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.

4 year old

B- cornflakes
S- banana bread
L- 2 marmite sandwiches, chopped apple, apricots, cucumber
Ice cream
D- chicken, potato waffles a mouthful of broccoli
Cup of milk

I'm very impressed at that green pepper eating OP. DD is good with fruit but I always worry about veg.

Today DD had porridge with banana, a plum and an oat cake, a bite of my sandwich and then a freddo that someone else have her 😕 some peanut butter sandwiches, raspberries, a tub of vanilla ice cream, veggie sausage with mash, peas and broccoli for dinner.

She's goes to nursery 2 1/2 days a week and she eats well there. She eats plenty, doesn't really have any days where she won't eat anything but she definitely has too many treats imo.

She also has milk on waking, milk at bedtime and sometimes milk in the afternoon too

Age 3 DD

Breakfast

Glass of orange juice 'green porridge' 1/2apple chopped up and hidden in porridge.

Snack AM

A small piece of cheddar cheese and the other half of her apple

Lunch

2 small quarters of tuna and sweetcorn sandwich, 3 baby tomatoes cut up, pepper batons, and a small bowl of unsweetened popcorn. Water to drink

Snack PM cucumber sticks

Dinner

A toddler size portion of spag bol with hidden veg in it (celerary, carrots and mushroom). 1 small slice of garlic bread. Plain yoghurt and berries. A mini roll Water to drink

Glass of milk before bed

17 month old

Lots of breastmilk
Breakfast - banana, toast, shreadies
Snack: some of my cheese scone which he stole, grapes
Lunch: cheese, olives, chorizo sandwich
Snack: sultanas (I was mean and made him walk and reach up to get them as he is still crawling and refusing to walk).
Dinner: chicken in breadcrumbs, peas, apple

3.5 year old. Good appetite usually and not too bad at eating range of things.
Breakfast: one weetabix and milk mixed with some Cheerios and porridge oats. Cup of milk.
Second breakfast: one slice brown bread with peanut butter, few slices of apple.
Lunch: homemade chili and rice
Snack: half a chocolate bunny, a bite of lemon drizzle cake, a rice cracker
Dinner: homemade chicken kiev (about a quarter of a chicken breast), oven chips, broccoli, one slice of carrot.
Cup of milk

3 year old
Breakfast - porridge and a baby jar of prunes
Snack - muesli bar
Lunch - blood orange, chorizo-style hotdog thing, breadstick, little yoghurt, biscuit
Dinner - two slices of toast with ketchup (this is not usual, we were having leftovers but he refused)
Supper - pear, one small piece of pulled pork, yoghurt, cup of milk

My DD’s favourite phrase at that age was
“Today I no likey ...(insert food that has been perfectly acceptable previously, but also changes in a daily basis)!
She’s generally fine now. DS1 will eat anything vaguely edible in vast quantities and DS2 any ‘proper’ food ie food made by me, that isn’t greasy.

Oh my kids now are 14.12 and 9.

@riotlady how did you get her to eat four slices of toast??

Mine is exactly the same at moment. Every day different.

2.5
Breakfast one slice of toast with banana
Snack chocolate lolly on walk with granny
Lunch half roll, puffs, cucumber and carrot sticks, pear, grapes, yogurt
Snack blueberry muffin
Tea lentil soup, chicken strips, sausage strips, broccoli, melon (dunked in the soup) blueberries

Yesterday not a great deal.

Almost 4yr old has today eaten:

Breakfast Jordan country crisp cereal and weetabix minis (not at the same time) with whole milk. She left some of the weetabix.

Lunch: 2 slices of cold meat, salad, prawn pasta, houmous and half a pitta bread. She left a little pasta and some salad.

Snack: half packet of wotsits, grapes, blueberries and melon. Half a chocolate chip cookie. Ate them all asked for extra fruit.

Dinner: chicken nuggets, chips, peas, sweetcorn and carrots. Ate everything so was allowed a lollipop.

3yo

B: bowl of rice crispies
S: banana
L: ham sandwich, babybel, cherry toms
S: bowl plain popcorn
D: salmon, mash, broccoli. Apple crumble and cream (x2 as his brother wouldn’t touch it so he hoovered it up)

Almost 3 year old here.

Breakfast - Watermelon wedge, grapes, one lick of a spoon of porridge with milk.

Snack - rabbit shortbread biscuit from the bakery

Lunch - homemade tomato soup (one spoonful at most), 50:50 bread and philadelphia, cucumber, strawberries.

Snack - babybel

Dinner - half a fish finger, 1 potato wedge, 2 sticks of baby corn, large spoonful of mayonnaise (eaten using a spoon), half a tonne of peas

It’s funny because today I told DH that she’d had a ‘good eating day’ but looking at it written down, it’s crap!

