscuits in a box and DS who is a big boy with a hearty appetite will only eat one for breakfast along with a bit of yogurt and fruit.
Worth a try!
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We have something called Shredded Wheat here in the US I will give it a try. I have never offered cereal other than baby rice/oatmeal or plain cheerios. Thanks for the tip.
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You can get Weetabix in the US in import stores or Trader Joes.
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Yes, I think I a few of my US BW friends have found weetabix at import stores. I've tried shredded wheat but weetabix has gone over much better with DS. I usually buy it at Safeway here in Canada so they may have it there in the US or at least in their import section. Well worth a try!
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Yeah, it's way nicer than Shredded Wheat IMO.
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I've seen it at Winn Dixie before! :)
Today
B-Oatmeal mixed with apple sauce
S-peach yogurt
L-Grilled Cheese w/ Ham, 2 carrot wagon wheels
S-Lil Crunches
D-Corn, nutrigrain bar (1/2), some of my chef salad (ham, turkey, cheese), and a 1/2 jar of pureed turkey/rice dinner.
-7oz bottle
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LOL Stacy.
Wagon wheels are Gerber finger food.Quite tasty in my opinion, sad we dont have these here.
http://www.gerber.com/toddlersite?tmsdir=food&tmspage=ff_wheels.html&tmspromo=2
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Thanks Efka! :D
They probably aren't the best snack ;) but she will not eat veggies very often so it's one easy way of getting somehting into her, iykwim. ;D
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Stacy, DS loves those Gerber Wagon Wheels, too but we can't get them up here in Canada (at least as far as I've found to the west!). We've picked them up when we have been shopping south of the border....
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Emily loves the wagon wheels too. I have even put cottage cheese on the apple ones.
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Great idea with the cottage cheese.
Whelp, we are at a hotel now (not on vacation, we're having our home tented for termites) and hope to still be able to give Grace some good meals. We'll see how it goes.
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Well I have started going through all the past post to cut and paste the recipes. I have not found any yet for a simple veggie sauce to put on pasta, or a white sauce/cheese sauce to put on veggies. Emily loves the Gerber pastas so I thought I should try some homemade things. I am not a good cook though and need something very simple.
By the way I found the Weetabix. Tried it once this weekend, so far it has not been a big hit. But nothing ever is at first.
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mommy to one, this is a simple cheese sauce. The measurements aren't exact as I don't measure anything out just go by eye, so you may want to experiment a little with quantities.
1 tbs marg or butter melted in saucepan
1 tbs white flour, very slowly (and I mean slowly) add it to the butter, I tip tiny bit in blend with butter then bit more and so on until you have a clump of butter & flour it will ball up when enough flour has gone in. Oh yes I take pan of the heat to add flour & milk.
Then start to add milk again very very slowly a few drops at a time, mix it thouroughly every time you add some so eventually the flour ball starts to become liquid again, keep adding milk and keep mixing all the time (I'd guess I use about 1/3 to 1/2 pint of milk but I cant be sure) its best to not add too much milk to start you can always thin it down with more milk if it become too thick. Return this to the heat and still stirring almost all the time so it doesn't stick and clump up, bring it up to a simmer to thicken. Like I said if it goes too thick just add more milk (if you make it too thin you cant then thicken it up). When its thickened up take back of the heat and grate in some strong cheddar cheese, a little at a time is easier as you want to stir it in till it melts and goes smooth before adding more.
I nearly forgot (I always do at home too) you can add some dry herbs if wanted during the thickening stage or last thing if using fresh.
I then just add cooked cauliflower & broccoli (sometimes leek too) & pasta, stir and serve. Yummy ;D
Hope thats helpful, I'm no chef at all, quite the opposite but it really is very quick & easy once you get the hang of it. Takes about 20-30Min's tops.
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Thanks so much. I'll try it today.
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What a great idea this is!
Yesterday Ellis ate
Breakfast porridge with warm milk, water
Lunch marmite sandwich which he helped me cut into shapes! and small bag of crisps, sugar free juice.
Snack banana
Tea potato waffles, grilled, and cut up into strips, (and we call them chips or fries) with chicken goujons cut up with a blob of ketchup. No veg today :-(
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Yesterday Lily ate & ate & ate....
Breakfast
BF
1 bowl oatibix (apple & sultana)
some of my apple juice
snack
1 whole banana, 1/3 packet organix cheese & tom puffs & Troicana Go juice
few raisins
lunch
1 humous & cucumber sandwich, 15 grapes & Tropicana Go juice
BF
dinner
3 mini fish fingers, the most chips she's ever eaten, 1/2 carrot & few peas, 5/6 strawberry's, peach little star fromage frais (which she mostly fed herself ;D) & Tropicana Go juice
BF before bed.
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Grace is eating very, very little again. I believe it's due to teething :P
Today so far...
Oatmeal and fruit puree (ate only 1/2 of what I prepaired)
Snack 4oz of apple sauce
1 small slice of lunch meat and 2/3 banana yogurt (I also offered corn and some of our ground turkey from our tacos and she didn't eat any of it)
Snack Wagon wheels
Dinner (I'll offer....)...veggie burger, cheese and either a hot dog or steak-um
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We are in an eating slump. Emily will not eat anything I offer except green beans and cheerios. I hope this phases passes soon!!
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Grace sounds like she is eating alot compared to Emily. She is not showing any other signs of teething though. We just went through 2 rough weeks of teething about a week ago. She ate better than this through all of that. She got 4 teeth at the same time.
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Luke has chicken pox at the moment so currently his appetite is way down. He's surviving on bananas, grapes, melon, yoghurt and jelly! ::)
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Riley has decided he does not really need to eat, all he needs to do is play all day long.
When we actually have meals again, I'll make sure to post ;) ;D
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Sounds like quiet a few of us are in the eating slump right now.
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Hi ladies...quick 'eating/drinking' story to share :)
Weston woke from his nap and caught me pumping milk for Chloe...he was completely confused and not sure if that was something he liked to see or not...I explained to him that this is "mommy milk" for Chloe to drink...and then I went on to say "you used to drink mommy's milk too" and when I said that he got a big grin on his face and struted off saying "Weston's milk" (toddlers must possess everything!) ;)
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Weston hasn't been eating too well (healthy choices that is) because daddy has been feeding him lately while I was taking care of Chloe...and now Weston things Chex Mix is a suitable breakfast! :-\ I'm slowly trying to transform him back, however, this weekend is his B-day party and I'm certain cake and JUNK FOOD will be a part of his diet over the weekend :-\
Need some quick ideas (like the frozen fruit and veggies) that I can add to his meals...he won't eat meat now either...gotta get some meat in this boy! :)
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Colin's on a meat strike now, has been for a while :-\ What's up with that anyway?
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Stacy
Thank you so much for the advice! :)
I am lessoning her snacks to start out as I don't think she can go 5.5 hours w/out eating, but we'll see....trial and error! ;)
Today:
1/2 handful of dried strawberries and bananas, 1/2 handful of cheerios, a few small bites of egg and bread
-apple sauce
1/2 PBJ sandwich :D and an entire yogurt!!!
-just a tiny amount of Lil'Crunchies
-3/4 hot dog, two small pieces of cheese cut up for her, 4 bites of broccoli, and about 4 very small bites of my taco salad (turkey with seasoning).
a little bit of formula
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ryan seems to exist on fruit these days. i think it's the heat.
yesterday he had cheerios for breakfast (didn't want the oatmeal i had made), strawberries and cherries and some bread with liverwurst for lunch, grapes for snack, 1 banana and a handful of veggie fried rice for dinner. go figure...
at least they're nice and colorful and thus healthy... ;)
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Today Lily ate
BF
1 bowl oatibix / 2 spoonfuls of my muesli and juice
1 pack laughing cow cheese & bred stick dippers a few bites of buttered toast, about 10 grapes & juice
water (started to offer plain water if wants a drink when not eating)
BF
water
1 big bowl of new recipe I tried, chinese noodles made with quorn, shallot, brocoli, carrot, baby corn & noodles with yummy honey, sesame oil, soy sauce, garlic & ginger marinade. It was really yummy, if anyone wants recipe let me know and I will post it. 1 whole BIG banana
BF
Another really good eating day, although I was worried about wind keeping her awake tonight after eating such huge dinner and sure enough she was trumping like an old horse before she fell asleep :) Which made me think to ask is there anything you can give to dispel wind if they have eaten like a horse? as she does seem to get wind quite often during the night and I have noticed if she wakes up in night she quite often fidgets a lot then lets of a couple huge ones before she can settle back to sleep ::)
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Mmmmmm, that meal does sound good, I would love the recipe please!
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Ok my LO is almost 14 months old. Are there any foods that she should not have? There are many things that I have not tried yet because I thought they were choking hazards (ie peanut butter, grapes, raisins etc). I see that so many other toddlers are eating these things. Just wondering what I should not give her at this point.
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We have been giving grapes since about 7 months and she loves them. We just cut them into smaller pieces.
Grace devours PBJ sandwiches. ;D We just cut up the sandwich and watch carefully and she has always done well with it (we started right before she turned 1)
She just started to like raisins the other day and I am thrilled :D
I think at 14 months all the foods you listed are OK as long as you are comfortable with them. :)
Melissa
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Thanks for the tips. With the grapes- Do you cut them AND peel them, or just cut them? We have many new foods to try.
Stacy- My LO is drinking more milk now. When we come in from playing outside she has been doing the sign for milk and saying "mil, mil". She will drink 6 oz of cold milk in no time.
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I either give grapes cutted half and peeled or in safe feeder
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We don't peel our grapes. We did when she was like 6 months but it was too much of a pain ;)
Our doctor told us she normally reccomends holding off on peanut butter for awhile but since Grace is super tiny and only 25% on weight she told us to go for it as it high in good fats.
We also give her organic fish sticks that she loves. I forget what kind of fish it was....guess I should know that. ;D
With hot dogs we cut them in half and take the skin off still....bit too chewy and she doesn't have her molars yet.
Milk: The most Grace will drink in a day total is about 10oz (usually 4oz) and thats on a 'good' day. That is not including her bottle before bed (but there is only 4oz worth of actual formula as the rest is just extra water). She has one yogurt a day and eats a few bites of cheese so I hope that's enough calcium. Not sure how to tell. :-\
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Hi Everyone!
Sophi had today:
Breakfast - cornflakes and milk, banana
Snack - 2 baby cookies
Lunch - chicken (from our hmmade soup), corn, wheat bread
Snack - yogurt
Dinner - chicken again - rice - raisins - dried apricots - one prune (all from some pilaf we made)
Milk in bottle before bed
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how do you all give dried apricots? Do you just cut them up really small for them?
Probably a silly question. :P
Stacy: Thanks for the dairy/Vit D info.
That smoothie sounds yummy. Do you give it to him in a straw cup?
mommy to one: I forgot to mention that we also give her tuna fish sandwiches and she actually likes it. I was pretty shocked but glad as it's really good for her.
Today:
Oatmeal and pureed fruit and cheerios (dry)
carrot wheels dipped in mommy's ranch ;)
roast beef, mango and banana freeze dried fruit and a blueberry yogurt
puffed corn
egg, green beans mixed with rice and corn (puree) and some of mommy's dinner
Formula
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1 big bowl of new recipe I tried, chinese noodles made with quorn, shallot, brocoli, carrot, baby corn & noodles with yummy honey, sesame oil, soy sauce, garlic & ginger marinade. It was really yummy, if anyone wants recipe let me know and I will post it.
Ooooo, that sounds yummy. Can I have the recipe, please? :)
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I used to cut the apricots up - but now Sophia has 8 teeth and she uses them really well! :D Tonight she ate about 4 dried apricots - and would have eaten more but I stopped her . . . wasn't sure what to expect later! ;D
Sophi also loves tuna - just dry!!!! I tried making a tuna salad but she wouldn't have it! She likes it just plain! I'm glad . . . but not for Mama! ;)
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Ok here is the chinese noodles recipe, I've left out most of the quanities as it depends how many your making for etc.
Ingredients
Quorn pieces or meat or tofu (if tofu remove from marinade and roast in oven 200degC for 20mins first)
egg noodles
vegetables - you choice really whatever you/LO like. I'm still precooking Lilys as we dont yet do crunchy veg
2-3tbsp water
shallots
1tbsp toasted sesami seeds (optional
marinade -
1 clove garlic finely chopped
2.5cm/1in peice fresh root ginger peeled and grated
1tbsp sesami oil
1tbsp runny honey
2tbsp dark soy sauce
Mix together marinade in shallow dish add quorn/meat/tofu marinade for 1hr in fridge, turn occasionally to really cover well. Cook noodles as per manufacturers instructions. Heat some oil in wok/frying pan add shallot, quorn or meat from marinade (retain liquid) and veg if doing crunchy veg. when cooked stir in rest of marinade noodles (tofu if using) and stir fry until heated through. serve and sprinkle with sesame seeds if wanted. ENJOY !!!
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Today:
Breakfast: Toast and Jelly with Milk (and some of mommy's cereal)
Snack: cheerios and juice on the way to church
Lunch: strawberries and a jar of turkey dinner (turkey, rice and sweet potatoes pureed)
Snack: vanilla yogurt
Dinner: We were at Whole Foods so she ate a few crackers and 2 or 3 animal crackers. ::) Then we swung into Jamba Juice and got smoothies that she helped us eat/drink. When we got home I gave her a brocolli veggie bite which she ate all of with some water.
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Thanks New Mum!
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Ok ladies my turn to ask for a recipe or two. What can I do with an advocado?? I want to get some more good fat into Lily, she's by no means skinny but she has a largely vegetarian diet as I'm veggie. She has eggs at least twice a week & fish at least once plus quorn most other days but I'm concerned its all a bit too low fat. I also want a sweet & sour recipe (preferably one that doesn't use pineapple)
thanks :)
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I make homemade guacamole and make a sandwich with it to give to her
2 ripe avocados
1 small onion
1 clove of garlic
1 1/2 tbsp lime juice (or juice of 1 fresh lime)
salt and pepper to taste
Peel avocado and remove pit
peel and mince the onion and garlic
chop the tomato
mash the avocado in a bowl and then stir in remaining ingredients
Today:
eggs and some granola/raisin/cinnamon puree
Snack Yogurt
1/2 organic cheese stick, 1 bite of chicken, 10 pieces of corn, 3/4th a fruit strip (100% cherry)
Snack 2oz of carrot puree, 1/2 biter biscuit
1/4 of a veggie burger, 2oz of carrot puree, 1/2 vanilla organic waffle
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my son just loves avocado plain, cut up, eats it as finger food!
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thanks ladies. I did try her on just plain avocado she ate one little bit but wasn't too keen. I think I might try some shop bought guacomole to see if she like it. If she does I'll try making my own. Does it keep, cos I dont like it myself so otherwise there will be a lot of waste.
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Grace's Mom, can I please come over and eat with you!? Yummmmm!!!! ;D
Aisling x
ps. I'll have to bring Nello of course as well. ;)
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New mum, have you tried to mash avocado and banana? My dd likes it this way very much.
I found some recipes on the wholesomebabyfood site. Here they are:
Avocado & Cream Cheese Delight
Mash avocado, blend with Cream Cheese until a semi-smooth mixture is formed,
Add wheat germ or crushed cheerios and shape into little balls or spread on toast or crackers or blend with cereals
Avocado Fruit Salad
3 or 4 ripe avocados
3 or 4 ripe bananas
3 or 4 tangerines or mandarin oranges
3 or 4 Pears
Nayonaise (soy-vegan) or Regular Mayonaise, a couple of dollops (or Yogurt*)
Pepper to taste if desired
Directions:
Peel and slice fruit and avocados and place in a mixing bowl. Add a couple of dollops of Nayonaise and stir mixture together Top with a little pepper for flavor. Chill and serve. *Use as a Baby Finger Foods snack for older infants and toddlers using Plain or French Vanilla Yogurt
Classic Guacamole
2 California avocados, seeded and peeled
1 Tbsp lemon juice
½ clove garlic, crushed
½ tomato, finely chopped
1/8 Cups finely chopped onion
1/8 tsp ground cumin
1 ½ drops hot pepper sauce
Tortilla chips
Instructions:
Using a fork, coarsely mash avocado with lemon juice and garlic.
Stir in remaining ingredients to blend.
Garnish as desired and serve with tortilla chips.
Avocado Salad Dressing
( www.healthrecipes.com)
1/4 seedless cucumber, finely diced
1 tomato, finely diced
1 tbsp. Spanish onion, finely chopped
1/4 tsp. onion powder
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. low-salt chicken base powder
1 tsp. fruit sugar or honey
1 tbsp. lemon juice Braggs Seasoning, or sea salt to taste
1/4 tsp. Vegit (optional)
1 tbsp. good health mayonnaise
1 ripe avocado, mashed
Mash the avocado with onion powder, garlic powder, fruit sugar, Bragg's, Vegit, and mayonnaise. Add a little water to thin the avocado mixture. Stir in the diced cucumber, tomato and onion. Pour the dressing over romaine lettuce. Serve immediately.
Hope it helps.
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Sure thing Aisling ;)
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Thanks Ramona2006, I will definetly try avocado & cream cheese and with banana too, I'm always on lookout for healthy sandwich fillings there just dont seem to be that many, well not that Lily can get her mouth round yet ;D
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okay...the thought of avo, cream cheese and banana in the same bite just makes me want to ralph! gag...that sounds terrible to me...the things we feed our children in the name of healthy...lol ;)
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Luke won't even look at cream cheese. I've tried him a couple of times and he is so determined to keep his mouth clamped tight - no way is any of THAT gonna pass his lips!!! ;D
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Grace loves cream cheese. ;D We put it on her waffles and on bread for a sandwich. I want to try mixing it with avocado next as she won't eat avocado plain.
Yesterday
Egg and pears (not mixed together ;))
banana Yogurt
ham and cheese, 1 bite of broccoli, a few cheerios
sweet potatoes (4oz jar)
1 chicken nugget, 4oz of peas
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LOL... I wasn't going to put avocado, cream cheese & banana in same sandwhich ;D one of each, avo & crm chse & avo & banana. The idea of all 3 makes me gag too. Lily loves cream cheese on toast, as sandwhich with cucumber as a dip. She just loves cheese, gets it from her dad I'm sure hes part mouse ;)
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Oops...silly me.... :-[ ;D
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Lily has just got better from a bout of diarrhea and sickness and boy can I tell she is feeling better. Today she ate
BF
breakfast - 1 slice eggy bread
snack - 1 packet of vegetable biscuits while out shopping
lunch - 1 humous & cucumber sandwhich, 7/8 grapes & 2 strawberries
snack - (and this was before next nap, so 3rd feed this A time!) 1 small banana
BF
dinner - 1 bowl quorn, onion, carrat, baby corn & rice stir fry, 1/2 muller fruit corner yogurt, 3 strawberries
BF.
Her nappy was tight tonight ;)
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Zach is almost 2 and not eating much these days at all:
Wake: 8 oz breakfast
Breakfast: (on the run) 1 McDonalds hashbrown
Snack: Gummy fruit snacks
Lunch: Refused, Drank some milk
Snack: piece of bread with peanut butter
Had a milkshake while we were out
Dinner: Refused
Before bed: Cheese and some milk
I think he is cutting his 2 year molars though.
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Yesterday....
4oz of banana puree and a few small bites of a waffle with milk
blueberry yogurt
1/2 of a 1/2 of a avocado and cream cheese sandwich (she loved it ;)), 1/2 a pear
freeze dried fruit (banana/strawberry), 2 waggon wheel
1 egg/pepper/onion veggie bite, mozzarella cheese, butternut squash, some cheerios/raisins (not sure exactly how much she ate of each as she was with our babysitter)
No more bottles or formula (we were only giving her 2oz worth of formula and she wasn't drinking it so it was time to go) ;D She eats dinner at 5:00pm and doesn't eat breakfast until around 6:45 or 7pm....so she's good to go for 14 hours at night
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1/2 of a 1/2 of a avocado and cream cheese sandwich (she loved it ;)), 1/2 a pear
;D ;D LOL
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;D ;D Yes, you are right (but...it does sound cooler ::))....my gosh, I get done with school, get married and have a kid and wham my intelligence level gets sucked dry ;) ;D
Banana and avocado sounds good (well, I wouldn't eat it but for Grace that is). I'll try that on Saturday. Thanks. I think for Grace the bread kind of takes away the taste of the avocado so for her it helps.
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Cool, cool, Lily likes guacamole. First we tried making a sandwich of it, as you said Graces Mom the bread does take away the taste a bit, which she scoffed all up. Then we had it spread on toast a bit thicker and that went down same way as sandwich. So looks like I will start making my own guacamole as this was shop bought and has all sorts of nasty's in it I dont yet want DD digestion to have to deal with ;)
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Hi! I love this thread! I am always looking for ideas...
Asher ate:
breakfast - milk w/ a little Ovaltine (a treat for him) and pancakes with sugar free syrup.
Lunch - water to drink, slices turkey lunch meat, cubed cheese, veggie crackers, banana slices, and apple slices
Snack - a type of trail mix I created. It includes: every kind of cheerios they make (honey nut, multi grain, yogurt...) and dried fruit like raisins, cranberries, strawberries... plus the yogurt covered raisins and cranraisins. Asher loves this snack, I take it every where!
Dinner - Grilled cheese sandwich (some people think it is weird but I put mayo on mine), meatballs that simmered in BBQ sauce, and strawberries.
Hmmm.... looks like tomorrow I will be offering more veggies :)
Annette
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We are in the middle of a double ear infection here. So Emily has not had much to eat or drink the last two days.
Asher's Mommy- love the idea about the trail mix!!!
Grace's Mom- When were you giving her the bottle with formula? Just wondering. Also, LOL about you not eating avocado, but it is great for Grace. I find myself the same way about certain things. I don't want Emily to be as picky as I am.
Will post a real day as soon as Emily starts eating more than cheerios and applesauce.
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mommy to one
she was drinking her one bottle at about 6pm at night.....4oz of water and one scoop of formula. We were doing this only because she wasn't drink but a few oz of milk during the day and/or food at one point so we used it to kind of fill in the gaps. She stopped drinking it so we said All Done. No more bottles. I've already thrown away the nipples and have the bottels up for sale on Craigslist ;)
-I'll eat guacamole but that's it ;D
-Poor Emily :-* :-* :-* Hope she feels better soon.
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Thanks a bunch!!! Emily is feeling somewhat better. She is still pulling on her ears often though. Emily drinks about 6 oz of cow's milk from a sippy before bed. And 12 more oz. throughout the rest of the day. Is this supposed to stop at any certian age? It is not really a prop IMO. She drinks first then stories and off to bed. There are many nights that I still get a glass of milk before bed. Just wondering.
Any moms out there have any good cookbooks for toddlers. Maybe ways to sneak more fruits and veggies in?
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Yesterday DD ate:
8ozs milk
Breakfast: 2 weetbix mixed with puree fruit and milk and a slice of toast with cream cheese
2 toddler museli bars
Lunch: a small roll with jam and a tub of yoghurt
2 tick tock biscuits
Dinner: Bowl of Spag Bowl and a tob of chocolate mousse.
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No apetite in this house...well, maybe some, but her feed need to be working to motor her mouth LOL, so she tends towards grazing. This morning she was too busy to graze. So, all she has had today is...
