How healthy was my toddlers day

[meepmoop]

Hello,

Just wondered if this would be classed as a healthy day of food or not for a 2 year old. He's gone off eating lots of things and I don't eat very well myself so not sure if it's nutritional or not

Breakfast - strawberries, raspberries. Bowl of malt wheats and whole milk.

Lunch - 3 cream crackers with cream cheese, ham and cucumber sticks

Tea - cod fillet, boiled sweet potato and carrots

(A couple biscuits as a snack obviously not healthy)

sounds fine to me.
Some protein, two lots of calcium, plenty of fruit and veg, and carbs at every meal.

Oh goody another competitive eating thread.

FWIW carrots are a sweet veg, so I wouldn't serve with sweet potato

Competitive eating thread? It was a genuine question. Lots of times people aren't aware of different things regarding nutrition and food.

For example I didn't think about carrots being a sweet veg with sweet potato.

OP what are you worried about?

You could get your son to eat more green veg but good luck finding the one/two particular green veg he will eat.

Well my 2 year old ate..

A waffle with Nutella
A digestive biscuit
Peanut butter on seeded toast
4 alphabites
A sausage
4 chips
1 mouthful of yoghurt

So when you say your child has gone off a few things you don't know how lucky you are if he's eating the list of foods you gave!

My son literally screams and throws himself to the floor if I try to assertively make him try some foods. And even things he liked last week are now off the menu.

I now have to put food in front of him and pray he eats SOMETHING!

how much exercise did he have? at least one hour outside?
that's just as important for health as eating fruit and veg.

@EmmaJR1 thank you that made me smile and feel a whole lot better 😂

My dd had an ice lolly for breakfast, a cheese wrap, raspberries and jammie dodgers for lunch, and 2 bites of broccoli and a bag of crisps for tea.

I'd be over the fucking moon if she ate what you've listed.

Two bites of broccoli - result!!

Ps in all seriousness OP, yes that looks good to me I'd consider it a massive success if DD ate that well in a day.
One tip I was given was look at diet over a week or even month as toddlers have on and off days when it comes to food. Hope this helps

OP that seems pretty healthy to me! But I have read that it’s better to consider a toddler’s intake across a week rather than daily as they can vary from day to day so much.

My 2 year old would never eat as well as yours. Today she had 2 teaspoons of porridge, an innocent fruit smoothie (thank fuck something that resembles healthy), 3 teaspoons spaghetti hoops, 4 dry crackers, an ice lolly and an oaty bar. And she ran around ALL day outside so no idea where her energy came from for that.

I think your toddler ate brilliantly.

Thanks everyone, I didn't intend for it to seem like a Humble brag. His eating is generally hit and miss, we had a stage of bananas and meat only.

I made the mistake of following 'mummies' on Instagram and there food always looks so vibrant and fancy

@BonnyE you are welcome! He's a right PITA at the moment so I smile insanely a lot at the moment!

Sounds great to me OP!

Oh @meepmoop don't look at Instagram. Nothing wrong with some cream cheese and crackers...

Instagram posts are lies I wouldn't compare your toddlers food to the lavish colour plates of others, just do yourself a favour and unfollow them!

Molars often come through in toddler years so just go with what your little one wants and don't worry too much

Hell.... some days of you can get them to eat call it a win

Looks healthy to me! My 2.5 year old would need more carbs than that or he'd get hangry, so maybe a bagel and cream cheese/avocado on toast after the breakfast and probably something else similar for supper.

My 6 year old told the social worker (who came to visit a foster child in my care), in reply to her question about what he had for breakfast, that he's not hungry because he had 2 ants for breakfast!!
True story and shockingly true!! 🤣 🤣 🤣