toddler diets!

[quornmummy]

Does anyone else feel the same way??? I try to feed my 3 year old healthily (fruit, veg, yoghurt, water or milk to drink and minimise the sweet stuff etc) but find I am constantly up against the full sugar fruit shoot, crisps and sweet onslaught from my own family and friends not to mention cafes etc.. The thing is my little girl likes healthy choices and is happy. I am sure I have read somewhere the benefits of a balanced diet but feel unsupported by all but a few. Don't feel I want to go with what seems to be the flow. Any suggestions or do I need to get out more???

my eldest has a great diet (eats prettyy much everything and almost all our meals are cooked at home, Moro, Claudia Roden etc recipes, minestrones for lunch etc. we bake our own bread and make cakes etc. eats own bodyweight in fruit etc

but she still enjoys choc and sweets and the odd mcdonalds

as do i.

there's a balance, and the odd sweet, choc and crisp and mc,donalds won't harm them or make them working class

thanks otchayaniye. You are right about the food balance thing and you've prompted me to bake bread with my unused breadmaker! not sure where the "working class" slant came as i'm merely talking about healthy food choices.

sorry quorn, i'm referencing recent post about middle class babies:)

Urgh! I know what you mean about family/friends interference in2 lo's diet. My dd1 who is 2 and a half now has a really bad diet because of family interference It drives me nuts. She keeps refusing all her dinners, unless it's sausage/chicken/fish related. She hates vegetables, all thanks 2 my mum and dad. If she stayed with them, she was spoilt with choc, cake, crisps. And then they would wonder why she wouldn't eat her dinner. I now have 2 clean up the mess, and deal with her fussiness. It really makes me :(

Restaurants used to drive me mad on holidays in France. We would have much preferred half portions of our meal, but everywhere it's the ubiquitous ham/burger and chips. Grrrrrr

my child doesn't have any junk food she doesn't know what it is. Research shows if you start them off on good stuff they carry that into adult life and start to make good choices for themselves. I don't go with the sweets/junk as treats - why should giving your kid stuff that is bad for them be a reward? At kids parties - my daughter heads for the healthy stuff and ignores the rest as it is not familiar to her. I surround her with fruit and veg, she has plastic fruit and veg which she loves and I aim to build a positive relationship with food as something nutritious and fun to be enjoyed - she has a fantastic appetite and eats absolutely everything.