What did your 2/3yo eat today?

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Stuck in a rut and need inspiration!

We are in a cycle of same meals and I need to break free.

Mainly pasta, jacket potatoes and he doesn’t eat many meats except sausages plain or in pasta or chicken if in a curry. So hoping by introducing different meats in a new format will help him try it.

Thank you 🙏

Not very adventurous here either so following for inspiration really!
Dd had toast and fruit for breakfast. Followed by dry cereals in front of tv 🤦🏻‍♀️
Lunch was a picnic in the park so sandwiches, crisps, cucumber, cubed cheese and yogurt.
Dinner was a Sunday roast.
In general she eats a lot of pasta, sausage and mash, homemade pizzas and the occasional beige freezer meal. She gets plenty of fruit and veg so I'm not overly worried but would be nice to mix it up a bit.

Not a lot he's going through a faze of throwing his food on the floor.

Breakfast was porridge and fruit he had 2 mouth fulls and threw it on the floor.

Lunch was fish, chips, peas he picked at the fish and the rest ended up on the floor

Evening meal was spaghetti Bolognese he took 2 mouth fulls and refused to eat more.

For a snack he had a yoghurt with 2 strawberries.

Egg on toast this morning and then we've been out all day and has survived on fruit and snacks type food 🤷‍♀️

Breakfast was a yoghurt.
We've been out and about a lot today so more little and often eating but he's had:
A tub of mixed fruit
An apple
A pork pie
A packet of crisps
( He napped through lunch when we all had sandwiches hence the pork pie!).

Now he's having dinner which is:
roast chicken
Corn on the cob
Broccoli
Chips
Gravy.

Mine likes broccoli, tomatoes, cucumber, sweet potatoes

Don't have to eat much meat if they eat lots of cheese and yoghurt or protein

My annual salary in raspberries.

Massive bowl of cereal and blueberries for breakfast.

Pancake and passion fruit midmorning snack, cucumber sticks.

Pasta Bolognase leftovers with cheddar lunch 2 - dinner sized portion.

Date balls/baby bliss balls.

Egg fried rice, with cod and grilled tomato for dinner, melon for pudding.

Age 3. Baby age 1 ate pretty much the same and not too dissimilar portion sizes either.

3yo - bowl of watermelon for breakfast
Mid morning Starbucks hot chocolate as a special treat (mummy and son time while DD was at a party)
Lunch was a ham sandwich with Mayo and cucumber
Tea was bbq, he had some garlic chicken kebab, maple belly pork, feta salad, potato salad and pasta salad followed by a banana. Most of the time they just have the same as us!

Same as us. Sourdough toast and Jam, and fruit for breakfast. Cheese, crackers, veg sticks for lunch. Risotto for dinner.

Today hasn't been a great day for my 2.5 year old's diet! Not bad but lacks fruit and veg (despite offering, and he's usually good with fruit!)
Weetabix
Wheat puffs
A bite of a dough ball (wouldn't touch the cucumber and pepper sticks served with it)
Ham and chicken pizza
One banana slice and one half of a grape from his fruit salad dessert
Refused the flat peach offered
Now eating a nectarine!

3yo - breakfast was avo on toast, apple slices, tofu, banana slices with peanut butter and seeds on top
snack - rice cake with hummus, cashew nuts
lunch - spinach and hummus sandwich, cucumber, sweetcorn, crisps
snack - chocolate ice cream whilst out and about
dinner - homemade pesto pasta with spinach, butter beans and peas
also still breastfed

Sunday so lazy day at our house.
porridge for breakfast, the fridge is on the blink and freezing things so checked in some strawberries which had frozen, I know the kids wouldn’t eat them otherwise.
cheese sarnies, apple for lunch.
she had a yoghurt midafternoon.
pizza and chips with an ice pop for tea.

Today she had museli and an apricot yogurt
Some of a roast dinner
The chocolate sprinkle bit from a Fab lolly and a few quavers
Ham and peppers omelette and a few mouthfuls of someone elses spinach and potato curry.

