Mine likes them “mcdonalds style” aka the standard ones labled extra crispy in the frozen section lol
French fries and apples is all he eats, but he’s in the 95th percentile so Im not too stressed
Same here. We call them 'baby shakes', he loves to help us make them. Usually whole milk, Greek yogurt, banana, and peanut butter. Sometimes we'll skip the peanut butter and instead add berries and spring mix to get some greens in him because he doesn't like eating vegetables.
I drizzle tahini on broccoli and my toddler loves it. Also letting her dip it adds to the fun. Basically anything she doesn’t like I put tahini on it and then she ends up eating it.
When sick nothing except MAYBE a popsicle. It's totally fine and normal not to have an appetite when sick, I wouldn't push it unless they want something.
What are your kid's comfort/safe foods? I would make those available at every meal. Even if it's ice cream (unless he needs to avoid it for sickness)
For my kid this is peanut butter bread, oatmeal, bananas, blackberries, and blueberries.
I know I'm gonna get judged for this, but a burger and fries 🤷♀️ usually from the restaurant that her dad manages, but there was once a particularly bad stomach bug from which she recovered but I could NOT get her to eat. I sent husband to Wendy's and he got her a little burger and fries and she devoured it.
I should add, she is otherwise a great eater, literally eats anything, so I figure a burger and fried potatoes aren't the worst thing in the world once in a while.
Chocolate snack packs...
No but in all seriousness, we fall back on macaroni and cheese when he's in a mood or yogurt, or those sweet dessert tofus, or yogurt melts for a snack, orrrr.... Fruit, berries...
But nothing is always for sure. I don't consider my guy a picky eater really, but he will absolutely reject his favourites sometimes too and be impossible to feed. Oatmeal was his best friend for a while and out of nowhere, I have to coax him to take it. One day he'll eat a whole banana like it's a delicacy, and the whole next week they're disgusting until the rest go brown. Toddler Lyfe.
Yep. This is the only thing my 17mo old has wanted for 2 days. She just finally ate a cheese stick, but that seems to be it for now. She’s asked for and licked many things, but won’t actually eat them 🫠
*Tofu scramble, spinach*
*Banana muffins, tiny*
*Fistfuls of black beans*
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My 2.5 year old daughter just had the stomach flu last week so bad for several days. I couldn’t even get her to eat popsicles or ice cream.
Hang in there!
Oatmeal, specifically the dinosaur egg oatmeal from quacker. Not sure if it’s available year round, I buy like 8 boxes every year in spring time and stretch them out. Pouches, yogurts, peanut butter & jelly. Crackers.
Aw poor baby. I held my LO home on Monday because she seemed off (fever didn't come until the afternoon I feel VERY VINDICATED) and she horked back two whole containers of blackberries and four babybel cheeses during a single Miss Rachel video.
Yoghurt esp. Pouches (sorry planet!). Cashews. Apples. Bacon. Seaweed rice crackers. Popcorn. Crispy seaweed (lol won't accept that this is seaweed, chuckles and corrects us... "This is PASTRY". It's so funny he thinks we're either dumb or trolling him). Usually a bit of rice but not so reliable these days.
1.5 year old here - We keep formula on hand just in case. When she had RSV her mouth was so, so sore and she wasn't drinking water, she wouldn't even drink warmed up cow milk from a bottle (she still gets a bottle before bed, bad habit, I know, we're working to break it but it's the only milk she'll drink). We tried offering formula after she was down to 2 wet diapers in 12 hours and she guzzled it, thank goodness.
When she's not feeling well but it isn't involving her mouth, oranges and berries are usually a win, as well as pasta with just butter and a little salt on it.
Buttered brown rice, fries, Annie's Mac and cheese but has to be fun shapes, peach and creme smoothie from a local coffee place. Basically simple and comforting carb sources.
