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AIBU?

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To feed my toddler eggs?

53 replies

WelshMaenad · 09/08/2012 12:15

This might sound a bit odd, but work with me, I'm fragile and paranoid at the moment!

It has long been a struggle to get my 2 year old DS to eat breakfast, which I think is important if you are a busy little person playing with mummy/going to playgroup/entertaining yourself whilst mummy watches daytime TV. It's a long time till lunch.

Anyway, we had brief success with peanut butter on toast but that is now being rejected too. About a month ago I tried him on some scrambled egg, and fuck me, he loved it.

So, every morning for brekkie he has two eggs, scrambled with milk. Sometimes he has a few tablespoons of low salt/sugar baked beans, but not everyday. He will not eat toast if I serve it on toast so I've stopped wasting the bread.

It was suggested to me yesterday that this is weird/nutritionally subnormal/bad for him. I can't for the life of me think why, but I wonder if I'm missing something? Am I damaging my child, amd I mentally warping him? Willhe grow up to be a cereal killer (sorry, couldn't resist). But seriously, him eating and enjoying eggs for breakfast is worse than him ignoring/tipping/wasting a bowl of cereal or some toast and going hungry because... why now?

Incidentally he eats a good amount of lunch and dinner, which are invariably healthy and home made, so his overall diet is pretty sound.

OP posts:
RationalBrain · 09/08/2012 12:17

Eh? Why is that bad? Sounds fine to me.

cereal killer Grin

chirpchirp · 09/08/2012 12:20

Not at all, scrambled egg is a winner at breakfast time in our house too.

greensnail · 09/08/2012 12:20

Sounds like a good breakfast to me. My dds have egg in some form or another most days. It's cheap and nutritious so what's not to like?

AddictedtoCrunchies · 09/08/2012 12:20

Nothing wrong with that. My theory is let them eat whatever they will eat (as long as he's not eating kitkats for brekkie). If he likes eggs then so be it.

My 4 year old has developed a liking for haggis, mash and carrot/swede covered in brown sauce. Someone told me that was wrong.

Just remember the Mumsnet action of nod and smile and continue to do what you want.

Smile
WelshMaenad · 09/08/2012 12:20

I don't KNOOOOOOW!

The precise comment was "What, just eggs? On their own? That's very odd. I can't think it's good for him". I was so taken aback I forgot to request clarification.

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Pseudo341 · 09/08/2012 12:20

YANBU. Whatever you do as a parent somebody somewhere will find reason to criticize. Scrambled eggs are a pretty standard breakfast item but frankly I wouldn't bat an eyelid if you were feeding him lasagne for breakfast, toddlers are a law unto themselves!

WorraLiberty · 09/08/2012 12:20

My kids loved boiled eggs and soldiers at that age

Wheresmycaffeinedrip · 09/08/2012 12:21

Nothing wrong at all! It's not unhealthy at all and he's eating breakfast which is main thing! It's far better than the sugar loaded cereals !!!

larks35 · 09/08/2012 12:22

2 eggs a day sounds a bit much for a 2yo, but if he is healthy and enjoys them I'm sure it's fine. I think there used to be advice that you should have no more that 3 eggs per week (according to my Dad anyway) but that has changed now as the cholesterol in eggs is "good" cholesterol. Maybe people who have said that is bad for him still believe the old advice.

Salmotrutta · 09/08/2012 12:22

Well, is that not quite a lot of eggs for a toddler?

Eggs are high(ish) in cholesterol so two a day is quite a lot I think?

Have you researched it/asked a dietician?

lovebunny · 09/08/2012 12:23

how old was the person who queried it? in the eighties, we were discouraged from eating or serving more than four eggs a week. i thought that had gone up to one a day now.

he's eating. that seems like a triumph to me. why not check an nhs website? i looked up fruit juice as people were horrified that 8mo dgd loves orange juice - oooh, its out of fashion now!

Pseudo341 · 09/08/2012 12:24

I wonder if the person who commented would have though it was okay if he was having toast aswel.

EldritchCleavage · 09/08/2012 12:24

Eggs are much much better for you than cereal. And I think the suggestion dietary cholesterol in eggs raises blood cholesterol has been doubted, but I'm not sure.

ChocolateHips · 09/08/2012 12:25

Really? DD is 2.5 and can polish off a scotch egg in minutes, if I gave her one scrambled egg she would look at me as if I had gone totally nuts!

Salmotrutta · 09/08/2012 12:25

Ah! just saw larks post about good cholesterol!

squeakytoy · 09/08/2012 12:27

I grew up on boiled eggs with soldiers every day. My cholesterol is absolutely find and always has been. I have read that the scaremongering over eggs is a load of rubbish now anyway.

FeakAndWeeble · 09/08/2012 12:28

Oh bollocks to them OP! Well done for finding something he'll eat. Mine did like eggs and now they're being rejected too Just nod and smile, like this Smile when people make such stupid remarks (and they are stupid when they won't even clarify why something you're doing is wrong)

squeakytoy · 09/08/2012 12:28

my cholesterol is FINE, (clearly my spelling isnt today!)

Kladdkaka · 09/08/2012 12:33

I'm on a diet and because of this thread I'm now craving scrambled eggs. On that basis YABU :o

Del123 · 09/08/2012 12:35

Eggs are one of the best breakfast you can have. We have been brainwashed to think we should have cereals for breakfast. They are high in sugar and lacking in protein, not good all round.

The cholesterol link has been disputed, he is having a much healthier breakfast than most people!

BreakOutTheKaraoke · 09/08/2012 12:38

The limit advice has been scrapped now, according to the NHS page here.

I eat 10-15 eggs a week myself!

squoosh · 09/08/2012 12:38

Scrambled eggs are the best when you're on a diet kladdkaka

catus · 09/08/2012 12:41

There is nothing wrong with having scrambled eggs for breakfast. Nothing. Therefore, YANBU.

bronze · 09/08/2012 12:42

I'm also of the mind if it gets them to eat...
If the alternative to two eggs is nothing then it's got to be healthier hasn't it