Kids food: What to eat on holiday

‘What do we do if this continues at home?’

I was practically panicking towards the end of our Miami holiday earlier this year. Baby Girl, who was 18 months at the time, was eating fairly well. She was just not eating what I wanted her to eat.

It didn’t matter if I ordered her the most delicious cauliflower dish in Prime One Twelve or some brilliant chicken in Bourbon Steak. She much preferred fries.

Every time there were fries on the table this was all she wanted. She’d only tasted fries a couple of times in her life before this holiday, but going away it was extremely difficult to avoid it.

Not even the beach bar’s fresh fruit and chicken quesadilla, which she would usually love, made her forget fries. Fries are apparently irresistible, and towards the end of the holiday, I was just happy they were not to be seen on the breakfast buffet and tried to get her to eat fruit, tomatoes, yogurt and brown bread with cheese and ham then.

But for a beach lunch, Daddy T and I have been used to ordering burgers with fries in the past, and it sometimes felt like a key holiday ingredient. I realise we should have set a good example and eaten something healthy, but the fact that Baby Girl wanted what we were eating was a completely new holiday experience. She suddenly seemed so grown up.

But luckily we found a cure to the fries-frenzy after our week in the sun.

Returning home worked! Phew!

Tags: 18 months, Bourbon Steak, Eating habits, Fries, Holiday, Holiday food, Miami, Prime One Twelve, Toddler food, Travel