To think this dinner is acceptable?

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My toddler who is 2.5 had a cod fish finger sandwich for tea and 2 more fish finger on the side, he finished the whole thing and I gave him some Jaffa cakes and a banana sucky yogurt thing, that he's eating just now, DH is just home from work and asked what ds had for tea, I told him what he had and he seems to think it's not enough for a growing 2.5 year old.

He can be very fussy and I'm thinking it's a win that he ate that much at all but I'm being made feel horrible by DH. Please let me know if you think this is enough for a toddlers tea?

Don't be stupid.

Peas or something would have been nice too.
I myself would have done fish fingers, mash and peas a slice of bread.
Then later a suckie or yoghurt with strawberries or banana or something. X

So agree with this. These threads are a rush to claim that junk food is absolutely fine and take this piss out of healthy eaters. Not really sure why, since the healthy eaters aren't the ones dying of diabetes. Is it to feel less guilty cos there are so many of them that they feel vindicated? Don't get it.

Fish gingers has made me laugh more than it should.

Fish fingers are eaten weekly in this house. I go for the chunky ones so the fish to breadcrumb ratio is better and fish fingers mean peas in our house (and a potato waffle😳). If my husband does fish fingers he makes quinoa rather than a waffle, but he's posh totty

Aaargh! Thanks. This made me edit in time before I offended gingers. 😂

It sounds fine to me. No, there's no fruit /veggies, but I assume he's been offered them at other times in the day.

Come on MN! Everyone knows that Jaffa cakes are vegetables and sucky yoghurt things are fruit.

OP, quantity seems fine - actually a lot - but the quality is poor.

As a one off, no worries; but if that's a standard dinner, it's a lot of UPF crap for a wee body and brain to handle.

Water that you cook in water.

We've tried. I love veg and still 'offer' them but he won't eat them. He ate better as a toddler but gradually narrowed his range despite best efforts.

He's never been ill, grows like a weed, has beautiful teeth unlike my ghastly oral graveyard, and is active every day. He'll get there when he gets a girlfriend

It's fine

My mum tried to give me a fishfinger for tea in 1987, I reported her to Esther Rantzen’s childline, not seen her since being dragged off by authorities for not supplying me with enough veg. I watched on in my child size smoking jacket while blowing on a bubble pipe, calm and collected. I have found my people on mumsnet who love to stick the boot in at parents for supplying a perfectly good meal and criticising aspects that they probably wouldn’t do themselves!

Sorry, I'm going to be judgy. This meal has zero fresh/whole foods. All processed food, too much of it sugary (jaffa cakes, and the banana yogurt will have sugar in it too). No, it's not enough, though that isn't what your DH meant.

Substitute fresh fish (coated in breadcrumbs if your toddler is fussy), and potatoes and veg. And a banana and plain unsugared greek yogurt.

The biggest concern is that you don't know if its acceptable. Do you try to feed him nutritionally balanced meals during the week, or are all "meals" comprised of something frozen, and fried, with carbs. or does he get vegetables and fruit?

I think it's fine for an occasional dinner on busy nights yes. Mine have fish fingers sometimes. The steam bags of veg are really handy to have in freezer as you can just nuke them for a minute and then ready. We usually do fish fingers, potato wedges, and some carrots and peas from the steam bag.

Mind you, DD2's dinner has been a rice cake, an apple, a banana and some peanut butter as older sister and my DH are out, I've got work to finish and she is knackered after nurser so you're prob doing better than us by virtue of actually serving a meal.

It sounds like that is enough food for a toddlers dinner. Offer him some fruit if he is still wanting to eat more OP. A banana is a good fruit to always have available. You have not asked if the meal was a nutritious meal, which is a totally different thing.

No, not spot on. As I said earlier, ask the posters who have already brought up the lack of vegetables.... d put good money on far more meat eaters than vegetarians.

^STUPID COMMENT ALERT!!!

Ask the posters who have already commented about the lack of veg or 'why not an actual banana' who is/isn't vegetarian.

@AutumnLeaves24

^ LACK OF READING ABILITY ALERT!!!

I said Vegetation. 😊

It's not a particularly healthy meal, but the amount is more than I usually manage to get in my similarly aged DC of an evening. I don't know how picky your DC is or what other issues are in there, but sometimes kids eat unhealthy food and sometimes they have weird diet preferences - mostly they work through them in time. We had a week recently where DC just wanted baked beans and fruit smoothies. That was literally all they would put in their mouth other than milk. Currently, they're all about veggie soup and cheese sandwiches. It'll be something else next week.

If you're struggling with meal options for picky DC, a thread in Parenting might get you some inspiration.

Have to agree with most.
Quantity wise (which is what you are asking) no problem.
An occasional tea, amongst other more balanced meals? No problem.
'Typical tea' day after day - not great.

And tweezered some micro-greens on as one of his 5-a-day?

I don't know what's worse on this thread, the unbearables braying on about UPF or the posters who can't tell the finely milled carrot breadcrumbs were not a serious suggestion.

Lovely faux innocence there. She was asking about quantities so if there'd been veg too she'd have said so wouldn't she? Say what you mean when you want to be critical and have the courage of your convictions.

@namechangeGOT

apologies 🌷

vegetarians are always slated/blamed on here & I misread (under caffeinated, over tired & shit eye sight Spec Savers can't seem to fix!! @OkPedro

Anyone else laughing at the people going on like OP just said she gave her toddler a dirty kebab for tea?

It's fine OP.