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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not asking this to be smug but genuinely asking when your baby starts solids and progresses to snacks can you just offer meals and whole food snacks and skip puffs, bars, pouches, crackers?

As a kid I was extremely picky to the point I lived off buttered white rice and goldfish. At an age that it wasn't cute anymore. I guess I'm hyper aware and just wondering if we don't offer will they even know what they are missing. Obviously until a certain age when they are heading to playdates and parties but when they are 1-3 can you just avoid the pre packaged convenience snacks? And hope they eat well.

I'm not talking about restriction or limiting carbs, calorie of anything like that. We want to follow Ellyn satter feeding guidelines but in terms of what can we control quality until x age. And that does not hat look like?[/quote]

The longer you avoid daycare the longer you have complete control. With daycare,  I would say complete control til age 1.  Then after 1,  daycare fed things like goldfish and animal crackers (despite my request to not feed anything with added sugars before 2).  However, I have never bought those things.  I used bambas puffs for peanut introduction and vegetable and meat pouches were like a lifesaver for me because of their convenience but of course you don't need to use them (just not all puffs and pouches are terrible nutritionally)

By the time they  hit 2 they start being exposed to  enough social events (assuming you bring them to those things) to know about  and be exposed to things like ice cream, cookies, cake, etc.    In Ellen Satter these things are supposed to be in regular snack rotation so they don't become "special foods"  I buy a little more "junk food" than I did prechild to have them in "rotation"  sometimes (more like I randomly feed them to her since I'm not very scheduled with meal planning.)

I don't actually follow Ellyn satter very well though.  Single parent so typically I get food ready that  my toddler wants eat (lots of pasta, bread, cheese, fruit, sweet potatos, leftovers) - we come home from daycare/work late and she's always a bit tired and hungry and then if I have time and energy make something for my self.  She usually wants "Mama food" so my jaw drops as she eats kale with onions, bok choy with parsley, garlic and onions, beet greens etc.)  She says it's good and I have to reserve enough for second and third helpings.  She definitely became pickier as a toddler but she likes her greens at least for now. :)   [/quote]

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