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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
monkeybutt61612
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Feeding a 15 month old
monkeybutt61612
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Hi ladies! My 15 month is a fairly picky eater. He usually eats scrambled eggs in the morning, peanut butter sandwich for lunch, and pasta with vegetables for dinner. He snacks on cheese, goldfish crackers, and some fruit during the day. He rarely will try new foods. I'm at a loss of what else I can incorporate into his diet. My husband works really late, so I don't cook dinners. So, I just make my son whatever he will eat and I have a sandwich or something. Any thoughts on what else I can be giving him? Thank you!
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Re: Feeding a 15 month old
I would start offering something new with each meal. Doesn't have to be big. C generally gets a veggie, a protein, and a carb with lunch and dinner. I've started making sure that two of the three are things I know she'll eat, and one is new. That way, she will get a decent amount of dinner and be introduced to something new. Even if she refuses to eat the new thing, I keep trying it every couple of days. I've found that if I don't make a big deal about the fact that she hasn't eaten it, she's more likely to try it. That, and I also send a lot of the new items to daycare, as she is much more willing to try them there.
As far as specific items to add, we just recently tried lima beans and she loves them. She gets a lot of fruit, her go to veggies are peas and corn, something carrots, and she'll eat pasta and bread and most meats. HTH!
Married DH 7/30/11
CSC arrived 5/7/12
CHC arrived 6/2/14
I work FT and am completely exhausted by the time I get home, so I usually have 1 stock up day where I'll make a couple weeks worth of freezer friendly meals. I'll throw in a vegetable and/or fruit with the meal.
The most frustrating part is if I give him food he doesn't like he cries and it makes things worse. That is unless I also give him something he DOES want. It doesn't help that he also doesn't like the food at daycare so he is really hungry and cranky when we get home.
I tend to give him eggs (with veggies mixed in, like spinach), cheese, PB toast, tater tots, fruit (HE LOVES FRUIT), and sometimes he'll eat meat. The list is getting smaller and smaller.
I wish I could help!
Also, I realize you meant this for the OP and not me so you might have had different advice in a different situation.
Obviously eating with your son isn't going to magically solve all your problems, but it might help. Try making a meal for you and your son and eating with him. That way you'll be introducing him to what you'd like to eat and what you'd like him to eat. He'll see that you're enjoying it and it might tempt him to try it too.
DH and I usually get home at the same time, so most nights we all eat together, but there are nights when one of us will work late/get home late (and this is usually me). On those nights, whichever parent is home first eats with our son. They sit at the table and eat the same meal. Whichever parent gets home late, usually curls up on the couch next to the parent who ate and gets a nice, relaxing, child free meal while still spending time with their mate.
I also have a ticking time-clock who wants to eat the second we step in the door from daycare, so I tend to make dinners the night before, after he goes to bed. That way as soon as we get home, I can heat up what I made and we can get to eating quickly. And then I can take my time making the meal without him. This also works well because dinner is ready for whichever parent gets home first to heat up.
We had supply issues and bad reflux. I finally gave up supplementing and went straight formula at 3 months. He was 4% at one point. Wasn't born small (8lbs, 2 oz), but lost a lot of weight in the hospital and it took a long time to get him back to birth weight.