What did your toddler eat today?

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Can I start one of these? Useful for getting ideas :-)

14m old DD had

B - one weetabix with cows milk
S - 2 ritz crackers
L - picked at hummus sandwich, piece of cheese, cucumber and kiwi followed by a fruity bar
S - malt loaf
D - chilli con carne and rice followed by a coconut milk pudding thing

Other than only picking at her lunch this is a pretty good day for her.

A yoghurt and bannana, twix (which he helped himself too ), cheese and crackers with ham and few other snacky things, half a cookie my sister bought for him, lots of milk and for tea sausage rpll chips and spaghetti hoops. Not the healthiest of days but he was poorly yesterday and we didn't get back from a and e till half 12 so we've had a lazy day!

DD has been wanting quite big breakfast recently. She had some cereal and then a piece of toast when she got up. Then a boiled egg, a few bites of sausage and another half slice of toast when dp and I had breakfast. Then:

Snack: toddler apple cake bar thing
Lunch: some baguette with ham
Chocolate to get her to cooperate with going home
Dinner: about 4 bites of rice and a saag aloo curry with some natural yoghurt.
Pudding: an ice lolly. She is utterly obsessed at the moment

Porridge, strawberries, some rice cakes, flapjack, cucumber, tomatoes, cheese sandwich, grapes, biscuit, gingerbread men, vegetable risotto, blueberries, yoghurt.

B - banana and toast (toast thrown all over the floor)
S - orange
L - chicken and sweet corn pasta and yoghurt for pudding
S - tomato melty crisps
D - vegetable stir fry

21 month old

Handful of dried Cheerios and corn flakes mixed together 😬
Banana
Pancake for lunch and chopped blueberries and cucumber
Yoghurt
2 roast potatoes and peas for tea-
Offered roast chicken shouted yuk and lobbed it
Milk before bed tonight

Dc4 18 months had:
Breakfast was porridge with blueberries and grated apple.
Mid morning snack of homemade cookie & milk.
Lunch was a cheese & salami quesadilla with finely chopped pepper and some veg sticks which were fed to the dog. Yoghurt.
Snack was raisins, pecans and some bits of cereal.
Dinner was homemade veg curry & rice and last off dc2’s birthday cake.
More cake and biscuits than usual but ate as normal. He has been one of my better eaters though 😆

Update: dp was feeding DD more dinner in front of the TV while I was in the kitchen and she's eaten it all. Even the spinach is eaten which I am very pleased with as we struggle with veg.

Cheeeios
Beans on toast
Some ham and cheese slices as a snack
Made him chicken pasta and he refused it
also refused any fruit or yoghurt

I’ll bite

Dd 23 months had marmite on toast on half a slice the other plain with scrambled eggs mixed with Red Leicester and cheddar. Apple and grapes.
S-rice cake
L-sausage with onion gravey peas, potatoes and Yorkshire.
S-nothing this afternoon
D-beans and cheese on toast
Yogurt and orange 🍊

Marking place for ideas

Ooh yes! I've been meaning to start one of these threads. DS is 15 months and has just (hopefully) come out the other side of a super fussy phase where he just ignored everything I put in front of him and refused to eat a lot of his favourites. I think the worst is behind us now but we'll see...

Early morning milk - about 6ozish
B: Two courgette pancakes with yoghurt and a banana
Snack: A couple of apple rice cakes
Lunch: Most of a quesadilla filled with sweet potato and cheese; nectarine
Snack: Some raspberries and a couple of mini bread sticks
Dinner: Pasta and turkey/kale meatballs in a tomato sauce. He's been super weird about pasta recently but this week nursery served him pasta and sauce separately and he ate it all so I tried it and it worked! Hurrah! Followed by some raspberry kefir and (more) raspberries.
Will have another 6-8oz of milk in a bit.

My toddler has horrendous eating at the moment, it's so stressful.

B porridge and banana and peanut butter toast
No snack
Lunch pomegranate, 2 oat cakes, yoghurt
S apple
D dry rice 😩

He basically only eats peanut butter, fruit, rice and bread goods. He is totally self imposed vegetarian. But no vegetables. I try every single day but he leaves it all.

DS is 16 months, currently eats really well after a few dodgy months!

B: one weetabix with milk, little Yeo yog, a few blueberries. Begged toast scraps off the rest of us
L: broccoli cheese pasta. Little Yeo
S: cheese and 2x Carr’s melts
T: chicken and leek pie (just the filling) with mash and peas. Mini custard pot. One choc button. Begged more toast scraps off the teenager too.

