Credit where credit's due, it was actually Mij, mother to the delectable Small, who wanted this question asked but truth be told it was on my list anyway.
You may have seen me comment (whinge, even) that Babybear had gone off carrot entirely and I don't know about you but I'm not so fussed for the stuff that I bothered offering it again for months. However we were at a pal's house and my friend chopped some up and left it out for the babies. Whether a natural competitive streak was activated or she just decided to give it another shot I don't know, but Babybear is now addicted to it once more. So much so that she points at the fridge and says 'ca-ott', which is the sort of thing that encourages you to get the peeler out qick-smart. In fact, such has been her great delight in carrot and her ability to demand it that she now enjoys 'green carrot' (okay... cucumber), another veggie that she'd long since abandoned.
So I'm not sure I've answered the question, though... I suppose I don't bother not offering food, if you see what I mean? Because we tend to plonk what we are eating onto her highchair she just gets what she gets, the poor child. On the one hand that means that spinach goes from her tray to the floor in one easy move as she appears to loathe the stuff but it certainly wouldn't prevent me from just giving it to her every time we have it. On the other, she is presumably encouraged to eat by the sight of her parents scarfing it down so hopefully she will return to it one day...
Oh, I don't think I've explained that very well, to be honest... can anyone else help?
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If they hate something, how long a gap do you leave before trying it again?
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Re: If they hate something, how long a gap do you leave before trying it again?
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Lin
on Tue 01 May 2007 08:37 BST | Profile | Permanent Link
I find that, conforming to the Unwrittten Kids Code: Children will behave beautifully in someone else's home, Small will tuck into stuff that she scorns when I present it to her in the comfort of her own high chair. I don't know whether she bows to peer pressure (she seems to eat more when in company of other babies) or is just inherently polite.
If she really hates something I do back off it for a few days but will generally give it a go a week or two later. On the whole though, I go with Aitch's approach - if I am having it, then Small gets offered it. I don't want to get suckered into the whole "cooking two different meals" thing - after all that's one of the main reasons I went for the whole BLW approach in the first place. A fun (if not slightly sadistic) approach is to present a food that she doesn't like along side one she REALLY doesn't like and watch her try to decide between two evils. This is how she decided to eat carrots - which she downed with every sign of enjoyment when faced off against celery - but hasn't touched since. Who knows..... My daughter will only eat Cr&P - HELP!
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Melfi
on Sat 10 Nov 2007 14:20 GMT | Profile | Permanent Link
Hi guys, I have not posted in a long time as things seemed to be going ok, or so i though, but looking back I think I was in some kind of denial or something. Anyway, I now cant ignore the guilt I am feeling.
I always had trouble getting Mya to eat Veg etc from a spoon, which is why I stumbled accross this site in the first place and began BLW. Mya is now 13 months old. She will feed herself just great, but only rubbish, apart from fruit, she LOVES fruit. She loves Wee willy winkies, waffles, those frozen pellets of mashed potato (cooked - of course), chicken nuggets, mini sausage rolls and potato shapes. What can i do to encourage her to eat better quality, health stuff? I have tried alot of the recipes on this site and i spend ages preparing and cooking and messing up my entire kitchen to create these beautiful healthy options and I present them to mya and she just looks at them and throws them on the floor, sometimes she will taste the tiniest bit, spit it out and then fling the rest on the floor. I am so trying to not make a big fuss out of meal times but I am getting increasingly anxious, stressed and frustrated. I just don't know what to do?!?! Any help, advice or suggestions, even some anecdotal stories would be amazing. Thanks! Re: My daughter will only eat Cr&P - HELP!
hi melfi,
i've answered this most fulsomely where you posted it on the forum, but in case anyone else is reading the gist was... what are you eating? is it healthy and are you eating it all together? (and have you tried giving her frozen peas?). actually, i should just post the link, shouldn't i? Re: If they hate something, how long a gap do you leave before trying it again?
Well, I persevere with the broccoli every time she has mixed frozen veg. She locates and dumps immediately. I guess we're like you, she gets what we're having and eats what she wants. Minky tends to change her opinions on food on a daily basis. I can't be doing with preparing eight different vegies in case she is off carrot and on peas today. As my mother would say "There's always bread and butter if you're hungry".
Re: Re: If they hate something, how long a gap do you leave before trying it again?
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Laura
on Thu 03 May 2007 10:37 BST | Profile | Permanent Link
I absolutely agree - Jack gets everything we eat, regardless of whether he likes it! Really I'm not a cruel mother- he is allowed to leave it, after all. Things that regularly get left are: carrot, lettuce cucumber. But he tries it every time, I notice.
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whomovedmychocolate
on Thu 10 May 2007 13:44 BST | Profile | Permanent Link
I'm still waiting to find something DD won't eat. She wolfs down anything put in front of her. It's a struggle to stop her eating her bib TBH!
I caught her trying to eat the cat's tail this morning! Trackbacks
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