Kassie is addicted to Gerber’s Lil’ Crunchies. They are like cheezies but veggie flavor, for toddlers. Feeding a micro preemie can be adventerous at times, heck, down right frustrating. There are oral aversions, picky eating, gagging, vomiting and more. I have never been a calorie counter, couldn’t be bothered. Now I am counting calories for my kids, not to cut them but to add them , as many as we can, as often as we can. So when meal time rolls around, it is doubly frustrating when Little Miss Kassie won’t eat. She has a brilliant stubborn streak and if she doesn’t want something her little hand shoots out and pushes the offender away. URGHHH.  Gerber Lil Crunchies, either flavour, are sometimes the only thing she will eat at a meal.

I keep easy to grab foods handy for when she gets hungry. When Kassie gets hungry she gets really whinny so I put her in her high chair and grab something quick and easy, like the Crunchies for her to eat while I prepare a meal. Well yesterday, she ate half a tin. I started her off with just a few, made lunch and she wouldn’t eat it.  All she would eat was the Crunchies (I think I snuck in 2 spoon fulls of squash). Not an ideal lunch but at least she ate something and at 35 calories for 7g (the can is 42g) we did okay in the calorie department too.