What has your toddler/preschooler honestly eaten today?

[riotlady]

Toddler eating habits are such a mix of fascinating and infuriating. DD is constantly declaring she doesn’t like something which was previously her favourite food but she also seems really good at naturally balancing her food- yes she’ll have a day where she eats basically nothing but cheese, but then she’ll have a day when she eats nothing but fruit, and it seems to balance out quite well over the course of a week/month. I wish I could say the same for me! Anyway thought honest accounts of a toddlers day of eating would be interesting

Breakfast- 4 slices of toast, sans crusts. I made the mistake of buttering it while it was still hot so the butter melted in and was no longer visible. The toast was therefore sent back for additional buttering.

Snack- Smoothie made from a banana and frozen raspberries. Apparently smoothies are a “Bing thing”.

Lunch- 1.5 green peppers eaten chopped up with a spoon. Several licks of a sausage roll before deciding she “doesn’t like it”

Afternoon snack- 1/4 chocolate muffin and some milk

Dinner- Toddler bowl of chilli, no rice, followed by 3(!) apples. I may owe an apology to the nursery worker who has to change her nappy tomorrow.

Please don’t have a go if you are one of those people who think fruit is the devil. I promise to feed her nothing but boiled chicken and broccoli tomorrow.

Two preschoolers here. 4 year old suddenly hates his favourites.

Breakfast - chicken, egg, mayo, toast and peanut butter
Snack - fruit
Lunch - tuna sandwich, peppers and carrots, raisins, cake (nasty sugar free protein thing that is supposed to be for my diet).
Snack - fruit
Dinner- pasta

They have eaten tonnes of fruit today but husband is away and I've hurt my neck so have limited mobility. if I made snack I probably would have made toast with ham and cucumber

Honestly, a small brioche roll for breakfast before second breakfast of cereal at nursery, banana for snack, pasta and a biscuit for lunch, point blank refused the nursery tea so had some bread and butter and a yoghurt as supper come missing tea kind of meal, he didn't seem very hungry to be honest.

Breakfast - Cheerios, oat bar, apple
Snack - quavers
Lunch - fruit, cucumber, peppers, diary lea on crackers
Snack - banana
Dinner - quiona, peppers, raisins, was still hungry so added a peach

Lots of fruit in this house!

Age 4 - rice crispies with milk and a banana for breakfast. Ham sandwich (no crusts), apple, carrot sticks, packet of crisps dipped in ketchup (don’t ask), leftover Easter chocolate for lunch. Raisins, breadsticks and cucumber sticks. Child size portion of adult dinner, with a bit more Easter egg. Bedtime cup of milk.

Other child has ASD and basically eats carbs and cheese.

Age 3.
Breakfast: eggs & soldiers
Snack: raisin Cookie (plus about 3 cookie's worth of dough..)
Lunch: soup & bread
Snack: raspberries
Dinner: Quorn sausage, potato waffle, broccoli, carrot

Breakfast - refused porridge, 2 mini boxes of raisins, a packet of ready salted crisps, and a cup of sugar free squash.
Lunch - refused soup, a bread roll, a sausage roll, a glass of water.
Dinner- 5 cocktail sausages, 2 Bourbon biscuits, 4 slices of ham, a packet of skips, a satsuma, a mini box of raisins, a Babybel and a cup of sugar free quash.
About 200ml of milk.

Today has not gone well, lots of food, but no veg hardly any water, refused both hot items (which is really common, our life is one long picnic)

Aged 2 sorry!

Unexpectedly at home due to needing a Covid test, so don't have much in. 2 year old.

Breakfast - shreddies with milk, half a banana
Snack - raisins
Lunch - Tilda rice pouch, courgette fritters from the freezer, yogurt
Snack - apple, milk
Dinner - oven chips and sausages. Refused cauliflower cheese.

There would normally be more green, although he rarely eats it.

Chocolate chip brioche, toast and butter, crackers and cheese, sandwich, crisps, yogurt, mince and potatoes, yogurt, pepperami, more crackers and cheese, ice cream.

She ate a lot today and I've just let her as she refused dinner last night and was sick this morning. I've noticed even she doesn't eat her dinner she is sick when she wakes up. She is so so so fussy and it's really stressful. Her diet is terrible and I'm so ashamed. My older daughter is the exact same. Both of then were brilliant eaters when they were weaned loved fruit, veg, everything but they just gradually started refusing lots of food and now they will only eat certain things. And both of them like different to each other . I'm actually thinking about asking for help to get them eating better as I really am not doing a great job in this department. Its the one thing I feel I've failed at as a parent. I was very fussy as a child as well but now I eat anything.

Age 3:
Breakfast - small brioche roll. Half a weetabix - refused the rest.
Lunch - ate very little veg and lentil soup with bread. Ate all of bananas and custard for pudding.
Snack - scotch pancakes, cucumber, hummus, drink of milk
Dinner - ate 2 fish goujons, 3 wedges, apparently now full.

Only on MN do people fret about their kids eating too much fruit, after a day of 3 pieces...

Aged 2.4

Breakfast-3/4 of a hot cross bun

Snack-toddler potato/veggie crisps and a rice wafted

Lunch-some hummus and cucumber, some chicken

Snack -apple

Tea-pesto pasta, a little chicken, some cheese grated and boiled carrots

Bed time snack-banana yogurt

My girl is going through a week of eating like crap, other times she eats really well.