8oz toddler formula (well this is how much we offered her, I think she drank most of it from memory)
Bfast: probably about 12-15 bites of scrambled egg (some of which she speared with a fork all by herself and managed to get it in her mouth also!), and a sippy of OJ
No snack (too busy ::))
Lunch - decent amount of yoghurt (she was busy smearing some on the table, so kept opening her mouth), 3 segments of a mandarin
Snack - 1 cheese stick and handful of sultanas, and 2 segments of mandarin and 1/2 an arrowroot
Dinner some vegies- dont' know how much exactly, but included mashed potato, peas, corn, carrot, pumpkin, cauliflower, a very reasonable amount of silverside (cooked in the slow cooker) of meat. One of our most successful dinners EVER!
She had heavily diluted apple juice, plenty of, today.
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Rinajack - I've heard of arrowroot, I thought it was a herb ??? what is it?
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It is a type of biscuit, relatively plain, and turns to mush easily when they "chew" it.
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Oh, does it have arrowroot in it, I could of sworn its some sort of herb. I have very vague memories of it being on my mums spice rack as a child.
Does anyone know? it really doesn't matter one way or the other but this is just one of those stupid things your brain grabs onto and wont let go till it knows the answer ::)
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I dont' believe it has the herb in it, but you are right, it is also a herb/root/spice type thingy.
Here is a link to the biscuit ;)
http://www.arnotts.com.au/products/MilkArrowroot.aspx
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Thanks Stacy I think your right, that sounds familiar. Good, I can let that one go now :D
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Dinner tonight was a big and healthy success!!!!
I baked a spaghetti squash (cut in half, lay flat on cookie sheet, fill cookie sheet with water, bake 350 for 45 min)
Once baked, the pulp of the squash comes out like spaghetti!
I served it with spaghetti sauce and he LOVED it!
I ate it too and thought it was really good. It had a different texture than noodles but it tasted fine. It is a lot healthier too if you are watching your carbs and/or increasing your veggies.
I would rate this VERY EASY and inexpensive. It takes a little planning since it takes 45 min for the squash to bake. You can also cook it in the microwave fro less time but I have never done that. Maybe I will try that next time.
Annette
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Riley adores squash, but I have never tried this. Thanks for the tip!
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Can I join the group?? "What did your toddler eat today?" Mac and cheese, mac and cheese, and mac and cheese! ::) Really, I've got to work on being more creative...any good places to point me to good recipes?
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I have the "Just TWo More Bites" but haven't finished reading it yet, just got mostly into the "dos" and "don'ts" and got the message clear from everywhere to NOT worry...she just doesn't want to try anything new, so I have to give it to her every meal for 3 days or more before she'll try it which gets hard. She also absolutely refuses meat, which I didn't like while preggo so go figure. :) So protein is our biggest challenge and she's allergic to eggs and hasn't been too keen on beans yet. She loves fruit, too, so I know I shouldn't complain too much. :)
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Asher's mommy,
thats so funny, we had spaghetti squash last nights at aswell. we love it. Noah, not so much. it ended up on the floor. will have to try it spaghetti sauce, what a good idea!
Stacy, I can't believe you are knocking the arrowroot cookies. I love them
one thing Noah loves is EDAM beans. I buy them from Costco frozen and microwave in package. they come in a shell and I can barely shell them quick enough! don't know if they are considered a veggie or a protein, maybe kind of like soy beans?
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Stacy - your avatar made me laugh, DS will choose strawberries over chocolate cake any day, too, lol!
love arrowroots and so does DS!
Will have to try the spaghetti squash - I love squash but never think to make it (DH will be thrilled, not!)
I don't make too many "toddler recipes" either, DS usually just eats what we have. I am lucky, though, because he isn't very picky at all. He does dislike rice and potatoes, too so he also has bread with most of his meals.
Today:
7oz of milk (confession, we still have 2 bottles, he still WILL NOT take milk any other way)
Breakfast - 1 ww waffle with sugar free jam, half a yogurt, pineapple chunks
Snack - cheerios
Lunch - white cheddar cheese macaroni with ground turkey, red/green peppers, onions and mushrooms, a few slices of mango
Snack - grapes
Dinner - more of the mac and cheese, a few oz of chicken breast, green beans, strawberries
7oz milk before bedtime
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Deb - GOOD IDEA! I know exactly what you are talking about with the beans (I just saw them at Costco, LOL!) and they DO have a ton of protein! HUGS, Deb! ;D I forgot too somebody mentioned somewhere the Barilla pasta is fortified with protein...will have to see if she goes for those. She doesn't like spaghetti sauce (Yet...she can't be a child of mine and not like spaghetti! ;D).
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nursekat - I've mentioned it on here before, so forgive me ladies if you've heard this before. Have you tried Quorn which is a mushroom protein meat substitute. I'm veggie so couldn't wait to try it on Lily especially as she doesn't seem to like meat. She really likes it, we mainly use the chicken style pieces and sausages but it comes in all sorts of shapes & forms.
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We don't make toddler recipes either. ;D
For some good protein we give Grace veggie bites from Morning Start Farms. I eat them too as they are super yummy. Here is a link.
http://www.seeveggiesdifferently.com/
Yesterday
Oatmeal mixed with applesauce and cinnamon
2oz of yogurt
1/4 PB&J, raisins, carrot waggon wheel
4oz of carrot puree
4oz turkey/rice/sweet potato puree, 2oz of yogurt, a few pieces of freeze dried corn, strawberry fruit stick
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haven't posted here for ages!
Yesterday Luke had...
7oz milk
bowl of cheerios and milk, bowl of mixed fruit ( grapes, apricots, raisins, dried pineapple/mango/papaya)
cheese and ham toastie, blackcurrent jelly, 1/2 banana
5oz cup of milk, raisins
spaghetti bolognese, yoghurt, 1 clementine orange, 3 mouthfuls of raspberry cheesecake
70z milk
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Never heard of those beans. I will have ot keep an eye out for them but I don't have a Costco membership.
The spaghetti squash was really like pasta except the texture was a little crisp. So, I liked it with the spaghetti sauce too. They also recommended it with butter and garlic, or Alfredo sauce. I guess any sauce you would put on pasta you could put on spaghetti squash.
Asher's new morning fav has been Eggo mini wafels!
Annette
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So what exactly is Quorn and is it available in the US?
Ok Deb I got the edamame today, as usual per Cotco standards it's huge so hopefully she likes it (if not, I do! Just never cooked it for myself)...how do you usually prepare it? Do you give it to him frozen or do you heat them up? And you shell them for him you said?
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Kathleen, the edam beans----I buy them in a box of about 8 packages, they are frozen. I just cut a slit in the plastic and microwave on high for about 5min. then shell them, as the pod itself is not edible.
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Yesterday
Eggs and Cheese, 4oz cherry/apple puree
blueberry yogurt
1/2 Avocado and creamcheese sandwich, 1/2 organic nutrigrain type bar, 4 mandarin pieces
Lil' Crunches and a biter biscuit
1/2 grilled cheese sandwich, 4oz pureed butternut squash
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We had a good day yesterday - I tried one of my favorite dishes and she liked it - cumin black beans and rice - YUM! MESSY! ;D
Breakfast: 1 waffle, some strawberries, 3 bites yogurt (she actually took something from a spoon!)
Snack: Gerber puffs
Lunch: A few good bites of the rice and beans mash, 1/2 stick of string cheese, 1/4 banana and since she ate from the spoon I was daring and tried some jarred pureed fruit (I have a TON of baby food left over since her spoon strike, LOL!) and she ate half! :)
Snack: Milk
Dinner: Dad was in charge so he broke down and she got mac and cheese. ;D Plus some more strawberries.
For a picky eater, not bad if I do say so myself! ;D
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You can get Quorn in the US but its not in general type shops, I'm sure one of the ladies on here knows where you can get it, someone did last time I mentioned it. So what it is sounds pretty gross, its a fermented micro protein, I think thats right ;) Its mushroom in origin but completely man made. Its very low in fat so good for us grown ups but high in protein good for us all. Apart from ready meals you can get sausages, pate, sandwich slices, chicken style pieces & fillets, roast, mince meat, nuggets the list goes on. It is really yummy and doesn't have a strong taste, tending to take on the flavours of what its in and it breaks down easily so is easy for LO's without any molars to eat. Lily loves it. I keep offering her some chicken, today I offered ham and she just doesn't like it at all. Oddly enough though she does like sausages of all things ::) If your interested Quorn have a website. Having just looked it looks like Quorn are expanding to US this is the website
http://www.quorn.us/
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So yesterday she ate:
1 sippy toddler formula (about 200ml)
less than 1/2 piece of toast with peanutbutter and 1 grape
yoghurt - prob about 100ml
banana choc chip mini muffin (home made) - prob 2-3 of these
handful of frozen peas, maybe two mouthfuls of mashed up chicken/veg spag bol
about 70 ml of toddler formula
So, really she breathed yesterday, and ate virtually nothing ::).
Again ::) ;) ;D
Today is not going better, she has been on her morning sippy of formula for an hour now, and is not even half finished.
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Luke was like a dustbin yesterday... ;D
8oz milk, bowl of cheerios and cows milk
Had to drop him to nursery early so he had breakfast there as well!
cup of whole milk, 1 slice toast with jam, 1 whole peach yoghurt
banana for snack
all of chicken and potato pie, peas, carrots and beans, fruit and custard
egg sandwiches and dried fruit
then when we brought him back home he had
cheese toastie, 1/2 banana, 1/2 tub yoghurt
60z bedtime bottle
not looking forward to his nappies today! :-\ :-X
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Yesterday, ds had:
Breakfast: 1/2 bowl Weetabix mixed with ground flax seeds ( :-X, but he seems to like it) 2 small (bought) lemon & raisin pancakes
Lunch: went out for lunch, so had a vegetarian sausage and baked beans. Refused chips and asked for bread & butter (that's my boy :D)
Dinner: homemade tomato and basil risotto. Decided the spoon wasn't fast enough, so shovelled it in by the handful :D. Refused a fruit pot.
Rice milk throughout the day
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Asher ate 2 full slices of bread as french toast this morning. He may not eat so much for lunch...
Tonight is tortellinis! Yummmm!
Annette
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Today Lily ate
BF
cheerios in milk & few grapes
few raisins
1/2 humous & cucumber sandwich, strawberries & 1/3 packet of cheese & tom puffs
BF
1/2 banana
1 bowl of Chinese noodles with quorn & veg, 3/4 Tesco Finest Strawberry & cream yogurt 1/3 packet of cheese & tom puffs
BF
she drank juice with every meal and also had some water along the way too.
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Alex must be having a growth spurt as she has been a dustbin all day:
Breakfast Tesco equivalent cheerios (due to Nestle Ban) 2 bowls!
Banana
Cheese String
Mid morning at playgroup
plate of fruit (apple,banana,grapes, mandarin) and toast
Lunch Spaghetti Bolognaise
Petis filous Yogurt
Banana
Tea Hot Dog (nice and healthy :-[) with extra onions!
Supper tesco equivalent cheerios
Also she had drinks all day long and milk after lunch and at bedtime.
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Stacy, Noah has just recently "discovered" rice. We cook Jasmine rice which somehow ends up a bit sticky. He also justs loves trying to eat it with a spoon. Have you tried that?
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Wanna try our beans and rice dish? I make it with refried beans instead of the whole beans so it makes a big sticky mash that she can eat easily herself...
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Another bad eating day yesterday
Breakfast: sippy of formula, 2 spoons weetbix and a couple sultanas
Morning tea: rice crispie bread thingy with vegemite - perhaps 1/3,a couple slices banana, and a reasonably good amount of sultanas
Lunch: 1/3-1/2 of a party pie (mince meat)
Afternoon tea - heinz toddler muesli bar
Dinner: a couple of frozen peas, a couple of decent size pieces of cheese, and a little bit of raw capsicum (red pepper I think)
Sippy of formula
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That's a bad day? That's a GREAT day at our house, LOL! ;)
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Yeah, when I was typing that I thought - oh, so the quantities aren't as bad as they often are....but I wouldn't go calling it a healthy and balanced diet :-[ because she is simply refusing anything that she can't eat on the run ;)
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Kathleen, what is your bean and rice dish? I would be interested in that recipe...
Thanks!
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Stacy - Asher LOVES beans and rice from the Mexican food restaurants ( I don't make it myself - I live in Texas, I can drive a block for great Mexican food LOL!) Tonight we ended up having Mexican and Asher preferred the Spanish rice by itself. That was a first!
Also, have you tried couscous? Asher likes that too.
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Great Idea!
today Hayden ate..
b'fst: 2 X eggs and some ham, with ketchup, and 4 oz milk
lunch: (refused) and Oma gave him fruit and a cookie at 3pm
snack: graham cracker, grapes, jalapeno cheesies (just a few...loves them)
supper: pad thai, (chicken, noodles, zuchini and beans) TONNES of his fave veg Broccoli.
and for desert he ate some apple crisp with vanilla icecream!!
Bed: 5 oz milk
He is pretty happy to eat, not picky at all. last few days, he has been 'skipping' lunch. hmmm?
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I love this thread, great ideas. Asher's Mommy, thank you for the spaghetti-squash tip! Baked it yesterday for dinner and served it with Alfredo sauce, everybody liked it, dd included.
So, yesterday Maya had:
-some milk when she woke up
breakfast - 1/2 taost with peanut butter and honey, mango lassi
snack - rice crackers and fruit
lunch - minestrone soup, egg salad sandwich
snack - fruit
dinner - spagetti squash with Alfredo sauce
bed time snack - yoghurt
Today
some milk when she woke up
breakfast - yogurt with fruit and cereal
snack - rice crackers
lunch - pumpkin soup with pasta, veggie burger (lentils, quinoa, pine nuts, bought, not home made)
snack - fruit
dinner - don't know yet...some cheese with something
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Wanna try our beans and rice dish? I make it with refried beans instead of the whole beans so it makes a big sticky mash that she can eat easily herself...
How do you make your beans and rice dish for your lO?
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Another bad eating day yesterday
Don't worry, my LO is a little eater as well. Today so far:
1. 6 oz jar of granola with cinnemon and raisin
2. little less than 1 scrambled egg
3. a SMALL bannana
4. couple bites of cheese
She does pretty good in the morning. I concider that pretty good for her.
For lunch lately it's been 4 oz cup of yogurt and maybe if lucky something else like a snack or the other day she ate some left over chicken from a roast I made. I try new things, but she hardly ever wants to try.
Supper lately has been Near to NOTHING. Definetely not having a good supper week. Perhaps tonight will be different "LOL". She's either throwing it all on the floor or picking VERY little.
She drinks 2 "4 oz sippys" during the morning/day and one "5 oz sippy" after dinner. than before bed it's anywhere from 7-12 oz. Sometimes that's split between 2 sessions.
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Oh I want in on this thread. LOVE yall's ideas!! :)
Stacy, tell me more about this raisen toast... is it raisen bread you buy or make (please say buy) and if bought, what brand? That sounds like a great way to throw some variety in our AM's. :-\
One thing if you're looking for starches, have you tried scalloped potatoes? I think the ones I bought were Betty Crocker, and they tasted cheesy although they didn't mention cheese in the name like some do... anyway, my LO who doesn't usually like the consistency of mashed potatoes LOVED these. Something to try! :)
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Luke's had another pretty good day...
8oz milk - bottle
bowl of cheerios and cow's milk, 2 yoghurts
snack of raisins and dried fruit (pineapple, papaya and mango)
1/2 cream cheese sandwich, fruit bun with butter and jam, chopped grapes
snack of one banana and dried apricots, cow's milk in cup
one fishcake and baked beans, one pot of jelly
8oz milk - bottle
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UNC Momma we buy Safeway's Raisin Bread only because DH and I love it too. :)
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Hi - Can I join?? I am seriously running out of ideas!!
Yesterday Isabella had:
8oz milk on waking
Small bowl of cheerios and a FF, followed my a biscuit (Cow and Gate fingers)
Snack - Banana and fruit flakes
Lunch - Organic crisps, cheese string, couple of bits of bread, few bites of omlette (she never has liked it, but I keep trying!). then a pancake with strawberries, apple and pear. (Most of lunch went on the floor, so really just crisps, pancake and fruit!) Then she helped me with my sandwich.
Snack - 3oz milk, raisins and 1/2 a fruit cereal bar.
Dinner - Chicken nuggets, new potatos and mixed veg, followed by more strawberries - she can't get enough of them!
6oz milk before bed.
Today Isabella had:
8oz milk on waking
B/Fast - Waffle (1st time) with yoghurt and most of a banana
Snack - Some fruit flakes and a bit of my go ahead bar.
Lunch - 2 x chicken nuggests, few bites of new potato and some mixed veg, then rice pudding and some cheese (from DHs sandwhich)
Snack - Bite of Cheese String and sip of milk then refused before going to "Snack cupboard" and whining for raisins - which she got!
Dinner - Rice & Chicken in a tomato based sauce (annabelle karmel), apple and pear puree and a biscuit.
4-5oz milk at bedtime.
That isn't as much as she has been eating of late. She ate hardly anything for a couple of weeks a while back and has been making up for it ever since - eating out of house and home!!
I truely am running out of ideas, she doesn't like to have the same thing too often and I worry about giving her too much junk and her snacking. She cries if I don't let her go to the snack cupboard. Often we have to go out to avoid snacking!
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Well to finish off the day I started earlier. For lunch, a cracker and not even 4 of yogurt. I did buy these new yogurts that have these fruit pieces in them and I don't think she likes it that much as she was trying to get the fruit piece out of her mouth from the yogurt.
For supper: I made some very small potatoe pancakes sneaking in some veggies "shredded carrots". I got the idea from this site using instant mashed, shredded cheese, grated carrrots and an egg all mixed together. The last time I tried it...months ago now....she didn't want it. She actually ate some of it. I was so happy "lol". She had a couple noodles. Just a few.
I just know she could eat more, but I'm happy when she eats something. She had her 5 oz sippy after supper. She was starting to throw stuff on the floor so I gave up on the food. But an hour later for some reason she was CRYING for more milk. Something she hasn't done in awhile. Actually CRY for it. So an hour later I gave her 4 oz of milk. She'll have more before bed tooo.
Between 6:30am and 5:30/6:00pm she has total of 13 oz of milk. Between 6:30 and 8pm she has another 8-12 of milk. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Legend - Wow, at least when your lo isn't eating, the milk is going in ;)
Yesterday for us:
Sippy of formula - 8oz (but didn't finish it all)
Breakfast - some toast with PB- 1/2 piece at most
Snack - some choc chips (we were baking, it kept her quiet LOL)
Lunch - Potato and bacon frittata - ate maybe 2/3 (of a mini size one)
Snack - a mini banana and choc chip muffin
Dinner - cheese stick, and a really decent (for her) size meal of steamed veg - broccoli, cauli, green beans, peas, corn, carrot, brussel sprout, squash; and slow cooked silverside with white sauce. When she had enough, she signed "all finished" without being asked, so we responded immediately! of course!
Sippy of formula - 8oz offered, drank maybe 2 oz.
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Raisen bread is on my grocery list for tomorrow, thanks! :)
Today for us...
Breakfast--1/2 english muffin with cream cheese, 1/4 apple cut up
Snack--4 oz milk, 3 whole wheat Ritz crackers
Lunch-- Mac & cheese, strawberries, some of a carrot stick, and 1 piece of watermelon
Snack--4 oz milk
Supper--leftover baked spaghetti, more strawberries, some cucumber cut up
4 more oz milk at bedtime
My kid would eat veggies (all kinds) and fruit til the cows come home, but she is quite the pooper. :-\ She poos 3 times a day WITHOUT the high fiber foods, so throwing in a kiwi or a bunch of veggies makes for 4-5 poos a day, which drives me bonkers and makes her butt red so I have to avoid them in large quantities if not at all. My oldest daughter is opposite, I sneak all the fiber I can into her diet to avoid constipation drama. ;)
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Hey rinajack: Is your name Rina? I just wanted to make sure.
Do you have the recipe for the banana/Choc Chip Muffins? I think Zach would like those.
I have such a picky and small eater it is not funny. Here is what he had today:
Wake: 8 oz. milk
Breakfast: 1 little piece of french toast, he played with the rest. couple pieces of fruit
Snack: 2 oreo cookies, Juice
Lunch: 1/2 piece pizza,, 4 oz. milk
Wake: 4 oz. milk
Dinner: 1 bite of corn dog, 1 1/2 pieces of sliced cheese
Snack: Milkshake
Milk before bed
He does not eat much meat (corn dogs, hotdogs, deli ham sometimes), and will not eat vegetables (only green beans) or noodles.
I have no clue what to feed him
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Yep, my name is Rina! :D
Banana and choc chip muffins - totally yummy for all ages (DH and I love them too ;D)
1 cup SR Flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
2 oz butter
1/4 cup milk
1 Cup mashed banana - the riper the better (nearly going off is great)
1/4 teaspoon bi carb soda
1 packet choc bits
Put in bowl together flour, melted butter, mashed banada, egg, milk, sugar and bi carb soda. Mix well. When putting into (greased) muffin tins, put some mixture then some choc chips, then some mixture, then some choc chips etc. (if you add the choc chips to the mixture then pour, they tend to sink all to the bottom, making removal from muffin tin very difficult).
Cook in 160C oven for 25-30 mins or until browned (and cooked through like cake should be - so when you poke a skewer in it comes out clean).
Enjoy! :-*
Oh, and serving veggies with cheese sauce, or mixed into a beef/vegie spaghetti bolonaise or lasagne is a good way to get some veggies into kids. Also quiche/frittata type stuff is working well here, you can add vegies into those things.
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Ok Kathleen,
there are a few of us waiting for you rice and bean dish! where are you?, I'm thinking you are spending far too much time on the 2-1 chat!
soon I'll be asking you on that thread, and we'll be talking naps, A times and rice! :D
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Oh did I miss the request for that?? It's super easy:
1 T vegetable oil
1 t minced garlic
1 t cumin seeds (or 1/4 t ground)
1 cup long grain white rice
1 13oz or 14oz can concentrated chicken broth plus water to make 3 cups
1/2 t salt (this may be more or less depending on how much is in the beans)
1/4 t ground pepper
1 15oz can black beans, rinsed and drained (**note I use refried black beans as it makes it all into more of a paste and easier for finger food but can go either way, we've done both with dd)
Heat oil in a pan and put garlic and cumin seeds, cook for ~30secs. Stir in rice, chicken broth and water, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Stir in beans. Cook about 2 minutes more.
For us adults it makes a great side dish or I will sautee up some peppers and onions and put the mash on a tortilla with the veggies and some cheese or sour cream - YUM
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thanks! that looks so good!
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Oh I forgot to also mention that it was one of the few meals I could eat in my first trimester when I felt lik ethrowing up constantly, LOL! Maybe that's why dd likes it. :)
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Rina: Thanks for the recipe, I am going to try making them this week.
Stacy: Oh he deft. has a taste for sugar foods. I called his doctor today and she said not to worry if he is not eating meat, but to deft. limit the snacks to 2 small snacks a day. It is going to be tough, but I will do it. He goes for his 2 year checkup next month. We might have to end up back at the feeding clinic?? He is growing though (23 mos old) 27 pounds and almost 3 foot tall.
Today he really did not eat good at all:
Breakfast: 1 hashbrown, Milk
Snack: 1 box of raisens, Water
Lunch: Refused 1/2 grilled cheese and fruit - did not eat, Drank about 3 oz. milk
Slept 3.5 hours for his nap (like usual)
Wake: 1 mini blueberry muffin, a little bit of juice
Dinner: Refused Dinner - Offered peas, eggs, mac and cheese. Oh wait he did eat 1 bite of eggs and 2 slices of cheese
Before Bed: I made a smoothie with Peaches, Pineapple, Banana, and Yogurt. He drank a lot of that.
