Snack time, y’all!
Where I eat everything + cheese, and the kids lick a banana and run off to play. Sigh.
Fruit kebabs. They wanted me to take the fruit straight off. Then one asked for just a banana on a stick.
Homemade apple pie with a Miffy cheese. Nope and nope. We had a bit of apple action, but not much else.
Sneaky chocolate chips in their fruit + nut combo. They ate the chocolate and one ate maybe two blueberries.
Fruit platter designed for both of them to share. Not happening.
Homemade rollups following Wholefood Romance’s recipe for Strawberry Lemonade Strips.
I ate them.
What’s on the snack rotation at yours lately? Having any more luck than I am?!
Sliced apples (usually Gala) + some kind of nut butter, then dipped in raw pumpkin seeds. It’s my daughter’s favourite and I thinks she loves that there’s an interactive sort of thing going on. She asks for this every single day.
Mine licks the nut butter off the apples and announces she’s done.
Ha! Oh jeez. So sneaky! What about little sandwiches made from thin apples slices and PB?
That has definitely worked, but only for one of them!
Hahahah
sounds like something I would have done as a kid. Now as an adult I’d just devour everything here.
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same! I eat all their food.
Strawberries, popcorn with savoury yeast, chia seed pudding (chia seeds and water) mixed in some 5:Am yoghurt, homemade ice creams (coconut cream, frozen mango, avocado), sourdough toast with avocado, apples “NO SKIN MUM”… It’s a game every day to know what she wants… sigh, so tiring!
they change their mind every five minutes! At least the smoothies get done with no whining 🙂
Both mine love fruit. Popcorn. Rice crackers. Carrot and hummus. Cheese. Admittedly the little one is 7 months and eats all things offered with gusto. Big won’t eat home made treats – muesli slice, muffins, honey joys (come on! They aren’t even healthy) etc unless they are chocolatey sigh… Even when I lovingly prepare them with ingredients I KNOW she likes and get her to help me make them. Nada.
yep i get that treatment too! Feel free to post me the honey joys, I love that shit
strawberries, celery sticks, cucumber, grapes , apples , mango and carrots are the ones they know they can ask for at any stage and I will merrily cut up, everything else involves persuasion on their part and a discussion from mine x
I cannot wait until I can wield that power. if I tried discussing jatz with the two-year-old, she’d scream and hit me.
Celery sticks with cream cheese,”cream cream crackers” (cream cheese on Saos), “bitey” (whole) apples, puffed corn, various vegetables made into a face on a coloured plate.
bitey apples! So CUTE!
Lol – I joke with my husband that when our second starts eating food {or when our 18 month old can open the cupboard – which ever arrives first} he will need to start packing shelves at Woolies because our food bill will increase exponetionally. My 18 month old is in the 90% for height and the 40% for weight – but he manages two breakfasts, a big lunch, a big dinner and the following snacks: fruit platters, cheese and jatz, mango smooties {that I then pop in the boost juice cup and pretend is a mango magic}, veggie sticks with hommus, sugar free breakfast muffins {which I blogged about – and he now eats throughout the day}, popcorn, yoghurt buttons {because they are a cleaner way of eating yoghurt whilst I am feeding the newborn}, pumpkin seeds. My newborn is in the 90% for height and the 80% for weight {the brew is good} 🙂
One of mine has just started eating quince paste – I’m wondering if I’m going to have to get shares in a goumet deli.
Aah bummer they didn’t like the strawberry strips. They were a hit here, especially the blueberry ones. x
You know I’m just going to keep forcing them, don’t you? They’re delicious! What WEIRDOS.
My daughter seems to love anything she can ‘dpi’ into… So purée veggie dips and crackers/apple slices are a hit. Apart from that I have no idea… She always just seems to want weetbix haha.
Dip*
Ohhh yep. Weetbix 24/7 here! My kids won’t dip unless it’s tomato sauce. Are they insane? Dip is what makes the world go round!
We do almonds, pumpkin seeds, craisins or sultanas, some apple or pear, popcorn, japanese rice cracker snack thingys (blerg), regular rice crackers, cruskits or rice cakes with vegemite, frozen cheese, sometimes carrot sticks or frozen peas. He’s not eating last year’s favourite fruits (blueberries and orange) anymore.
My major victory was him taking two nibbles of a baby spinach leaf – ‘and then he felt much better’ a la The Very Hungry Catepillar. Not sure he’ll be tricked into that one again.
hah that’s really cute! We’ve got blackberries thanks to Peter Rabbit. Not so much the lettuces and carrot though… bummer.
Beautiful selection of non-eaten foods! Great ideas, sometimes kids just need to fall into line and appreciate the beauty of the food we’ve prepared. Sheesh. After many, many teary days/weeks/months of food battles, we’re finally hitting our stride with just cut up apple, carrots, cheese cubes and a fruity oat slice I make with stevia, coconut oil and apple sauce. It’s only taken nearly 5 years… but hooray!
Long road, eh?!
Man, you & your readers put me to SHAME!! It’s fruit ( so much fruit!), a few nuts,plastic cheese, BBQ shapes, yogurt covered sultanas,those kiddie fruit bars or whatever I’ve baked around here for snacks. I’m kind of in a creative food funk right now. I’m just feeding them all what I know they’ll eat. Shitty parenting.
dude… mine was all fruit. once, I put it into a pie because I wanted to eat pie crust. everything else… PLAIN CHOPPED FRUIT COP THAT KIDS
popcorn goes down well at the moment and choice of cut fruit, as long as chosen by the boy.
Oh amen, popcorn is a winner here too!
I had one fussy eater.
He asked me what was for dinner one night and I snapped “Dog Food.”
His response was “cool. I love dog food.”
After that we ate cockroaches (dates) snot balls and teeth in a cup (frozen peas and corn) caterpillars (celery sticks with sultanas for eyes) mashed flies (sultanas soaked in water then mashed a bit) and glue (porridge). He ate anything I could come up with a gross name for.
GO Figure.
hahahahahaah! I love glue.
Love all those snacks. My girls are a fan of choc chips with their fruit and cheese morning tea selection I make them. They change their mind on what foods they like everyday. They certainly keep me on my toes in the kitchen. But what’s offered for the day is all that is offered. The kebabs are a great idea to change things up.
You had me at chocolate chips 😉
Oh, this is both reassuring and depressing. I was all geared up thinking that there might be some joy out there somewhere for me…but no. Our kid’s fussy too.
haha we’ve come a lonnnnnnnnnnng way, but still a ways to go. It gets better!