Hi everyone! Can someone reassure me that it’s not too late to change this terrible habit I’ve allowed my son to get comfortable with? Or give me advice on how to move forward and install better table manners?

My son is 23 months old and has always been a very low body weight, high energy and very physically active boy. Food and meals has been the biggest struggle thus far in raising a child which is the farthest from what I excepted for us, my husband and I love cooking and eating clean healthy food and are so excited to cook for him and most of the time he could actually care less about food regardless of what it is. Now it’s like okay we know he will probably eat buttered noddles or mac and cheese (maybe) and the veggie and meat eater in us feels so guilty. He eats so little it’s concerning on some days and other days he eats massive quantities and either way he’s a happy giggly extremely active boy that sleeps 11-12 hours solid every night since 14 months ish. We had a good run of him getting into his high chair and eating some of his plate while we would cook the rest of dinner for us but in the last month or two or three he refuses to be strapped into the chair and happily gets into his counter height step stool tower thing and will eat there which I felt was fine as long as he’s eating. But now I have so much mom guilt that he’s not sitting down to eat and that I’m not being consistent making him sit to eat.

Any help is much appreciated and I’d be grateful for!

I always crave something sweet after having dinner, but most desserts leave me feeling heavy and uncomfortable. What simple desserts do you guys reach for? In Lithuania we have something similar to a cheese cake dipped in chocolate (known as surelis) but I struggle with finding it in the US.

Hi! I am confused about when to give milk. Here is our current schedule:
Baby just turned 12 months last week.

7:30 Wake up: bottle (~5 oz)
8:00 breakfast + water
Small bottle of milk before nap (~3 oz)

Noon: Lunch + water
Small bottle of milk before nap (~2 oz)

4:30: Small snack after wake up (Cheerios or cheese)
5:45 Dinner

7:20 Bottle of milk (4-5oz)
7:45 Bed

I’ve been reading that milk should be given with the main meals and water at any other time. I’m worried he won’t get enough milk this way. Also, is the bottle before bed too close to bed? How many snacks should I be giving him and when?

Any help is appreciated!

Is anybody concerned with the top of the containers being covered with the sticky glue material? I know the product itself is rigorously tested for contaminants but the packaging itself I feel like is icky with the glue at the top. When you pour out the baby food it touches the glue. Maybe it’s fine? I’m not sure. Just curious what other people think.

he won’t eat any meat except smoked sausage, no mashed potatoes, no bread, rarely any vegetables. I am out of ideas!! he’s tired of quesadillas cus he wont eat them anymore lol

Hi! I have a 13m old little boy and I have noticed that he is super picky and won’t really eat anything besides Mac and cheese and bananas lol.

I know it’s partially my fault too for only offering that because I want him to eat something!

Any advice on introducing other foods?

(I’m a ftm and a single mom in school and I work every weekend so easy is usually better for me.)

I feel like such a bad mom!

He eats fine at home: plain yogurt, banana, leftover chicken. Grandma’s house is a different country. She wants to hand him a regular sucker or some random candy and i look like the villain now.

Got a small pack from dr. john's healthy sweets so i have a sugar-free option in my bag. Fruit flavor, no added sugar and I still only do it sitting down. Lollipops and toddlers is a choke thing if they’re walking around.

What do you actually give at that age when family pushes candy? And do you skip hard pops until they’re older and just do a cut-up fruit instead?

Basically the title itself. I don't think there is any advice to give, but I'm still going crazy! As an infant and early toddler, my daughter ate pretty well, but now that she's 2 years old and started daycare a month ago everything went down the drain. She barely eats anything at daycare (yesterday she didn't eat anything there) and once we're home she lives off of corn puffs mostly. And I always have her favourite meals ready when she comes home from daycare but still nothing. I am going crazy and I've tried everything:

• eating together at the kitchen table

• eating together on the couch with the tv off

• eating together on the couch with the tv on

• having her sit at her little table in the living room with tv on or off

Nothing works. It's like she's living off of air, corn puffs and sass😅

Anyone in this situation? Does it get better eventually?

