need help with breakfast
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Topic: need help with breakfast
Posted By: Kazzle
Subject: need help with breakfast
Date Posted: 12 December 2008 at 7:26am
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she use to be such a good eater with b/fast and still is on the weekends for some reason.
but through the week, if she has toast she only has 2 bites, or if cereal 2 mouthfuls (and she askes for this)....and then all she wants to eat is crackers, and if i give her the crackers she munches on them happily. breakfast is suppose to be the most important meal of the day but i cant even get a glass of milk into her....she eats well throughout the day, lots of fruit and pasta, cheese, yoghurt etc. but how do i get her to eat breakfast ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: CuriousG
Date Posted: 12 December 2008 at 8:43am
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If you find out let me know! EXACTLY the same here, eats like a horse on the weekends but during the week, just isn't interested. Today she had a quarter of a piece of peanut butter toast and then asked for a cracker! Won't eat anything else!
I am not going to worry too much about it because it seems to swing in roundabouts. I know she eats enough during the day (and they have morning tea very early at daycare). I certainly wouldn't survive on so little. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 12 December 2008 at 8:59am
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I agree with this. She may be inbetween growth spurts and not need as much food. What I do is offer Michaela her meals and if she chooses not to eat much that's fine but she won't get crackers or snacks to supplement the missed meal (otherwise she tends to skip her meals because she prefers the inbetween snacks). Kids just won't starve themselves you just need to trust that she subconsciously knows what her body needs. -------------  
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CuriousG wrote:Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 12 December 2008 at 1:28pm
You could try a week of not allowing her the crackers and keep offering breakfast foods up until lunchtime if she takes it that far - she might get the idea that dropping her cereal or toast after a couple of mouthfuls won't mean she's rewarded with a snack. And I know food battles are awful, but try not to worry... if she were hungry for brekkie she'd eat brekkie. Some days I don't like the idea of food till around 10, but then I go through phases of waking ravenous and needing a second breakfast by then. I'm gonna use that horrible "P" word... could just be a harmless phase!  ------------- Andie |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 12 December 2008 at 7:58pm
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At 2-3yrs I find that the main meal changes from breakfast to dinner... I suspect because they are not so tired for dinner as they used to be at 1-2 yrs. I'd offer her toast in "fingers" (kinda like crackers [;)[)) and a bit more for dinner. Don't worry, she won't starve herself! -------------  |
Posted By: NeoshasMummy
Date Posted: 13 December 2008 at 9:39am
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I agree, she won't starve herself in the end she will be hungry and want to eat. They all seem to love crackers but maybe try onl giving them to her after she has eaten her breakfast if she eats her breakfast she can have crackers for morning tea if she doesn't eat her breakfast offer her more breakfast if she is hungry. I have been going through the same thing with neosha, a bite of everything then yuck... crackers please? I have stopped buying crackers and she has started eating breakfast again. I will reintroduce them later.
Good luck ------------- https://secure.fertilityfriend.com/home/30c4ec/" rel="nofollow">  Mrs Te Kani ❤️ Neosha 26/5/2007 |