Do you give your toddlers fried foods?

[yasinsmama]

Just curious.

[blizzard_babe]

Yup. Not in excess, but I'm from Central Wisconsin originally and a good fish fry is some of the best eatin' around.

We don't eat a lot of fried food, but when we do, DS gets some. We're an all-things-in-moderation kind of family. Well, within reason, anyway.

[kittykat2481]

Not all day, every day, but sometimes. Not really french fries, but he does have the occaisional chicken nugget or something.

[lach]

Do you mean sauteed, or deep fried?

I guess it doesn't really matter, because the answer is yes to both. Not all that often for deep fried food, but I'm in New England and fried seafood is one of the basic pleasures of summer We eat super healthy at home, so I don't really sweat it when we go out to eat and she gets french fries or something junky like that. We don't go out enough to places that serve that sort of thing for me to lose sleep over it.

[L J]

Yes. Alabama here, so yeah... lol. We really don't do a lot of fried food at my house, but ds will tear up fried chicken legs when given the opportunity. We eat very consciously 95% of the time, so I don't stress about fried chicken at Grandma's house or fried pickles at our favorite Cajun restaurant.

[leighi123]

No.

We dont eat fast food and dont make it at home, I cant really think of anything in regular restaurants that we order that would be fried....

Ds has allergies though, and is vegetarian, so that eliminates a lot of things.

[echoecho1528]

Yes we do here too, but in moderation. My DD has had some weight gain issues and didn't show ANY interest in food other than BM until she was just about 19 months. We were told by a nutritionist and her regular pedi to give her the fattiest food we can that are yummy too to get get more interested in eating. As she grows older and hopefully gains a wider palate, we will be able to eliminate the more unhealthy options, like french fries.

[Krisis]

DS loves loves LOVES french fries, but won't eat anything else fried, except the occasional piece of popcorn shrimp.

[flapjack]

Yes.

[GardenStream]

Sometimes

One of my favorite treats is to fry up some feta and I always let the kids eat some. That's the only deep fried food that we make here at home. They also get chicken nuggets or fries sometimes. I would guess that they probably eat fried food about once or twice a month.

[Dreamy]

Occasionally. Once a week we'll something like chicken fingers and fries, and we have fried eggs and bacon on weekends.

[paxye]

Yep... I make tempura pretty often, General Tso, Felafel etc...

[Chloe'sMama]

Dd is only 18 months and has not had anything fried yet. I want to hold off until at least 2 years. We don't do fast food very often (one every few months), so that pretty much settles that.

[lifeguard]

Not yet & hopefully not for a long while.

[butterfly_mommy]

DS has had deep fried sweet potato fries, which he loves (I do them in the oven at home) I refuse to give him french fries

I don't deep fry at home but I do pan fry some times, like eggs, bacon, chicken, etc

Other fried stuff he has had a few times is fish, general tao chicken and crispy beef when we have ordered Chinese food.

[SuzyLee]

Sometimes. He loves french fries. We rarely go to fast food restaurants but if we aer traveling it is unavoidable and everything is fried.

Basically he gets fried stuff when DH and I get it- on special occasions (like going to a fair) or for certain meals at restaurants.

ETA: if you include pan frying he gets a lot. Although do you consider it pan frying if you just put a tablespoon of oil in a saucepan to cook stuff? Bc that is how we make stir fry, tofu, meat, fajitas.... everything basically.

[splath]

Very rarely. She's never had french fries, but has had sweet potato steak fries, as well as fried fish once. MIL about had a cow when we went out to a restaurant and I didn't want her to give dd french fries

[mamadelbosque]

Yup. We eat McDonalds occasionally and DS1 gets chicken nuggets & french fries. WHenever we're out he eats french fries pretty much - their like his favorite food. At home we make them in the oven, but when we're out I don't care if he eats french fries, chicken nuggets, popcorn shrimp etc. Its not often enough to matter, let alone get stressed out about, IMO :Shrug

[Llyra]

Yeah, sure. We don't eat fast food (well, I cheat occasionally, but not that often, I swear, and THEY don't eat it at all). But I'll fry stuff at home. We eat fried eggs, bacon with no added nitrites, raw-fried potatoes and peppers, breaded fried chicken, fried mozzarella, battered catfish, and a few other things like that, regularly.

We don't restrict fats in our diet, though, so I can't see any reason not to serve fried foods, as long as the fats they're fried in are ones that are traditional fats that are relatively stable at high temperatures.

[Trinitty]

About once every two weeks, yes. Chick and french fries. No transfat though.