Reddit mentions: The best toddler dishes

Squishy french fry sizes of food like roasted sweet potatoes or carrots, slightly flattened peas, quartered blueberries, well cooked harcourt vert (mini string beans - i buy frozen), corn nibblets, little sticks of tofu, lowish sodium toast, hand split banana fingers, sliced pancakes into “finger shapes...”
Basically the size of your pinky.

Some of my daughter’s first favorites were blueberries, diced plums, green beans, rotini pasta, toast sticks with avo mash, thin layer of peanut butter or hummus, sweet potato oven fries, carrot oven fries, lentils and rice, banana pancake strips, homemade chickpea fritters, peas, diced mango, and later grilled cheese, pesto pasta, pita with tahini, milk-softened cheerios with quartered blueberries, and diced cucumber with ranch dressing became favorites.

Eta - she liked to throw plates, but the bamboo bamboo brand have a really good suction cup. I almost exclusively use them. I also recommend bumkins long sleeve bibs. I wish i used them from the start!

https://www.amazon.com/bamboo-Toddler-Suction-Feeding-Natural/dp/B073GZH3ZB/ref=pd_aw_fbt_75_img_3/130-1340315-5729500?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B073GZH3ZB&pd_rd_r=4e32bd85-8a4f-4181-b957-52f8f4c7230b&pd_rd_w=EllZy&pd_rd_wg=RIhQX&pf_rd_p=3ecc74bd-d08f-44bd-96f3-d0c2b89f563a&pf_rd_r=2MVEZ61ZE1FCADD0RZ52&psc=1&refRID=2MVEZ61ZE1FCADD0RZ52

https://www.amazon.com/Bumkins-Toddler-Waterproof-Sleeved-Months/dp/B00ANG3BN4
Hope this helps!

Hi, Ricki! My name is Cori, and I like Harry Potter, also! I graduated last semester. We also LOVE IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY! They are one of the most inappropriate TV shows I'm surprised makes it to TV! We do not have in common (am relatively certain unless you are going to college with a baby in your stomach) the fact that I'm pregnant!

My item would be these $7.49 suction cup bowls for the mini-me when he arrives and starts eating solids. When he does, we will promptly begin the journey of convincing him he is a wizard. Any suggestions on how to make that happen? We've already hot his Hogewarts letter, which we will actually send to him via owl when he is 11. We also want to move into a house with a cupboard under the stairs, so that when he is naughty...okay, just kidding on that one.

One thing that may help...something that I've found particularly effective...is a matter-of-factish handling of things. "Oh, no no tiger, you're too little to use that/do that/see that...here, let mommy help you!"

If you don't already have some, try picking up some themed kids dishes that's something he likes like this for example and have him eat from those. The key is to do it as if it is perfectly normal and natural. Perhaps a couple of different kinds and let him pick...."okay little one, it's almost dinner time...do you want Batman or Superman? Or maybe dinosaurs?"

The shyness stems from a sense of "this isn't normal/I shouldn't feel like this/this is wrong", undoubtedly. By being "matter-of-fact"ish about it, you're showing that it's not only NOT WRONG, it's normal and you fully support it.

Good luck!

How about bamboo?

You could also try tempered glass, with a silicone cover to help prevent breakage. Or just silicone, if it's not too flimsy.

I also agree with Corelle! They're pretty tough to break and pretty cheap.

We went through something similar, but we let it rock just as long as it wasn't in the formal dining room (made for some epic photos, and she was a champion of the dogs.). I was just happy that despite the mess, she was using the proper fork. A few months later and she's reminding me to unfold my napkin.

However for her mothers car we got her one of these. Unfortunately I couldn't convince her mother to use it (since that car was just absolutely biological).

We have these bowls with lids and love them. They're great for packing food in the diaper bag, or preparing meals in advance so you can get them on the tray quicker at meal time.

Sippy cups are great if she's pouring her milk on herself and there are plates that suction cup to the high chair table. link

Otherwise, just make sure you aren't calling attention to it, I've noticed at that age that lack of attention or excitement works better than getting upset.

