quick meals to cook toddler when struggling with ms??

[mad4mybaby]

Am 7 weeks pg with 2nd dc and am struggling with the whole preparing/smelling food. I have started freezing mince portions so can ust put in microwave with some rice but he cant eat this every day!

Dh works away most of time mon-fri so down to me to feed 21 month ds. To make it harder he can not have any dairy, soya or egg.

Any suggestions id really appreciate it as all i want to eat come tea time is salad!

I'm lacking in inspiration too - my DD is 20 months and dairy-free at the mo, and has got very fussy about eating veg, salad and potatoes, grrrrr.

Things she will eat which don't take much prep include:

• fish fingers (Tesco Free From)
• frozen peas and sweetcorn
• avocados
• ham (and most meats hot or cold, eg pastrami, chicken)
• Hipp 7 month jars (things like Spag Bol, Ham Pasta, cottage pie, Lanc hotpot are dairy free)
• hummous
• toast and olive oil
• bananas, grapes, mangoes, satsumas, raisins, apple, occasionally tomatoes
• frozen stir fry (just bung in microwave)
• tuna in oil
• pasta & olive oil

So she lives basically on various combinations of the above, plus breakfast cereal and soya milk.

beans on toast? jacket potato with cheese?
scrambled egg, or omelette?
sandwiches are a good nutritious meal if healthy filling and then yoghurt or cubes of cheese for after.

sorry forgot about the dairy thing (substitute fruit then)

Will he eat lentils? You could make a nice lentil based soup with some meat in and freeze portions of that as well. (my DD now won't touch anything with root veg or lentils in though, despite having been weaned on it )

no wont eat lentils or soup! He normally eats spag bol, with rice and with spaghetti, chips once a week with chicken and beans, sausage, mashed pots and sweetcorn and loves roast. But they all involve cooking with smells...

DD ate a lot of pasta and rice with veg when i was first pregnant with ds. Also things like fish fingers that I could just stick in oven and then leave the kitchen until they were cooked

do you know that baked beans are a superfood and now come in 1 min microwaveable snap packs? That and toast and an apple, maybe a bit of cheese. Pretty nutritious and 2 mins in the making! Or scrambled egg (I also do it in microwave) and toast. Tins of corn are also very easy to open and count as one portion of veg. I reckon you can't go far wrong with a piece of fruit and then stuff like this - eggs are actually very good for you.

sorry, did this too fast and realised he can't have egg. baked beans then is my top tip and tinned corn. packets of ham cut into strips on the side could also add protein. There are also some meatballs in Sainsbury's , called Swedish meatballs, which microwave in 1 min and are quite tasty