Lunch for 2 year old and me - tearing my hair out

[Fiddledee]

I'm really struggling with my 2 year old at lunch time, his sister is now having lunch at school and I am find I'm dreading lunch time. He won't eat sandwiches, pitta bread (although he will do houmous and dip but he very bored of it and refusing it now), cheese on toast, scrambled eggs, omelettes etc...

He will eat raw carrot and cucumber, cocktail sausages, sometimes homous, sometimes bread and butter, sausage rolls, pizza (which I hate) and baked beans.

He has a limited but healthy diet for dinner - spag bol, fish pie etc... but he won't really eat that twice a day.

Think I should just have lunches for the weekdays set and if he doesn't eat it then he will starve til the next meal... Ideas for weekday lunches other than sandwiches gratefully received. Sometimes I feel like giving him a bag of crisps and telling him thats lunch as he would be as happy as larry!

Can't you make an extra serving of supper, freeze it and give it to him for lunch on a different day?

Have you tried him with soup? My 2 yo ds loves soup and dipping bread into it. He helps me make the soup, thinks it's v funny to watch me blend it and then loves to eat it. It's a good way of getting a range of veg/lentils/pulses etc into him without him noticing....

Oh and the other thing ds likes is jacket potato with say tuna Mayo or baked beans

Have tried soup complete failure - neither of my kids like wet food. I will try jacket potato again. I do feel he is on a sausage and potatoe diet though. I've tried to give two big meals a day and he just won't eat it at lunch time and I would like to give him the same as me and I don't want to eat spag bol for lunch!

my youngest loves a picnic lunch, basically crackers, cheese cubes, a bit of ham, cucumber, carrot, pepper sticks, a few crisps/mini cheddars and a bowl with bits of fruit in it, yoghurt etc
Obviously not all of that at once but a selection of them at a time
And you can have crackers and cheese and ham and fruit for after too, which is a pretty nice lunch

Or a bowl of spaghetti hoops/beans and toast soldiers?

Boiled eggs and soldiers?

Pancakes and different toppings?

Pasta and sauce?

or You could have a sandwich and DD could have breadsticks and cream cheese dip?

Crumpets?

maybe he's just not that hungry at lunchtime? my 2 littler ones are 3 and 1 and it's rare they eat more than a slice of toast and marmite at lunchtime as they both favour a very big breakfast.

Ds is 4 and dd is 7m but things they have:

Pizza and salad
Soup in a cup and bread
Boiled egg and soldiers
Bread and butter and stuff on the side that would normally be inside iyswim?
Crackers and cheese
Peppers, cucumber, carrots + cheese/quorn/roast beef
Sausages and yorkshires and sweetcorn
Sandwiches made like a roulade (roll it up without crusts and then chop)
Sausage rolld occasionally
Quiche tho ds isn't keen

Hth

Ds is 4 and dd is 7m but things they have:

Pizza and salad
Soup in a cup and bread
Boiled egg and soldiers
Bread and butter and stuff on the side that would normally be inside iyswim?
Crackers and cheese
Peppers, cucumber, carrots + cheese/quorn/roast beef
Sausages and yorkshires and sweetcorn
Sandwiches made like a roulade (roll it up without crusts and then chop)
Sausage rolld occasionally
Quiche tho ds isn't keen

Hth

Thanks - DS had a big lunch yesterday - baked beans, left over breaded pork, and bread. Then he didn't eat his tea... He is definitely not fading away so I think he just can't do two big meals + breakfast a day. I feel bad if I have a really lovely lunch and he has baked beans or boiled egg but maybe I need to get over it. He will have lunch at pre-school in September 3 days a week yippee.

In the summer i give my 2yo the following:

Potato salad
Furit and yougot to dip
coucous
Pasta salad
crakers and spread
poor mans pizza bread with tomato puree on and chesses
cauli cheese
Alot of different fruit on a plate that he can pic at.

PS i'm dyslexic so i hope you can read my post

What about fish fingers? Mine loved those with baked beans sometimes and cut up fresh veg.LittleBlue can you use spell check?

At that age my DD liked:

Fish fingers and veg
Pasta salad (with frankfurters or tuna, sweetcorn, and peas or chopped up cucumber)
Egg-fried rice with sesame oil and soy sauce
Omelettes - spinach, mushroom and Parmesan in particular
Ricotta pancakes with veg
Picnic - chopped up veg, cheese, ham or chicken, breadsticks, fruit
Stir-fry, with tofu

Ds never ate a big lunch but always ate a big tea. Don't look at each individual meal but rather what he eats over the whole week.