To what extent do you worry about fat intake for a toddler?

[Pruneau]

eg Do you buy low-fat yogurt for them?
Semi-skimmed milk?
Do you worry about cholesterol intake?
Limit butter, that sort of thing?

Rachel's farm (full-fat) dessert yogurts
god they're good

Franny, I pump EBM using a dual pump b/c it gives fuller fat milk, for some reason. At least, that's what the NCT counsellors told me.

I am a weirdy food freak and I eat full fat stuff. It's buggered around with food you want to avoid, nothing else.

Oh, it's so attactive, too, my Lactaline. DD1 comes in and cries, 'Boobies!' Thanks for teaching her that, DH!

Exactly! That fake food stuff tastes rank.

Everything in moderation.

They need the vitamin D to absorb calcium from milk. Otherwise it's pointless.

Not at all. Apparently you should only give full fat milk to the age of at least 2 and you should not give skimmed milk to a child under 5. Toddlers need lots of calories - I wouldn't even think about limiting my children's fat intake (they are 4 and 2).

FZ I am the same
Cannot do messed around with food
BUT do crave certain Items
so eat them
I'm not pure.

Boak. I don't even like to eat packaged salad dressing. Yuk. It's so easy to make yourself - just dissolve some salt in vinegar and add mustard and olive oil. Easy peasy.

Totally agree with the principle of giving toddlers full-fat products, but what about societies where milk is pretty rare (Japan, Korea etc)... where do they get all their full quota of fat from?

Nuts, beans, seeds, oils, avocado, coconut - there are plenty of ways to get healthy fats in your diet. Plus breastmilk as mentioned earlier.

fish oils (the Japanese)
calcium from tofu etc

I give my 3yo semi skimmed milk, but full fat cheese, yoghurts and butter. No spreads made with lord know what in them. they eat well, a balanced diet, plus are active so I don't worry about cholesterol etc. I also give them fish oils as they will only eat white fish and turn their noses up at salmon and trout. Might try mackerel again in the summer with salad.

OMG, our Sainsbury's now carries Mori-nu tofu. HEAVEN! I'm in heaven. If Silk brand soya milk shows up I'm going to have an orgasm in the shop.

Never considered it - have skinny 8 yr old and 4 1/2 yr old who both have full fat milk , cheese etc However they have lower fat stuff if that is what is left in the fridge, but not consciously bought for them iyswim.

Ermmm, my two are 2 and 4 and both have semi skimmed milk now (but full fat yoghurts). I read that if they are eating a good varied diet, you can switch at age 2, and that they SHOULD switch to semi skimmed at age 5ish.
On the whole I don't worry much about their fat intake, but since we eat much the same as them, I do try to keep it reasonably unlardy!

I pour olive oil onto ds's meals Pruni, and stir in ground almonds and cashew butter, because some of our food is probably a bit low fat otherwise. They really need the calories.

I only just moved from full fat milk myself! My mother encouraged us to drink lots of milk as kids, and it was always full fat (on holiday we had it straight from the local farm, so especially high in fat) none of us have any weight problems, but then we never ate any refined foods, and that's where the nastiest fats (hydrogenated etc) come from. I think the low fat thing is a bit of a con really, and go for the fewest ingredients on a packet as my general rule of thumb. I'd rather have butter rarely than spreads ever, for example.

dont forget also that full fat milk is in itself a low fat product

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