[blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler

Thu Feb 26 23:52:49 UTC 2009

I never thaught to freze those. I bet sean would love them. I will have to 
look for some organic ones with no sugare. Thanks for the thaught.
We have not started yogart yet, but when we do I will have to try this.
AMber
Amber Boggs

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Baldwin" <mbaldwin at gpcom.net>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler

>I thought of something else we use to give my daughter.  Instead of yogurt,
> we gave her gogurt.  It is frozen yogurt that comes in a package like 
> those
> flavored ice things.  We would just cut them in to pieces, and she could 
> eat
> them with her fingers cause they were still kind of frozen.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Veronica Smith
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:38 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
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> That's a good idea.  Infact, I think this is what i did. V
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pipi" <blahblahblah0822 at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
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>
>> have you tried giving her a spoon that she can play with and then try
>> feeding her with another spoon?
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:21 PM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
>>
>>
>>> Oh ya, I just remembered, noodles.  I also put noodles on the tray, but 
>>> I
>>> did put a little yogurt in a shallow bowl with one of those spoons with 
>>> a
>>> rubber covering.  Just remember to give her a variety. You're doing a
>>> great job, mom. 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 3:43 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
>>>
>>>
>>>> Sarah has three teeth in now, and more coming.  I've given her lots of
>>>> different table foods, cut up in small pieces.  She just got up from 
>>>> her
>>>> nap
>>>> and had some diced ham and some peas, also some chopped pears and
>>>> peaches
>>>> from the fruit cocktail I ate for lunch.  She's a good eater when it
>>>> comes
>>>> to finger foods.  But I had been giving her that stuff in addition to a
>>>> few
>>>> jars of baby food a day, usually one dinner combination and one fruit,
>>>> sometimes a serving of whole milk yogurt, along with her bottles.  It's
>>>> the
>>>> spoon stuff she doesn't seem to want, so I'll have to make diced solid
>>>> foods
>>>> a bigger part of her diet.  It's just going to take a little more
>>>> planning
>>>> than opening jars, I guess.
>>>>
>>>> Jo Elizabeth
>>>>
>>>> "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one
>>>> holds
>>>> water."--Swedish proverb
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
>>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:25 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Okay, I'm not sure this will be of much help because my child is 
>>>>> blind,
>>>>> but he is six and his arms are a lot longer.  What I do is put my
>>>>> finger
>>>>> on his mouth so I know where the head is turning and then I come from
>>>>> above with the spoon so I'm above the arms.
>>>>> What if you just made regular spaghetti and cut it up small with a
>>>>> scissors or put it through the food processor for a few seconds to 
>>>>> make
>>>>> the pieces smaller.  How many teeth does she have now?  Couldn't she
>>>>> eat
>>>>> any kind of table food now as long as it's given in small pieces?
>>>>> Barbara
>>>>>
>>>>> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of
>>>>> whom
>>>>> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>>>>>
>>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>>> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:26 PM
>>>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>> water."--Swedish proverb
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