To ask the most random thing you've fed your toddler?

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We're on our knees in this house at the moment. A succession of Autumn illnesses, no sleep for the last week, dh working all hours as we're super skint after a flurry of unexpected bills...

So in my sleep deprived state I'm prepping my 1 year old's tea while he's napping (becauseiknowhe'llbeclingyashellwhenhewakesupandwon'etmedoanything) and realise I've inadvertently chosen for him

Pasta
Broccoli
Baked beans (low sugar and salt, obv)
A sprout.

Is this the most disgusting toddler tea ever?

For what it's worth we usually all eat a blw-friendly meal together at 6 but with dh going straight from one job to the other and the clocks changing DS is having a rare meal for one.

Hit me with your crap meal choices and make me feel better.

My 18 month old likes to eat whatever we are having. He loves curry (chicken tikka), sweet chilli crisps and sweet and sour chicken. He gives most things a go. The strangest thing is probably spreading cheese on naan bread or potato waffle dipped in curry sauce (wasn't supposed to be, but he dipped it when I wasn't looking).

Porridge for lunch. She'd begged for it and it's one of the few things she will actually eat so I made it!

A sprout? This has to be a reverse. You are literally the most unreasonable person I've ever heard of.
A sprout. honestly.

Breakfast from a tin. You know the stuff, baked beans with the little wizened sausages and 'egg' shapes, and jelly for pudding with bits of fruit in. Go on, flame me, I dont care.

Pasta and beans is a great combo, pasta beans and cheese was a staple part of my student diet!
And to the pp who said about serving pasta with marmite, Nigella has published it as a recipe in one of her books!

Think of it as a carb - pasta protein- beans with accompanying veg.and then relax its food! Their tummys will be full so all good.

We had roast lamb tonight with carrot and broccoli youngest had cheese cubes instead of lamb as he won't touch it... it's the protein element so all good

What on earth is wrong with pasta with marmite? It's even a Nigella recipe!

Stuck on an unexpected journey from hell due to floods separating us from home I was in a car when young family members were given a 'dinner' of Mars bars and cheese strings... Lots of people were stranded and the shops we could find on the road were fairly devoid of real food, let alone real toddler friendly food!

Toddlers thought their dinner was amazing!

I gave my DD the exact same meal - except for the sprout! When she was little she loved yoghurt, so I used to mix a bit of yoghurt into pretty much everything (stew, mackerel, you name it).

My kids get many, many weird meals of whatever I can forage from the fridge at the last minute when I suddenly realise how late it is and they are starving.

Not me, but my dm once gave my toddler a rind of pork fat to gnaw on. Kept her quiet I suppose . What surprises me is my 7 year old comes home from school regularly having had pizza, pasta, baked beans and sweetcorn!

Yeah, I don't think that's anything to worry about, OP!

I have been caught out with some random combos in my time. Toddler with allergies, staying with relatives (stressful mealtimes etc) and teething as well. A lonnnnng week, from which I have the fond memory of just watching her eat ketchup with Pom bears as a spoon one lunchtime. I just let her.

She has eaten a menu that would make a superfood guru feel inspired today, so it just shows it doesn't kill them now and again!

still loves ketchup

Very fussy 3yo here. He basically lived on "tapas" throughout the summer- I asked him what he wanted, put a blanket in the garden and let him sit and eat.

Jam sarnies, TUC biscuits, cheese cubes, banana chunks, yoghurts, dry cereal ...

My toddler would LOVE that dinner. Even the sprout.
The baby (well 11 months) was eating alternate mouthfuls of chocolate cake (birthday, doesn't usually eat cake) and cabbage tonight.

Only a little bit weird but my DD often plaintively asks if she can have porridge for breakfast in the morning "when I wake up , mummy". She's only had it every single morning since she was 7mo! We had an early flight a few weeks ago and so I thought I'd give them croissants and pain at chocolate in front of the tv while we did the last minute packing. She had a face on her like a slapped arse for hours from the lack of porridge. Learnt my lesson on that one 🙄

DS eats Wagamama katsu curry sauce with a spoon like its a yoghurt it's too spicy for me!

A tin of ambrosia rice pudding whilst sat in asda baby room.

DS was a really fussy eater, fussy in a good way I suppose as he'd only eat my food, he wouldn't eat anything processed, no tins, no baby jars, food in cafes, nada. (( later diagnosed with Autism )) no smugness here, it was actually a real, pain in the arse. This kid wouldn't even eat beans ffs.

His one exception was ambrosia, tinned rice pudding so one day when he was around a year old I found myself shovelling it into his gob straight from the tin because he was wailing for food and I didn't want to have to go home just to feed him !

We had pasta with frozen sweetcorn for tea tonight. With a sprinkling of grated cheese from the back of the fridge. Carbs/veg/dairy. And nobbly bobbly ice creams for dessert.

Must make shopping list for after work tomorrow...

A whole half-a-cucumber. Clutched in his fist aged about two. Just that - for his lunch.

We got caught on a day out without a picnic and it was literally the only thing in the Co-op he would go for.

Upon collection from nursery every day my two year old snatches "what I did today" paper slip and eats it. If I try to stop her she howls. Doesn't seem to have done her any harm. (They assure me they do feed her!)