What are your toddlers having for lunch?

[plantsitter]

We've got stuck in a cream cheese sandwich and houmous & veg rut. What are you having for lunch? I am veggie but the kids don't have to be (but I daren't actually cook any meat).

Tia!

My (almost) one year old is having a pizza muffin followed by rice pudding. Although generally he has what we had for dinner last night.

DS is having crumbed chicken breast fillet and some veggies. [if you don't eat meat but want DC to, there is "convenience" meat that is still quite good quality and doesn't includes lot of horrible things. Eg crumbed chicken breast fillets or high quality fish fingers.

Oh, and I'm also vegetarian but he does have meat sometimes (spinach and ham pancakes, for example). Non-meaty, he often has jacket potatoes with beans/cheese/bolognaise/anything else you can stick on a jacket potato!

I do lots of salads, DS quite likes pickley stuff (surprised me)
so beetroot, chunks of cheese any kind, olives, tomatoes, cucumber, sliced cooked meats, tinned crab, pickled onions, bread, ryvitas, quiche, corn on the cob (he loves scrunching his way round the cob and I love it to, he concentrates so hard it is really cute) etc etc

His nursery surprised me by starting doing soups!!! which I always thought was asking for trouble, but they dunk bread in it and all love it apparently. I have tried to give at home but he turned it down for some reason and I haven't got round to trying again yet, but sometimes the wild card is the one.

Scrambled egg on toast, beans on toast, omelette with cheese or other toppings

Tinned mackeral mixed into couscous for a tasty warmer

porridge if he hasn't had it for brekky for a while.

banana sandwich with yoghurt for afters

can't think of any more just now. :)

DS will have a toasted muffin spread with pate and cucumber and soya yog with mango to follow. I will take a cereal bar and some breadsticks and blueberries out with us later, he's a grazer during the day.

Brilliant ideas here thank you

A sausage roll, bag of cheddars, cheese cubes and plum tomatoes. Maybe some chocolate buttons and then a cereal bar at about 3.

In my defence, it's DHs second day at work and DS is 11 days old. I'll worry about making veg muffins and the like when my episiotomy has healed and DS can manage more than 30 seconds before squeaking for boob

ham wrap with cucumber
strawberries and a peach yogurt

ta da!

Sat in "Den" eating a toasted bagel watching Dora.

Curry rice and cheese for lunch
Everything has to have cheese on it

Cheese toastie (sometimes with marmite or ham) - with peppers, cucumber, carrot sticks etc if you feel like it needs some veg (DS tends to fill up on the veg at mealtimes so we limit them to snacks unless a meal is small without them)

Marmite or ham sandwich with cucumber, peppers & carrot sticks and a small packet of crisps.

Soup (home made or tinned) with bread & butter - smooth & thick seems to go down best.

Beans on toast/egg on toast.

Boiled egg - we don't manage soldiers, but I slice the egg and put it into a marmite sandwich, hot.

Pasta salad (Just remembered this - haven't done it for ages) - cold or warm/just cooked pasta mixed with tuna or cold sliced sausage, chicken etc with mayonnaise or a tomatoey kind of sauce and whatever we have in - sweetcorn, tiny chopped up peppers etc. I'll usually make a big batch so can take to work etc.

nothing
tried two lovely meals, one homelovinglycooked and one hipp tray meal, and dc3 just sat there screaming at me. It's becoming the norm, i'm giving up. She's clearly on hunger strike and having been through this shite twice before I can't be arsed anymore. Any HC professional will convince me she won't starve herself so until tea time I give up.

sorry to lower the tone, but I needed to rant.

It is annoying when they do that, isn't it? I tried to create a very healthy sardine pate for them today but they clamoured for cream cheese sandwiches again

Yes, I said he was eating a pizza muffin. But half of it ended on the floor and rice pudding got refused (ate it at dinner though). Dinner was bolognaise from last night - refused on a spoon but ate half of it from a fork. Cheese and carrot flapjack ended up on the floor.

Having read various threads on fussy eating, I'm not adopting a no-nonsense attitude. I was giving him something else if he wouldn't eat the first meal offered. Now, if he doesn't eat it, that's it. Fed up of throwing food away.

So, completely with you stickchildren3.

exactly spew, and you know what, my little angel came back about 45 minutes later all smiles and ate the whole tray meal, stone cold. Bleedin weirdo! I can't fathom them out at all, these toddlers!

They seem to like routine, though. At least it's easy :)

Today if DS1 will eat it jacket potato with bolognaise- cunningly hidden lots of veg in that sauce.
Then a tiny bit of fruit cake.
He already has had a banana and smoothie at breakfast time.

It's tea I have trouble with!