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what did your child eat yesterday?

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Angeliz · 16/10/2003 14:18

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!!!

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Hughsie · 20/10/2003 14:34

Whats the recipe for the FFP then??

mottie · 20/10/2003 14:37

more than david blaine!!!!!!!

WSM · 20/10/2003 15:14

Yesterday (Sunday) DD had...

8.00am 7oz milk
9.00am Bowl of Ready Brek
12.45pm Jar of organic shepherds pie (need to get cooking again!) + Petit Filous, juice (extra diluted baby squash)
5.00pm Home-made Chicken Korma with Cashews (as made by Daddy for the whole family the night before), followed by 3 cow & gate toddler biscuits.
6.30pm 5oz milk before toothbrushing & bed.

jimmychoos · 20/10/2003 15:43

ooooooooh this is a fantastic thread! So many good ideas.....
Yesterday my Ds (3) and DD (1) had
Breakfast - readybrek and milk (dd), Shreddies and juice (ds)
Lunch - leek and potato soup with bread, fromage frais
Supper - macaroni cheese (with 'hidden'spinach) plus salad (dd only....ds 'only likes the leaves'
Chocolate krispie cake
Snacks - satsumas, pears, bananas, dried apricots
Anyone got any quick-to-make supper ideas - we like to eat together as much as poss (so nothing too nursery-foodish - macaroni cheese is about my limit!) and none of us eat meat.

Freddiecat · 20/10/2003 15:57

Well my recipe is:

finely chop onions and carrot - soften in butter for 20 mins or so (need to be v soft).

make mash potato

cook fish in microwave (I do cod and salmon)

cook spinach in microwave and chop finely

add milk to onion and carrots - enough to cover and make runny. heat up and add lots of grated cheese. add juice of a lemon (will curdle!) and chopped parsley.

put fish in ovendish. pour over onion/carrot/milk/cheese etc. cover with spinach. cover with mash potato. put in oven for 30 mins or so.

can add cheese to mash too which makes it tastier for little ones (and bigger ones) have to consult the book for volumns i'm afriad

Hughsie · 20/10/2003 16:00

Thanks freddiecat - I'll give it a whirl

JanZ · 21/10/2003 15:45

Yesterday ds had:

Milk in a beaker in bed with us

Breakfast:Glass of orange juice, bowl of cornflakes with milk and sugar (sometimes he has mini shredded wheats instead),toast and jam

Toast again at childminders

Lunch:1 1/2 fish fingers plus whatever else child minder gives them (but I understand he never has veg!)

Another beaker of milk

Home (5.30):1 rich tea biscuit, 5 smarties (3 and then he asked very nicely for two more), Apple juice (slightly diluted), Tantrum when we wouldn't give him anything else, as we're trying to get him into the habit of eating supper with us. 1 fromage frais that he opened the fridge himself to get (and opened himself and got his own spoon)

6.15 Supper: Bread, and none of the home made vegetable soup that dh and I were having - although he did dunk some of his bread in it.

7.30: Milk and a biscuit, teeth then bed

We're having NO luck in getting him to eat veg and "normal" meals with us (except breakfast). He's even gone off most fruit - except raspberries, which were one of the few things we could get him to eat when he was ill last week.

He'll occasionally eat spag bol, so I've taken to "hiding" spinach in it! He also likes ham, so he sometimes gets that as a snack.

If he had his way, he'd live on fromage frais ("yokka", crisps ("chimmies", cheese (Primula) on crackers, chocolates stars/buttons, rich tea biscuits, apple/orange juice and toast!

.... and he so good as a baby, eating all sorts of fruit and veg!

But I'm determined not to make food a battlefield, so am getting stronger about not letting him snack when he gets in from the child minder. We're also going to have to get a fridge lock!

Bozza · 21/10/2003 15:53

DS aged 2.8 yesterday had:

Breakfast (best meal of day generally)
One weetabix with raisins (lots)
Diluted apple juice
Petits Filous
Grapes

At Mums & Tots
At least two custard creams (probably sneaked off and got more)
Blackcurrant squash

Lunch
Jacket potato (minus skin) with olive spread, peas and grated cheddar.
Diluted apple juice

Tea
Stew and dumplings (left a few of the veg but managed quite a few too so quite pleased). Had to be persuaded to try dumplings because its the first time we've had them this winter so he can't remember.

And thats it. Normally he would have at least one pudding (ie fruit/cake/yoghurt) or an afternoon snack.

CountessDracula · 21/10/2003 15:59

DD had Ready Brek and a crumpet for breakfast
Tuna in white sauce with tomatoes and peas + a yoghurt for lunch
A waitrose sweet potato and carrot and cheese souffle tart for dinner, plus half a banana, some raisins and a fromage frais
Plus 3 bottles formula and assorted snacks

ThomCat · 21/10/2003 16:08

I love this thread!