She tries more things if they are on someone elses plate. Recently she started liking stronger flavors, so spicy fajitas, enchiladas, kedgeree and spicy sausages. She also likes being able to dip food, like dipping cauliflower into a curry sauce herself or toast into eggs.

3 year old had:

Breakfast: porridge with grated apple, cinnamon and cream
Snack: banana
Lunch: scrambled eggs on toast
Snack: plum
Dinner: lasagne with salad and some birthday cake for dessert (DH’s birthday)

I don’t make special meals for the kids (have a 6yo too) - they just eat what we have (minus the salt which we add to ours).

How about fish? Pan fried salmon or sea bass is healthy and they seem to like it. Although if he prefers things in sauces that might not be ideal

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2 almost 3 year old.used to eat Porridge but now only eats pancakes (with banana). Lunch was pasta with vegetable sauce (I still batch cook for freezer), then berries and yoghurt. Dinner was rice with lamb koftas.
Throughout day, juice and 2x milk. Today also had some cake.

Breakfast rice crispies, fruit and chocolate spread on toast

Snack mini cheddars and raisins

Dinner 'picky bits' quorn sausages, cucumber, avocado, sweetcorn, a few other bits I can't remember!

Snack raspberries, a little chocolate cornflake cake thing

Tea cauliflower cheese made from scratch, cherry tomatoes & a couple of bits of veg. Then a bit after that some toast.

An alright day I think although doesn't get the mumsnet seal of approval due to the raisins, chocolate spread, cornflake cake thing and picky bits.

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My almost 3 year old is a good eater. Today he had

2 weetabix with milk, blackberries and a piece of toast with almond butter

About half a fried egg, some ham, half a wrap, cucumber sticks and a small bowl of tomato soup

Sausage pasta with tomato sauce made with onion, carrot and courgette, grated cheese and about 20 raspberries

Bowl of porridge before bed.

We went really busy today and didn't offer snacks which is why I think he ate so much

Specifically today, I dread to think!

It included cake, pom bears, ice-cream, a biscuit, juice, and an untouched lunch of a cheese toastie and cucumber sticks.

At least for tea my DD had tender stem broccoli and butternut squash tortellini. She devoured it. Mind you, yesterday I offered her exactly the same meal and she ate precisely none of it.

We find ready-made gnocchi is a really quick "base" for tea. Add peas and some soft cheese + cheddar. Or can do chopped tomatoes and butter. Or even baked beans! (We don't all eat together and need quick post-work teas.)

I also put carrot in with pasta when I'm boiling it as an easy way to get veg in. I think boiled carrots are sweet and tasty to kids. Green beans, too.

On daycare days my 2.5 year old gets an amazing variety (fish, lentils, all the fruits and vegetables) so I don't feel too bad at the lack of imagination at home 😂
Yesterday was:
Breakfast - 2x crumpets with jam, 1 x wholemeal toast with butter
Snacks - banana, crackers, arrowroot biscuit
Lunch - Ham and butter on a roll, strawberry yoghurt, apple slices,
Snack - homemade sausage roll (stolen from the kitchen counter where they were cooling), mandarin x 2
Dinner - Roast chicken, carrots, roast potato, gravy, yorkshire pudding,
Supper - Weetabix with milk

Not a great healthy day here yesterday but will record anyway! 🙈 DD is 2.5 and dairy free

Breakfast- bread and 'butter' (Flora) which is her current request. A banana. Asked for bread and marmite after but didn't eat it.

Snack- organix oat bite things (like mini flapjacks), Ella fruit pouch, vegan ice cream

Lunch- in cafe had sausage, chips and beans. Put some cucumber and tomato on her plate hopefully but predictably she ignored it!

Dinner- Ham and peanut butter sandwich and raspberries.

My 3 year old is thankfully just starting to come out of a fussy phase. We were on holiday last week with lots of junk so trying to get extra veggies in today!

Breakfast: poached egg on sourdough with avocado.

Snack: berries
Lunch: ham crepe with spinach, mushroom, onion, corn and tomato.
Dinner: HM chicken nuggets, sweet potato, carrots. Refused green beans.