Is this rubbish food for 2.5 year old?

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Ds has had today
Breakfast Milk & Croissant
Lunch Sausage, new pots, baby sweetcorn yog
Teatime marmite Sarnies, couple of inches of cucumber, two ginger bscuits with Juice
About to have milk with grapes and cheese.
Most days he has a banana but didn't fancy it today.

The thing I don't know if I should feel guilty about is whether a marmite sandwich with slices of cuc is a rubbish meal?

Seems OK. Assume it's not the same every day, but roughly equivalent nutritionally.

relax, sounds like a pretty damn good days meals to me!

sounds ok to me. My dd and ds have the same sort of stuff except they have the sandwiches and fruit at lunch and the hot meal for dinner.

my HV is encouraging me to give DS (2.4) marmite as it is a good source of something (potassium maybe?).
Perhaps you could add some wholewheat cereals if he doesn't have that?

Nothing really beneficial in the crossiant - read the list of ingredients. Better to have a decent cereal. Porridge with some fruit would be better

What kind of sausages is he having ? Sausages are generally fatty, yukky meat & fillers. My Dd eats the vegetarian cauldron ones, which are good.

He could do with some protein in his sandwiches. Thin scraping of marmite is fine, as are the grapes (cut in half ?) & diluted juice (not no added sugar squash).

Does he eat brocolli ? Great to get him eating a good hearty green veg.

If you make macaroni cheese, add a couple of cubes of frozen spinach, a blob of tomato sauce (peter rabbit one is good) & that's a quick easy meal.

Mojo, don't be too judgemental about sausages. We buy ours from a really good butcher who makes his own and only uses good meat. Agree tho that there are lots of not such good ones out there.

Fine! Really!
We used to have cheese, crisps and half a tomato - called a salad!
grapes juice cucumber (ish) and corn - you're nearly getting the five a day into a toddler = very good mother.

ps mojomummy those cauldron ones are quite salty, if i remember rightly! While we're on the subject..

Still fine, though - all the scare stories are not aimed at women who worry enough to post here...

RELAX everyone?

All very useful thanks so much. Sausages were v good quality, though not sure i should mention the hotdog he had with his mash and carrots for lunch today. It's one of my emergency standbys for us and DS and well, you gotta do etc.

The thing is I did the whole Annabel Karmel thing when he was little, he barely ever had a jar in those days because I wasn't working and whizzed and froze etc, so still do lots of frozen things in batches that he takes for lunch and tea every day with added hidden veg etc. I make pasta sauces, home made pizzas, shepherds pie etc, but do buy things like fishcakes and fingers, good quality burgers, sausages and chicken nuggety things. He's great with fruit and veg and eats every colour of the rainbow blah.

Sometime I just want to go, have a croissant not wholemeal toast, stuff it eat brownie's for tea at grannies, or I've had a horrible day so and have nothing in, so eat a marmite sarnie. Hopefully I'm just suffering from guilty working mother syndrome ...

All very useful thanks so much. Sausages were v good quality, though not sure i should mention the hotdog he had with his mash and carrots for lunch today. It's one of my emergency standbys for us and DS and well, you gotta do etc.

The thing is I did the whole Annabel Karmel thing when he was little, he barely ever had a jar in those days because I wasn't working and whizzed and froze etc, so still do lots of frozen things in batches that he takes for lunch and tea every day with added hidden veg etc. I make pasta sauces, home made pizzas, shepherds pie etc, but do buy things like fishcakes and fingers, good quality burgers, sausages and chicken nuggety things. He's great with fruit and veg and eats every colour of the rainbow blah.

Sometime I just want to go, have a croissant not wholemeal toast, stuff it eat brownie's for tea at grannies, or I've had a horrible day so and have nothing in, so eat a marmite sarnie. Hopefully I'm just suffering from guilty working mother syndrome ...