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Breakfast for toddler
poshniallo
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Hi
My daughter, who is one and a half, has recently decided she doesn't like bread. Now she's never eaten cereal, as we live in Japan and Japanese cereal is junky stuff like coco pops/frosties.
So she's been eating ham sandwiches and cream cheese sandwiches happily since she started eating solid food. Recently she got a run of bad colds after starting nursery (where she eats wonderfully healthy food) and decided no more bread. Especially no more toast.
This morning I tried a peanut butter and banana sandwich, but no dice. She very impressively removed bread or peanut butter from the banana and ate it, and then (politely) pointed at the rest of the banana and asked for it.
So she had a banana. Yesterday she had some banana and melon. I do breakfasts in our house, as my wife is already gone to work.
Any ideas? Or am I just worrying about nothing? Japanese ideas of what constitutes 'healthy' are very very high, so sometimes I think I'm worrying about nothing as she's eating fruit for breakfast! How bad can that be?'
My daughter, who is one and a half, has recently decided she doesn't like bread. Now she's never eaten cereal, as we live in Japan and Japanese cereal is junky stuff like coco pops/frosties.
So she's been eating ham sandwiches and cream cheese sandwiches happily since she started eating solid food. Recently she got a run of bad colds after starting nursery (where she eats wonderfully healthy food) and decided no more bread. Especially no more toast.
This morning I tried a peanut butter and banana sandwich, but no dice. She very impressively removed bread or peanut butter from the banana and ate it, and then (politely) pointed at the rest of the banana and asked for it.
So she had a banana. Yesterday she had some banana and melon. I do breakfasts in our house, as my wife is already gone to work.
Any ideas? Or am I just worrying about nothing? Japanese ideas of what constitutes 'healthy' are very very high, so sometimes I think I'm worrying about nothing as she's eating fruit for breakfast! How bad can that be?'
I figure I could take a bear.
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What does she eat? My son craves edamame.
And an easy way to do this is when you make Pancakes just make a double batch or 2. Wait untill the leftovers cool and toss in a large freezer bag. Squeeze out the air. Now toss bag in freezer. When cranky child wants breakfast before you have had coffee, take a few out and either toss in microwave for a half min or toss in toaster. Then enjoy coffee in peace as cranky child preceeds to gobble breakfast and get syrup/jam all over the table. And so much cheaper than buying toaster pancakes. This can be done for waffles as well but I have never had any leftover homemade waffles.
Other ideas are bagles and english muffins. You can make your own breakfast sandwichs. I love bagles with cream cheese and fresh fruit.
What about Okayu/Congee?
Edited for Japanese dyslexia
They are very good for you, but you know, not every morning.
So one morning do yogurt, the next maybe oatmeal, then maybe eggs. You can add fruit to just about any of those to give her more variety or if you think she needs more. Not a whole lot of veggies that scream breakfast, but you might try incorporating some veggies in an egg dish to spice things up
a little green pepper, or mushroom in an egg dish.
At the same time eating bananas for breakfast when she is eating healthy the rest of the day isn't going to give her a nutritional deficiency or anything.
But man, I couldn't imagine our son not wanting bread. That's his favorite food. That and watermelon. Over memorial day, we had a cookout and he didn't want cookies or cupcakes for dessert, just watermelon.
My son loves it too, lol.
I thought I was so clever.
Those of you with toddlers will realise how this ended up - she refused to eat any of that, but pointed to the bread and was willing to eat dry bread only. Nothing on it, nothing touching it, only dry bread.
So now fuck knows what I do. Maybe don't prepare breakfast before I bring her down and let her point at what she wants?
Pfft, philistine. He's a creative genius in the making!
He also doesn't like mixing food. So oddly enough, Now I have an Idea.
Posh, try keeping it simple. Maybe the mixed food turned her off. My older son would balk at even his favorite foods if they were mixed together. Or on the same plate.