What do your toddlers eat for lunch?

[keels26]

Just wondering as Im sat here watching my DD NOT eating her cheese sandwich! She seems to have gone off eating at lunch time, so have given it to her at 1 today to see if she might work up an appetite, but no such luck. Any suggestions?

[upagumtree]

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[compo]

my dd went off sandwiches and onto toast from about the age of 18 months to now (2.6)

[mankyscotslass]

Mine has Eggy bread, cheese on toast, scrambled egg, egg in a cup, baked potato and cheese, pasta left over from the night before, sandwiches, wraps, pittas.

[SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore]

Cheese sarnies, fishfinger sarnies, fish finger and peas, home made shepards pie , mince and dumplings if dd1 is here, pancakes, egg and soilders, burgers and salad, quiche and salad, egg sarnies, omlettes, ham sarnies, tinnned spaghetti, scrambled eggs and cheese, mashed potato and cheese, baked potatos, baked sweet potatos..............................................................

It depends what I fancy really. DD2 just goes with the flow.

[keels26]

Thanks for the tips. She loves scrambled eggs (her favourite) but doesnt seem to be a sandwich person. Even tried her with low sugar jam but she wasnt interested.
Shes had cereal, probably about a quarter of a piece of toast and 2 rice cakes this morning. Maybe the rice cakes were a step too far!

[CharleeInChains]

My boys (2 and 4) have a plate with lots of different things on, they wont eat a whole anything i.e sandwich/cake ect so they have a plate of halfs.

Its usually a combo of.

Fruit or Veg
a couple of hula hoops
cheese stick/babybel
small cake
half a sandwich
small yoghurt
home made sausage rolls/ pasties/ quiches
Raisins
Crackers

The sandwiches contain either

Hummus and Carrott
Ham and Cucumber
Cream Cheese and Ham
Egg mayonnaise and cress

Today for instance they had.

Pitta bread with Hummus and carrot,
Box of Raisins
Home made Bluberry Mini Muffin
Grapes and Strawberries
Babybell
Homemade cold chicken Coujons

I vary the combo each day and they always wolf it all down.

[Iklboo]

DS is at playschool so

Sandwich
Baby Bel cheese
Yoghurt
Fruit
Juice drink
Raisins
Occasionally few hula hoops
Occasionally a jammie dodger

If he's at MILs he likes 'scrumpled egg & cheese'

[keels26]

Wow CharleeInChains would love to come to your house for lunch! Maybe Im not being adventurous enough with what I give her. The only thing is that shes 16months old and 2 stone already so I feel like I have to be careful with what she eats.
She put on a lot of weight in the first 6 months just from bottle feeding (aptamil) and hasnt put any more on in the last 4 months, hv said shes just maintaining her weight. Shes very tall as well, which is in proportion with her weight.

[CharleeInChains]

Thanks Keels26.

I find if i give a little bit of alot of things i find what they do and don't like.

Maybe you could try this with your dd? If you give her a plate with a few little bits of different things you may be able to judge what she is eatng and what shes not?

I wouldn't worry about her wieght if it is proportion to her hieght, aslong as she is having a balanced diet and its active then im sure she is fine.

[keels26]

Thanks CharleeInChains she has become a lot more active and since the weathers getting nicer have been taking her out for little walks.
Will definitely try everyones suggestions, thanks x

[upagumtree]

[CharleeInChains]

I wish you were close enough to come to my house! I don't think any MNers are near me, i would love to meet up with some, it would be nice to speak to someone about anything other than Spongebob, Peppa Pig and Dinosaurs for a change.

[christiana]

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[fleacircus]

She's at the CM but we send her with lunch and snacks. We still stockpile portions of food in the freezer for her, so today she's having lentil/tomato/sweet potato thing with broccoli. She's still only 14mths and in the happy to eat pretty much anything stage; I've been warned about and am dreading the switch when she stops eating vegetables!

[thumbwitch]

for lunch, DS (15mo) usually has a slice of bread with either:
tuna
mackerel
nutella
cheese
on top.

Then he has fruit of some kind, as much as he wants of a mandarin, apple or grapes, occasionally banana (although he's not as keen on this as he was when he first started eating solids). In season, cherries, and I hope to start him on strawberries, blueberries etc. soon.

Plus he has milk to drink, or water, or tart cherry juice (diluted); followed by a yoghurt tube.

If he's still hungry then he has a homemade banana oaty cookie.

[MrsMattie]

Mostly bready things:

Sandwiches or other bready things like bagels/sub rolls/muffins - with ham, cheese, cream cheese
Eggy bread or cheese on toast with beans
Pizza (easy to make homemade mini pizzas with bagels or muffins, tomato paste, grated cheese and whatever toppings your toddler will eat).

Other main staple is pasta. We do lots of macaroni cheese and tuna pasta.

Fruit, yoghurt, cereal bars and the odd bit of chocolate for pudding.

'Picnic plates' are popular - slices of cold meat, cheese, rice cakes/oatcakes/crackers, bits of fresh and dried fruit. Goes down a storm.

[thumbwitch]

does anyone else have a problem like this? My DS will happily eat pasta, shepherd's pie etc when 'stolen' from my dinner plate, but if I put some out specially for him, he won't touch it.

[Gateau]

What about dips?
My DS loves to dip rice cakes and breadsticks into little pots of houmous and tarasamalata. (sp?)
He has most of what people have mentioned above but I wouldn't say he's a big fan of sandwiches, unless they're tuna and sweetcorn mayo!
He loves Heinz tomato soup also. I did too, as a child - still do!

[thumbwitch]

Gateau - don't know how old your DS is but mine would spread contents of any small dipping pots liberally across himself/the highchair/the kitchen/ me!

[bubblagirl]

my son has a thing for bread sticks and milk at the moment

but usually sandwich or egg and soldiers, pitta bread and humus

cheese dippers

pasta

[Gateau]

He's 23 months and he's REALLY good with them. Has been in fact since last summer when he was just about 16 months.

[bubblagirl]

i found giving ,my son choice of 2 things at this age meant he got what he preferred rather than what i wanted him to eat

[Gateau]

OP, cheese sandwiches can be quite dry. mayve that's why your LO doesn't like them?

[ThingOne]

During the week my DS2 usually has humous and fingers of pitta bread. Very quick to prepare and very healthy. It makes up for his very narrow tastes!