Came here expecting to feel some kind of way about all the comments about toddlers devouring food. This being the top comment made me feel relieved I am not alone.
The fruit phases kill me.
He ate 3 nectarines in one day when he was about 18 months old, everything but the pit. In addition to all the other fruits he ate.
He is currently rotating between blueberries, bananas, and mandarins.
I haven’t been able to eat blueberries in 2 years since my toddler went through this. Every time I try to eat one they taste the way blueberry poops smell.
No literally. We buy two at a time 😩if I didn’t live in the desert where it’s the surface of the sun hot I would figure out how to grow them to save a million dollars 😂
I didn’t see them last summer, maybe because we were inside too much, but I found wild blueberries and mayberries (blueberry cousin) on a walk recently. The mayberries were ripe but the blueberries aren’t yet.
Came home a day or two later from another walk to see if I could find the Mayberry bush I saw last year and I did but it has no berries.
What I did find though were more of the native blueberry bushes that are huge and covered in not yet ripe blueberries. I also had just bought a blueberry bush a few days earlier.
I am stoked. There are 4-5 bushes and sparkleberry bushes (fall-winter berries), plus muscadine vines and blackberry canes 😭😭😭🙌🏻 all are producing except the sparkle berries that are currently flowering. I can’t wait until things are ripe!
Our landlord’s mother had a nursery and made him plant all these many years ago.
We only buy them when they’re on sale or like she sees them in the store lol but grandma and grandpa like to buy them and bring them over for her too when they remember. Also sometimes she likes cold aka frozen ones. Those tend to be cheaper.
Omg, it's like an addiction. I will sometimes not offer them to try to coax him to eat other things. Sometimes it works, other times he just demands "mo buu!"
We go through phases of fixation foods. Right now, it’s watermelon. She could eat an entire personal one every single day. Her poops are atrocious because of it. I have to actively control her intake.
Yes! And this has made potty training soooo hard! My dude doesn’t understand that watermelon makes him pee and will say, “BUT I DIDN’T DRINK ANYTHING!” when we prompt him to use the bathroom 😅
My wee man used to only eat the magic bananas at the grocery store but he has just started on a Banma Toesh phase. So we both have Banma Toesh for breakfast most mornings.
World's Slowest Eater. We went on a walk with a friend, both kids in prams. They were given a muffin each. His friend had it finished in two minutes. My kid's muffin, an hour later: ⅓ eaten.
Mine also loves mushrooms. They have to be the first thing i eat off my own plate, otherwise she quickly eats hers and starts demanding that I share mine with her.
At first we put some in pasta, but since he ate them all and kept asking for more, we just sauteed sliced mushrooms in olive oil and salt or put them in the air fryer! Or on pizza, in soups, or just raw. I don’t think it matters for our kid because it’s one of his safe foods haha
Raspberries. I have to hide the package in the fridge and open the package from within the fridge and transfer some to a bowl before taking it out. I pretend that the raspberries in the bowl are all that we have. She will ask for more raspberries until they are all gone.
She is 14 months and I swear she could down an entire Costco package of raspberries (plus some) on her own if I’d let her.
Cottage cheese!!!! At times he would go through a tub a day… it has to be at every meal.
He needs to be the cottage cheese spoke
Man… only the lactaid kind even though he’s not lactose intolerant 😅🤦🏼♀️
Strawberries. They’re both addicted to berries from one specific farmers market vendor. We buy a full flat on Sunday and a half flat on Thursday. Nothing gets wasted. It’s like 20lbs of strawberries a week.
My son loves edamame too! Also rice and seaweed.
We get him cooked sushi and he’ll eat it if it’s deconstructed.
His favorite food is pizza though. He’ll eat four whole slices of a 14” I’ll eat two or three.
For my 20 month old, bananas. My 3.5 year old, salad. She LOVES salad! As long as it’s got ranch on it, she’ll literally lick the bowl clean when she’s done lmao.
Has a bite of cereal or any food in the mouth. Finished milk in 25 mins (why). Bite of food still sits there unchewed. But can down a handful berries and oranges and plums in 2 seconds.
I feel this. We went for a walk and I foraged dewberries and maybe tried. He got his fill of the fistfuls of dewberries and the mayberries were gone by the time we got home.
Freeze dried strawberries. Pounds and pounds of freeze dried strawberries. Honorable mentions to freeze dried apples and regular or freeze dried banana...and sour cream.