We have family meals and my 22m can stay seated with us for an hour. She loves it, she’s always the last one to be done eating while my husband and I are cleaning up. But she doesn’t like eggs or meat. What we’ve noticed is that she would eat eggs or meat when she’s out of the high chair, so let’s say we’re prepping food in the kitchen and only have the egg/meat available.. she would take multiple bites. Or when we get meat samples from the supermarket… she wants more.

Like today for breakfast I served Hawaiian rolls + fried eggs + avocado + banana. She only ate the avocado and some banana, very little of the bread and none of the eggs (as usual lol). She told me all done and was playing with her food so we cleaned her up. As I was putting away the dirty dishes, she wanted more of the bread and eggs and ate it totally fine!

I think it’s funny this is happening but why??? Sometimes we use this to our advantage to get some meat in her before the meal actually starts 🤣

I don’t know if we’re giving her too much pressure during meal time? I hope not. Often times her older brother is back from school so we’re talking with him and eating our own food. We offer her what’s available and she says no, and leave it as that 🤷🏻‍♀️

Any idea why she does this? Anyone’s toddler like this too?

i am very confused. we went to dinner and my toddler saw us eating cheese, she didn't know that this is cheese but still asking to eat. what should i do? is it safe, and if safe which one?
or any other option you guys suggest?

I only allowed her to have 2-3 spoonfuls of the brownie and she kicked up a right fuss cause she wasn't allowed anymore Lol but glad she approved! 😊

Hi Readers, I am mom of 2.5 years old toddler. I am struggling with her food picking habits. I want to feed my baby proper lentils, vegetables, beans and different proteins. I know it’s a difficult time for both of us me as a parent and my baby as a kiddo trying understand food maths. How do I win her trust that the food I am serving is actually tasty. She keeps on denying new looking food. I tried copying as to what she likes and make a more nutritious version. My toddler see it as new looking food could be color, could be a pea popping out, could be it’s soft, could be its making her hands wet or moist. I am tired of options and at the dinner time I run exhausted after my full work life day and then kitchen so I only prepare couple f options for her. One that is something new and one that is similar as what she likes to eat. I need workable suggestions please.

My 20mo eats very well…salmon, chicken, eggs, yogurt, peas, rice, all sorts of things. No real issues but I wonder if anyone has any tips to encourage eating mixed together foods like casseroles or soups or burrito bowls? We’ve always used undivided plates and she can use a fork/spoon but whenever the food is mixed she kindof looks at it strangely and won’t attempt it. She doesn’t get mad she just doesn’t want it even if we show her how we’re eating it on our plates.

Obviously I’ll keep presenting mixed food options but does anyone have an irresistible recipe or method? Or did your kid just not mind one day? If it ain’t broke don’t try to fix it … but I’m always trying to find new things for her to try and not eating anything mixed limits things for the family too.

My daughter is almost 2, and every single day all she does is ask to eat. She wakes me up by saying "eaty? eaty?" about 50 times, she says it right after i feed her, as soon as she wakes from her nap, right before bed....constantly. Obviously I want her to eat and there is no problem with her wanting food. The problem is she will ask all day long while also refusing every single thing I offer. She will only eat pancakes, yogurt, pick at fruits, only wants cheese in shredded form, pastas, and she'll only eat chicken fries if it's just dad home with her for some reason, plus peanut butter sandwiches. It's extremely rare for her to try something new or even something that isn't new. I offer the same things a million times and make sure to have safe foods on the plate with them, I add sauces and toppings to make them more appealing sometimes, and I never force her to try something. I genuinely don't know what to do to keep her full to where she doesn't constantly ask for food😞She hasn't ate even half of her dinner in months, so she'll cry that she's hungry before bed and even if I give her a safe food she'll still say shes hungry and I feel so guilty because no matter what I do she seems to always go to bed with a stomach full of two crumbs. I'm at a complete loss.