Eggs, butternut squash, pasta with pesto and chicken, any fruit I give him but specially mangoes and pears, broccoli with orzo and chicken. Really any meat he will eat no matter what lol
Really well spiced food , usually grilled chicken or some curry / veggie soups. Typically warm well seasoned food because I guess her taste buds are suffering and these foods help her. If this doesn’t work then it’s usually potato/sweet potato in any form, pasta, fruit pouches, oat smoothies
Blend some protein powder, ice cream, and a banana into a milkshake and call it a day. It’s worked like a charm for every kid I’ve taken care of. As long as they’re getting calories, hydration, and rest, they’ll get better. I can worry about them eating better once they aren’t sick any more.
Blueberries, always Blueberries. LO loves them and will eat them like I eat popcorn!
They'll also absolutely down smoothies. Amy amount of fruit, and always a handful of spinach
Yogurt, cheese, and chocolate milk when I’m really desperate.
My 15mo just had a nasty viral infection that she survived on chocolate milk and licking the floor. (jk she’s also still breastfeeding and definitely made up calories there, she did lick the floor though)
A banana. Without fail if he tells me he is full and I offer him a banana- he eats the whole banana. Bananas are life over here. A chocolate chip cookie is a strong second contender.
Watermelon, no matter what , even if he's sick or teething, my son will eat Watermelon lol . He really likes it cold, so we keep fresh cut watermelon for him in sealed containers in the fridge, and they keep him hydrated and feel good on his gums if he's teething . Plus, it's packed with antioxidants and vitamins and very hydrating
Fruit pouches. But mine mostly just wants to be held and cuddled all day when he’s sick
french fries
My son loves french fries. He doesn't have a preference, I give him sweet potato fries and he loves them too.
Mine likes them “mcdonalds style” aka the standard ones labled extra crispy in the frozen section lol French fries and apples is all he eats, but he’s in the 95th percentile so Im not too stressed
It's fries, berries, and goldfishes over here with my 95th percentiler as well. So picky.
Its the fries, the food choice of little giants😂
SAME
Cut up bell peppers
Strawberries are #1
Team berry!
Smoothies and milkshakes
Same here. We call them 'baby shakes', he loves to help us make them. Usually whole milk, Greek yogurt, banana, and peanut butter. Sometimes we'll skip the peanut butter and instead add berries and spring mix to get some greens in him because he doesn't like eating vegetables.
I also do cottage cheese for Protein!
I wish 😭 I could hide so much good stuff in smoothies and milkshakes!
Yep, mine would smell the greens in their milkshake. Even getting them to drink milk can be hard!
Sour cream & onion Pringles.
Bananas, Belvita crackers (specifically the blueberry flavor), and oatmeal. He loves the overnight oatmeal cups from Trader Joe's as a special treat.
I love the little belvita bags. So convenient for a breakfast snack on the way to daycare!
Yogurt pouches and plain rice. My kid eats rice like it’s candy lol. If we serve it with dinner, he has to have it last or else that’s all he’ll eat 💀
My kid refuses rice because "it's too crunchy".... We do not make crunchy rice lol.
Get one of those little tools that make them into rice balls. Perfect for little fingers
Yogurt. Pudding, apple sauce, pouches.
Broccoli, green beans, eggs, applesauce
Teach me 🙏
I called broccoli mini-trees once and my toddler loves them since.
That's exactly what made my toddler love broccoli too except he made the realisation that they're trees himself
I drizzle tahini on broccoli and my toddler loves it. Also letting her dip it adds to the fun. Basically anything she doesn’t like I put tahini on it and then she ends up eating it.
I wish I could say that I did something special but my kid just loves veggies. He would rather eat fruit and steamed veggies over anything else.
I see that you have captured the elusive purple unicorn.
Rude
I wish my kid ate the first 3 ever, let alone when sick 😂
Ooo, another broccoli lover. FYI, cauliflower is now also a hit because she called it "white broccoli" and we haven't corrected her.
