https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 19 May 2026 21:44:20 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325510 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:17:15 +0000 psw27 2325510@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not really, but I do worry about constipation and he would eat an entire block of cheese if I let him! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325466 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:48:16 +0000 californiadreams 2325466@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i try not to limit anything, healthy or unhealthy. i try not to offer the unhealthy too much, so if he wants a few extra cookies, i don't see it as a big deal. i definitely don't limit healthy food. i find he barely eats anything as it is! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325456 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:45:11 +0000 nana87 2325456@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: so true, berries are $$$$! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325409 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:22:21 +0000 Smurfette 2325409@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ha! I wish that I had this problem. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325405 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:21:12 +0000 blackbird 2325405@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I cut E off from mandarin oranges sometimes. They're acidic and she'd eat about 10 if I let her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325383 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:04:20 +0000 BKCaribBaby 2325383@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No. She has always been on the small side, so we let her eat as much healthy food as she wants. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325375 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:58:11 +0000 Greentea 2325375@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No- if it is healthy, she gets all she wants. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325368 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:52:59 +0000 travelgirl1 2325368@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No. Like @Bao: I take what I can get! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325358 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:47:06 +0000 mediagirl 2325358@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't limit fruits and vegetables. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325353 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:44:42 +0000 jhd 2325353@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I won't let him have more than one banana per day, but other than that we usually don't have problems. Except when he decides he needs multiple cookies! ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325267 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:59:18 +0000 Bao 2325267@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No I don't, I take what I can get. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325237 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:17:44 +0000 catlady 2325237@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't. She's usually good about stopping so we haven't had to. The only real limit is when we run out of something. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325211 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:20:01 +0000 travellingbee 2325211@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not really. He's a good eater and loves his fruit but I've never seen any ill effects. He tends more towards constipated so if it helps him poop, that's good. We've never had gross diapers from fruit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325202 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 05:09:35 +0000 farawayyama 2325202@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Only veggie burgers and cheese because of the sodium.</p> <p>And rotisserie chicken because she'd eat the whole chicken.</p> <p>I don't limit fruit. She's going through a fussy phase where anything plant based makes me happy </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325196 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 04:15:19 +0000 FannyMae 2325196@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have to limit fruit - she will eat half a watermelon if I let her, and too much = squidgy poop. Mama can't deal with that right now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325189 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:55:29 +0000 PurplePeony 2325189@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DD is an olive fiend and we do limit those because they are so salty. The only thing I really have to limit aside from that is freeze-dried strawberries, not because they cause her any issues but because she just doesn't need to eat an entire bag all at once. She's pretty good at limiting herself otherwise. For most things, I feel she actually doesn't eat enough...especially anything green. I would be ecstatic if she ate that much broccoli EVER. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325181 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:29:16 +0000 BlueWolverine 2325181@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope! But then again, I barely limit anything. She's 2.5 and in that phase where I'm not really sure how she's still alive given that she may eat a cracker and some cheese one day and an entire plate of dirty rice the next, I just want her to eat. I do try to limit processed sugar, but only to the extent that she can't have tons of it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325159 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 22:56:11 +0000 Grace 2325159@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Originally, I was going to say I don't but I totally do. I won't let her have a second serving of cheese or more than 1/2 a banana a day, both for fear of constipation. But for most food, I don't limit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325157 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 22:46:47 +0000 QBbride 2325157@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't limit healthy foods for my toddler. If it is a healthy, unprocessed food I let him each as much of it as he wants. His body knows what it needs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325150 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 22:19:10 +0000 Foodnerd81 2325150@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@nana87: I limit raspberries only because they are so expensive most of the time! I got them at Costco all summer and she would eat the entire container in two sittings, and that was with me stopping her halfway through. They never upset her stomach or anything I just wanted to save some for next time. </p> <p>@MoonMoon: you are lucky then. Blueberry diapers are very very sticky over here. Ew. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325133 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 21:22:13 +0000 nana87 2325133@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lo ate like an entire container of raspberries yesterday so I was just thinking about this, haha! I don't limit though, I'm still scarred from when she was itty bitty and not gaining weight so if it's healthy, I let her eat all she wants. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325113 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:43:21 +0000 Charm54 2325113@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: @oliviaoblivia: the electric blue diapers I changed after we visited the blueberry patch (and she ate about 9 gazillion berries) was truly one of the most terrifying moments of my mommy career :shocked: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325111 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:39:34 +0000 winniebee 2325111@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With my 3yo nope.</p> <p>With the 10mo I have to limit fruit. He whines and cries for more all the time but I've never seen him turn up a bite of it and he would overeat on fruit for sure. Especially blueberries. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325107 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:31:28 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2325107@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do if it's something that seems to upset lo's stomach, but that's it. As far as the cheesy broccoli goes, I wouldn't stress. If she gets painful gas give her some gas drops if you have them, if not then lesson learned. I wouldn't think it'll be a big deal though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325106 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:31:24 +0000 MoonMoon 2325106@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not really, since he's pretty good about eating variety. He loves baked beans, which might as well be called sugar in a can, but we let him have it one a week, and he always asks for more. And, we have an unlimited fruit policy in this house! I've never noticed blueberry diaper issues! Red quinoa diaper, yes, but that's a whole other story... :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325102 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:26:34 +0000 Mamasig 2325102@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't, but nothing really upsets their tummies. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325101 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:25:26 +0000 Mae 2325101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: whenever I start to stress about the quality of what my kid is eating I remember the shit I grew up eating and realize that she's going to be JUST FINE. lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325099 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:22:44 +0000 Foodnerd81 2325099@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Tanjowen: haha that's the story of all my parenting. One week I worry about food and intake and relax about sleep. The next she is a horrible sleeper and I think, well at least she is a really good eater... The week after that she has cheddar bunnies for days in a row. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325086 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:13:07 +0000 Tanjowen 2325086@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The only thing I limit is his love of bananas because I'm afraid of constipation issues. Otherwise I try to balance it out during the week and I cycle through levels of worrying about his food habits. This week I'm choosing to be happy and chill about it. Next week I will probably feel differently :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-healthy-food-portions#post-2325074 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:05:53 +0000 Mae 2325074@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I limit myself by laziness lol. I sort of make what I make (which is generally a bit more than she *usually* eats) and when it is gone it is gone. Fruit I definitely limit because I feel like she'd never stop eating it otherwise lol. If she eats every bite of everything offered I do generally offer her more of a less-preferred food (something I know she likes but doesn't love) to make sure that if she is legit hungry she has food but isn't just eating because she's obsessed with X today. </p>