• Those take and toss sippy cups are gold. Toddlers love to lose things and it doesn’t matter if they hide their disposable sippy in somebody’s shoe at a play centre when you have 7 more at home. They do them in straw cup too
  
  
• toddler size spoons and forks.. get at least 3 of each
  
  
• a sun hat that ties under their chin so it can’t be flung
  
  
• those sphincter snack containers, like this thing because snacks on stroller rides are about to become a thing for your sanity’s sake
  
  
• gumboots/wellies! They LOVE. them, and it slows them down significantly so you can catch them at the playground! 😆 this is of course when they’re walking and running competently.
  
  
• board books! Lots of board books!
  
  
• nappy pants with the elastic waist instead of the regular tape side nappies, for nappy changes standing up
  
  
  
  Things that were useless:
  
  
• the 47 varieties of sippy cups he didn’t want
  
  
• toys that can’t be used in a few different ways.. for example my 18 month old likes to build with his duplo, but also likes to drive the blocks around as cars and try to feed them to his stuffed toys
  
  
• the changing table 😭
  
  
• clothes that he can’t put on himself 🙄

What about something like this ? Or perhaps feeding him before you eat/while you cook (and maybe that means quick dinners like instant mac and cheese or leftovers from the night before, etc for him temporarily).

I’m so sorry I’m not sure how I missed your comment!!
Here’s the plate!


Baby Plates with Suction - Toddler Fox Cub Suction Plate, Stay Put Feeding Plate, Natural Bamboo (Blue) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073GZH3ZB/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_mUWXCbVNV8YE2

https://www.amazon.com/Munchkin-Stay-Suction-Bowl-Count/dp/B000JOT2RO

newsletter has been delayed due to a tiny jerk stealing all my energy and free time but my gift to you is this amazon link. seriously tho my husband couldnt even figure out how to get this thing off the tray and he is fairly smart. the release tab is genius and they will never even realize it's there if you distract them while you pull it. ~mom magic~

I like this one the most: https://www.amazon.ca/Bumkins-Silicone-Grip-Dish-Green/dp/B071HN7DYQ/ref=asc_df_B071HN7DYQ/?tag=googlemobshop-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=293028123515&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9815209128417755261&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9000083&hvtargid=pla-437303009915&psc=1

This is probably not it, but the first thing that came to mind is the gyro bowl. It was advertised with older kids playing trying to spill it originally, after a while their market seems to have switched focus to toddlers.

https://www.amazon.com/Gyro-Bowl-Spill-Proof-Rotating/dp/B008OVG4QG

Here are some options possibly like what you're looking for, I haven't used any of them so no idea about the quality but may give you an idea about what's available.
3 Compartment Formula Dispenser, Stacking Snack Cups (Two or Four), Stacking Formula Dispenser (and many more options), [Divided Bowls] (http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=24696176&prodFindSrc=prodCrossSell) - another, 2 Compartment Toddler Dish or 3 Compartment, Split Snack Container 3 Pack, Rubbermaid Takealongs Divided Snack

I have one... and I discovered that I don't enjoy eating with it as much as eating with thicker, high-quality hard plastic utensils.
Because of the baby I have started eating from hard plastic containers (e.g., https://www.amazon.com/Lollaland-Plastic-7-Count-Rainbow-Assorted/dp/B01M0J19MR) and I found out that I like that feeling more than ceramic, metal and glass.
You are right that the plastic sporks crack, though. I cracked two of them while eating chicken.

These Nuby ones are good because they are kind of big and not easily to flip. The suction isn't the best though.

Get one of those placemat plates https://www.amazon.com/ezpz-Happy-Mat-One-piece-silicone/dp/B00PL1KV70

Or a bowl with a suction cup on the bottom. https://www.amazon.com/Munchkin-Stay-Suction-Bowl-Count/dp/B000JOT2RO

If my kid did that, I would ask him if he was all done and say we don't throw food. If he protests, tell him he needs to say sorry for throwing food and give it back. But you have to make sure it doesn't turn into a game. Maybe you need to take a break from plates and bowls. Put a couple things on his tray and that's it. If he eats it he gets more.

Didnt see any bee bowls will a hedgehog do?
https://www.amazon.com/Skip-Hop-Zoo-Bowl-Hedgehog/dp/B00LVQG15U/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1466071539&sr=8-3-fkmr1&keywords=skip+hop+bee+bowl

This is the brand I use. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KW51DBW/ I also have the stainless steel bowl from them.

Didn’t seem that thick to me, it’s this set.