Healthy snacks
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Topic: Healthy snacks
Posted By: BessieBear
Subject: Healthy snacks
Date Posted: 29 September 2010 at 10:25am
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I have a toddler who will only eat biscuts and chocolate and loolies. It's my fault really. Not helped by grandparents who seem to think cildren need sweet things. Basic daily foods ATM are; Breakfast- 7am 1 peice of toast, 1 cup milk morning tea he asks for at 9am (but I try to give it to him a bit later) this normally consist of him wanting sweet stuff and me saying no but end up giving it to him. He will eat apples and rice crackers though lunch-12 (but he will ask for it at 11.30) Yogurt. Thats it, he used to eat a sandwhich but he won't eat the crusts which means theeres one bite from each little triangle. I try cut off the crust but he sems to eat less if i do. he has maybe more apple and probbaly biscuits and junk un the arvo and he will only eat tea if its, subway (bun turkey cheese) pasta (continental packs) anything deep fried (chicken nuggets chips etc) No veges, he will eat kumara if its roasted. So mostly the same things every day. Any one got any ideas. ------------- Sarah Mum to, Boy 07/2008, Girl 03/2010, Boy 05/2012, Angel  07/08/2014
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Posted By: JessDub
Date Posted: 29 September 2010 at 10:37am
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For a snack, about a little cup of nutrigrain or cheerios mixed with raisins or dried fruit. DS will eat that and at least he's getting some nutrition from it. I know the cereals aren't ideal but better than biscuits.
Have you tried giving him meatballs? Mr Fussy likes the ones I make with grated carrot, courgette and packet of onion soup mix (that's to 500g mince) and they're excellent to reheat from the freezer. It's amazing how kids go straight for the cr*p food eh?! ------------- 
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Posted By: BessieBear
Date Posted: 29 September 2010 at 10:52am
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W've done nutragrain, he doesn't like it. He will eat dry cornflakes though. Meatballs is a no go to. He won't eat mince, sausage, he'll a steak and lamb. He'll put a peice in his mouth chew it for a bit the spit it out.  ------------- Sarah Mum to, Boy 07/2008, Girl 03/2010, Boy 05/2012, Angel 07/08/2014
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 29 September 2010 at 11:54am
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If you really wanna stop it. Don't buy the sweet stuff. Tell the grandparents that under no circumstance is he to have it and then just keep offering a variety. He will soon learn that hes not gonna get biscuits etc.
We try and make food interesting. Like Daniel is obsessed with fans so we make carrot fans which are just chopped up carrot with these teeny triangles cut out of them so they look like fans and he asks for them all the time now. Try and give him some choice. At lunch time I always ask do you want this or this on your sandwich? I've done this for well over a year and he chooses. With main meals I know a few of the things that are foolproof that he will always eat so I make sure I have one of those things and then the rest is a maybe so at least I know hes gonna eat something from the plate. If he doesn't eat what hes given he doesn't get anything else. If he doesn't eat his dinner he sure doesn't muck around at breakfast lol Daniel has always been weird about his food so we have tried just about everything to get him to eat more variety etc and its working if you are consistant. If you give in and give them what they want (ie sweet stuff) then they quickly learn that holding out gets them what they want. |
Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 29 September 2010 at 12:01pm
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My DD was a bit like that too made worse by the fact that her Nana brought treats everytime she visited - she lives downstairs and visits 15x per day I became a treat Nazi and confiscated all treats in the house then banned them for a month. DD was offered healthy foods and if she didn't want them she got nothing at all. She soon caught on. How about offering a bigger breakfast firstly so he's not hungry for instant energy at 9am. My kids both have a bowl of cereal, then toast, then fruit for breakfast I also put the fruit bowl where DD can reach it so if she's peckish outside of mealtimes she can grab a piece of fruit. -------------  
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 29 September 2010 at 1:07pm
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yep dont offer it.
popcorn can be healthy if not with sugar or other stuff... fruit sticks, mandarin (sweet but healthy). Maybe give him yoghurt or jelly and fruit for lunch occasionaly if he wont eat the sandwiches... i would suggest too that maybe he needs a bit more than a piece of toast for breakfast to help fill him up. it sounds too me if he is asking for food at 9 and 11.30 that he is hungry then and maybe if you feed him lunch and morning tea then instead of waiting he may actually eat more. I know with my kids if i give them dinner too late they just dont eat it - i think they get to that sage where you dont feel the hunger anymore. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 29 September 2010 at 1:12pm
| Yeah bigger breakfast too. Daniel has a large bowl of cereal and a big banana chopped up into it and he cleans that up |
Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 29 September 2010 at 3:26pm
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I would offer a bigger breakfast - Caden had a piece of toast, a banana and sometimes some raisons or some weetbix.
