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| Tweet Topic Started: May 10 2006, 11:01 PM (237 Views) | |
| Karapooz | May 10 2006, 11:01 PM Post #1 |
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aishes chayil
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How do you feed a kid Milchigs and Fleishigs at a high chair or kids' table? How do you separate it? Do you just clean it between meals or have a separate tray or what? I clean the tray, but my husband wants to order another tray. The thing is tho that I bought the new table I posted about previously, and how should I feed him there? |
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| FlowerGirl | May 10 2006, 11:35 PM Post #2 |
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ok, here is my not so humble opinion: if he wants more trays let him commit to cleaning them as well as finding a CONVENIENT place to store it. Top of the clauset doesn't count. Neither does behind the cabinet in the bedroom, kwim? I did it and I didn't know what to do with them. It was one too many, and we didn't have an extra millimeter of space. To date, I have a booster seat w/ 2 trays and one is just like a 5th leg on a chair. Halahically speaking, you would never serve your child anything hot enough to make the tray dairy or meaty. So unless food remains directly on the tray for 24 hrs or more, the tray is PAREV. And Zusha somehow made it just fine with 1 tray, didn't he? Just take this question to your Rav, but make sure to include the facts that you live in cramped quarters (and aren't bathing in cash). Aks your husband to list ALL ppl whom he knows that own 2 trays and are HAPPY about it (pretending to be happy not to look like loosers doesn't count). The small table - just use placemats (no, that won't work for the high chair tray as they're either too small or too big, and the little ones will play with them). They will come off, slide, get spills under, but again - as long as it's not hot (which you won't do in any case) and cleaned promtly (within 24 hrs) you're fine. Also, if you use placemats for yourself & dh, spills happen, don't they? And your table/ placemats are still kosher, right? Sorry, it sounds more like vent, directed at whomever put the idea of buying the 2nd tray into my head!! |
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| zuncompany | May 10 2006, 11:49 PM Post #3 |
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we have 3- one for pesach too. we were more comfortable this way. our booster seats' trays are dairy and fleish is with the boosters at the reg table while is fleish. Our kiddie table and picnic table are dairy. |
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| chavamom | May 11 2006, 12:08 AM Post #4 |
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Our rav poskens like FG ( ;) ) - you wouldn't serve food hot enough to make it meat or dairy. One tray for us. |
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| aaa | May 11 2006, 07:02 AM Post #5 |
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does no one use sassy seats any more? we couldn't possibly have fit one, let alone 2, high chairs in our kitchen, so we used sassy seats and the children ate right at the table, with or without a tablecloth depending on whether it was milchik or fleishik. I don't even remember if the sassy seats had trays. If they did, we probably didn't use them. |
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| Karapooz | May 11 2006, 08:01 AM Post #6 |
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aishes chayil
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We tried feeding him right at the table, but he's not allowed in the kitch, so I would have to monitor every second that he shouldn't get hurt or whatever. And the DR table is usually used for odds & ends during the week, like computer, laundry folding... Not something that would be happy to be covered with Zusha's lunch. Zun: that is definately not an option for us- so many trays and chairs and tables. FG: I'm glad I brought this up, bec I love your answer!! I'll present it to my husband and see how it goes! |
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| gayilc | May 11 2006, 08:27 AM Post #7 |
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I go with fg on this issue, all the way. And, can I ask why you don't allow your son in the kitchen? My sons could spend hours in the kitchen, either helping me cook, playing with pots and pans....I just put knob covers on my stove, close the cabinets that we don't want opened by little fingers and we're good! |
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| realeez | May 11 2006, 08:48 AM Post #8 |
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for our high chair we have one tray too. we have a booster seat w/ 2 trays and my intent was to use the top one with milchig and the main one w/ fleishig. what happened was that my ds would take off the milchig tray himself - snaps off of the main one - while he was eating and it made me crazy. i put that one away and we just have the bottom one. on pesach i cover it with that sticky cover thing (contact paper??) |
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| Karapooz | May 11 2006, 08:57 AM Post #9 |
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Our kitchen is probably the size of your bathroom. We have nowhere to store stuff and lots of things are within reach. If I move into a normal apt, he'd definately be allowed. He'd also always be underfoot, which is dangerous! I can't cook or do anything if even 1 other person is there. If my husband comes in to take a snack on erev shabbos, the cooking ceases until he finds what he wants and takes it to the dining room to eat. |
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| aaa | May 11 2006, 09:45 AM Post #10 |
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Karapooz, my kitchen is tiny, but yours must be smaller still! When 2 people are in ours, there is a lot of "watch your head" "wait a second" "oops" "excuse me" "sorry" as we dodge, duck and dance our way around. Too bad taking off the refrigerator and oven doors is not an option! |
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| FlowerGirl | May 11 2006, 11:01 AM Post #11 |
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what u can do is get a booster seet w/ straps - u can find them cheap - and not use the tray it came with, but put the booster next to the table. Just keep in mind that the room for mischief, spills & food expansion is in direct proportion with the space avail. (read: the milk will not be just on the tray that u can carry to the sink & clean there, but will spill all over the table, making wet & dirty everything that's on it.) Right now, it has to be whatever works for you, and doesn't add any extra cleaning, washing, climbing, etc. All these gagets are ment to make our lives easier, not more complicated. |
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| Karapooz | May 11 2006, 11:24 AM Post #12 |
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Yeah, but somehow it always does make life harder... |
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| zuncompany | May 11 2006, 12:35 PM Post #13 |
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I think it sounds like more than it is. Our booster seats are their chairs- the booster attatches right on. They stay at the table and I keep the trays on top of a bookshelf. Even when we were in our apartments we never had an issue with this. My kitchens until we moved to the house were never big enough to eat in so we have always used our dinningroom table for every meal. The highchair I think was last used before succos last year. My kids don't like it but I had trays for it just in case. When the kids eat dairy usually its in the livingroom at their minitable now but it used to be I would just bring in the booster seats, attatch the tray, and they could sit anywhere. |
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| FlowerGirl | May 11 2006, 12:39 PM Post #14 |
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We had no room on top of a book - or any other case or clauset. Aside from that, I'm short, so reaching up there would be a big job for me, leaving a toddler to be creative, which would include climbing whatever I'm climibing to reach for the tray, taking care of the baby, you name it. DId I mentioned my toddlers open the seat buckles? |
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| zuncompany | May 11 2006, 12:49 PM Post #15 |
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fg- everyone is different and what works for one might not work for another. For us it worked nicely. I had no issues doing it and it did not feel like an inconvience. |
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