HOw do your kids get their Omega Threes?

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eye Q? fish? How??

they dont

salmon and mackerel better sources than tuna apparently though. We use Good Oil in salad dressings, organic milk and £ organic salmon once a week.

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I give 3 yo dd and 10mo ds the lemon flavoured Smartfish sachets - you can get them from nutricentre.com
I recall doing some research a while back and these came out well.

huh? how does tinning remove oil? it is still intinned sardines isn't it?

The processing literally washed the oil away. I think it's still in sardines as they remain whole... however, yuck. You coudln't pay me to eat sardines.

Remember in the UK we like our sardines in springwater SP instead of olive oil

Papillon, could you elaborate on how cheesy linseed works? I'm a linseed virgin - are they seeds, or is it a solid lump, or what? I think mine might eat toasted cheesy stuff. (It's a battle, isn't it? We sometimes have £ organic smoked salmon too, Marina. Then the factor is so great, it takes me weeks to recover.

is it in organic milk then? they have that

I did buy Eye q and it was so grim I decided I'd rather dd1 was thick

DD has just started taking hers agai, after I bought some and she refused to even taste them after the first one. Doing much better this time. We just have Asda's own chewable ones - lemon and lime flavour apparantly. And she eats fresh tuna once a week too.

As I understand it organic milk contains a higher amount than regular milk and the St Ivel is higher again.

DH puts cod liver oil in fruit juice or milk for our boys and calls it "strong man juice" - they love it . I on the other hand hate the stuff and all oily fish so must be and always have been totally deficient in omega oils.

whole linseed Fauve - toast it in dry frypan on about 6 - keep lid on it pops like corn. Instantly after taking from heat add cheese - any cheese you prefer or your kids like.

You can toast wheat too - that is also nice

If you need to try and get more fish into LO's diets, use chopped anchovies as a seasoning in anything made with minced beef (meatballs, lasagne, whatever). Tastes really nice, but kids won't be able to detect it as "fish".

My DS sits picking flakes of smoked mackerel and stuffing it in his mouth so (currently) have no problems - we do the anchovy thing purely cause it tastes so nice (honest!)

anchovies = omega 3???

Fish

Enid - now you say that I'm questioning it myself!

Doesn't all oily fish contain omega 3??? (or have I made that up???)

I hate anchovies. Yuck. But, they are on the oily fish list. (See link in my previous post)

organic milk and flora

I had a thing in pregnancy for anchovies Uwila... whole out of the jar. Mmmmm.

Oily fish is the richest source of Omega 3. This includes salmon, mackerel, rainbow trout, fresh tuna, herring, shrimp, crab, sardines and pilchards. Tinned fish is as acceptable as fresh. Weaker sources include flaxseed or linseed oil, rapeseed or canola oil, walnuts, and dark green vegetables.

What about tinned tuna? Omega 3 fat is greatly reduced during the tinning process. Therefore tinned tuna should not be counted as one of your weekly portions of oily fish. If fresh fish is too expensive or is not available in your area, choose tinned salmon, mackerel or sardines.

ther was a MN thread on this a few days ago \link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=1379&threadid=149694&stamp=060225152438\here}

Fish - my kids like mackerel, herring, salmon and ds loves anchovies, esp on pizza!

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