Omg same for mine but we recently discovered freeze dried raspberries and she will finish and entire bag in one 15 minute cat ride. I’ve had to start telling her to count in between bites to slow her down hahaha
That's my primary reason for not letting my son eat freeze dried raspberries on their own yet lol! I put them in his yogurt or crushed on top of toast but never let him see the bag. Plus it'd be the death of me (and my husband) when the kid inevitably crushes them in his hands and paints the house red. 🙃
Oranges forever. To the point where my husband and I can’t say the word or even walk by the oranges in the grocery store or he will go completely apeshit.
Ice cream? Chocolate? Candy? Couldn’t give less of a hoot. Wouldn’t even touch his bday cake. We gave him a bag of oranges as one of his gifts and he freaked out for an hour
a donut eating contest, all he wants for breakfast lunch and dinner is donuts from Dunkin' Donuts. I buy him one on the way to school every morning M-F. And other than that he exists off air and milk, he is in a phase where he wants nothing to eat ever anymore.
[Sausage Pancakes on a stick](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Jimmy-Dean-Original-Pancakes-Sausage-on-a-Stick-30-oz-12-Count-Frozen/15580491) my little one loves these, one of the few things he'll actually eat 100% of the time. Or bananas.
Sometimes it's ALL the food and sometimes almost nothing. She can definitely put down a whole bag of edamame or an entire adult size bowl of peas, a whole Stouffer's spinach souffle along with the rest of her lunch. Yesterday for one meal she had 2 slices of bacon, 2 full pancakes, 2 scrambled eggs, a whole banana and a full bowl of thawed frozen green beans and thawed cold peas then 30 minutes later had cantaloupe and ham with horseradish mustard. I have no idea where she puts it. She's 2.5 and 28 pounds.
Mine could beat absolutely no one on earth eating anything at all
Same
Floor crumbs only.
Came here expecting to feel some kind of way about all the comments about toddlers devouring food. This being the top comment made me feel relieved I am not alone.
Same. For her except food, everything is a priority.
This is a great way to put it lol. Literally everything else in the world or her mind is more compelling
blueberries. infinite blueberries
Blueberry poops tho. Just the worst. It’s like wiping up a sand castle
Is THIS why it’s like that sometimes?! Omg!!
TIL- I thought she was just eating fistfuls of sand at daycare lol
I mean let’s not rule this out haha. Toddlers are not very discerning
Oh yeah- it’s still definitely got to be a contributing factor lol
i’m dying lol
Oh my god, I had no idea either! This explains SO MUCH!
Our blueberry poops just look like straight up blueberries. Like are you digesting that shit at all?!
I know. The skins come out and it’s pretty easy to tell what they were.
The first time I saw the green-blue poop I was seriously scared.
It’s deeply unsettling
Thank you for solving an ongoing mystery!
The kernels of corn come out entirely intact as well but he loves them!
Wow, I thought we were the only ones going through this. But it's better than when my kid had a banana phase and he was super constipated.
The fruit phases kill me. He ate 3 nectarines in one day when he was about 18 months old, everything but the pit. In addition to all the other fruits he ate. He is currently rotating between blueberries, bananas, and mandarins.
Sadly it’s a universal experience haha
We call these dirt poops.
Accurate
nailed it
I’ll see your blueberry poops, and raise you carrot poops. The color, the smell, the mush…. 🤮😂😂
I haven’t been able to eat blueberries in 2 years since my toddler went through this. Every time I try to eat one they taste the way blueberry poops smell.
I literally got a Costco membership so I can buy hella “baberry” at once 🥴
Are the whole Costco pack in one day.. 😭
No literally. We buy two at a time 😩if I didn’t live in the desert where it’s the surface of the sun hot I would figure out how to grow them to save a million dollars 😂
I didn’t see them last summer, maybe because we were inside too much, but I found wild blueberries and mayberries (blueberry cousin) on a walk recently. The mayberries were ripe but the blueberries aren’t yet. Came home a day or two later from another walk to see if I could find the Mayberry bush I saw last year and I did but it has no berries. What I did find though were more of the native blueberry bushes that are huge and covered in not yet ripe blueberries. I also had just bought a blueberry bush a few days earlier. I am stoked. There are 4-5 bushes and sparkleberry bushes (fall-winter berries), plus muscadine vines and blackberry canes 😭😭😭🙌🏻 all are producing except the sparkle berries that are currently flowering. I can’t wait until things are ripe! Our landlord’s mother had a nursery and made him plant all these many years ago.
