Kirt: >Barbara: >>You have said that your daughter chooses from a variety of raw and cooked >>foods. Does she show any interest in also eating _live_ foods that may >>cross her path? ;) > >Ants and slugs have been the only creatures I have seen her eat, often as >not spitting back out. She tests most any vegetation in her mouth--is that >a "live" food? ;) Of course it is! My question didn't exclude that, but I was more interested in the mobile variety. :) If she spits them out, presumably she doesn't regard them as food? I was just curious - as we've discussed before, it would be good to widen our sources of animal protein to include worms, grubs, etc. For most adults, there's a huge psychological barrier to overcome, but for a toddler this wouldn't be the case (unless the parents exhibit anxiety about such things, which I presume wouldn't apply in your case). Regards, Barbara