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If LO doesn't eat what you serve
Samiantha101
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If LO doesn't eat what you serve, do you give them an option they'll be more prone to eat? Anja has started to dislike anything healthy. I made chicken stir fry for lunch, and she refuses to eat even a bite. When this happens, what do you do?
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Re: If LO doesn't eat what you serve
I'm of the mind that babies will eat what they need when they need it. This is partly why I offer usually 3 food groups at every meal. If he refuses food, he's usually just not hungry. I don't really concern myself with it, honestly.
We also don't do snacks. Not because I'm some mean mama, but he's just never been interested in anything I've offered him between meals so I stopped offering. If I'm nibbling on something midmorning and he wants some, I give it to him. But even when I offer he usually squishes it up and throws it on the ground. So by meal time he usually is hungry enough to eat whatever is in front of him. Well what he wants out of whatever is in front of him.
She gets fruit with lunch and breakfast daily. I know she'll eat the fruit fine. My husband is insisting that I save her lunch and dinner when she doesn't eat it, and try again later on if she appears hungry. I know this is a waste of energy. She just won't eat it. She'll live off of fruit and whatever she gets for breakfast. I usually don't sere veggies at bfast, except if I'm making eggs. I sneak in spinach then.
Im sneaky. I add veggies to alot of things in miniature form. Cheesy bread has tiny bits of broc. Alfredo has spinach, etc.
Some things are understandable like salmon and I know he doesnt like melon. Other things, nope. If you like salsa, you can eat spaghetti.
What veggies are you trying? Asparagus and peas are the two I've found the DS will consume as much as fruit. I do the same as khill and try to offer around 3 options each meal so DS has some choice but if he doesn't want anything from those options I just take him out his high chair (this is rare). I'm trying to be consistent with this and not offer the typically toddler food that I worry will get him stuck in a rut (crackers, cheese cubes etc). DS loves fruit and will eat a ton of it. After he ate himself sick a few times, I decided to offer a certain amount and I don't give him more in the same meal. He seems to have gotten used to that and he doesn't fuss for more. I do serve veggies with every meal, including breakfast. I figure its good for me as well and its helped with getting DS to eat them at other meals. I try do do some fresh but we do eat a lot of frozen veggies from Trader Joe's. We are also trying not do snacks (which I think helps with meals) but we offer 4 meals a day usually 7:30,11, 2ish, and 6ish so either 11 or 2 is really a "snack." DS has also figured out how to open the fridge and crisper drawer and help himself to a nectarine or peach so that's his other snack.
I have to admit meals are the only thing going well for us. Not STTN, screams at me like a banshee if I try to offer milk in a sippy rather than a bottle. So don't feel bad if meals are a struggle. We've all got our issues!
DD isn't picky but will go through some picky days. I try to offer the same meal later, but I also give her fruit. She would get it as dessert anyways. Sometimes putting the fruit along with the other stuff helps, but I try not to make it a battle.
And ditto on the veggies on sauces!
She just won't touch them. I prepare them all different ways too. I have to trick her to eat any sort of vegetable. She use to love mash potatoes. Well, I mixed some green beans, which I cut up reaaaallly tiny. She felt the different texture in the potatoes, and she wouldn't even eat her starch. It's really frustrating. I am a picky eater myself. I grew up hating vegetables. I choke them down almost every meal to try and set an example. It sucks being a picky/unhealthy eater.
DD likes to see me eat the same thing as her... Do you eat with your DD and is it the same food for you and her?
Yup, I sure do!
tomato sauce is the easiest place to hide veggies. Yams, zucchini, carrots (grated). I had to hide a lot of stuff because DH did not eat veggies when we started dating and I had to eat them somehow.
Try the book from Jessica Seinfeld - Deceptively delicious. She teaches how to hide veggies in everything!