encouraging iron-rich food

[nearlythree]

DD2 is anaemic. We eat a mainly veggie diet, which is fine as none of the rest of us are, but dd2 is a picky eater. I want to encourage her to eat more iron but she just refuses most things, except broccoli! Does anyone have any ideas for toddler-friendly food containing iron?

oh you poor thing. I am surprised that the GP/hosp didn't sugggest/prescribe her something then.

why doesn't the doctor prescribe iron?

make little burgers with the lentils?

I think it will be hard to stop her being anaemic if she already is with a poor diet and no supplements
ice lollies made with build up?

lambs, sheep they're all the same to me don't pick n choose over which to be sentimental over. lamb is the "best" meat to buy if you can't get organic, as it's the least intensively reared meat.

Marina, did you hear the Food Programme on Sunday? in praise of mutton et al - they call the teenagers "hoggets" (fab word)

I look at its face and I see....

....mint sauce

black molasses is iron rich..use it to make gingerbread

spinach you could put in a fish pie or secrete into little fishcakes

ooh bundle, you are making me hungry. I feel like running out and buying a leg of lamb and bunging it in the oven with garlic and rosemary

i see them trotting happily in a field, the way they kick up the ewe's back legs to nurse.

nah, i can't eat 'em.

nearly, try hiding hte lentils by whizzing them up in spag bol sauce. hand blender works a treat!

fio, you're just too sensitive for all this, love

Ovaltine has a high iron content - if your dd doesn't like the taste, you can mix it with normal drinking chocolate to make a hot chocolate or a chocolate milkshake.

Thanks again everyone. I spoke to the hv and she says that little ones can o/d on iron, so it shoudln't be given except under medical supervision and in doses that reflect how serious the deficiency is.