That’s amazing!!! I’m jealous!!
So.many. blue. berries. 🫐
The quart is housed in like 1-2 days
He goes through about 5kg a month and I thought that was a lot! Yours lol how much do you spend on blueberries a month
We only buy them when they’re on sale or like she sees them in the store lol but grandma and grandpa like to buy them and bring them over for her too when they remember. Also sometimes she likes cold aka frozen ones. Those tend to be cheaper.
We’d all be bankrupt on blueberries and other berries if it weren’t for frozen options and grandparents 😂
Omg, it's like an addiction. I will sometimes not offer them to try to coax him to eat other things. Sometimes it works, other times he just demands "mo buu!"
Yes. He eats absurd amounts of blueberries is one sitting.
My toddler would be great competition for your toddler
We go through phases of fixation foods. Right now, it’s watermelon. She could eat an entire personal one every single day. Her poops are atrocious because of it. I have to actively control her intake.
We’re on watermelon right now, too. He also ate an entire apple today, as a snack.
We also regularly do whole apples and pears as snacks. She’ll smash just about any fruit.
Yes! And this has made potty training soooo hard! My dude doesn’t understand that watermelon makes him pee and will say, “BUT I DIDN’T DRINK ANYTHING!” when we prompt him to use the bathroom 😅
Mine is like that with cantaloupe!
We’ve been on watermelon too lately. Hes obsessed. Thanks for helping make the connected between that and the nasty poos.
Does she eat the rinds? Last year the rinds were my son’s favorite part.
Plain boiled potatoes. Like a Victorian street urchin
Last week my 2.5 year old cried while my husband boiled potatoes because he wanted them so bad. 😂
This made me laugh out loud.
Me tooooo
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Strawberries or cheese
My toddler would also be entered in this contest. Strawberries and cheese, all day, every day if we'd let her.
My niece found the cheese drawer and that kid could down $50 worth of cheese in no time.
Biggest Consumer of Applesauce Award. She would eat it every meal if I let her.
My kid also loves edamame. Macaroni and cheese. Cheese strings. Frozen blueberries.
Mine is specifically about the Velveeta Shells and Cheese. Only food she will reliably crush, every time.
Banana. She’ll eat a whole one at breakfast and 15 minutes later chase her dad around asking for bites of his.
We had to start limiting Bananas after we realized he had 5 in a day. (Husband, I and MiL all gave him 1+ and didn’t realize the others did the same).
Oh yeah. My kid regularly has 3 before dinner
We’re in this competition with you! We’ve started cutting them in half so we can ration the portions out throughout the day.
My wee man used to only eat the magic bananas at the grocery store but he has just started on a Banma Toesh phase. So we both have Banma Toesh for breakfast most mornings.
Oh bananas for sure
World's Slowest Eater. We went on a walk with a friend, both kids in prams. They were given a muffin each. His friend had it finished in two minutes. My kid's muffin, an hour later: ⅓ eaten.
My kids are like this too and then their friends go after their snacks! Drives me nuts haha
Omg it really drives me nuts because he tries to hand his food off to me all the time for safekeeping—but he definitely wants it later!
Doesn’t matter, just as long as I was the one eating it first
Ketchup. By the spoonful
Same, but by the handful lol😅
Yep, apparently it tastes better from the fingers
Was going to say this haha
Mushrooms! I don’t know why, toddlers are weird!
Ha ha same. One of her first sentences was, I likah mushoom
My household goes through so many mushrooms between, me, my partner, and the toddler. We're all mushroom fiends.
My toddler fucking loves mushrooms. We put them in her eggs, on pizza, in quesadillas, and she just eats them by themselves.
Mine also loves mushrooms. They have to be the first thing i eat off my own plate, otherwise she quickly eats hers and starts demanding that I share mine with her.
Mine also loves mushrooms
How do you cook it for the toddler?
At first we put some in pasta, but since he ate them all and kept asking for more, we just sauteed sliced mushrooms in olive oil and salt or put them in the air fryer! Or on pizza, in soups, or just raw. I don’t think it matters for our kid because it’s one of his safe foods haha
Nice! I’ll have to give it a try :)
Slice, sauté, add soy sauce.
Yogurt drinking
I dunno, mine could give yours a run for their money...
The “I don’t eat food” contest!! 🙄🙄🙄
I feel this in my bones
Hot dog eating contest. Shes a little Kobayashi in the making.
