My son was never a good eater.
It's Friday and what am I dreading? What to cook for him this weekend. During the weekdays, the sitter takes care of his meals and "claims" he's a pig and eats everything from congee to rice to noodles to cookies to bread.
At home, he's constantly turning his head to everything except for cheerios. I can't have a toddler eating cheerios and milk 3 meals a day!!!
Well, I might be exaggerating a tiny bit. He does eat apples and bananas too, in addition to his cereal diet.
He was an ok gerber baby food eater as an infant, but around 9 months or so we started making him "congee" which is a chinese staple for babies. It's just soupy rice cooked with chicken or some type of meat. I like to mix in minced veggies, which he golfed down as an infant. But once he hit 14 months or so (I just threw in a number, who knows how long it's been), he decided he doesn't like congee anymore. He's constantly turning his head and dodging the spoon.. you know, what toddlers do best.
In fact, it seemed like he enjoyed taking his cough medicine more than his congee. So since then, I gave up making a separate pot of congee for him since it goes down the garbage disposal at the end of the day anyway.
So what do you serve a toddler?
I thought kids loved chicken nuggets, pizza and burgers... NOOO my son wants nothing to do with that... *more head turning*
He also hates mac & cheese. We realized that he doesn't like cheese like his daddy does. I try those campbells soups with the Dora characters on it... *head turns*
I envy those moms who say.. my kids eat everything on their plate! Please help me.
It's Friday and what am I dreading? What to cook for him this weekend. During the weekdays, the sitter takes care of his meals and "claims" he's a pig and eats everything from congee to rice to noodles to cookies to bread.
At home, he's constantly turning his head to everything except for cheerios. I can't have a toddler eating cheerios and milk 3 meals a day!!!
Well, I might be exaggerating a tiny bit. He does eat apples and bananas too, in addition to his cereal diet.
He was an ok gerber baby food eater as an infant, but around 9 months or so we started making him "congee" which is a chinese staple for babies. It's just soupy rice cooked with chicken or some type of meat. I like to mix in minced veggies, which he golfed down as an infant. But once he hit 14 months or so (I just threw in a number, who knows how long it's been), he decided he doesn't like congee anymore. He's constantly turning his head and dodging the spoon.. you know, what toddlers do best.
In fact, it seemed like he enjoyed taking his cough medicine more than his congee. So since then, I gave up making a separate pot of congee for him since it goes down the garbage disposal at the end of the day anyway.
So what do you serve a toddler?
I thought kids loved chicken nuggets, pizza and burgers... NOOO my son wants nothing to do with that... *more head turning*
He also hates mac & cheese. We realized that he doesn't like cheese like his daddy does. I try those campbells soups with the Dora characters on it... *head turns*
I envy those moms who say.. my kids eat everything on their plate! Please help me.
2 comments:
Hi,
Ky-An doens't like congee when he hit about 11 or 12 months either. I think they just got sick of the same texture since 4 months, you know. Tristan probably has a full set of teeth now so maybe he'll like the same food that you eat? Ky-An only has 8 teeth but will eat most everything we eat. I just try to give him soft stuff like rice with vegetable broth soup, or Vietnamese noodles soup. I just make sure I cut everything up in little pieces for him and he gobbles them up.
I dread the weekend and having to think of something to cook for him also but most of the time he'll eat whatever we eat at restaurants. Although he'll eat at home, he still doesn't eat as much as at our babysitter's either. I think maybe because there are other kids there that eat with him? Who knows, it seem like that's the problem with my nephew also. Tristan looks healthy to me so try not to stress about his eating too much. I know, easier said than done.
About saving the friend's link, I think under Customizable, you can "Add a Page Element" of a "Link List" and then put all your friend's links on there. HTH!
Hi! I found you on Cindy's(Chau)blog.
My daughter is a little older than your son, but she went through the same stage of not wanting to eat for a while. Only eating banana's eggs and rice!
Finally (at 22 months) she is finally eating more things. Just give it time and don't worry too much!
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