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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ex-DCUM here (just to put a couple of my comments in context).  On peanut butter specifically, you do not have a problem.  Think about it: you have wholegrains, good oils, the value of nuts etc.  Just watch out for the sugar content of the bread (some U.S. bread is more like cake than bread one gets elsewhere) and make sure your peanut butter has ONLY U.S. content (where I live there was a real issue with PB from China containing lots of stuff unrelated to peanuts).  Not beating up on Chinese products but I like to know that my kids are eating what I think they are eating and U.S. PB is really good on the whole.  Also, while we don't really go in for nut allergies where I live (there's hardly any), I know from my friends in DC that lots of schools have nut free policies because there seems to be a real problem.  You might want to wean her onto a new spread when she gets bigger or she might really starve!

On kids eating more broadly, my husband and I have decided not to make food into a fight.  We always make sure there is one thing the children will eat (plain pasta, bread-n-butter, plain rice, fruit) and then hope for the best with other things. We never offer alternatives so sometimes dinner is mostly the staples.  It annoys me when my sister says when speaking to me on the phone "just hold on while I get childX some more curry/pesto" etc but that's just because I'm jealous.  And sometimes there is a breakthrough.  My eldest, who lived on two-minutes noodles, cheerios and goldfish for over a year now begs me for creamed spinach.  I have to make a vat of it so that she can have it for snacks.  Yet less that a year ago I was seriously worried she would get rickets.[/quote]

Which peanut butter is from US?[/quote]

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