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Re: What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!
« Reply #150 on: March 02, 2008, 03:58:49 am »
Oh, ok.
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Re: What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!
« Reply #151 on: March 02, 2008, 04:10:11 am »
Today so far

Sippy of Milo (chocolate milk drink) and a sippy of apple carrot celery juice
1 weetbix with milk and honey
1 piece toast with butter and vegemite
1/2 banana
chocolate cake mix (while we were baking ;))
lunch: asparagus, cheese, beetroot, tomato, baby corn, baked beans (small amount of each of those), and a little more banana
some icing (whilst icing the cake;))
A peice of chocolate cake (but mostly only ate the icing LOL)

It is 2:30pm.

Dinner tonight is going to be veggies and sausages - both chickpea and spinach sausages which she loves, and beef sausages, which she may eat a little of.  No doubt she will want a snack before then though, will offer watermelon and yoghurt and sultanas, she can choose.
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Re: What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!
« Reply #152 on: March 02, 2008, 13:27:50 pm »
Hi all

Well, I've come on here to look for inspiration as Seren is down to living off bread and pasta and LOADS of fruit.  I'm concerned about her vits & minerals intake.  Oh well.

So, today so far she has had:

1 x slice of wholemeal, granary toast with butter and cream cheese, some grapes

snack - some more grapes, a few bites of mummy's ciabatta roll, 1 tiny piece of choc brownie

Lunch - nothing, refused to eat anything so will try after nap

hmm, not looking so great.  She weighs 25lbs and turns 2 in 1.5 mths. 

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Re: What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!
« Reply #153 on: March 02, 2008, 19:27:20 pm »
Shanaz
do you give Seren a multi vitamin?
Grace doesn't do too well with food as well so we give her one Flintstones vitamin (its for ages 2-3 but we've been giving them to Grace for the past month now) every morning to help compensate for the day.
Just a thought.

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Re: What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!
« Reply #154 on: March 02, 2008, 19:45:34 pm »
Hi Mel,

Funnily enough I've had kids vitamins (liquid with omega 3) in the cupboard for ages & I broke them out & gave her some tonight after a disasterous dinner.  :D

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Re: What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!
« Reply #155 on: March 02, 2008, 19:55:27 pm »
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« Reply #156 on: March 02, 2008, 20:07:15 pm »
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Re: What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!
« Reply #157 on: March 02, 2008, 20:34:49 pm »
Shanaz, both Grace and Zara are a similar size to Seren, so try not to worry too much. Also, I have heard that extra fruit will go a long way to making up for the veggies thing, at least she likes one healthy food group right?

Don't forget, pasta sauce is tomatoes, and have you tried grating some carrot or something into the sauce? Can you get a bit more creative with that? 

Also, if she loves spaghetti, that might help if you do stir fry with noodles in it, I do stirfries with rice vermicelli, Zara likes those. Would cheese sauce on the veggies help? And remember, kids eat when they need to eat, don't worry about skipped meals, just try to cover the food groups with snacks also! Finally, have you ruled out teething if she reluctant to eat lately?

I think if you don't push the issue, they come round eventually, Zara goes through phases of barely eating then eating what I consider to be loads (but really isn't compared to other kids LOL).

Re the apple carrot celery juice - yes I make my own, that is probably my fav combo.  I was using 1 carrot, 1 apple, and some celery, but I needed extra for Zara, and I added only extra apple and carrot, so it is a little sweeter, she likes it better that way. LOVE my juicer!
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Re: What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!
« Reply #158 on: March 02, 2008, 20:40:11 pm »
Wow, Zara is eating soooo much more than last tme I read this thread!!

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Re: What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!
« Reply #159 on: March 02, 2008, 23:41:11 pm »
Michelle I know, it is great!  It probably won't last, but I just offer everything, and she eats what she wants.

I would like to point out that even when she eats, for example, that huge range of veggies for dinner, some of them are literally pieces that she can eat in 1-2 bites.  But they all add up, I know plenty of mums who would be happy if their lo ate 6-10 mouthfuls of veggies each day.

One thing I can say for Zara, whilst her quantities are not brilliant, her variety is.  And she is happy, energetic, and growing, so obviously she is eating what she needs.
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Re: What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!
« Reply #160 on: March 04, 2008, 15:53:40 pm »
Shanaz - my DD is lately refusing most meats/chicken, etc but does eat pasta, cheese, etc. For pasta I only make the Ronzoni Smart Taste pasta. It looks and tastes like regular white pasta but has extra fiber and calcium. For sauce I either make my own cheese sauce or I puree some veggies into a tomato sauce (often zucchini and/or eggplant). One lunch staple here is "cheese pockets" which are actually called spinach pizza snacks and made by Amy's kitchen (great company). They are made from wheat and whole wheat flour and include cheese, tomatoes and spinach. DD loves them!
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Re: What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!
« Reply #161 on: March 04, 2008, 16:48:00 pm »
Hi everyone...
I find the lack of quick but tasty snacks and suppers here really annoying.
today, for the record, Oscar had:
210 ml toddler formula
bowl of rice krispies, an apple and about 100ml full fat milk (brekkie)
about 5 shreddies and a pureed fruit squeezy pack at 10-10.30am
spag bol (toddler bowl portion), a cheese string, some dried cherries and two little fromage frais for lunch (he's a hoover at this time)
just water on waking after nap though I offered a few choices of snack
then refused tea and ate one piece of dry wholmeal bread.
has now eaten two pieces of peanut butter on toast, 200ml full fat milk and about 10 banana chips but this is thanks to the fact that he's been watching Bob the Builder and eating at same time!!! Woopsy, just having really bad day and fell into that accidental parenting hole in the ground!!!
Early bed tonight all round I think!

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Re: What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!
« Reply #162 on: March 04, 2008, 16:49:29 pm »
Stacy I LOVE Amy's products - both for DD and for myself! Healthy and tasty - make great lunches in a pinch.
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Re: What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!
« Reply #163 on: March 04, 2008, 16:58:03 pm »
Been getting into a rut with lunches so have noted a few new sandwiches to try out.

Breakfast - Cereal (have a multi pack for him to try some different ones), raisins and milk (did offer pear but it wasn't ripe enough so too tough for him, need to cook it and puree up, any ideas as to what I can use it to top off would be appreciated  ;D)
Snack - Mini digestives at play group with apple juice
Lunch - Let Ryan help make strawberry jam and cream cheese bagel (he loved this) with a cheese string and water. Mango yoghurt with dried blueberries.
Snack - One of those kinder hippos at a friends house, no drink since lunch.
Dinner - Chilli (mild) with rice, sweetcorn and rice pudding with pear for dessert. Likely to have smoothie for drink and water at bed.
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Re: What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!
« Reply #164 on: March 04, 2008, 20:52:50 pm »
Can't remember what she ate yesterday except for the fact that she didn't eat dinner thanks to DH giving her a late snack at 3pm  ::)
That's what happens when mommy goes to get her hair cut  ;) ;)  ;D ;D
Actually he does amazingly with her...just forgets those kinds of things once in awhile so really no complaints here  :D
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