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Two Year Old (nearly) - Three Bottles and Feeding Queries
Can anyone give me ideas? My 22 month old eats the following foods nearly every day:
Weetbix
Bottle of milk
1 or 2 pieces of toast
Drink - either water, diluted ribena or diluted juice
Banana and/or pikelets (3-4 small ones or 1-2 larger ones, pikelets that is)
Avocado for lunch
Bottle of milk
Afternoon nap
Small drink - as above
Dinner - if not meat pie or hot chips, nothing
She will not vary from this diet and it is driving me nuts. I was willing to go along with it for a few months as I have recently seperated and wanted to keep her in some kind of routine. However, I now find that I prepare and throw out more food than I can afford (am on a disability pension). She refuses ALL othe foods (well, I actually got her to try some home-made banana cake this afternoon but it was a first) and it goes straight onto the floor before I can catch it.
Also, breakfast is usually spoon feed to her - only rarely will she even attempt to do it herself. Her bottles are also fed to her - she will not hold her own bottles. She does have her drinks either from sippy cups (has to be water or it ends up on the carpet) or from the Avent bottles that have spill-proof lids for the diluted juices.
ANY suggestions other than macaroni cheese, spag bol and all the usuals? She would rather go hungry every night of the week and have Pentavite rather than eat anything than what is on the above list.
Going nuts and getting to the stage where I simply do not want to go to the effort of cooking lunch/dinner that only the kitchen floor will fully appreciate. Even sandwiches are pulled apart and treated as playdough ... she used to eat cheese and yoghurt but gave these up a few months ago, goodness only knows why.
Thanks for anything practical.
Kelly
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Re: Two Year Old (nearly) - Three Bottles and Feeding Queries
Thanks to everybody who has answered my questions. I have implemented quite a few ideas from a lot of these answers over the last four days and found that, wonder of wonders, she is beginning to at least 'taste' her dinner. As long as she has a taste, she may have something if she doesn't want to finish it, eg, half an apple or a piece of toast. No sweets and nothing if she does not event try dinner. Not as hard as I thought, no sleepless nights from lack of food, nothing to complain of. She has given up her morning bottle with no complaint and she still seems to be a happy little soul, as normal.
Again, many thanks to everyone as you all had something positive to contribute.
Best wishes to everyone and BIG HUGS,
Kelly
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Re: Two Year Old (nearly) - Three Bottles and Feeding Queries
Most of the things in your little ones diet is great, as a few others have said, perhaps some more water during the day (the sugar in sweet drinks are quiet bad for there teeth and can be for the tummy) and milk only at sleep time.
My son can be quiet a pain with eating, i'm rather boring in the kitchen, usually just salad and meat for my hubby but we have started doing things like taco's (he LOVES tacos)- you can even get away with putting some salad in with it, quiches are great, if you dont have a recipe just google any recipe or egg, bacon/chicken, puff pastry and what ever else you want to put in it and just sprinkle some cheese over top, cassaroles, try making your own mini pizzas, i know it will involve alot of mess but your daughter can help you to make these from her high chair this way she may also be more keen to eat it, chopped up fruit salad with some yogurt especially all off the sweet melons (water, honey dew, rock etc) Wraps with some meat and salad, hard boiled eggs, tuna patties (all i do with my tuna patties is boil and mash some potato, mix in tuna, peas, what ever other veg i like, a handful of grated cheese, sometimes onion, make into patties coat the out side with bread crunbs if you like, these are so nice and really good for them, corn on the cob (last week my son had 4, everyones at the table, didnt really eat much more so now we no not to serve it with anything else), fresh bread rolls with warm meat and salad you can usually stack these up huge and they are more than happy to eat until they have had enough
Hope some of this is handy for you, your daughter wont let her self go hungry, change like a seperation can be hard in both of your lives, i'm sure you'll have her worked out in no time, good luck
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Re: Two Year Old (nearly) - Three Bottles and Feeding Queries
It's very boring but actually I wish my DD2 ate that much food in one day! She is so much more fussy than big sister, yet I brought them up the same as far as I can see.
My suggestion would be to give her water during the day and milk at bedtime, in case that is filling her up, stick with the weetabix for breakfast, continue with the toast, banana and avocado (a nutritionist told me once if you were stuck on a desert island with nothing to eat but avocados you would have no deficiencies in your diet), and then cater for yourself at dinner, giving her part of your portion (so when she turns it down you can put it back on your plate where it was destined anyway). If you're worried, serve pie and chips once a week. My guess is that she is probably eating enough not to need the extra at dinner. My DD2 is still tracking up the same line on the growth charts she has always been on but eats like a sparrow most of the time, and her development is fine. If I shoved more food in her, I guess I would just make her miserable or/and obese!
