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Feeling like a rubbish mum for always making DD the same meals. Any ideas for quick, cheap, and easy veggie meals for a 15mo?

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RamblingRosa · 25/01/2009 14:51

She's a really fussy eater so I often give in and just give her what I know she wants (baked beans and/or cheese). Her usual meals are as follows or variations of;
beans on toast
cheese on toast
macaroni cheese
scrambled egg with spinach
falafel with houmous and baked beans

and, er, that's about it . I'm having a bad day today and really beating myself up about it. I don't have loads of time or money to make her more interesting food but I feel like I should be able to do better than this!

Please, any ideas??!!!

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Piffle · 27/01/2009 21:50

Potato cakes with mashed kidney beans, sweetcorn fritters, bean casserole with diced carrot/courgette etc
Fried rice with egg omelette diced and peas and corn...

RamblingRosa · 28/01/2009 11:47

Thanks...some more brilliant ideas here. By the way, DD ate the re-heated pasta veg bake and some peas and sweetcorn on Monday night (she'd refused it all on Sunday when I was having my very bad day) and she ate all of the falafel and beans and houmous she had last night and I managed to hide some grated carrot in the beans as someone on here cleverly suggested and she ate it all up

I've also noticed that a few new teeth have come through so that might explain why she's been especially hard to fee recently.

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nicnacinoonoo · 01/09/2009 17:07

try blending veg and adding it to sauces. this is especially good for a spaghetti sauce just a tin of chopped tomatoes and a load of blended veg. a tin of chopped toms is 3 of your 5 a day just in that so its an easy way to give them their veg intake and most kids like spaghetti as its fun to eat!
my son loves chicken stew for some reason its prob the thing i least like as its very bland but maybe that is why he likes it. i make that with a tin of veg soup with chicken, potato and veg in it. cooked for 2+ hours, which makes it nice and tender for them so its easy to eat.
baked beans do count as 1 of your 5 a day but only 1 no matter how much you have. a nice lazy meal thats enjoyable for kids is the beans and sausage tins in a dish with maybe some herbs or a stock cube to give it a bit more flavour if adults are eating it as well. with mash on top in the oven for about 20 mins.
i tell my son that if he eats the veg it will make him big and strong and that seems to work with him at the mo ha ha.
a roast dinner is another fave of his, if they like gravy you can pour it over the veg to disguise the taste.

deleting · 01/09/2009 17:24

does she like spices? what about spinach and potato, with bit of onion and garam marsala.
pasta with courgette. fry some chopped onion, add grated courgette and garlic, a bit of cream if you've got it if not i add a bit more olive oil at end and parmesan or other cheese. Has to be grated with dd otherwise she recognises it as courgette and won't eat it! if you dd likes peas add those too.

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