If you have children four and under, what did you eat today?

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Or rather what was served, as I know the two are not the same! I need inspiration. Have two children, DS(4) and DD (18 months.)

Our daily menu was

Breakfast - boiled egg and a bit of toast, both ate this.

Snack - some cucumber sticks. DS ate his and most of DDs. She only gnawed at one a bit.

Lunch - bit of a fail; sugary pancakes (out in a cafe and not much choice.) Nice though. DD had some milk, DS had a hot chocolate.

Snack - banana.

Dinner - cottage pie. Both ate loads. DS had a yoghurt afterwards, DD refused hers so DS ate hers as well

Looking for lunch ideas especially …

My DD is 2y9m and today she didn't really eat anything for breakfast except milk, lunch was salmon soup (salmon, potatoes, carrots), banana and mandarin afterwards. We went out and she had chips and then back at home she refused any hot food so she had milk, rice cakes, banana and few times milk.
I like making oven bakes so I mix pasta, veggies and whatever meat/mince/chicken I have with egg milk poured over. They are practical and we eat them for a few days. Or potato wedges and boiled carrots and home made patties (veggies and mince).
Breakfast when DD agrees to eat something are mostly cucumber or yoghurt or cereals (try to avoid them). Or omelettes.

Bit of an odd day today.

breakfast - cheese and onion quesadilla, fruit, milk for one child water for the other

lunch - toastie and soup

dinner - noodles with veggies and the end of the roast pork from the weekend

My ds 4 had
Breakfast was strawberries, porridge and a Barney bear.
Lunch was beans on toast with some cheese cubes and more strawberries
Dinner was crackers, cheese cubes, blueberries and raspberries, a plain yogurt and some lentil puff things with hummus. ( asd and prefers picnic style tea or plain pasta)
Lots of water as that's all he will drink

Breakfast - porridge and blueberries.

Lunch - today they were both at school / nursery, but when little DD is at home tomorrow we'll have either falafel (from supermarket chiller, not home made lovely crunchy ones!) and salad/ pita, or something like cheese on toast.

Dinner - a 'rainbow plate'. Sounds insta wanky but I just put cooked, cold rice noodles, cooked chicken, and various veg in a vaguely rainbow pattern on the plates. It was the ingredients for a Thai salad DH and I are later, minus the spicy sauce.

I’ve got a two and four year old and to be fair they are usually pretty good eaters.

Breakfast was toast, cereal, fruit and natural yoghurt.

Lunch and snacks were at nursery. Not sure what snacks they had but lunch was gammon, potatoes and veg.

Dinner was a chicken stir fry. The veg in it was veg I know they like; red pepper, mini corn on the cobs and carrot match sticks.

Dinners for the next few days are Cajun chicken pasta, tandoori chicken with homemade cheesy naans and jacket potatoes.

Two of mine are under 4 but the youngest so little they haven't started weaning yet.

The other one was at nursery today and their day was:

Breakfast at home: tiny drink of milk (always asks for it and hardly drinks any), bran flakes with milk, chocolate chip brioche roll.

Breakfast at nursery: toast with butter.

Lunch at nursery: it was butternut squash and chickpea tagine which apparently they only "tried", and pear for pudding which they ate.

Snack at nursery: bread stick with cheese spread

Dinner at nursery: tomato pasta, which they ate 3 portions of, melon for pudding.

Dinner at home: baby wasn't co-operative so I didn't cook, so other little one had a piece of toast with marmite but didn't even finish it, and a small drink of milk.

So not an amazing day food wise but equally it could be worse...

Breakfast - some children ball shaped cereal and milk
Snack - apple
Lunch - pasta and bolognese
Snack - banana and a cookie
Dinner 1 - chicken in cream sauce and pasta
Dinner 2 - banana for 3.5y old, chicken for 2y old
They don't always have 2 dinners but sometimes they are starving at 8pm.

Following for ideas as I have two under 4.

Breakfast - homemade oaty baked flapjack, demolished by baby DD along with a cutted up pear, rejected by DS (who had Coco Pops).

Lunch - DS had lunch at pre-school, homemade mild curry and flapjack (bet he ate that one!). DD and I shared an omelette with cheese and onion plus some leftover cooked parsnip and carrot sticks from yesterday's roast.

Dinner - Hello Fresh fajita pasta with extra onion, peppers and sweetcorn added. DD loved An apple and banana for DS.

Lunchtime ideas...we eat a lot of quick/easily prepared food, particularly if I am on my own with the kids. Jacket potatoes with beans or tuna with cheese. Quiche or omelette. Cheese toasties. Fish finger sandwiches. Tortellini with pesto and peas. I often offer avocado, cucumber or corn on the cob on the side as those are favourites here. Lots of fruit - both kids love apples, banana, pear, kiwi and berries.

Mine are long gone but a cauliflower curry made with no chilli was popular with all of mine at preschool age. Sometimes with rice, sometimes with strips of naan. I tried all the veg but cauliflower was the one they all ate.