[blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler

Tue Feb 24 22:04:28 UTC 2009

It's not deli meats, it's the ones that come in pre packages.  But they are 
not bad for children just pregnant women. V
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler


>I hadn't heard that about cheese.  I don't like the stuff myself, but Sarah
> loves all kinds of cheese--Swiss, cheddar, Mozzarela.  I could try deli
> meats as well, though I thought I had heard they had to be heated till 
> they
> were steaming.  I can't remember why now.  Thanks for the ideas.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds
> water."--Swedish proverb
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Baldwin" <mbaldwin at gpcom.net>
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
>
>
>> Jo Elizabeth,
>> Sounds very familiar.  My daughter that is now 33 months, after she
>> learned
>> she could feed herself, wanted nothing to do with being fed.  She was
>> going
>> to do it herself, and that was all there was to it.  This started when 
>> she
>> was about 9-10 months old, and to this day she is a very independent
>> little
>> girl.  But, we came up with different things she could feed herself, like
>> cheese, ham, different kinds of fruits, bananas, grapes, boiled 
>> vegetables
>> of about any kind, like corn, peas, karat, green beans.
>> I guess it comes down to what you want her to eat, what your comfortable
>> with her eating, and what kind of mess you want to have to clean up.  An
>> old
>> rug under the high chair can help from getting some of the mess on the
>> carpet, or other flooring.
>>
>> I am sure some will disagree with my suggestions, cause like cheese, I
>> read
>> your not suppose to give until they are a year old or so, but it worked
>> for
>> us, and my daughter is alive and happy and healthy.  Just make sure to 
>> cut
>> the food in to small bits for her, and like ham, we cut off the skin,
>> cause
>> that was harder to chew.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael Baldwin
>> Got print, need Braille?
>> http://www.ReadWithDots.com
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:27 PM
>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>> Subject: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
>>
>> Hi, all.  Sarah and I just got finished with the lunch from hell.  Or at
>> least that's the way I perceive it--she seems pretty satisfied with the
>> world now that it's over--she's babbling happily and playing with the 
>> pots
>> and pans in my kitchen cupboards like nothing happened, like her clothes
>> and
>> mine, and our hair, and the high chair aren't covered with Gerber
>> spaghetti
>> and meat sauce, like we weren't both near tears five minutes ago.  I feel
>> like I got hit by a train and dragged for a little while.  A slight
>> exaggeration maybe, but only a slight one.
>>
>> Sarah and I have been having battles lately over the spoon, most of which
>> I
>> lose.  It isn't that she doesn't want food, she's fortunately not a picky
>> eater.  She'll try anything.  The deal is, she wants to feed herself.
>> Fair
>> enough, that's the end goal, right?  But the spoon is too cumbersome for
>> her, so she resorts to her hands.  That's fine, as long as she's eating
>> diced banana or sweet potato or bits of meat or hard-boiled egg yolk, or
>> whole round peas, or Cheerios.  But those foods alone hardly make up a
>> balanced diet.  She needs other things that are too soft and runny to 
>> pick
>> up, like yogurt and such, and she absolutely won't allow me to feed her
>> with
>> a spoon.  If I can manage to hold down her two wildly waving fists with
>> one
>> hand, she flops her head madly from side to side so I can't get the
>> dreaded
>> spoon anywhere near her mouth with the other, and she ends up with food
>> behind her ears, across her eyebrows, down her neck--you get the picture.
>> And you can imagine the screeching sound track that goes with it.  I'm
>> finding it hard to be calm and patient.  This time, after many tries, I
>> gave
>> up on the spoon altogether because I don't want the high chair to become 
>> a
>> power struggle or a source of traumatic memories, and I sure don't want 
>> to
>> cross the line into force feeding.  I had that done to me as a child and
>> still suffer the effects.  I thickened the Gerber spaghetti and meat 
>> sauce
>> with cereal so it would hold together and just let her shovel it into her
>> mouth with both hands from the high chair tray, and then cleaned up the
>> big
>> mess afterward.  Gerald can feed Sarah with a spoon, but she certainly
>> isn't
>> willing, it's just that he can see the flailing hands and the dodging
>> mouth
>> and sneak bites in on her.  But he isn't here most of the time, and I 
>> have
>> a
>> responsibility to figure this out.
>>
>> Anyway, besides the catharsis of writing this all out when I feel I have
>> to
>> tell most people most of the time that things are utterly perfect,
>> otherwise
>> I'm afraid they'll be doubting me as a parent and, in the case of my
>> family,
>> wondering if they should intervene--I guess my question is how do I
>> resolve
>> this stalemate?  I know I should give Sarah more finger foods, and I'll 
>> be
>> looking for every new idea I can get on that front.  But till she can 
>> feed
>> herself with a spoon, how can I help her and the mealtime skirmishes that
>> nobody really wins?  It's so odd because she has no wish to hold her own
>> bottle or learn to drink from a cup, but she wants to feed herself no
>> matter
>> what.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>> "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds
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