what did your child eat yesterday?

[Angeliz]

hi, it often prays on my mind that dd 2.6 doesn't eat as well as i'd like! I thought if i couls see how and what your kids eat i might get some more ideas........also just to see out of interest..if anyone replies,(PLEASE do), please tell me age too and include any treats so i know i'm not terrible!!!

My ds is 2 and on a normal day he eats:

6 am: 1 bottle of milk in bed
9 am: 1 banana
10 am: bread and milk in nursery
1 pm: Dinner and dessert in nursery (normally casserole with vegetables and a little cake and he eats it all)
4 pm: Sweetcorn and crackbread, 1 kiwi fruit and bowl of grapes or pineapple
7 pm: 1 banana, 1 apple, 1 pear and 1 kiwi mixed with yoghurt
8 pm: 1 bottle of milk in bed (sinful for teeth, I know......)

This is pretty standard of what he is offered, but soemtimes he can eat a lot and other times nothing at all. If he is teething he won't eat at all. What does you kid eat?

my ds is 18 months and yesterday he ate:

7am bottle of milk
8.30am cornflakes and toast
12.30pm cheesy beenie pie followed by fresh fruit
2.30pm ish choc muffin
4.30pm sandwiches and crisps and cheese
7pm bread sticks smeared with peanut butter
8pm milk in bed (bad for teeth I know!)

But again on some days he will barely eat anything. HTH.

:toast and butter and two egg whites( wont eat the yolks!
:apple(nibbled at)
:pasta shapes( with a hidden carrot)
:cheese sandwich and 2 yoghurts
ne bottle of milk in morning (forgot that one)
: one mini pack of maltesers!
: lots of apple juice

i just wish she'd eat more fruit and veg..and i do try!

thanks Northener....so glad to see treats in there Fairymum wish dd would eat so much fruit!

Northerner, very nice to read I am not the only one who give milk in bed. Your post made me feel much better. I have carried this milk-in-bed-burden alone for so long now......

dd is 1.5yrs average day is

Breakfast 8:30 - beaker of milk, toast and Cereal

mid morning - nothing if at nursery, piece of fruit if at home

Lunch 12:30 - main meal: sausage & mash, roast dinner, curry, fish pie - varies each day ona 6 week rota (she's at nursery)... all with veg etc or other such + pudding of some sort.

Tea 4:30 - pasta or sandwich or toddler jar + yogurt and/or fruit

7pm - milk from a bottle

When she's not at nursery you can add at least one biscuit onto that as well!

Angeliz, I am lucky ds loves his fruit and vegetables, but I also give treats. I try to stick to treats at weekends, but I always have emergency tantrum-treats in my pockets

DS, 26 months, had
A few apricot shredded wheat and milk
a Hot cross bun with butter
One mouthful of banana
Apple juice
Pasta with bolognaise sauce (homemade with chopped carrot added) and frozen peas
a Yogurt
Pasta and pesto with cheese
A couple of biscuits
spoonful of vanilla ice cream
Milk

I am worrying about his Vit C intake, so today have added fresh strawberry to his yog. V reluctant fruit eater...

My DD is two, here is a normal nursery day
8 am: banana or weetabix (1) with honey. Also likes porridge and most cereals.
10 am: Fruit and toast in nursery
1 pm: Dinner and dessert in nursery (similar to fairymums ? ditto, will eat for England there&#61516
4 pm: Sandwiches, breadsticks, crackers etc and fruit at nursery
5.30 pm: Light dinner ? raisons and grated cheese while I?m cooking, then pasta/cous cous or rice with vegetables in tomato sauce followed by pudding if she is hungry, - yogurt or rice pudding is a favourite, grapes etc
7 pm: 1 bottle of milk in bedroom chair, then bed after teeth brushing (ditto about the teeth one big battle at a time in my house......)

Yesterday was an at GP?s day, so I think it went like this:
7 am: toast with honey and a piece of fruit (apple I think).
10 am: Gets to GP?s and looks starving and pitiful so cornflakes (dry, will not put milk on this cereal, no idea why)
12 pm: chicken pie and veg (GP?s always feed DD meat as I am a veggie and fairly uninspired on the meat cooking front) followed by fruit salad with ice cream/fruit juice lolly etc
4 pm: crackers or a banana to keep her going until we get there? sometimes bottle of milk (which TBH annoys me a bit ? we cut out bottles in the daytime ages ago, give her milk in a beaker if we think she needs it)
6.00 pm: veggie crumble or similar, followed by fruit or cake or other pudding.
7 pm: 1 bottle of milk at GP?s another ½ bottle at home to help her settle if shes awake when we get home (about 8)

thanks for that , i am off shopping now and i am gonna buy lots of fruit and make a bigger effort! I will check back later as this is REALLY interesting. By the way fairymum my dd still has milk from a bottle in the morning!

My 2yr9mths DD had:

7.30 rice krispies and milk plus small cup oj
toast and jam

11am ginger bread man and squash

12.30pm ham samdwich and banana

4pm curly wurly and squash

6pm home made cottage pie, broccolli and carrots
.5 of a blueberry muffin

8pm bottle of milk

Yesterday was a good day fruit-wise. Normally she refuses all fruit unless it is in a pie!

I'm quite lucky in the fact that my ds likes most fruit, and considers raisins/grapes/strawberries as exciting a treat as sweets/chocolate. But I just can not get him to eat vegetables apart from peas. I despair sometimes!

dd is 21 months, and a sparrow!

breakfast 6.30 am bowl of fruit porridge, a few pieces of my crunchy cereal and a mouthful of my toast and jam

mid-morning snack (nursery) gingerbread man and milk

Lunch (nursery- not sure how much she eats)5 mini sausages, sweetcorn, potato pancake, yoghurt, slice of bread

afternoon snack half an apple, milk

tea 6pm refused egg, ate a few peas, a mouthful of bread and half a pot of fromage frais
about 2 oz of milk

this morning woke up starving!

