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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with comments about how hard it is for kids to open things (particularly younger boys who may not have great fine motor skills.)

A few weekends I packed my son lunches in his lunchbox (this was August) and gave him the lunch box at lunch time. I pretended to be busy making my own sandwich to see which items he struggled with opening. It was interesting. In his case, the thermos as it cooled had a slight vaccuum seal and he could not twist it open. The cheese stick took him 7+ minutes to crack open. The yoghurt stick, forget it. The tab broke off and he never got to the yoghurt. And this was without all the chaos and distraction of other kids around!

He was pretty fast at opening his sandwich box and pretty good with zip locs. So for right now, I send him cubed things or cut up fruit or baby carrots in a zip loc bag and a sandwich in his sandwich box. I include a fruit squeeze with the butterfly top that he can open (but can't include a mashup yet that has the little twist off cap). If I put in a cheese stick, I actually start it and put it into a zip loc, so he'll get the time to eat the cheese stick and not spend all his time trying to peel it open.

This is all a way of saying that DH needs to find containers and ways to get DS food that do not involve utensils and involve few hiccups in the opening front. Your DH's food sounds delish, but time consuming for a little guy to manipulate...[/quote]

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