To think this is huge

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To think this is a huge portion for an 11 month old I'm socked at it

Sorry for all the drip feeding not aloud phones at work

There is nothing wrong with flour! It is a staple part of the Western diet. Why is flour suddenly seen as being like serving your kids crack?

My 11 month old could polish that off, she can eat 4 sausages in one go (she's very dainty as well, still in 6-9 month clothes).
She normally eats the exactly same food as us but does sometimes eat fishfingers and oven chips. They are not poison.
My health visitor said to look at the food intake over a week to make sure it's balanced, the odd beige oven food meal is fine.

Also confused about the flour issue - what's wrong with flour??
I think the odd beige meal is fine- most people will have them for their kids now and again.
Still not over that you stole this from a Facebook post

In my opinion and I am right frozen peas are the only acceptable vegetable with certain dinners. Sweetcorn possibly. At a push.

But frozen peas are certainly eaten in this house.

Peas are actually a carb so that's a really carby dinner

who feeds their 11 month old a plate of processed food?!

Children need carbs, and plenty of them.

"who feeds their 11 month old a plate of processed food?!"

Anyone who gives their baby a cheese sandwich, bread sticks and hummus or some pasta, possibly with a yoghurt for pudding. Sooooo I'd say, pretty much anyone who's weaned a child.

I think the issue here is having so much junk food in a single meal.

Fish fingers & oven chips fine, but not on the same plate at the same time.

And I would never ever feed a child that turkey monstrosity, if that's what it is.

Oven chips - great with a price of chicken or a piece of fish and 2 different coloured veg.

Fish fingers - fine - but we'd have them with new potatoes or home made mash, and carrots as well as the peas.

Computer well said.

People seem to think that offering a rice cake is somehow superior to offering a fish finger!

It's all processed. Raisins are processed, cornflakes, weetabix, redybrek, baked beans!

Loads of foods are fiddled with and then presented as healthy options.

Are we really calling cheese a junk food now? :(

're the flour/carbs/fat, babies need more carbs and fat than us - it's actually really important and too much wholegrain can interfere with iron absorption so close to 75% of a baby's bread /rice/pasta (if you serve such processed horrors) should be white. 50% then for a toddler/preschooler. I wish I'd known this with my pfb who was eating 100% wholegrain. It also fills them up so they don't have room for important protein, vitamins etc.

But no I wouldn't serve this to my 11mo, too big and I personally wouldn't give those items.

Yes jonesy rice cakes are nutritionally void. I prefer oatcakes.

I never said rice cakes are better , they are crap too.

I meant some potato/mash or rice, some fish or egg, some fresh vegetables, whatever

Ricecakes are pointless IMO

play peas aren't 'a carb' they contain carbohydrate. They're also a good source of protein. Nearly all foods contain both, just in varying proportions.In any case , there's actually nothing wrong with giving young children foods with quite a high carb content as they are usually pretty active, especially when they start crawling about.

Don't know about huge but it looks like a shit meal.
The chips, the smiley thing and the breadcrumbs on the 'fish' fingers adds up to a lot of stodge with very little nutrition.

I think it looks bloody delicious! Add a big dollop of ketchup and job done.

You don't get out much do you.

Flour is not junk food or 'stodge' - it is a source of carbs and protein. As long as you don't eat too much of it and too little of other foods over time, there is no issue with it whatsoever.

Seriously, how do people find the time to obsess over food like they do on MN?

Seriously, how do people find the time to obsess over food like they do on MN?

Well childhood obesity is becoming a huge problem.there are dozens of threads about it. I don't view people trying to take some care over what they feed and how much they feed as a bad thing.

However obviously clearly at times it goes to far.

Agree as a one off meal the combination isn't a problem.

The op did say thought hat they were sending round a nutritionist so obviously the size and type of meal isn't a one off.

There is no denying it's far too big fir a child of that age.

The very fact that this is what get serves up in often even quite fancy establishments when adults get proper food ajd kids are assumed to want processed breaded stuff which is usually if very poor quality. Lower quality than the same adult versions on the regular menu is also a problem I think.

Gileswithachainsaw: Of course taking care is recommended, but this is bloody ridiculous. We have people labelling whole food groups as 'junk'.

Agree that obesity is an issue these days- this kind of meal isn't appropriate for an 11 month old- and I say this due to the size of the portion more than anything, although I am shuddering at the turkey thing.
If the parent wants to feed the child a meal like this that is their choice - but 1 fish finger, 4 chips and a spoonful of peas would be enough.

I would have thought about 1/5th of that would be a big portion

Oh I agree their trifle there's room fir every kind of food in a healthy diet and demonising particular types doesn't do anything constructive really.

However there are things at certain ages that aren't suitable for various reasons.

Gluten before 6m honey before 12m etc

There is no denying that with the turkey thing at least the salt content would have me worried a bit.

But mainly fir me it's the portion size and I think in some way it's helpful to see that over feeding really is starting very young and as this thread how's there are plenty of people almost immune to the size of the meal Vs the fact it's an 11m old baby eating it.

These kind of threads do help remind me to keep an eye on my children's portion sizes and help reaffirm I'm. Not going nuts when I see or hear of others eating massive meals and wondering if I'm being mean.

I do think. It's very underhand how the picture was obtained though