Food ideas to share with 16month old???

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It is just dd and me and now it is winter I feel I need some healthy but solid food ideas for me and dd.

She eats large portions but only afew different meals. Favouirtes are:

pasta and veg
chicken, potatoes and beans
potatoes, veg and fish fingers (without batter)

I do not eat chicken or fish so I am always cooking two different meals for us. Today I have made a potatoe, bean and spinch pie from annable kemples recip book.

What meals are easy to cook and healthy hat dd is likly to eat? Also she will not eat rice which I love....

sausage casserole with mash?

defintly worth a try, have you got a recipe I could use? I have never made it before and am not sure how to make the sauce for it?

dd loves he potatoe, bean and spinch pie, I thought I had made my cheese sauce too watery but I think thats why she likes it. Has anyone made it before? If so what should the consistancy be like?

stuffed jacket pots
macaroni cheese
home made pizza / garlic bread / salad
meat casserole
spag bol
cottage ooe
lasagne
chilli
milk curry
risotto
meatballs with tom sauce and cheese (I cooked this tonight)

as she is 16 months why not just cook what you would cook fr yourself anyway and give her a portion of it?

she doesn't seem too keen on mince and is very funny with meats and textures of food. If I give her what I am eating she only eats a small portion then I have to still make the food she likes anyway.

How do you make milk curry?

i meant mild curry... oopps.. what a typo...

u could get a whizzer and teach her to learn to like mince

oh mild curry ok.

when you say whizzer do you mean blender? to make the mince smaller?

Our 11-month-old likes eating the same food as us, we're still feeling our way a bit but some things we've tried are:
Shepherd's pie (though you did say she isn't keen on mince - but might be OK when mixed with everything else?)
Moussaka (as above)
Soups with bread (various sorts incl. lentil, pea and ham,...)- he doesn't seem to like soup and usually turns his nose up, but yours might like it!
Roasts or roast leftovers with veg and potatoes
Pasta with just about any sort of sauce - spag bol, mushroom sauce, even tomato and mozzarella sauce with seafood, he loved the prawns! (you said you don't eat fish though, so maybe not seafood either?)
Mild curries (found a recipe for sweet potato curry in one of our baby books which he loves)
Sausages - we just cut them up enough so he can't choke on the skins
Stews - various types
Anything with bread - sandwiches, cheese on toast, beans on toast...
Omelettes or scrambled egg
Pancakes - he loves them!
I will be looking at everyone else's ideas too though as always welcome some new ones.

auntyvictim - I am so jealous your ds eats everything, my dd very rarely eats bread let alone all the other things you have mentioned.

She will try small amounts of other thing but is very picky..

Sorry could not get to laptop to answer your qu - to make sausage casserole, I just grill some sausages, then in an hob-proof casserole dish, I fry up some onions, crushed garlic and mushrooms, then put in a vegetable oxo cube and tin of chopped tomatoes, I put in the sausages and chopped carrots, leeks, parsnips, or swede. Then for flavour I add oregano, thyme, bay leaves, worcestershire sauce. Bake in the oven for at least an hour to make sure the carrots cook. It's great with mash. My 10 MO DS gobbled it up yesterday.

by a whizzer i meant anything of

a mahi mix type machine (food processor)
OR one of those stick whizzers (often used for making soup)
or one of those mini 'whizzers' specifically designed fir baby food

which id thos i have to habd i woul use, with no prefernce...

also you say she is picky... if you dont actually offer her a wide variety of foods she will remai that way...

my current job i started with a 3 year old who would only eat sausage / nuggets/ fish fingers / plain pasta and spaghetti bolognese (not otehr shape past with bolognese).... and a baby who ate most thinsg but absoluelty not any vegetables

after perserveing and perservering and perservering (and children going to bed having ot eaten etc, as they chose not to eat deliciuose food offered, and wernt given anything else either) i now look after 2 children who eat almost anything at all... pretty much any recipie form any recipie book (so long as not extreamly spicy)... even olives (which has taught me to like them if cooked, though the eldest doenst like raw tomatoe, fair enough, no one likes everything )

They also LOVE their food, run to the table every tea time excited as its time for tea, and genuienly enjoy foods that a few years ago they wouldnt have touched

children are as fussy as they are allowed to be.

I do offer everything that I eat, but if dd does not eat it I always give her something to eat that I know she will eat. I shouldn't really but I know the reason why I do always offer something else is because dd hardly eat any food untill she was one year old.

But what you say sounds right, if I was to not offer any other food if she does not want dinner then she will have to learn to eat what I am eating.

I will defintly try the sausage casserole, that recipe sounds good. Thanks