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eating at restaurant question

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What do you put on the table at restaurants so LO doesn't eat food directly off the table or bite the table? We used to use those disposable placemats and they worked well at first, but DS started biting them and he bites off pieces of plastic, so we need a new option. I really don't like him eating off the table, I mean I wouldn't eat off of restaurant tables. Problem is, if its not attached somehow I know he'll pull it right off. I was looking at these:

https://www.amazon.com/Summer-Tiny-Diner-Highchairs-Blue/dp/B000RC2VJY/ref=sr_1_4?s=baby-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1346119514&sr=1-4&keywords=tiny+diner

Has anyone used these?

I'm open to any suggestions. TIA! 

 

 

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  • purpleXdandelionpurpleXdandelion member
    I have one of those covers that goes over a high chair or in a shopping cart. So I use it on the high chair and he'll bite that so I feel like it's better than biting the wood that every other baby has bitten. And we just put the high chair about 6" from the table so he can't reach to bite it. if we give him food, we'll scoot him up to eat off the table, but when he gets distracted and starts to bite, we just scoot him back again.
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  • Natty13umppoNatty13umppo member

    Yeah, we have those disposable place mats too but our problem is that it seems half the places we go, they won't stick to the table so they've been basically useless.

    So last time we were out, the place had little appetizer plates that were on the table and we put food for DD on that.  Trouble was that DH or I constantly had to have a hand on the plate.  :/  But that's been true for just about all our other options - paper kid's menu as a place mat; napkin as place mat. Sometimes I'll keep the food away from DD on the table and instead offer her food from my hand.

    We went to a BBQ place that offered large sheets of waxed paper and they were large enough that we could anchor down the corners with stuff and put food on it and DD wouldn't mess with it too much.

    Maybe you could do something like that?  Carry a roll of waxed paper or parchment paper and rip enough off to make a place mat.  You could either rely on stuff at the restaurant to anchor it down (S/P shakers, ketchup, etc) or I bet you could find 4 paper weight-ish things that you could carry too.  IDK....GL!

     

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  • smwigglesmwiggle member
    Truthfully, I just wipe everything down really well.  We will pull his mouth off when he bites, but my philosophy is that he is a baby, and everything goes into the mouth.  
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  • shabamwamshabamwam member
    I always carry lysol wipes. I give everything a good wipe down, let it dry and were good!
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  • shabamwamshabamwam member
    imageNatty13umppo:

    Yeah, we have those disposable place mats too but our problem is that it seems half the places we go, they won't stick to the table so they've been basically useless.

    So last time we were out, the place had little appetizer plates that were on the table and we put food for DD on that.  Trouble was that DH or I constantly had to have a hand on the plate.  :/  But that's been true for just about all our other options - paper kid's menu as a place mat; napkin as place mat. Sometimes I'll keep the food away from DD on the table and instead offer her food from my hand.

    We went to a BBQ place that offered large sheets of waxed paper and they were large enough that we could anchor down the corners with stuff and put food on it and DD wouldn't mess with it too much.

    Maybe you could do something like that?  Carry a roll of waxed paper or parchment paper and rip enough off to make a place mat.  You could either rely on stuff at the restaurant to anchor it down (S/P shakers, ketchup, etc) or I bet you could find 4 paper weight-ish things that you could carry too.  IDK....GL!

     

    OMG DS would have a field day with this setup, he can be a maniac!

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  • lovesjmlovesjm member

    imagesmwiggle:
    Truthfully, I just wipe everything down really well.  We will pull his mouth off when he bites, but my philosophy is that he is a baby, and everything goes into the mouth.  

     

    This exactly. 

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  • Froggy76Froggy76 member
    I let her bite the table, and I never wipe anything down Surprise  Guess I should start wiping things.  She never gets sick, though!
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  • lkm2006lkm2006 member
    This

     

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  • authorofdreamzauthorofdreamz member
    I just let her eat off the table, they clean them right before you sit down so I really don't worry. My mom got those disposable placemat things for me the other day so I guess I will try one (she is horrified I feed her off the table) but I have a feeling she will just eat it.
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  • duffmakerduffmaker member

    I have a travel pack of the anti-bacterial wet ones. I wipe down everything, always have to even before DD. I've worked in restaurants... I know the scummy rags they use all day long never, changing the bucket of "sanitizer" a.k.a. murky grey water... yuck

    So we just let her eat off the table, but we cover the highchair with our cart/highchair cover... that I can't imagine ever getting clean enough to go into DD's mouth.

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  • errica720errica720 member
    You go out to eat?! Sad


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  • magel050485magel050485
    imageclizh:

    I have a travel pack of the anti-bacterial wet ones. I wipe down everything, always have to even before DD. I've worked in restaurants... I know the scummy rags they use all day long never, changing the bucket of "sanitizer" a.k.a. murky grey water... yuck

    So we just let her eat off the table, but we cover the highchair with our cart/highchair cover... that I can't imagine ever getting clean enough to go into DD's mouth.

    Ditto the bolded.  We wipe down the highchair too and don't use the high chair cover.  The top of all the restaurant high chairs around here come just above DS's waist in the front and the sides and he can't (or hasn't figured out yet) how to bend to put this in his mouth.

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  • lemonJAMlemonJAM member
    We have one of those, and it's awesome!  We used it all the time with DD and now with DS.  Very handy!
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  • tonychelletonychelle member
    we have either used nothing, or we use the disposable mats from  time to time, but i've been looking for this, so i think i will buy. i've seen some others kinds too but not sure where to buy or what called, but they are hard surface mats like this that you put down...
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