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!!!

Thomcat, she's 15months (roughly). She eats anything at the moment and I really want to try and keep it that way.

Couldn't agree more. I've tried to always give her strong flavours but at 20 months she's starting to reject my baked red mullet and black olive mash!!!
So shall I copy you out a few favourites from AK cookbook?

Thomcat, if you don't mind that would be great

No I don't mind at all. If I'm good and remember I'll look someup tonight and post them here tomorrow.

thanks Thomcat, or you can email them to me... whatever is easiest.

Hmmm, might me easier to email you, then I could scan the pages and send them to you as j-pegs. Shall I do that then? Hey - and I can sneak in a pic of DD and then you can do the same!!!!

Is "marinating" when you cook something in some sort of oily liquid in a frying pan?

I'm impressed at your memories. I have been sitting here blankly staring at the screen trying to remember even one thing my lot ate. Haven't even decided what to give them this evening yet!

LOL ThomCat about AK's liver comment. I also liked the one about giving small toddlers vegetable sticks and a healthy dip so they can "make their own meals".

My DS really likes M&S houmous - but he likes seeing how it feels if his whole hand is in it and then how the sofa/cat/wall/mummy feels coated in houmous. The carrot sticks get pushed down the side of the sofa.

Given his choice DS would eat tortilla chips, chocolate buttons and ice cream. I had some non-mum friends staying and DS was teething and ate nothing all weekend until we got the tortilla chips out. I think my friends were a little horrified I let him fill up on tortilla chips at 7pm.

Does anyone else start off with good intentions but when seeing the homemade fish pie in the bin along with the homemade pasta sauce - just let them go? It's only when he's poorly (and I eat junk when I'm poorly)

Thomcat, that'd be good yes.

thanks all and Zebra i'll try that tip with the fruit! Good idea that Well i feel better reading all this because dd is offered nearly all of these! I just find that the more effort i make with a meal the less appealing it looks to her! Am not really stressed about it, just wanted to see what all your babas were fed on! Keep on posting as the tips and ideas are great

If you want it to be it can Zebra!!!

Oh no!

I always by dd carrot dippers with TI dressing from M&S so she can eat them whilst I'm shopping. She's very clean with the dip though (amazingly enough) and it fits perfectly in the drinks holder of her buggy shelf..

Freddiecat i know what you mean! Given the choice my dd would eat chicken dippers every day

I gave the two I look after ( 9 months and 18 months) Porridge with dried apricots cut up into it, ( They'd both had milk at home) and toast.

Lunch was salmon fillet, put in a plastic box last night and boiling water poured over it and a lid put on, left to cool and in fridge overnight, stays very moist, with mashed potatoes with sweet potato in it, broccoli and carrots.

Pears from the garden with fromage frais

Snacks- baked french bread pieces and raisins. Water to drink

Baby has a bottle of milk mid afternoon, toddler milk and a piece of toast and fruit to keep her going till family meal at 6.00pm

Tomorrow they will have steak and venison casserole that DH is making for us tonight, got a large piece of beef and venison reduced in Sainsbury from 9.99 each to 2.50 each, they had a glut of it!

Packets of mange tout and baby sweetcorn were 10p each!! Got loads of stuff, all absolutely fresh and put it in the freezer.

10 month old DD was at nursery yesterday between 8am and 3:30pm, so:

7am = formula milk (about 6oz)
9am = cornflakes with whole milk, 2 pieces of toast
11:30am = meatballs, mash and veg, banana custard
2pm = biscuit and juice
3:15pm = 2 x crumpets, carrot & cucumber, apples and yogurt
6:30pm = pasta tossed with bit of oil, with ham and cheese

DD loves to eat with us at night even after tea at nursery.

dd1 (4) breakfast: allbran and grapenuts (I know, weird but she likes it!), cocoa, apple juice mixed with water and an egg

Lunch: cheese dippers, sheperds pie and peas and carrots, petit filous, ice cream, water and a cup of spicy tea (tea with cloves and cinnamon in it).

Dinner: baked potatoe with beans and cheese, cucumber, grapes

Snacks: 3 apples, 2 biscuits

dd2 (1) had weetabix, apple and milk and an egg for breakfast. And a bottle of milk.