3 year old and 16 month old:

Breakfast:
1/2 apple sliced with skin
1/2 banana
1 satsuma
Portion of sugar free cereal without milk
Sippy cup of milk

Snack:
apple (they ate it around the shop whilst out and about)

Lunch:
Bagel with 100% but peanut butter
6 toddler crisps
2 toddler rice cakes
Cucumber sticks
Carrot sticks
2 cherry tomatoes
4 sugar snap peas

Snack:
Little bit of Easter chocolate and a slushy drink shared between them and me while watching a film

Dinner:
Sausage
Homemade potato smilies
Peas and sweetcorn

4yo - boiled egg and brown toast soldiers, didn’t eat crusts. Apple. Banana for snack. Ham sandwich, half a red pepper, a whole raw carrot, cherry toms and strawberries. Half a portion of lamb ragu pasta, baby sweetcorn, garlic bread, Shortbread biscuit. Milk.

2yo - scrambled egg (Ignored toast), peeled apple (otherwise will spit out peel). Yogurt pouch for snack. Smoked salmon (ignored the bread it was in despite asking for a sandwich) cherry tomatoes, whole carrot, ignored red pepper despite asking for it. Strawberries. Big portion of lamb ragu pasta with loads of cheese, baby sweetcorn, two pieces of garlic bread, shortbread biscuit. Big cup of milk.

Growth spurts going on at the moment I think!

[quote brokengate]@riotlady how did you get her to eat four slices of toast??

Mine is exactly the same at moment. Every day different.

2.5
Breakfast one slice of toast with banana
Snack chocolate lolly on walk with granny
Lunch half roll, puffs, cucumber and carrot sticks, pear, grapes, yogurt
Snack blueberry muffin
Tea lentil soup, chicken strips, sausage strips, broccoli, melon (dunked in the soup) blueberries

Yesterday not a great deal. [/quote]
Absolutely no idea, she’s not normally a big breakfast eater but she’s eaten a lot the past couple of days so she might be growing again.

I am very appreciative of this thread.

Often I think my toddler isn't getting enough or is too fussy etc.

It seems like my other mum friends are like

So and so eats breakfast lunch and a three course meal in the evening plus snacks and it's all organic and free range etc etc

You have made me a happy mum

Ds, 21 months

Breakfast - fairly big IKEA toddler plastic bowl of cornflakes, whole milk
Snack - half a tortilla, two small satsumas
Breast milk
Lunch - one slice of seeded bread, with cheese to make a cheese sandwich. Some of my cheese toasties crusts. A couple of bits of ham
Dinner - sausage, a ton of sweetcorn, was offered peppers, courgette, leek, but didn't touch them. He eats a lot more veg at nursery, and will often eat stuff it it's a curry, etc.

DD 16m
Breakfast: porridge with peanut butter and a raspberry mixed in (we only had one left lol), then she helped me eat my eggy bread. So maybe had a third of a slice of that as well.

Snack: 3x Aldi crackers (the round ones in a blue box, shes mad for them) with butter.

Lunch: ham sandwich (1 slice bread, butter, ham and a smidge of mustard), cheddar cheese, Cherry tomato, cucumber, pepper sticks and a celery stick. (She didn't eat all her cucumber, has gone off that in the past few days), 6 X Bamba.

Snack: banana

Dinner: spinach and chickpea red lentil dhal and some pitta for dipping. Plain yoghurt and half a passion fruit.

Bedtime drink of 200mlish whole milk which her vitamin drops were in

DS 21 month old.

Breakfast: Those weetabix bite size things.

Snack: Banana Flapjack or Rice Cake.

Lunch: Wholemeal sandwich ham and spreadable cheese, grapes, strawberries, Pom bears and a milky bar.

Just before dinner he helped himself to his Easter egg . Cheeky chap.

Dinner: Chicken Chow me in with a few crackers. I put broccoli and peas in it.

And two fromage frais.

He usually has tomatoes or cucumber on his lunch but didn't have them in today.

DS just turned 2

Breakfast- Apple and cinnamon porridge, banana, about a tablespoon of pomegranate seeds.

Snack- pancake with butter and some blueberries

Lunch- scrambled egg, toast and beans with some cheese. Squeezy yogurt pouch

Snack- 4 mini chocolate animal biscuits, an orange

Dinner- pesto pasta with peas and spinach (ate less than half) then some chippy chips and a chicken nugget an hour later.

About 180ml whole milk first thing and some blueberries
Nursery day today so breakfast could've been anything.
Lunch - baked potato and beans (not really eaten as she doesn't like potato)
Dinner - macaroni cheese x 2 portions

After pickup, she had a Heck sausage, some pasta with cheese, some roast peppers,

She's actually really good with veg and would eat fruit constantly. It's carbs I worry about - she has a very limited range of what carbs she will eat. Little weirdo.

4 year old:
Breakfast 2 poached eggs, refused toast.
Lunch birthday cake and 2 slices of ham,refused bread from ham sandwich.
Dinner 2 fish fingers, half a waffle, remainder of birthday cake
Pre bed , 1 poached egg
Never eats fruit or veg, ever.

Breakfast - an orange and the whites of a hard boiled egg (doesn't like the yolk)
Snack - Oreo biscuit
Lunch - ham sandwich, a few Pringles and two small pieces of chicken
Snack - a few green and black olives
Snack - Oreo biscuit
Tea - spaghetti with a little cheese on top (refused meatballs and sauce)
Pudding - paw patrol chocolate Lollie

She also had her daily vitamins

Looking back on the day I think too much sugar and not enough fruit or veg! Tomorrow I will try better