How my kid skipped baby food and went straight to tacos.
Baby eat stuff off floor.
Wondering if food is still ok to eat after it s been dropped on the floor or anywhere else is a pretty common experience.
I don t suppose you are planning to serve your toddler s meals onto the floor but if what you mean is is it okay for my toddler to eat things he has just picked up off the floor then for me and this is a purely personal view not remotely of.
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I ve been telling her for years now not to eat off the floor.
She eats only in the kitchen at the table too.
So parents may be better off looking for signs of kid hunger to establish the earliest mealtimes rather than making arbitrary choices about when breakfast lunch and dinner occur.
What i do at home is make sure the kitchen is clean and i just try to keep an eye on her.
She will pick up any of these that she finds on the floor so i do my best to keep them swept.
It also offers more opportunity to model healthy eating.
My 15 month old eats hair dust bunnies and threads fuzz off of clothing stuffed animals blankets.
Whenever my son drops food on the floor he wants to eat it.
My daughter is going on 3 and she ll still eat things off the floor in a public place too.
In other words a hungry kid is more likely to move food to their mouths rather than to the floor.
No it s never a good idea to eat food that has been dropped.
Carpet is apparently not bad at all.
Eating food off the floor may be ok scientist says a microbiologist experiments with dropping food on various surfaces to see how much bacteria they pick up.
He tries to use the 5 second rule saying food is safe to eat if it s picked up 5 seconds or less after it hits the floor.
And it s probably not a new one either.
Scientists at san diego state university say forget everything you ve heard about the 5 second rule it s not okay to let your child eat a piece of food that falls on the floor.