Lunch: sheperds pie and peas and carrots and a petit filous

Tea: baked potato, beans and cheese, grapes and two rice cakes then a bottle of milk.

She had two biscuits during the day as well.

Ds aged 6 had:

Breakfast: Boiled egg and dippies with apple juice
Packed lunch: Peanut butter sandwich (wholemeal), satsuma, brazil nuts, yoghurt, banana
Supper: baby cheese and tomato pizza (bought, not made but it was organic and the only ingredients were flour, basil, tomatoes, mozzarella, olive oil), carrots, broccoli. big slice of melon, a yoghurt
Snack before bed: apple, satsuma, banana, brazil nuts.

All of it was organic except the yoghurts, brazil nuts and melon.

Lots of breastmilk. Pear with probiotics for breakfast, Kumara (sweet potato), pumpkin and carrot for lunch and tea. Changed the quantities of each veg, so he thought he got two different meals! Flax seed oil to help his excema (jury still out on this one, but it has to be used in 3 months so he's having it.)

dd. aged 18 months

8am Beaker of milk
Few Cheerios with milk
Pear
mid-morning banana
few raisins
water
12pm homemade fish pie (bite, then spat out)
loads of broccoli florets
petit filou yoghurt
diluted OJ
mid-afternoon apple & bread sticks
water
5.30pm ham, cheese cubes, toast (picked at)
few white choc buttons
blueberry smoothie (frozen blueberries & yoghurt)

7pm Beaker of milk

Quite boring, now I write it down! Must try harder!!!

Just read my post back - DD is 18 months, not 10 months ... Ooops

DD is 13.5 months

First thing, bottle of formula

Breakfast Ready Brek and toast + some slices of apple

Lunch, don't know as the nanny gave it to her
Afternoon, bottle of formula and rice cakes and little bread sticks

Dinner, homemade fish pie, peas and brocolli.
Organic greek yoghurt with honey
Little box of raisins

Bedtime Bottle of formula

I want to keep this going as it's great to get new ideas.
I went to Waitrose last night so Lottie is getting their ready made kids meals today - bad mother that I am!
I bought her chicken breast pieces with a pasta and pesto sauce. I know I could easily do that but it looked fab and was reduced to 99p! I've also instructed her nana to give her some sweetpotato and veg with that.
I also bought little fish cakes with sweetcorn (also reduced to 99p) and she'll have these with my left over mustard mash and veg.
Deserts and snacks consist of a plum and a peach with custard. A yohurt. Dried prunes and apricots. A Peter Rabbit museli bar with oats and bits of fruit in them (Waitrose again - it's great in there!)
Oh and breakfast was Oats-so-simple already mad with golden syrup (!) which she wolfed down with a bpottle of milk, wholemeal toast & marmite.
She's sipping her way through prune juice today and she'll have plain water too.

DD is 2 and a half.

Breakfast was a piece of wholemeal toast with butter and marmite, a glass of milk and a glass of water.

At school break-time she had a glass of water and a banana.

Packed lunch was cold pasta, prawns, cubes of edam, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, pepper and celery. followed by a small pot of fromage frais. Water to drink.

Afternoon break was a glass of milk and a small pear.

Strawberry yoghurt smoothie when I picked her up.

Supper was roast chicken and tumbet (Mallorquin dish, potatoes, aubergines, courgettes, peppers in a tomato sauce, baked together). Pudding was a homemade fairy cake. Water to drink.

She had a glass of pink milk before bed (she thinks that ahe's Lola from the Lauren child books...)

Anybody got any inspired ideas for packed lunches for a child that won't eat "toast that's not cooked properly" (bread to everyone else)? We've tried quiche, rice or pasta salad-type things, but it gets a bit repetitive. She likes cous-cous but i think it might get a bit messy for school.

marialuisa - how about melba toasts or crispbreads or something with pate / cream cheese etc???

How about cold home-made mini pizza's?

Home-made sausage rolls?

You could make little toasted club sandwiches. M&S make/sell them and they are scrummy.

Woulkd they prefer French bread if they are funny about untoasted bread?