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.

Breakfast was rice crispies and a slice of toast.
Morning snacks were baby Bell, mango and hula hoops.
Lunch was tomato soup and garlic bread
Dinner was fish fingers, mash, carrots and broccoli followed by two yoghurts
Then she has an 8oz bottle before bed.

@Peanutbutteryogurt

mynameiscalypso

What's the recipe for courgette pancakes?

I use this one but add some cinnamon and vanilla to make them sweet (vs savoury as per the recipe).

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/courgette-fritters-2

Afternoon snack I forgot.. A huge bowl of popcorn 😂

Oh and I add some baking powder and generally use wholewheat flour.

Not actually a toddler as just turned 4.

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs on toast (no crusts, I can't bring myself to fight her on crusts).

Snack: handful of nuts and raisins.

Lunch: spinach (raw, with salad cream), tomatoes, then about two hours later; tabouleh (kinda, she picked anything that wasn't couscous out), houmous, breadsticks.

Snack: 4 chocolate buttons (unusual, I was desperate for chocolate (also unusual) and she spied me).

Dinner: roast chicken, roast potatoes (jettisoned all veg), followed by Greek yogurt and honey and then watermelon.

It was a better than average day for her, she could happily live on blueberries and croissants for weeks.

@Clockchangezzz

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

The best advice I read is that to look at the intake over a week rather than in a day. Things normally balance out. And I try to trust that DS knows what his body needs in terms of carbs/proteins/fat etc.

19mo:

Croissant and raspberries for breakfast, cup of whole milk
Peanut butter toast for second breakfast
Banana mid-morning
Spinach paneer curry for lunch
Clementine mid-afternoon
Shepherd’s pie - 3 helpings, refused peas
Cup of whole milk

Then 8,000 breastfeeds on demand throughout the day, think a molar is on the horizon.

DD will be two in a week. Today she ate:

Half a slice of toast
A handful of grapes
A yoghurt
A few spoonfuls of baked beans
Two chocolate digestives (second one stolen from the biscuit jar while I was hoovering 🤦🏻‍♀️)

She refused to eat/threw/yelled NOOOO at:

Scrambled eggs
Fish fingers
Chicken and rice
Any form of vegetable
Any food that requires sitting in a high chair for more than three minutes....unless CBeebies is on, at which point we get a full ten minutes

She used to be such a good eater until she learnt to express her opinions in words 😩

19 month old DS is a real foodie.

Breakfast: 1.5 weetabix with a handful of blueberries and raspberries mixed in. Helped himself to an apple just after and ate everything but the stalk.

Snack: orange

Lunch: pancake with a fried egg and beans. A squeezy pouch yogurt. 4 cherry tomatoes

Snack: couple of mini rice cakes and a small banana

Dinner: leftover chicken pasta bake, half a poppadom from our curry, and an organix mini gingerbread man.

DD, 23 months, allergic to dairy, soya and coconut.

Breakfast: coco pops with oat milk
Snack: bag of skips
Lunch: ham and cucumber sandwich, bourbon biscuit (cos mummy wanted one), apple and pear (about 1/4 each of adult sized ones)
Snack: breadsticks
Dinner: fish fingers, waffles, spaghetti hoops. Watermelon (2 triangles), rice cake.

Porridge
Satsuma
Sultanas
Fishfingers and beans
Yoghurt
Sausage casserole, potatoes and cauliflower
Banana

15 months

B: readybrek with banana and cashew butter
S: banana wafer
L: slice of marmite on toast, strawberries and raspberries
S: Green Smoothie (avo, banana, mango, spinach, Spirulina, bit of milk, bit of water)
D: meatballs and pasta - ate very little pasta and a bit of the meatballs

Bedtime bottle of cows milk.

Ds 18mo
B: one slice fruit toast, handful of kellogs blueberry and beetroot cereal (dry), half a banana, blueberries
S: other half of banana
L: chicken sandwich, tomatoes, lentil crisps, one falafel ball, apple
S: three mini rice cakes, bread (was meant for the ducks but wouldn't share any with them🤣🤣)
D: beef stew with carrots, leeks and mash. Gingerbread man (nibbled and saved most for tomorrow)
Plus lots of breastmilk😆
A very good day for our usually fussy boy.
I love these threads to get ideas!

Forgot to add...he has cmpa so all dairy free

Breakfast: One weektabix with whole milk

Snack: A homemade scotch pancake and half a banana

Lunch: Slice of baked potato and beans, a handful of raisins

Snack: Peanut butter on toast, half a slice

Dinner: A mini homemade burger (no bun) with sweet potato wedges and homemade coleslaw, followed by strawberries and a petit filous yogurt.

Stolen: Half of a chocolate biscuit when I wasn't looking

15 month old twins had:

B - Eggy bread with pb/choc spread with pear
S - berries
L - quiche with beans on toast and cheese
S - orange and rice cakes
D - ham and cheese homemade pizza with a petit filous

Age 2
Breakfast- corn flakes, banana, toast with butter
Snack - babybel and 2 rice cakes
Dinner - scrambled eggs with spinach on toast, then a satsuma
Snack - melty puffs, a few shreddies and a few raisins
Tea - cheesy jacket potato with scampi and a tiny bit of broccoli (there was more veg on the plate but he wouldn't eat it!)
Throughout day - plenty of drinks of water and 2 drinks of full fat cow's milk.

A typical day really. I usually put a bit more effort into tea but every so often it's something easy.

13 month old had:

A crumpet
Melon
Cheese sandwich
Jelly
Mash, chicken goujon and broccoli
Yoghurt

A very happy chappy

My 2 year old is a bit fussier than usual this week.
Porridge
A banana
A few spoons of cauliflower soup, plus a slice of brown bread with butter dunked in the soup.
An oatcake with cheese,
All the prawns and none of the veg in a stir fry, plus a couple of mouthfuls of noodles.
A slice of brown bread with hummus and tomatoes, but she picked all the tomato off.

DS 2 had:
B: poached egg on toast
L: a slice of last night's pizza, a tangerine, a bit of tomato and a few pieces of cucumber
Pud: haribo sweets
D: sausage, carrot and potato mash, 🥦 and sprouts
Pud: a few squares of aero chocolate

He also had grapes which he vomited up in my car, a jammy dodger, a few wotsit crisps and something he picked off the floor of my car

B: Scrambled egg & avocado on toast
Banana
L: Oats with milk, Greek yoghurt, apple
D: Chickpea curry with spinach & rice, tangerine
Snacks: rice cakes and treat small hot chocolate with mini marshmallows

Ds is 3.5 and has a bee sibling. He’s using food as a control.
B - weetabix
L - refused banana pancakes.
Snacked on two small bananas at the park.
D - one slice of homemade veggie pizza. He threw an utter shit fit when asked to sit at the table and wouldn’t eat his full meal.

@Clockchangezzz I feel your pain. Mine was 2 in July and at that point he was still eating practically everything given to him. It's just gradually deteriorated since then.

5 apples! He's obsessed but I said to DH no more than 2 a day, but some crossed wires and miscommunication and the terror ended up with 5! We'll pay for that with his nappy

He does nothing but snack all day but I've got terrible morning sickness so going with the flow until I feel better to tackle it...

weetabix and multigrain hoops, milk and seeds
3 slices of toast
Small yoghurt
Few squares of chocolate
5 apples
Homemade pizza (at least managed to blitz some broccoli, spinach and tomato into the sauce)
Strawberries
Kiwi

Slightly embarrassed reading this back!

Should add he's 2.5