B: porridge and bananas
S: small packet of chocolate buttons - used as a bribe
L: ham sandwich, Pom bears, yoghurt
S: grapes - has started spitting out skins now
D: haddock and chips but didn’t really eat the chips

Not the healthiest of days

Mine is also super fussy at the moment and definitely won't touch anything green, if he spots even the finest chopped bit of greenness he either painstaking picks it out or leaves the whole thing 🙄. In fact the only vegetable he will reliably eat is carrot. He's nearly 2.5.

Breakfast: weetabix and oat milk (at least half uneaten) and an apple
Snack: another apple (he insisted)
Lunch: sweet potato mash with cheese and beans, fromage frais
Snack: grapes, and rice cake with humous (discarded)
Dinner: sausage pasta with carrot and finely chopped green beans (picked out)

Breakfast: rice crispies with full fat milk, cut up apple and strawberries.

Lunch: peppa pig pasta on nimble toast with a strawberry yogurt for after.

Dinner: ham sandwich, bag of skips, cherry tomatoes/cucumber. Cheese and pineapple.

Snacks: piece of Swiss roll. Jammy dodger.

She apparently eats everything at nursery but the above meals are all I can consistently get her to eat other than fish finger, chips and beans. She loves any fruit which is brilliant but wafer thin ham or chicken/fish fingers is the only meat I can get her to eat and that’s only very recently.
She doesn’t like eggs, which is a shame because I do a brilliant dippy egg!

mynameiscalypso

What's the recipe for courgette pancakes?

My nearly 2 year old had:

Breakfast: Toast and a banana
Snack : Croissant (daddy gave)
Lunch: A portion of pesto pasta. Nectarine.
Dinner: One adult sized Waitrose spaghetti bolognese ready meal. Which she absolutely hoovered up

So by no means a good day. And definitely one which was NOT good for salt or for veggie and fruit intake! But she did love it.

If any of you have Instagram
Whatmummymakes Instagram page is excellent for ideas and she has a book on amazon which is really good!

Today 16 month old ate:

B: Weetabix (2 but usually 1.5) with milk and fruit puree
S: Oaty bar
L: Nibbled at peanut butter on toast, Alpro soya yogurt, cherry tomato, melty stick
S: courgette and cheese muffin, homemade blueberry muffin (both quite small) and a few slices of banana
T: courgett orzotto with tuna and grated cheese, half a pear, 160mls milk

She's eating quite well atm, possibly a growth spurt. I do get stuck for lunch ideas though and she's getting bored of bread based stuff. What do you give if not a sandwich?!

Just going 2 year old.

Breakfast: porridge oats with strawberries, blueberries and ground almonds.
Lunch: baked beans, cheese cubes, half a banana, some toast.
Snack: jammy dodger biscuit.
Dinner: mashed potato, carrots, broccoli, diced chicken and onion gravy. She only picked at dinner.

Mine is a bit older (3.5) but in case it helps:

Breakfast: pancakes with fruit
Lunch: ham sandwich, red pepper, banana
Dinner: pasta with leeks, courgettes, peas and salmon. (Fry the veg in olive oil, bake the salmon in an oven dish, boil pasta, mix together in the pan with a dollop of creme fraiche). Grapes for afters.

This thread is great for ideas but feel very down - my 2.5 year old would eat these sorts of things and some days I'm really happy wit her diet but lots of days it's whatever nonsense I can convince her to eat (although to be fair there's usually some balance if you look at the overall foods and overlook the combinations ie she'll happily eat a spoon full of almond butter and an oat cake, but not together!)

At the moment the only reliable items are fruit, almond butter, bread, baked beans, fish fingers, salmon, nuts, peas and baked potatoes! She's even gone off chips and pasta. Sometimes she'll eat yoghurt, sometimes meat, the other day she ate half a Brussels sprout never having done so before and no doubt never to be repeated but I find myself buying novelty items like cheese strings and sausage rolls just to get food into her

When I said would mean she did used to eat a lot more different foods than she will now

@ihaveoflate staples here are a jacket potato (microwaved), omelette (plain with boiled frozen peas), occasionally soup.

Porridge
Raisins

Peanut butter sarnie
Kinder egg
Yoghurt

Carrot sticks

Leek and tato soup
Banana