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To feed my toddler eggs?

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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.

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RuleBritannia · 09/08/2012 20:08

One of my grandsons has (not every day) just scrambled egg and the other would have just peanut butter sandwiches. It's just giving something they are prepared to eat before they go to school. It saves arguments when time is of the essence. They would have chosen cereal on other days.

RuleBritannia · 09/08/2012 20:10

Sorry. I should have said that the scrambled egg GS is 11 and the peanut butter sandwich GS is 6.

claudedebussy · 09/08/2012 20:21

scrambled eggs is better than a bowl of coco pops. i wouldn't worry.

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