Some days I am just clueless on what to feed him.
Does it sound like he has an eating problem or just really picky??
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Today Zach had:
Wake: 4oz. milk
Breakfast: bowl of cheerios with bananas, 1/2 of bagel with cream cheese
Snack/Lunch: Was eating a few blueberries and choked on one, that ruined his whole meal. Did eat the peanut butter off 2 crackers and 1/2 granola bar
Before Nap: 4 oz milk
Dinner: Woke at 4:30 and gave dinner: Ate 2 pieces (adult pieces) of pep and cheese pizza!
He will have milk before bed and maybe a smoothie (with carrots in it).
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That sounds like a lot to me!
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yesterday Catherine ate:
8ozs milk after waking
Breakfast: bowl of oats mixed with fruit and milk and a slice of toast with cream cheese
Snack: 2 baby museli bars
Lunch: Jam sandwich and a tub of yoghurt
Snack: 1 tic tock biscuit and saltanas
Dinner: 2 fish fingers and mash potatoes and peas and corn. Small bowl of chocolate selve sauce pudding
Water through out the day
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~ Funny Story ~
Weston asked for a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast...so I quickly made on up for him :)
And for the first time he started to 'eat' the bagel instead of lick the cream cheese off. (you can see evidence of his eating method here)
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Hinnrichs/CIMG9682.jpg)
anyhow, I come back into the room and the bagel is gone...I'm shocked...did he actually eat the whole thing (or feed it to the dog?)
I ask...did you eat the whole bagel?
he replies...Nope!
I ask...where is the bagel?
he replies...Hide it mom
I ask where did you hide it? In your tummy? (hoping since he was sitting in his chair, not too many places to hide it)
he replies...nope, laundry mom
I look and sure enough he had stuffed it in my folded laundry that was on the table...so as you can imagine I had a few items that had to be 're-washed' ;) LOL
But long story short...he had part of a bagel for breakfast. :)
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That's suce a cute story about Weston!!!
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That is so funny. Gosh, they do the funniest things at this age!
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How funny. He has beautiful eyes.
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What did my toddler eat today? For a 15 month old, twiddily.
1. 6oz jar of oatmeal with pears
2. 2nd meal of the day/snack time - nothing. Tried bannana pieces and raisin toast with cream cheese. She just made a mess.
3. 3rd meal of the day "Lunch". 4 oz containor of yogurt. Tried the rest of the potatoe/veggie pancakes and even gave her a cracker. Eat some of the cracker. I even out of desparation gave her a half of a hot dog roll. The other day she was munching on a hot dog roll pretty good. She took a bite, tore it into pieces and throw it on the ground. I can't just keep trying foods and letting her make a mess.
Will try supper probably around 4:30/5:00pm ish. I had been having some luck with supper time as long as I start it a little bit on the early side.
Oh and a 4oz milk sippy after meal #1 and a 40z milk sippy after meal #2.
Nothing has changed so not sure why she isn't eating. This could mean she could beg for milk before I get a chance to try food once again for supper. oh well. battle I fight all the time. Well I shouldn't say that. She's been doing a lot better and usually 2 out of 4 meals she does decent.
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I can no supper too. I'm too frustrated to try anymore and stopped her from pretty much throwing most of everything off her tray. I tried "spoon feeding" her one of her favorite soups. Took a few very small bites. DH and I are having chicken stew over rice from the crock pot. Well rice is cooking on the stove. I cut up some chicken and peas from the the crock pot. She is just playing with stuff. or taking a little bite of it or just taking a bite and than spitting it out. oh well. at least she isn't like this every day.
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That amount of food refusal and food throwing is standard daily warfare in our house ;).
Zara has had some formula this morning, and 3/4 of a weetbix with milk and honey. Not too bad.
We dont' fight her to get her to eat. We offer food, if she doesn't eat it, she doesn't eat. We rarely offer a back up food, unless we have offered a new food that we think she doesn't like. It does annoy me that she throws it on the floor, but we have been offering alternatives to the floor (such as an empty plate) and she is slowly starting to take this option. She is also finally starting to sign "all finished". Still, an awful
4oz of yoghurt at lunch and I would actually be HAPPY!
We find our snacks successful if we put them in a container (we hold it) and let her come and get a little bit, put that in her mouth, wander off, come and get another little bit etc. Fruit pieces are good for this, sultanas, or little snack biscuits. Mostly we do fruit though, a good healthy option.
Oh, and we are having more luck with meals now that we ditched the high chair, and we try to eat meals with her. (even if it means a snack to get her to the meal time). She prefers to eat as a family, and to eat what we eat, in teh way we eat it - so she has her own fork, and a normal chair (with a booster) and she generally eats straight off a placemat (since she can't be trusted not the throw the entire plate of food on the floor).
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Zach (23 mos) had:
Breakfast:1 piece Pizza :-0, 6 oz. milk That is what he wanted and out doctor told us to give him whatever he would eat best since that is his best meal.
Snack/Lunch: 4 Peanut butter crackers, juice
Milk 4oz.
Early Dinner: 1/2 hotdog, 4 oz. milk, 1 bowl of blueberries
Later: a few bites of pizza, goldfish crackers, juice
A little milk before bed.
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I find Weston eats better when we all eat as a family...but that typically only happens at night and now that he's skipping his naps, I put him to bed two hours earlier and he's been missing dinner with the family :(
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Ohhh, frustrating! I hadn't thought about that! Sometimes Zara needs to go to bed earlier than us, but we try to make it no more than a couple times a week - or, I eat with her, and DH eats later.
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When I sit and eat with him, SOMETIMES it makes a difference, but he typically eats more "for me" when I'm not there, but if we ALL are at the table as a family he'll eat...I think he prefers to eat with daddy??? Or in all reality, he just has my number and likes to pull my chain ;) Little stinker! :)
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I find the same, the whole family needs to be eating at the table to ensure zara the best chance of eating well. It isn't just my number, she does the same thing on the odd occasion it is just her and DH too!
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I'm curious to find out if when Chloe starts to eat (you know how they are typically such great eaters at first) well I'm curious to see if when Chloe starts finger foods and such, if Weston will want to follow in her footsteps because she'll be getting praise for her new accomplishments...
...I've noticed Weston asking for more bottles since Chloe's birth...funny thing is if I tell him I'll get him a juice cup instead of juice bottle or milk cup instead of milk bottle, 75% of the time he's ok with that?
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My LO woke up with a cold and a fever. Took her to the doctor due to her past and lo and behold ear infection. She actually hasnt had one in awhile, although she has quite the history of the them. funny thing is she was in a GREAT mood all morning. I guess that is why she didn't eat yesterday.
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Weston had tubes...that are no longer in there, but at 9 months we had to put tubes in...world of difference...and we might end up having to do it again in the fall? depends on his first cold. but for sure their eating is affected by it!
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Haven't posted in a while, but we are having veggie refusal again! He will only eat Canned (ugh) green beans. What is your take on vitamins? So many of the foods for kids is enriched....
BTW, I have him absolutely convinced that the individually wrapped prunes are "Candy". LOL. Crinkly wrapper gets them every time!
We've been freezing the tubes of yogurt and eating those as a cold treat - Just an idea for those with toddlers or those who are teething. You can cut them in half and even the organic companies make the yogurt in tubes now. When it's 117 out, he wants nothing but cold foods. String cheese, fruit, yogurt, cold green beans, juice, water.
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If the cold foods are a goer, why not try frozen peas?
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RinaJack - Can you eat frozen peas?
What do you guys do when your LOs don't want to eat in high chair, but will pick at food whilst playing? I don't want meal time to become a battle and it's not all the time, so am I ok to let her do this sometimes?
Ok. today:
4oz milk
Breakfast, 1/2 toast peanut Butter / 1/2 toast jam, Some of daddy's cornflakes and few bites of banana, 1 bite strawberry.
Snack - 2 x cow and gate biscuit fingers and a box of rasins
lunch - 2 organic ginger bread men (very small) , some of my cheese sarnie, 2 x cheesy biscuits, bite of sausage roll, bite of pizza, couple of bites of beef, some organix crisps, pineapple, kiwi, grapes and a fromage fais.
She has now gone down for nap 2.
Meal times aren't pleasant. She has started to throw foods if she doesn't want them (even food she previously loved e.g. strawberries!), she doesn't always want to sit in high chair and she wants to go everything for herself and ges really upset when she can't. Like this morning with the banana, she wants to open it and she can't do it. If I try to help she gets mad. Also, she wants to feed herself yogurt and such like, but actually just spoons it onto her tray and plays with it. Is that normal? Do I let her get on with it? It's not the mess I mind. It's the waste.
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Has anyone ever experienced this? When it comes to orange pieces, watermelon, cantaloup, apples and nectarines - MY LO has always just sort of sucked on each piece and than spits it out. Like she's sucking out some of the juice and that's all she's interested in. It's hard to tell what she is actually eating when she does this. She even sometimes crys for more. She'll put it in her mouth, do what I guess she thinks she's suppose to be doing with it and than she spits it out on her tray and begs for another piece. Her nana thinks she is actually eating some of it and just likes to suck out the juice and to her she is done with the piece of fruit. I've tried all different sizes. I don't really know what she is doing to tell you the truth. Does this make sense?
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Luke used to just suck on the fruit too when he was younger. Now though he just gobbles it all right up! ;D
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Thanks Stacy - what about the yogurt being spooned on to her tray (or in her hair) and wanting to do everything by herself? I know it is all part of her learning, but she gets so upset that she can't do it and hates me helping.
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I think I just have a stubborn little miss......I wonder who she takes after??!!
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we do frozen peas here to, actually I take them out for a few minutes before, so they have thawed a bit.
we also won't let Noah walk around with his food at meal times. the only problem I have is snacks, sometimes he eats these on the go or outside etc, and seems to walk around with them a bit more. All of the meals are at the table, but as soon as the meal is over--he wants out of the chair and won't play etc in it.
Isabella's mommy, have you thought about doing a thicker yogourt, maybe mingo, lots of sugar though, so maybe just once and a while while mastering the spoon
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Glad to hear you all are loving the frozen veggie/fruit suggestion I gave a few months back ;)
As for messy eaters...get a plastic booster seat and since it's summer, have them eat the messy meals outside in their diaper so you can hose them off afterwards. ;)
What is your take on vitamins? So many of the foods for kids is enriched
I give Weston vitamins...the enriched foods are enriched because they take out the natural vitamins during processing...and our bodies don't really absorb vitamins (enriched or suppliment forms) nearly as well as natural vitamins found in whole foods.
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Re wandering around eating:
Often happens in our house, but not for breakfast or dinner. For those, if she doesn't want to sit, she doesn't end up eating. For the rest of the day, she actually snacks alot - and most of it is while she is on the go - so when I write in our day that she had a snack, that snack could have taken like 45 mins lol. She eats much more that way. Often I will peel a mandarin, give her a segment, she will come back when she wants another segment....and ends up eating the whole thing. But if I sat her in the high chair, she would only eat 2 segments then want down.
We do the kiddie table too, but she climbs on the chair then off the chair, then on the chair ::)
Something that has helped us immensely with breakfast and dinner though is ditching the high chair, putting her in a booster seat, and getting a plastic placemat for her to eat off.
Re mess - we each have a spoon or fork for each meal. She does her thing with hers (which is often food painting LOL), and we feed her mouthfuls in between with ours (if she isn't making good progress LOL).
Re Vitamins - we dont' give any, I think Zara's diet is sufficient without them (she loves fruit and veg), plus she still has formula each day.
Finally, we also taught Zara the sign for All Finished. It is the only one she knows, and she has just started using it, and it is saving us a tonne of food throwing LOL. We respond IMMEDIATELY when she signs it by letting her down - as if there is any delay, she will be inspired to get our attention more promptly in other ways I guess (like more throwing).
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DS wont wander around, but gets up and down from high chairs when he wants to have a snack.I wont allow going around with food, as I just dont enjoy getting food out of carpet and he is pretty good, if he wants to eat , he goes to his high chair and pulls it to get in.
Eat times he is pretty good with eating at place, sure its still messy.
we have about 3 spoons or forks at mealtimes for him. 2 for him for each hand and 1 for one who feeds him.
No vitamins here neither. It used to D vitamin, but as it summer we are off.
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Thanks for all your comments. Which fruit and veg can I give frozen?
Also, re. oranges etc. how do you give them? A whole segment or do you only give the fleshy part? I can't get my teeth through the skin part, so not sure Isabella will be able to. I am very odd, I suck the middle out of each section of an orange and leave the skin! - Is it called skin?
Re. the high chair, we have both a chair and a booster. I usually try with the high chair when I'm on my own with her, as I like to be able to leave her in it at the end of the meal and move it so she can watch me clearing away (she is in a clingy phase at the moment). If she doesn't like it in there, I try the booster, or if we are all eating as a family she sits in the booster - she does seem to prefer it.
Rina - when you say a placemat, is it a special one? I'm sure Isabella would just pull it off the table. Her booster has a little tray which I use, but I know she would rather use the table like us.
I am going to work on having more structure to snacks, she does snack a lot, but her meals are quite big too. This started when she was poorly, she wouldn't eat so I would be trying to get food into her all day. Now she expects it, I intended to leave it and just fix it if her meals suffered, but now I look at it her meals are often extended because she gets down and the snacking starts. I need to be strong. No snacks 1.5hrs before or after meals. The hardest part of that will be ensuring I don't snack either!
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Just wondering what does your toddler think about ice cream?
Keir only lieks it in shake, or on spoon, does not like to lick it
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Isabella loves it!
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Placemat is just a plastic one - nothing special, but because she stabs her fork into it, I didn't want her to ruin our good placemats. She does pick it up, usually towards the end of the meal, but we just try not to have too much food on there at any one time - same as if she has a plate or even her high chair tray, because she would throw food away of those anyway.
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Which fruit and veg can I give frozen?
any and all as far as I am concerned. :)
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Just wondering what does your toddler think about ice cream?
Keir only lieks it in shake, or on spoon, does not like to lick it
it's a shot in the dark...some days he'll lick some off a spoon, other days won't have anything to do with it. ;)
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7:30am - 6 oz jar of granola level 3 baby food jar
10:30am - 1 scrambled egg, bites of an apple
2:30pm - 4 oz containor of yogurt, 1/2 of a popcycle
5:30pm - few bites of some potatoes. DH and I had crock pot beef loin with potatoes and carrots. She barely eat in my opinion. I tried giving her the beef cut up, potatoes and some cut up carrots.
I ended up giving her a bananna and she eat some of that.
6:30pm - baby cookie
Plus her milk sippys during the day ect.
That's about it for today. she is sick, but even when she isn't sick it doesn't get much better.
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Just wondering what does your toddler think about ice cream?
Keir only lieks it in shake, or on spoon, does not like to lick it
We avoid ice cream because of dd's egg allergy - not all ice cream has eggs but you just never know. :)
We have some great news - Bethany has decided spoon food is ok again!! So I can actually get meat in her now, woohoo! ;D
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but even when she isn't sick it doesn't get much better.
Let me make you feel better....
today here is what I offered...
Breaskfast ~ peanut butter toast, waffles, eggs, juice
Snack Options ~ juice & chex mix
Lunch ~ fruit, crackers, chicken nuggets, french fries, milk
Dinner ~ pasta with sauce, sausage, milk
here is what he ate (ALL DAY)...
B ~ a mini waffle & juice (diluted with water..mostly water)
S ~ one of HIS handfuls of chex mix & some of his juice (diluted with water..mostly water)
L ~ milk, half of one nugget
D ~ a few noodles & milk
so you see he's on a liquid diet, but even then it's not a TON of liquids...but it just seems I can't get him to eat and I'm not going to jump hoops...I offer food, he can take it or leave it...and he RARELY if ever complains of being hungry...and he's 35 pounds (95% for his age)
but it freaks me out how little he eats and how he does NOT like the foods that are options...he's not a big junk food eater either...so it's not like he prefers ice cream over carrots...
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but it freaks me out how little he eats and how he does NOT like the foods that are options...he's not a big junk food eater either...so it's not like he prefers ice cream over carrots...
This is Zara too - when she doesn't eat, it isn't cause she is hanging out waiting for me to give he rjunk food - she simply doesn't eat (I have even tried offering yummy stuff, she didn't eat that either :P and I didn't make a habit of it).
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YES, thank you! I feel better now! Bethany just has a few things in her repetoire (not junk) that she'll eat and that's it. Sometimes if I keep offering it she might try something new (I'm on a black bean campaign at the moment) but for the most part just ignores it and cries to be let down. Then she's cranky from not eating but she still won't even try to eat something new.
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FYI ~ at 1 year they do start to eat less...because they are so busy and have places to go/people to see...
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Looks like a lot of the lo's have slacked off with their eating. My lo will still not eat any meat or vegetables though. He is on a kick where he likes one thing and wants that all day. For the past 2/3 weeks it has been shredded cheese and pizza.
So far he has eaten:
8:30 Breakfast: 6 oz. milk, whole bowl of cheerios with cut of banana
10:30 Snack or other part of his breakfast: 1 large hashbrown, 1 juice box
He will probably have a small snack for lunch and then take his nap.
When he wakes up, He will have pizza and milk
Snack later that night
Milk before bed.
* I have to make sure I get him a pizza once a week, it will last us a few days.
He also knows how to "sign" all done. He has been doing that for a year now. As soon as he does it, I ask him are you sure you don't want one more bite and then he says No, so he gets down right away.
* Lately when he is hungry he will go to his booster chair and say "Eat Eat" or "Snack Snack"
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Weston saw Zachary's avatar picture and thought it was "weston" I told him no it's "zachary" and now he's walking around the room saying his name...lol ;)
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Weston saw Zachary's avatar picture and thought it was "weston" I told him no it's "zachary" and now he's walking around the room saying his name...lol ;)
LOL!
Wendy my dd is very similar, even though she's much younger. She signs all done all the time in her chair, so sometimes I ignore her. :( Bethany likes Mac&Cheese like Zachary likes his pizza! I try to at least get the organic, fortified-pasta and such so I don't feel so guilty, LOL! She's also very much into snacking on the go, so I try to get some healthy stuff in her that way. I'm sure it messes up her meals but she just can't be bothered, lol!
So yesterday she had:
breakfast - 1/2 waffle with cream cheese, grapes, water
snack - cheerios and water
lunch - mac & cheese, 1 chicken nugget, 1/2 of a pear
snack - 4oz milk
dinner - apple & chicken puree, grapes, cereal bar
bedtime - 5oz milk
not bad...it's just that it looks almost the same every day LOL
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Kathleen, try the Kidney beans - they are sweeter and in that slightly sweetened liquid. I rinse off the liquid, but these are Aidan's favorite.
Aidan used to also suck the juices out of meats, veg and fruits - especially when he was teething and I gave him frozen fruits in the mesh bag feeders (KWIM? The little ones with the handles?).
I tried the frozen peas for dinner - he wouldn't touch them, even when DH got him to try one, he spit it out. I also tried the steamed fresh spinach that DH and I were eating - no go on that one, too.
He was at day care today and they had omelette's with cheese for breakfast with milk and pineapple.
I forget the lunch offering, but the morning snack was fruit.
He had cheese crackers and juice for a snack.
Dinner was Ham - (which he loves because I make it in a Worcestershire, Dijon, and brown sugar sauce), spinach, frozen peas, baked potato. He ONLY ate the ham, tried one bite each of the potato, spinach and peas and spit them all out. We bargained (I know, I know) so he got to choose between applesauce (natural kind) or frozen yogurt (tube of go-gurt in the freezer) and of course, chose the yogurt. His molar that's coming in is really bugging him.
I guess I will start the vitamins - maybe every other day or something like that. He gets plenty of sun here in Arizona, eats plenty of dairy, protein, and fruits and grains, just not the veg. Only green beans and sometimes broccoli amd any veggies that I am able to hide in his foods. (like adding carrots to smoothies, etc.)
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That is so funny about Weston! How cute.
Well we will see if Zach eats anything else the rest of the day. He has out eaten me this morning/afternoon:
- Breakfast: 6 oz. milk, bowl of cheerios with Kashi cereal on top and banana's
- 1 hour later was asking for "cheese" opened the refgt. and he pointed to pizza and said "pizza". he ate 1/2 a piece pf cheese pizza
- 11:30 ate a bag of gummy fruit snacks and juice
- On the way home at 12:00. Ate a small order order of fries and milk
Now he is taking his nap.
I know he has to be stuffed!
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Hi there!
DD is almost 21 months old now. She has always been a really picky eater. Our normal routine is sippy of milk in the morning. Breakfast an hour or hour and a half later, lunch then a sippy before nap, dinner then a sippy before bed.
Lately she has been eating next to nothing for lunch but really looks forward to her milk. What would you all do about that? I am considering not giving her her milk until after her nap so she isn't depending on the milk to fill her up. I don't want to mess up nap time though b/c she is having to go to sleep on an empty stomach.
What do you all think?
TIA
Shelby :)
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My son is the same way. He has sippy in the morning, then breakfast, pretty much eats all morning long as you can see from previous post, then sippy for nap and stories and sippy before bed.
You could always just try decreasing the amount of milk you give her before her nap and then give her the rest when she wakes up. I would not want to mess up her naps either.
Maybe try a larger snack before you give her milk and then do milk before nap???
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We are a bit stuck in a rut, I don't very often eat meat & veg type dinners and always tend to go for sandwich or something similar for lunch. I'm running out of new dinner ideas that both Lily and I will like as I tend to do stir frys, pasta & sauce that sort of thing, I think I need to go by a good recipe book, see what I can find. It would be nice if she liked tomato I could do spag bol and lasange but so far its a no go. I think I will try a Shepard's pie tho, see how that goes down. Anyhow today Lily ate
BF
breakfast - rice crispes & milk and some of my muesli with yogurt & milk
snack - few organix cheese & tom puffs
lunch - cheese & cucumber sandwich, 1/2 pot rice pudding, 5 strawberries
snack - grapes & raisins
dinner - quorn/veg stir fry with rice and some of my cauliflower/broccoli pasta & cheese sauce (this was leftover from other day, previously when I've offered leftovers she wont touch it, today she was adamant that she wanted it ::) ) 1/2 strawberry & cream yogurt (tesco finest range, the girls got expensive taste, she's not very keen on kiddie yogurt's/fromage frais) some more strawberries & 3 toddler veggie biscuits and was still asking for more :o she didn't get anymore I was worried she would go pop, she looked like a proper pot bellied pig in the bath tonight ;) and I'm not looking forward to her nappy in the morning :P
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Yesterday:
200ml toddler formula
3/4 weetbix with milk and honey, and some orange juice
snacks....grazed all morning ::)- 1/2 a pear, dried fruit, and more orange juice, and some water
Lunch: potato and bacon frittata, and heavily diluted apple juice
Snacks: strawberry yoghurt, and some choc bits (I was baking ;)) more water
Dinner: chicken breast slow cooked with cream of celery soup, boiled rice and frozen peas, more water.
Not too bad at all!
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same ole same ole stuff. What gets me is i'll put new stuff on her tray and she'll just non chalantly drop them onto the floor. it's like she's saying ammm not sure what this is, but i'm not even willing to try it. Yesterday I tried these chicken and dumpling thing. it was store bought. Today, I tried rinsed kidney beans. Tried mushing it and she wouldn't even take that. Also, tried giving it to her whole. So today was.
