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After reading the Daily Buzz post French Fries: Most Popular Tot "Vegetable," some of you tot mamas — although you have a pretty good idea — wondered what good toddler nutrition should look like.

I asked Catherine McCord (CafeMom weelicious), the founder of weelicious.com, to tell us what she knows about good toddler nutrition.

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Isn't it funny how toddlers seem to come up with the most interesting of food combinations and they LOVE it?

Lil Sugar readers weighed in on some of their tots' oddest food combos. Here are a few that particularly made me want to hurl:

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According to the new Nestlé Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) just released at at the American Dietetic Association’s Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo, parents and caregivers are listening and following feeding guidance for infants; however, as children grow older, there is still much work to be done to help them build good eating habits.

I guess I'm not overly surprised by these findings; however, it's still pretty interesting.

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A Halloween-themed birthday party is surely in my future — since my son Leo's birthday is on October 29th.

Not this year, but I'm collecting good ideas for a kid-friendly Halloween party.

My daughter is so cute when she tries to cut food. She's 4 and has just started asking to learn to use a knife, which is a relief. I'll grab any opportunity to pass off another duty.

But my right-handed girl can't understand the concept of using her less dominant hand yet, so when she tries to cut her fish sticks or chicken, she'll hold the dinner knife in her right hand and start sawing away. But then she doesn't know what to do with the fork, so it sort of dangles floppily in her left hand, and doesn't do a very good job of restraining the meat, which is still intact and sliding all over the plate.

If she lived in Ireland with her grandparents, this Continental style would be correct (her technique aside). The Irish, as well as the Brits and most Europeans, hold their forks with the tines facing down in their left hands and sort of push or pile food on top of it with their knives, in their right hands. Then you eat from the fork in your left hand.

A toddler diarrhea cure?

My pediatrician tells me not to give my kids real Pepto Bismol or Kaopectate for their upset tummies or when they have a virus for the same reason we're told to avoid giving them aspirin -- the main ingredient is bismuth subsalicylate, which is linked to reye's disease.

Too bad, because it works so well for grown-ups.

So what's a mom to do when diapers are exploding all over the place and she just can't "wait it out"?

Feed them magic poop-hardening foods, of course. Some of the more unusual food choices that CafeMoms suggest:

My daughter eats everything—all kinds of fish, vegetables, spicy foods, things that a lot of other kids will never even touch. My husband and I brag about her love affair with food all the time, but a friend who's a chef knocked us off our high horses. He said his kid was that way too, but by the time she was three she refused all food but macaroni and cheese and chicken fingers. I've been holding my breath, and lately it seems like our "good eater" is starting to get a little fussy about food.

Take bread crust for instance. She's become a kid who won't eat it. I don't want to throw it away—it seems like such a waste. That's why I love this tip Kate of Careermama shared with ParentHacks.

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There's a dirty little war going on in The CafeMom Newcomer's Club. Seriously, it's over dirt.

In one post about dressing and cleaning up kids before going to the store or other public place, a mom said children should always have a clean face and outfit:  "At Kmart the other day, both of these kids were riding in the cart and they only had a diaper and shirt on ... not even shoes. On top of that, they looked like they hadn't had a bath for a week or two. Some people just don't care, I guess."

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Put noodles in a pot. Cook them until they are soft. Put sauce in another pot, cook it until it splatters on the stove. Then mix it together. Put some cheese on it and eat it.

Want more adorable recipes written by tots?

I was told that my daughter had a milk allergy as an infant. Now a toddler, she's since "grown out of it," but I've never been completely convinced that she was ever really allergic to dairy. For one, the skin prick test came up negative for milk or casein.

But her doctor said she still probably had a sensitivity to it.

How could she know that for sure, especially if the test said just the opposite? Do you withhold an entire food group from a child based on an educated guess?

Turns out even a positive allergy test is not all it's cracked up to be, according to a recent article in the LA Times. And blood tests -- the type most non-specialist primary care MDs use -- are often incorrect or the doctor reads them wrong.