She used to eat all vegetables but has gone off of those recently as well as soft fruits

Aged 3
20oz of toddler milk
Half a banana
Some blueberries
A few chips

He has arfid

Just turned 3
Breakfast - grapes and strawberries
Snack (at nursery)- raspberries and strawberries + 1/2 rice cake
Dinner - tomato and cheese pasta with a few tortilla chips
Snack - 2 Chris's reads with butter
Treat Tea for special occasion - chips, 1x spring roll (didn't eat the sweet and sour chicken)

This is a brilliant eating day for him very much lacking in veg though. He is generally rubbish apart from fruit and has build up shakes.

@00100001

Only on MN do people fret about their kids eating too much fruit, after a day of 3 pieces...

Yeah you don’t see the variety or portion size of my sons fruit intake 😂

4yo average kind of day today

2 slices malt loaf and a pear. Cup of milk

snack : 2 Jaffa cakes and watered down fruit juice

Prawn sandwich on a brown 'thins' sandwich with a bit of mayo. Avocado, cuc and toms chopped up. Watermelon

Chicken dippers, mash, carrots and corn on the cob followed by greek yog with honey.

Ate almost everything, I can't fill her at the moment she's like a teenage boy

Toddler 2 yes 3 months and baby almost nine months:
Breakfast: toddler Weetabix and a kiwi, baby Weetabix and a mashed up pear.
Snack: both had two biscuits at a toddler group. Wouldn't normally allow this but was giddy to be out and about!
Lunch: each had half a cheese wrap, oatcakes, veggie straws and a banana
Dinner: chicken stuffed with Philadelphia, mashed sweet potato, roasted tomatoes and peas. Baby didn't have tomatoes and I don't think toddler ate any!
Drinks: toddler milk at breakfast and dinner, water rest of time. Baby just water as she is also breastfeeding.

DS is 4.

Breakfast - 3 weetabix with milk, a banana, a satsuma and 2 fromage frais

Nursery morning snack - crackers

Nursery lunch- beans on toast

Nursery tea- chilli with veg and jacket potatoes

Snack on the way home- handful of chocolate buttons

Supper- a ham and cheese toastie, carrot and cucumber sticks, wotsits, a bit of Easter egg and a banana

Fairly standard day. He’s saying he’s still hungry. Also standard.

2.5 year old DS

Breakfast - Banana and a slice of toast
Snack - A packet of veggie straw crisps
Lunch - 1 Chicken hotdog with half a cucumber and a large tomato
Dinner - Homemade chicken nuggets and pasta

He would normally have some fruit and light snack before bed but he was too shattered.

He's drank about a pint of milk.

Age 2

Breakfast: 1 x weetabix and a glass of milk

Snack: Organix gingerbread man and handful of raspberries

Lunch: Slice of brown bread toast with cream cheese and red pesto, half a bag of Skips

Tea: Chicken, Cathedral City cheese mini, cucumber and rice cakes

Snack: Handful of strawberries and a glass of milk

DD is very fussy at home but typically eats anything and everything they put in front of her during the days she attends nursery!

B: Porridge made with Almond milk with peanut butter and honey.

S: apple with peanut butter. Some smarties. A few veggie sticks snack crisp things.

L: peanut butter sandwich (yikes, so much PB!), some dried cranberries. Something else but I've forgotten.

S: 2 plain rice cakes. 2 long breadsticks. A bit of fig.

D: plain pasta. A thin slice of a fig tart I made.

He is incredibly fussy so we are working to a v limited menu. He's 3.5. The 18mo ate so much healthier I promise!

3yo twins -

Breakfast: 3 pieces of Weetabix (each!!).and some milk and water to drink

Lunch: piece of cheese each, some crackers, red pepper, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, sausage roll, bit of chutney followed by strawberries and a leftover mini egg each, fizzy water to drink

Dinner: decent portion of homemade lasagne made with hidden veggie sauce, followed by some dry Shreddies and apple pieces, water to drink

Bedtime: small cup whole milk

@Kollywobble DD is exactly the same, she eats loads of stuff at nursery that she won’t eat home. Not just veg but things like pizza she won’t touch at home (except to nick the pepperoni) and eats it fine at nursery!

My two and a half year old is very frustrating. Some days he will eat a lot, other days he just isn’t really interested in food and today was one of those days.

He had porridge and a banana for breakfast, dippy eggs and soldiers for lunch, satsuma and yoghurt as a snack but wouldn’t touch dinner at all. Tried numerous times but he just wasn’t interested, he had a few crackers in the end and a glass of milk then went to bed.

3 year old who would carry on eating all day if I let her...

Breakfast - 1/4 crumpet, 1/4 weetabix.

Snack: Handful of cereal (taken from DH's bowl as is her 'routine'.

Snack 2: 1/2 breadstick

Lunch: 1/2 egg, slice of ham, 6 chips, peas and sweet corn, small amount of Easter Egg for pudding.

Snack: couple of crisps and slice of cheese.

Dinner: 3/4 slice of brown bread and butter with cheese, blueberries, cucumber, tomato, couple of crisps, strawberries, pudding was a mini meringue and cream with a miniature slice of cake.

Glass of milk before bed.

She is only drinking milk at the moment as she has gone off of water and orange juice.