To ask what you feed your two-year-old?

[UnderTheDesk]

Because trying to think of things to feed mine that aren't too sugary, salty, fatty, meat-heavy or nutritionally empty is giving me a headache. Inspire me, please!

My 23 month old DD still has 3 bottles of milk a day! Morning, afternoon naptime and at bedtime. Not too concerned.. all her older siblings have up the bottles easily around 3.
Also can't believe I have 4 kids and never knew about the wholemeal thing! I generally buy the 50/50 stuff.. anyone know if that has similar problems?

Mine are now a little bit older but at the age of two....
they'd have had something like

• weetabix or porridge for breakfast and a cup of milk

• snack mid morning such as banana or rice cakes

• lunch would be something like a sandwich (ham, cheese,tuna) and a yoghurt.

• snack between meals,usually something like an Organix fruit bar that was suitable.

• tea - pasta bolognese, shepherds pie, macaroni cheese, fish pie.

Drink of milk before bed.

Today-

Breakfast - Rice Krispies with whole milk and a banana

Morning snack - rice cakes and some raisins

Lunch - cheese sandwich, half a bag of skips, strawberries, yogurt

Afternoon snack - breadsticks and some blueberries

Dinner - fish fingers, carrot and potato waffles, peas and sweet corn followed by a yogurt

Whole milk before bed

Some days she eats better than others. Today was a good day!

Mine usually has whatever we’re having.

Today that was

• breakfast: porridge with blueberries and sliced banana,
• lunch: veg soup (we used Kallo stock to make it as it’s v low salt), with a roll and butter - tbh that wasn’t a huge success, she dipped the bread quite a bit and ate that then picked out all the carrots from the soup, ate them and left the rest...
• snack: apple slices and carrot batons with houmous,
• dinner: homemade lasagne and salad.

Other favourites - roast chicken, mash and veg; homemade pizza (means you can control the salt); fajitas (worth batch making your own spice mix - keeps ages in a jar In the cupboard); chicken curry and rice; fish fingers and peas; “picnic” lunches with eg crudités, a small piece of quiche or meat (either chicken or ham) some kind of dip (usually humous), an apple and perhaps half a slice of bread.

Mine mostly eats the same as the rest of the family.

Breakfast - 2x slices of eggy bread with strawberries and blueberries
Mid morning snack - sliced apple and orange, one of those little kinder beuno bars (the tiny ones)
Lunch - hummus and (wholemeal - her sisters find the white pitta gross!) pitta bread with carrot and cucumber sticks.
Mid afternoon snack - apple danish nakd bar (she loves them) and some raisins.
Tea - a vegetable and lentil cottage pie (this - thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/vegetable-and-lentil-cottage-pie) with peas, broccoli, and garlic bread.
Pudding - raspberry sorbet and grapes.

I’m lucky in that she isn’t a fussy eater and doesn’t mind what the rest of the family eats. 5yo isn’t keen on the pie so she had tomato soup instead.

My 20m old still has a bottle of formula (he's DF) so I felt shit about that for a while, until I went to the GP this week to ask about some other stuff. He said I should try and make the switch to a cup due to issues with teeth but he wasn't too shocked or bothered so it must be quite common. He also told me not to switch to soya milk as there isn't enough nutrients in it. I thought the advice was to switch at 1 no matter the milk so I'm glad I checked.

My ds today has had

Morning - shreddies with soya milk, bagel with DF marg.

Snack - carrot oat bar

Lunch out - fish fingers, chips beans. Ate 2 fish fingers

Snack - bread and DF math

Tea - chicken dippers wedges. Ate the dippers!

Bed - 5oz formula.

He's fussy but does succumb when I persist with stuff. He doesn't like wet stuff on his hands but will let us spoon feed cereal & spaghetti. Everything else needs to be dry enough to feed himself with minimum mess.

He likes spaghetti bolognese with garlic bread. Jacket potatoes, fish fingers, chicken bite things from Asda, any form of bread, mini sweet beef pasties/chicken+mushroom I make (he had no choice but to enjoy these as I made about 20), mild chilli with rice, savoury mince, ham sandwiches, jam sandwiches, chicken korma with rice. Tomato & basil pin wheels, homemade sausage roll, beans on toast.

It's really not a cracking diet but I do think he's getting more confident with food. I'll be stealing some of these ideas to test on my guinea pig ds.

Mine stil has milk in a bottle first thing and bedtime.
Breakfast: porridge and strawberries, yoghurt (although today he asked for smoked mackerel)
Lunch: cheese or ham sandwich, apple
Dinner: risotto, chilli, bolognese, gnocchi (whatever we're having)
Snacks: fruit, flapjacks, rich tea biscuits, cocktail sausages

Porridge, scrambled eggs/poached eggs on brown toast, avocado on brown toast.

White fish, chicken thighs/breast, prawns, rice, pasta, fish fingers, sausages, baked beans, spag Bol, cottage pie, crumpets, homemade chips, potatoes, ham and cream cheese sandwiches, cheese sandwiches.

In terms of snacks, they will have apple/banana (quite limited), cheese, but they also have crisps and chocolate too often.

On an average day my 18mo might have

Breakfast: Bowl of porridge
Snack: Fruit
Lunch: Quiche & halved cherry tomatoes
Snack: Fruit
Dinner: Penne bolognese
Supper: Cup of milk

His favourite lunches are; tuna pasta, quiche, pasta salad, sausage rolls, mini sausages

Favourite dinners; sausage, mash, peas & corn, chilli con carne, mince & potatoes, macaroni, baked potato & beans, fish cake & veg, Iranian stews with rice

Loves bananas, clementines, apple, kiwi fruit, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, peaches

Tuna mayo sandwiches

Fillet of salmon flaked up

Pasta with pesto, lots grated cheese, often boiled broccoli shredded into sauce

Pizza with veggie ham on and humous to dip into

Veggie burger cut up in strips with mash or rice with peas

BrickInTheWall

I think with the wholewheat/under 5s stuff, it's ok to give some, just better not to give only wholewheat.

My 13 month old loves wholewheat pasta and wholemeal or seedy bread! I try not to give too much of it for the reasons mentioned, but figured in the long run it'll be good for him to be familiar with it. So many kids don't like brown bread, would be nice if he wasn't one of them!

Explains it here:

www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/baby-food-questions/

Basically can make them feel fuller quicker

Mine has porridge, a banana and a slice of toast with peanut butter for breakfast.

Lunch is something like a sausage roll or tuna sarnie with tomatoes or just cheese and crackers with melon and grapes.

Dinner whatever we have really, youghurt for pudding.

Another one who has fed all mine wholemeal bread since weaning to no ill affects, my 2 biggest DS’s have never liked white bread.