6:30am - almost 6 oz jar of level 3 granola cereal jar
9:30am ish - 1 scrambled eggs, munched on some green grapes. She tends to suck what is inside the skin.
2:30pm ish - 4 oz containor of yo baby yogurt. A few small pretzil pieces later on
5:30 ish - Tried something new "kidney beans". Throw those on the floor. But ate the same ole same ole noodles I sometimes or most of the time "lol" give her. She also ate a decent amount of a bananana
7:00pm ish - DH and I ate late. I made a greek pasta and shrimp dinner. She ate some of the pasta "spagetti" with her hands while sitting at the table with us. We put some cut up mushrooms "portabello" from the meal in front of her and even a piece of shrimp. Didn't even want to try it.
She also had her sippy's of milk through out the day. Although it took awhile for her to take her last sippy. It's tiring for her because she has a cold and she has to breath and take breaks a lot from drinking her sippy milk.
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Gosh Rina and New Mum, your kids eat really really good. Oh I good only wish :(
Tonight Zach did touch a pea! Ha... I was eating peas and mac and cheese and he will not even try either. I was acting like I was really really enjoying it (which I was, but I was over-acting). Anyhow he finally picked up a few a his peas and even brought one to his mouth, but did not eat it. He was throwing them like balls and watching them bounce off the table, which is funny because he NEVER throws food and if something falls on the floor he wants it up right away.
The rest of the day was not much more food. I just wish he would try new things, I really think he would like it.
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Thankyou ;) ;D. Zara does eat a great variety of food, it is quantities that are our issue, she is a very small eater.
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Well, at least she eats a variety!
Tonight we had to have a "carpet picnic" so Aidan would eat dinner. He doesn't want to do anything I ask, so I have to get very creative to get him to do what I need him to do. (We spread a blanket on the floor and ate our dinner on the blanket {off of plates, of course}). Not a healthy meal - he ate beef, bread, and water. He gets a vitamin tomorrow morning and some bran in his oatmeal!
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Sorry to post so many ... I couldn't decide which ones were most clever...they are all pretty darn creative and really quite impressive!
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some of them are quite scary too!! ;D
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Hi there , I have lurked on here a few times but never posted
Rina - I have just baked my 2nd batch of your yummy banana and choc chip muffins! :D mmm so good, I tried an Anabel Carmel recipe but it didnt work at all, they didnt rise and tasted :-X So Rina 1 - Anabel 0
I have a little girl, Kirsten , who is 16 months. Any of our food problems stem from her not wanting to sit still, so we are working on that.
Had a good eating day so far today -
6.45 - 5oz formula
7.45 - cheerios, strawberries, melon
she also had melon and grapes for a snack mid morning
11.45 - 1 boiled egg with wholemeal toast soldiers , ham and cheese cubes , juice to drink
It is still only 12.20 so we'll see what else she fancies
x x x x
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Yikes some of those veggie pics are scary. Heck as picky as my lo is, that would scare him even more. He would keep saying "Ewww" "Ewww". LOL
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LOL, the frogs look disgusting tho, I had to do frog rescue the other morning from Lilys toy basket. I thought I had heard a frog scream and the cat meowing 2 nights before but was too tired to get up and investigate. They are quite resoursful things frogs and when they have got stuck in house before (thanks to cat) they tend to get in dogs water bowl during night, only reason I know is there is loads of fluff floating in bowl, because they hide out under washing machine or fridge until it all goes quiet at night. anyway 2 mornings later when I come down stairs the cat was staring at toy basket, I had a look but couldn't see the frog, then as I was about to pick up basket to do hoovering he climbed up on top of the toys and just sat there waitig to be rescued :o
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I've seen some of that artist's work before and love them - I think they are so colorful and creative! :D
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I'm not expecting Luke to eat tomorrow - he did rather well today!
Wake ~ 7oz milk
Breakfast ~ Bowl of cheerios and milk
Snack ~ Banana
Lunch ~ Spanish omelette, fruit and yoghurt
Snack (at nursery) ~ egg sandwiches, more fruit
Dinner ~ spaghetti bolognese, 2 pots of jelly, chunks of pineapple, apricots and grapes
Bed ~ 7oz milk
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2 pots of jelly
What does that mean? What is a pot of jelly?
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Oops sorry - yeah it's jelly in a tub, like tubs of yoghurt, individual portions ;D
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I probably have the pickiest one "lol".
Today:
6 oz jar of level 3 apples and bannanas "6:30am"
9:30am ish. not even 1 scrambled egg, some cut up apple pieces and grapes "9:30am". Oh and 1/2 of a slice of american cheese.
4 oz containor of yogurt "2:30pm ish"
4:30pm ish: A couple noodles and some bannana. Not much at all. Been a little cranky today too. I also tried some dumplings I had and another favorite noodle dish that has to be spooned to her due to the noodles being so small. I had ran out of the bigger noodles that she was actually eating. The can of bigger noodles had some carrots in it. She threw those to the floor.
Amazing!!
I might try supper one more time, as I started supper session early. If DH got home at a reasonable time from working on some side job, it would be easier. He's suppose to be cooking some chicken drums on the grill. I might try chicken with her later on. We're having left over potatoe salad and steamed brocolli with it. She definetely won't eat the potatoe salad. Tried it the other day. I can still try though. We'll see. She goes from like 10am until 4:30pm with only a yogurt containor and sometimes a few fishies. She did have a couple fishies today. You'd think she'd be hungry for supper. I'm soo sooo limited to what I can give her. Fruit and noodles. Sometimes bread. wowza. "lol". Lately, I've been putting new things in front of her and she won't even at least give it a chance. I guess they just get used to what they have on a regular basis.
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LOL, the frogs look disgusting tho, I had to do frog rescue the other morning from Lilys toy basket. I thought I had heard a frog scream and the cat meowing 2 nights before but was too tired to get up and investigate. They are quite resoursful things frogs and when they have got stuck in house before (thanks to cat) they tend to get in dogs water bowl during night, only reason I know is there is loads of fluff floating in bowl, because they hide out under washing machine or fridge until it all goes quiet at night. anyway 2 mornings later when I come down stairs the cat was staring at toy basket, I had a look but couldn't see the frog, then as I was about to pick up basket to do hoovering he climbed up on top of the toys and just sat there waitig to be rescued :o
This reminded me that the other day, my friend came over (FYI ~ I typically enter the house through the back near the garage) and she asked if I knew there was a dead bird and a dead frog on my front doorway! YUCK...my dog is part cat I swear! Thank heavens Weston is passed the stage of putting yuckies in his mouth for the most part! LOL
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Yesterday was a pretty good day of eating...just need to curb his liquids, but in this heat, I don't know just how much is enough and he'll drink all day if he could!
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Glad the muffins are a hit!
I baked a triple batch the other day, and made a cake and some muffins since I didn't have enough muffin tins - turned out fantastic!
Those fruit and veg things are so clever - some cool, and some scary, but all clever!
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I feel today was a bit better. Same ole stuff, but still.
7:00am - 6 oz jar of level 3 granola cereal. than her milk
10:00am ish - some apple pieces, 1/2 slice of cheese, about 1 scrambled egg with the other 1/2 slice. than her milk.
2:00pm ish - 4 oz containor of yo baby yogurt
4:45pm ish - a lot of "mac and cheese" from easy mac cup and a decent amount of bananna. than her milk
during the day: just a couple fishies and one arrowroot cookie. She'll have milk closer to bed time and we'll call it a day. The difference is I guess it seemed like she actually ate a decent amount of mac and cheese.
I also made a list of things she has eating. Keep in mind, some of these things she has only eating once and refused the next time. Anything else so far, she refuses from the get go:
Notice there are absolutely no veggies in her diet....
scrambled eggs
pancakes
raisin toast with cream cheese
brocolli
apples
banananas
grapes
noodles "soup style"
mac and cheese
cheese
potatoe/veggie pancakes
hot dogs
yogurt
arrow root cookies
fishies
sometimes bread or pizza crust
watermelon
Some ideas from some friends i might try are:
swanson chix pot pie
cream of wheat
small round frozen ravioli's
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You have a veggie. Brocilli! If she eats that, that is awesome.
I think her variety looks good personally. She eats pasta, breads, some meat but she eats eggs so that is great, fruit, dairy.
I personally think she does good.
Here is a list of what my son will eat: You thought your lo was bad.
- French fries (only McDonalds)
- Pizza
- Cheese
- 1 or 2 bites of bacon
- Hotdogs (actually does not really eat them anymore)
- Fruit (almost any kind, but not lately so much)
- Freeze dried blue-berries
- Poptarts
- Cheerios with Banana's
- Kashi cereal crunch - a cereal that is supposed to be super healthy
- Gold Fish
- Really any type of snacky food
- Icecream
- yogurt once in a blue moon
- Hardees Green beans (but not lately)
- Bagel with cream cheese
- Eggs (hard boiled only, but not lately)
- Gummy fruit snacks
He will not eat any noodle type foods at all. He does not eat veggies or meat, BUT TONIGHT HE DID EAT 3 CHICKEN FRIES FROM BURGER KING! I WAS SO PROUD! MEAT!!
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She ate chicken actually before. Only when I cook a whole chicken in the oven it seems. I've tried other types of chicken and she won't touch it. The brocolli...well ya... It's the "raw" kind and she just picks on them sometimes. I sort of got her to eat a little bit, because I keep giving it to her when we are walking through the grocery store. Also, the one time she ate the potatoe/veggie pancakes I made her, that has shredded brocolli and shredded carrots snuck into the mix. Too bad, she only had one good night eating those. I'll keep trying those though.
I have giving my LO french fries from mcdonalds and she eats them too. Funny thing is, I've giving her french fries at home and she won't eat them. ha ha
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I'd say its the salt on the MacDonald ones, they are all covered in salt before you get them, so beware giving too often or too many as added salt is so not good for LO's and they get a ton of it in everything else that is premade/processed in any way.
Just a thought and you probably do this anyway but do you offer your LO's everything your eating or do they have their own dinner, or just new things to try put in front of them. Although Lily is a very good eater I find she will try anything at all if she thinks she is getting something good that I or DP have got that she shouldn't be having. The other day at MIL she ate 3 tiny pieces of beef because it came from DP plate and we made a big thing about her pinching her daddy's dinner which she thinks is hilarious, if I had offered her some with her dinner I know she wouldn't of touched it.
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Yep, family meals go over better here too- at first we didn't even dish her any up, just ate off our plates, now she eats what we eat, but has her own plate.
So, today:
200ml sippy, drained it super quick, gave another 100ml drank that too (we had a rough night, I wasn't ready to get her breakfast yet :-X)
Breakfast - sucked the peanut butter off some toast ::) not suprised after all that milk and some undiluted orange juice.
Snack - couple bites of toddler muesli bar, then gave it back to me
Lunch - yoghurt - quite a bit actually, more than she will normally eat for me
Snack- Banana and choc chip muffin (home made)
Dinner - potato chips (french fries but thicker), battered fish (with the batter taken off), and veggies (pumpkin, carrot, peas, corn, squash, cauliflower)
Water/diluted apple juice throughout day
Not as good as some other days, but still not too bad...quantities were a pretty small today though.
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Breakfast - oatmeal with applesauce and milk
Snack - juice mixed with water and vitamin. Jello made with juice instead of the packaged junk.
Lunch - wouldn't eat anything but Juice Jello and water.
Dinner - Pasta with tomato and red pepper sauce and paremesan cheese.
Desert - frozen yogurt (go-gurt tubes) and Jello again.
Still not eating well because of the cold and the molar, but at least he ate the vitamin! ;)
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Doesnt mean he will try a new food but he certainly likes to have a variety from his liked foods.
Bethany's the opposite, she would have the same foods every meal if we let her! And the whole giving her what Mommy and Daddy are eating doesn't work either. If it's new or unfamiliar to her, forget it.
We've gotten her on a couple more foods though - not chicken and veggies like I'd like but she'll eat Life cereal with milk (they hold a lot of milk in them), and grilled cheese sandwhiches.
She was hungry yesterday:
breakfast - life cereal with milk (needed more), 1/2 waffle with cream cheese, grapes, water
snack - Cheerios, apple
lunch - mac & cheese (lots, but what else is new LOL), banana
snack - milk
dinner - one chicken finger, 1/2 grilled cheese, peas, strawberries, a couple spoonfuls of leftover mac & cheese, raisins, corn on the cob (cut off)
bedtime - milk
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I'm thinking about cooking some 'veggie and fruit' muffins for Weston...gotta sneak that stuff in somehow...does anyone have a good recipe to share?
Also I find that if he helps in "making" his food, he's more likely to eat it...(peanut butter sandwich, etc) so I'm thinking he can help make the muffins...
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Just checking back in for great meal ideas!
I am going to make quiche. I have not made it since I was preggers and I love it. Maybe Asher will eat egg that way.
That also got me thinking that I have not made homemade chicken pot pie in a long time either. I bet Asher would love the veggies in that.
I have an easy recipe if you guys are interested.
What is..."potato and bacon frittata"?
Last night Asher ate fish and chips like they were going out of style!
He also loves crepes, pancakes/waffles, and french toast for breakfast.
I have noticed that he only wants sweet things in the morning. For lunch and dinner he will savory. Hummmm?
Thanks for the fruit and veggie art pics. I had seen them before but love them!
Visit back soon!
Annette
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Potato and bacon fritatta - kind of like omelette with bacon, potato, onion etc in it....
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(http://www.avocado.org/images/media/Frittata.jpg)
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Yep, confusing huh? There seems to me to be little difference btw frittata and omelette....
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A frittata is an Italian omelette ;)
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LOL, so I am right then, the only difference is language ;) ;D
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This is an omelette - flat egg, with your filling in the middle (often left quite runny in the middle):
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What M2W posted earlier is a frittata - all the ingredients mixed together and cooked together ('suspended' in the egg). Often finished off under the grill, and usually cooked through.
A Google image search on the two terms should explain things
HTH :)
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Thanks, so there is a difference ::). I only ever have fritatta then it would seem ;)
Zara is eating quite well at the moment...teething break for a bit I suspect.
200ml toddler formula
Breakfast - 1 weetbix with milk and honey
Snack (at playgroup - shared morning tea) - small chocolate cupcake, 1 sao with butter and cheese, several tiny teddy biscuits, a piece of apple, a very small piece of chocolate cake, water
Lunch - very decent serve of fruit yoghurt
Snack - 1/2 a large mandarin (eaten over two serves though), Water
Dinner - Fish (crumbed frozen stuff from supermarket, that gets oven baked), veggies - zuccini, cauli, broccoli, pumpkin, carrot - ate her biggest dinner yet ever, Water.
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We had 15 month apppointment yesterday. My doctor still claims 23-25 oz a day is perfectly fine for Chayse and her age. She understands she is a picky and sometimes a barely an eater, but she thinks she seems to be doing OK in that department. She does agree she does stock up at night as she has her 5 oz sippy after supper and than approximately 9-11 oz before bed. Prior to that she only has a 4oz when she wakes up after her first breakfast and 4 oz close to nap time. Yesterday she had:
1. 6 oz jar of cereal plus milk sippy
2. some scrambled eggs and munched on a few grapes. Wasn't that great at this meal plus milk sippy
3. Add play group had some cantaloup and fishies
4. supper: Noodles plus milk sippy. I did offer brocolli and cut up cucumber. She might of eating one piece of the cucumber.
5. Last BIG sippy close to bed time
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Just to add to the confusion you can also call fritatta a tortilla which is what we have ;) tortilla being the Spanish version and I think generally has potato in it.
Stacy, have you tried sweet potato, Lily doesn't do potato (only chips ::) ) but does like sweet potato and I think they are nutritious. I was also going to ask have you tried Rice pudding, I remember you saying Caleb wont eat rice.
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LOL, so I am right then, the only difference is language ;) ;D
yes in a way...here in the states and many other places an omelette is like the pic Charlie's mum posted But in Italy they don't make omelettes, if you order an omelette in Italy you'll get a frittata. And if you order a frittata in the states, you're likely going to get a quich! LOL ;)
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here is the dictionary def for both :)
Main Entry: frit·ta·ta
Pronunciation: frE-'tä-t&
Function: noun
Etymology: Italian, from fritto fried -- more at FRIT
: an unfolded omelet often containing chopped vegetables or meats
Main Entry: om·e·let
Variant(s): or om·e·lette /'äm-l&t, 'ä-m&-/
Function: noun
Etymology: French omelette, alteration of Middle French amelette, alemette, alteration of alemelle thin plate, ultimately from Latin lamella, diminutive of lamina
: beaten eggs cooked without stirring until set and served folded in half
So it appears to me the folding is the only difference... ;)
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Today
b= 1 raspberry, 1/5 waffle w/cream cheese, 1 oz pureed fruit and that's it
s= yogurt (3oz)
l= 2/3 organic nutrigrain bar type thingy....I offered turkey and she just chewed it all up and spit it out over and over again. I also offered veggies, but she kept her tongue out the entire time and would not let anything in her mouth ::)
That's it so far.
Melissa
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Well, whatever a frittata is, I'm going to try and make it. What all do you put in yours? Anything different than quiche or omelette?
Good idea to put cream cheese on your waffle. I have not served Asher peanut butter yet so I make cream cheese and jelly sandwhich.
Annette
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I put anything I've got in the fridge in my frittatas, usually cut up quite small, eg tomatoes, spinach, brocolli, ham, turkey, mushrooms, grated cheese, etc - any combination plus (rice) milk. I also cut it into pizza slices, and call it pizza. He loves that and can eat a 2 egg one :o
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Bethany LOVES cream cheese on anything. Sometimes it gets sucked off and the waffle/toast/what have you gets rejected, LOL!
Well teething is going full-strength here and she is actually refusing most finger foods and taking mostly pureeds... ::)
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We do both Frittata's and omelette's. Aidan prefers the omelette's because I usually put cheese in his. The Frittata's he does not care for and picks out anything that is green or red or yellow that could possibly be a vegetable.
Today was a weird eating day (b/c I was home from work with my back and Aida went to day care).
Breakfast was a Breakfast bar and a slice of cheese with milk. (It's what he asked for)
Lunch - day care - I don't know. All snacks and meals are pretty balanced and they say he eats nearly everything they put in front of him now that he is used to the food.
Dinner was brought by DH - so chicken nuggets and french fries (which we kept calling potatoes so he knows that he does like potatoes and will maybe try them in a different form than chips or FF - which we seldom have). He also had a multi-vitamin today and milk.
He has been eating strawberries a lot the past few days (just bought a 4 pound flat at Costco) and "jello" which I made from fruit juice and Knox. (You all remember Knox Blox, right?) It is so hot that he doesn't really want hot food, just cheese and fruit and milk and jello.
He really likes rice, but I cook it in chicken broth (unsalted) and add a lot of herbs to it (thyme, basil, pinch oregano, tarragon, parsley, dill, saffron). He gets a little bit of butter on his or some teriyaki glaze. We have a rice cooker with fuzzy logic, so it makes the perfect rice that sticks together just a little (I love it that way). His favorite meal right now is teriyaki chicken over rice. It's messy, but he loves it.
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Today so far.....
B = 6oz milk, 1 slice toast, 1 bowl of cheerios with milk, 1/2 apple.
S = Yoghurt drink and 1/2 box raisins
L = A whole cheese toastie, mixed veg, 1/2 pot fruit puree, 1 pot FF, and 6 grapes
She is now napping. I am trying to limit snacks as although she eats a lot at most meals, she seems to do better sitting at the table the whole meal if more hungry. Just means I have to put up with her being stroppy whilst getting meals ready :( Have also found a booster highchair much better than her big highchair. She seems to prefer it (for now ;))
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My SIL discovered her dd will eat just about anything if she puts it on a corn chip. She actually doesn't GIVE the corn chip until she's eaten a fair amount, though! :) I thought that was rather clever, might try it with my bean campaign. :D
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LOL at your "bean campaign" Kathleen! :)
Well, we had success with scrambled eggs for a couple meals, but now she's balking them again. I thought I had conquered my "egg campaign" with her but NOOOOOO! ;)
Today's meals...
breakfast: 1/2 egg scrambled with cheese, 1/2 cereal bar, cheerios, 1/4 peach
lunch: 1 piece bologna :o, 1 piece string cheese, handful of goldfish, 1/2 banana, some raisens
dinner will be baked ziti if I can talk myself into cooking the noodles! ;D
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Why did I say that about the highchair???? Tonight was a nightmare!
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LOL Lila we switch between high chair and booster high chair to keep them "new" ... nothing like spirited LOs and high chairs! ::)
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Grrrr!!
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In our house, too hungry at dinner time = nightmare meal.
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In our house, too hungry at dinner time = nightmare meal.
Hmmm...I never considered that, I wonder if that is what our problem is some days? Both DH and I get CRANKY when hungry, LOL! I suppose it only makes sense that she is just like us, right? :)
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Yesterday she had:
Wake 8ozs milk
Breakfast: 1/2cup oats mixed with milk and 1/4cup fruit
Snack: 2 toddler muesli bars
Lunch: Jam Sandwich tub of yoghurt
Snack: Tic Tock biscuit,saltanas
Dinner: Meatloaf with pasta,peas and carrots ate quiet alot she loves this. Tub of chocolate mousse.
Water throughout the day about 16-18ozs a day.
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Breakfast: 4 bites of egg and 2oz of strawberry/pear fruit puree
Snack: 3oz of left over fruit puree from breakfast
Lunch: Would only really eat her fruit bar (3/4 of it), then ate 2 bites of peas and then spit them out, 3/4 yogurt and a few cheerios...like 3
Snack: 7 veggie crackers, a few bites of freeze dried corn
Dinner: 1 bite of meatball and threw the rest ::), ate garlic bread and a fruit strip....refused broccoli and refused her biter biscuit....did eat 1 slice of cheese.
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I've been reducing the liquids offered to Weston (he still askes and begs for his drinks) but it seems that he's eating a smidgen more...nothing bombastic...but a little more due to it.
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Today:
1. 6 oz jar of oatmeal with pears plus sippy milk
2. about 1/2 of a "frozen" waffle. You toast it and it's already in strips so you just pull the stips off. She did ok I thought with it. There fairly thick. Also, picked on some grapes and cantaloup. Plus sippy milk. Didn't even drink what I offered. I offered 4 oz
3. 4 oz cup of yogurt and some bananna. I guess it was close to a 1/2 of a bannana
Snacks through out the day: I think she had 2 baby cookies.
4. Supper: Some of her noodles. Tried giving her some pork pieces that we had "Pork stir fry" and some carrots from the stir fry. It was a "create a meal" kind where you supply your own meat, but the veggies and sauce packet is all in a baggie for you. It's actually pretty good. I ended up giving her some pita bread and tried some raw brocolli. She ate ok, pretty much just her normal noodles. She had fun with DH as he was helping her pick up the noodles with her fork.
I have the hardest time with supper. Due to her nap, she has her yogurt cup around 2:30pm ish sometimes later. I than don't know if she's hungry early "like 4:30pm or later like between 5:30 and 6:00pm". Sometimes she starts acting real needy and groucy so I sit her down to feed her to only find out maybe she isn't as hungry as a thought. Supper is the most difficult, because I can't really get her to eat any variety of foods. Although I do try here and there. I do give in a lot to her noodles.
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Today
Breakfast: 1/4 waffle with a super thin layer of peanut butter and blueberry puree and that's it. She refused to eat more.
