To ask what has your toddler eaten today ?

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Today and is their diet what you call “balanced” opinions welcomed on what I’ve given my ds today ..

Today my ds has had :

Breakfast - 2 weetabix milk
Snack - 2 cheddar biscuits and some cheese
Lunch - pesto chicken pasta - pudding banana and yoghurt
Dinner - just had chicken goujon wraps with mayo and some tomatoes chopped up and bits of cheese , pudding fruit salad.

He has ALOt of fruit , some days he has a biscuit for a snack or a small piece of chocolate .

Too much sugar ?

21-month old DD:

Wake up- About 4oz milk that was mixed with water (it was night milk she didn't wake up for, and I'm trying to water down to stop her waking)
Breakfast - Porridge, grated apple, walnuts - didn't each much of it though
Snack - apple & banana (she's fruit obsessed)
Dinner - Peppa pig shapes in tomato sauce, slice of wholemeal toast and a boiled egg - didn't touch the egg
Tea - Dahl and rice. Dahl had courgette, carrot, onion and red lentils in
She'll have some milk before bed

She's a very good eater - rarely refuses food. I think she has a good varied diet.

Breakfast: Fruit salad and yogurt
Snack: Oaty bar
Dinner: Cheese and onion sandwich and quavers
Snack: 2 Jaffa cakes
Tea: Fish Fingers, waffles and beans. Ice cream for pudding.

Drinks: Water/ milk

Sounds fine to me OP- my 2.5yr old had

A croissant (ate half) some milk and an apple

A couple of slices of baby pizza with crudités, hummus - followed by some Easter egg

Chicken stir fry followed by some berries and a custard cream

2 1/2 year old

Breakfast: porridge and an apple -ate two spoonfuls of porridge so then had 1 slice of toast
Snack: Ella’s fruit pouch (large size)
Lunch: tomato soup and crusty bread, yoghurt
Snack: wotsits
Dinner: beans on toast And quarter of an Easter egg for pudding.

Usually has more veg but today hasn’t been a good day although I won’t beat myself up over it.

I'm cautious about fruit sugar after my DD's dentist told me that milk teeth can withstand 4 acid attacks a day, and every bit of sugar (fruit or otherwise) counts as an attack. She still eats buckets of fruit though, just these days I stress about it.

Today she has had:

Cinnamon bun and strawberries for breakfast (cinnamon bun is unusual, she usually has toast and nut butter or porridge and fruit).

Strawberries and almond butter for a snack (her weird choice, she usually has cheese and crackers, vegetable sticks, or fruit). I also shared a small packet of Mini Cheddars with her.

Children and veg with udon noodles for lunch. A tiny bit of her Easter egg for pudding (we're ekeing it out).

Kiwi fruit for snack.

Beans, veggie sausages, poached egg avocado and toast for dinner. With strawberries and raspberries for pudding.

She's 3.

Our 17 month old has been offered a variety of healthy food today. She has however actually consumed:

One soldier in her dippy egg
A purloined packet of Quavers from the snack drawer
A pear
A bite of cheese and half a slice of DP homemade bread

Luckily she has a cup of milk in the morning and a bottle at bedtime, and copious amounts of water throughout the day. Poor kid’s inherited my metabolism; she eats like a bird but never loses an ounce of weight!

Chicken. My daughter has not been eating children.

I hope.

13 months

B: toast with peanut butter and banana
L: cheese sandwich, strawberry and oranges
D: sweet potato and chill con carne, yogurt

16 mo
Porridge and sultanas
Apple
Tuna, broccoli and noodles with cheese
Minestrone soup with green beans, squash, tomatoes and courgettes and toast
Yogurt

DD (3)

Breakfast: shreddies, milk, raspberries and blueberries

Lunch: half a kiwi, a small apple, a few grapes and small chunk of cheese that she insisted on having while waiting on lunch “because it’s taking a long time”, then a tiny jacket potato with some leftover bolognese on. Courgette, mushrooms, pepper and carrot in the bolognese. Inhaled the lot.

Snack: digestive biscuit

Dinner: creamy chicken and mushroom pasta with broccoli (ate most of it) and another digestive.

She’s had two small cups of milk, some weak squash and a couple of cups of water too.

There’s been no filling her the last couple of weeks, but today is the first day she hasn’t asked every 5 minutes to bake and eat cupcakes

DS 2 had

Cheerios
Banana and grapes

Cheese and ham lunchable thing

Carrot sticks and a milky way all about the balance

Veggie burgers with sweet corn and cucumber

Yogurt x2

My two year old has had:
Pain au chocolate and a yogurt for breakfast but he didn't really eat any.
Cream cheese on toast, cucumber and the icing from an iced bun for lunch. Banana as a snack. Dinner was fake McDonalds so he had chips and nuggets and banana milkshake. He would have far less sugar on a weekday.