From what I can remember with a mushy 37+2 week preggie brain, my ds, who is 22 months had:

pre-brekkie: breastfeed
brekkie: marmite on toast, shreddies with a banana and milk
mid morning: grapes and juice
lunch: homemade fish pie, potato and cheese topping with mixed veg, jelly and banana
mid afternoon: couple of malted milk biscuits, satsuma, juice
tea: more toast and marmite, OMG can't remember what else!!
bedtime: breastfeed

Some days he eats for England, other days he is more selective!

Yesterday ds (2.3) ate

Bowl of rice krispies
Piece of toast with marmite
Fromage frais
Oat biscuit
Chips
Beans
Peas
Carrots
Tomato Sauce (!)
Fromage frais
Apple
Marmite sandwich
Ham sandwich
Grapes
Milk

But sometimes he will go the whole day with only half a piece of toast - he was obviously hungry yesterday!

Cor, blimey, they're all so healthy!
My best tip, Angeliz, is to always go out with 2 kinds of fruit on you and no other food, you'll be amazed what fruit they'll try when they turn hungry at the playground and nothing else is on offer.

Yesterday, my kids (aged 2 and almost 4) had:

1st & 2nd Brekkies: Some kind of Kelloggs cereal (relatively low sugar, with currants) and lots of cow's milk.

Midmorn: 2 bikkies each and squash.

Lunch: strawberries, banana, Special K (all I had on me), a tangerine a gal I met in the park offered them.

Midafternoon: butter and jam (a non-sugar variety from the health food shop) sarnies.

Eve: Nearly 4yo wasn't hungry, but 2yo had rice, carrots, brocoli & butter with me. Probably some more milk, too.

DD is 20 months:

Breakfast - 7.30am
1/2 an Avent bottle of milk
Weetabix with all bran on top
1 piece wholemeal toast, butter & marmite

Lunch - when she's woken up from morning sleep but about 1 / 2 ish
Penne pasta with butter & b.pepper with
butternut squash and sweetcorn
A plum and a peach

Snack - 3.30 ish
Melba toast and pate

Tea - 5.30 ish
Breaded fish pieces with a baked potato, baby sweetcorn and baby carrots and a couple of green beans
A yoghurt

Bedtime - 7ish
1/2 an avent bottle of milk

Drinks Evian water throughout day.

Can I just say that this thread has given me loads of little ideas for foods... melba toast and pate sounds like a fab idea for dd's tea or as a snack!

Am feeling quite inadequite when I look at all you wonderful people that home-cook things, I must learn to cook someting other than the basics. Probably should be another thread but how can I learn to cook without poisoning dd in the process?

I love these threads and scour them intently looking for inspiration every time.

As I work 4 days a week and spend the other day to-ing and fro-ing from one hospital /therapy type appointment to the next my hours spent cooking her individual meals are becoming fewer and fewer.

I have literally worked my way through Annabelle Karmels book as I needed inspiration and guidance.

I'm an OK cook but need to follow receipes really, I'm not very good at sucking and seeing!

Also as it's either my mate or my mums with her during the week I have to make it transportable and easy for them.

I'm actually looking forward to winter when it'll be easier for me, mentally, to stand in the kitchen all day cooking and freezing stuff for her.

I hate it when I have to palm her off with Blue Parrot sausage and mash but sometimes it has to be done. I'm sure she's only too happy to eat fish fingers, potato waffle and peas or chicken nuggets, chips and beans but I feel horrible about it if it happens more than twice a week.

I think the diet thing with her is becasue of the fact that people with Down's syndrome are prone to put on weight later in life and I so badly want to give her the best start I can with regard to food.

Wish there were more hours in the day, don't you?!

Thomcat - could do with another 24 hours in my day! would love to be one of these people who can servive on 3hrs sleep a night. Then I could find time to cook.

who is Annabelle Karmel?

What do you consider the basics, Whatsaname? I can boil spuds, cook pasta or rice, grill meat or roast a chicken, and make an apple crumble. And put a steamer full of chopped veggies on top of the pot full of boiling spuds/rice/pasta. That's about it.

Ok, ok, so I can make pastry too, but that's jolly easy. There's a little knack in not over-cooking veggies, but most things can be slightly over- or under- perfectly cooked and still taste nice. You don't need to be Nigella Lawson to get your kids to eat something healthy. That said, I get the impression that most people don't cook any more, which seems weird because the "basics" are pretty easy, aren't they? Am I being naive or unfair?

Zebra, I can manage the things you listed but I can't really go beyond that. Think it comes from not enjoying cooking and not having much time.

I like to eat nice food but am not creative enough to produce it. The sound of marinating and other such forms of preparation just put me off even trying.

If I could learn to cook then I might enjoy it more, if I enjoyed it more I'd be more inclined to learn.... I'm rubbish.

Annabelle Karmel is an incredibly annoying person who comes up with really stupid obvious receipes most of the time, all for kids. Her cook book was given to me when Lottie started being weaned. However as I need to follow recipes I found her incredibly usefull as well as irritating! If you just ignore her 'if you're kids are eating liver you're doing well' comments! I've made Charlotte at least half of the receipes in her book!

Thanks Thomcat, I will keep my eye out for her in the bookshops.

Someone bought me a childrens recipe book when I started weaning dd but it was c*ap. It wasn't by her though.

How old is you little on whatsaname?
I could copy you out a few of Lotties absolute favourites if you like and you can see how you go with them before buying the book???