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How do your kids eat rice?
« on: June 05, 2007, 19:02:10 pm »
Hi!  This may be a really dumb question but, how do you serve rice to your kids?  Do you spoon feed it to them or let them pick it up by themselves?  I have always stayed away from rice with my DD because she doesn't like me to feed her with a spoon and it seems too small for her to pick up on her own without making a huge mess.  She is 18 months and still isn't very good with a spoon.

 
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Re: How do your kids eat rice?
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2007, 19:06:04 pm »
My DS eats it with his fingers. Picks up fistfulls. He also uses a spoon, but lots goes on the tray and on the floor.
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Re: How do your kids eat rice?
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2007, 19:15:04 pm »
ditto that . My lo is 18 months as well. he loves rice and he sometimes uses the spoon and sometimes his hands. I just try to tell him to get it to his mouth. ;)
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Re: How do your kids eat rice?
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2007, 22:07:34 pm »
My oldest uses a spoon now but he used to just use his hands.  my youngest just uses his hands ;D


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Re: How do your kids eat rice?
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2007, 23:45:13 pm »
DS is supposed to use his spoon but he uses his hands when I'm not looking  ::). He's almost 3 now.  What kind of rice do you eat?  The rice we have is generally sticky and clumps together so eating it with fingers isn't so bad.  But we'd rather he not. ;)
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Re: How do your kids eat rice?
« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2007, 00:05:09 am »
alright...don't tell anyone...but my kids eat rice whichever way they can (both of them) dd with her fingers...DS with a spoon and his fingers...

This is the part you're not supposed to tell anyone...

Don't clean it up right away if you can leave it...Once it dries, it wipes and sweeps NO PROBLEM...I spend more time fighting to get it off the table than just walking away and sweeping it later...!!!!

(oh yeah...I usually let them eat it "naked"....lol)

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Re: How do your kids eat rice?
« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2007, 00:05:30 am »
Very messily  ::)  After rice meals the vacuum most definitely comes out!


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Re: How do your kids eat rice?
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2007, 01:11:11 am »
With spaghetti sauce mixed in and a spoon.  She loves it that way.
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Re: How do your kids eat rice?
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2007, 03:06:39 am »
she'll feed it to herself w/ her fingers or I'll feed it to her w/ a spoon.  Either way it's always a mess.   ::)
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Re: How do your kids eat rice?
« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2007, 03:29:45 am »
We make rice and beans and it still messy but more rice sticks to the beans. He really loves it too.


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Re: How do your kids eat rice?
« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2007, 06:51:22 am »
fingers and spoon ,as long as it gets to her mouth ;D
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Re: How do your kids eat rice?
« Reply #11 on: June 06, 2007, 18:31:15 pm »
Thanks for the replies.  It sounds like I will just have to put up with the mess. :P  We are having rice tonight so I will let her try it and see what happens.  Knowing her though, she probably won't even try it because it is new. ::)


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Re: How do your kids eat rice?
« Reply #12 on: June 07, 2007, 03:22:15 am »
When dd was still uncoordinated with the spoon, I would use a stickier brand of rice or clump them into small little weiners. 

Don't clean it up right away if you can leave it...Once it dries, it wipes and sweeps NO PROBLEM...I spend more time fighting to get it off the table than just walking away and sweeping it later...!!!!

I do the same thing.   ;D  Sooo much easier to clean up when they are dried.

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Re: How do your kids eat rice?
« Reply #13 on: June 07, 2007, 23:07:50 pm »
If you mix it with something (we do lentils and rice and cheese alot, or even add some flax seed--ds even likes rice mixed with tahini) it gets really clumpy, and then ds uses his fingers and the spoon.

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Re: How do your kids eat rice?
« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2007, 18:42:11 pm »
Very messily  ::)  After rice meals the vacuum most definitely comes out!

We just let the dog loose and he takes care of it for us! ;D