Toddler food

[Rhonah]

Which toddler food is best on the market please for toddler of 16 months, there doesn't seem to be much choice.

It's for times we want to eat late or we eat food not suitable for a toddler, pizza or curry

Why not give her beans on toast, scramblled egg, pasta, - anything really but on a smaller scale than if you were eatig as a family. Don't buy her crap ready meals.

I used these but as riven said any healthy grown up food should be ok

Or freeze leftovers when you have loads left over and then you can defrost some as and when you decide dc won't be eating what you and dh will be eating.

Thanks little ducks this site looks good. I appreciate what Riven is saying and home cooking is best provided the ingredients are good quality, but there are times when I want a wholesome meal for my toddler but havnt the time to make it myself. if there was a range of meals that had provenance and used only the best ingredients I would be very tempted to use them without feeling guilty.does anyone else out there feel the same or am I alone.?

There is a cook shop near me and it is my emergency dash place when it has all become too much, i'm fond of the feta and vegetable bake for myself.

bread and cheese/cold meats for when we eat separately. or a scrambled egg. A child that age can and should eat everything adults eat (plus some extra fat minus the salt).

We do scrambled egg with some veg mixed in - very quick

My DS a bit older but if he is eating quickly and separately for similar reasons he has:

scrambled or boiled eggs with bread

pasta with mydolmio sauce

fish fingers with carrot sticks

beans on toast

M&S do good kids pizza in their kids range which I get for DS sometimes, can cook from frozen if time short. He has it cut into little cubes and loves it.

I keep a stash of individual toddler portions of home made stuff in the freezer - bolognaise sauce, cottage pie, chicken with rice and veggies, fish pie, chicken curry - they can all go in the microwave. Occasionally, like when my stash runs out, or we're staying at my mum's, I get M&S kids meals - they're the only ones we've tried that aren't vile or full of crap (IMHO).

for ultra quick tea when I'm pushed for time I often boil some quick cook pasta and heat half a tin of chopped tomatoes, mix pasta with tomato and pop grated cheese on top. takes 3 minutes!

scrambled egg and low salt/sugar baked beans also takes 3 minutes

What about the Little Dish meals they have been advertising recently?

Mine loves pesto - spaghetti pesto with loads of cheese on top takes no more than ten minutes.

Eggs are fab-boiled, scrambled, omlettes, and my DD adores egg mayo sandwiches. (I struggle a bit here, the smell of egg makes me heave, but she loves them.)

I always buy one more sausage than I need when shopping and wrap the extra separately for the fridge or freezer - if for any reason she is eating separately to us, sausage always goes down well. (There is an excellent butcher in our village and he's told me exactly what goes in to them.)