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Won't eat. I've broken my toddlers.

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SleepingStandingUp · 05/03/2022 17:25

Gah.

Hating myself right now. Toddlers are such shitty eaters and it's all my fault.

Today they've had some toast for breakfast, bit of fruit toast for lunch, mainly licking the cheese pancakes and spitting them out for tea.

If course they'd eat chocolate or cake or anything like that, but that's not the point is it.

They won't even eat frigging baked beans, the last bastion of anyone desperate to say their kid eats a vegetable.

They have milk at nap and bed time and I feel like that's the only decent nutrients they get and even then it's only cows milk.

Used to eat pasta great but have started leaving that too.

Yoghurt is fine

I'm going to end up with malnourished children who have life long issues with food and I don't know how to fix it.

OP posts:
Hailsafe · 06/03/2022 19:19

@OfstedOffred

Hailsafe

I had to laugh at a friend once.

She was horrified that I gave my child a "real" pudding (apple crumble & custard). While her child had a very sugary yoghurt.

I pointed out that my home made crumble in fact had less sugar per portion than the yoghurt!!!

Sweetened yogurts are horrendous. But they’re marketed as healthy and many parents who wouldn’t dream of giving their kids a ‘sweet’ pudding like crumble happily let them eat them every day.

You’re right, they’d be better off with a proper pudding!

Nelly040 · 07/03/2022 13:15

Following! I have exact same issues, @Hospedia thank you for the sharing the advice you got from a dietician, going to try that!

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