tasty pasta sauce?

[Tissy]

My 21 month dd will (fairly) happily eat pasta with sauce if it comes in a packet from M+S! She's keen on their ravioli, but will also eat pasta shapes with mince, etc. If I make her pasta shapes with home made sauce she takes one spoonful then spits it out!

Does anyone have a sure-fire toddler-friendly pasta sauce that will persuade her that Mummy's cooking is worth eating? It's so disheartening having my food pushed away....

I make a sauce for dd which is just tomatoes (out of a tin), carrots and any other sweet vegetable I have lying around. I whizz those up when cooked, and then add some peas for the sake of texture.

Dd usually east that - occasionally spits it out, but that's toddler's for you! Ks may be right about the additives though: most bought tomatoey sauces have sugar in, other sauces will have salt in.

cheese and sweetcorn?

pine kernals, pesto, peas, cream and an egg yolk - ds loves it

cheese and brocolli
tuna and tomato
grated fresh tomatoes,parmesan and olive oil
ham,cheese and double cream

these sound lovely to me, but will dd like them?

I'll certainly try them and let you know!

does she know your homemade sauce is homemade Tissy? maybe you could pretend it is out of a tin etc ( not sure how) and see if she is more interested.I usually cook up some veggies, chop them up and put a bit of cheese and also a spoon or two of a ready made jar of sauce on top, dd seems to like it.

Boursin, (soft cheese) tomato and green stuff (watercress, rocket, spinach, whatever's in the fridge) whizzed up in a blender and thrown on pasta without cooking. Sluglet's favourite!

Is it to do with the smoothness of it?

not sure, coddy, the bolognese-type thing is quite lumpy and she'll eat that! Think it's just my crap cooking!

bung some sugar in it.

We do a lovely one at home which is a small tub of sour cream, a couple of dessert spoons of tomato puree to turn the sauce pinky colour, a squeeze or two of lemon juice and some fresh basil. You can alter the amounts as you like and it serves two people. Just pop it all in the pan and stir it until warm, then pour over the pasta in the pan.Yummy!!

courgette cooked with a bit of olive oil, add some tomato, then at the end one vache-qui-rit triangle (puree it if you like) - serves one. dd used to love that (she doesn't like sauces with ther pasta at the moment though...)

Campbells condensed tomato soup.
It will disguise any kind and number of healthy vegetables sauted in olive oil, even a little ham and bacon. Then bung in the soup watered down with half milk and half water. simmer until any hard veg are tender then whizz in the blender. It freezes very well too.

This is the only way I can get anything remotely horticultural down my 2.6 DS and it works every time.

Good luck

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