Banana
Toast w/ butter
More toast with a poached egg
A homemade ice lolly that's just watermelon
Bread roll w/ cheddar, ham and Branston
A 'pink thing' aka a fruit roll up
Pasta, sauce and a small pile of greens

Not the best day for him but I'm feeling not very arsed as have hands full with his baby brother too so we just get through to bedtime.

3 year old:

Cornflakes
Apple
Prawn salad
Orange
Honeydew watermelon
Bit of Easter egg
Dried banana pieces
Beans on toast with a hot dog sausage

I too worry about too much sugar, my daughter would scoff the whole fruit bowl if we let her. I wouldn't worry about a biscuit or bit of chocolate, it's all about moderation. As long as teeth are brushed properly twice a day and you're offering plenty of variety it's not the end of the world.

DS just turned 2

Breakfast: porridge with grated apple
Lunch: tuna sandwich with mayo and tomatoes and a satsuma
Snack: peanut butter on rice cake and a banana
Dinner: pasta with homemade sauce - tomatoes, courgette, mushrooms, sardines and some Greek yoghurt

We’re so lucky that he’s always been a really good eater. He’s never had sweets, chocolate, crisps, any junk food really (apart from cake on his birthday). He does love fruit though so I’m sure gets his sugar kick there!

Not a great example, today my 3 yr old has had
Breakfast 2 small pancakes with Nutella, a banana, Apple juice.
Half pack of crisps, water
Breadsticks, cucumber, carrot sticks, ham, sweet chilli houmous, strawberries.
Some chocolate (last of the Easter egg)
Ice lolly
Scrambled eggs and toast, Greek yogurt with honey and almonds.
Much less fruit than usual, and not a "proper" dinner. Saturday's are a bit of a free for all.

2 and a bit

Plain greek yoghurt with a few cocopops
croissant
homemade pitta ‘pizza’, cucumber and strawberries
low sugar homemade flapjack
homemade carrot/veg soup, cheese toastie with soya linseed bread
cherry kefir drink

18 month old has had
Breakfast:
Two weetabix and a banana
Snack:
Organix oat bar
Lunch:
Vegetable soup and bread
Snack:
Apple and peanut butter
Dinner:
Chickpea and spinach curry, rice and a bit of naan bread
Dessert: Greek yogurt and berries

Some days he eats more than this, some days less. Toddlers can be quite fussy, it’s pretty normal.

15 month old has had
2x weetabix with blueberries for breakfast and a small sippy cup of milk
Lunch was a dairylea sandwich, baby crisp things and banana
Snacked on some of my pancake with banana and Nutella - a real treat for her!
Dinner was pasta with tomato and veg sauce followed by grapes
Small milk before bed.
We go through phases of eating dinner then not eating dinner, her appetite is definitely bigger in the morning or seems to appear anytime me or DH eats!

My 3 year old had

• 1/3 of a small ikea bowl with allbran. and shreddies
• snack: 5 big strawberries
• lunch: 1/2 jam sandwich on wholemeal bread
• 1 carrot

-a mini pizza (pizza base with tomatoe and some cheese, ikea kids plate sizes) and 4 chips

• 5 big strawberies and a mini ice lolly

2 year old had:
Big bowl of four grain porridge with cinnamon
Mincemeat and veg sauce with half a slice of bread crumbled up in it (he really likes eating this for lunch so I make a big batch of meat sauce and freeze it in portions)
Peanut crisps and cape gooseberries for snack
Pizza
Bowl of plain turkish yoghurt for supper (savage, don't know how he can eat it plain, so sour)
A cup of watered down milk (he's prone to constipation so need to water it down) and some water.

I actually managed to avoid giving him biscuits today, he's been having them every day lately which I feel bad about so I'm not buying any more when his current packet runs out. I know biscuits aren't such a bad thing but he gets obsessed with them and he associates them with milk so when he has a drink of milk he immediately wants a biscuit too.

DS 19 months has had.

Toast, malted weeties.
Half an apple, few pom bears and crackers/dairylea
Mushroom Stroganoff and garlic bread.
Snacks., oaty bar.

And a yogurt for pudding.

DD is two and she’s been quite picky since lockdown started.

Breakfast- shreddies and a bit of bacon stolen from her dad
Snack- Blueberries
Lunch- about two bites of chicken curry
Snack- Ice lolly
Dinner- LOADS of chilli and rice. I was actually shocked, she’s been eating fruit and picnic-y things for the past few weeks but has hardly eaten any proper dinners. She did pick the kidney beans out but I’ll take what I can get atm!

She’s also had quite a lot of milk

DS (2.5) had:

Breakfast- a slice of peanut butter on toast and a banana.

Snack - missed out today as he accidentally fell asleep on the floor.

Lunch - baby bell, some mini vegetarian sausage rolls, carrot sticks, small handful of crisps.

Snack - an almond biscuit and a yoghurt.

Dinner - homemade pizza with sweet potato wedges.

I'm feeling a bit mean now that he doesn't ever have pudding