Yesterday she had:

Breakfast:
half a bottle of milk
weetabix with all bran spinkled on top
granary toast with marmite

Lunch:
left over roast chicken stuffed with parma ham, tyme, lemon & butter, carrots with cumin (whoops forgot they were also cooked in chardonay wine!), cauliflower cheese & leeks, swede / sweet potato / parsnip and carrot mash with horseraddish mixed in, roast potatoes, roast sweet potaoes, roast parsnips and finally peas!
She did only have a bit of everything!!
Desert:
Apple pie & custard

Tea:
Pizza with cheese, tomato, ham & pinapple
Desert:
Yoghurt

Snack given at some stage:
bits of cucumber and cheese

pidge · 21/10/2003 16:46

Oooh - I'm food obsessed too. What a great thread. I'm going to do Sunday's menu, cos I haven't a clue what she had at nursery.

Apart from 3 breastfeeds, my dd (15 months) had:

Brekky: Millet, Quinoa and Prune porridge

Lunch: Karmel's Cherub's Couscous, some broad beans, sweetcorn, also some of our lamb (we were at a friends house and she nicked it off our plates!), pear

Afternoon: she found a whole apple and ate the entire thing herself without us cutting it up, which really impressed our friends!

Supper: Chicken, Sweet Potato, more apple, natural yogurt.

Bozza · 21/10/2003 16:55

Pidge my DS used to do that- including the core. Now he won't touch them.

ThomCat · 21/10/2003 16:57

Pidge - can you tell me more about that cereal please, thanks.

codswallop · 21/10/2003 16:58

candy floss

ThomCat · 21/10/2003 17:06

Coddy - you've def. lost the plot!!
I think you should lock away the booze you're dangerous today!!!!!!!

pidge · 21/10/2003 17:14

Thomcat - I got the cereal idea from Suzanne Olivier's "What should I feed my baby" which is great on nutritional and allergy information. I like to give my dd lots of variety, so she gets this, or oat porridge or the more common weetabix, ready brek or toast options.

I get organic millet and quinoa flakes from my local health food shop, then use:
1tsp millet
1-2 level tablespoons quinoa flakes
3-5 oz milk (breast milk, cow, goat or whatever)

bring to boil in a little pan and simmer for 3-5 mins till it is a nice porridgy consistency. You can do it in the microwave too - but I always end up with it boiling over in there. Messy

When it's done I add some fresh fruit, or for the prune some frozen pureed dried prune (IYSWIM).

Quinoa is supposedly a wonder-food - the only grain that is a complete protein (so I'm told).

PS - I liked the sound of carrots with chardonnay! My dd regularly gets our leftover pasta sauces made with red wine. Yum.

Gosh I must do some work.

ThomCat · 21/10/2003 17:23

You star - thankis for that - will go to my local health food shop at weekend, sound great.

Carrots were fab - use whole baby carrots if poss, crush teaspoon of cumin seeds, handful of fresh thyme - chopped, about 4 large knobs of butter, s&b.p. Put in middle of tin foil, (use lots of foil and fold over for double strength) then make an envelope with foil, pour in a large glasss of chardonnay and seal. bake in oven for 45 mins - 1 hour.

Glad you do the alcohol/food thing too. Also gave Lottie sausage casserole that i had made with about half a bottle of red wine! Still it did then get cooked for about an hour and a half - 2 hours and had lots of veg in there !!

pidge · 21/10/2003 17:24

Bozza - yup the whole thing went down - seeds and all! Oh well, I'll enjoy it whilst it lasts. Also caught her the other day chewing on a cooking apple which was sitting in the veggie rack in our kitchen - yuk!

Bozza · 22/10/2003 12:15

LOL Pidge - the first time he did it was in the car and when we got home I spent ages looking for the core. He ate from the bottom rather than from the side IYSWIM.

Clarinet60 · 23/10/2003 13:30

Yesterday DS2 (17 months) had:

Breakfast:
Boobs
Porridge, toast, small cup of milk, 10 cheerios (eats them like sweets)

snack:
Digestive biscuit

lunch:
A few spoons vegetable soup, tuna sandwhich, bit of apple, petit filous, boobs

snack:
Rice cake, digestive

tea:
Kedgeree (salmon), breadstick, banana, boobs

supper:
milk bottle & boobs

CountessDracula · 23/10/2003 13:32

My 14 mo dd has decided that food is dull and is refusing to eat anything except crumpets and philadelphia, and the odd yoghurt. Have tried tempting her with lots of things but she isn't interested. Lucky she's 98th centile and can afford to lose a bit, but she's suddenly got all skinnyribs and fat cheeks are even going

Clarinet60 · 23/10/2003 13:35

JanZ, ds1 went through that stage of having eaten well as a baby then badly as a toddler. He's much better now. It's because of that that I still give ds2 (17 months) blended 'baby food' along with his normal foods. It's just soup really, with loads of organic veg in, and I'll keep it going as long as poss.

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