June 2008 Weddings
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Toddler Foods
I know it's been asked, and I'm sorry to ask again! I need suggestions for toddler foods... N is super picky lately and even the tried & true foods aren't cutting it. He prefers to feed himself (so things like mac & cheese are a no go... he won't use the spoon correctly and won't pick them up with his fingers anymore). It's getting really hard to think of a variety of stuff to keep on hand!
Re: Toddler Foods
I am also struggling with this. Marshall has started to figure out the fork and he will still let me feed him things like mac & cheese...but I never have any idea if he will eat it or not!
For example, earlier this week I made a chicken noodle casserole and he ate it like crazy that night. Last night I made enchilida casserole that was too spicy for him to eat, so I heated up some of the chicken casserole that he liked so much the other night and he wouldn't touch it!
Marshall has been eating a lot of chicken nuggets because I know that he will eat it. I do offer "whatever" for dinner first and then only give the chicken nuggets or hot dogs if he doesn't eat the first offering.
I know that this is just a stage and that he won't die if he eats chicken nuggets and hot dogs for a couple of months. I am lucky in that he will still eat veggies. **I probably just jinxed myself!**
That is the story of my life! Only, the things I can "always" count on him to eat aren't really meal-ish... bananas, yogurt, applesauce, anything breakfast-y. The kid won't touch chicken nuggets or anything of the sort that I could keep on hand "just in case."
Our crazy, wonderful life
I agree with this. Collin is always asking for dip. He loves ranch, salsa, ketchup, etc. Heaven help us if there is no dip!
I think it's the age. Alex went through that, and still has days when she'll refuse to eat something she loved the day before. Just keep offering him what you know he likes and try new things when you think of them.
For us, peas, pasta, hot dogs (turkey dogs really), chicken nuggets and rice are always favorites, but there are still days she'll refuse them.
Wholesome toddler foods or weelicious gave me some ideas of things to try.
Have you tried a fork? We started Evie with a fork about a month ago and she loves it. I knew when she kept stealing my fork. Around the same time we got rid of the high chair and got a kaboost for a chair and she now eats at the table.
One thing that works for us that Evie loves is pita bread (they make small ones) split in half. Spread hummus inside. Line with turkey and cheese. YUM! I have even started to add fresh spinach in it.
Mac and cheese (especially the shaped ones) is great with a fork.
meatballs
bean burritoes (Amy's frozen ones she loves). messy but tasty
taco meat
chicken or fish nuggets
spinach nuggets
the veggie nuggets that jennrs always posts are a HUGE hit
Try chaning the size you are cuttin things. Evie now likes things in larger chunks so she can take a bite out of them.
My Blog Picture A Day Blog
Jane is tough too and things she loved she now hates but some suggestions:
- Definitely try to encourage eating with a spoon/fork. It's messy, but once he gets it opens up so many options. Jane has a few like 'sporks' and also spoons with teeeeny holes in them that hold the food bettter?
- What about things he can pick up, but aren't bite sized (i.e. he has to take a bit out of them). That's J's favorite, I think. We make chicken/cheese quesadillas, english muffin pizza, grilled cheese sandwiches, bagels with cream cheese, etc. I have to think portable and can-send-to-school so this is what we go with.
Jane normally has a very good breakfast, a decent lunch and almost never eats dinner. She is offered something, and if she says no, that's it. We don't offer her a list of other things. We want to get into the routine of "this is dinner"....
I really want to do this too...but I just never know when it's acceptable to start that. Apparently, according to your pedi...now is the time! I'll have to run this by Sam and see how he feels about it. I agree that it isn't likely that Marshall is going to starve by not eating some protein at 1 meal a day.
It's no magic bullet Jo, that's for sure. It's hard if it's clear she's hungry and just doesn't like or want whatever it is. Then we might cave and offer something instead. But, most times, she's eaten all day and she is just too busy playing or whatever. We offer a few times. We have her sit while we're sitting or we sit with her and if still nothing then we just reiterate "this is dinner tonight...". If she asks for something else we say "If you're hungry, I still have your pasta..." and sometimes she'll eat then. But, the key for us has just been to roll with it if she doesn't want to eat at a particular meal.
Feeding your kid is stressful!
How true is this! I never imagined when we were talking about having kids that this would be one of the most stressful aspects!
And Tiff, I know somebody mentioned trying to use utensils and I wanted to say that this worked for us...for a while! Marshall wouldn't pick something up off his try to eat it, but if we put it on his fork and then laid his fork down he would pick it up and eat it. That doesn't always work for us now, but for a while it worked like a charm!