Please help - need recipes/meals I can give 19mth DS - mind has gone blank and am getting desperate!

[Holymoly321]

Hello everyone - hope you've all had a fabulous Easter. I really need help. I dread mealtimes for 19mth old DS. He just won't eat anything that hasn't come out of a wrapper (i.e crisps, boxes of raisins, organix fruit bars etc), or started life as a plant - ie no veg or fruit (won't even eat bananas now!). I am at a loss as to what to feed him for mealtimes. He will eat a bowl of cheerios for breakfast with no problems, but lunch and dinner are giving me stress meltdowns (not helped by the fact I'm 10 wks preg with No2!) There are only a couple of things I know he is likely to eat, they are pesto pasta, muffin pizzas, cinnamon bagels, cubes of cheese. Obv he can't live on these alone. Please help me with suggestions of other meals I can try. Ones that I can make a batch of and freeze would be great. Most of the AK stuff I used to make for him when he was younger he won't touch anymore! Argh, please please help!

what about eggy bread (cut bread into shapes, dip in beaten egg and fry in butter till brown, sprinkle with cinnamon).

Or a big fave in our house was fish fingers and tomatoes with balsamic vinegar (he got to sprinkle it on). What else? He'd eat Annabel Karmel's beef and sweet potato casserole quite well, and also hed eat hummus on pitta breads. If he;kk eat pizza then make the tom sauce with carrots/spinache blitzed in. Cous cous also goes down well.

If all else fails buy baking parchment and do fruit/veg pieces in twists of baking parchment. DS (3,5) still falls for that.

If he will eat pesto pasta can you incorporate veg into that. Or add some tuna?
My 3 year old ds likes his pasta so I do hidden vege sauce to go with it. Basically any veg plus tin of tomatoes belended

Hi guys - I have tried the eggy bread in the past but will give it another bash. He will eat humus and pitta bread, but won't eat the chopped veg I also offer with it! Will also try to make own tom sauce to go on the pizzas - could I freeze this do you think? Will also try putting tuna in the pesto pasta as he sometimes will eat the (tiny) chopped courgette I put in it!

Meomix, could you explain the fruit/veg twists?

hi sorry was working [faints]

You get a square of baking parchment, put some chopped veg/fruit in centre and make a ;little bag of the parchment (being creatively challenged I usually just twist the corners together). For some reason DS always falls for this as if its a bag of crisps. I think its the noise and opening something for himself.

Hi there meowmix - I'm assuming that you don't actually cook the veg or fruit - it's just raw and chopped and put in the parchment for presentations sake?

Depends really - we did either but its the opening a packet that seems to work rather than the content. we did steamed fish last night and he loved opening the packet so much he actually ate brocoli without complaint.