High School Age People - What is a 'balanced diet' for a toddler?

[TigerLilly]

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Sometimes, it is more a case of 'children learn what they live.' You can send them to school & have the best teachers there, but if they go home to something totally different, they're going to go with what is 'normal' & 'familiar' to them, thus, passing on poor eating habits to their kids & so on.
I'm not saying that the cycle can't be broken; I know it can.

 

[silkiechicken]

Just oat meal?

Ok, you don't have to eat a balanced diet to survive, but unless all the parents were eating was also oat meal... why does the kid have to eat anything different? Baby formulas and baby feeds are such a western thing. Kids just eat what the parents eat, in a "pre chewed" form till they can chew themselves.

 

[clairabean]

Getting a toddler to EAT a balanced diet is a whole other subject.

 

[fowler_chick]

my daughters idoit friend has 2 kids and should of graduated high school this year, when she is not smoking them out with all the smoking she does, she feeding them crap, corn dog's, boreto's (sp), chicken nuggets, nucksble food, follewed by washing it down with some form of soda!!!,
Living on a farm in a small town i do not have to deal with the likes of pizza hut, mcdonnels, wendys, burger king, my duaghter now 17 will only have fast food when on the road with her cheerleading team when there on the road, my son's 2 and 4 have only been to mcdonalds twice in there life. the bonus about living on a farm we raise our own meat, beef and pork grow our own veggies and fruit. also my husband being diabetic th
ere is hardly any surgury stuff in the house.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

I think all of them would grow up big & strong like me if they were on a diet of "Moon Pies & Mt. Dew"

 

[mississippifarmboy]

mr. birdaholic :

I think all of them would grow up big & strong like me if they were on a diet of "Moon Pies & Mt. Dew"

Now Sir. Birdaholic, shame on you for steering this younger generation wrong. You are teaching them very bad habits that will be hard to break later in life!


Everybody knows you have to drink RC Cola with Moon Pies! It's an old law in all southern states. You can be horse whipped on the courthouse steps by the town drunk for drinking a Mt. Dew while eattin' a Moon Pie. That's Sacrilegious.
Shame on you! Next thing you know you'll be telling them not to put peanuts in their coke.​

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

You're right, it's Mt.Dew & Doublemint gum. My step grandpa had Doublemint gum & a plug of tobacco.

 

[fowler_chick]

good grief

 

[fowler_chick]

how about chicken fried stake and a big ole slab of tators?

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Maybe it was because I was fairly young when my brothers and sister started having kids (I was a surprise,lol) that knowing what kids could have to eat came natural when I started working in an infant room at a day care. I don't know about all these new fangled rules they have now for feeding little ones, like no solid foods until after 6 months and then only bland cereal. My nephew had to go straight onto cereal when he came home from the hospital because formula wouldn't fill him up. By 6months my Pop had him in his high chair next to the diningrotom table feeding him parts of his dinner. Mash tater's, mushed up real green bean or carrots, not the pureed stuff from a jar with starch added. Apple sauce. Real food!! My sister inlaw has a food mill that they ran the girls meals through. As long as it wasn't real spicey, the girls ate what everyone else at from an early age. Very few food allergies in anyone, but me.

But then I'm allergic to the elastic in my drawers!!