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Just want an opinion about feeding your los.....

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UCM · 19/05/2007 19:59

Recently on holiday with IL's, SIL & me were talking about what my DS eats and what her granddaughter eats and I told her that I wouldn't give my DS some of the stuff that was being given to her daughter. Well, they stayed for 2 days before our holiday and noticed that DS doesn't really eat alot. Doing the shop at the beginning of the holiday, she suggested several foods full of additives. I joked and said 'do you know JUST how many E nos in that stuff' and she just sort of laughed. When we got to the Pot noodle aisle, she asked if DS ate them. I said 'fark off no ' and she said 'well if you gave him a bit more crap he might start eating'. I am by no means a food snob. He eats sausage rolls and on ocasion McDonalds, crisps biscuits etc. But I am now wondering whether I am doing it all wrong as I make healthy dinners from scratch and don't give him processed food. He is very thin, will forgo dinner or lunch if he doesn't want it and I am seeing a paed on the 7th June.... Well??

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PinkTulips · 19/05/2007 20:46

spatone? tis very gentle and can be taken from age 2 in fruit juice.

find it odd what doc said tbh as both our public health nurse and dd's dietician were insistant that she take multivits due to her odd diet

moondog · 19/05/2007 20:46

No
Not yet anyway

God that 'human food' thing was superb. i want it scanned and linked.

franca70 · 19/05/2007 20:47

jam and cheese sounds great, however, if he is anemic he'd need things like pulses, meat etc

TheArmadillo · 19/05/2007 20:48

There are foods other than meat/veg that are high in iron:
Oat & Wheat Bran, Bran Flakes, Ready Brek, Sesame Seedsm Wheatgerm, Liquorice, Cashew Nuts, Blackcurrants canned, Figs dried, Lentils boiled, Apricots, Hazelnuts, Almonds, Twiglets, Soya beans, Malt bread, Wholemeal bread, Red Kidney beans, Watercress and raisins.

Maybe if he increased his intake of some of these it may help to icrease his appetite a bit?

moondog · 19/05/2007 20:49

Honestly,i think we all worry faaaaaaaaaaar too much. As long as a kid isn't eating crap, 99 % of them will be jes' fine.

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UCM · 19/05/2007 20:49

Sausage (those smoked salami things from lidls), burger, chips, omellette, cheese, bread. Crisps McDonalds Sweets all the usual rubbish. Would live on these at all times if allowed.

Eats apples, bananas, strawberries, pineapple.

Since I have cut the crap as such he has progressed to steak, a tiny bit of shepherds pie, chicken, lamb, roast potatos, potato wedges and today I was told by my neighbour that he had two carrot sticks in her house which is a major breakthrough. But all of these foods are a tiny amount.

What someone said about the 'crap' being useless calories makes sense.

I am not saying that anyone else feeds crap to their kids, but I feel that i can't until he eats some good stuff. You know healthy balance and all that.

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PinkTulips · 19/05/2007 20:50

dark chocolate also has some iron in it

some breads and other foods are iron fortified, and make sure he's drinking some orange juice when he does have iron rich food to help absobtion

franca70 · 19/05/2007 20:50

Uhmmm I'm craving some liquorice now

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UCM · 19/05/2007 20:52

TA, the only thing he will eat on that list is wholemeal bread as we make our own. I ahve most of the other stuff in the house slowly approaching sell by dates and then some as he will absolutely not touch them.

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liquidclocks · 19/05/2007 20:52

I'd second pinktulips idea with the spatone, or my health food shop does a natural thing called floradix that you can add 5ml to a cup of juice for a 1-5 yr old. I took it when anaemic and it really made me so much more energetic.

wrt to the nap I don't think there's much wrond with an under 5 having a couple of hours in the middle of the day.

DS1 exists on cheesy pasta and eggy bread at the moment - how do they go down?

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UCM · 19/05/2007 20:53

He eats dark chocolate as DH only eats the real bitter stuff. We have a big bag of panda liquorice which I think is vile and so did DS when he tasted it. Yet another of DHs treats.

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bozza · 19/05/2007 20:53

So UCM what does he like to eat? My two are quite fans of meat and veg meals (faves are chicken, roast potatoes and whatever veg or sausage, mash and whatever veg) but they like other things too that I would class as healthy meals for children (lasagne, risotto etc). Or does he prefer to snack?

bozza · 19/05/2007 20:54

Oops slow and behind as per usual.

PinkTulips · 19/05/2007 20:54

RJ's liquorice is divine.... really soft and chewy.

panda stuff is rank all right [vomit]

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UCM · 19/05/2007 20:55

Funnily enough I have tons of sachets of spatone left over from my pg, as I was dreadfully anaemic. Ermmmmmmmmmmm, what a great idea, I will put some in his orange in the morning.

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franca70 · 19/05/2007 20:55

I'm pretty sure that floradix does one esp for children.

PinkTulips · 19/05/2007 20:56

hope you get some answers at the paeds appointment... we've dd's on the 31st, eek!

liquidclocks · 19/05/2007 20:56

UCM, maybe DS1's a poor eater too because your list sounds pretty good to me! How's about soups? You can hide a multitude of good things in them - DS honestly doesn't realise he regularly eats watercress and spinach

TheArmadillo · 19/05/2007 20:56

tbh then I would add some multivitamin or similar to increase his iron levels. It can't hurt.

It is stressful though. DS problem is different but similar non-eating thing. We just had a great paed appt which means hopefully he'll be improving.

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UCM · 19/05/2007 20:57

His idea of a snack is one of these cack sausages, salami type stuff, full of fat and shite, but not sweets so hey that's ok right?

I have a box of Fab lollies in the freezer and I get asked at least 20 times a day if he can have one. He can but just one, once a day. And I stopped them recently cos he wouldn't eat lunch or dinner. I have tried cutting out snacks of any kind in between meals. But he still eats tinsy amounts.

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franca70 · 19/05/2007 20:57

dark choc is brilliant, you want to train them when they are young .
UCM his diet sounds good. You are worreid about the amount he eats, then?
I like really hard, bitter liquorice, which I don't think is possible to find in the UK.

liquidclocks · 19/05/2007 20:57

floradix

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UCM · 19/05/2007 20:58

Like I said he will eat but in such tiny teeny amounts. Our cat eats more. I am talking maybe 2 cut up bits of roast potato and 2 (3 yr old) mouthfuls of chicken.

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franca70 · 19/05/2007 20:59

Make him the ice lollies, squash oranges, dilute with a bit of water, 1 teasppon of sugar...

liquidclocks · 19/05/2007 21:01

last year del monte did yoghurt and red berry ice lollies - they were divine and good for you!

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