Young Toddlers Eating Issues and Ideas

[baffelly]

I gave him premade hummus from supermarket that we eat. It tastes quite strong and I'm surprised he liked it.
Tofu and steam egg(Chinese/Japanese style) are still his favorite maybe worth trying.
He likes French fries (we gave him some at restaurants) so I'm planning to make some roasted potato cubes for him tomorrow.

 

[Shenzhennifer]

Pixelelf - thanks for sharing - that was great. But I do hope it does not get worse than this! I have heard so much about toddlers who nearly stop eating...Oh that must have been stressful.

Cara - Is that the Delectibly Delicious book? I have seen that book at my friend's place. It looks a bit labour intensive. I tend to shy away from recipes for my baby that have more than 10 ingredients. I just don't have the time for that. Little dude screams in hysterics as soon as I step foot in the kitchen.

Baffely - I haven't seen the pre-made stuff here. At home in Canada, that's just a given - I wouldn't think of making it (I did once many years ago and it wasn't that nice). I basically only go to ParknShop here and they don't have it for sure. I'll have a look out for it next time I'm at CitySuper or 360. Are you talking about Chawanmushi(the egg tofu stuff)? Yeah, my son likes that. Very easy for him to eat

I went shopping today and got some ingredients to make some new stuff. I'm hoping he won't spit it out.

 

[lesliefu]

does he like soup? maybe you could cook some pasta in chicken soup...easy to eat....use the smallest alphabet pasta....

 

[carang]

yeah that's the book... you don't have to follow it exactly, once you get the idea, it's easy to adjust it to your own abilities/schedule
ie) buy the "pancake mix" that you just add water, THEN add the pureed fruit.

buy kraft mac & cheese, add some extra "real" cheese and the pureed veg.

the thing you have to do is steam and puree all your veg at once. do it once per week, then freeze in bags that are labelled....it really only took us about an hour of steaming/puree-ing one night and that lasted us at least a week.

the other thing i thought of was, just because he spits it out today, doesn't mean he'll spit it out tomorrow... it may take a couple of tries for him to learn to accept the new texture & taste.

 

[Shenzhennifer]

Leslie - He hasn't been a big soup eater - a bit here and there. I find it a bit of a pain to give him as it's so watery. I think as another poster suggested that he can start to drink it. I just got a box of organic creamy broccoli soup yesterday so that will be on the menu this week. Good call on the chicken soup and alphabet pasta. will look for the pasta next time I'm out. This boy is costing us a lot of money...
Cara - yeah, I get what you mean. Great idea for the steaming too. I really have to try that. I think I can stuff a little bit more into our freezer! Also, I'm pretty diligent about continuing to give him things that he didn't like before. otherwise it's such a waste.

Breakfast of organic cereal toaster bars (thumbs down from little dude), full fat yogurt (nearly half a small container), 3.4 of finger banana. Sigh... Am just thinking of his lunch now - got some good recipes from Healthy Toddler Recipes, Recipes for Feeding Your Toddler- Toddler Menus, Toddler Foods, Toddler Lunch, Toddler Breakfast Ideas at wholesometoddlerfood.com