To think this is an okay lunch for DS?

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I made an easy Sunday dinner today. There was a bit too much for this evening so I've sent some leftovers for DS when my mum looks after him tomorrow whilst we're in work.

The small plate of leftovers consist of carrot + swede mash, potatoes, broccoli + leek cheese and peas. I've just spoken to my mother to let her know he's sorted for lunch tomorrow and she doesn't seem to think its an adequate lunch. When I asked her why, she couldn't actually give me a reason

For context, breakfast will be Weetabix or porridge with raspberries, for lunch its the leftovers followed by some fruit + yoghurt, and dinner will be scrambled egg on toast with another portion of fruit. Plus two small snacks. He's a few days shy of 12 months.

AIBU to think its a perfectly adequate meal?

I'd be very careful OP. He will probably be severely malnourished and with his hair and nails falling out by the time you collect him 3 hours later......

It's totally fine.

@schmoo personally I'd be most worried about all that fibre and the potential for a Poonami - forget the malnourishment!

No protein that I can see? Apart from a bit in the cheese sauce

So that's the protein then.

sorry, what did i do? . I wasn't being either humble or bragging - can you be both at once?

i always skip breakfast and rarely eat a cooked lunch, so that's all I meant!

I think that is perfectly fine, good from my point of view! Don't need to eat meat every single day

😂 😂 😂"not best practice"

OP you're fine, sounds like a standard meal for mine.

As if reheating a vegetable renders it practically dishwater.....

Some people need to unclench.

@dementedma

Maybe you're new here; if so you'll fit right in. It's quite The Thing on MN to critique other posters diets with "gosh I could never eat all that" - usually in response to a meal like "small chicken breast, half a potato and three peas" ....
Just never seen it done with a toddler meal ...

The protein nerds, what would you say to my son who will not eat any meat at all. It just gets thrown off the highchair. Funnily enough he's growing just fine.

I'm not clenched Dermymc.

But the OP asked for opinions, so that's what she got.

I didn't randomly turn up at her house and shout it through the cat flap.

Sounds yummy. Your mum is worried there’s no meat, though. She’ll prob supplement it with a packet of wafer thin ham.

There's loads of protein in his food - protein doesn't just mean meat, despite what everyone seems to think. He's getting it from the yoghurt, porridge, vegetables, cheese!

I think that sounds like a lovely day of food, if not a little daunting thinking that's what I'll have to provide for my daughter-to-be when she's 1 because I'm nowhere near as organised with my own food!

Gee I dunno Dermymc - try a non meat source of protein mebbe?

The OP asked. The lunch she describes would have satisfied one of mine for about an hour, then they'd have been hungry again. But then I don't see how wheatabix eaten at breakfast or eggs eaten at tea time keep you full for the afternoon.

I’m lovin saucy jack I’m no turning up randomly turn up at her house and shout it through the cat flap

Dd age 5 doesn't eat any meat and doesn't eat eggs. She eats tuna and salmon but o don't give her these each day. She's absolutely fine, theirs things like protein, iron etc in plenty of foods that aren't meat.

Stick it in a blender and call it homemade vegetable soup. That is the lunch of choice for mumsneters on days when unable to obtain fresh kale and avocado.

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Stick it in a blender and call it homemade vegetable soup. That is the lunch of choice for mumsneters on days when unable to obtain fresh kale and avocado.

Brilliant!

My 4 year old had broccoli, carrot and a slice of peanut butter on toast for dinner a couple of days ago. She was knackered and whingy and that’s what she wanted. Meh, it’s one meal. Over the course of a week she eats perfectly adequately.
His lunch is absolutely fine.

Some babies that age are eating pureed veg from a pouch. With pureed fruit from a pouch . What you've described is fine.

This thread is a belter
Stick it in a blender and call it homemade vegetable soup. That is the lunch of choice for mumsneters on days when unable to obtain fresh kale and avocado

Puree from pouches is also fine.......

It's absolutely fine and anyone saying otherwise needs to give their head a wobble.

I love these threads. They are barmy. OP son is not even a year old yet. OP the meal is full of yummy vegetables and is pretty good. FWIW my DS now thinks veggies are evil and refuses to touch them. And he won't touch cheese ... but he is fine on lots of fruit, vegetables at nursery, hidden veggies at home whenever I can get away with it and guacamole (which bizarrely he loves)