I used to make spaghetti for a two year old and it is the only thing that I have seen him eat willingly. He eats it like a fiend.

The mother wants to introduce more fibre in his diet but I am out of ideas because I suck donkey ass at cooking. I once tried oats-banana-cinnamon pancakes but the child spit it out because it tasted like shit. (I have posted about it before.)

If you have medium or high fibre recipe suggestions please share. It’s a bit of an odd request so sorry about that but I don’t know where to turn to. The internet is a search engine optimised wasteland.

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    I am decidedly not a parent, but I do know a thing or two about fiber and nutrition. I’ve heard that you can blend veggies into sauces to get the nutrition while masking the taste/texture. So if you’re making spaghetti sauce, which I don’t think is particularly labor intensive, put some tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, onions, etc. in there (perhaps panfry them first to soften them up though that is, of course, more work). You might also consider sugar, oils, etc. to make it go down smoother. You might dilute the nutritional benefit, but if it’s the difference between some fiber and no fiber then it’s still a win. In the same vein, smoothies with blended ice, fruit, and sugar have some nutritional benefit to give.

    I don’t know the first thing about what kind of restrictions on diet being 2 years old gives you, but I know scaseyfitness (on all the different social medias) had some of the most simple, easy meal ideas for people who like to eat more than they like to cook. His focus is low calorie/high protein, but the neat part of cooking is you can substitute with what you have and what you need. That’s the sort of thing where you could substitute a custom (pre-prepped) veggie sauce to make sure you’re getting a complete macro profile and a bunch of vitamins & minerals. With some prep and planning, you can keep hands on cooking+cleaning time in the 15-20 minute range so you don’t have to change your lifestyle to be a better chef.

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      2 months ago

      The restriction is pretty much just the fact that there are a lot of things he can’t chew. He doesn’t seem to have any food allergies.