What do you and your toddler eat?

[Whatshallichoose]

Dd is almost 1 and eats really well. I've used a lot of Annabel karmel recipies for her and mostly cooked separately for her. Dh and I eat mostly slimming world recipies cooked from scratch. I'm going back to work soon and don't want to be cooking 2 meals if I can help it. I know the whole 'give them what you have' and I really want to but I can't see how I can match up dds full fat diet with our low fat one. What do people do?

I think if I were you, I'd do a bit of bulk cooking at the weekends. If you menu plan, then you could do full fat versions of things like cheesy pasta, mash potato (laden with butter) etc etc in child size portions. Then all you need to do is whip out potatoes to go with chicken, for example.

And I suppose some nights you could just have 2 pans going. You know, chicken in cream&white sauce - one pan with proper cream and the other with low fat?

I guess that's why I gave up and just cook the same for everyone!

What sorts of things do you tend to make for you and DH? It might just be a case of having to make a few tweaks - e.g. if you are having white fish, giving her salmon

We tend to eat quite spicy food, so cook stuff for all then do the spices separately take food out for toddler then food looks the same. Similarly tonight toddler had home made chicken nuggets/goujons/breaded we had grilled chicken.

I don't think I'd worry too much to be honest, as long as she has lots of fats in her other meals and snacks one meal a day that is lower in fat won't do her any harm. I know slimming world gets a bad press on here at times but I think most of the recipes for main meals seem to be regular healthy meals combining proteins, grains, potatoes and veg without adding additional fats. If you are concerned dd is missing out on fats you could always add to hers, grate cheese over, serve with crudités and humous, bread and butter or give a dessert.

AtleastitsnotMonday - that's genius. Of course I can. What do they say about the solution staring you in the face?? Thank you