Snack: 2/3 yogurt
Lunch: 1/2 sandwich of avocado and cream cheese, hand full of blueberries, 2 bites of fruit leather, about 4 cheerios
Snack: Veggie Crackers
Dinner: 2/3 of one meat ball, 3 small cheese cubes, and threw the rest. Offered sweet potaotes, but didn't want any....wouldn't even open her mouth.
She just isn't eating much at all but she is still going 13.5+ hours with out food with out waking so I guess she's getting exactly what she needs.
Refused all veggies today ::) Oh well, what can you do, right.
-Melissa
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I also ended up giving her a vanilla pudding cup. It's the kind you don't refrigerate. I did this around 6:45pm. Not sure if that is a good thing? For she has her yogurt cup for lunch pretty much and of course her sippys. Although she did cut down on some of her milk today.
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Another weird eating day - sigh.
Breakfast - breakfast bar (wanted "MORE!") so he had Whole Grain Cheerios, peaches, milk.
Lunch - at day care
Snack - at day care
Dinner - frozen go-gurt! NOW! We are working on manners and I get a please and thank-you, but still quite demanding - he was hot from the drive home. Then he ate a normal dinner of whole grain pasta with tomato sauce (with veggies snuck in) and parmesan cheese.
After dinner he begged to go to bed and started up the stairs!
Aidan refused the high chair and booster chair for me pretty early (under a year). I had to figure out that he was sitting on benches in day care. Now that he has moved to the WAY better day care, he insists on sitting in his small chair. Thank goodness I bought both when I bought the table at IKEA. He wanted me to sit next to him on the bench. He also likes sitting in the counter-height chairs at our dining table, but refuses the booster. HTH.
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Mary to me pudding cups and yogurt dont make much sense as she gets more then enough dairy. Why not just do a light snack after nap that isnt dairy and will leave her hungry for supper. Offer the yogurt after her supper
She doesnt need more milk, there isnt any real point in more dairy to her
Weston has too much dairy IMHO as well...he always wants to eat cheese and drink milk...if he could and if I let him, I think that is all he'd ever consume. ;)
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3:30am- 150ml formula (flat refused dinner before bed so we were guessing she might be hungry, but obviously not very since she didn't finish what we made her)
5:30am 50ml formula
6am 100ml formula
8am 3 tiny teddy biscuits
9:30am little piece of bread (very little)
12:00 3 grapes
12:30 two very small french fries
3pm 4 bites of brownie
4pm 3 bites of chocolate
We are yet to have dinner, but I am fairly sure she won't really eat. Will offer formula before bed.
Did also manage to get 150ml approx of pure OJ into her!
She has a virus, hence our bad sleep and sudden food refusal. dr says should be better in a couple of days. Hasnt' eaten properly since Tues!
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Yesterday -
Breakfast: Weetabix, totally refused after asking for it and helping to make it ::)
Lunch: Tuna mayo with grated carrot sandwich (brown bread). Ate every crumb ;). Big handful of grapes
Dinner: Lamb, veg and chopped tomato slow cooker concoction. Served with wholeweat pasta. Ate all his, then loads of mine ;) (we'd been to the beach in the afternoon and he was starving - all that sea air)
Lots of rice milk/water/juice throughout the day
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There was a frittata recipe in my crock pot recipe book, believe it or not! I'm going to try it and let y'all know.
Something I feed Asher that I didn't think was that unusual but 2 mommy friends of mine saw Asher was eating it and now they serve it is...
Lunch meat, deli meat, these mommies were most interested in the bologna! Asher loves bologna! So did thier LO's after they tried it.
Just another thought... not feeding anything else exciting here...
Talk to you guys later!
Oh, "fruit leather" ?????????? Is that like a Fruit Roll up?
Annette
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I had originally started giving the yogurt cup after he nap so that it would tie her over and I wouldn't have to give her the milk sippy she was having after her nap - or after I tried lunch. She at one time was having milk at this time and I have her skipping the afternoon milk sippy. Perhaps it's time to switch the yogurt cup to a real lunch. Just so hard with what she eats or doesn't eat.
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Yum, Caroline, can I come eat at your house, LOL! ;D
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It might be a tough transition because I know I can rely on that yogurt to tie her over. Today I'm trying bannana and I made some potatoe/veggie pancakes. I haven't tried the pancakes in a bit. She did eat 1/2 of the bannnana and is sort of nibbling a little at one of the pancakes. There the size of a double quarter I think. Hopefully this will tie her over until dinner time. I will than try the yogurt or pudding cup after dinner.
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I don't know if my schedule is odd or not, but what time would you think would be doable for supper?
This schedule has been working out for us very well lately.
1. Up between 6:30 and 6:45am. By 7:00am.......6 oz containor of oatmeal with pears "level 3 baby food"
Than a 4 oz sippy of milk or what she wants to drink from the 4 oz offered
2. Due to crankiness - sat her down for 2nd breakfast around 9AM. Between 9am and 10am she watched sesame and ate some scrambled eggs today. I gave her some grapes and cantaloup, but I don't think she really wanted them. She nibbled though. I did end up waiting until around 10:20 am and she had a 4oz milk sippy
3. She napped from noon to 2pm. I put her down around 11:30am. She stays up for 5 hours in the morning
4. Close to 2:30pm had some potatoe/veggie pancakes that I made and 1/2 bananana. NOTE* I didn't give yogurt. She suprisingly did pretty good. It's 3:00pm now and I just took her out of her chair.
What's next? Supper right? but what time I wonder? I know it's only for me to figure out. It's the same thing if she ONLY has her yogurt cup and nothing else after her nap. 5pm is only 2 hours after lunch, which seems so short. I'll have to try to figure this out.
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No fruit leather is not a fruit roll up. :) ;) These are just pure fruit...not candy/no sugar added. It's just fruit in a different consistency, mixed with all natural fruit juice. The ones I have are actually called organic fruit strips.
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Yum, Caroline, can I come eat at your house, LOL! ;D
As long as you know how to wash up :D
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No matter what kaleb eats he still craps 3-5 times a day
LOL, same here except we discovered raisins stops her up, LOL!
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Legend_018> How do you make the veggie pancakes?
Emily is teething again. Today she lived on cheerios and milk. Also, ripe bananas always work for her too!
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Legend_018> How do you make the veggie pancakes?
I got it off this site. 1/4 cup of instant mashed potatoes, 1 egg, some shredded cheese, and shred some veggies like brocolli and carrots. Mix it all together and form little pancakes. Fry them on both sides. At first my LO didn't take to them. But one time she had one of them. Than I tried again, but no go. Than today, I ended up trying again and she had 2 of them. It's a finger food so they can eat it themselves since you can easily pick them up. I tried them and there not too bad "lol".
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At supper time only, we elimated her tray and she sits in her booster seat right at the table. Not sure if this is helping. I tried giving her the yummy meatloaf we ate tonight. She was eating it from her fork "I was putting it on the fork for her", but than I saw her spitting it out so I think she had some but than decided she didn't want it anymore or something. Who knows. I let her have her normal noodles and than I gave her a vanilla pudding cup. She only drank 3 out of the 5 oz milk sippy I give her after dinner, but she did drink the entire BIG milk sippy she gets close to bed time. It's usually between like 8 and 10 oz. After dinner she was rather cranky too. Not too sure why. Than after she had most of her final milk sippy she was happy as a clam again.
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Stacy
Hilarious! ;D
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mostly same ole stuff - but today wasn't too too bad. I don't think I can ask for it to be any better than this at this point.
meal #1. 6 oz jar level 3 granola cereal plus sippy milk
meal #2. few bites of peanut butter english muffin and bites of watermelon and grapes plus 4 oz sippy
NAP
meal #3. 2 potatoe/veggie pancakes. There small. 1/2 bannana
In between meal #3 and meal #4: cookie and some french fries from mcdonalds in the car
meal #4. noodles, 4 oz yogurt cup. Didn't really want sippy, but drank maybe 2 oz
lastly,
BIG!!! sippy before bed in 2 sessions
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Stacy, us too LOL, I suppose we can be thankful for their "healthy" digestive systems amongst all those dirty diaper changes!! ::)
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Breakfast: Bowl of Fruit & Fibre with rice milk. Always asks for extra 'chewies' (raisins). An 'Innocent for kids' smoothie (orange and mango)
Lunch: Scrambled eggs with spinach and cheese. Two toasted potato cakes.
Gone for a nap now, when he wakes, he'll have an Organix fruit pot.
Dinner - it's lasagne tonight, his 100%, absolute favourite, so he should eat well ;)
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We discovered a new favorite - about a 2inch-length peice of corn on the cob! She loves it! Can't figure out how she does it as she still has no top teeth... ;D
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Breakfast
1 cheerio, 2 microscopic bites of a peach, 4 tiny bites of a pumpkin pancake and flat out refused her oatmeal/pear puree. So pretty much had nothing for breakfast ::) Maybe 3oz of milk
Snack
We had to throw her in the car for church, so a no spill cup filled with organic cheddar cheese bunnies....like gold fish and a sippy of water mixed with a dad bit of pure apple juice
-I think they gave her something in the nursery as she had red stuff on her face ??? Not sure, but I really wish they would ask me before giving her somthing in case she's not allowed to have it. :-\
Lunch
1 small chicken nugget....not sure how much she got as most of it she chewed up and spit out
4oz organic mixed berry yogurt which had cereal in it
a handful of freezedried strawberries and banana's and 1/2 a biter biscuit
Snack
Will have some veggies as she more likely to eat them now then at dinner. 4oz jar of purred mixed veggies - the only way she'll really eat veggies
Dinner
Not sure.
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Corn on the cob??? Never thought of that. Emily might actually go for that?
Graces's Mom- LOL on the "1 cheerio" We have many days like that where every little bite counts. I also noticed that you offer such a variety at one meal (I was looking at the breakfast). Is this normal or just on picky days. I feel like I waste so much food. Although I want her to try new foods and eat more veggies.
Today for us...
B- 1/4 cup of grits- 1/2 of an banana
S- handful of cheerios while shopping
L- Gerber chicken and carrot ravioli
S- We were at a cookout today and she ate a couple bites of chicken and a big spoonful of mashed potato
D- Cheese melt and the rest of the banana
We always offer oatmeal before bed as well. Emily is not eating much lately though. Not sure if it is time to drop the oatmeal or not??
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Corn on the cob??? Never thought of that. Emily might actually go for that?
Yup not only did she love it but it kept her entertained and quiet for a bit so we could eat our dinner, LOL! ;D
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B: 1/2 jam sandwich not sandwiched ;D, 1/2 pear
L: pasta with tomato and red pepper sauce
S: twix
D: mash, mushrooms, carrots, peas, sausage
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Mommy to One
For breakfast I usually offer a fruit of some kind and then either waffles, oatmeal, toast w/jelly, or eggs.
She got cheerios or should I say a cheerio and some pancakes because she wanted some of what we had at breakfast. Normally it's not that many options. I just give her what ever it is I have put together and if she doesn't want it then that's about it. Once in awhile if she is teething badly I'll go and grab one more thing to see if she'll eat but normally not. ;)
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Breakfast - 2 weetabix with milk and Orange Juice
Lunch - raw carrot, cucumber, brown bread roll with cheese spread, half a pack of wotsits
followed by a banana and a drink of water
Snack - Gingerbread man with drink of milk.
Dinner - Macaroni cheese followed by fruit puree
Drink of water milk before bed.
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Yesterday:
Sippy of formula
Breakfast: 1 weetbix with milk and honey and some orange juice
Sent to daycare with : 1 doz large green grapes, 4 large strawberries, 1 cheese stick, 1 toddler muesli bar, 2 thin rice cakes made into a strawberry jam sandwhich, 1 snack pack of dried fruit (pawpaw, pineapple and raisins), and a snack pack of tiny teddy biscuits - the only thing that came home was the biscuits, but I doubt she ate everything I sent either. At least the variety was there.
Dinner - lasagne and potato/sweetpotato bake and frozen peas
Heavily diluted apple juice and water throughout the day.
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B: a bit of Strawberry yoghurt
L: a bit of a dry brown roll, some pear
S: refused
D: big plate of wholemeal pasta and tomato sauce
My chubby baby is now a skinny, picky toddler... I won't even bother writing the stuff down I offered and got refused :-\
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I'm always amazed when I see that los can manage to eat 2 whole weetabix. I can just about do that, it's so filling!
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We dont' get all that much waste here...if she doesn't eat what I offer, or much of what I offer, I assume not hungry and she doesn't get offered something else til she asks (whinges LOL) or until the next time I would normally feed her.
So, I guess the only waste is with regard to quantity disparity (ie how much I offer her vs how much she actually eats).
Weetbix - since breakfast is my fav meal of the day, and I can always eat way more in the morning than any other time of day - I like to eat 4!!!!! So I try not to have weetbix LOL.
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today
2 bites of waffle, fruit leather and that's it :-\
biter biscuit (1/2 of it...she spit the rest out) ::)
4 bites of quiche, a few freeze dried bananas and thats it :P
4oz jar of squash/corn (the most she ate all day) :)
Pretty much refused everything....ate 1 bite of her veggie burger, a few pieces of shredded swiss, and 2-3 bites of a nutri-grain bar type thingy.
She was exhausted from zero naps today as we had guys working on our bathroom during each of her naps....banging and using saws, etc. :(
She actually even had a fever at bedtime...not sure what from, but was extremely exhausted but is still awake in there...not making any noise, just laying and staring. Silly.
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Stacy - have you tried honey on the weetbix? makes a huge difference! I also know people IRL who mix purred fruit through to make it nicer also.
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I have been putting together a balanced meal (in a divided plate with lid) and offering it at breakfast, he nibbles, I put the lid on & pop it in the fridge, offer it again at lunch, he nibbles and again at dinner as well as whatever we are eating for dinner...and he seems ok with that, then I toss whatever is left after dinner.
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Now I know why Grace didn't want dinner last night....she pretty much had a fever of 103 all night long and woke up with vomit all over :'(
She is better now thank goodness :)
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Sorry to hear about Grace. I hope she is feeling better very very soon!!!
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Get well soon Grace :-*
B: 1/4 of a slice of bread and jam, one pear
L: refused
:'( :'( :'(
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I have been putting together a balanced meal (in a divided plate with lid) and offering it at breakfast, he nibbles, I put the lid on & pop it in the fridge, offer it again at lunch, he nibbles and again at dinner as well as whatever we are eating for dinner...and he seems ok with that, then I toss whatever is left after dinner.
What are a couple examples of what you put in your divided lid plate?
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If it's any consolation Steffi, Scotty is at the age when ds started eating very little. Some days, I swear he lives on air and water ::). I'm pretty sure it's normal
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I have been putting together a balanced meal (in a divided plate with lid) and offering it at breakfast, he nibbles, I put the lid on & pop it in the fridge, offer it again at lunch, he nibbles and again at dinner as well as whatever we are eating for dinner...and he seems ok with that, then I toss whatever is left after dinner.
What are a couple examples of what you put in your divided lid plate?
It varies, but a few examples would be in the 3 sections...
1) blueberries, banana, apple, cherries, etc
2) scrabbled eggs, hot dog, peanut butter sandwich, etc
3) snap peas, broccoli or carrots, etc
I try to put a veggie in one section, a fruit in the other and a protein in the third...if he finishes one section and it's something I feel he could use more of in his diet, I'll refill it, but otherwise I don't in hopes he'll get some sort of balanced something over the course of the day.
I also offer a yogurt drink, watered down juice & milk throughout the day...yogurt drink typically at breakfast, watered down juice during the day (I make up 2 sippy cups for the day...if he finishes those, I just add water to them) and a milk bottle at bedtime (nap & night)
He gets way too many liquids, but I'm not sure how to limit it except to continue watering it down until he's getting almost all water... :-\
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get well grace!!! :-*
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FYI ~ banana gets sort of gross...so sometimes I toss that after Breakfast. ;)
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That is a REALLY good idea, the sectioned plate. Yall are SMART girls!! :)
Going to buy one of those today...
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Asher, like my DH hates left overs!!!!! :P
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Rina~wow, 4 weetabix, I am in awe!
Today:
B'fast: Nutrigrain bar and juice. Not very hungry at all.
Lunch: Turkey slices and wholewheat crackers. Big pot yoghurt.
Dinner: Fish sticks, mixed veggies, brown rice.
Snack: watermelon.
Ricemilk, water throughout day.
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Today
Breakfast....3 bites of a banana, 1/4 a piece of bread :-\
Snack....yogurt
Lunch....1/4 nutrigrain bar and wouldn't eat anything else
Snack....about 30 blueberries
Dinner....2 slices of cheese, 3 spoonfulls of butternut squash and about 3 spoonfuls of ham/pineapple puree, a few cheerios/bunny crackers
Mostly water through out the day since she was still slightly battling a fever. About 4oz of Milk.
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Hi all,
Haven't posted on here for a while so here goes:
Breakfast: Cereal (mix of muesli, shreddies and honey nut cheerios) and milk with cantaloupe
Snack: Cheese and a pickle/gherkin
Lunch: Scrambled eggs (3 eggs!) and toast- 6 oz milk
Snack: Watermelon
Dinner: Rigatoni pasta with my homemade Giardenieri tomato sauce, ingredients all from my garden/giardenieri :) 8): Tomatoes, garlic, cress, spinach, parsley, basil and zucchini/courgettes mixed in my food processor-saute in a skillet with olive oil and wine for about 20 min on high then low to simmer adding some water from the boiling pasta as it is cooking for flavour and to thin the sauce. Try it you will love it and healthy too.
Bedtime snack: 8 oz milk followed by a yogurt and a small potato scone.
Nello got his bottom two 2nd year molars along with hand, foot and mouth.... :( :P about 2 weeks ago and didn't eat for days, so for the last 2 weeks he has been eating like there is no tomorrow.
Aisling x
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3 eggs!!!
I can't eat three eggs!!
That is a LOT of food!
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Bak Choy and Fried Rice!
Fried Rice is a favourite, good way to put in veggies and protein.
But the bak choy.. stir fried... that's a first! She really liked the cruncy stalks.
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You got me jealous :P Thanks Caroline, I know it's quite normal, too. That's what I always tell all the other mothers, but when mine does it, it's catastrophe time! How weird is that? He also didn't eat because of his constipation, so there was a reason, but it's over now. Still a picky wee man.
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3 eggs!!!
I can't eat three eggs!!
That is a LOT of food!
I know!? Although I find with scrambled the eggs shrink down a lot. He is starving already and it is only 6:45, he woke up and said first thing, "Cheese." His metabolism is just like DH's and he is soooo busy, not to mention we are outside playing physically all day long and swimming for the most of it.
Steffi, the only time DS has ever been picky is with teething. How are his 2nd yr molars coming?
A x
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WEll, they're coming... Dr. said so and she said the thrush is a sign for it as well (bumthrush)... so that may be the reason :) Thanks :-*
B: half a slice of toast
L: refused
S: refused
D: will make him mash and veg. Hopefully he'll eat some of it...
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Well, it's 1pm and she has refused everything so far today :-\
The only think I was able to get her to eat was a few bites of freeze dried bananas and that's it = the amount of one bite of an actual banana
She did guzzle 10oz of milk this am and then at the park drank 4oz of water so maybe because she didn't eat she compensated by drinking more milk this am? Who knows.
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Not posted for a while
Today Lily ate
B- bf, nearly whole bowl cheerios, large handful of grapes (might of been too many her nappy tonight wasn't pretty :P )
L- 1/2 cheese sandwich, tried some SIL prawns with rose mari sauce (think thats right) liked them, tried some proper ham of the bone, liked that too :) 2 strawberries
bf before nap snack after, few cheese & tom puffs & some raisins
D- stir fry with rice, tried some of mine with sweat & sour sauce and seemed to like that too. Most Muller fruit corner yogurt, 3 strawberries & some more cheese & tom puffs.
I have discovered that Lily really likes fish, she often has mini fish fingers for dinner and has had battered cod from chip shop, but I recently tried her with a salmon paste sandwich which she scoffed up, she had a fish cake (which was really fishy IYKWIM) when out for dinner the other night and today the prawns. Cant work out where she gets it from as neither DP or myself really eat fish at all, but I'm certainly not knocking it. We also seem to be making some progress in the meat department with the ham and I have discovered she likes that wafer thin sandwich chicken (not really much meat in that I know but it ain't vegetarian either ;) )
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Hi,
My ds is almost 28 months and has been an extremley picky eater (as per my many previous posts!!!!) He is getting better though, I really think it's been his back molars coming through....plus the fact that he had me wrapped around his little finger and used to play me up a treat with meals....pushing the plate away, so I'd offer him something else. Anyway, that's all changed now...hopefully!!
Brek - 2 bowls rice krispies
snack - toast
lunch - mashed potato, 2 chicken fillets in breadcrumbs (nanny style!!) and spaghetti hoops followed by a yoghurt
snack - Organics puffs - Kiddies organic crisps
Dinner - Cottage pie and ice cream
milk & organic biscuits.
Considering his recent attempts of eating, this is really good for him!!
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That is great Jacob's Mum! :)
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dinner was refused, too. So today Scotty ate 1/2 slice of toast and half a kinder maxi. And a glass of fruit juice, fennel tea throughout the day...
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Well, dinner was a tad bit better.
She did have a 4oz yogurt for a snack after her afternoon nap
Then at dinner she ate 3 bites of fish, about 10 macaroni noodles (Organic Mac n cheese), about 6 Lil Crunchies (veggie) and that's it. I keep trying to give her dinner later than 5pm since her snack is at 3:30 but she seems to know just when it's 5 and cries for food....but she never eats that much. Need to work on this more. :P
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Same ole "LOL". I had taking the yogurt out of the lunch equation and put it after supper, but the last 2 days, I ended up putting it back at lunch more for convenience due to some work stuff.
breakfast #1: 6 oz jar of oatmeal w/pears
breakfast #2: munched on watermelon and grapes. Decent amount of scrambled eggs
lunch: 4 oz cup of yogurt and 1/2 bannana
supper: a couple potatoe/veggie pancakes and a handful of noodles.
Funny thing is, not that I want to make this a habit....but she was really whining to get down for her chair. Well she had dropped her potatoe puff on the floor and picked it up and than started eating it while hanging in the living room. There not messy so I gave her another, but she didn't want it.
oh and fishy/chex snack in afternoon
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well she had,2 spoons of millet porridge.
snack,pepti junior,7oz
lunch,3 pot wedges,2 spoons cod,spoon ofpeas.
corn bite
dinner,1 brussel sproutr,2 slices carrot,half potatoe.
bed.7 oz pepti,.
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I thought I would post what Jacob has eaten today, as I have posted numerous times before about him being such a picky eater!
Brekkie - 1 bowl rice krispies
Snack - 3 small pieces of eggy bread!!! (1 egg used)
Lunch - 2 small sausage rolls and organic kids crisps, 2 yoghurts
Snack - Raisens, small bag of organic biscuits (keeps him quiet while we're walking around the garden centre!!)
Dinner - 2 salmon starfish (home made) and 1/2 small tin spaghetti hoops
Milk and 2 organic biscuits.
It's such a difference to last week!!!
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Thats great Jacob! Keep it up!
we had a good eating day here too
Breakfast - toast with butter and 1/2 banana
Lunch - Scrambled egg with baked beans and some bread roll
snack - 1 yogurt 1/2 banana
Dinner - mince and potatoes with carrot and swede
after dinner before bath - 1 small bowl grapes
before bed, usually just 9oz bottle but she has been waking earler hungry so I made a little ready oats with some pureed fruit. She ate this and took about 5oz milk so we will see how this works out
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Well, today has been a tad bit better than yesterday...
