rice pudding, any i can buy that aren't too bad on sugar??

[alibo]

ds is fussing over his tea at the minute, ends up eating very little and wakes at 5.30am starving. thought i might try himwith some rice pudding, but don't want to give him one full of sugar. haven't really got time to make one as we are moving house on friday!!

But it takes no time at all to make! Shove the pudding rice in a saucepan with milk and some nutmeg and cook on a low heat. Add mashed banana or some honey if you think it needs to be sweeter

can you use formula milk for this blackduck?

have seen a hipp organic one made with follow on milk, anyone tried this?

I used to when ds was a babe - yes....probably taste yuck to you!

do you make a large amount and freeze the rest; have been wary of freezing both formula and rice?

don't use honey if ds is under one (it's not recommended...)

No - I too am wary of freezing rice - but usually make enough to last a couple of days - keep it in the fridge andheat thoroughly!! (you can always add some more milk when you heat it as it tends to dry out a bit...)

Baby organix do some sugar free desserts in packs of four pots - banana porridge, apple and mango rice pudding, and banana and strawberry rice pudding. they are mostly fruit though, hardly any rice, but I've found them useful in emergencies. If you look carefully at the jars of puddings there are a few (not many) with no added sugar.
Black duck is right though - probably take you less time to make than to go to the shops to buy. I've always made mine in the oven but I might just try the saucepan method - I don't add any sugar but mix in some fruit.
ds2 loves it but it doesn't magically make him sleep any later

BTW - how old is ds?
Was thinking porridge is also a good one - ds loves it and you can make it 'sweet' by adding fruit or 'savoury' by adding veg (leeks/sweetcorn etc) Quick porridge oats (proper ones!) cook in 10 minutes

he is 10 months; we have fh of allergies, so am going to try him with oats for breakfast, but at the moment, he doesn't seem intersted in breakfast, even 2 hrs after his am milk! ( see other thread on milk for a 10mth old)

Okay - I'm racking my brains now as ds is 19 months and I can't remember what his feeding pattern was like at 10 months BUT I think he was still on 3 bottles - morning, around 3.00ish and evening. Foodwise he would have breakfast around 9.00ish (morning bottle was around 6.30ish...), lunch around 1.00ish and tea at 6.00ish...Breakfast really came from watching us have toast - he got interested and now has his morning milk (still!) and a slice of toast....

thanks blackduck, can you remember, if he had tea at 6pm, when did he then have his bedtime milk? sorry to go off the subject!!

alibo i wonder if you would be better off trying new foods at lunchtime when he eats best?
I am also wondering whether he has hit that stage where they hate being spoon fed - my ds2 went through this, but seems to be a bit better now - I always have to give him a spoon, and for a while mostly had to give finger foods. He also likes to 'mess' with his food and throw it around, and can take ages to eat his meals- generally he just wants to be a bit independent - he seems to think mashed potato and porridge are good finger foods....so maybe it might help you to just stand back a bit and let him get on with it. Have you tried him with toast (can you get wheat free bread?) or rice cake at breakfast?

Actually very close after his tea......We do tea, bath, milk and story and bed.....

yes, he hates the spoon at the minute, but just messes with finger food. his appetite is not so good at the moment, as before he would happily shove in rice cakes, banana, fruit etc while i sneaked the spoon in. now he just throws the finger food about, and will only open his mouth wide enough to let me put tiny pieces of things in. he will still have his milk at bedtime, but consistently wakes hungry very early am when he's nt eaten much tea, hence the rice pudding thought, just to get something filling in him really.

mmm yes its frustrating isn't it? ds2 had a phase of poor appetite recently (a cold I think) but he is back on form now. Luckily he does seem to like sweet things so I could always get some fruit puree and yoghurt or rice pudding down him! Hate to say that he often had baby rice or baby cereal for pudding after tea until quite recently so that's another option.

I don't worry too much about what ds eats at a particular point in the day (for example, he had wheatabix the other night for tea...) as long as it is balanced across the day IYSWIM. I do try to go for a substantial lunch (he's at nursery today so has got Delia's Tuscan Bean soup - more like a stew really - and yoghurt for pud..)

thank goodness eliot i'm not the only one, the baby rice has been dragged out several times to have with fruit, as it gets at least a few more oz's of milk down him!! blackduck, think i will try him with a small amount of porridge during the day; at least then can look for any reaction better. if ok, then at least i can try at in the evening to stuff him up!!