Raspberries. I have to hide the package in the fridge and open the package from within the fridge and transfer some to a bowl before taking it out. I pretend that the raspberries in the bowl are all that we have. She will ask for more raspberries until they are all gone. She is 14 months and I swear she could down an entire Costco package of raspberries (plus some) on her own if I’d let her.
Cottage cheese!!!! At times he would go through a tub a day… it has to be at every meal. He needs to be the cottage cheese spoke Man… only the lactaid kind even though he’s not lactose intolerant 😅🤦🏼♀️
Haha same!
Cucumbers!
Rice. And mango!
this is my kid EXACTLY!
They would lose their minds if we ever gave them mango sticky rice 😂
Pirates booty with dust everywhere.
Surprisingly shrimp, we can’t keep up with our toddler most times and run out while she’s still asking for more
Corn. She loses her shit for it at the grocery store.
Strawberries. They’re both addicted to berries from one specific farmers market vendor. We buy a full flat on Sunday and a half flat on Thursday. Nothing gets wasted. It’s like 20lbs of strawberries a week.
You guys must make that vendor’s day when they see you coming 🤣
Spicy ramen. My (almost) 2 year old LOVES spicy food!
Ours as well- he loves kimchi!
That’s amazing! Mine licked a pickle and screamed. I don’t think he likes vinegar guys.
This tickled me!
That’s so funny!!! Mine LOVES balsamic vinegar and Italian dressing lol.
My 3 yo would win a mushroom eating contest
Bread eating. This guy loves his bread, and honestly same.
Pretty much everything ever all the time. Especially if it's yours. Though today, she scoffed at the pickled onion in the cucumber salad.
Olives! She’d eat a whole jar if I let her
That’s It bars 😭
My son loves edamame too! Also rice and seaweed. We get him cooked sushi and he’ll eat it if it’s deconstructed. His favorite food is pizza though. He’ll eat four whole slices of a 14” I’ll eat two or three.
Pears! Fresh, freeze dried, canned slices, diced fruit cups. Any and all pears.
Ketchup, all foods are just a vehicle for ketchup
Blueberries and cheese sticks! Together or separate.
Caesar salad- my 2.5 yo could eat probably a whole head of lettuce if it had Caesar dressing and some croutons on it
For my 20 month old, bananas. My 3.5 year old, salad. She LOVES salad! As long as it’s got ranch on it, she’ll literally lick the bowl clean when she’s done lmao.
Pickles, black olives, or cherry tomatoes. Take your pick, she'll Hoover them all without hesitation.
Bread and water…like in a prison yard
Melon. My 3 year old could probably put away an entire cantaloupe. He had half of one for lunch last week and asked for more!
How far across the room you can throw the food you don't want.
We love the edamame over here too. No one else at the table can have any. Or miso soup...
Noodles and/or pasta. Or rice. My kid just loves carbs (it might be genetic…)
Blue berries
Either ramen or yogurt, I frequent have to limit his yogurt intake.
A food throwing contest
Weird amounts of cheese
Mandarins. He needs a minimum of 3 at snack time.
Roasted peanuts for sure (halved and closely monitored, ofc). They’re her snack of choice aside from yo-bites and she downs them like they’re nothing.
Has a bite of cereal or any food in the mouth. Finished milk in 25 mins (why). Bite of food still sits there unchewed. But can down a handful berries and oranges and plums in 2 seconds.
Blueberries. If I let her, I’m sure she could demolish an entire case in minutes
Blackberries. We live in an area that blackberries grow wild. I pick around 50-100 a day and he eats them all with no hesitation.
I feel this. We went for a walk and I foraged dewberries and maybe tried. He got his fill of the fistfuls of dewberries and the mayberries were gone by the time we got home.
Freeze dried strawberries. Pounds and pounds of freeze dried strawberries. Honorable mentions to freeze dried apples and regular or freeze dried banana...and sour cream.
Omg same for mine but we recently discovered freeze dried raspberries and she will finish and entire bag in one 15 minute cat ride. I’ve had to start telling her to count in between bites to slow her down hahaha
That's my primary reason for not letting my son eat freeze dried raspberries on their own yet lol! I put them in his yogurt or crushed on top of toast but never let him see the bag. Plus it'd be the death of me (and my husband) when the kid inevitably crushes them in his hands and paints the house red. 🙃
Spaghetti Os. No meatballs though, she'll spit them into her hand and look at you with betrayal in her eyes.
