Food Shopping For 22 month old

heretolearn_2

Great easy-peasy meals for your kid would be

baked beans on jacket potato with a sprinkling of grated cheese.

pasta cooked with sweetcorn and peas, drain, mix in some canned tuna.

chicken drumstick to chew on plus rice and veggies

brians_daughter

our 15 month old eats what we eat with the exception of breakfast. He loves the baby muesli which is 12month plus. Simply because we dont eat breakfast until we are at/on way to work.

Lunch he has had egg mayo on brown bread, dinner veg spag bol with garlic bread and a banana covered in natural yogurt. If he is teething we will sometimes revert back to puree/mashed foods such as fruit and veg as he looses his appetite

brians_daughter

angelicmary85 wrote: »

I've been cooking seperate meals for my DD for almost 2years. It was either give her what she would eat or she'd starve.

Even when we were weaning her she wouldn't eat. I've been exhusted countless times trying to get her to eat a slice of carrot or a bit of apple. All she ate for about 3 months was dairylea triangles. I took her to the doctor to see if there was anything wrong with her but she's as healthy as they come...she just doesn't eat. She won't eat cheese, bread, ham, egg, plain chicken, any fruit or veg, mince, tatties (not even mashed with butter) pasta, rice, beef...would you like me to to go on?! We don't give her sweets (although I did bride her into using the toilet using a ice lolly!!) and she won't drink milk

It's very easy to say that children should eat what their parents are eating but it's not always possible...and it's really frustrating for the parents who can't get their kids to eat, it's worrying and it's exhusting.

I tried starving her but she wasn't bothered,...if you (or anyone else!) can suggest any ideas to get her to eat then I'd be willing to listen!!

We sit down together to eat but she just plays with food, if I take away she'll sit until it's time to leave the table....We've learned not to force the issue but instead to throw plate after plate of food in the bin.

we went through this with ds1. so i know how hard it is. We just offered lots of foods at once so on his plate he would have say a few grapes, carrot stick, cucumber, apple, pear, tom's just loads of colourful foods. If they wont eat it 'raw' try gently cooking teh apples through for a few mins in a pan with a spoon of water.

One day it ended up with fruit veg mash and meat on his plate all at once. He gradually grew out of it - just keep offering. what i think worked for us was 'giving up' ie stopped worrying and gave him a bit of what we were having - also if you go to playgroups and the likes it helped ds1 loads as he saw others eating different foods and over a period of about 12 months he got better and better...now hes 12 and there is nothing he wont eat and i swear his legs are hollow!

Children wont starve themselves so dont worry there. If doc says they are healthy thats all you need to concentrate on at the moment

angelicmary85

heretolearn wrote: »

OP

I'm sorry if I'm wrong about this but I'm guessing you don't cook your own meals either, otherwise you wouldn't have this problem. A kid of that age should just eat the same as the parents, not special ready meals, and certainly not baby mush. I take yoiu only eat ready meals and things yourself?

I don't think that's a fair assumption.

There have been a couple of parents on here that have said their kids are really bad at eating, I don't think it's always the parents fault - there was one poster that said she seen a child in hospital that had to get seen by a shrink to get to her to eat...you can't blame the parents for that!

Glamazon

My son is 7 months and usually has what we are eating. If tea's not ready when it's his teatime (sometimes OH and I don't eat til 6.30pm and LO eats at 5.30pm) then I always save a batch of what I'm cooking and he has it the next day. Tonight he had spag bol with cheese which we had last night. I do use jars now and then but use the 10m ones cos they have far more substance to them. If we are having something spicy (I mean spicy) then I have some small chunks of frozen chicken or cod which I defrost and cook with rice or pasta. He loves chicken curry!
Over Easter we stayed with the IL's and he ate Roast Turkey, Lamb and Beef, he'll hold a yorkshire pudding and devour the whole thing.

Lunchtimes are - cheesy scrambled egg on toast, a meat & salad sandwich, sticks of cheese, cucumber, cherry tomotaoes - whatever I'm having really!

I started him on our food at 6 months after a few weeks of purees and he never refuses anything now. I can't be bothered with batch cooking just for him like I did with his purees so he'll have what we are having or he can stick with milk!

Sunshine12

jamespir wrote: »

i would just feed it what i eat but smaller portions

:eek:

Made me giggle again James.

mrsw1983

heretolearn wrote: »

OP

I'm sorry if I'm wrong about this but I'm guessing you don't cook your own meals either, otherwise you wouldn't have this problem. A kid of that age should just eat the same as the parents, not special ready meals, and certainly not baby mush. I take yoiu only eat ready meals and things yourself?

OK, you know that's not good, and thumbs up for you for realising that this can't continue now you are responsible for a kid. That sort of diet is very unhealthy - ok if you choose to as an adult - but it's criminal to inflict it on kids!

So...if you really can't cook. Can you ask someone for some help? Can your mum cook? Another relative? You need to learn, pronto. If not, there are great books at the library. Delia Smith has done a basics cookery book, that covers everything from literally how to boil an egg, and is a good starting point. Otherwise general family meals cookbooks will help you. Bear in mind that young children shouldn't follow an adult's healthy eating plan - they need more calories for their size, and a larger proportion of fats. But normal family foods should cover that.

Fruit and veg are easy and don't need cooking necessarily. Protein is easy - pretty much anything in portions (chicken legs, pork chops) can be whacked in a medium oven and you can see when it's done. Stick a knife in and pry it apart a bit. Any pink, give it another 5 minutes.

Jacket potatoes (very good for you) take 8 minutes in a microwave. That's not hard. Pasta- just follow the instructions. 10 minutes boiling, done.

Please start now before it is too late for your kid's health.

Wouldn't it be fantastic to all be 100% amazing perfect parents hey?!;)

heretolearn_2

Yeah it would, and I know I'm far from perfect! :-)

I know there are kids with physical problems, and psychological problems, and just plain old fussiness sometimes (that was me as a kid, only ate about 5 things) that stop them eating normally. I wouldn't blame the parents at all. You can have 2 kids raised exactly the same and one of them still won't blooming eat.

But my post was addressed to the OP. I think that it is a reasonable assumption that the OP doesn't cook their own meals as she asked how to. It's not the kid refusing food, it's the mum realising that she needs to change what she feeds the child. So, ok, after a wee bit of a nag, I gave what I thought was some pretty helpful pointers towards learning how to cook family meals. Lots of people haven't learned to cook. Good for the OP for deciding to do something about it.