Breakfast refused
Snack 2 oz of pureed fruit
Lunch 3oz of yogurt
Snack 1/2 apple nutrigrain bar
We did take her to the dr. today and they said she has a minor ear infection due to all the teeth she just got in the last 3 weeks (6-7....hard to see the top row of teeth) and said it's perfectly fine for her to be drinking a ton of milk and water right now since it's harder for her to eat. Hopefully with in a few days it will pass and she'll be back to eating.
Melissa
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Breakfast - Bowl of Fruit&Fibre, Innocent orange and mango smoothie
Lunch - Mashed potato/sweetcorn/sliced ham.
Dinner - went out to a restaurant, so lasagne and garlic bread, and chocolate brownies with chocolate sauce & ice cream :-[ (wonder why he was bouncing on his trampoline at 8pm :P ::) :D)
Rice milk throughout the day.
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My dh just caught sight of this thread and thinks I am nuts, wanting to know what everyone's child eats everyday!
It's one of my fave threads :)
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My dh just caught sight of this thread and thinks I am nuts, wanting to know what everyone's child eats everyday!
It's one of my fave threads :)
Me too!
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B: some yoghurt
L: refused
S: green salad
D: huge bowl of mash with peas and sweetcorn ;D He asked for more in two languages :)
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YAY Scotty!!! ;D ;D (Mum can relax for a bit now ;))
We've been having great success with mashed potato here too
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He prefers it to pasta now. Pasta gets refused loudly. NEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIINNEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIN. (no) Very cute, very annoying. I'll stick with mash. Is it constipating?
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no i dont think so
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He prefers it to pasta now. Pasta gets refused loudly. NEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIINNEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIN. (no) Very cute, very annoying. I'll stick with mash. Is it constipating?
Hooray Scotty that is a better day. Potatoes are starchy so they can bung you up a bit. I add corn sometimes or grated carrots and finely minced spinach into the mash. Sometimes I add no added sugar applesauce too for a different flavour. He also likes sweet potato and regular potato mash blend.
Today:
B: Muesli and Shreddies cereal with milk and half a banana
B #2: Toast with no sugar added strawberry jam and milky tea ::) (Grandma's house!)
Lunch: Half a grilled sweet potato with olive oil, cottage cheese and frozen peas
Snack: Yogurt and pineapple
Dinner: Tortellini
10 oz of milk at bed, :P he didn't have milk all day as it is very hot today, so he was drinking a lot of water.
A x
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aisling - I've never thought to grill sweet potato, obviously its grilled but how are you preparing it, what heat grill and for how long? It sounds good and I can only get Lily to eat chips no other form of potato so it would make a good alternative :)
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First I wash them and then poke holes in them with a fork and put them in a glass bowl with a bit of water at the bottom and cover bowl with lid or cling film/saran wrap. I microwave for about 10 min. Then slice them in half and drizzle with olive oil and also add a bit of fresh parsley. Lay them on kitchen foil and baking tray and put under grill for about 10 min or until soft depending on size. DS uses a spoon to dig out of skins. I eat the whole thing. HTH.
A x
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Mmmm think I will give that a go, it just gave me another thought too, I guess there is no reason why I couldn't cut them into chip shapes too and cook in similar fashion ;)
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they sound yummy,will try too :)
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Mind putting them too close to the grill. The sugar from the potatoes combined with the olive oil, you'll smoke the house out! (like I did once :P ::))
Enjoy.
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Mmmm think I will give that a go, it just gave me another thought too, I guess there is no reason why I couldn't cut them into chip shapes too and cook in similar fashion ;)
Sweet potato chips done in the oven with olive oil are YUMMY!
Don't need to pre-cook, either
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oooh, again what heat and for how long?
Fantastic I like to give her sweet potato and don't like giving chips too often (even once a week is a bit too often for my liking) so a couple of new ways with sweet potato will hugely vary what starchy foods she gets. She likes rice, pasta & noodles but only mixed with something else not just as a serving plain and to me some dinners just should be meat & 2 veg KWIM
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We serve baked potato/sweet potato often, it is a fav here.
DD also eats both those things just steamed...but likes the baked better (don't we all ;))
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oooh, again what heat and for how long?
Erm, not sure, until it's done ;)
Seriously, it depends on how thin you cut them, but I usually toss them in olive oil, put them on a baking tray and stick them in at 180C for about 20-30 mins. I also turn them a couple of times.
Sorry that wasn't much help :D
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B: one whole slice of toast, two cups of milk
L: huge plate of pasta, asked for more in English, thought we didn't get him, then asked in German ;D
S: pear
D: whole slice of french toast
fruit juice and water throughout the day...
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Great Scotty/Steffi!
With the sweet potatoes, if I don't precook in the microwave, they only take about 20 min to grill. I only do that if I know I will be near the kitchen for that long to keep an eye on the grill.
A x
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Yesterday Lily mastered the use of a fork ;D she was eating her strawberries with it.
Today Lily ate
B - 1/2 bowl rice crispies with yogurt & milk and few mouthfuls of my muesli with yogurt & milk
L - 3/4 slice cheese on toast with francfurter slices on top, 4 strawberries
few grapes here & there
few raisins
D - at a garden party, 2 pieces of ham quiche, 1 party sausage, 1 party egg, 1/4 beefburger & roll, 3/4 cherry yogurt
on way home 4 of grandmas plums from her garden
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Fantastic!! Go Lily!!
Breakfast - cheerios, 1/2 a roll with butter and 3/4 of banana yoghurt
snack - stole some of her brothers nutella sandwich ::)
Lunch - toast, 1/2 sausage, 1/2 rasher bacon, some egg, some beans, 1 of her brothers chicken nuggets (we were out for a late breakfast (hangover cure for me :-[ :P) and lunch for the kids
snack - strawberries and raspberries and a few cocktail sausages
Dinner - macaroni cheese and a few fries
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Oh Lee Ann, I'm HOMESICK!!! I want Scottish food, too!!!
(I know I technically AM at home, but still :P )
B: some French Toast
L: Big plate of wholemeal spaghetti with homemade tomato sauce, two cups of milk
S: a bit of nutcake, fruit juice and some yoghurt
D: big plate of mash, cauliflower and sausage
;D ;D ;D
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Oh Steffi would it help to know that in my full scottish breakfast there was bacon, square sausage, fried egg, potato scone, fried bread, mushrooms. Oh the CALORIES!! MMMMMMM :P
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I miss full Scottish breakfast... Mine is the same, just a fried tomato as well :)
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Today nothing but a few grapes. She's been pretty sick. temp of 102 and just lathargic and sleepy and crabby all day. sicker than we've seen her in a long time. took her to the doctor this morning and they checked for ear infections and a bladder infection. She had a bladder infection once a long long time ago. The doctor said it must be some kind of a virus and all I can do is give her tylenol I guess. So no eating today.
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hmm they didn't check for teeth, however they did check her throat and unfortunately due to her being so upset at the doctors office, she gagged and threw up a little. She is drinking some milk and water through out the day.
thanks for asking. I'm nervous about her schedule being so messed up, especially when it's been SO SO consistent. She slept a lot from like 6am until 9am and also took an hour nap from 1:30 to 2:30pm. She usually naps 2 hours a day from noon to 2pm. I'm hoping she goes to bed her normal time. I guess it depends. Nana and Pep are taking care of her for a few hours, since they usually get her on Saturdays. I'm picking her up in about 20 minutes. They only live 10 minutes away from us.
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Lets hope it is just teeth, at least you'll know what your dealing with then. Horrible to have a LO so poorly and not really know how best to make her better. We haven't really had any illness' as such yet, touch wood. Hope she feels better soon :)
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Isabella was just like that when she cut her 1yr molars. It was horrible, she had a fever for a few days, then she was just really crabby and wouldn't eat. All she wanted to do was sleep. She'd be up 1.5 hrs and then need to go back to bed. Our trouble was that she wouldn't drink much either, it was quite scary. All in all it lasted a few weeks, but the worst of it was only a few days, gradually it got better. The doc gave antibiotics in the end as her ears looked a "little sore"......The teeth are still cutting now 2 months on, but she has "touch wood" been eating well since the first corners came through.
Doc also prescribed vitamin drops as I was worried about her lack of food.
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last night her fever went to 105.
than down to 102.5 until around 930am and she sweated & it broke to normal
now its up too 100.7
Ill have to bring back to doctor Tuesday if fevers continue.
I doubt Ill see much food being consumed by her.
thanks for the support
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They just suggest tylenol around here. Someone else on this site also suggested that. I will check into it. Thanks
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We do Nurofen (ibuprofen) and Medised or Calpol (Paracetamol) in the way Stacy described x
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I personally would be reluctant to put a fever that high down to teething. Yes, I do believe teething can cause a fever, and yes the corners of each molar coming through was really bad here too. But that is a very very high fever, and if it were me, I would be going back to the dr just to be sure there isn't something else.
Dr said viral (and I am inclined to agree based on all the illnesses we have seen here) but did he give a time frame on recovery?
I use only one kind of med at a time, but which one I use depends on her response (ie fevers response). I switch between ibuprofen and paracetamol.
If she isn't eating much, nor drinking loads either, have you considered offering diluted juice? that way more nutrients are going in, and she may be inspired to drink by the yummier taste?
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she actually had a slice of american cheese and a cheese puff an hour ago "lol". We sat her with us at dinner and gave her options of corn on the cob, chicken and brocolli mixed with cheese. She didn't want any. She just played a little. I didn't think she'd eat, but still tried. She's been in a pretty decent mood tonight so far - mostly walking around and playing a bit instead of just lying on the couch. But still sick and still a low grade fever. I'm expecting it's possible it could go up again tonight. I actually did call the doctor in the middle of the night when it went as high as 105. I didn't know what to do.
If she continues with fevers - we have to take her back to the Dr. on Tuesday. They claim fevers can last 48-72 hours.
She has been drinking milk today and some water.
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yesterday was a bit of a snacky day,
Breakfast - cheerios and milk
Lunch - some cheese cubes , some salami, some strawberries, some cheesy puffs, a few bites of my sandwich.
Dinner - lentil soup and a yoghurt. I offered her bread to dip into her soup but she refused.
Then she had a few bits of veggies while we were eating dinner ::)
Prob the worst day we have had a for a while
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Well, we just got back from being gone for 3 days and boy is it hard to feed them properly when you are away from home and you aren't staying at someones home. We had zero veggies (snuck some into her at 7pm last night when we got home ;)) but lot's of fruit and breads. It was definitely an experience but I was much more laid back about it than I thought I would be. :)
Have a great day everyone.
Melissa
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The only veg Lily ate while we was away was some peas with her dinner sunday night at pub, unless of course you count the broccoli thats in dry packet mix pasta cheese & broccoli sauce (just add milk) she had the first night we were there ??? She also had far too much cheese, chips and fried food, but I did keep the fruit intake up. It is hard I found to eat healthy with her on holiday, last yr when she was still tiny was a much more restful simple holiday, only then it seemed like we were moving house because of all the gear you have to cart along with you when they are tiny, maybe next year will be better :-\
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Wasn't it easier to keep a healthy diet while travelling when they were still on bottles, breastmilk or jars? I found that...
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We are away from home quite often for meals, and dont' find it a huge problem to be honest. But then, we tend to eat reasonably healthy (I will choose restaurant/cafe over fast food any day of the week).
We usually order foods that have veggies with them (like DH will order steak and veg) and he will give her some of his, and whatever I order (often fish) she will get some too. If Pizza, he likes meaty ones, I like vegetarian, so she has some of each.
We don't always get to use fresh fruit when away from home, but she absolutely LOVES snack packs of sultanas (or any dried fruit mix really). And we let her have juice too (there is fruit in that!).
Toast at breakfast, or cereal, depending where we are eating.
We only find it hard to feed her appropriate foods if we aren't eating appropriate foods iykwim.
Oh, and ham, cheese and avacado sandwhiches are pretty simple and effective too.
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My LO had some oatmeal w/pears and some bites of a bananna today. Plus milk. She is still sick. Fevers were up to 103.7 last night and between 100.5 and 101.5 today so far. Dr. checked her out again and she had blood work and chest x rays done. all came out fine so far. This has been going on since Friday night. I'm assuming tonight will be another wake up and give her medicine every 4 hours. Suppose to go back to dr on Wednesday where they will check for bladder infection again. they checked that on Saturday. She's just lying around like a lump on a log and somewhat irratable here and there. Poor LO. MIL thinks teething, but I don't know about these ongoing high fevers.
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I would also think that her lethargy is also concerning ???
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How is Chayse today? ((((HUGS))))
Last night's supper is starting to become a regular Monday night thing. It is great as after the weekend of BBQ's, parties, picnics and the like, it is nice to eat a little lighter. Not to mention it was 30C yesterday and I wasn't in the mood for major cooking. I think we will do this every Monday night now as DS and DH love it. We call it "COLD SALAD NIGHT."
Hard boiled eggs
Cucumbers with dill and lemon juice
Leaf salad
Beets-these are DS's fave, he goes bonkers for them. (Mental note: don't panic when I see red in his poo today! :P )
Cottage cheese
Corn on the cob-his 2nd fave!
Pickled eggplant/aubergine
Rosemary focaccia bread
Raspberries
It is a fun supper too. ;D Enjoy.
Aisling x
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chayse doesnt have a fever and slept thru the night with out a fever. yeahhhhhhh
I hope this is the end of the sickness
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Hooray ;D and hope there are some teeth to show for all that! :P ((((HUGS))))
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You must be relieved thats really good news ;D
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no fever, but very cranky and crying a lot today. I have no idea what is wrong. Drinking milk and even eating a little "scrambled eggs, little yogurt, and some bites of a bannana so far today". She is more mobile and moving around today here and there. Earlier she was getting frustrated over everything and nothing and would just lie on the floor and start crying or even worse - bang her head against something.
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Ladies what do you think? Lily has been eating loads the last few days I just cant seem to fill her up and she is particularly hungry mid morning. We dropped the midday BF in the last week, do you think its that making her scoff her face like no tomorrow? She has been asking for 2nd's & 3rd's at most meals and wants snacks in between too.
Today for example she had
Crunchy nut cornflakes (didn't finish them but it was the first time she had them and I think she went of them when they went soggy, must admit not keen then myself) then banana then toddler biscuit then I said no more.
snack - wotsits
Humous & cucumber sandwich, 3 big cherries, 1/2 slice sandwich chicken more wotsits
Fish fingers chips peas & carrots (a whole carrot) and apart from a few peas ate the lot, then had 7/8 strawberries, then had a toddler biscuit, then some wotsits (cheese puffs), then 3 little slices of cheese and was still asking for more :o
It doesn't look that much now I write it down it was more the quantities of each thing and I know she would of eaten more today if I had kept offering. Could that 1 BF be reducing her calorie intake that much ???
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she obviously still feels 'pants' but at least now she has some more energy to express just how pants she really feels, I'd say sure sign she is on the mend ;)
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My dd is coming up for 17 months and she will eat all day but recently she has started to go off breakfast which Im not really concerned as I remember my DS doing the same thing but it is still a worry.
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I've never really given her milk to drink as she does get plenty of dairy and was having the 3 bf a day plus the milk in her cereal, perhaps a cup of milk mid morning would be an idea from now on.
thanks
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new mum - also consider that Lily may be having a growth spurt. With Zara, she had a huge one at 12 months, and then another at 15 months....we never had any noticeable ones before 12 months, but I have heard that some kids then have noticable spurts each three months between ages 1 and 2.
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Hmmm...I've heard that elsewhere that beets are huge favorites with LOs. Might have to try those. We tried the edamame beans today and not only did she not even hesitate to start shoving them in her mouth she ate a TON! I was like :o :o :o :o and then ;D ;D ;D ;D
Hope little Chayse is feeling better!
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rinajack - I had said that she noticeably grows since turning 1yr but didn't realise they had them to any sort of time frame, she is 15m 1week so I guess thats the right time. Most likely then a bit of both, loss of 1 bf and a growth spurt. I will keep a look out for one at 18months and be ready for it this time ;)
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Just thought I'd cheer you all up with our terrible day yesterday ;). We were out and about from early, so had to make do with what we could find.
Breakfast - bacon buttie :-[. Really enjoyed it, ate loads ::)
Snack - refused a banana
Lunch - sausage roll :-[. 'Mmm, that's yummy Mummy' ::)
Snack - organix pear and pineapple fruit pot
Dinner - refused to eat any of (his favourite) spagetti bolognese in a restaurant.
Lots of rice milk throughout the day
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Today I thought her appetite was subsiding, but maybe not
bf
rice crispies with yogurt & milk (didn't finish so didn't get anything else)
1/2 pack quavers
2 slices cheese & onion quiche, 1 nectarine
good few raisins & maybe 2oz milk
HUGE bowl pasta with broccoli cauliflower and cheese sauce, 1/2 muller fruit corner yogurt, 8 strawberries and toddler biscuit :o
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nightmare ::) :'(
some red grapes
pepti 8 oz
4 chips 2 cubes chicken
raisens
8oz pepti
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she has it for intollerance
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Breakfast - toast with cheese on the side 5oz milk
lunch - sausage roll and some chicken mayo from my sandwich (we wereout shopping)
snack - some maltesers (at Granny's house ::))
dinner - chicken stirfry with lots of noodles and a couple of bits of potato. A yoghurt
bedtime - 9oz milk
Kirsten's bedtime bottle is still follow on formula, I tried switching it to cows milk but she wakes up hungry through the night, I have also tried giving her porridge at bedtime but this also makes her wake through the night ??? so for now formula it is my sleep is just too important ;)
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We have toddler formula here too - it takes the stress out of eating for me and is an easy way for me to prove to myself wether she is refusing food because she can, or because she isn't hungry.
250 ml formula offered (probably drank btw 150-200)
very small amount of dried fruit (threw most of it instead of eating it, just wanted to play I think)
1 weetbix with milk and honey (ate all but 1 mouthful) and some orange juice
about 3 sultanas
small amount of rice cake with tepanade (too tired to eat that though after early waking, this was right before nap), so ended up with good size portion of mango yoghurt
1 jelly dinosaur lolly - I think, she may have ended up feeding that to the dog
Veggies for dinner (potato, carrot, cauliflower, peas, corn, zuccini) - ate a decent amount, but started to refuse when the neighbour popped in to ask a favour - it doesn't take much to stop her meals!
1 toddler fruit stick thingy
some juice
and we offered formula at bedtime due to the dinner interruption, but she only drank about 25 ml (an oz) so she really was full.
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So, you know those raisin bread loafs? Mira doesn't particularly like it. But yday she ate her friends as it was probably more enticing as he was eating it, but the difference was, it was cut in cubes. Like, 1cmx1cm.
So, tried that today, and of course, she ate the whole thing without even blinking.
We're on toddler formula too. She has cows milk with meals and snacks and toddler form first thing in morning and at night before bedroutine.
Weetabix, toast, banana+yoghurt
Rice cake
Home made fish fingers, blueberries, raisin bread, fromage frais
Yoghurt pancake (hmm.... lots of yog today!) + milk
Fried Rice (that's how we get the vegies in) + cheese on toast + green apple
(can't say she's not getting any calcium!!)
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Well this morning she was at Nana's. She said she only had a few spoonfuls of her oatmeal cereal and I think she might of picked on some fruit. But a little while later like 8:30ish, Nana said she had a good amount of scrambled eggs. I don't remember what else Nana might of giving her. Than she fell asleep on the earlier side and I picked her up right after her nap. She had never had her milk sippy that she usually has before her nap. I had to run some errands with her and there was no time to try to feed so around 2:30pm ish - I gave her a 4/5 oz sippy of milk to tie her over. Than I believe around 3 ish - at home...I sat her down and let her munch on some left over "cold" spagetti, slice of american cheese, and some cherries. Surprisingly she didnt do too bad. Than at 4:30pm, she was SO SO SO SO CRABBY. I didn't know WHAT she wanted and with her being sick, she's been really!!!!! cranky. I sat her down in her highchair not knowing what else to do and asked her if she wanted a bananna. She didn't really respond, but I gave it to her and she ate the ENTIRE bananana. So I decided to give her some of her noodles and she ate some of those too. Than I gave her some yogurt and she eat at least 3 out of the 4 oz of the yogurt cup. Than not that long after that - she sat with DH and I while we had pizza and she ate some pizza crust and than had a 4 oz sippy of milk.
by the way: Fever is still gone, she did have a weird red "flat" spotted rash on stomache and back. I know it wasn't itchy because she doesn't touch it all. That is also pretty much gone, although I haven't checked her entirely since I picked her up from Nana's. It appeared right after the fevers went away. She is better every day, but she's been having these BOUTS of crying and crankiness and it's real tiring for me sometimes. I don't really see any teeth popping through. She does have "one on each side" sort of the middle of the back, but they popped through before the fevers began and are just slowly growing.
Anyways, I guess tonight she was hungry huh? Growth spurt maybe? You know her - picky eater usually.
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Well, dreadful intake here today, still not 100% sure what is wrong. She is cutting her first eye tooth, has a runny nose (clear now, was green a couple days ago), has a bit of a cough, and through the week had a temp for a couple days, gone now.....
Sippy of formula - 200ml (skulled it!)
Asked for her breakfast early, ate almost a whole weetbix with milk and honey
Rest of day - orange juice, apple juice (I didn't even realise how much juice, thought DH had given her large sippy of water ::), however, she drank that quite early in the AM (before 9am), and then.....
about 3 tiny teddy biscuits
1 grape
water (little bit)
handful frozen peas and gnawed on some raw carrot but didn't actually get much in
about 3 bites of veggies at dinner
offered yoghurt instead (cause she was super tired) - ate about 6 spoonfuls
offered sippy of formula intead - drank about an oz.
??? :-\
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Miss Roar's
B - Weetbix and muesli
MT - tinned apricot, and yogurt
L - mini pizza, corn, pumpkin, baby spinach, tomato, tomato sauce, salami, cheese
AT - frozen peas, 1/2 pear
D - chickpea and lentil curry with yogurt
I'm loving the chickpea curry too and it's become a family favourite.
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Well. 8:35pm, and already one wakeup - with a temp of 39C! :-\ Poor baby.
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rinajack, I hope she feels better.
today:
6oz jar granola cereal w/cinnamon
4oz milk
strawberries, a very decent amount of scrambled eggs
4oz milk
@at cookout which was at nana and peps: hotdog, icecream, some american cheese, chips, some cold noodles, couple bites of a strawberry
supper: just a few noodles. tried tyson chix but only took 1 bite
5oz milk
About an hour later - A good 6 oz cup of milk sippy.
I'm not sure if she'll have the rest of her sippy before bed, which is in like 5 minutes. She just finished, but sometimes I'll let her finish her sippy right before bed. It's a big sippy cup which I believe holds like 9oz or something like that.
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temp is under control (with meds). Still coughing though seems happy enough in herself - although must be sick, with all the waking last night, ended up doing 6:30-7:30 - 13 hrs (but probably lost a good two hours in wakeups in there ::), so probably a normal length sleep).
So far today - thought I heard her stomach growling at 5:20, offered milk, drank maybe 50 ml, then refused, on waking, offered milk, drank maybe 50 ml then refused. Breakfast, 2 small handfuls dry cheerios, about 2 mouthfuls of weetbix, and a tiny bite of vegemite toast, a few sips of OJ. So, not much.
