fig rolls - friend or foe?

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my daughter (2.5) is going through a phase of not eating much, and eating even less fruit and veg (having been excellent on both as a baby). i'm pretty certain this is a phase, but in the meantime need to find ways of helping her with constipation. she's struggling quite badly on occassion and no amount of explaining the connection between no fruit/veg and pain when pooing is working.

she is a big fan of biscuits, having recently started at pre-school she's embraced the glass of milk and rich tea biscuit at break time. so i'm wondering if a fig roll a day might help, but i'm not sure if the bad (suger) outweighs the good. does anyone have any thoughts?

actually i'm a bit confused about the world of biscuits and snacks genrally tbh. i assume rich tea must be ok if they're offering them in pre-school but what about the likes of organix puffed snacks (they look like wotsits but without the vibrant colours - hence the husband lovves them!), pom bear (bear shaped crisps surely) and flavoured rich cakes. which are good and which are bad? i'm a bit confused.....

I never thought of fig rolls to help with constipation, my lo often struggles as well. They may be worth a go to see if they help unless she isn't keen on them.

I used to love them when I was younger, not had one for years though

I'm going to say 'friend' in this instance.

I also make plain biscuits and put mincemeat in them. That sneaks a bit of fruit in, too.

In our world, there's no such thing as 'bad', excepting artificial sweetners. We're a little of what your fancy, all in moderation family.

also try porridge biscuits, with porridge flakes in them. just google 'oatmeal cookie recipe' and a bunch will come up.

i put chocolate chips in mine and the kids eat them all up.

My two love fig rolls.
I have always thought they are ok, I think they are quite low in fat.
Haven't bought them in a few weeks, must add them to the shopping list.

Not sure there's enough fig content tbh. Would she eat dried apricots? More like sweets than fruit, but full of fibre. You can get little Organix fruit bars with date and banana and similar and they're quite good. Just dried fruit.

The Organix cereal bars always give my LO soft poo, so would probably help.

I think all the snack foods you mention are ok in moderation, ie just as a snack and certainly better than actual Wotsits. Provided they're not meal replacements it's fine, imo. If she's eating cereal in the morning, try to make it porridge or weetabix or something fibrous, rather than your rice krispies or corn flakes.

I would go for them. The little bit of sugar is by far outweighed by the benefits.

You can also try pure apple juice, that always helped my DD, mixed with a bit of water.

I used to mix some milk sugar (would that be lactose? I only know the German name) in with her yogurt.

She now eats at least 2 pieces of fruit a day and lots of veg too so you are right not to fuss too much.

As Expat said, everything in moderation is good. I don't have any out and out bans, it makes the "naughty" food all the more appealing if it is banned.

You couls also try pureeing some prunes or other dried fruit (aprocots, etc) and adding it to her yogurt for pudding in the evening?

Could, sorry

Oh geez, and apricots, not aprocots. I need to go to bed, I think.....

put the apricots in the fridge for about an hour and then they're much easier to chop up.

them make Rice Krispie treats and add the apricots to them.

put the apricots in the fridge for about an hour and then they're much easier to chop up.

them make Rice Krispie treats and add the apricots to them.

wowsers that's lots of thoughts. feelin a bit better about the biscuit thing now. i've pretty much tried to stick to breadsticks but the pre-school snacks have really caught her attention....

apricots are a tricky one as they're one of the only fruits i absolutely hate (school dinner phobia) but i could try them in the rice krispies. Expat would you have a recipe or are you just making choc rice krispie cakes and putting them in??? might help make an unhealthy snack more healthy at least....

she's eating way too much cheese i think which is making things worse, but can't see a way out of that given that it's protein and all. i am going to try her on a fig roll tomorrow and see how we go. i can guarantee that after all this handwringing she will hate them....

My friend's ds had the same problem but she found that he loved smoothies and, as long as he had at least one a day, his toilet pain has decreased!!

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ha. my mum told me i'd only eat eggs for a while. so she gave me prunes. fig rolls are good for vegans, or used to be (haven't checked for modern hydrogenated horrors).

ah smoothies. i bought a bunch of the innocent ones in tesco the other day. maybe i'll add them to the list of things to try her on. today (agaianst all the odds) she has gobbled down a load of strawberries so hopefully tomorrow won't be a struggle, but i know that tom she'll hate strawbs again....

thanks for the recipe, but i thought that nuts were a no no for children of her age? obv i can leave them out but are pecans differnet to normal nuts?? i also have a 15 month old (who eats anything and everything bless him and looks like buddha as a result) so have to watch that things can be eaten by the whole family as he'll definitely want whatever she's eating and generally just nicks it off her plate when she's not looking....!

thanks for the recipe, but i thought that nuts were a no no for children of her age? obv i can leave them out but are pecans differnet to normal nuts?? i also have a 15 month old (who eats anything and everything bless him and looks like buddha as a result) so have to watch that things can be eaten by the whole family as he'll definitely want whatever she's eating and generally just nicks it off her plate when she's not looking....!

i have always left the nuts out because i don't like them.

We've had the same poo problem here. We tried diluted prune juice, but found warm water to be really good as well.