Parenting Forums

Posted: 09 September 2005 at 3:42pm | IP Logged

I guess from the double post you are desperate to find out! lol

If lo is having something like mashed potatoe, carrots and swede, that would be 3 and as for fruit, juice is a portion, and pureed apple in rice pudding is another!  it's just mixing and matching, however if you make stew for lo, you have how many veggies in that, i have never worried about the guidelines, it's just a case of being sensible, but it's amazing how the government are trying to tell us what to do, when for us older lot it was just standard practise when we were growing up.  I make cottage pie with carrots and swede mashed in with potatoes, and sweetcorn added to the mince, or peas if i'm not eating it, and if you add tomato puree theirs another one, so tahts 5 without the fruit, then you get summer fruits pie filing for doing crumble and custard, and there's at least 3 fruits in that and you have 8 portions in one day.  at one mmeal so what do you do starve them for the other 2!  It's just plain common sense

Posted: 09 September 2005 at 3:45pm | IP Logged

i know its def for school age as mine get free veg n fruit each day to go towards this amount

pressume its when they are eating real meals!

Posted: 09 September 2005 at 3:52pm | IP Logged

For Harrison i give him a banana and a glass of apple juice (his fave)with his cereal he has friut with his lunch, he'll then always have either carrots,peas,beans or sweetcorn with his tea then he'll proberly snack on grapes or strawberrys in the day, he's good as he prefers friut to sweets lol

I didnt think about that for Louis but i suppose its when they are having three proper meals a day from about 18months onwards that its when the 5 portions come into play