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You know the day is going to be good for eating when it begins with:
6 oz milk
2 slices rye toast with butter
and 3, yes 3 hard boiled eggs :o
Snack- yogurt mini cone. I buy these mini cones that are for ice cream, they are so small and cute and I fill it with a thick style yogurt, he thinks it's an ice cream cone! :D
Lunch-Turkey, cream cheese, avocado and homemade salsa tortilla wrap, raisins, water
Nap
Snack- In car on way to see the boats in the marina with Daddy-Peanut Butter, honey and alfalfa sprout sandwich -I used a small bun/dinner roll for this and packed with water to bring for the ride, DH said he ate half on the way there and the other on the way home.
Supper-Mezza rigatoni pasta (fun pasta to eat-- DS puts on his finger like a ring, he loves doing this!) with canellini (white kidney beans) olive oil, onions and parm cheese. 8 oz milk right after supper
Snack- another yogurt mini cone
We were reading outside on the front porch before bed and he asked for milk! :o So I went and made myself a cup of tea and brought him a wee bit of milk in a tea mug and he drank it all, probably around 4 oz. :o
Good day, I'd say. If you are interested in those mini cones, I can attach a pic if you don't know what I mean. I get them here in Canada in any supermarket where they keep the cones for ice cream. It is like a light wafer style. Also nice if you are in the mood for an ice cream as it satisfies that sweet tooth with out all the calories, I had 2 the other day with Italian lemon icecream! Awesome.
Aisling x
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A PEN!! (among other things!) He was covered in blue ink! All over his arms and legs and face for that matter. I feel bad because I wasn't watching him very closely as I was on here!
This looks like a fun thread! My toddler is a super huge eater! As long as it is not veggies that is!
Today he ate:
Breakfast: Cereal with milk, and orange juice
Snack: Homemade banana oatmeal muffin, a mango, 2 sippy's of water (8oz)
Lunch: box of raisins, 3 crackers, soft taco (from taco bell :-[ ... we were out doing errands), water
Snack: homemade applesauce, water
Dinner: pork loin, roast potatoes, tomatoes (quite a few actually ... this is the only "veggie" he will eat), milk, and peach pie for dessert.
This was an ok day for him!
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Cathy, LOL at eating a pen!
Stacy: Try the alfalfa sprouts, they are "lawn food" lol, but so healthy and small, fine enough, not to get them worried that it is too much "green" in there. Nello loves salad, so I tell him it's salad. LMAO at shutting up your Mum with the cheesies! This is the reason I got those mini cones! My Mum was obsessed with getting him to eat ice cream ! (he wouldn't eat it in the past) So she bought those small cones and thought they were the bees knees and made sure I was well aware at how small they were and it won't harm him having a wee cone everyday at her house, it is summer you know, she says! ::) So at home I give him the yogurt cones as I know she will always give him ice cream and he goes to her house at least 2x a day. (2 doors away) Her next food item goal to get him to eat: Jell-o! (Jelly) ??? ::) He refuses everytime.
I wish Nello would eat fruit like Kaleb. What child does not like strawberries or grapes? He only eats pineapple, melon and raspberries.
We are off to DH's family reunion all day "catered" Italian picnic today, ::) 8)so we'll see what gets eaten today! Bringing boiled eggs, that's for sure in case! ;D
Aisling x
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Well tonight, I made my shrimp and scallop dinner over spagetti. I decided not to even cook anything separate for Chayse figuring she could pick on the spagetti. She did eat some of the spagetti. We also gave her some shrimp and scallops and mushrooms from the dinner. She wouldn't try anything, but did manage to try the scallops. It was nice and soft and she actually liked them. They were cut into smaller bite size pieces and she ate a few of them.
But anyways, usual day for the most part.
1. 6 oz jar of granola cereal from jar
4 oz sippy milk
2. 3 out of 4 waffle sticks. There the frozen ones that you toast. Some strawberries
Also: While shopping, some cheese from the deli and a few bites of an apple, which I saw her spitting out mostly. I think she just likes to bite into it and spit it out because she keeps biting it when she has apples. Also 4 oz sippy milk.
3. Lunch: tried this new fajita thing that I saw at the store. It's all rolled up. I forget the name. It had chicken and cheese in it wrapped around flour tortilla. She did start taking a bite, but than didn't want any. She had previously been eating some bananna and she didn't anymore of that either
4. Supper: The noddles and the scallops. I didn't think she eat a TREMENDOUS amount of spagetti, but she did eat it. Than 5 oz sippy milk.
Than an hour later she was so so so so sooooooooo crabby. I gave her the night time milk sippy and she drank most of it. I think it holds a good 9 or 10 oz. She must of drank at least 6 oz of it.
A cookie and some fishies for snacks earlier.
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The liliepie ticker doesn't update for chayse. Strange.
Anyways - I don't know if it's something I'm doing wrong or what.
Today, I was going to see if she wanted to have some of our dinner. I was planning on starting it around 4:30pm so it could be ready around 5:30pm. Well around 4:20pm - she started whining a little and was over by her booster chair. Which, lately has been a sign that she wants to sit in it. I had to give in and give her the same old canned noodles I always give her. I also cut up carrots into VERY small pieces and RED peppers into strips. She did seem to eat some of the red pepper. But - I just wouldn't of thought she would of been ready to eat at 4:20pm based on today. Here is today
6:45am - 6 oz jar of oatmeal with pears "jar food from gerber" plus 4 oz sippy milk
9:30 ish - scrambled eggs and picked on a strawberry or 2. Plus 4 oz sippy milk about an hour later or so
2:45pm ish "after nap" - some left over spagetti from dinner last night. I let her just eat it with her hands. 1/4 of a popcycle. Oh and I think she had a few bites of a bannana. I don't even think it was 1/2 of a bannana
4:20pm - Explained above. Plus her 5 oz milk sippy after supper. I was really hoping to hold her off for supper until we ate. Or I should say until I ate, since DH decided to go work on some side project at someones house that he's been working on and said to save him dinner.
One cookie and maybe 2 little fishies through out the day.
Actually, I don't think she ate like someone who was starving today, but did pretty good I guess. Better than not eating at all.
dinner tonight is parboiled green beans and than pan fried with lemon pepper seasoning and olive oil.
breaded lemon/pepper chicken. Red potatoes. Now she'll never eat any of it now or try.
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weetabix with mashed banana and milk, toast, milk in a cup
snack - box of raisins, rice cakes, water
lunch - homemade fish pie with potato topping and green beans,
( fish pie is a real fav, just poach some fish, cod, haddock or salmon or a mixture in a little milk with a bay leaf, for about 5 mins, let it cool a little in the milk. then melt 1 oz butter in pan, add 1 oz flour stir till smooth paste, then slowly mix in a little of the cooking milk into the pan until you have used about 1/2 pint. Slowly heat the mixture stiring all the time until sauce comes to simmer and thicken. Sometimes I add a little cheese. then place the drained fish in the bottom of a casserole dish, add one hard boiled egg chopped up, some dill, parlsey and chives some frozen peas and then poor over the sauce, top with mashed potatoe and a little parmesan then bake for 30 mins. Lovely for all the family. Can be frozen.
snack - milk in a cup breadsticks, grapes
supper - homemade butternut squash rissotto, half a pear
(cut in half the squash, bake in oven at about 200 until soft and slightly brown. make a basic rissotto with garlic and onion and a little chicken stock, once rice is cooked stir in the flesh from the squash and a hand full of cheese.
Fav's are, chicken breast strips flattened and coated with egg and matzo meal then pan
pan fried tuna, served with steamed green beans that I finish in the pan with some oilve oil and chopped tomato
fried until golden brown, served with mash and peas
cottage pie, served with brocoli trees
roasted veg pasta with feta
chilli con carne, without chilli use, half a teaspoon of ground cumin, coriander and paprika to flavour but no heat, serve with baked potato or rice and little cheese
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So far today (it's just after lunch) our ds had:
pre-breakfast snack (breakfast isn't ready until 7:30)
- 3/4 cup milk with "Horlick's Jr" (a multivitamin-enriched malted milk drink)
- 1 banana
breakfast
- potato curry - basically boiled potatoes and spices in gravy (1/2 cup or a bit more)
- 1 chapatti (Indian whole wheat flatbread - kind of like half a pita)
morning snack
- 1 chapatti with peanut butter & jam
- water
lunch
- tamarind rice (boiled rice mixed with tamarind and spices - no chili) - about 1 cup
- pea & potato curry 1/4 cup
- strawberry-banana yogurt smoothie - 1/2 cup
Pretty heavy on bread & potatoes, but that's life here...
Dinner won't be any surprise - it'll be dal (lentil curry) and rice, though we'll throw in some spiced mutton patties as a treat. As for afternoon snack, I'd usually give him a mango, but the season is ending and bananas are all we can get - hopefully new fruit will come in soon.
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IndiaJenn, its really cool to see what your LO eats :)
Would you have a recipe for a mild creamy/coconut type curry. I'm not too hot on what spices to use but do like to use spices rather than any type of powder mix, since having Lily I'm much more into making things from scratch so you know just what they are getting but I used to be the packet mix/jar queen of cooking ;) I have a recipe for a chickpea curry which Lily really quite liked, however it was mummys turn to shake her head and say "nah" :P
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oooohhhh ooohhhhh ooohhhhh!!!
If you look near the top of page 3 of this thread
https://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=94282.30
There's a chicken coconut curry recipe that's fabulous. DH says it's now his favorite way to have chicken! It's very mild too, and you can adjust it with how much of the green curry paste you add.
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LOL, LOL colin mac's mom, wish I'd asked sooner. Will have a look at it thanks :) It must be a favourite if you can remember the page number that far back ;)
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Found it, it does sound good and quick to cook too. I'm wondering if it will work without fish sauce, Lily likes fish but I'm veggie and have never really liked fish. I will give it a go.
Thanks
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Yeah, I have no idea why it's called fish sauce because it doesn't taste anything like fish. Hold your nose though, it smells AWFUL!
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Yesterday
B: Full English Breakfast
L: Fish and Chips
S: two bags of crisps
D: Chinese Takeaway
okay, that was a joke
B: 2 slices of wholemeal toast with jam
L: toddler size plate of homemade spaghetti bolognese with peppers
S: two pears and some grapes
D: cereal with whole milk, some cucumber
Getting better :)
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Today Wooey has had...
Breakfast.. 2 weetabix and a large banana with a beaker of apple juice
Lunch .. Cheese toastie followed by fromage frais
Snack... strawberries
Tea.. he will be having lamb and vegatables with carrot and swede mash.. hope he will eat it lol..
H xxx
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Breakfast: 5 Grapes, 2 cheerios (offered strawberries, whole wheat bagel) drank milk
Snack: Quick and on the way to church....a no spill cup of cheerios, 2 carrot wagon wheels and organic cheese crackers with carrot/mango/orange juice mixed with water
Lunch: 1/6 of a grilled cheese sandwich, 3 small spoonfuls of tuna fish
Snack: Yogurt
Dinner: Not sure yet.
We are pretty much on a veggie strike over here. She won't even eat pureed veggies now....and that's the only way I have been able to get them into her as of 12 months onward.
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Helen, Lamb, wow. I want to know if he eats it, I can't even eat lamb...
Off to make dinner now :)
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Stacy,
If it's not too much, could you post your homemade apple breakfast bar recipe?
Thanks.
Melissa
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I was thinking I'd like to see it too "lol". Although I tried my homemade bananna bread with Chayse before and it didn't work. I'm still sort of testing out how much she'll eat when she whines and runs over to her booster chair. Today's eating was:
6oz oatmeal/pears
4 oz milk
frozen waffle "the kind that has 4 strips". She ate a good amount of it.
Strawberries. 4 oz milk.
not sure why - but she was begging for more milk so she had like 1oz an 1/2 close to nap time. She also WOKE up early this morning so she was cranky.
AFter nap, waited for her to tell me she was hungry. Woke up from nap 2pm. 3pm she started whining near her chair. Gave her deli ham, american cheese and watermelon. She had maybe a bite of the watermelon but ate close to one slice of ham and one slice of american cheese. NOt sure if tha'ts a lot "lol". Oh and after this, while walking around the living room, I let her have fishy and cherrios. She had a decent amount of these.
5pm - BEGGED for her supper milk. I gave it too her "4oz".
Than after that she went to her chair. She had a bite of bannana and her typical noodles. I once again wanted to wait for DH and I to eat dinner "6pm" so she can try to have some. She was being a little hyper and also throwing what ever pieces or food onto the floor. Something she does a lot. Arg. I also put some frozen mixed veggies on the tray.
That's it. I'm going to sit her with DH and I when we eat in a half hour. Not sure if she'll pick on anything and than she'll get her BIG sippy cup close to bed time. She sometimes drinks this in 2 sessions.
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Breakfast - belgian waffles with nutella spread (Sunday treat ;)). Innocent strawberry and cherry smoothie
Lunch - scrambled eggs with cheese and spinach - 2 eggs. Toast. Plum baby dessert - plum/passion fruit/guava. Practically licked the pattern off the plate :o
Dinner - tuna mayo sandwich out and about. Rasberry soy yoghurt
Rice milk throughout the day :)
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she actually had a few bites of our mashed potatoes while we ate dinner. She liked Dh's because he Loads!!! it with Mayo.
Maybe I'll try sneaking in some spinache in her scrambled eggs - we'll see. I went food shopping already for this week. I have a craving for this spicy tuna dip "you can also make tuna sandwich with it", but usually you buy those scoop tortilla's and dip into the tuna dip. I might make that tomorrow. Perhaps if I make a small batch that isn't spicy - she'll like it. Who knows? She's been sort of trying things at least.
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Breakfast - 2 strawberries and 1/4 banana, 3 mini pancakes and 3 sausage links :o :o
Snack - breakfast bar
Lunch - 2 strawberries, 4 cheese cubes and 3 slices of shaved turkey and carrots
Snack - 5 animal crackers
Dinner - 1 cup of cottage cheese, carrots, watermelon and 1/4 veggie burger
All of that PLUS about 16 oz of milk today. I don't know where she puts it all. :o
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I just can't believe how much some of your Lo's eat. my my. and here I am thinking my LO is doing pretty good "compared to being on a strike "lol"......
Tonight she is acting weird. She refused to eat anymore mashed potatoes at the table with us. She just had a few bites. Didn't want any pork loin or peas. Started playing at the table and threw her fork down on the floor. Than I let her down. Well no more than 20 minute later she was pointing at her chair again and acting all whiny. I asked her if she wanted some vanilla pudding and she seemed to want that. So I gave her it. It's a small tubbie thing and some water. Weirdddd
It's like she acts like she's hungry and whines to go into her chair, but than once in there she's still picky or doesn't eat that much. I mean earlier I thought a slice of ham and a slice of cheese was good. Than I hear about other LO's having 3 slices ect. "LOL". I still think my LO isn't doing so bad though.
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Breakfast: Oatbran cereal with milk and raspberries
Breakfast#2 at my Mum's: Toast with jam and a milky tea
Lunch: Went to DH's Aunts for lunch-Gnocchi and meatballs, water
Snack: Watermelon
Dinner: Lamb kabobs, cucumber and tomato salad and bread dipping in the oil and vinegar from the salad, 8 oz milk.
Bedtime snack: 1 Hard boiled egg ::) (went in fridge and got one from the bowl!)
He eats, poops and plays so much, it amazes me each day. It is so much like DH, they both don't stop until they sleep. I can't keep up with the 2 of them sometimes. :P
A x
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yes Stacy, that homemade apple breakfast bar does sound interesting...please share!
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Thanks Stacy.
BTW, love your new avatar picuture. He is looking so grown up!
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I am glad you posted that Stacy, thanks!
legend_018: Can you please post that recipe for the spicy tuna dip? That sounds SOOO good.
Oh.. and 1 slice of deli meat and cheese sounds good to me. Zach will do that rarely.
Lets see what did he eat today, I can't even remember, It was a crazy day and not a very good eating day.
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Hmm.. mild creamy/coconut type curry recipe, eh?
Here are the basics so far as I've been taught - I've put a North Indian generic recipe and a South Indian generic recipe here -- use with any vegetable (or meat (add raw) or legume (cooked/canned))
North Indian Curry:
- heat 2-3 Tbsp oil in a saucepan on high heat
- toast 1 Tbsp whole cumin in the oil (optional - my ds loves cumin)
- add 1 or 2 finely chopped onions and fry until brown, lower heat
- stir in 1 generous Tbsp garlic ginger paste (available in jars)
- add 2 chopped tomatoes
- add 1/2 tsp turmeric, pinch of red chili (or not - I usually use paprika when cooking for my son) and salt (Indians use lots of salt - 1 tsp or more - start with a bit and add more later if you need to)
- once these have made a gravy and the oil starts to separate add your chopped vegetables or canned chickpeas or pieces of meat.
- when everything is cooked, garnish with chopped cilantro (coriander leaves)
- serve with flatbread or basmati rice, yogurt, chutneys, etc
South Indian Style generic recipe
- heat oil in a saucepan or wok on medium-high heat
- add 1 Tbsp black mustard seeds and cumin (optional)
- add a dozen or so curry leaves if you can find them
- add a chopped onion until it starts to brown
- add garlic-ginger paste to taste (usually 1 Tbsp for 4 servings)
- add 1-2 chopped tomatoes
- add 1/2 tsp turmeric, pinch of red chili (or not - I usually use paprika when cooking for my son) and salt (Indians use lots of salt - 1 tsp or more - start with a bit and add more later if you need to)
- add 1/2 cup coconut milk (save the cream for the end - the heat breaks it up)
- add the main ingredient (fish, chicken or veggies)
- when everything is almost done, stir in the rest of the can of coconut milk (the cream) and garnish with cilantro
All of this is just to give you an idea - the sky is really the limit.
One other tip -- if things wind up oo spicy, a spoonful of chili in the pot will take the edge off.
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Thanks IndiaJenn, they sound really yummy will definitly give these a try :)
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Baaaad day today!
Breakfast - 1 slice of toast with cheese spread..
Lunch - 3 small pieces of cheese, 3 slices of cooked beef, 1 slice of bread and butter..
Dinner - refused meat and veg.. ate 2 bananas instead...
H xx
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See, that sounds okay to me!
Yesterday (good day for us)
B: Half an apple, cheerios
L: Macaroni & cheese, peas
D: Out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant. Ate rice, beans, chips and salsa, grilled veggies and polenta.
Snack: banana
Rice milk throughout day, as well as water.
How big are all your lo's now? Riley is about 37.5 inches, weighs about 37 lbs. Has not gained much weight this past year at all. Just turned 2, btw.
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Grace is 16 months and weighs 20lbs! Tiny little thing.
She is tall though...31 inches
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It looks like your lo eats about as much or more than Grace ;)
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I really need to get Lily weighed she was 19.5lb at 1yr and no idea how tall she is. Its got me thinking tho, now she well and truly on her feet gonna start a height chart, don't know why havent started one sooner ???
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Stacy: Sounds dee-lish thanks!
IndiaJenn: Many thanks for these fab recipe!
Helen: Maybe Woo is getting his 2nd yr molars if that his not his usual eating?
Michele: Wow, Riley is huge! He is also very proportioned. Nello is 22 months and 33 inches and 30 lbs.
Breakfast: Peaches (from our own tree! :)) Muesli and yogurt, milk
Breakfast 2: Peanut butter on toast
Lunch: Mashed potatoes and corn
Snack: Apple and a cheese sandwich
Dinner (usually we do this on Mondays but did it today instead) - Cold Salad Night:
*beets
*cold turkey meat
*cottage cheese
*hard boiled eggs
*green beans from our garden
*green salad
*milk
No bedtime snack today.
A x
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Aisling, I want to come live in your house, your food always sounds so delish!
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Well, mine will ask for breakfast but then won't eat it and will only want milk ::)
Breakfast: 3oz of apple vanilla granola puree
Snack: 4 grapes
Lunch: Offered PBJ sandwich but only ate about 3 bites, refused blueberries and ate a few bites of pasta and that's it
Snack: Organic Cheddar crackers
Dinner: Offered turkey/cheese...only ate 5 small bites of cheese and about 1/4 of a thin slice of turkey lunch meat, and wouldn't eat anything else
Snack before bed because she had no dinner...yogurt....which she refused at dinner
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Michele: You are very welcomed to come anytime. :) We love entertaining! Where we live is so great right now as all out veggies are out in full force and as I mentioned it is peach season and soon to be grapes.
Stacy: Wow, how can Kaleb go for so long!? Amazing. How we serve the cold salad night as it is tricky as I have seen him get overwhelmed believe it or not, like an octupus! I start him off with his fave's on his plate, so beets and eggs tonight and let him go to town. Then I place everything else in the middle of the table in sep bowls/plates as DH and I joined in with him for an early dinner and he asks for what he likes and I put on his plate. He loves cottage cheese as well, so I put his portion in a small tupperware (he likes to eat cottage cheese out of containers! ::)) and bring out at the end.
Beets are easy, wash, peel and boil (they do take long though and stain your pot red and your hands!) then I sliced them and tossed some butter and parsley on them. Sometimes we eat them with vinegar as well. We also have jars of pickled beets on hand that he loves too. Tonight they were fresh in just butter and they were so sweet and just perfect! Try them, you'll be surprised.
A x
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Hey Michelle: I hope things are going well for you! Let's see Zach goes for his 2 year check-up Thursday, so I will know for sure. BUT, he is 28 pounds and about 34/35 inches tall.
Riley is still on Rice milk? Have your tried whole milk? Just curcious.
Another bad eating day here, not worth mentioning. Zach was in such a bad mood all day. He was so constipated by the end of the day, he screamed off and on in pain for almost 2 hours. He would run circles around the house crying and saying poo-poo. I gave him a suppository and he went within 20 minutes.
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We actually just tried the cows milk again recently, just a splash on his cereal in the mornings, and at first he seemed okay, then the excema came back, and he scratced his shoulders until he bled a few times. We took him off it quickly again, and won't try it again for a looooong time.
Wendy, your pregnancy seemed soooo slow at first, now I can't believe you are almost at the finish line!
Poor Zach. But wow, he has gained a lot this year, hasn't he?
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Yep only like 7 more weeks :-0 Woooo. You will be there soon too!!!
Yeah Zach has done great this year. He is still VERY VERY picky and eats very small quantities of food, but I am beginning to accept that, that is just him. He has been like since he was born. I still think he has reflux issues and we go to a GI spec. next month.
I just wish he would eat meat, vegetables, and pasta. NOPE. Well he will eat green beans. So meal time is very difficult.
He is gaining weight and growing though, so something is working.
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:-[.. just a correction on one of the Indian recipes - I forgot 2 ingredients for the North Indian one -- add 1 Tbsp ground coriander (the powder made from the seeds, not the leaf) when you add the other spices, and to make it creamy, stir in either a generous spoonful of butter, 1/2 cup of cream or (what I've never seen an Indian do but we westerners tend to do it a fair bit) 1/2 cup of plain yogurt.
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cheers Jenn :)
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I'm a lurker here and get great meal ideas from all of you - Thanks!
Question: I've read that your LO's eat sandwich's for lunch all the time? Do your kids eat it like a sandwich or do they take it all apart?
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Hi Jenifer
For us I make the sandwich and then cut it up into bite sized pieces. If I don't do that she'll just shove the whole thing into her mouth. She is not good at taking bites of something...she thinks it's hilarious to just shovel it all in and then chuck it all back out. ::) ;D
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I'll make up a sandwich for Luke and cut it into quarters. He's getting quite good at biting bits off himself now. Sometimes he will pull it into smaller pieces and then eat it up!