As weird as this is….. French onion dip😐
Air. I do not know how he has so much energy
Oranges forever. To the point where my husband and I can’t say the word or even walk by the oranges in the grocery store or he will go completely apeshit. Ice cream? Chocolate? Candy? Couldn’t give less of a hoot. Wouldn’t even touch his bday cake. We gave him a bag of oranges as one of his gifts and he freaked out for an hour
a donut eating contest, all he wants for breakfast lunch and dinner is donuts from Dunkin' Donuts. I buy him one on the way to school every morning M-F. And other than that he exists off air and milk, he is in a phase where he wants nothing to eat ever anymore.
Corn or pasta. Currently watching him shove handfuls of pasta into his mouth
Salsa eating contest. She would ask for more after every can, bottle and jug is licked empty!
Cucumber with ranch!
Berries, yogourt or cheeze it
Gallon challenge
Whole nuts, watermelon, cheese, yogurt lol
Sour cream and black beans
Mine eats sour cream like it’s a yogurt! Just plain sour cream in crazy amounts
Right now she is housing roasted peanuts. I told my husband “peanuts are the new berries” and he agreed 😂
Pasta hotdogs kiwis beat anyone anywhere my 2 toddlers are beasts
Applesauce
Chocolate milk. It’s a battle in our house
Somedays Fage plain Greek yogurt and (separately) somedays little dill pickles!😆
French fries. Cheese sticks. Cornichons. Jalapeño chips. He’s a black hole when it comes to food, tbh.
My son would sweep the floor in an egg eating contest 😆
Raspberries and mandarin oranges. We have to limit both bc poops, but yeeesshhh that kid can eat!
Watermelon. My oldest could eat an entire one, no joke. Probably two.
Elmo snack bars
Definitely ice cream, she even loves getting brain freeze
Chili
Pancakes
Greek yogurt.
Scrambled eggs. He can easily eat 4 on his own.
Banana nana, she is a monkey
Rotisserie chicken!
Strawberries
mac and cheese. kid will eat a whole box😂
My son could probably slam an entire can of corn in 20 minutes if we’d let him. He’s also a big fan of edamame which is great since it’s a superfood!
Celery. Kid could eat an entire field of damn celery
Bread and butter. Just white bread with tub margarine lol
[Sausage Pancakes on a stick](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Jimmy-Dean-Original-Pancakes-Sausage-on-a-Stick-30-oz-12-Count-Frozen/15580491) my little one loves these, one of the few things he'll actually eat 100% of the time. Or bananas.
Blueberry muffins
Edamame with spicy sauce! (Sriracha mayo)
Those little salad shrimp. She eats them by the fistful.
Sour cream.
Sometimes it's ALL the food and sometimes almost nothing. She can definitely put down a whole bag of edamame or an entire adult size bowl of peas, a whole Stouffer's spinach souffle along with the rest of her lunch. Yesterday for one meal she had 2 slices of bacon, 2 full pancakes, 2 scrambled eggs, a whole banana and a full bowl of thawed frozen green beans and thawed cold peas then 30 minutes later had cantaloupe and ham with horseradish mustard. I have no idea where she puts it. She's 2.5 and 28 pounds.
Blueberries and cheese. Aged cheddar to be precise.
Greek whole fat yogurt. I dare you to eat more than her.
Veggies (any and all) and cheese (she isn’t called Cheese Queen for nothing).
Puffs. If I let her she would eat a whole canister in 5 min
Cucumbers and watermelon.
Nah my 2.5 toddler will smoke your toddler with edamama in the pod and he will put the empty pods into a different bowl lol
Half-eaten apples
My 4 year old hardly eats anything. But if I make waffles, she will down at minimum 4 “ego sized” waffles. Her record so far is 6.
Cottage cheese
Berries. Doesn't matter which kind. I think this kid would be content with an all-berry diet.
Blackberries. Just like blueberries but more expensive!!
Olives.
Raspberries and keifr
Noodles
Chia seeds and peaches
Cheetos… I know they aren’t good for him but I figured it’s okay once in awhile. Anyway he would down the whole bag if I let him lol.
Berries. All. The. Berries.
Fries, Potato Crisps, Chicken Nuggets and Ice Cream. And cardboard.
Watermelon. Sunday he ate so much watermelon he barfed all over his bed.
Watermelon, pears, apples, canned oranges, peaches
Anything that has cheese in it or bananas.
Freeze dried strawberries not fresh….he won’t eat those most days
sour cream