If your DD sees you are upset, you are giving her a great way to win one over on you, so if you can take the focus off food, you will be making your life less stressful. Kids dont starve themselves!
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Re: Two Year Old (nearly) - Three Bottles and Feeding Queries
My boy started throwing all food on the floor too, I stopped all milk during the day, (this will quite often fill em up), however he still has a bottle in bed, I stopped all snacks. If he didnt hold his bottle at night it was left in his room til he held it and drank from it himself or he didnt get any milk. My boy will use a spoon but not at breakfast. I was talking to the health nurse the other week, and then got a book called Toddler Taming. Now both the health nurse and the author of Toddler Taming say serve your child what you are having, dont worry if it goes on the floor clean it up offer it again the next day, do not give them something they would rather eat, otherwise you will end up with a child who will only eat certain foods. Eventually they will get hungry and will eat what you offer them. Children will not starve themselves, I know it can be fustrating, but if you stick with it she will eventually expand what she will eat.
Hope this helps
Cheers Queenie
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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Re: Two Year Old (nearly) - Three Bottles and Feeding Queries
I totally agree. I would cut out excess milk and definately no juice. Get her to help you make mini quiches ( you don't need to use puff pastry- use an impossible pie recipe- so that they are healthier. I add corn, grated carrot, grated zucchini, spinach or diced broccoli. make them in patty pans or muffin liners in a muffin tray. Great for breakfast, lunch or tea. Get your daughter to help crack eggs( in a seperate dish!!!! There is lots of shell as they learn the art) mix the mixture, measure the milk and sprinkle in the ingredients. My daughters favourite thing is spinach and ricotta canneloni...only because she helps me make it when Grandma is coming to visit ( Grandma made the mistake of telling my daughter that it was her VERY favourite!) Children will never starve themselves. If you offer them healthy foods, they will eventually eat them if they know there is no alteranative. Try making hommous dip ( or get the low fat hommous ready made) serve up with torn ( can toast in oven) pitta bread, softened carrot sticks ( blanch in boiling water then chill) cucumber sticks etc. My daughter at two, LOVED avocado on multigrain toast. ( I had to hide the avocado or else she would get a whole one out and dig into it with a spoon!)She LOVED hommous dip on EVERYTHING, She thought olives were fabulous ( pitted ones) Loved homemade pesto and basil and cashew dip) Loved ALL cheese. HATED corn, loved casserole and also my minestrone soup with multigrain toast fingers. ( The soup is great as it is full of veggies and some pasta) Loved rockmelon, thought apple and pear tasted like poison! Their preferences change all the time... one week they love it, next week they hate it! My daughter used to call olives "lollies' and would eat heaps of the black pitted kalamata olives. She now will not touch them ( she got ill with tonsillitis and had scoffed heaps that evening .... after vomiting them up for the next 24 hours, she never wanted to see one again!) The other favorite is lasagne ( I make it using the idea that there are twice as many veg as mince and I use heart smart mince. I grate or dice any veggies that I have to add to the meat sauce - carrot, zucchini pumpkin, broccoli, cauliflower, sweet potato... then make as usual. I cut the left overs into child sized serves and it is great when I finish work a little later and haven't had time to cook so I can get the cherub fed before it's too late! Once a fortnight when we go into town, we have pizza on the way home. We talk about treat foods and everyday foods. We talk about healthy foods and not healthy foods. Now at four, she knows she needs to eat fruit each day ( she will eat every veggie except peas at dinner time without batting an eyelid.)But fruit is still sometimes a struggle! Remember that if it is the same as what you like to eat, it will not go to waste. Set a good example by eating fruit and veg and telling her they are delicious!!! If my little one didn't want to eat, then I would say "Oh well, not hungry, I'll give it to the dog!"She would yell and scream as she knew that if that happened she couldn't have dessert ( usually diced tinned pear in natural juice with yoghurt or a milk with some milo- once or twice a week she could have a kiddy cone with a spoonful of frozen yoghurt ) Yes, they will expect you to feed them. Get them to take turns...you do one spoonful, I'll do one. Then, you do two and I'll do one. Keep praisinng them for their great work, how clever they are! They do eventually get it. When they get tired, they revert to needing your help!!! Good luck!
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