Husband and I are at odds over DD's eating

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Its fine for her to be vegetarian. She is far from picky. She's eating healthy and plenty. She's fine.

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You consider beans a breakfast food???

It sounds fine to me. She’s eating a big variety of foods. Who cares if she doesn’t like meat and “kid food”?

Op here. I studied abroad in the UK and guess it stuck with me

Omg I'm dying. Sorry to go off topic but the idea that someone spent four months in college in London and now considers beans a breakfast food is hilarious.

A lot of Latin American countries have beans at breakfast. Just because you didn’t/don’t have it as a breakfast food doesn’t mean nobody should.

Seriously, when I think of beans for breakfast, I think of black beans, huevos rancheros, etc.

Previous PP, is your goal to appear as provincial as possible?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the OR who thought the beans affectation was funny. I guess I know what posters are still speaking in English accents or saying prego! twenty years later. I really hit a nerve!

You are an enormous d-bag, and you haven't explained your reasoning, if you can call it that, at all. I am not Latin American, and I have never been south of Texas - should I not consider bean a breakfast food? People opinions about food must be set in amber based on where they grew up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
You consider beans a breakfast food???

It sounds fine to me. She’s eating a big variety of foods. Who cares if she doesn’t like meat and “kid food”?

Op here. I studied abroad in the UK and guess it stuck with me

Basically half the world does beans for breakfast, the shock and horror.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our 4yo only eats breakfast-ish foods. She has never swallowed a bite of meat or fish in her entire life, even during baby led weaning. She is over 99% for height and 65% for weight. DD prefers to serve her "dinner foods" aka meat, starch, veggie that she will not eat and then have her go hungry until she gives in and eats it (she hasn't in the past). I prefer to just give her what she enjoys, she eats it, and we move on.

She eats a rotation/combination of:
Greek yogurt
Any fruit
Omlettes (with any veggies)
Beans and toast
Oatmeal
Veggie and sweet potato hash as long as it's served with another breakfast item
Smoothies with any fruits and veggies
Homemade banana oat flax break
Toast with anything on it- PB, almond butter, jelly, or avocado
Hard boiled eggs
Homemade pancakes of any kind- sweet potato, berry, zucchini, etc
She drinks milk, almond milk, ripple (whichever we have on hand) and water

Dh also gets annoyed that she won't eat any kid food- chicken nuggets, hot dogs, pizza, etc. I will admit that could be difficult when away from home, but we haven't taken her to a restaurant or anything since covid anyway.

Is it worth pressing her to widen her food choices or just let it be

I really need to know what ripple is. And yes, I Googled. I got this:
Ripple was a fortified and carbonated wine that was popular in the United States, particularly in the 1970s (and made famous by Fred G. Sanford of Sanford and Son). Possessing a low 11% ABV (lower than modern table wines), it was originally marketed to "casual" drinkers.

[Anonymous]

I had a kid like this at that age. Not picky but weird about meats and vegetables (and also not into kid food). It wasn’t that he was a natural vegetarian or whatever. I didn’t realize it at the time but it was a sensory thing where it took him more effort to chew those foods than the alternative. I’m looking through your list and everything seems to be soft, not crispy, and nothing requires much chewing effort. That may be what’s going on. In any event, child is 10 now and eats everything. It just sort of happened naturally end of 1st grade. Keep exposing her but I’m with you— feed her what she likes. She’s not picky and gets a wide variety. It’s really fine.

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Anonymous wrote:What seems to be the problem? Your daughter is eating a wide variety of foods.

The problem is that daughter isn’t eating what the rest of the family eats and you can’t always get breakfast foods when you eat out or travel or when you visit family. I mean eventually the kid needs to broaden her diet as just liking “breakfast” foods is weird. I mean it seems like the kid has some sort of block here related to eating but I can’t figure out what. This is a very strange group of foods to eat both texture and taste wise.

[Anonymous]

Would your daughter eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? I mean it’s not breakfast but it is so close to toast with nut butter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the OR who thought the beans affectation was funny. I guess I know what posters are still speaking in English accents or saying prego! twenty years later. I really hit a nerve!

You are an enormous d-bag, and you haven't explained your reasoning, if you can call it that, at all. I am not Latin American, and I have never been south of Texas - should I not consider bean a breakfast food? People opinions about food must be set in amber based on where they grew up?

The PP has clearly never had a chili bean omelette and I feel so sorry for her!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the OR who thought the beans affectation was funny. I guess I know what posters are still speaking in English accents or saying prego! twenty years later. I really hit a nerve!

You are weird. Do you never eat any food from another country? Is making yourself a stir fry also “an affectation”? Beans and toast isn’t even that “foreign” - we eat beans in America. We eat toast in America. But we’re not allowed to put the beans on the toast or it’s an “affectation”?

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Anonymous wrote:What seems to be the problem? Your daughter is eating a wide variety of foods.

The problem is that daughter isn’t eating what the rest of the family eats and you can’t always get breakfast foods when you eat out or travel or when you visit family. I mean eventually the kid needs to broaden her diet as just liking “breakfast” foods is weird. I mean it seems like the kid has some sort of block here related to eating but I can’t figure out what. This is a very strange group of foods to eat both texture and taste wise.

I disagree. You can get a side of beans just about everywhere. Often you can get omelets during lunch too. The kid is fine.

[Anonymous]

Get your pediatrician to counsel your DH on this. You are right, he is wrong.

Unless your DD has a deficiency such as rickets, she is find and he need to back off. Do not engage in a power struggle on this.

[Anonymous]

I would just make sure she gets colorful vegetables

[Anonymous]

Ripple is pea protein milk. My dairy and soy allergic one year old drank it until she outgrew the allergy. Closer nutritionally to whole milk than most other plant based milks.

https://www.ripplefoods.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiA-9uNBhBTEiwAN3IlNGXIp088N2McjVK3F8yHPJQCpYI1Q0q1bTjAIkaaqyAYufR24xMvexoCmYIQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

[Anonymous]

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