sarahb1985
23-06-2013, 11:12 PM
Hi can anyone share what they provide for their toddlers for lunch? I have a 17 month old mindee who is a very fussy eater. Sometimes she starts with me before she's had her breakfast and she will not eat anything for breakfast. Then at snack time she may eat a small piece of cracker or maybe a breadstick and that is all. Then I always think she'll be hungry at lunch but she barely touches lunch either.
I provide a selection of vegetables and salad, oatcakes, dips, wraps, sometimes squares of toast with beans, I have tried a large variety of foods but she just wont eat.
If I happen to give my daughter a few crisps, my mindee will go crazy trying to get them so clearly she is used to junk food but I am not happy giving mindee these foods as that will be all she will eat. Once I did put some cheese puffs out with lunch and she ate them and nothing else.
However she does like drinks, any drinks at all. So recently I have been putting out a selection of fruits and vegetables and letting her 'chop' them up and put them in a blender. Then we watch it mixing it all up and then she will happily drink most of it! So she is getting lots of veg and fruit this way is this ok? I feel bad that she isn't eating anything.
Her mother says she isn't a big eater at home but that is all she has said.
Also she would happily eat raisins all day long but I know these aren't great in large amounts. I also feel terrible that the daily diary has very little written under meals and I don't know what else to do!
I provide a selection of vegetables and salad, oatcakes, dips, wraps, sometimes squares of toast with beans, I have tried a large variety of foods but she just wont eat.
If I happen to give my daughter a few crisps, my mindee will go crazy trying to get them so clearly she is used to junk food but I am not happy giving mindee these foods as that will be all she will eat. Once I did put some cheese puffs out with lunch and she ate them and nothing else.
However she does like drinks, any drinks at all. So recently I have been putting out a selection of fruits and vegetables and letting her 'chop' them up and put them in a blender. Then we watch it mixing it all up and then she will happily drink most of it! So she is getting lots of veg and fruit this way is this ok? I feel bad that she isn't eating anything.
Her mother says she isn't a big eater at home but that is all she has said.
Also she would happily eat raisins all day long but I know these aren't great in large amounts. I also feel terrible that the daily diary has very little written under meals and I don't know what else to do!