Pediasure for Picky eater

After having a foul egg in a Spar free range pack a few weeks ago I only ever buy Woolies free range eggs. Irgh, it was one of the most disgusting things I've ever smelled The Woolies chicken are raised on a vegetarian diet and don't get routine antibiotics or steroids. Their free range eggs are actually not that expensive, especially with the cardholder reward and they're on special regularly.

You said it on another thread I think: pay now or pay later! So true!

Yaz I love eggs, I mean for Jude. I cant afford the organic eggs.. Maybe I could..
I suppose they just seems dodgy? What do you think?

Memo, your paed = WTF?! Gosh, I get so annoyed by ignorant (so-called) health care providers!
Why don't you like eggs anymore?

Claudia, the Netcare chart is ridiculous!

Your paed is a moron:) I would ask him why WHO recommends bfding till at least 2 then:), as well as why ALL other primates (actually the great apes) feed their young for so long. Obviously humans are making their babies too fat by weaning early - and perhaps helps to indicate why obesity and other weight related diseases increase in incidence with each decade..... (I know other factors are involved)

Thanks! Thats actually super interesting.
Jude is taller than he needs to be, so I've kinda assumed that he is using his fuel for growing rather.
Thhe pead also said that all breastfed babies plateau after the first year because then if the baby doesn't eat the mother offers milk instead! I found this very irritatinG becAuse milk never replaces food only liquid. Obviously there is no convincing the man..
Ps. I love woolies, I would even live in an area that doesn't have a woolies food nearby. lol

@ memo, James is also on the skinny side now, and I was worried so took him to the doc who ran some bloods just to check.... everything was normal. I was recently looking at my road to health card from when I was a baby and I noticed that I also plateaued out after a year and was still weighing the same as James is now (9.2kg) but on my chart I was still sitting on the middle line.
I remember posting about this a while back about how charts seem to different, so I went and looked up the breastfed baby charts on the WHO website, and they ALL show plateauing weightgain after a year (with the biggest gains in the first 4 months). They also show significantly lower normal weights than the ones on the chart for James. Now I know the charts are a guide, but if you consider that medics use them as a guide and a baby is all of a sudden sitting on the 5th percentile (which james is on the netcare chart), then they would also be concerned). On the WHO chart, James is still sitting about 50% (infact average weight for a 2 year old on the netcare chart is listed as 12.8kg, but according to WHO its 10kg! Honeslty as long as Jude is developmentally on track, happy and healthy I wouldnt worry too much about weight gain.
As for food, Fatty meat is bad for you anyway:) Rather use full cream alternatives of dairy (full cream yoghurt - if you dont like woolies, pick and pay has a good kids yoghurt that is full cream), full cream milk in his cereal, food (eg white sauce in mac and cheeze) cheeze is very fattening (I use the lancewood full cream smooth cottage cheeze as an alternative to butter (I use butter not marge) on sandwiches. Mash potato with butter (YUM), avocado, hummus, sardines all contain good fats and are helpful in trying to gain weight. I do a lot of soups - and lentils are super to add to these:)
Something to note, fat cells in the human body only devide and proliferate up until the age of 5 (there about). After this age they only expand or shrink. The saying fat children make fat adults as a result does have some truth as a fat child will have developed more fat cells than a thin child. Result more cells to expand and harder to loose weight:) (not impossible), so be happy your kid is on the leaner side:)

My little guy is very skinny at the moment and not eating like he use to. I am not a big fan of eggs anymore and neither is he. (not that I think our reasons are the same)
I do put butter in his oats. I cant bring myself to eat full fat meats and I cant exactly cook different meals, its too expensive.
Do you guys have any advise on how to plump him up? Or should I not be too worried. He is always slighty under weight when he gets weighed these days. The medics always think it's because he is still bf, but it has never supplemented his food intake just his water/liquid intake.