how long for meals?

ladybugpjb · March 2013

How long does it take for your LO to eat a meal? Dinner, to be specific.

DS is great with breakfast - banana and yogurt, usually. Lunch is generally pretty easy, too.

Dinner, however, can take 45 minutes just to get him to eat enough food. I let him feed himself while I eat, and then I spend another 30 minutes trying to get him to actually eat instead of play. If I'm patient and work with him long enough, he'll eat the food. Other times, I don't have 45 minutes to play his games. I know part of it is that dinner tends to be foods that are harder for him to chew. (BTW, he now has 4 teeth - the one he cut last month, and three that cut through the other day. No molars or anything yet.)

What do you do? What do meal times look like for you?

Do you think getting more teeth will encourage him to mess around less and eat more?

eatmorecupcakes · March 2013

::hangs head in shame::

I couldn't tell you because sometimes we just put DS's tray on his table and let him dine and dash. It seems to be the only way he'll eat a substantial amount unless I actually feed it to him.

Breakfast is the

CootieQueen170 · March 2013

Dinner takes foreverrrrr like an hour.

Monsieur_et_Madame_Ha · March 2013

45 minutes doesn't sound all that long to me. I never timed her, but I think DD2 hits that time a few times a week. Depends on what we're having. Plus she's an epicurean, so sometimes she'll just keep eating and eating until I decide I'm tired of waiting