OHbaby! Forums : Ideas please - dinner time battles https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:09:42 +0000 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:35:21 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 11.10 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=27364 <![CDATA[OHbaby! Forums]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : I know! She LOVES peas. She can...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=723307&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#723307 Author: MissCandice
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Posted: 15 July 2009 at 3:35pm

I know! She LOVES peas.

She can eat a whole bowl!
That and yoghurt! You should hear her say yoghurt, its so cute!

I find if you sit at their table and eat with them making chomping sounds and go one for you and one for me.. they get into it too. Well it works for Kylah. Like a say yummmm mummy is eating her potatoes and let her see me eat it and then say 'Some for Kylah' and she eats it too.

Or rename it something she likes. All veges here are called peas lol and she eats them all apart from Kumara, she just doesnt like it.]]> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:35:21 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=723307&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#723307 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : Thanks Kandice . I put lots of...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=723261&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#723261 Author: sally belly
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Posted: 15 July 2009 at 2:40pm

Thanks Kandice . I put lots of things down to being a "phase" so it's nice to know it probably is. He has been better recently & I try hard to not let it bother me so much. As someone mentioned, he won't starve himself.

Peas lol!]]> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:40:37 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=723261&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#723261 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : Hi! My PAFT lady gave me a handout...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=723184&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#723184 Author: MissCandice
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Posted: 15 July 2009 at 1:33pm

Hi!

My PAFT lady gave me a handout on this, and its actually a stage. It says to just ignore it and not struggle with them. Kylah used to be the same. Shes now 23 Months and eats whatever is put in front of her if shes hungry. If not, then she doesnt eat and thats it.

My no fails are peas! She loves peas lol]]> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:33:43 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=723184&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#723184 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : I used to get sooo frustrated...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=722757&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#722757 Author: tishy
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Posted: 14 July 2009 at 8:27pm

I used to get sooo frustrated with them not eating what I cook but I'm trying my best to relax a bit.

If they don't like what I give them I let them run around a bit and try to give it to them again after 20 mins on a different plate with whatever I think they didn't like removed. Sometimes this works.

Also sometimes I just change the cutlery they're using. e.g. give them a teaspoon or a big spoon. Something that they don't usually eat with. This I find works a lot of the time and I manage to get a few more spoons in.

The failsafe food in this house is rice and corn.

Oh and I always give them a yoghurt after dinner]]> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:27:15 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=722757&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#722757 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : Alex went through a stage of not...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=722245&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#722245 Author: crafty1
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Posted: 14 July 2009 at 11:55am

Alex went through a stage of not eating vegies and i had pureed vegies left in the freezer so mixed them into pasta bake and rissoles etc and then he didn't know they were there which meant no stress. I knew he was getting some and i also increased his fruit intake. I pureed super vegies like spinach and broccoli which are really good. The rissoles and pasta bake also have onion, carrot and mushroom in them so actually end up with heaps of vegies in there.

I'm really into not having dinner time be a battle so did the sneaky tactic. If he was older though i would consider having some rules about eating vegies but you can't reason with a one year old. ]]> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:55:31 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=722245&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#722245 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : Dipping toast soliders is a good...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=720771&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#720771 Author: DJ
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Posted: 12 July 2009 at 10:48am

Dipping toast soliders is a good soup trick too]]> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:48:35 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=720771&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#720771 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : Ella normally eats soup the same...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=720652&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#720652 Author: Mum2ET
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Posted: 11 July 2009 at 9:16pm

Ella normally eats soup the same way we do- just in a round bowl with a normal toddler spoon. It used to get a bit messy, but now she is pretty good about getting most of the soup in her mouth.

]]> Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:16:49 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=720652&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#720652 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : just wondering how you get toddlers...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=720643&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#720643 Author: NovemberMum
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Posted: 11 July 2009 at 8:52pm

just wondering how you get toddlers to eat/drink soup.]]> Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:52:40 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=720643&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#720643 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : DD is not a spuds girl either... Recently...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=720597&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#720597 Author: DJ
Subject: 27364
Posted: 11 July 2009 at 6:48pm

DD is not a spuds girl either...

Recently we had a couple of nights of tanties and we realised it was highchair related rather than food, so now she sits up at the big table with us and has been better.

Never fail meals are:
- yellow and red curries with rice and veges (cut up small)
- lasange, bolognaise and other pasta and sauce things (with cut up veges) (sometimes she picks the green veges off her fork - sigh)

Cous cous mixed with peas and corn goes down ok

Also, we've had good success with soup for lunch (esp pumpkin and tomato), but am going to try vege and how we go. there is a book she likes with pictures of soup which has helped with her eating soup.

If she won't eat something that I know she usually does, then no desert.
also sometimes you need to try things quite a few times before success - eg baked beans took about 10 attemps and now she loves them
]]> Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:48:25 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=720597&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#720597 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : Thanks girls. I will definitely...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=718376&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#718376 Author: sally belly
Subject: 27364
Posted: 08 July 2009 at 1:11pm

Thanks girls. I will definitely try some of your ideas. I'm sure it's another "phase" because he used to eat pretty much anything.

I worry that he will wake up early because he's hungry & I like my sleep, particularly at the moment . Can only try though & I'm sure he'll learn pretty quickly that he's offered nothing else if he doesn't eat his dinner.