For snacks he has things like a plain biscuit, some more banana maybe...apple, crackers and the only "sweet" things I buy, are those fruitsi bars and he has one of those as a snack. Lunch is sandwhiches, and I cut them into triangles with the crust off, he eats it. Raisons, and some more fruit. Dinner he is REALLY fussy, so I give him what he likes and thats baked beans and toast, spaghetti...he likes sausgaes sometimes, sometiems will eat pasta, he likes fish fingers. Refuses to eat any veges, so after dinner if he has attempted to eat anything he will get some yoghurt or some fruit. With the sweet things, I would just not buy them at all, be tough and say no. Caden prattles on at me all day sometimes "lollies lollies lollies" and I say no no no no  He only gets them every now and again and its only ever 3 or 4 m&m's as a treat or if Im eating some choccie he gets a teeny bit.
ETA - Deb thats a good idea about yoghurt and Jelly, I think I'll offer that to Caden when he's being mega fussy. |
Posted By: Delli
Date Posted: 29 September 2010 at 3:43pm
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Yep, I second the clearing of the cupboard of "junk food". Either eliminate it or put it on the top shelf for special occasions only.
If you change anything, try to change his breakfasts. It sounds as if he is not getting enough to eat in the mornings. I'm a big believer in breakfast being the most important meal of the day  If he likes yoghurt, will he eat porridge or weetbix if it has yoghurt and fruit on it?
Will he eat cheese (unprocessed is best)? You could cut cheese sticks from a block for his morning and/or afternoon tea. Greek yoghurt and fruit for morning and afternoon teas are good as well. Hummus on cruskit and cream cheese on rice crackers go down well here. Keep trying different fruits too
What about tuna sandwiches? Fruit smoothies? What do you eat? If you have different meals to what you offer him - he may decide that what's in front of him is yuck. Kids also eat better when you all sit down to a meal together as opposed to you having meals at different times. Sorry, haven't had any experience with a fussy eater (Jude has always just eaten what we have - hopefully it stays that way! ) - hope this helps a little though.------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 29 September 2010 at 4:04pm
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Oh and sometimes in my house a treat is a marshmallow - not technically healthy i suppose but fat free and they would possibly satisfy the sweet craving. In fact they are more popular than biscuits here. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: HoneybunsMa
Date Posted: 29 September 2010 at 4:06pm
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I agree with the bigger bfast DD at 14months eats at least 2 pieces of toast or 2weetbix and has so since she was about 8months she goes so long without food that she is really hungry come bfast and can quite often polish hers off then scab off me! We do crackers and cheese as a snack, or fruit dinner its whatever I have on hand quite often leftovers too!
Don't offer the sweet stuff, they don't starve themselves and will eventually eat whatever is on offer if not they go without. We watched our god son be a picky eater to the point he would say he's not hungry but as soon as lollies/choc/chips etc came out it was can I have some I told DP off one day because he wasn't eating dinner but DP gave him choc... BOYS!! ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Lulu
Date Posted: 29 September 2010 at 4:24pm
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Some favs for my DD are:
*Mash tinned tuna, some grated cheese and a spoonful of mayonaise together and put inside half a pita pocket. Bake in oven for about 5 minutes on 200 degrees, let cool and cut into little triangles. *Mashed potato is always popular. Sometimes its a good way to get other veges in, you can grate carrot, pasnip, courgette into the potato. *Homemade hummus goes down a treat with rice crackers. So easy to make. *I find little platters are always popular as they have a choice of many things e.g. grated cheese, grated carrot, gherkins, sliced tomato, slice salami, diced fruit. *My DD loves homemade sushi. ------------- Lou http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 29 September 2010 at 8:28pm
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mmm marshmellows! yummmmm
Caden went through a phase of only wanting junk as well, once they get a taste for sweet things thats all they will want to eat. So I just got tough and said no, eat this or nothing, he soon learnt that if he didnt eat what i offered he wouldnt get anything. Now he will eat his sandwhiches and fruit, and if he does he might get a treat. |
Posted By: bun_in_the_oven
Date Posted: 29 September 2010 at 8:44pm
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You are the adult.. you are in control..