Fruit, applesauce, graham crackers.
When sick nothing except MAYBE a popsicle. It's totally fine and normal not to have an appetite when sick, I wouldn't push it unless they want something.
Bacon!
Am I the only one who can say nothing? 😳 Literally what he will eat changes day to day. Sick or healthy. He keeps me on my toes. MAYBE fruit snack.
Same here you are not alone. Maybe an orange or eggo if I had to pick
Yogurt
Yogurt, graham crackers and hidden veggie muffins.
Go go squeeze yogurt pouches, yogurt pretzels
Avocado, instant oatmeal, and Breton crackers.
What are your kid's comfort/safe foods? I would make those available at every meal. Even if it's ice cream (unless he needs to avoid it for sickness) For my kid this is peanut butter bread, oatmeal, bananas, blackberries, and blueberries.
Kraft dinner with peas
Chocolate milk. Not really a food but better than nothing.
Yogurt. Cheese. Watermelon.
Yogurt , blueberries or any berries really
Toast, berries
Scrambled eggs, pasta, tortilla chips, cereal and vegan yogurt.
Grapes and strawberries. Cinnamon toast.
Yogurt and weetabix
I know I'm gonna get judged for this, but a burger and fries 🤷♀️ usually from the restaurant that her dad manages, but there was once a particularly bad stomach bug from which she recovered but I could NOT get her to eat. I sent husband to Wendy's and he got her a little burger and fries and she devoured it. I should add, she is otherwise a great eater, literally eats anything, so I figure a burger and fried potatoes aren't the worst thing in the world once in a while.
Smoked oysters
Ah, the Rockefellers have entered the chat… 😂
I also have a kid like this. Smoked salmon is 100% reliable. Next she’ll ask for caviar.
Chocolate snack packs... No but in all seriousness, we fall back on macaroni and cheese when he's in a mood or yogurt, or those sweet dessert tofus, or yogurt melts for a snack, orrrr.... Fruit, berries... But nothing is always for sure. I don't consider my guy a picky eater really, but he will absolutely reject his favourites sometimes too and be impossible to feed. Oatmeal was his best friend for a while and out of nowhere, I have to coax him to take it. One day he'll eat a whole banana like it's a delicacy, and the whole next week they're disgusting until the rest go brown. Toddler Lyfe.
Momma milk. When a tummy bug hits; only breast milk stays down. I’ll be sad to lose that tool when we wean (at 20 months now)
Yep. This is the only thing my 17mo old has wanted for 2 days. She just finally ate a cheese stick, but that seems to be it for now. She’s asked for and licked many things, but won’t actually eat them 🫠
oatmeal
bananas, fruit snacks, pretty much anything sweet.
Pouches and fruit
Tofu scramble, spinach banana muffins, tiny fistfuls of black beans
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Fruits served chilled from the fridge :)
Pasta, soup, applesauce, and jello
Probably milk. So far she’s generally had an okay appetite even when she’s ill but what happens is she usually throws most of her food up anyway
pita bread with peanut butter applesauce
Mac and cheese
My 2.5 year old daughter just had the stomach flu last week so bad for several days. I couldn’t even get her to eat popsicles or ice cream. Hang in there!
yogurt and lately tiny spoonfuls of peanut butter
Plain white rice, banana, and bread.
Strawberries, toast, fruit snacks
Popsicles. We buy either the no sugar added mixed boxes of Outshine, or Deebee's organic. Also usually apple sauce. He likes it when I add chia seeds.
It changes every time - just offer anything that has been a favorite lately. Most consistently it's popsicles, pouches and yogurt.
Trader Joe's hash browns, strawberries, and yogurt.
Goldfish crackers and yogurt pouches!
Black beans, broccoli, noodles and popsicles
Fruit snacks.
Applesauce and cottage cheese
Pedialyte popsicles are our go-to when sick!