Haven't posted here for a while. Generally Luke's intake has been good. Today he had:
6oz formula
bowl of cheerios and milk and then shared some shredded wheat and milk with dad
2 fromage frais and half a fruit bun
cheese and ham sandwich, banana,
sippy of milk, grapes
bowl of spaghetti bolognese, pot of jelly, 1 nectarine and 1 small orange
6oz formula
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Jenifer, Nello likes his in a bun/dinner roll and he wants it whole or he gets mad if I cut it! He doesn't pic it apart usually, but I always use something that helps bind the sandwich together, like cream cheese, mayo, butter, cheese etc...
Aisling x
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Lily is still very much on bite size peices and I have to watch how many peices I give her at once otherwise she just shoves it all in cant shut her mouth so spits it all out ::)
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We STILL just have 2 1/2 teeth here, so I try to keep everything on the small side or her meals would last 2 hrs, LOL! ;D
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Lilys teeth are popping up all over the place, I just found 2 molars, top 1 each side almost through, has just finished cutting 3rd bottom front and 4th bottom front is on its way ::) the joys. I will be glad when she gets some matching molars at bottom though cos she should be able to cope with so many more foods and the same foods served up in a slightly more grown up way. No more chopping things up into little pieces ;)
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:-* :-* :-* To Lily.
We understand your pain. :-\ :-*Grace got 8 teeth between 5-9 (5 in one month) months and then didn't get any more for another 5 months. With in 3 weeks she got 6 teeth...all molars and eye teeth. Poor things. I hate when they all come in at once, but at least it's done and overwith sooner. The last two are starting to come in now. And then hopefully no more until age 2.
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I don't have the time to worry too much about Chayse and her eating habits. With taking care of a newborn and all. Chaunda does sleep a lot, but does have fussy bouts and of course eats every 2-3 hours in addition to some snacking at times as well.
Anyways: Chayse of course doesn't have a problem guzzling down her milk "LOL", but is still picky most days.
TODAY:
1. oatmeal "6oz jar" plus 4 oz milk. Although I don't think she quite drank 4 oz
2. scrambled eggs and strawberries. Also 4 oz milk. Once again, didn't quite drink all 4oz. Did ok
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3. Lunch - Ok I guess. Maybe 2 slices of deli ham and some grapes. I can't remember if I gave her some american cheese. I think she also had 1 gerber cookie today and a few fishies.
Lately, she's been having her 4oz milk around 4pm...inbetween lunch and supper. It used to be after dinner. I'm not sure if this is a great habit.
4. Supper - hardly anything. I tried mac and cheese, but had a couple bites. She did eat some bannana because she was being kind of fussy while I was trying to make the mac & cheese. A little while later, I even sat her down again and tried the same ole noodles she eats with her hands and a piece of a grilled cheese and ham sandwich that I made. She didn't even want to try the sandwich. Too bad, because I know she'd like it if she just tried it.
BIG!!! sippy of milk close to bed time and final 2-3 oz of it at bed time.
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Legend_018, I'm a bit late but CONGRATULATIONS ;D ;D ;D
Lily did eat most of her oatitbix this morning, but since then everything is going in being chewed up and spat out so not technically eating anything. Chewed up some peanut butter on toast, chewed up some grapes, chewed up some cheese. Oh, I tell a lie she did eat a Munch Bunch Squashum, yogurt in squashy strawberry shaped pot, total novelty factor and no chewing required ;) Its got to be her teeth going to have another poke about in there later I'm sure I felt another new one earlier :o
Dinner will be something squishy that doesn't require any chewing today ;)
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just wanted to share with all of you - great way to get cauliflower in if your lo won't eat it... just steam a head of cauliflower and put it in the blender with 2 Tb butter and enough milk or cream to blend. my lo will gobble this up (it's like mashed potatoes), but dh proves to be even more difficult to get veggies in - honestly, he's harder to feed than my son, lol! so what I did for my picky dh was to add 2 small russet potatoes (boiled first, then mashed) and a bit more butter and cream - just told him it was mashed potatoes and he had 2 huge helpings and kept raving about how good they were! :o they really are just like mashed potatoes...
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pretty much noting so far. A few bites of her oatmeal. Than she saw me giving a bottle to Chaunda and she wouldn't eat anymore and wanted her milk. Although I have to admit, she only drank between 2 and 3 oz. Than I sat her down again a little while later and she picked on a strawberry and threw some bread with peanut butter that I made on the floor. She's at Nana's for the day now.
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This child is driving me nutso! For about 2 weeks now she just won't eat much at any meal therefore is eating many small meals through out the day. Every time she notices her high chair she cries for food but then eats about two bites and is done. She is teething but this is just madness. ::)
I try to start off with a good big breakfast but it's been a no go for weeks. Do you think I should start out with a small am snack of fruit and then wait until 8:30 or so to give her an actual breakfast?
All she does is play with her food and throw it over the tray. She IS doing it on purpose...will wait until she thinks I am not looking and will feed the dog and when I catch her she gives me this cute/innocent looks as if to say 'who me?' She will also do it, then look at me and say 'no' before I get a chance to ::) What to do with this child. ;D I really hope it is just a phase because food is now somewhat of a stress since I feel like I must be doing something wrong and can't seem to get to get her to eat as well as I would like. Veggies as of late are almost non-existant. She will eat fruit and bread/crackers all day but I know that she needs her meats and veggies too. Milk is ok and she'll eat yogurt/cheese most days depending on her teeth. Sorry to vent....just need to write it out.
Today so far....it's only 12pm
Breakfast: 1/2 strawberry...4 small bites of a waffle
Snack: 1/2 of a small yogurt drink...yoplay (sp), 1/5 pieces of whole grain oatmeal bread...played with the rest
Snack/Lunch....early, early, early...1/2 Gerber cereal bar, 1 small box of raisins, 1 bite of turkey, 1 bite of chicken (lunch meat)....tried giving her veggies but she just spit them all over us.
Melissa
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Melissa: Sounds like my son. To be honest that does not sound that bad.
My son does not like to eat breakfast either. If I offer him breakfast at 8:30 or so, he has nothing to do with it, but then is starving by 10:00.
I am going to start offering crackers in the morning with his milk and then breakfast food around 9:30/10:00 and see how that goes.
So far today not bad here though:
Wake: 8 oz. milk
Breakfast: A few cheerios
Snack: 1/2 gogurt (the yogurt you push up), I freeze these!
Lunch: 2 slices of cheese pizza
Snack: Gummy fruit snacks
Nap: 2 oz. milk - Sleeping now.
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Breakfast:
Nothing...spit out the kiwi and wouldn't eat the cereal I gave her
7:45 snack...fruit leather (cranberry)
9:00 snack ::) some raisinbran crunch w/extra raisins (one small handfull and did not eat all of it)
11:00 snack ::) (4 small bites of chicken)
12:00 lunch SUCCESS: Went to CFA: 2 chicken nuggets (yes, they are small but for her it's a whole lot of food), some cheese and a Gerber cereal bar. WOW...I couldn't believe it.
Asked for food before her nap, but I said No...mean mommy I know ;) She's gotten into a habit of asking for food before naps and bedtime so I need to break her of the habit. She's not hungry just trying to stall ::)
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They get so clued up at this age don't they, Lily asks for a drink or tells me she needs a poo, when trying to stall bedtime.
Lily is also being somewhat of a nightmare with eating lately, I know its teeth so am trying not to stress too much as I'm sure it will sort itself out. I find it hard because she has always been a good eater, although I'm sure that compared to some a bad day for her is a good day for a lot of LO's ;)
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Breakfast : 4oz milk + half of a half of a begal with cream cheese+grapes (4)
snack: aminal crackers (5) + cheese stick, juice
Lunch: homemade chicken noodle soup and canned peaches
she is now down for her nap
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Today so far...
b-fast..4 mini bites of an egg sandwich (like microscopic bites), milk....refused pears and apples
snack...2 bites of a banana and 2 whole wheat ritz crackers (she'll eat the carbs and that's about it ::))
Lunch....5 mini bites of a ham/cheese sandwich (1/20 of a sandwich), raisins, 2/3 yogurt, 3 cheese-its
....right before her nap I was eating sweet potato chips and she had 3 (100% sweet potato and canola oil)....the only veggie she'll it...if it's a chip ::))
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My DS is usually a good eater but sometimes has days like this. I just try to think that the "experts" say that even when they are being finicky, if you look at their food intake over 3-4 days, they do tend to get in most of the variety of food they need. Remember that yogurt and cheese are good proteins, too - it doesn't always have to be meat. What about cottage cheese? As for veggies, if she is a carb lover, could you make her muffins or loaf with lots of zucchini or carrot? Applesauce is a hit with DS on days he is on a fruit strike - I buy the variety packs that are unsweetened and come in apple/peach, apple/pineapple, apple/mixed berries and plain apple. He thinks these are a mega-special treat. He's also way into those freeze-dried gerber mini fruits - walmart has their own brand which is just as good and cheaper. Some days DS will only be into crackers, too, so I just make sure he only gets whole wheat crackers. HTH a bit. By the way, when does she get up in the morning? DS is up at 7:45, has 7oz milk and then breakfast at 8:30, lunch at 12:00, a snack after his PM nap, dinner at about 5:15 and 7oz milk around 7:30 before bed.
Today's eating:
7oz milk
Breakfast - 1 1/2 weetabix with milk and brown sugar, 1/2 yogurt, 2 orange slices
Lunch - 3 small chicken meatballs, 1 green bean, 1/4 slice buttered ww toast, 3 ww crackers, tons of strawberries
Snack - slice of crustless ww toast with peanut butter, 2 slices mango
Dinner - the meat only from the inside of a mini homemade meat pie, 1/2 slice garlic bread, 4 big flowerettes of broccoli, 15 green grapes, a few bites of my yogurt and an arrowroot cookie
7oz milk at bedtime
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WOW, having a kid that eats must be nice. I have a non-eater here.
Wake: 8 ox. milk
Breakfast: 1/2 bowl of cheerios, few bites of orange
Snack: Gerber Fruit Puffs
Lunch: French Fries, one bite of chicken nugget, 1/2 nutragrain bar
Milk - 6 oz.
Wake from nap: 10 pieces of puff corn
Dinner: I made whole wheat mini pizza's and he ate the cheese and sauce from one.
Snack before bed: The peanut butter from 2 crackers and 2 oz. pediasure.
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Yesterday
Breakfast Raisin bran cereal (no milk, just a small handful sprinkled on her try). freeze dried fruit and a sippy of milk and a bit of mommy's blue berry muffin a bit later
Snack she actually ate an entire can of mandarin oranges (small 4 oz can, but for her thats a big improvement :))
Lunch 3/4 hot dog, 10 peas ( 8)...she's never liked peas before), 3/4 jar of mixed veggies...I'd say, for us, we had a highly successful lunch, 3 spoonfuls of yogurt.
Snack crackers
Dinner 1 'chicken' nugget, 1 thing of healthy harvest apple sauce, a handful of Lil Crunches (puffed corn), offered cheese but she didn't want any
Overall it was a great day for us.
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So far today:
7 oz milk
Breakfast - 1/2 yogurt, 2 bites of oatmeal and 2 bites waffle, refused fruit ( :o usually his no-fail!)
Snack - a few stawberries and a few shreddies (usually doesn't have a morning snack but since breakfast was so successful...... ::)
Lunch - never wants to eat it! Today ate a whole mini pizza I made on a ww bun, 1/2 cup frozen mixed veggies, 10 grapes and 1/2 an oatmeal muffin. Probably won't eat anything else today, lol!
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I wish i could get mine t eat at all!! she dreadful at moment veggies no way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we got to bribe her to eat what she asks for .Its a nightmare!!!hopefully starting nursery next week will sort her out it did our eldest kath(5.5) she now eats like a horse!!!
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We go through phases of eating and not eating. I was very impressed tonight with DS - he actually tried my California Roll! He ended up eating only the rice and spit out the crab, avocado, seaweed, and carrot shreds. I have tried to get him to eat it about 6 times now and this is the first time he ate any of it. He ended up eating a pb&j and cheese stick and banana. I know he eats well at school (daycare) so I don't worry too much. Much less picky around the other kids.
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Yesterday:
200ml Sippy of formula
Shared a large bowl of nutrigrain with me for breakfast (with milk) and a small sippy of OJ
Snacks: lots! some grapes, some cinnamon donut, some chocolate iced donut, some strawberry flavoured milk, some tiny teddy biscuits, some sultanas - she grazed all morning LOL.
Lunch: yoghurt
Snacks: Ham stick, some dried pineapple and sultanas
Dinner - tiny tiny bit of rice, refused to eat, asked to go to bed
Not her healthiest day, we went out for morning tea!
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Breakfast: 1/4 piece of Oatmeal bread, a few very small bites of banana and pineapple, strawberry fruit strip (all natural)
-a bit later 1/2 small jar of mandarin oranges (the little girl I watch ate the other 1/2)
Lunch: yogurt, some lunch meat
Snack: Tried some veggies but they were denied, ate 1 carrot wagon wheel, raisins
Dinner: 2 'chicken' nuggets, 4oz of garden veggies, didn't want her cheese, some fruit to top her off
Milk all day long (about 10oz total)
And Sippy of water and 1/3 juice all day long (about 5oz total)
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Not sure what he ate today as I was out so DH fed him but yesterday...
7oz milk
Breakfast - 1 banana flax homemade pancake, a yogurt, a few orange wedges
Not interested in AM snack
Lunch - a 1/4 homemade quesidilla with cheese, salsa and chicken, 1/2 cup mixed veggies, 8 raw red/green pepper strips, a peach/apple unsweetened applesauce
Snack - goldfish crackers and more applesauce (we were out for coffee with some of my friends so I let him go a bit nuts here with his snack to keep him occupied!)
Dinner - 1/2 slice buttered ww toast and a few oz of chicken/bunch of red and green pepper slices from our fajitas, 3/4 of an orange, some grapes and a few mini teddy bear arrowroots
Snack (usually never wants one before bed but asked for it and he was really hungry yesterday for some reason) - small bowl of mixed dry cereal (cheerios, fruity cheerios, gerber puffs).
Drank water throughout the day and with meal as well as about 4 oz of watered down applejuice - has had a bit of juice every day this week as he has a good cold right now.
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well even though she is still into drinking a lot of milk lately - she had a good 1 1/2 of the 2 scrambled eggs with cheese that I made her this morning and strawberries. She eats strawberries every day like there going out of style. I had to make DH go to the store and buy some. She had a couple pretzil snacks earlier and than just now some deli turkey and a whole bananna. I've been a little laxed and sort of let her just sit in the chair at the big table...even though she can barely reach and have also let her walk around and eat. not a habit I really want to get into. Like yesterday I made a hotdog and kept the plate on my lap on the couch and she came over and was eating the hot dog (that I cut up into pieces). she wont eat baby cereal anymore. well she wasn't for a bit and I haven't tried. Plus I changed from having breakfast #1 when she wakes up to just milk when she wakes up and than I just offer breakfast about an hour to an hour and a half later. So no more breakfast #2. Before...that was the only thing that works.
This is the lovely list as of lately of things that she will eat if she's in the mood
bannana
strawberries
popcycles
hotdogs
cheese
deli turkey
certain kinds of noodles
mac and cheese
snackie things like pretsilz...fishies ect.
yogurt and/or pudding.
It's very hard with a new born now. We also try to sit her with us when we eat. she's picked on
some of our rice recently and pizza crust. I think DH said she ate a small bite or two of the meatloaf I made the other day.
i'm probably forgetting something..but that's the extent of the list lately.
I bought these gogurts today and I'm freezing them. I think I got the idea from here...but not sure if it's with gogurts. I'm going to see if she'll eat one tomorrow.
oh and I knew I forgot something. whole wheat english muffin with peanut butter sometimes or at least a piece or two of one "lol".
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DS started refusing baby cereal quite early, too. Have you tried weetabix? DS loves it and he can eat it on his own with a spoon, now. They are super healthy. All I do is pop 1 or 1 1/2 in the microwave with an oz or 2 of milk poured over it and heat it up for about 40s. Then you just mush it up and I sprinkle a bit of brown sugar on it. It is thicker than baby cereal but it also has much more flavour.
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Well, he didn't want his morning or afternoon snack which was weird, but here's what today was...
Breakfast
-toast with butter and a strawberry/carrot/milk smoothie
Morning Snack - didn't eat, but drank water
-mum mum
Lunch
water with a bit of apple juice inside
corn
peanut butter on graham crackers
cheese
grapes for dessert
Afternoon snack - didn't eat , but had water to drink
yoghurt and a cracker or something
Snack while dinner cooks
-water to drink
-frozen peas
Dinner
Milk to drink
Parmesan Crusted Chicken
a dinner roll with butter
steamed broccoli with melted cheese on top
strawberries for dessert
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Stacy, please post recipe TIA! :-*
Breakfast #1-bagel and all natural peanut butter, milk
Breakfast #2-raspberries and bacon
Lunch-cottage cheese, pickles and ham
Snack-half a banana and small yogurt
Dinner-penne and tomato sauce, milk
Bedtime snack- hummus tortilla wrap
Aisling x
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ThX! :)
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OM Gosh! DS requested Broccoli with cheese for dinner! He ate it and then was rewarded with a small piece of banana cake I saved him from a potluck at work. He must have had a teacher tell him they were little trees because he kept pointing at trees and saying "Broccoli!". Too funny! I tried that with him and it didn't work before.
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I dont think weetabix is in US.
I have a regular carrot cake recipe that I got from the cooking forum I belong to and has had rave reviews - I made it and WOW was it good.
of course I knew I'd forget some stuff on my list. Frozen waffles and most likely homemade ones too I think. The frozen ones break off into strips. I might try the graham cracker with peanut butter some day. That sounds like it could be a hit with my LO...but one never knows.
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I'm pretty sure some of my US friends have found weetabix there. I will ask and get back to you - I'm away for the next week so it will be a while but I won't forget! ;)
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It doesn't taste too bad to me with brown sugar on it but I can't get past the consistency. Don't really care though as long as DS eats it! ;)
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Hi ladies, just thought I would mention DS loves Pierogi's. They are Ukrainian or Polish style dumplings/ravioli with potato and cheese filling. The Ukrainian or the Polish church sells them here, the old ladies make them and they are so well priced and it goes to their church, so that is nice. I love them with fried onions and sour cream. We had some leftovers in our fridge from a couple nights ago and DS ate them for breakfast today, ::) :P ;D he just loves them. Anyone else try them with their LO? Fab. The Polish church has started doing them in other fillings too, like cheese and broccoli or spinach and I love the sourkraut filled ones. Supermarkets carry them as well, but make sure it is a good brand. Costco have them now and then, they are pretty good.
A x
Ps. FYI, I think the Ukranians call them Pettaheh (spelling? sorry)
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Yes, you can get Weetabix in the States. I usually get it at Trader Joe's, but recently saw that Safeway has it too, but I think charges more for it. You can also get it at Irish or English import shops.
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Oh, I am so jealous! ;D :P Lucky you. Yes, lots of work involved in making them homemade.
I usually boil them and have the onion fried ahead of time in butter. Then after I bring to the boil and leave them pretty al dente, I throw them in the bowl with the buttered onions and shake around a bit to get them coated and yummy.
LOL at the dough to filling ratio, I know exactly what you mean! LOL.
Too bad Kaleb, doesn't go for them,,, I am really going to start giving them as a breakfast meal now too, they are nice and hearty and good for when we have activities to go to in the morning, so my hungry bear doesn't turn into a grump.
We also love tortellini or ravioli, maybe Kaleb would like them better as they are not potato based. We get meat or cheese or spinach filled. I serve with a tomato, rose or pesto sauce.
God, why does this thread always get me so hungry! :P ::)
A x
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Ladies, what do you think? Lily has started playing with her food, squashing it in her fingers, throwing it a bit, trying to eat her cereal with her fingers etc. She hasn't done this since she was very young and just getting started with the whole food business. Do I just ignore this as you would any other undesired phase, or is she now old enough to realise this is wrong and be told to eat nicely even remove it from in front of her to prevent her from it. Trouble with it is she works herself up into a food frenzy and would if left unchecked chuck it everywhere ::)
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Chayse had a few strawberries and 2 scrambled eggs mixed with cheese this morning.
She had a frozen gogurt and some graham cracker before nap. She had a couple very small bites of some total cereal that I was eating when she first woke up.
This afternoon She had a few bites of some deli turkey and some bites of a bananna. She finally ended up having some bites of the Berber Chicken Corden Bleu breast DH and I had for supper. The the frozen ones but there pretty good and one of the better brands. The last time we had them...she wouldn't eat any.
I know this is grose...but she also had some frozen frenchfries. She was begging and whining for them as she has in the past.
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Not too bad a day here
Breakfast - honey (always want to write 'hunny', drat that Pooh Bear) on brown toast / Innocent blackberry (?) and strawberry smoothy
Lunch - red salmon sandwich (more brown bread ::)) / ate a whole pear :D
After nap snack - asked for a 'biscuitman' (Gingerbread man), couldn't refuse
Dinner - Egg fritatta with peppers, tomatoes and cheese (we call it 'eggy pizza') / more bread & butter / handful black grapes
Before bed - a couple of drop cakes my mother's neighbour makes (small)
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Really, he'd drink that much milk with his meals??
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caroline is an innocent smoothie a brand name? Kaleb LOVES fresh blackberries.
Yes, and it's a REALLY good one too - nothing from concentrated / no additives / etc. I'd really recommend them to anyone who can get them (and the cartons are always a funny read too). Here's the link if anyone's interested:
Innocent smoothies
Innocent smoothies for kids
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Suppose Autumn is here so our menu is naturally changing, much more hardy meals today:
Breakfast 1-milk, porridge and raspberries
Breakfast 2-crackers and cheese
Lunch- egg salad sandwich and an oatmeal apple muffin, milk
Snack-yogurt
Dinner-shepherds pie made with half lamb and half beef mince, carrots, corn, peas and of course mash
Bedtime snack-breadstick and milk
A x
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she doesnt do so bad in the mornings sometimes.
2 sessions
a couple strawberries
close to 2 scrambled eggs w/cheese
1 1/2 gogurts
2 plain munchkins (only on Saturdays)
1 1/2 austin peanutbutter&jelly crackers
tried blackberries for first time, but no luck.
also milk when she first woke up and will offer some before nap.
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Breakfast 1-Milk, toast with hummus
Breakfast 2 - Cereal mixed in yogurt and apple pieces
Lunch-Leftover chicken from last nights dinner chopped up with celery, carrots, pickles and spinach with a teaspoon of mayo to stick it together in a tortilla roll up. 2 hard boiled eggs.
V-8 drink, (tomato/veg drink) this is quickly becoming a favourite of his.
Dinner: I'm making my Easy Cheesey Veggie Pasta: Pasta with butter, grated cheddar and parm cheese and throw in some frozen peas, corn and broccoli florets.
Milk at 6
Snack at 7-probably a banana, his choice.
A x
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Lunch-Leftover chicken from last nights dinner chopped up with celery, carrots, pickles and spinach with a teaspoon of mayo to stick it together in a tortilla roll up.
Now why have I never thought of that? :)
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Wow lots of hungry toddlers and yummy ideas for their meals..
Since this thread has got really long I have locked this one and started you a new fresh one!
Helen xx