a toddler can not go to the supermarket or make the desicions to buy the 'junk' time to toughen up.. stop buying the biscuits etc Saying no doesnt make you weak.. you can offer lots of fruit, ham, chicken drumsticks, jacket potatoes, homemade popcorn, Veggie sticks, yoghurts, raisin packs, toast with avocado or hummous, kruskits with vegemite or peanut butter, celery sticks, a bowl of frozen peas... the list is endless... Set some new guidelines in place and stick to it.. the transition will be REALLY hard for a few weeks but hang in there.. eventually your DS will become used to all the new foods being on offer... and just think what you will be dealing with if the 'bad habbits' continue.. an un-healthy school aged child who lives on crap.. Im no saint ... but i do limit the high sugary snacks. Good Luck - you CAN do it. It will be hard work and you need your family to support your changes |
Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 30 September 2010 at 9:07am
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I buy the mini marshmallows for treat purposes. A small packet of mini marshmallows lasts months. I also bake. The kids love my banana mini-muffins. If you use really ripe bananas you don't need to add any sugar (although it's only about 1/4 tsp per mini muffin anyway) and I use wholemeal flour rather than white flour. Replacing butter with olive oil makes it even healthier. Popcorn is another hit at our house. We have an air popper which means I don't need to add anything to it (although as a special treat I dust it with a wee bit of icing sugar). -------------
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Bizzy wrote:Posted By: xLUCKYx
Date Posted: 30 September 2010 at 2:16pm
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My daughter will get just as excited about some chopped fruit as she would over a lollipop.
Something I have noticed with my kids is that they form and also break habits very quickly. If I were to give my kids an afternoon treat 2 days in a row, by the third day they would have already come to expect it. Likewise if they don't get it for 2 days in a row, they generally forget about it. Popcorn is a fave at our place too and so cheap!! |
Posted By: mollycat
Date Posted: 01 October 2010 at 9:16pm
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Just thought I'd throw this in here but I get some really yummy, healthy snacks from the Asian food store by our house. Curiosity of something new often wins out in our household. ------------- http://tickers.cafemom.com"> 
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Posted By: MuppetsMama
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 9:48am
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My DD is 2 & 1/4, and for breakfast has a bowl of weetbix & milk with yogurt/fruit, sometimes toast, and a glass of juice watered down to 50/50 or less. Lunch is sandwiches, 1 small piece of baking and fruit, sometimes a couple of chips if we have some open. Dinner she eats what we are eating, and if she eats her dinner then she is allowed pudding. She only has 2 snacks a day, a morning one at 10ish which is normally a biscuit or baking, and an afternoon one when she wakes from her nap, which is fruit or yogurt - nothing that would spoil her appetite for dinner.
To be honest, if she doesn't want it and is being fussy, (and I know that she likes it, or should at least try it if it is something new) then she doesn't get anything else until she does! She is not the boss, we are! We have only had this problem a couple of times - the food just gets left out or put in the fridge, and brought out again when she asks for food, until she eats it (obviously within reason - we don't overrule food hygiene). Either that or she gets offered fruit. Kids will eat if they are hungry, and I don't believe there is anything wrong if they end up going to bed with no dinner just once or twice - but I would always offer it again, or a piece of fruit, or a milky drink before they went down. But that's my opinion, and how we choose to raise our children - you have to make your own decisions; I am not saying this is what you should do, just sharing what we choose to do. Also I suggest buying (or getting from library) a baby recipe book - try smoothies, or other interesting ways of serving food. Kids love it when something is a bit out of the ordinary! Good luck :-) |
Posted By: Leelee
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 10:17am
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My son is 20mths he is fussy and it is made harder by him being gluten intolerant.
