dd's favorite tea, is this bad???

[lucykate]

dd, 3.75 favorite thing to have for tea is tinned beans & sausage, with buttered bread and a few slices of cucumber, is this bad?

(ps, i've got her to eat salmon by telling her its pink because its barbie fish!)

Dunno.

a friend (who's also an mp) showed me a tin of sausages/beans the other day which contained 3g of sodium ie the total amount that a toddler should eat in a day..could you get her to eat "proper" sausages?

I would have thought salt was an issue and would get "posh" sausages and mix them up with beans so they look similar.

no, its not that bad, but is not given every day in our house.

Recently had a near tantrum because I bought delicious home-made Greek burgers from a burger van, and the children said they wanted the tinned frankfurter hot dog instead. No discrimination my children.

yes she likes propper sausages, and i don't get the cheapest for her. dh and i always argue about sausages for some reason (don't laugh!), he would be happy to give her hot dog sausages all the time but i think they're horrible

Sainsbury's do packs of small skinless organic sausages which take 4 mins in the oven - they look v similar to the ones in the tin - you could fool her into thinking it was the same if mixed in with beans.

They come in packs of 12 - I usually bag them into 3's, then shove them in the freezer to use as and when.

We eat a lot of sausages in our house - but they came from a farm that raises British pedigree pigs organically. We've visited the farm on several occassions. The farmer slaughters his own lifestock on site and his wife and family make the sausages.

I think they're fine as long as they're not loaded w/extra additives like fillers and salt.

So those little piggies that you see running around on the farm end up on your plate do they? Yum yum!

My DD's (3.25yo) fav meal is sausage, brocolli, beans with the odd smiley face or alphabite thrown in for good measure - and ketchup. I am resigned to this as she would eat it for EVERY meal and I figure it gives her most of her food groups. I get good quality sausages from the butcher and organic brocolli and try to follow up with fruit for pud.

I try to keep an eye on the salt and sugar in take, but have given up being precious about it!

Yes, Rhubarb. They're very cute . . . right now. But then they grow up to be not so cute sows. Well, sort of cute, in their own way.

Last time we were there the farmer let us stroke a piglet only 2 days old! Oh, now he was cute! His feet weren't even cloven yet.

And in a few months you'll be munching that same cute little piglet for your breakfast!

Not that I wouldn't do the same mind!

Ha ha kama - luckily my little guy doesn't like ketchup thus far but I figure if it can get a kid to eat, sparing use isn't the end of the world. And luckykate - I LOVE the barbie fish trick... I'll have to keep that in mind when ds is older.

If you are feeling really guilty, you could always make your own baked beans....no, really. They're easy, cheap, freeze well, and have no added salt or sugar. For that Smug Mother glow at tea time