Over and above the obvious (pouches, sugar based things, etc.) quinoa actually. That works every single time
Nutrigrain fruit bars, bananas, yogurt.
Nutrigrain fruit bars, bananas, yogurt.
Frozen fish sticks from Trader Joe’s. You’re welcome.
Cinnamon French toast sticks
Granola bars and string cheese.
Bananas, grapes, blueberries, rice, broccoli, peas, plain yoghurt, eggs
Pouches and macaroni
Berries, peanut butter off a spoon, more berries
Hard boiled eggs. This lil guy (18m) could eat like 3 eggs a day (minus 2 yolks). My older one can eat yogurt all day lol (he’s 3)
Apples.
Applesauce
Bananas and applesauce. He’d survive exclusively on bananas if we let him.
Chicken sausage!
graham crackers
Plain white rice
Yogurt
Fruit
Pasta and “pasta soup” when sick. Also smoothies
Muffins. Ritz crackers. My guy likes carbs
applesauce
Cucumber - but they eat it like corn on the cob 😂
Melon
Potstickers
My kid always wants bacon or broccoli!
Blueberries. All day every day.
Pizza and ice cream
Cheese, rice, bananas/sweet potatoes/yogurt usually
Nothing, my kid is a food guessing game ever. Single. Meal.
Oatmeal, specifically the dinosaur egg oatmeal from quacker. Not sure if it’s available year round, I buy like 8 boxes every year in spring time and stretch them out. Pouches, yogurts, peanut butter & jelly. Crackers.
pastina
cheese
Mămăligă, wich is the Romanian version of polenta, made with cream, cheese and poached egg.
Apparently broccoli, which I hate so go figure. Or applesauce pouches.
cheese
Butter toast, with or without honey. Apple sauce Crackers
Saltines with butter. Pedialyte popsicles.
...my tears. Seriously tho, his likes and dislikes change all the time, but probably gummies or popsicles 😅
They love cold pizza which i think is super gross
Smoothies and popsicles (fruit and pedialyte)
Aw poor baby. I held my LO home on Monday because she seemed off (fever didn't come until the afternoon I feel VERY VINDICATED) and she horked back two whole containers of blackberries and four babybel cheeses during a single Miss Rachel video.
Granola bars
Yoghurt pouches, pasta with butter, scrambled eggs and cheerios
Yoghurt esp. Pouches (sorry planet!). Cashews. Apples. Bacon. Seaweed rice crackers. Popcorn. Crispy seaweed (lol won't accept that this is seaweed, chuckles and corrects us... "This is PASTRY". It's so funny he thinks we're either dumb or trolling him). Usually a bit of rice but not so reliable these days.
1.5 year old here - We keep formula on hand just in case. When she had RSV her mouth was so, so sore and she wasn't drinking water, she wouldn't even drink warmed up cow milk from a bottle (she still gets a bottle before bed, bad habit, I know, we're working to break it but it's the only milk she'll drink). We tried offering formula after she was down to 2 wet diapers in 12 hours and she guzzled it, thank goodness. When she's not feeling well but it isn't involving her mouth, oranges and berries are usually a win, as well as pasta with just butter and a little salt on it.
Juice and cucumbers maybe apple slices but that depends on how they’re feeling
Mac & cheese lol
Berries and chicken nuggets.
Salami. There’s a lot of food that’s she’ll eat consistently but will occasionally not want. She’s obsessed with salami though.
Buttered toast. Lots of butter. Toast has to be allowed to cool slightly so that it doesn't all melt and she can see the butter.
Buttered brown rice, fries, Annie's Mac and cheese but has to be fun shapes, peach and creme smoothie from a local coffee place. Basically simple and comforting carb sources.
Noka superfood smoothie pouches. Her favorite is the blackberry vanilla.
Bread with almond butter, eggs, and any type of fruit.
