To ask what your toddler ate today?

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After a few days or barely eating anything today my 17 month old has eaten:

A banana
A bowl of shredded
A slice of toast
A rice tea biscuit
A lunchbox malt loaf
A goodies oaty bar
A hobnob
About 30 blueberries
3 satsumas
A tea-cake
1 small tin of beans
1 slice of toast
2 small yogurts

I am aware a lot of that list isn’t great for him- now he is eating well again I can readdress the balance and get more veggies and proper dinners in! He ate a full Sunday roast yesterday and plans have meant it needed to be a quick tea.

What have your toddlers had? I need inspiration for new ideas and to know that mine isn’t going to end up obese for eating everything he had today!

Just over 2 year old had today so far

1 slice bacon
1 toast
1 Apple
Half a satsuma
8 grapes
4 small rice cakes
3 crackers
Small bowl homemade parsnip soup
2 slices cheese
1 cherry tomato
Slice sandwich ham
1 small chocolate

Dinner to follow but not sure what we are having.

Spat out pepper and cucumber

A banana
A bowl of cornflakes w full fat milk
Pasta w tomatoes
Chicken, potato and veg
An oat bar
All the pasta and carrots from a big bowl of minestrone soup, and whatever veg stuck to the pasta so firmly that he did not manage to peel it off
A few bites of apple
Milk

He's tall, skinny and eats loads. DH is the same, as are all his siblings. String beans. He was amazingly adventurous eater until a few months ago, and now suddenly he's learned the word NO and is picking out simple carbs from whatever we cook for dinner and pushing away the rest. I have no idea what to do other than to keep putting this food in front of him so he's at least aware that he's skipping 2/3 of the foodstuffs.

2.9 year old but more like an 18 month old in her portion sizes.

2 slices of toast
A banana
2 rice cakes
A chocolate coin
A mini fruit lolly
Cheese and Cucumber Sandwich
3 mini bread sticks
Roast Chicken with Brocolli, Carrots, Peas, Sweetcorn and Potato

She wouldn't touch the coleslaw or hummus on her plate at lunchtime.

2.1 year old

Bowl of Rice Krispies
Yoghurt

3/4 child size pizza express pizza
3 dough balls

Bowl of rice and chilli con carne
Banana
2 yoghurts
10 grapes
Quarter of a bagel

16mo had:
Peanut butter on toast
Large banana
Chocolate chip brioche
Yogurt covered raisins
Fish pie
Mushy peas
Yogurt

His lunch kinda went out the window when relatives showed up at my dad's wanting to meet DS so I took him round there straight after his nap where he had brioche and raisins- if he had been at home it would have been half a ham sandwich with some cucumber and cheese and melon (of which he would only have eaten the sandwich and cheese).

My almost 3 year old is going through a food refusal stage. Although he's fussy at the best of times.

Cherrios- refused
Raspberries - refused
Bread and butter
Beans on toast - ate some toast
Raisins
Mini milky way - treat for pooing on the toilet
Fish fingers, cheesey mash and peas - ate 3 bites of fish finger.

Drives me insane!

Nearly 3 year old

Bowl of Rice Krispies
V small bowl of cornflakes
Cheese and veg quesadilla with cucumbers
Satsuma
Fish pie
Plain yogurt with raspberries
Satsuma

17 month old

One weetabix with ff milk
Slice of toast with peanut butter
Handful of blueberries
Beans on toast
Yoghurt
Orange and half a banana
A few baby biscuits
Packet of raisins
Cheese cubes
Homemade chicken pie with carrots and peas
Rice pudding
Fruit salad of banana, raspberries and blueberries
A square of kinder chocolate from an Easer egg.

He also had a cup of ff milk with breakfast and with his afternoon snack.

He’ll have a cup of warm milk before bed and I’ll offer him half a banana or something.

He is a gannet and very tall. This is a typical day for him

Small bowl of multigrain cereal
Half an apple
Half a small box of raisins
3 cucumber slices
A handful of grated carrot
Some sweetcorn
Half a chicken and Philadelphia sandwich
A banana
A yo yo roll
A few mouthfuls of broth

Small bowl of Cheerios
Blueberries
Egg mayo sandwich
Half an apple
Chicken curry, rice and veg
5 mini eggs

Oh and some tinned pears and rais

1 year old had:

Weetabix
Honeydew watermelon

Spinach leaves
Tomatoes
Mushroom
Babycorn
Mange tout
Cucumber
Carrot
Pepper
Roast chicken
Wholemeal wrap

Toad in the hole with veggies

Lunch looks like a lot of stuff but she only has a small quantity of each bit. She seems to prefer having small meals which she can come back to throughout the day, rather than large meals

21 Mth DS had

Breakfast
1x weetabix with whole hot milk
1x nana (Banana)

Mid morning
1x homemade sponge cupcake (left icing)

9999x Breastfeeds ( aghhhhhh, trying to cut down and stop)

Lunch
Pasta with peas & Salmon
Cup of semi skimmed milk ( which he did not drink, but stirred it with his knife, splashing it everywhere. Will not drink any kind of cows milk grrrrrr )

He would of normally had fruit after lunch but he went off playing instead and has slept most of the afternoon

Dinner tbc, maybe cheese on toast and a fruit pot.

