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and salad for lunch, what is there to feed the little ones? Enter the toddler

Yogurt makes a perfectly good part of breakfast for a toddler, along with, say, toast sticks and cut up fruit, and there are lots of brands packaged especially for kids with smaller portions. (Yogurt also makes smoothies, which put a lot of nutrition into once small glass for kids too busy to sit and eat, and makes good popsicle thingies for snacks combined with fruit juice) And if one is making a salad for lunch, it is little effort to cut up some vegetables and serve with a dip of a mild dressing. This isn't contemporary stuff--it is what I did 25 years ago in my hippie mum days. But you are right that it involves a few minutes of thought. Dawne

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Dawne Peterson
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But not the oversugared kind of yogurt. Judy

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Judy

No, head for the one high in acidopholus.

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Lucretia Borgia

DD loves chef salads. It takes little effort to pick up some deli-sliced meat and shredded cheese to put on her greens. Just a little more time is involved to hard-boil an egg. Parents can eat low-cal plain salads and kids can have some of the extras to make the salad into a meal. DD won't touch the toddler meals because the ones we've found are almost as bland as regular baby food. Yecch! We tried them a couple of times when traveling but quickly gave up on them.

The meals for older kids (Lunchables, Kid Cuisine, Easy Mac) are more obvious food industry ploys. Those products are supposed to make life easier for latchkey kids and baby-sitters. The stuff is supposed to be so simple children can make their own meals without the involvement of parents. It teaches them nothing about cooking, finding quality ingredients, or after-dinner clean-up duties. Many of these products teach children that dessert is an expected part of every meal instead of something special.

As for juice caus> Maybe not 'lazy' so much as clueless. When Mom eats yogurt for breakfast and

Brenda ...back from vacation...

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Brenda

Actually, the real problem with juice isn't so much the cavities (though combine it with inadequate dental hygiene and you do have issues). It's that studies have found that children who consume a lot of juice (even 100 percent fruit juice) get waaaaaaaay too many empty calories from it and are more likely to be obese as a result. The current recommendation for juice is no more than

4-6 ounces per day. Many kids are being given a *LOT* more than that in their perpetual sippy cups by parents who think it's okay, or even good, because it's all 100 percent juice.

Best wishes, Ericka

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Ericka Kammerer

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