For breakfast he will have a yoghurt because thats what we give is losec with, he will have a peice of toast which more often than not he wont eat it and some fruit. Some times he askes for a 2nd yoghurt if its the smaller pottles For morning tea he has fruit, crackers and cheese For lunch its usually a sandwhich or scone, some fruit, cheese and some sort of treat (yoghurt covered rice cakes or animal biscuit) sometimes if he is hungry he will have a youghurt as well. If we are out at a mall he has sushi which he loves and I also pack some stuff. For afternoon tea he can have whats left over from lunch if there isnt any he has crackers and some grapes or banana but not topo much so he will eat tea. For tea he is super fussy, but he generally just has what we are having, he wont touch veges so I try to sneak them in some how. and if he eats some he get dessert which is usually fruit salad or custard or both. He sometimes has some fruit/veg juice with tea watered down - 2 parts water, 1 part juice. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Kicker
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 11:29am
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I second/third/fourth/whatever the bigger breakie idea. M wasn't eating much breakie (toast/cereal) so now i try to do scrambled eggs with salmon, pancakes, boiled eggs etc for breakfast.
I don't necessarily agree with 'you are the boss just dont give in' as this is hard and then you have a tantruming 2yr old on your hands (and with a 6monther you don't need it) so what i do is tell M she can have 1 muesli bar and 2 biccies (treat size ones) a day and thats it for junk. I even went as far as having a snack bag per day with the junk and some healthy snacks so when its gone its gone. You could slowly replace the not so healthy treats with healthy ones this way. Lunches - M wouldn't eat sandwhiches for ages so she gets quiche, rice crackers with cottage cheese, wraps with hummus, cheese sandwhiches, pasta, pastry-less quiche, sushi, as the main part of her lunch then some fruit, some cottage cheese and some veg (usually cucumber). Meat at dinner time is getting better here, as you know M had her teeth done a couple of weeks ago and is now chewing better so i am slowly introducing more meat. I get her to help prepare it and then if she refuses it, i try to get her to taste it and at least chew some of it which she has to swallow. So we just start with small bits and move on from there. -------------  
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Posted By: weeheebaby
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 10:33pm
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Your little boy def needs more breakfast
Depending on the type of bread you are using he may not really be getting much in the way of energy from that either. DS (2.5) has 250 ml of milk, a piece of toast (often two) usually with peanut butter, and a bowl of cheerios (wht yoghurt or dry, just depends on the day). WHen I have my breakfast (not long after) he will quite happily munch through half of whatever I'm having. RFecently I have switched from toast to muesli for myself and have noticed a massive difference in my hunger levels. Porridge with yoghurt and fruit (ds loves peaches) to sweeten could be an option. For snacks, gowith vairety and plenty of choice: Grapes Mandarins Cut up apple (or whole, my ds will chow a whole apple now) Orange segments Cheese and pineapple on a toothpick Luncheon sausage cut into strips and rolled on a toothpick Rice crackers and hummus (referred to as "dip" in our house) Pieces of non-processed cheese Raisins or sultanas Dried fruit Potato sticks (come in a multi pack) Homemade mini muffins (sweet and savoury) Cold pasta (like spirals) Sushi Avocado, Capsicum, Carrot sticks Boiled egg Mini pikelets (with little or no sugar added) Plain popcorn (Lots of mums I know put a plate of these things together to make lunch for their toddler but I can't be flagged so it's mostly just a cheese and rellish sandwich, youghurt and a piece of fruit) It is really really hard when they beg for a treat but you can do it! I told everyone that NO-ONE was to give my child any food for a period of time as he was being fed by so many people and they were all giving him junk (thinking how kind they were being to him). I had a right tanty about it one day and they all got the message. It's tough work sometimes but you've just got to decide to do it and stick with it. A treat in our house is a "special lolly" which is one dark chocolate button. (And it has to be earnt) Not fun when you feel like a meany but your child is very unlikely to starve themselves completely (highly unlikely). Just keep offering lots of things. And make a huge deal about eating it yourself if he won't and keep saying YUM and mmmmmmmm lots (monkey see, monkey do) - he just get jealous of you eating his food. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: kiwikid
Date Posted: 06 October 2010 at 8:29pm
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Very popular in our house is the Edmonds piklet recipe with a mashed banana or pureed blueberrys in it, yes the recipe has 1/4 cup of sugar but it makes a fair amount of piklets and we dont put any toppings on them - we call them pancakes! ------------- 
