What do you usually give your toddler/preschooler for lunch or snacks?

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Just curious really what other parents feed their young DC at lunchtimes and snack times?

My DD is being quite fussy but then she has just been ill for a while and not eating much at all.

Snacks in this house are either fruit or a slice of warburtons fruit bread, slice of malt loaf, small pot of yoghurt/fromage frais, that kind of thing. Something fairly high in carbs for the energy. Occasionally a biscuit or two at weekends, but otherwise mostly plainer stuff.

Lunch is sandwiches, jacket potato, hoops on toast.

Snacks can be smoothies, fruit, breadsticks, something small really.

Also looking for imspiration!

Lunch is sandwiches with various fillings, beans on toast, salad bits on side followed by fruit or yoghurt. Sometimes cake.

Snacks are breadsticks, fruit, rice cakes, sometimes digestive biscuit.

Yes, constantly looking for inspiration!

Bagels with cream cheese + veg and hummus have been going down for lunch well lately (also bagels v convenient picnic food).

Beans beans beans on toast

pasta pesto + cheese for lunch if we're in a rush (also surprisingly good for picnics). Have never met a kid who didn't like pasta pesto.

Snacks are bread sticks, rice cakes with cream cheese or something on, fruit etc.

Sandwiches, beans/cheese/egg on toast, soup, wraps - standard stuff like that.

DS also really like tortilla but it takes a while to make. He's also a fan of cous cous salad - cous cous with anything in the fridge chucked in, peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, bits of cheese, chickpeas, etc

At the weekend, I quite often do an "odds and sods" lunch where I just chuck a load of bread, cheese, salady bits on the table and let people eat what they want. It's good for using up leftovers and getting DS to try new things. He likes "bits and bobs" for a snack too, a sectionned plate with bits of chopped up veg, fruit, raisins, rice cakes etc.

Snacks are usually fruit, cheese and crackers or cake.

Currently sharing a snack with 3 yr old DD of dried fruit and some cashew nuts.

Lunch is often sandwiches followed by fruit, sometimes leftovers from night before so soup, bubble & squeak etc.

Lunch depends - at the CM it's usually pasta, sandwiches/fruit/yoghurt, fishfingers
At home either last night's leftovers or sandwiches/fruit/yoghurt

Snack - cheese, raisins, fruit, a biscuit, ricecakes, crackers/oatcakes with peanut butter/hummus, sometimes a scone.

They were all horribly picky, with tiny appetites, and really the only things they liked were scrambled eggs on toast, hummus of different kinds with pita wedges, sliced deli ham or turkey, tricolour pasta shapes and bananas. Some of them also liked to eat frozen peas. For snacks, I gave dried fruit (raisins, apricots, apples, banana chips). Not a lot of dairy as they all had a sensitivity or allergy and got either hives/wheezing or very stuffy noses or sore tummies afterwards.

Oh and DD4 liked a bowl of mashed potatoes at lunchtime for a long spell.

for lunch ds will have porridge, wrap, pitta, cheese toastie, cheese on toast, crackers & cheese, any form of egg & toast, sometimes other cereal like weetabix/museli, pasta, hoops on toast. with a bowl of fruit, carrot/cucumber sticks
for snack a banana, apple, any other fruit, toast, carrot scone, crackers, wrap, nuts/seeds, crumpet - whatever i have in & to offer

Oatcakes are a favourite snack, also fruit, milk, yoghurt, frozen peas and sweetcorn, ricecake with something spread on it, and raisins with cheerios. not all at once

Lunch is at the childminder's, but the two that she mentions the most often are lentil soup and "beans, sweetcorn, and peas" (basically a variation on beans on toast).

Eggs any which way.
Cheese on toast
Pasta
Soup
Carrot/cucumber sticks, lumps of cheese, fruit
Leftovers

Snacks are whatever she can get from the fruit bowl. She knows she can help herself when she wants and that there is nothing else on offer. Sometimes we'll sit and scoff a barrel of pistachios or popcorn too.

snacks are fruit, dried fruit and nuts

lunches are homemade minestrones, potatoes/ chorizo combos, homemade flatbreads and hummous, fishfingers, omlettes etc etc, homemade pizza. often we're out and about sonit's picnic stuff from mands

not into sandwiches annoyingly

Mt two eat for england, so I too a searching for ideas.
They like pate. on toast or on crackers. They also eat alot more sweet stuff then you do. I am forever giving plates of sandwiches, crisps, grapes and chocolate biscuits, and biscuits generally, in between mealtimes.

Agree with "eggs any which way"! - my dds (2 & 4) love them scrambled, boiled, fried, omelette, rarebits, etc etc. Quick, easy and nutritious.

Otherwise:

• Wraps
• Sandwiches
• Toasted sandwiches
• Quiche (with salad or baked beans)
• Soup & bread (not keen on many kinds but Heinz tomato a winner)
• Tinned pasta shapes on toast
• Buffet-style lunch at the weekend (ham/cheese/salami/salad/bread/olives/etc)
• Tinned sardines on toast
• Prawn cocktail with brown bread (only done this once but it was a hit - even DD1 who doesn't like salad ate it happily with some Marie Rose sauce drizzled over it)
• Another rare treat is bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese

I found this book really handy for lunch ideas.

Pasta with pesto & cheese/tuna, jacket potatoes, beans/egg on toast, sandwiches, wraps wrapped tightly and cut into wheels, anything with cheese or peanut butter on is a winner. Snacks usually yoghurts, rice/oatcakes, plain biscuits, fruit, homemade cakes/biscuits. Nothing too exciting, she's a fairly good eater but sticks to what she knows and likes and that's good enough for me right now!