How do feed you kids?

My children are 7,6,5 and 17 months. Since I have the baby all day here's her typical day. Breakfast is some cereal like Kix, cherrios or oatmeal. Then she will have a snack if she's hungry and it's the Gerber snacks like puffs or the fruit bars. (She loves them) Then She'll have another snack in between lunch and dinner. Then dinner she will have a meat, veggie and potatos. Also she has plenty of milk and water through out the day with 1 serving (5oz) of juice a day. I dont allow sweets in my home. The only time my children eat cake, icecream or soda or anything else loaded with way too much sugar is not allowed in my home. They love raisins, bananas, apples, grapes, craisins and so on. Also I see you said she is still on the bottle. I'd throw it away, stop cold turkey. It will prevent further damage to her fast growing teeth. I have always offered healthy foods over junk. It's how I was raised and it's much healthier for the children. I wish I could be of more help, but hopefully you can get your daughter to eat more healthy. Just keep offering it and just get rid of the junk food.

My baby daughter is seventeen months old and she eats a healthy diet. For breakfast she has soy drink, cereal like corn flakes and rice crispy and some fruit. For lunch she likes to eat toast and some more fruit. For tea she likes to eat rice cakes, carrot sticks, corn rings and some crisps. Her favorite fruits are apple, banana ans pear. My three year old son is disabled. He is a very picky eater. He gave up using an infants bottle and now likes to drink soy cartons with a straw. Some meals times he eats and eats the same sort of food my daughter eats. Often at a mealtime he won't eat anything and that worries me. I think that pretending not to notice works with him. I shouldn't show that I am upset when he won't eat. You could try giving your daughter a meal 50 times and eventually she will eat it. That might work but you would also give her the food she does like to eat. You could try using yourself as an example. You could both eat fruit together for example. She will stop using bottles in her own time I believe but Super Nanny would say that all the bottles are being sent away so here is a special cup.

I never really had a problem with my not eating healthy foods. He's now 5 years old and oddly enough, some of his favorite choices for desserts are yogurt or apple slices. When I can suggest is that in order to get your daughter to eat healthier foods you first need to get rid of the cupcakes and other junk foods - she's 3, she can't go out and buy those foods on her own, she only obtains them through you if you give them to her, so don't give them to her. For the bottle issue, try taking her to the store and allowing her to pick out her own "special" cup to drink out of, if it's something she likes, she's more apt to want to use it. They also have these "veggie" stick chips which look like french fries but are green and orange depending on what vegetable they're made out of it. She'll think she's eating junk food but she'll actually be getting servings of vegetables.

i am no expert, but my wife is. she gives our son tough love specially when it comes to food. our son is five years old already and he stop drinking on feeding bottles when he turned 14 months. he drinks milk on sippy cups or cups that has straws. when he was 4 months my wife gave mashed foods already. now that he is five he loves fish and veggies as well. my wife has her way on cooking them without him seeing it then he got used to it already. sometimes our son has this tantrum days and he does not like to eat what my wife cook. they she will let him not eat then soon he will give in. now our son knows now that he can not win the battle from his mom when it comes to food. but when our son eat his meal my wife gives him eye cream or a piece of chocolate as a price for being a good boy. he is not used on eating junks, and my wife keeps the cupcakes high so he can only eat it after having sieta. as far as my observation goes with my wife i think she is displined so our son is disiplined as well. goodluck. parenting is not easy but we need to give tough love for our children to follow us.

Hi, Since your child is turning 3 years old next month, he is ready for any type of solid food. From my own experience, I have give my son proper meal and avoid giving him junk food or those heaty food. For breakfast, I will give my son drink milk, then around 9am,I will give him light snack like bread, cake and a cup of barley water. As for lunch, he will have a proper lunch like : rice + vegetable+soup, or I will cook economical dish like fried noodle,fried rice(anything simple yet healthy). As for dinner, of course, another healthy meal to go for him. That will be : rice + stir fried vegetable + soup. I seldom dine out,so home cooked meal is always the best for my family. Try to avoid giving too much junk food for small kid,it is not a healthy food. I also never give chocolate and titbits for my son as he can easily get heaty. I encourage him to drink plenty of water or boil some herbal tea for him at least twice a week. My son is still using feeding bottle for his milk. I have tried to use cup,but he refused on it. Probably because the milk smell is pretty strong if he were to use cup to drink the milk. Even I myself can't stand the smell. I will slowly wean him off from feeding bottle as my son is reaching 4 years old in next 2 months time. Try to cook different kind of dishes for your child to eat everyday..change the menu frequently and introduce more vegetable and fruit into his menu.it is good for his growth.

If she likes sweets what you could do it to get her to eat some kind of vegetables make her a nice baby carrot puree, since they are sweet she might like them and you can add just a bit of sugar maybe quarter tsp. and some vanilla to make it like a pudding. Also try making some sweet potato french fries and usually my baby cousins like when I fix that and they eat them up right away since they are a bit sweet and salty. As far as the drinking from the bottle maybe get her one of those really cute cartoon character sippy cups that way its fun for her to drink from it and it still has the little lip on it for her to drink from then after a while with that she can get a regular glass. Sorry I don't have kids but I have a lot of baby cousins that I am constantly taking care of and sometimes this works for me when they are here, lol. Oh also the rice make her some rice pudding that would probably get her to eat it since it is sweet and it is still the rice, and you can add as little or as much sugar as you want, I usually don't put that much though that way it is a bit healthier. I hope some of this helps and that she can have a good birthday and get some healthy foods.