Advice on what to give ds 2.5 for breakfast and lunch

[Aeroflotgirl]

Ds is now getting fussy, previously he would eat anything, but now he dies nit like porridge, weetabix, ready Brek or toast, and will spit it out if I try to feed it to him. Most breakfast consist of beans on toast or scrambled egg on toast, with he occasional yoghurt, fruit and yoghurt.

Lunch is usually the sameish, with mabey some leftover from the night before that I have cooked myself, e.g roast, curry, spag Bol etc. I don't know what else to give him for lunch or breakfast, I am stuck for ideas. Please could you lovely people help me.

I give him fruit throughout the day, he loves broccoli, peas, carrots btw

What you're giving him sounds fine to me (although normal baked beans have quite a lot of sugar and salt). What about oat cakes or different types of bread, if you want him to get more cereals in his diet?

Thanks June, will try that too

Ds had pancakes and fruit pieces for breakfast today and will be having some chicken, salad veg slices, cheese wedges and a yoghurt for pud :-)

I think it sounds fine really! DS goes through phases of what he likes to eat for breakfast (just like me, really).

Lunch round here is leftovers, or something like soup (today butternut and coconut, made with garlic and ginger; also sometimes vegetable soup made in microwave with veg and a low salt-stock cube and lentils; or this mexican bean soup

Hang in there. My DS, who would previously eat anything and everything, hit a major fussy patch at 2.3, and is now emerging from it at 2.9. It's a way of asserting their independence. It may not sound like a big deal, but this week he asked to try some of my sausage (a hit) and at least tried a roasted onion (not a hit).

For breakfast, we do eggs different ways, or pancakes, or waffles. You can buy healthy, while grain and alternative grain versions of the latter two.

Another vote for soup. It's "fun" to eat, apparently looking at the mess DD makes of it. Other lunches we do are like a mini ploughmans, a choice of veg and cheese and meat, sometimes I do this with oatcakes or those tubs of cream cheese with dipping breadsticks.

Or the ultimate fail safe of pasta and sauce. I'm a rubbish cook but I do make my own pasta sauce and freeze it, that way you can make one full of vegetables and they don't know they are eating something technically healthier than pasta, sauce and cheese.

Thanks so much for tge fantastic ideas

I put rice or pasta in soups to add variety/texture

Love the mini ploughmans idea!! will try this out!!

Yes to pasta.... I think DS would live on it if he could.

Hadn't thought of rice in soup but that would be good - do you need to cook it first, if the soup is just going to be warmed through on a hob or in a microwave? I suppose you could do the same with couscous too?

DD's complete winner of a meal at the moment is spaghetti and meatballs. You can get meatballs quite cheap and freeze them in little portions for a later date. Pasta with vegetable sauce and meatballs - carbs, veg and protein in one meal. Makes me feel saintly

He could top his own pizzas, using pitta breads, wraps, pizza base mix etc as a base.

May be you could make a mini-buffet for you and him with different bits and pieces to help himself too; he might then accidentally find himself helping himself to something he would have otherwise refused!

Good luck :)