Food snobs, what CAN/DO your kids eat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's really easy!

Breakfast: Fruit and plain yogurt. Sometimes breakfast is huge, sometimes it is just a banana and milk. It depends on what my DS would like to eat.

Lunch: Usually dinner leftovers, frozen vegetable medley, cheese.

Dinner: Small portions of whatever I am eating (unless it is too spicy), an extra veggie like peas, fruit for dessert.

Our dinners could be baked brown rice with chicken, broccoli and fresh grated parmesan cheese. Dinner could be steamed mussels in white wine sauce. Heck, dinner could be a petite filet--my DS eats everything and MORE than I eat.

I think the key is to eat wholesome foods, everything in moderation, and make sure your plate is very balanced. My toddler may eat more steak than I do because he can have more fat and protein, I will be eating more salad.

Of course it's easy- you have a toddler!

Ehhh, he has been eating all the same foods since the beginning. The only difference is I'm not slicing steak paper thin and then mincing it. In fact, his favorite purées as a baby were Brussels sprout and mango-strawberry-rutabaga.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine is not a baby anymore, but we never eat fast food (dd didn't know what McDonalds was until kindergarten) and we rarely eat processed food. I cook most nights, and we do go out on Friday nights. Seasons 52 is a favorite. I am not a food snob, I am just eating the way I was raised. We always had a garden, so lots of fresh veggies, and parents never spent money on fast food unless they had a buy one get one free coupon. I shop once a week, and only buy what I will be cooking that week. By the end of the week, the refrigerator is bare, but at least the food is eaten before it goes bad.

You cook every night except Friday? Do you WOH?

I work in a school, so my hours are good. I am usually home by 5 and dinner on the table at 6.

[Anonymous]

Wow, I think you guys are lucky your kids eat a variety of foods. If you had
a kid who has a feeding disorder or is a very picky eater, you would be singing
a whole new tune.

And no, my kid WILL starve himself if we don't feed him something he likes.
That is why he is in the feeding clinic.

[Anonymous]

PP, I feel for you. I don't think anyone here is trying to make a parent of a kid with a feeding disorder feel badly - your kid has special needs, you do what you have to do! My child had a medical issue and got very skinny and isn't a big eater, no matter what you feed him, so at one point the doctor said to feed him anything high calorie he'd eat, even if it was chocolate chip cookies. So that is what I did. Now, being the self admitted foodie I am they were home made, but if all my child would would eat was Chicken McNuggets, that is what I would have fed him. I hope things with your child get better soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I think you guys are lucky your kids eat a variety of foods. If you had
a kid who has a feeding disorder or is a very picky eater, you would be singing
a whole new tune.

And no, my kid WILL starve himself if we don't feed him something he likes.
That is why he is in the feeding clinic.

well duh. OP's post wasn't about feeding kids with food disorders

[Anonymous]

14:28: +1.

16:39, that may be true, but no need to pile on.

To others critical of the posters here, I don't think anyone's setting out to brag. The OP asked a question, some other posters asked questions, and people are answering, in the assumption that whoever asked wanted answers.
No need to go snide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A PP asked incredulously if a person who cooked 6 nights a week SAH. I'm a different poster, but I cook 7 nights a week (Friday pizza night is now at home, too, due to finances) and I WOH. I time shift so I am home by 4:30, though. I get a meal on the table in 30 minutes made from whole ingredients, some of them frozen over the summer, like roasted tomatoes. Dinner last night was chili - a pound of grass-fed ground beef and a jar of roasted tomatoes, onions and peppers from the summer, simmered together for 15 minutes - and thrown together biscuits. So that is what my kid eats. He is 6, and is just now coming out of the little kid pickiness, when feeding him was harder.

That was me. Guilty of thinking WOH = being gone from 7:30 am to 6:30 pm. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:14:28: +1.

16:39, that may be true, but no need to pile on.

To others critical of the posters here, I don't think anyone's setting out to brag. The OP asked a question, some other posters asked questions, and people are answering, in the assumption that whoever asked wanted answers.
No need to go snide.

I am 16:39-I am not piling on. Why post here if you have nothing to contribute? Should those of us that have kids without eating disorders feel bad about it? Her comment was rude-yes I wish her child well but consider creating a thread on eating disorders and kids.

[Anonymous]

Anything I feed them. Or go hungry. They eat. Maybe they've missed a meal or two, but that isn't a big deal.

I have one that only likes eggplant in baba ghanoush or minced, and one that for some obscure reason really likes soggy Lima beans....otherwise we are good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don't eat anything processed nor do we eat fast food. We don't eat red meat. We make our own meals and serve just a tiny piece of protein (fish, chicken, turkey burgers, etc.) with a lot of veggies/fruits/salads. No processed cereals either. We make oatmeal or pancakes/waffles for breakfast, have salads with a little protein for lunch and have something a little bigger for dinner. Try not to eat anything white -- pasta, bread, etc.

How many calories are you eating a day? Are you able to exercise regularly without much protein?

I agree, this sounds unhealthy. It is almost impossible to get sufficient calories from veggies and fruit. With oatmeal or a pancake being the only carb in the day and a small portion of a protein, this sounds like maybe 600-800 calories a day. I hope the veggies include things like sweet potatoes, lentils, beans...something with substance. Surviving on salad is a diet not a healthy way of living.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's really easy!

Breakfast: Fruit and plain yogurt. Sometimes breakfast is huge, sometimes it is just a banana and milk. It depends on what my DS would like to eat.

Lunch: Usually dinner leftovers, frozen vegetable medley, cheese.

Dinner: Small portions of whatever I am eating (unless it is too spicy), an extra veggie like peas, fruit for dessert.

Our dinners could be baked brown rice with chicken, broccoli and fresh grated parmesan cheese. Dinner could be steamed mussels in white wine sauce. Heck, dinner could be a petite filet--my DS eats everything and MORE than I eat.

I think the key is to eat wholesome foods, everything in moderation, and make sure your plate is very balanced. My toddler may eat more steak than I do because he can have more fat and protein, I will be eating more salad.

Of course it's easy- you have a toddler!

Ehhh, he has been eating all the same foods since the beginning. The only difference is I'm not slicing steak paper thin and then mincing it. In fact, his favorite purées as a baby were Brussels sprout and mango-strawberry-rutabaga.

You completely missed the point.

[Anonymous]

Don't worry, she'll get it in about a year.