My almost three year old had

Breakfast - A banana and a slice of toast and peanut butter
Nursery snacks - bread sticks and hummus, half an orange and a bite of toast and marmite. Very unimpressed by the marmite apparently. Don't blame him
Lunch - French toast, a babybel, a box of raisins and dried apple, a few chunks of pineapple and a few crackers with cheese.
Dinner - gave him a chicken fajita wrap, he ate the wrap and some of the peppers and onion. A small bowl of rice and beans with grated veg through it, and a bit of Easter Egg afterwards. He doesn't seem to like meat but always put it on his plate just in case.

1 year + 9 months old.

Wheetabix minis,
Small glass of milk,
Apple slices,
Coconut curls,
Cheese sandwich,
Yoghurt pouch,
Grapes,
Mini smarties,
And currently eating spaghetti with meatballs but the meatballs are pretty much on the floor.
Glass of water

16mo dd:

• Half a slice of wholemeal toast, dipped in runny yolk

• Strawberries, blueberries, grapes and half a small pot of custard

• Jacket potato, beans and cheese

This is way less than she'd normally eat but she's running a temp and not well at all, so pleased she's eating anything at all (let alone a whole jacket potato!)

DC 23 months

One cup of milk
Two small sausages
Handful of blueberries
3 medium sized strawberries
Half a banana
2 bread sticks
Half a chicken sandwhich
4 strawberry wafer things

Going to have homemade chilli for his dinner, maybe a corn on the cob as well as he loves them.

18mo had

All night Boob Buffet till 7am.
A few mouthfuls of cornflakes and milk. 3 bites waffle and BF
half an organix oaty bar and BF
1/4 of a cheese sandwich and 3 bits of a frankfurter and BF
Orzo pasta, cauli, broccoli and spinach in a cheese sauce and a petit filous

She will have a BF before bed at 7pm too.

God, mine is driving me mad with eating at the moment.

Today:

Beaker of aptimil
Bowl of cereal with whole milk
Banana

2 x rice cakes

Pesto pasta (ate 2 spirals)
Turkey breast
Roast ham
Crisps (she was allowed 3 because salt)
Babybel (half)
Mini ice cream

She rejected:

Bread
Houmous
Cucumber
Lettuce

We struggle to cook for her at the moment because we've just moved and only have a tiny belling oven thing, so DP tends to give her annabel karmel dinners far more than I'd like. When he makes her nice things from scratch - yesterday a chicken and rice curry with hidden veg; today an omelette - they end up on the floor whilst she shrieks for yoghurts or more rice cakes

She was the best little eater at 1, only had healthy home made things. Then she learned how to spit things out and it's been downhill ever since. It causes so many arguments with me and DP as he's the SAHP so if I get involved, I'm criticising him...

I know she has a new baby sister but bloody hell it's hard work. Cluster feeding a newborn is nothing in comparison!

(She's 2 and 6 months)

I’m reading all of these and feel quite desperate about my sons eating. He refuses anything other than pasta. Doesn’t eat veg or much fruit.

Sorry to hijack but your toddlers eat so well!!

notsohippychick

I suspect people whose toddlers are more fussy are more reluctant to post. DD can be fussy. She's going through a phase where she will eat well one day and refuse everything but strawberry yoghurt the next! I try not to let it get to me but it can be frustrating.

2 year old.

Spat out banana

Sucked all the milk off the spoon from his cornflakes

Broken up the breadsticks and sprinkled them on the floor

Spat out strawberries, then squished them until the juice came out

Licked some pasta

I. Don't. Know. How. He. Survives.

(teething, and he doesn't eat when he's teething)

Apparently you're supposed to view toddler eating over the course of the week, not a single day. Which is reassuring.

21 month old

Small bowl of porridge with raisins and honey
Half a cream cheese and cucumber sandwich
Quarter of a tomato
Slice of hm lemon cake
A few small cubes of cheese and cucumber

Refused dinner point blank and have since given:
Small bowl or custard
Cracker and marmite
Slide of malt loaf

She currently has an apple, which is normally a favourite but is languishing on the side.

Today has been a good day for her. We've have quite a few night wakings of late and I'm pretty sure it's hunger related because she won't go back to sleep until she's had milk and won't go to sleep until she's had a good 350ml milk at bedtime which is way too much considering she's getting some during the day too. I have a feeling she's teething as she has very red cheeks but she won't let me look!

2.5 year old had:

Toast and a banana
Small slice of cake at pre school
Cheese sandwich, handful of Pom bears and some grapes for lunch
Apple in the afternoon
Pasta with sauce packed with hidden veg and grated cheese
Spoonful of lemon sorbet

She’s always been a ‘problem’ eater (hence the hidden veg in the pasta sauce). We’re making progress though, she had roast chicken, mashed potato, broccoli, carrots and gravy yesterday which she wouldn’t have touched a few months ago.

My 4 year old on the other hand eats anything you put in front of her.