Meat & veggies

[babybchbum]

How do you get your LO to eat them. T use to once upon a time now doesn't . He will pick them up and throw them off his tray.

For those that use almond milk do you give plain unsweetened or do you use vanilla. We accidentally gave T vanilla once and now he won't go back to the unsweetened kind and I think this might be where our food issue is coming from.

[tashaandsage]

I give Maisy original almond milk. I probably should be giving her unsweetened but we are used to the original. It's sweeter than the unsweetened kind but isn't as sweet as the Vanilla. There is a unsweetened vanilla, maybe you could try that since he has a taste for the vanilla?

As for meat, I don't prepare/serve meat at all anymore, but my kids are welcome it if they encounter it outside the house, and sometimes they will eat it, other times they are not interested in it, depending on what it is. When Beckett was around T's age or maybe younger, we were a meat eating household still, and he most often wouldn't eat it and the pedi said it was a texture issue. If he did, it needed to be in very small pieces.

Because we don't eat a typical meal of a meat with a couple sides, our meals tend to be all-in-one types where lots of vegetables are mixed in with everything else and I think that helps with their veggie intake. They don't pick the vegetable out, they just eat it. When we do have a meal like fish with a veggie on the side, they are much more likely to not eat much of the vegetable, unless its mixed in with a rice or quinoa or something. And Maisy really only eats cooked vegetables. She tries them raw, but almost always spits them back out, which I'm assuming is a texture thing.

[amellis2]

I would try unsweetened vanilla also. If you want him back to original, then maybe gradually cut it with original?

We are the same way with veggies. You can always mix them in, especially if it us a texture issue (steamed and pureed cauliflower in the mashed potatoes, steam and puree broccoli into the noodles, spinach in the lasagna, etc.

Idk about meats, though. I would just supplement protein intake with beans (hummus, bean burritos, etc)