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EAT => Eating For Toddlers => Topic started by: summersusu on December 22, 2008, 18:35:59 pm
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My DS1 is 2 1/2 and the only meat he eats is bacon and chicken nuggets. He is allergic to peanuts. Seems like every time we eat, he only eats some of the veggies and fruit and bread but won't eat the meat. He lives off chicken nuggets. He doesn't like hot dogs either. What can I give him?
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I have a similar problem with my ds although he does like cheese so I end up giving him many forms of dairy. Have you tried beans? DS enjoys those as well. Mine will eat chicken nuggets/fingers but that is the only form of meat.
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You could try rolled up lunch meats, grilled cheese sands with meat inside, beans, peas, cheese, cottage cheese, any sort of rice/noodle casserole easy on the rice and heavy on the veggies/meat/cheese. Be careful of yogurt cause it often has way more sugar than it's worth giving to get them to eat that small amount of protein. Grains and legumes (rice and beans, corn and peas, etc) have opposite amino acid profiles and make a complete protein together, and if they're eaten with a small amount of animal protein (parmesan cheese, real meat sauce) are assimilated much better because the "protein users" are turned on. Also, if that's all you serve, he'll get hungry and eat it eventually. Likewise, you could stop offering chicken nuggets except once a week or something. ;D
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beans, beans and more beans - chic peas, red kidney beans are especially great.
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Is he allergic to tree nuts? Isaac can't have peanuts yet, so I get him cashew or almond butter instead. (I often have to look in the organic section of the grocery store for those.)
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Cheese, Yogurt, and Chicken Nuggets if that's all he'll eat. LO's go through phases where all they want is a certain food. Best to ride it out rather than fight it!!!
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cheese, beans, lentils, soy, etc.
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Eggs! My dd (2) loves eggs, right now hard-boiled are a favorite. We do a lot of yogurt too.
I feed her flax-seed pasta (Barilla plus) which is full of protein and fiber. Whole wheat or quinoa pasta, I think, would be similar.
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cheese, cottage cheese, beans, eggs
What about some of the sneaky chef cookbooks where you sneak in the veggies or proteins? You could still offer them what you want them to try so they get used to it, but do some sneaking as well.
at this age, my lo would eat a cracker with cheese and a healthy lunchmeat on it. We often used cream cheese. Not sure where you are located or if that grosses you out. ::) ;D
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we do eggs here,
Also I do a nice fried tofu cut into finger slices: chopped fresh ginger, bit of garlic, soysauce, a tiny bit of olive oil and fry it up till hot- mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Nick LOVES it.
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hard boiled eggs at our end as well are a favoured meal.
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Thanks, forgot to mention he is allergic to eggs....seems to be okay eating some things with cooked egg in it, but not just egg.
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bananas and avocado fed together make a perfect protein
beans
cheese
The super babyfood book has lots of ideas for meatless forms of protein, if you check it out.
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Thanks, my aunt gave me that book for Christmas...guess I better get busy reading.
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Apparently all I ate from when I was two years old until four years old was bacon, orange juice and toast - three meals a day, seven days a week, for two years - and didn't do me any harm and I now eat anything put in front of me!!
Here Katie isn't a fan of protein either but will eat yoghurt and falafel so those are her main protein sources
xx
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Bacon, oj, and toast sounds good to me! Yummers! ;D
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Some whole grains have actually quite a lot of protein. I might try adding yogurt to things he'll eat, maybe pancakes? And I second the eggs. Dd #1 will eat quiche if we call it "egg pie." LOL
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Oh yes, my ds LOVES quiche ;D
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My dd won't eat meat either...but will eat pasta with sauce, so I saute' ground turkey and add it to the sauce.....it's so tiny (I chop it up into nothing!) she doesn't notice. Also, she will eat stuffing, so I make chicken and cut it up teeny tiny and mix it into the stuffing. Then i make little balls out of it and she calls it dumplings!!
French toast is a good way to get some egg into her, too...since she won't eat eggs at all. I throw some vanilla into the beaten egg, and some cinnamon...she loves it!
I have to be very careful with cheese, since it constipates my lo, but sprinkling a bit of parmeasean on pasta can give an extra gram or two of protien!!
Good luck!!! Get sneaky!!