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Posted By: BessieBear
Date Posted: 09 October 2010 at 2:28pm
Sorry wasn't very clear on that. He won't eat cereal thats why he only has toast. I've tried weetbix, cornflakes, rice bubbles, muslie porridge. All with/without milk, yogurt fruit. I thinks its a texture thing. ------------- Sarah Mum to, Boy 07/2008, Girl 03/2010, Boy 05/2012, Angel 07/08/2014
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Posted By: BessieBear
Date Posted: 09 October 2010 at 2:36pm
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I got the new OB mag in the mial yesterday and someone had asked a question on food for toodlers and how the child couldn't cope with the texture of meat and the answer was to make a smoothie and put baby rice in it as well as smoothie stuff. So yesterday arvo thats what he had. Banana, milk and a spoon full of baby rice (the miss of the house doesn't seems to lik the rice so I have it lying around) and he drank the lot. ------------- Sarah Mum to, Boy 07/2008, Girl 03/2010, Boy 05/2012, Angel 07/08/2014
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 09 October 2010 at 2:57pm
give him more toast then... or an egg or fruit. Or the smoothie for breakfast. Oh and does he eat breakfast with you? Maybe he will eat what you are having ? ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: Troods
Date Posted: 09 October 2010 at 9:08pm
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I agree that he needs a bigger breakfast. My DD will have weetbix, toast (wholegrain), sometimes rice bubbles as well, and then a smoothie made up with banana, frozen blueberries and raspberries, yoghurt and milk. Definitely try the smoothie. My DD loves it. She also loves fruit, so it always makes a good snack, that and raisins, plain water crackers with cheese, plain rice crackers, corn thins. Have you tried him with tinned fruit? Peaches, pears, apricots - all go down well in this house! I have to admit biscuits are a bit common place in this house, but we do bake a lot. She can get fussy at dinner time of late, refusing to eat her veges, despite being an excellent vege eater this time last year. But I've found she likes to "help" when I'm chopping veges up for dinner and will help herself to the chopped carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms (all raw) so that usually makes up for it. You could try letting him do the same thing when preparing dinner.
And I agree with Bizzy about trying to give him more toast if he refuses anything else. When DD went through a phase of not eating cereal, she'd have 2-3 slices of toast and her smoothie. And I always have breakfast with her (that's how she ended up having smoothies because she always stole mine!) ------------- 
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Posted By: jaycee
Date Posted: 09 October 2010 at 9:27pm
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It is veery easy to say give more breakfast but what if he doesn't want it? Sophie eats pretty well and CAN pack the food away when she wants but many mornings she will eat a small bowl of cornflakes or one slice of toast. The other day she only ate 1/4 a piece of toast.
But on the other advice keep the other stuff hidden away a bit and keep giving the other options. Good luck. -------------   
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 09 October 2010 at 10:02pm
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i think sometimes we put adult timetables on our kids. Just because we traditionally think breakfast is at a certain time it doesnt mean that is when it is best for the little ones to eat. I know that my daughter sometimes wont eat much at breakfast time but half an hour later gobbles down second breakfast!
i think that if a child is telling us they are hungry then we should offer them food, it doesnt have to be junk or biscuits. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: jaycee
Date Posted: 10 October 2010 at 7:54am
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Buzzy - that sounds like Sophie, she is usually starving when we get joke from the kindy run at 9am. I will be telling her what the plan is and that I will be doing x,y & z and she will be saying "and I have some cheese and crackers" -------------
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Posted By: mountaingirl
Date Posted: 12 October 2010 at 9:47pm
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Breakfast in this house can be baked beans, an omlette or a soft-boiled egg with toast soldiers, or porridge and also fruit.
Very rarely is it solely toast - just my opinion but there's not much goodness for breakfast in a piece of bread (especially white) with butter and preserved sugar on top. |
Posted By: Natalie_G
Date Posted: 18 October 2010 at 2:39pm
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Arianne has a big bowl of coco pops! Thats the breakfast of choice at the moment. Then she has a bottle of milk. Yeap still on milk.
