Please tell me what to cook for a fussy carnivorous toddler and a fussy vegetarian DH!!

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She is not fussy any comprehensible sense. She loves smoked salmon, olives, marinaded garlic... But won't eat soup or things which are too mixed up. DH does eat fish. I am so pregnabrained out of ideas but really want to start getting us all eating the same thing so I don't spend the whole evening cooking. Any ideas? Stir-fry?

loads of things you can do as even carnivorous toddlers like stody white food like cauliflower cheese, omelettes, pasta and rice (usually ).

You can do veggie pasta bakes or roast veg with couscous and just roast her a chicken leg or some fish fingers/fillets/sausages to go on the side.

Equally if you do baked salmon and make rice and peas as a side, she'll get a bit of each.

It may be worth trying her with broccoli soup and concentrate on the bread dippers rather than her eating the soup - mine get through a lot of dippers, but the soup goes in too! (I make it by boiling onion and broccoli in a mixture of water and milk with a bit of nutmeg, then I blend it and add grated cheese at the end). Butternut squash with coconut milk is another good one to try with them.

I will try again with the soup. It's annoying, because we lived off homemade soup before she came along and it's so easy and cheap. I do think it's the texture she doesn't like, rather than the taste, because she refuses to even try. I once stupidly said "you're not getting down till you've tried ONE SPOONFUL". Guess who cracked first....

definitely try with her favourite dippers be they crisps, breadsticks, cheese (mine even dip small grated bits of cheese), carrots, cucumber, buttered toast, pitta strips etc. Treat it like a fondue for her and she'll find it fun as well as tasty. As long as she is getting the flavour, you may be able to sneak in the odd spoonful...

My carniverous toddler is also obsessed with beans - 5 bean chilli (minus the actual, y'know, chillis)? Or prawns? Nice meaty texture, suitable for a fish-eater? Mine loves prawn stir-fry with noodles. Or prawn risotto? Or vege risotto served with sausages on the side to tempt the carniverous one?

Thanks - good ideas. Did quorn stir fry tonight and it was very successful. She ate noodles (her new favourite thing), mange tout, broccoli and quorn pieces. Prawns are a good idea. Of course, fussy DH is fussy about them but I will try to win him round. Will try the new tactics with the soup too - that has definite potential... I once served carrot soup to us and the pre-liquidised carrots to her, which she ate, but that seems a bit sad!

At the toddler stage, I'd try and trick her by serving the soup a different way and calling it something else e.g. butternut squash delight or whatever.

Sprinkling cheese on the top might make it more appealing. If it's not too hot and not too thick she could even drink it with a wide straw from a mug - just to get her fooled into trying it again. Not sure that'd work though even if it's not chunky.