Keeping clothes clean while eating - a lost cause?

[beadmama]

Dd is loving tomato sauce right now but I am not loving what it is doing to her sleeves. I try pushing them up but they always fall down and get sauce all over them. Is there any ingenious way of keeping toddler sleeves clean while eating besides stripping her down?

[sapphire_chan]

We have "naked foods" , but they also sell long-sleeved bibs if your LO is okay with bibs.

[Tizzy]

We <3 sleeved bibs from Ikea.

[kdtmom2be]

yep, naked. it's the only way. and then put a tarp under thier chair... ok, I'm kidding, but a towel that you hate works well

[JBaxter]

Naked or a orange or red shirt LOL

[beadmama]

We can do naked on warm nights but it is cold right now. I will look for long sleeve bibs and see if that works. Just what I needed, an excuse to go to Ikea.

[elmh23]

You could put her in shirts you don't care to get stained if it's to cold for her to go nakey. It's a great use of all those shirts that have stains already that you might not want her to wear outside, but are perfectly fine otherwise.

[peaceful_mama]

Another vote for NAKEY!

or I have used a towel I don't care about.

[claddaghmom]

Naked here, or undershirts if it's chilly.

That was solved easily. Now the real problem is her grabbing ME. She thinks my reaction is funny and now does it all the time.

[SweetPea&Me]

It's cold here too but the first thing she does when we get home after DC and work, is strip down naked. She's never clothed for dinner. I just do a tub right after dinner, a) for the mess and b) so she doesn't get cold from being naked too long.

[tbone_kneegrabber]

my mom used to always tell me to feed ds naked in the bathtub

I like the long sleeved bibs from IKEA, ds has grown out of them, but now they also have longsleeved smocks.

ds will actually ask for a bid with certain foods (yogurt comes to mind)

[luv-my-boys]

we did a combination of things just depending on what it was. We had a long sleeved terry cloth material "bib" that was awesome, i wish I could remember where I got it because it was fabric we could slip off their shirts and slip that on and I wasnt worried about them being cold (liek with the plastic) we also had a old long sleeve shirt that was a "bib" it was our stain shirt (eating,painting) we slip off shirt and put that on on instead and since it was our stained shirt I didnt care it was for that purpose. Saved lots of clothes because DH didnt see the need to be worried with a toddler eating spaghetti in a white expensive shirt


** ok now I had to go try to find the bib I was talking about. It was very similar to this only the body part was fuller and actually wrapped around the torso like a apron w/ties.
http://www.babysenchantedgarden.com/...leeve_bib.html

[Thalia]

We love the Bumkins long sleeve bibs around here. The IKEA ones were great when she was younger.

[Dreamy]

I just roll his sleeves - they don't come back down that way.

[mrspineau]

I have these bibs that have sleeves on them for stuff like that. they work great! I think I got them at Sears.

[MadiMamacita]

seconding PPs.. put them in clothes you don't care about for eating messy foods. either stained up clothes you already have, or make a run to the thrift store and get whatever is cheapest and fits.