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honeypie
17 yrs ago
What do you give for breakfast?
I give oats with different kind of fruits EVERYDAY when he wakes up at 8am. He drinks his milk around 6am. Snack around 10am - either biscuit, fruit or oatios (like cheerios).
For the past days, he doesn't like to sit on his high chair, we have to feed him while he plays, today he did not want to eat his oats at all.
I guess i have to change his breakfast now as he might not like the same oats everyday. There is no problem feeding lunch or dinner. Thanks.
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We do: Oatmeal with apple sauce (US kind) and milk. 1/4 to ½ a buttered piece of toast. ½ glass of water. 1/4 glass of juice (when the water is finished).
"For the past days, he doesn't like to sit on his high chair, we have to feed him while he plays, today he did not want to eat his oats at all."
You shouldn't feed him while he plays. Very bad for discipline. It is very important for kids to understand that eating at the table is proper behavior.
If he doesn't want to eat, he doesn't want to eat. Just make sure you don't give him a big snack of stuff he really likes to compensate just a little later, since he'll hold off until then. I'd even move the snack to 1030-1100 and/or make it smaller. When he realizes not eating is not working out, he'll start to eat.
I'm all for varying diet and so forth but in your case I think he's just seeing what he can get away with it.
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Hi honeypie, mine loves pancakes (homemade ones) We buy the flour and mix it with egg and milk and oats. Sometimes we add pumpkin or sthg to add some flavours to it.
Alternatively, you may try bake beans with cheese on toast? Honestly if I have oats every day I'll get tired of it too... so try some other varieties.
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Hi Nicher,
What baked beans? is it the canned?
I'll try pancakes tomorrow. Thanks.
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Yes the canned ones. Get the low sodium ones. Mine loves beans and the ketchup taste.
Pancakes are good. Mine sometimes wakes up first thing in the morning asks to eat pancakes. Funny!
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yes i was looking for more breakfast ideas too!!! at the moment this is what have... wheetbix, pancakes (on sundays when i cook them!), loves baked beans too, spaghetti in tomato sauce - the canned ones in different shapes, french toast...
that's it... need more inspiration too!
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Sashimi, how do you give wheetbix? with milk? What is the canned ones in different shapes - spaghetti?
Do you make your own pancake as well?
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hmmm i have a question about sandwiches! when will they actually sit down and eat a sandwich properly?! my 18 month old just isn't into eating sandwiches even if i cut it into small pieces. he's more interested in playing with it. the only reliable way of getting food into him is spoon feeding (like cereal, baked beans, spaghetti etc). i would love to just make a cheese sandwich and have him sit in his chair and eat it but nothing goes in!!!
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We usually alternate between oatmeal, yogurt, and cheerios so no new ideas BUT I just wanted to say my 21mth old son - previously a great eater has just started freaking out at meal time too. He would much prefer to play and will purposely shut his mouth if I try to feed him and do things like let the soup/water/milk pour out of his mouth when he is perfectly capable of drinking without spilling 1/2 the contents all over himself/floor. I agree with axptguy38 that it's a testing boundaries thing. I have tried the 'if you play while eating, you don't get to eat' for 3 meals now and he is getting the idea. As soon as he acts up I start clearing the dishes and saying 'oh i guess you're finished' he will immediately say 'no' and ask for more. I have also cut out snacks just until we are back on track with the meals. today's lunch went much much better. It definitely helps if they are hungry when you feed them. maybe my approach is a little hardcore but if you get desperate, it works...
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What sausages do you give, arent they full of preservatives? And isn't bacon too salty and hash browns too oily (do you make these yourselves?) These are honest questions, just wondering if its ok now to give these foods to my 21 month old.
I'd love to give baked beans to my daughter but she doesnt like them. Dont know why cos I grew up on them!! I've tried it on toast, with cheese, with scrambled eggs (trying to disguise the baked beans taste but cant trick her!).
I would also love to be able to give peanut butter to my daughter. I've given it a couple of times and her eczema would flare up. Does anyone know if other nut butters are availbable in HK?
I tried to also add sunflower seeds to her cereal/yoghurt but she doesnt like it, probably too hard. I would like to incoporate seeds (and nuts) into the diet, has anyone successfully done this for their child?
I still give my daughter about 10-15oz cow's milk every day. Does anyone still give milk on a regular basis to their 2 year old? I suppose I'm still thinking like she's a baby need her milk on time etc....once before afternoon nap and before bed at night.
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PDNS
17 yrs ago
yeap yeap yeap Cara! I too giving my 20 months oatmeal, yohurt, fruits - all the 'healthy food' but there will be time that he loves something else so i do give it to him and believe that one bacon every 2 weeks, a strip of bacon or hashbrown or ham every now and then will not really harm him. I think the next minute he has burns the fat and salt and whatever by running and playing so much! My older eats a little more but she is lean and healthy because I make all my kids to run and play outdoor at least an hour a day. Oh last night we went to have chinese food, oh, so yummy, we all enjoyed till the last drop including my 20 months - never want to leave the hair chair at all :)
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Z
17 yrs ago
this is directed at flowers -- try vzzzing them in the blender. Mine came with a small grinder thing that is pretty perfect for chopping into small enough bits even though no molars yet. Can make your own nut butters too - food processor best, just add nuts and vzzz, maybe drizzle in a little oil depending on the type of nuts and the consistency you would like.
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thanks to Z and cara for their advice (no offence taken)
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cd
17 yrs ago
To Flowers,
Soy butter is available in wellcome, looks just like peanut butter, its on the same shelves as the peanut butter/honey etc.
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mine LOVES toasted pumpkin seeds, raisins and dried cranberries. These would be a snack though. All i need to do is put him on a highchair or sit him down with a small plate of the these and he will be quiet for the next ten minutes picking each one and putting it in his mouth.
it hink mixing textures is hard with toddlers, it confuses them (mine anyways)...
i think chinese breakfasts are really good ideas too, all the steamed buns, the rice rolls with sesame/peanut butter and that fermented sauce. Mine loves the chang fan (steamed rice flour with eggs)..
i wiwh i had the patience and tiem to make him indian breakfasts, chapathis, puris, idlis, dosas...
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mine loves yum chaa-ing too, i think he's more chinese than italian or indian...
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PDNS
17 yrs ago
What can we do? They all born in HK so they are so familiar iwth yum-chaa and Chinese food. My friend's kids went back to USA, they refused to eat until rice was served, but the rice was so different the way they cook so my friend has to cook it herself or go to the Chinese Restaurant! Now that they are older, she thought it will be easier but they all looking forward to 'come back' to HK during college holiday for rice/char siew/bao n etc......
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