What I eat in a day *toddler edition!

[jomaIone]

I'm a bit stuck in a rut about what to feed my not particularly fussy 21 month old who is an exceptionally slow eater and more of a grazer. Although will polish off a full evening meal if in the mood/it's her favourite! So indulge me, what are your toddler's eating today?

Mine

Breakfast
Banana
Seeded toast, butter & honey

Lunch
Cheese on toast (this is what she has nearly every day, as it's quick and reliable!)
Cherry tomatoes
Apple
Mini cheddars

Snack will be 1 pancake with peanut butter, maybe a few raisins, and blueberries

Tea will be homemade fish pie, peas and sweetcorn.

Yesterday my 2.5yr old had

1large bottle oat milk
Big bowl of cheerios

Oat bar
Large fruit pouch (emergency travel supply!l

(Still in travel mode for much longer than expected so weird food!)
Chicken
Large pack of slices of melon and mango
Freshly squeezed orange juice
Half an apple turnover
A few percy pigs as bribery

A pack of kettle chips
A large bottle oat milk
An apple
Pasta with courgette roasted onion and cherry tomato sauce plus vegan mozzarella

Grapes
Dates
More chicken🙄
Tangerine

Oatmilk

I trick DD into eating eggs by hiding scrambled eggs in her pasta sauce, it doesn’t always work but when it does it’s such a victory as she’s a fussy little wotsit whereas her DB (twins) will eat mostly anything... including things he really shouldn’t 😳

Today my twins menu is:

Breakfast: Wholegrain toast with peanut butter and jam

Snack: Apple slices with cheese bites

Lunch: Mini Sunday dinner - roast potatoes, chicken breast, Yorkshire puddings and lots of veg.

Snack 2: Fruit Bakes (Like nutrigrain type bars) then they have a bottle and a nap.

Dinner: Pasta with chopped tomatoes, chopped onions, kidney beans, scrambled egg and sweet potato hidden in the sauce.

Snack 3: Banana segments, yoghurt and buttered toast.

Final bottle then bedtime.

DS will eat most of it... DD will probably end up surviving on a bit of potato and Yorkshire pudding at lunch (the rest will be on the floor), her yoghurt and a handful of kidney beans from her dinner! Sometimes she has surprised me by eating a bit of everything... this has probably only happened on three occasions over the last year 😂

DelurkingAJ DS is now old enough for detailed food critiques like 'I like nursery carrots because they are round and sweet but I don't like nursery curry because it has little brown peas (lentils)'
Its actually pretty handy as I can now make things like nursery or grandma!

He did tell me nurserys jacket potatoes are brown (burnt skin?) and not yummy and yellow with oil like mine so I'm hoping he doesn't repeat his food critiques the other way round! (ie what he likes better at home)

Today hasn't been our finest hour but I've had jobs to do so have been picked my battles.

Coco pops
Beaker of milk

Large satsuma
Mini pan au chocolate
Yoghurt

4 crackers with butter
1 bowl blueberries
1 cup milk
1 blueberry muffin

Afternoon snack will be a fruit/cereal pouch

Dinner - sausage, mash, sweetcorn

@polkadotpixie it's tough isn't it. She takes vitamins and lately will eat fruit smoothees frozen into ice pops so at least gets some goodness. But really, she eats F.A. Even at nursery where I was hoping peer pressure would force her into it a bit....

Dd (5):

Breakfast:

Apple and cornflakes with milk

Snack:

APPLE

Lunch (School dinner)

Cheese pastry and cucumber

Meringues

Snack:

Slice of cheese and crackers

Dinner:

Chicken kiev, waffle and beans. Tried a mouthful of grilled tomato under duress!

Petit filous

Supper:

Small kinder chocolate from advent calendar

DGS (2.5) has so far eaten porridge, a shepherd's pie, a Clementine, some more porridge, DW's baked potato with cheese, another clementine and random things off the floor.

2.5 year old DS will eat almost anything.

B - pink porridge (porridge with frozen berries slung in)

Apple whilst going round Asda.

L - half a tin of beans on a slice of bread, orange.

D - will be enchiladas followed by bananas and custard.

Cup of milk before bed.

14 month old had :
Breakfast:
One weetabix with cows milk and a banana

Mid morning snack:
Grapes, strawberries and blueberries

Lunch:
Avocado, scrambled egg and cheese with an Organix oat bar plus a breastfeed before his nap.

Mid afternoon snack: hummus and apple

Dinner will be homemade veggie lasagne, he’ll eat a small chunk of that and probably some Greek yogurt with honey for dessert.

13m

Breakfast: fruit puree pot, a banana biscuit and a pear (DH in charge )

Morning Snack: toast and jam (to make up for an unsubstantial breakfast)

Extra snack: a bit of rainbow pasta, some oats and some various coloured paints at messy play

Lunch: 2 crispbreads with cream cheese, slice of ham, apple and a snaffled half of my cheese toastie and a yoghurt

Afternoon snack: was asleep

Dinner: tonight will be Spanish "chicken" - veggie chicken substitute, onions, peppers, mushrooms, tomato/pepper/paprika based sauce, with rice.

Anywhere between 00:00-04:00 - bottle of milk.

My previously very good eater (16 months) has decided that he only eats blueberries, grapes, cheese, veggie straws (the crisp type things), hummus, biscuits, and yoghurt. He used to be obsessed with baked beans and spaghetti hoops, won’t even touch them now. Might consider bubbling the corner of toast

My 12 months old:

Breakfast:
1 weetabix
1 tiny orange
7oz of cows milk

Lunch:
[Mushroom and kale (ripped up small) omelette- REJECTED]

Few bites of leftover homemade pizza (he was disgusted)
Half a piece of toast- 1/4 Philadelphia cheese, 1/4 peanut butter
6oz of cows milk

Snack:
Banana

Dinner:
Mushroom risotto- *REJECTED...

