Lunch Ideas for Kids! - Page 2

Great Tips Chellama, Thanks for the same.
My older one who just turned 7 just started eating the sandwichs recently! Yeah, during these past 2 yrs whenever I tried ..it didn't turn into great success and kind of prefered the cooked food. Not a disliker for veggies (atleast for few veggies..) but somehow not finding it to be interesting to eat sandwiches made with fresh lettuce, ..etc. The only fresh/uncooked item she likes is fresh baby carrots with dressing. So let me try making sandwiches with some what cooked veggies first to start with... Thanks a lot once again! 😊

Originally posted by: Chellama

Wingy...hoping and praying for it!! 😍

I very well understand how you are feeling about your little one not eating properly, becoz I am in the same exact boat with you with my 3 yr old.😭

He doesn't drink milk , he doesn't like veggies and he hates fruits! Yeah, you read it correct and he doesn't like sweets..like Kesari, Milk sweet. Loves to eat CHOCOLATES for B-fast, Lunch and Dinner if I let him! Other than Chocolates, the one item he eats (I thank god for that) is Chappathis... I make Chappathis at home and as soon as take it out of the Tava, apply some Ghee on top it and sprinkle sugar on top it and roll it and give it to him...this is one food he eats without any complaints OR hesitations..so I try and make chappathis at home (though it's time consuming...) often and don't go for the Store bought chappathis as they are not very soft always!

Veggis itself is a problem...And he hates Fresh Veggies... So I have started steaming the baby carrots and broccoli using the rice cooker with a sprinkle of salt and a tiny bit of freshly ground black pepper flakes and he eats that! Like this I keep trying something little different and experimenting to make him eat some good stuff.

So Don't worry Chellama. Let's hope and wait for the miracle to happen, and one day our kids will start to eat their food good!!😍

Originally posted by: Kavitha Ravi

I too face the same problem with my 2 year old Aishu.
She even refuses to drink milk. She is healthy but very skinny.I will make a bottle of milk and put it in her mouth when she is fast asleep. She will drink it. She hates sweet items. I am just the opposite.
She enjoyed a bit of the fried idlli I made for dinner.

Just a word of caution to Kavitha and other friends who may be resorting to feeding milk this way. Please don't be alarmed, but just think about it.

My daughter was very skinny until recently. She was in the 5th percentile in the charts that show average weight for kids of her age in the US (meaning 95% of kids her age were faring better in weight). This alarmed me and she hated to drink milk. The thing is, she wouldn't like any sweet or candy. Just about feeding her anything was hard work. I would go to any extent to feed her anything. So I did the exact same thing that you are doing. Stick a bottle of milk in her mouth when she is just starting to sleep and by fifteen minutes she would be done and I would be happy that I had successfully fed her a bottle. And she would sleep peacefully for the rest of the night.

Now is the bad part. Slowly her front teeth started to grey and one of the front tooth started disppearing slowly. First we thought she fell down once and that's why the tooth was sort of broken. When we asked the pediatirican about the color of her teeth she said, may be it's because of the multivitamin drops that we are giving her (which has iron that might discolor the teeth). I wasn't convinced and started getting very worried. We took her to a specialist pediatric dentist. There was extensive repair done on her teeth when she was just two and a half. Poor baby! She sat through the entire procedure which lasted about an hour which included placing some kind of platic mould to replace parts of her teeth.

And guess what! All of this because we fed milk to her that way for a long time, which had caused tooth decay. Because the teeth were so small, it wasn't visible at first and when they started to show more, the discoloration of teeth were more obvious. I wish the pediatrician was smart enough to point it out earlier. Anyway, I at once stopped giving her anything after brushing her teeth at night. Even now, when she has anything to eat she has to gargle her mouth, that does not leave scope for bacteria.

Even when the kids are young enough to understand, we can start talking to them about bacteria and stuff, show some pictures about bacteria build up/tooth decay from kiddy websites (not the scary ones 😊 ) and explain to them the benefits of brushing teeth at night. Slowly they'll get into the habit and sometimes even remind us when we forget.

May be what happened to my kid wouldn't happen to all kids who drink milk while sleeping. But I think, in the least we parents should be aware of it.

