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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP. Thank you for the suggestions! In law school professors called it “fighting the hypo” (as in hypothetical) when students wouldn’t just answer the question but instead needed to change the question to something else. I’m noticing that now two responders are saying, “don’t give her iron for dinner, do it at other meals!” DCUM can’t resist fighting the hypo. It’s kind of fascinating. I wonder if I do it to other people or if I just don’t answer if I don’t have an answer to OP’s question. I am also going to notice if it happens so much in real life or if this is just a DCUM thing.[/quote]

I too get frustrated when people don’t answer the question I asked. The worst is when the first poster makes an incorrect assumption or introduces a hypothetical and everyone runs with it and you never get an answer.

Here’s why I do it, using your question as an example. Sometimes people ask a very niche question and I assume, sometimes incorrectly, that they have been thinking about it for a while before coming to DCUM. Sometimes when I am fixated on solving a problem, I have zeroed in on one specific aspect of a much larger scenario. On this case, many of us in the DMV have just made it through our first week of summer swim team practices and “dinner at the pool” is a topic we are familiar with. When we offer other suggestions, it’s from our personal experience. At my house I have one kid with 6:30-7pm swim and one with 7:30-8pm swim practice. Neither of my kid eats dinner in a traditional way. Both eat heavy snacks before and after swimming. The early kid’s food is split 50/50 and the late kid is more like 75/25. During these few weeks until morning practice starts, I don’t have time to make a sit down proper meal on swim nights. I focus on getting my kids a full, healthy breakfast and then pack boxes with a variety of room temp foods they can eat as we drive around picking them up and going to/from other sports. Because of my personal experience that my kids don’t have time to eat a full meal of heavy foods I suggested both iron filled breakfast AND hearty snacks for dinner - like hummus and veggies, sneak some chopped spinach into felafel or meatballs.

You started off by leaving out key information - you don’t eat meat, your ped suggested food based iron in addition to supplements. 
I think you should be willing to step back and look at the bigger picture and be willing to think outside of the narrow constraints your question posed. Anyone can do an internet search for high-iron foods for kids because iron is an issue with many toddlers. Because toddlers eat finger foods, toddler high iron recipes should provide many examples for you. When you ask on DCUM and then only want recipes that doesn’t make sense. There are lots of sources for recipes. The pool / need for portability aspect of the question implied you wanted more than recipes. You wanted experiences swim team parents to share how they feed their kids. The issue is that we chimed in with examples of how we feed our kids during swim season and you rejected that because it wasn’t “dinner” by your definition. [/quote]

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