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Healthy snack/lunch ideas for vegetable hating DS

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SummersB · 23/07/2019 22:35

Just this really! If he could, he would live of toast/bread/plain pasta and sweets/crisps. He will eat apples, berries and bananas under duress and all out rejects most vegetables. He’s my third child and my eldest two eat everything, so I’m at a bit of a loss with him!

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rosybell · 23/07/2019 22:47

Mine is similar. For (healthy-ish) snacks I give him dairy lea cheese strip things, rice cakes, mini cucumbers, wholemeal pitta, yoghurt..

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Camomila · 23/07/2019 22:57

lunches (not very original)
scrambled eggs on toast.
baked beans on toast.

snacks:
Does he like hummus? I give DS pitta and hummus and carrot sticks. Once the pitta is finished he eats the carrot sticks because he likes the hummus.
Homemade smoothie lollies made with fruit and yoghurt. (You can make homemade frozen yoghurt too without an icecream maker but it's a faff because you have to keep taking it out of the freezer to break up the ice crystals)
Cheese and crackers/outcakes

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SummersB · 23/07/2019 23:31

Some good ideas, thank you! I don’t know why I’m finding this so hard, I managed to feed the older two when they were younger no problem! I think it’s because he is so fussy. And with the whole of the summer holidays ahead of us I don’t want us to fall into a habit of toast for breakfast, toast for lunch and bag of crisps as a snack inbetween

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Surfingtheweb · 23/07/2019 23:32

My daughter used to love a ploughman's 😀

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Ricekrispie22 · 24/07/2019 05:56

My DC eat anything healthy if it's stuck on a skewer!
So I just load up kebab sticks with things like chunks of cheese, cherry tomatoes, rolled up ham, olives, chunks of cooked chicken, slices of sausage, cubes of bread, colourful peppers etc... like the pictures. They're great for using up things in the fridge!
I do the same with sweet food such as grapes, berries, mini marshmallows, cubes of malt loaf, dried apricots, pineapple chunks, cubes of brioche, flapjack bites etc...
They also like those little one-portion pots of humous or Philadelphia which you can get from most supermarkets and I give them some chopped up veg and mini breadsticks to dip.
If I have time I make up individual portions of fruit in jelly in plastic Tupperware pots and on very rare occasions I make a stash of mini frittatas in a muffin tin. They're always popular!
Sweetcorn fritters are popular too realfood.tesco.com/recipes/sweetcorn-fritters-with-avocado-salsa.html

Healthy snack/lunch ideas for vegetable hating DS
Healthy snack/lunch ideas for vegetable hating DS
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AtleastitsnotMonday · 24/07/2019 07:11

Will he eat cold fritata if you made it without veg?
Roasted chickpeas (bit of a long shot!)
Cheese and crackers
Popcorn

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SummersB · 24/07/2019 16:57

Thank you all! I’m going to try all of these suggestions, bar the roast chickpeas - not a chance Grin I think part of it is trying to get him used to eat more of a variety of veg, so presenting it in a different way might do the trick

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