Thanks a lot Jenim. That's a very useful information indeed. Thanks a lot for sharing and am sure lot of parents would read it and get benefit. Actually after reading Kavi's post I thought of writing about it, but pulled into some urgent work and when I came back to do so after my lunch, you already wrote a detailed one on it. 😊

Both for my older one (when she was a baby) and for my little one (who really makes me go crazy before he drinks his milk!) I did not/do not feed milk during their sleep. I wasn't sure it could cause a tooth decay to this extent, but I was told, drinking/actually the sucking motion of mouth while they are lying down straight is not good for the babies/kids as it could develop ear infections to them - cause it allows the liquid to collect while they sleep and drink I read this some where.

Brushing the teeth before sleep is something my younger one is so so reluctant to do ....no matter how much ever I explain. So atleast to keep the food/milk washed off I make him take/drink a little water just before his bed time.May be I should try your showing the kids website idea.. That's a very good idea. Thanks!

Lately I was worried about his teeth as he eats a lot of chocalate..and doesn't brush his teeth in the night regularly! Infact I have fixed a dental appt for him and it's scheduled for next week. I'm actually kind of feeling tensed right now!😕

Don't worry too much Supree.
Hopefully there won't be anything serious at the appt. The only good part is, when these teeth fall, we can hope for nice pearly ones to come up. 😆

My daughter can't wait for that to happen - she keeps checking her teeth every day for any wiggly ones, especially the fake ones. Too bad, it will be atleast a year for that to happen. Not to mention, the tooth fairy (tale) expectations are running quite high. Some kids in her day care are too spoilt that they get tooth fairy dolls + a pouch for the tooth fairy to put some tiny gifts. Howzzat!

Hey all, I would like to share one too. Feeding my daughter, now 3, was a nightmare. It still is not such a pleasant dream but not a nightmare anymore. When she was an infant, she used to sleep all day not even getting up to feed. I used to literally wait, sitting next to her, waiting for her to slightly move so I can pick her up to feed her. Even then she will drink for 3 minutes(believe me i got so scared and frustrated, i timed it) and then will go of to sleep. My god, i still cannot imagine those days. With the pain and anxiety, I had severe PPD. It did not improve when she got older too. I just dealt with it one day at a time. constantly feeding and struggling.

Now that she is 3, she is into all these princesses and fairy tales. We read books and she is very impressed with how the princesses and fairies are. One day, she had her haircut and I forgot to wash her air after that. Couple of days later, when I was applying oil to her hair, it fell out (which I belive are the remains of haircut) I went crazy thinking that she is losing her hair. She was so worried to see me like that. I showed her the hair and told her that if she does not eat healthy, they is how her hair will fall down. It worked. I'm not sure how long I can pull that off. But, if she is in a good mood and I ask her to eat something, she will listen. That way, she thinks she will grow up to be a beutiful princess like 'sleeping beauty'.

The point is, as Jenim said, you can explain it to them why we are asking them to eat healthy. I have heard about tooth decay due to drinking milk in sleep. My daughter's pediatrician always makes it a point to insist on that. Yes, it will be difficult, But it is better to avoid feeding the kids in sleep.
Good luck y'all. Just hang in there --it will turn around.

Thanks Guyz...so much of detailed explanations and suggestions.

jenim...your msg is really frightening me since my daughter drinks 2 bottles of milk during her sleep. But every year i take her to the dentist,and till now there's no problem and the dentist said that her teeths are good. I should check with him next time about feeding the milk during sleep. But my daughter cries and asks for it and i don't know what to do without the milk.


Wingy......the exact same struggle i went through and i can't even think of having another baby. i wish i can get my daughter to think like urs since they're both the same age. 😊
The same idea a friend of mine told me, just to get the little girls eat, they should give them some beauty tips so they would want to eat just because they can be a princess. 😉

Originally posted by: Chellama

Wingy......the exact same struggle i went through and i can't even think of having another baby.

Hi Chellama, I EXACTLY know what you mean!! Suddenly it feels that every single action of mom has a meaning. I can relive what she went thru. What a eye opening!!

It is a good idea to check with your child's dentist. Better safe than sorry.

Hi Friends,
Please visit Recipes section for a kids friendly pancake recipe - And also for Caryn's fantastic idea of making popsicles for our little one's using Fruits and Veggies!! 😊 Thanks, Supree.

is this the topic you were looking ofr supree? when anyone post a message the older dated message will come to the first page after the sticky threads.....
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