to let my toddler eat as much fruit as he wants?

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When I was a child we always had a fruit bowel and we were allowed to help ourselves to fruit, there wasn't much money to spare so it was seasonal, cheap fruit.

Ds is 16 months old, he's started to help himself from the fruit bowel ( asking us for help if the fruit needs peeling) he eats a vast amount of fruit. Yesterday he ate strawberries with his breakfast, an apple and 3 apricots for his snack, a nectarine after lunch, a banana a a couple of handfuls of grapes whilst shopping some strawberries after dinner.

He has recently cut down on breastfeeds drastically and he seems much hungrier, he eats well at meal times.

Aibu to give him unlimited access to fruit? I'm sure I never ate so much fruit even though I was allowed as much as I wanted.

peas are legumes, I think, like peanuts.

Thanks for the great snack ideas! I cooked some extra peas with dinner and I have put them in the fridge readyfor tomorrow's morning snack. Feta salad is also a favorite snack but it's a faff to take out and we more often than not out at snack time.

strawberries are a 'false' fruit, the seeds are on the outside.

I'd make sure he isn't eating fruit to the exclusion of other nutrients, too.

Mine adores frozen peas straight from freezer. No cooking involved!
Also cheese and spinach muffins from baby led weaning cookbook.
Veg dipped in hummus or peanut butter and various nuts always go down well too.

favourite snacks here:

uncooked salad crudites served with homemade coleslaw, cream cheese, mayo or nut butter (brazils, walnuts, pistachios, macadamias, hazelnuts, almonds or pecans) or to dip in a soft boiled egg (avocado, carrot, pepper, celery, cucumber, cherry toms, baby spinach, baby corn, mange tout, green beans, courgette)

asparagus or green beans wrapped in parma ham (also good to dip in soft boiled egg)

omelette or frittata cut up (sometimes give cold leftovers out of fridge)

scrambled egg

egg muffins

hard boiled egg

egg mayonnaise

chunks of cheese

sweet peppers stuffed with cream cheese

sundried tomatoes/cubes of cheese in oil

olives

pickled shallots

chicken drumsticks

canned tuna in spring water

pieces of cold chicken, lamb, beef, parma ham, salmon, prawns

brazils, walnuts, pistachios, macadamias, hazelnuts, pecan, almonds

roasted swede, celeriac, turnip and carrot wedges (again sometimes give cold leftovers out of fridge)

lettuce wraps with sandwich fillings or left over chilli/bolognese, curry etc

I try to give low sugar fruit so rhubarb, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackcurrants with natural yoghurt, cream or nut butters

1-3 squares of 85% or 90% dark choc

Our version of mini pancakes (make pancake batter by mixing a big spoonful of nut butter with a mashed up banana and two eggs. Place greased metal cookie cutter on frying pan and pour in batter)

Cream cheese pancakes

50g cream cheese
2 eggs
1tsp maple syrup
1 tsp cinnamon - ( I add 2tsp as we love cinnamon)
1tsp coconut flour
1/2 tsp baking powder

Mix together using a stick blender. You can make them without coconut flour and baking powder to make something more like a crepe.

Spoon a tablespoon of mixture onto an oiled heated non stick frying pan. Like all pancakes you need to play a bit to achieve the right heat and figure out when best to flip over.

Philly comes in small snack sized portions - it's perfect for this, they have a really long shelf life, so you'll always have the ingredients at hand.

Frozen blueberries with more cinnamon cooked in micro till they go jammy work well with these.