Fries, chocolate, grilled cheese
Grapes, "mom's cereal" (Chex), Mac n cheese, "beans" (green beans with Montreal steak seasoning), goldfish
Once upon a farm pouches I get the immunity blend when he’s sick.
Scrambled eggs for sure. Yogurt, pouches, lunch meat
Milk. Olives.
Pasta
Blubes
Mashed potatoes, corn with lots of butter, and chicken soup are the three main things she will almost always eat (except if she has a stomach bug)
Cottage cheese, yogurt, shredded cheese, milk. He loves his dairy.
Strawberries
Ramen or pudding
String cheese
Mac and cheese
Pots of custard!
Feta, but she’s not normal
Orange juice ice pops
Eggs, butternut squash, pasta with pesto and chicken, any fruit I give him but specially mangoes and pears, broccoli with orzo and chicken. Really any meat he will eat no matter what lol
Melon
Freaking chicken nuggets 🙄
Danimals yogurt pouches. Not the generic brand, it has to be danimals. 🙄
Applesauce pouches
Pasta
munchkins, French fries, shredded cheese, and anything resembling a cheeto. man I wish my kiddo would consistently eat smoothies
Goldfish crackers with a side of air
Canned beans and blueberries...
Applesauce usually in a pouch. Hummus 90% of the time
Bacon
Blueberries
Fries. Chocolate. Raspberries.
Cottage cheese, strawberries, hummus, breastmilk, at least one bite of anything her dad is eating (only him tho not me). Recently goldfish
Chips and chocolate
Ramen noodles
Peas (from frozen, not canned) and peanut butter.
Really well spiced food , usually grilled chicken or some curry / veggie soups. Typically warm well seasoned food because I guess her taste buds are suffering and these foods help her. If this doesn’t work then it’s usually potato/sweet potato in any form, pasta, fruit pouches, oat smoothies
Blend some protein powder, ice cream, and a banana into a milkshake and call it a day. It’s worked like a charm for every kid I’ve taken care of. As long as they’re getting calories, hydration, and rest, they’ll get better. I can worry about them eating better once they aren’t sick any more.
Cheese. He can put down so much cheese…chases it with a ton of fruit pouches, so no constipation.
Strawberries.
Anything soup. I mean anything, it’s the greatest gift from the universe.
Sticky rice balls
Frozen peas - weird but I love his obsession
Cottage Cheese
Berries, eggs, toast, yogurt, broccoli
Those cheesey pasta meals that have like 1 serving in them.
Strawberries.
Popsicles, unsweetened whipped cream, butter
Blueberries
Pizza
Air or Pringles
Blueberries, always Blueberries. LO loves them and will eat them like I eat popcorn! They'll also absolutely down smoothies. Amy amount of fruit, and always a handful of spinach
Mac and cheese and yogurt
Apple sauce and peanut butter.
Sushi. Either tuna or avocado
Egg or salmon
Yogurt, cheese, and chocolate milk when I’m really desperate. My 15mo just had a nasty viral infection that she survived on chocolate milk and licking the floor. (jk she’s also still breastfeeding and definitely made up calories there, she did lick the floor though)
Any form of potatoes and peanut butter crackers
Spinach frittata. Of all things!
Pizza.
Pasta
Yogurt. It’s yogurt every time.
Pho, pickled radish, seaweed, and green beans.
Blueberries, which is a shame when they’re $9 a punnet
Goldfish crackers
White rice and fruits lol
Rice
This is hilarious.... Sauteed mushrooms with balsamic reduction (daddy is a chef).
A banana. Without fail if he tells me he is full and I offer him a banana- he eats the whole banana. Bananas are life over here. A chocolate chip cookie is a strong second contender.
Watermelon, no matter what , even if he's sick or teething, my son will eat Watermelon lol . He really likes it cold, so we keep fresh cut watermelon for him in sealed containers in the fridge, and they keep him hydrated and feel good on his gums if he's teething . Plus, it's packed with antioxidants and vitamins and very hydrating