[blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler

Fri Feb 27 19:29:36 UTC 2009

They have the organic ones.  I buy them all the time. V
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amber Boggs" <amberboggs at socal.rr.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler


>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
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> ----- 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
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>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael Baldwin
>> Got print, need Braille?
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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>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:28 PM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
>>
>>
>>> 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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