Arianne also doesnt like crusts and eats as far away from them as possible. Today I found all her sandwiches on the floor and the interior on her face 
They keep you on your toes. I have a ferm no junk food policy. I get so angry when she gets lollies because she constantly asks for it and it becomes a mission. I just don't give in. If its not there they wont want it.  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: Babe
Date Posted: 07 November 2010 at 12:43pm
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Jake will not have any breakfast at breakfast time somedays then eat 7 pieces of fruit, 3 pieces of toast and a bowl of cereal at morning teatime. I make sure we have boiled eggs, fruit, nuts (hes just discovered he loves them), oaty biscuits, bran and fruit muffins with spirilina (sp?) etc, plain popcorn, mini corn fritters, etc ready for snacking to provide a good range of nutrients plus he has fish oil and cod liver oil supps. He also has a water bottle.
ETA and now I've worked out that the reason the first post struck me as abit weird is because its the start of the SECOND page not the OP (hahaha  yep sooo not with it ATM) I have abit more to say.... I totally agree on having a junk food ban for atleast a month!!! How do you find his behaviour and sleeping? If Jake was on a diet like that he'd be a mess. You may find he goes through abit of withdrawal when you remove all that sugary stuff (you too), headaches, aches and pains, grizzly, and so on but thats just a sign of how badly its affecting his system. Plain yoghurt and an apple or pear will help kick the cravings if you need some help and I suggest green smoothies for his breakfast - bananas, plain yoghurt, some V8 juice if you don't have a juicer, spirilina (sp?) and some fish il and cod liver oil. I would be careful not to replace sugar with sugar i.e high sugar cereals. Things like coco pops might be packaged 'healthily' but they're akin to junk food.-------------   
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 07 November 2010 at 5:17pm
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yeah, those high sugar cereals are amazing. i was giving taine nutrigrain as they are 25% RDI iron and he has very low iron stores (and doesn't absorb iron well), and then someone pointed out that it actually had the same iron level as cocoa pops - which are over 30% sugar. after chekcing, i found weetbix are also 25% RDI iron. so after that, out the window went the cocoa pops - although I do occassionally buy some now for dessert.
the healthy food guide mag does some great articles about snacks for kids we personally try to maintain a no junk food policy here too - mainly cause they get enough of that at my grandmother's house - but I think it can be easy to get oTT about it. |
Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 07 November 2010 at 6:44pm
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I completely agree with Bizzy to give him food when he is hungry.
Have you tried porridge, if you have did you put a pinch of salt in it, cause honestly it's revolting without it. Take this list & look in your pantry at some of the food you eat & your boy. These can cause a whole range of side effects and one of them is diminished appetite. Been there & fought many a time with my DD until I started removing this stuff from her diet. COLOURS 102,104,110,122,123,124,127,129, 132,133,142,143, 151,155 natural colour 160b (annatto) PRESERVATIVES Sorbates 200-203 Benzoates 210-213 Sulphites 220-228 Nitrates, nitrites 249-252 Propionates 280-283 SYNTHETIC ANTIOXIDANTS Gallates 310-312 TBHQ, BHA, BHT 319-321 FLAVOUR ENHANCERS Glutamates incl MSG 620-625 Ribonucleotides 627, 631, 635 Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein (HVP) ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: FreeSpirit
Date Posted: 14 November 2010 at 10:19pm
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Some children just won't eat a bigger breakfast - my daughter is one of them.
If I was in your shoes, I would do a number of things. 1) Don't buy any junk for a month. Trust me, the first 3 days will be challenging but be strong. 2) Buy fruit. Lots of it! Apples, banana, strawberries, pineapple, watermelon, oranges, make sure you buy fruit he hasn't tried. 3) When he asks for something to eat, feed him - make a plate with 3 different colours on it (eg yellow cheese, green kiwifruit, red apples) and go all out in how you present it. Make faces on the plate, serve little pieces on toothpicks (cut the ends off once the fruit is on), try sticks, thin slices, whole halves, skin on, skin off. When you make him lunch, don't just make a sandwich - put a sandwich, some fruit, and a LITTLE treat (like one or two mini marshmallows). 4) Make healthy food look like junk food if that is what it takes - put thin apple slices in a bag, make homemade hawaiin burgers, even cube up fruit (as if you were making fruit salad) and serve it in a pretty bowl - all the colours can be very appealing. He eats toast - great! Try different sorts of toast, with different toppings - fruit toast (mmm raisins), white toast with avocado on top, wheatmeal toast cut in circles spread with cream cheese and sprinkled with finely chopped dried apricots...... ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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