Will try again around 7pm just to see if he’ll eat it if sarving. If not then I’ll give him a yoghurt and something else. EVERY dinner and lunch that I’ve cooked from scratch this week has been refused and I’m starting to get very frustrated. Might just buy some fish fingers and hope for the best!

Mine never stops eating.

B- weetabix x 2, toast w peanut butter

Snack at nursery- 3 crackers and a banana

L- tuna sandwich, couple of crisps, mini quiche, grapes and cherry toms

D- teriyaki chicken chicken broccoli peas rice, yoghurt, apple, satsuma and a glass of milk

When my dd was 2 she rejected pretty much every cooked dinner I made, having eaten everything since weaning. Eventually I gave up and she lived on little dish meals for about a year.... I had new born twins and it wasnt a fight I needed. Obv when twins tried that it was far too expensive for 3 so they ate pasta for about a year...

Breakfast: shreddies and a from age frais
Snack: pear and a class of milk
Lunch: chicken sausage, boiled egg, baked beans and toast with marmalade
Snack at playgroup: pom bears, grapes, raisins, orange and a biscuit
Dinner: chicken, mushroom and sweetcorn risotto

Mine is 2 and fussy as hell.

Breakfast - toast with a handful of raspberries

Lunch - breadsticks with hummus and apple, strawberries and orange pieces

Dinner - sausages, plum toms and bread and butter. Wouldn't even look at the veg or mash!

Snacks he's had a yogurt and 2 bourbons

He's probably ate half of what he's been given.

17 month old DS.

1.5 Weetabix with milk
(Then had some of my branflakes /milk about half an hour after)

Egg on toast and a Yoghurt

5 Grapes and half a Satsuma

Spanish chicken with vegetable rice

Oh and a Cadbury chocolate finger

2.5 year old DS - some days eats like a sparrow and some like a pig!

B - about 7 fruit and nut weetabix minis, blueberries and a bite of a hot cross bun

L - 1/2 chicken breast, few chips, corn on cob, cherry toms and cucumber (Nando's)

D - 3 small roast potatoes, small amount gammon, small amount chicken, few peas and carrots, bite of a Yorkshire pudding, sweetcorn

Snacks

Few strawberries
Few crisps pinched from grandma
Natural yoghurt after dinner
Half a twirl kindly given to him by DS1 (now he decides to share!?!)
Baby fruit bear paw things
Lots of water
Glass of milk with lunch

Yeah so a pig day

@Peanutbutteryogurt try keeping frozen chopped spinach in the freezer. Defrosts only the microwave so quickly and frozen can be chucked into an saucy meal!

Today my 2 year old has had toast for breakfast, and milk. A banana mid morning and a biscuit. Chunks of chicken for lunch and a few wedges. A whole kinder egg after shopping this afternoon (bribe for being good!) A salami and chicken sandwich and some pasta with tomato sauce for tea. Some brioche and milk for supper.
Yesterday, cereal for breakfast, apple slices and cut up grapes mid morning. Tuna sandwich and few crisps for lunch. Leftovers from Sunday lunch for tea followed by a whole orange. Yoghurt and a couple of oreos for supper.
Some days she will eat more and some days will hardly eat!

SaharaRoxy

I ordered some in the shopping last week and it got bloody substituted with something I didn't want

I'll try again next week! So happy to get spinach in to her.

Today my 16 month old has had:

Wake up: 6oz bottle

Breakfast: 1/2 a small banana and 1/4 of a pancake. The rest got fed to the (freshly mopped 😩) floor

Snack: 3/4 of a malted milk biscuit. The rest got thrown down the stairs

Lunch: Refused his mushroom omelette. Eventually ate an apricot fromage frais, 4 veggie straws and a cube of watermelon

Tea: Paneer curry & rice. Ate about half. Another fromage frais for pudding because I'd rather he ate sugar than nothing at all

Bedtime: 8oz bottle

This was actually a fairly good day for him, sometimes I wonder how he doesn't starve to death

It's good to see everyone's posts, so much variety!! But also good to see some eat very little. Think mine is somewhere in the middle really. Made fish pie for tea. Wouldn't even taste it. Shouted DON'T LIKE IT MUUUUUM until I relented and gave her Cheerios, then greek yoghurt, then an apple, then a satsuma... Least it was healthy food 👌

Almost 3yo:

B - large bowl of porridge with honey and raisins

S - dairylea dunker (helped himself to it from the fridge!)

L - Half a broccoli quiche from asda (a full sized quiche, it's his absolute favourite!) with tomatoes and roast chicken followed by a bowl of strawberries, raspberries and grapes

A/S - homemade banana bread muffin and a pack of raisins

D - broccoli, carrots, alphabites and he rejected a breaded chicken burger (time for away from me today so it was something quick for dinner!) followed by a teacake.

Some days he eats like he's never been fed, others he just picks, but it evens out I guess.

My go to easy dinner is pasta which he loves, with peas, carrots and sweetcorn and a quick cheese sauce or tuna. He would eat tuna for every meal. He loves lasagna and spag bol, or sausage and mash. Curry is usually a hit, or a veggie sauce made out of frozen veg fried and blended with a dollop of philadelphia.

It's easy to get stuck in a rut of what you know they'll eat isn't it?