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Can I steal some EASY nutritious meal ideas for 2 year olds? All I am giving her is spag hoops!!!!!!

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WhippyVoodoo · 06/07/2008 19:51

She is a great eater, I am just very heavily preggers and have NO inspiration.....

what do you feed your toddlers?

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sarah293 · 06/07/2008 19:53

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WhippyVoodoo · 06/07/2008 19:54

what meat do you feed them?

now I think back she tends to be on an almost veggie diet? apart from spaghetti & sausages from a tin

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FrannyandZooey · 06/07/2008 19:55

baked beans would be better than spag hoops
boiled / scrambled eggs?
baked potato with cheese or beans?
omelette
pitta bread with hummus
pesto pasta
noodles with stir fry veg
wraps with avocado, salad, cheese etc

all v quick

or do what I often do and cook a big batch of something healthy like veg and bean stew, then freeze in little portions
you only spend a couple of hours cooking and you get loads of meals out of it

WhippyVoodoo · 06/07/2008 19:55

yes I make my own veg soup, thats prob the only thing saving her from scurvey and rickets

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windygalestoday · 06/07/2008 19:55

poached egg

chicken pittas

jacket spud

beans

cottage pie

fish in parsley sauce

salads

cheese sandwiches

tuna

sarah293 · 06/07/2008 19:56

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FrannyandZooey · 06/07/2008 19:56

veggie diet is fine if she is getting enough fat, some green veg, and some kind of protein (cheese, beans, egg, peanut butter, lentils)

WhippyVoodoo · 06/07/2008 19:56

F&Z
can you type in recipe for your stew?
cheers

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WhippyVoodoo · 06/07/2008 19:57

she wont eat sandwiches,,
maybe I will try wraps tomorrow though, I have some..

oooh this is great I am thinking more already

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Spoo · 06/07/2008 19:59

Ready to cook filled pasta with Kids Ragu sauce and cheese on top. Brocolli is very easy to cook and you can cut t up ready in the fridge. Frozen steam veg packs are very easy too. Meat wise - I used to buy cooked chicken and chop it into pasta or put gravy on top. Ham is an easy meat to add into pasta dishes as are hot dogs and canned tuna.

Egg · 06/07/2008 20:01

I am a very lazy cook. I could blame it on having small DTs now as well as DS1 but tbh I have never made a huge effort as I hated having to rush back from the park / swings / town etc to spend ages cooking and would rather have something quick.

DS1 has a lot of things with mash as he loves it. So he has salmon steaks (wrap it in baking parchment in microwave for 2.5 mins and hey presto it is perfectly cooked), sausages, meatballs, roast chicken, all with mash. Also likes fish fingers, beans, omelette, spagbol, cottage pie. And marmite or peanut butter on toast / in sandwiches at lunch sometimes.

On my laziest days I buy him the M&S kids meals as he loves them and they seem fairly healthy etc.

Be careful not to stop giving her the variety she is used to. DS1 used to eat a lot more variety but when we went on hols last summer he was stuck with very few options he liked and has not gone back to eating many of the things he used to like (esp veg, grrr).

Medowflowers · 06/07/2008 20:02

tomato, basil & red lentil soup - delicious - we all love it

Jacket potato with beans and cheese

Fish in sauce - those little individual ones dead easy

pasta with a tomato based sauce ( tin toms, squirt of garlic puree, whatever herbs you have in, if you have them grate in carrot/courgette, grated cooks quicker than chopped) chop up some ham or just put cheese on it

eggy bread/eggy crumpets

beans on potato cakes instead of toast. Pot cakes will toast from frozen.

Egg · 06/07/2008 20:02

And as some other wise MNer said to me, you can make loads of mash one day, then freeze it into DD/DS sized portions so you don't have to spend half an hour every evening peeling, chopping, boiling and mashing. And you can add cheese in too to add protein.

Thomcat · 06/07/2008 20:06

boiled eggs and soldiers

picnic type tea - any selection of the following - veggie quorn sausage rolls, veggie picnic eggs, bits of roast chicken, chicken drumsticks, cucumber, cream cheese and breadsticks, dried apricots, raisins, grapes, smoked mackeral, cheese sandwiches cut into stars with pastry cutter, carrot batons, red pepper strips, houmos, pitta bread strips

sheep pie, aka - shepherds pie

spag bol, with or without garlic bread

home made pizzas that they decorate - they love that

fish gougons or fish fingers with oven chips, corn on the cob

chicken stir fry

roast dinner

FrannyandZooey · 06/07/2008 20:07

yes no problem - it is partly made up though so hasn't got exact quantities, I hope that is ok

take some / all of the following:
onions, mushrooms, leeks, peppers, courgettes
fry in oil until softened
meanwhile steam / boil some diced veg until partly soft - any of the following: carrots, swede, cauli, butternut squash, parsnips, sweet potatoes - whatever you have, really
(you can saute these in the pan with the other veg, but I think it takes forever and steaming is as good)
add the steamed veg to the fried veg in a large sauce pan with tinned tomatoes, stock, maybe a few herbs, splash soy sauce, etc - enough to cover all the veg and a bit more
simmer for a while until veg getting really tender and sauce starting to thicken up a little
add drained tins of beans (kidney beans or butter beans especially nice)
and some frozen sweetcorn if you like it
check seasoning (if serving to adults and toddlers then leave out salt and soy sauce until you serve it up)
if it is too liquidy mash or blend some of the veg to thicken it
if it gets too thick while cooking add more stock and more tinned tomatoes

can serve as it is, or with bread and butter, rice, couscous, dumplings, a jacket potato, etc

2point4kids · 06/07/2008 20:09

I tend to cook extra in the evenings when I do dinner for me and DH and save a portion for DS1 in the fridge for the next day, plus freeze a couple of portions too.
On the days that we are ;lazy and have takeaway or somethin rubbish I just give DS a meal out the freezer (he eats at 5pm ish, we eat at 9pm when DH gets home).

He eats..
baked pots with cheese and salad
bangers and mash
shepherds pie
fish pie
salmon steaks and veg
pasta and sauce with cheese
lasagne
spag bol
casseroles (can do massive portions in slow cooker)

You can get multipack of 1 person size portions of mixed veg in freezer section. These are fab for when you are short of time! They go in micro for 3 mins and done! just add some fish fingers or a sausage or something.

FrannyandZooey · 06/07/2008 20:09

oh use the water from the steamed / boiled veg to make the stock (add a stock cube)
it has lots of the nutrients in it

Medowflowers · 06/07/2008 20:12

Do a mince thing - mince, onion, tomato and freeze it in batches. When you need it - add beans and a bit of paprika/chilli powder for chilli,

leave as it is/ add handful frozen peas and put in a yorkshire - frozen ones are ace for a quickie [no shame here emotiocon][honest]

stuff it in pancake and put gravy on it

stuff it in canneloini pasta, put cheese on it.

more toms and pasta

put it on a jacket potato

add grated carrot, top with mash - shepherds pie.

Use different mince ie, beef then next time use lamb/turkey/pork

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