What’s the healthiest thing your young DC will willingly eat?

[monkeymamma]

I just feel a bit stuck really.

Neither DS will eat: lentils, chickpeas or beans
Cooked spinach (eldest will nibble it raw)
Vegetables other than carrots or broccoli (occasionally peas)
Blueberries or avocado
Salmon (unless smoked)

They love cheese, ham, mash, pasta, rice, korma curry (but I’m very bored of chicken curry and plain veg curry!), bolognaise, macaroni and fish fingers. Oh and pizza of course. Chicken is acceptable to them (but literally my least favourite foodstuff!)

I’m trying to wean them off too much ham/sausage/processed stuff but I don’t know what to give them instead?

What’s the healthiest thing I can give them given the above restrictions?

DC1 - will eat tomatoes by the punnet, especially cherry tomatoes. Loves cucumber, raw carrots, peppers, basically anything crunchy. There is a long list of foods that he hates (sensory issues) but when it's a food he likes he will, if left to his own devices, eat it until he vomits as he can't sense when to stop. He's been known to drink Salad Cream before now

DC2 - loves peppers, will eat them whole like apples. Loves fruit and will ask "can I get a fruit please?" which tickles me for some reason, it's the way she says "a fruit" in such a serious voice. Happy to try new things even if she only has one bite and doesn't like it.

DC3 - this one was sent to Earth specifically to test me. Weaned almost exclusively on corn on the cob and chicken because that's all he would bloody eat. Currently subsists on Nutella sandwiches, those little Aptimel yoghurt drinks, blueberries, and turkey dinosaurs. He tried some red pepper yesterday on the orders of DC2 (he listens to his 6yo sister but not me, winning at parenting right here) and declared yummy so there's hope for him yet.

DC4 - only a year old so can be fooled into eating virtually anything if I hide it well enough or pretend it's a biscuit.

My main motto is that we don't fuss over food. I offer the food but I don't cajole, beg, bribe, or bargain. At most I'll gently encourage by asking if they've tried xxxxx and what do they think of it. It all gets cleared away at the end of the meal with no commentary on how much or how little they've eaten.