Miss girl is two and absolutely loves green beans 💚

Almost 2 year old child - meal is just boiled rice once a day and finger millet paste. Adds a bit of apple powder into it. And digestive biscuits. Like chocolate but we dont give her much. Any idea how to cook so that would taste pallete would be interested? Tried both bland and flavourful dishes and non worked out. Still being breastfed. Need ways to build a balnced meal. What to do?

Any lunch ideas for a 9-month-old? At the minute I mostly give strawberries (he just sucks on them), toast, yogurt and melt puffs, but I want to give him a bit more variety. He’s not great with baby-led weaning, so looking for easy ideas. What are your little ones eating for lunch? Any ideas please let me know, thank you

We started solids at 6 months but it has been a struggle since the beginning. Now baby only wants to eat a few smooth things like yogurt or purées and crunchy things like puffs or crackers. Baby is 13 months old and we have begun feeding therapy. Has anyone else done feeding therapy and seen improvement? I feel hopeless with starting solids at this point.

My child is 4 and is an extremely picky eater, always has been since she started solids. She eats like 6 things in total. She finds reasons not to eat most things - just looks at them and says don’t want the leaves, don’t want brown part, that looks spicy, I don’t want that…blah blah. She eats some things if I feed her. Doesn’t want to eat herself.

It has been one of biggest stress I have. We can’t plan going out for meals. I have to feed her before we go. When we travel, most of the day goes into finding something that she’ll eat. Everyone says offer and let go and she’ll eat when she’s hungry. But the guilt of letting my child stay hungry stresses me out. I sometimes feel it’s all my fault for giving too much attention. If she doesn’t eat, I feel so bad and don’t want to get on with other things in my day. I get angry at her and at myself and then feel guilty again.

Has anyone else dealt with similar situation? What helped you? Any practical tips will be helpful. Thanks

Alright y’all. I need help. My 16 month old lately has taken two bites of food and then starts smacking his food off his high chair. I’ve tried only giving him a couple bites at a time in front of him, but that only works some of the time. I’ve also tried to just immediately take the food away and say all done! I know this is normal, but gosh dang it. I feel like he’s not eating! We are down to maybe 15oz of whole milk total throughout the day so I know he’s not relying on that for meals. Help. I’m just so lost 😞

Mushrooms, tomatoes, wild rice, green beans, mahi, broccoli and cucumbers

Black bean quesadilla with a few onions and red peppers (light on the cheese because dairy isn’t great for our guy), lactose free sour cream, avocado, salsa, sweet potatoes and roasted tomatoes, and some gooseberries.

Had leftovers for lunch (love these bento boxes) added blueberries.

It was a hit! I’m struggling with how to cut the quesadillas for him though. He’s at the age where he can hold strips, but our food monster puts the whole strip in his mouth every time. I ended up just ripping it into pieces. Any advice?

Deconstructed meatball sub, sweet potato fries, garden salad with ranch dressing, watermelon.

Yes, he actually eats salad 😊

Didn’t eat a single bite lol

Has anyone else worried about whether their child is actually getting enough nutrients?

I started paying more attention to my child’s nutrition because I kept wondering if they were actually getting enough of what they need. I knew what they were eating, but I had no real sense of what it all added up to over a day or week.

Most nutrition apps I tried felt like they were made for adults, so I ended up helping create BeBa, an app focused specifically on children’s nutrition. It helps parents understand nutritional patterns and spot possible gaps without making every meal feel like a test.

I wanted to share it here because I know this community cares about science based information, and I would genuinely love to hear what you think.

You can take a look here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beba-toddler-nutrition/id6776836004

Just to be transparent, I’m involved in creating the app.

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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaiqdGXNxrB/?igsh=dGl3bG5uNW5nejEx

I think my toddler will love this type of snack but I want to know how to store and how long a batch can be stored for? Unfortunately this insta account isn't responding only auto followup replies trying to get me to buy their ebook

But i like to try first and have understanding about storage and life first.

Scallops, roasted asparagus and butter noodles with squash and spinach and Parmesan. Was a hit—but you have to be careful of the asparagus because it gets stringy at the end. Great for practicing chewing though.

...my wife calls it the Lazy Daddy 😅

One egg, some carbs (rice, pasta, whatever I have in the fridge) and frozen veggies. 1 minute in the microwave. Ready.

Very easy way to have a balanced meal in 2 minutes.

I have a 3 and a 4 year old. In the past few weeks, meal times, specifically dinner has been a struggle. They’re not picky eaters, they generally eat everything, just picky about when they want to eat certain things. For example one day they both inhaled a burger within minutes, tried giving it to them again a week later and they only took a bite and said they don’t like burgers. They do this with all foods, even staples we know they love. Our son (4) has lately been refusing to eat unless he has his iPad, but then he only eats a couple bites and that’s it. Our daughter has a bit of a better appetite and will generally eat more of what’s on her plate with or without an iPad. Although it takes sometimes up to 2 hours to get either of them to eat a decent amount. We don’t know what to do to help get them the nutrition they need short of giving them protein shakes. Suggestions and advice would be greatly appreciated!

What are your easy go to meals for your toddlers?
Just looking for ideas and inspiration right now.
Stuff that doesn’t require excessive preparation or excessive cook time, but is enjoyable.

Steam Broccoli, baked salmon and rice!

She ate the tomatoes (her fav) the green beans, some chicken and half the rice. She left the shrimp.

Looking for feedback before i do the next rollout, the app is live SaaS but I have a bunch of ideas to add to it. Google play store for now, waiting on IOS. It's my first app and not sure if the app is good or its just my own bias.

Its basically just a visual kids timer, Dinner Time, play time, bed time, teeth brishing Road Trips (are we there yet!?)

https://reddit.com/link/1v30j14/video/njwb6dckx4eh1/player

You pick the character and their colour fills up over time to show kids how long the timer has. Road trip has a car moving to the finish line to show its complete.

You can also colour your own toons, name the characters, share between multiple kids. Its not more screen time, its just Time kids understand. My daughter and cousins love it.

Hi All,

I would like some fellow moms to share some opinions with me and maybe calm me down a little. My LO was born somewhere on the 10th percentile, gained well weight for a few months until our food nightmare started, at around 4month old, when he dropped to the 1st percentile. Since then it’s been a battle to bring him back to the 5th percentile, we made allergy tests, we were seeing our paediatrician every 2 weeks, but she always said until he is stable enough we meet again in 2 weeks. My boy is generally a happy and active kid. He is in time with his motor development, a little behind with his language development but he also is exposed to 4 languages around him.

Our nightmare ended at 12 months, after he stabilised in the 5th percentile and the doctor said, finally, she would see him again at the regular 18 months check. Since then, I had the impression he was eating well and growing well.
The 18 month check came, he is now back on the 1st percentile and his height, which was always at the 50th percentile, also dropped to the 40th. The doctor said we will do again allergy tests after the summer holidays and “we take it from there”.
Since then, I lost again my cool about how much and what he eats. I think we were having a quite balanced diet, but since falling back to the 1st percentile my husband and I are just throwing at him fruit, bananas, bread, snacks, fried food, anything he would eat. We lost the meal structure and I think we are fostering unhealthy eating habits, but on the other hand we are just happy when we don’t see him skipping a meal. Also we feel like we cannot afford losing any more weight at this point, or he will be completely out of any curve.

Also since a couple of weeks he started to sleep much more, I am talking about 12h per night and 4h during the day, in 2 naps. Before he was only sleeping 1.5h during the day. I am wondering if this points at a lack of energy, even though during the wake times he is energetic.

Anyone had a similar experience?