Freesia, have you tried small pieces of roast potatoes with Livvy? Liam loves them, especially when I roll them in flour & fries sprinkle. Maybe she's just not going to be a spuds type of girl ]]> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:11:27 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=718376&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#718376 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : Sally, I am hearing you! Pasta...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=718187&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#718187 Author: Peanut
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Posted: 08 July 2009 at 9:02am

Sally, I am hearing you!

Pasta Bake is a guarenteed eat here as is homemade pizza and vege fritters. The pasta bake and pizza I add veges too. DS loves playing wth the dough for his pizza and spreading the "getti" and "eese".

I still offer yoghurt and fruit if he doesn't eat his dinner but often he won't eat that either.

DS is at DC though and they get a hot lunch (with veges) which he eats quite happily so often he has a nibble platter for tea e.g cheese, luncheon or ham, a cracker, fruit - fresh and dried etc.

Maybe try giving him his dinner at lunch and lunch at dinner and see what happens?]]> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:02:39 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=718187&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#718187 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : Have you tried vege fritters (courgette,...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=718079&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#718079 Author: MummyFreckle
Subject: 27364
Posted: 07 July 2009 at 9:48pm

Have you tried vege fritters (courgette, corn) I use the recipe in the edmonds cook book, and Oli "sometimes" eats them!! They freeze well though!

 

]]> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:48:50 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=718079&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#718079 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : I have been having the same issues...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=718020&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#718020 Author: Orca1
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Posted: 07 July 2009 at 8:59pm

I have been having the same issues with my daughter who is 17 months.   I was really stressing about it and it would wind me up that she wouldn't touch any of her dinner some nights.    Now when she refuses to eat I leave it for awhile and then try again as sometimes I think its timing and she isn't always ready to eat when I first try. If the second attempt is rejected then she gets nothing. When she is hungry she is a good eater and will eat almost anything that is put in front of her so I figure she just isn't hungry. Like Cuppatea's child she has a good breakfast the next day if she hasn't had much dinner.

]]> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:59:23 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=718020&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#718020 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : Don&#039;t eat dinner, go to bed...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=717866&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#717866 Author: cuppatea
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Posted: 07 July 2009 at 6:41pm

Don't eat dinner, go to bed hungry, that's what happens in this house. Spencer gets dessert if he either eats all his dinner, has a very good attempt at eating it all or if he tries something new but doesn't like it (then I will take his word for it that he doesn't like it, rather than him pretending with stuff he has eaten before).

Having said that he does tend to graze all day and then sometimes just isn't hungry at dinner time so a couple of things that sometimes help with that are having dinner at lunch time and just trying to get healthy snacks into him.

Just about the wanting to get some food into them, they won't starve themselves, whenever Spencer does go to bed with no dinner then he sure as hell does not mess about with breakfast I have also found that sometimes he just has not hungry days, but then a few days later he will just eat whatever is put in front of him cos he is have a hungry day.
]]> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:41:19 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=717866&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#717866 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : I&#039;m not sure what to do on...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=717819&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#717819 Author: ElfsMum
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Posted: 07 July 2009 at 5:44pm

I'm not sure what to do on this one I'm lucky so far but i realise it might change..we dont do dessert either and I would probably stop offering it cause he at the moment is realising he will get it regardless(though i realise you want to get some food into him so it's a hard one!) ]]> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:44:28 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=717819&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#717819 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : LOL, Livvy is the opposite and...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=717803&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#717803 Author: Freesia
Subject: 27364
Posted: 07 July 2009 at 5:08pm

LOL, Livvy is the opposite and will not go near potatoes!

All I can think of is something like rissoles or patties and put the grated veges in there. If he thinks it's mostly meat he may eat it.]]> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:08:07 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=717803&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#717803 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : I find if I put salad dressing...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=717749&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#717749 Author: *Lou*
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Posted: 07 July 2009 at 4:03pm

I find if I put salad dressing (balsamic vinegar type) on any sort of veges that DS will eat them.

Try raw veges dipped in hummas or some other sort of dip for a novelty.

I'm a mean mummy - we never have dessert in our house...]]> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:03:51 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=717749&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#717749 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : Pasta bake. We cook up penne pasta...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=717664&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#717664 Author: kebakat
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Posted: 07 July 2009 at 2:42pm

Pasta bake. We cook up penne pasta and add a dolmio sauce to it and some vege and then put some on a plate and put him in his high chair and he eats it with his fingers. Makes a mess but he loves eating it with his fingers and will always eat all the pasta and some of the vege. And have some chicken nuggets on the side.]]> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:42:04 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=717664&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#717664 <![CDATA[Ideas please - dinner time battles : Liam used to be really good at...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=717646&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#717646 Author: sally belly
Subject: 27364
Posted: 07 July 2009 at 2:23pm

Liam used to be really good at eating pretty much whatever was put in front of him but lately dinner times have become a major battleground .

There are very few meals that you can guarantee he'll actually eat. Last night was casserole, mashed spud & pumpkin with grated courgette & carrot in it. He ate a few mouthfuls then wouldn't touch the rest. He is now 18 months old with 12 teeth & I don't think I should still be mashing everything up like he's a "baby"

I realise that this is a very common problem in toddlers but I am really struggling to get any veges apart from potato into him. Not sure what else I can try??? I have tried mixing them with gravy, grated cheese & cheese sauce but he still won't eat them.

So what are your never fail meals that your toddler will eat?

And do you still offer dessert if they don't eat much of their main course? I have been but wonder if I should stop so he learns that if he doesn't eat what he's given then there's nothing else. ]]> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:23:20 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27364&PID=717646&title=ideas-please-dinner-time-battles#717646