What has your toddler eaten in the last 24 hrs?

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DS (20 months) is generally a good eater, but certainly not one of those toddlers that eat anything adn everything.

So...

Yesterday 8am
3oz milk
big portion of Fruity porridge (150ml milk)

Snack
Fresh mango
Water

Lunch
tuna mayo sandwich, 1/3 organix carrot crisp, fruit squeezy

Snack after nap
Apple jioce and three rice cakes

Mid pm snack
most of a banana

Dinner
Spag bol
broccoli
fromage frais
Dried fruit

Oh and 7oz of milk before bed

OK. 19 months yesterday:

8.30am Breakfast - readybrek with bananas. No idea of how much milk though
10.30am banana
2pm lunch -Marmite on toast
3.30pm mango (small amount)
5.30pm Dinner - Chicken & mushroom risotto

He liked everything yesterday. Today, who knows?

Oh yeah he had bf at 7am, 11am and a bottle before bed. Trying to wean him off the bottle onto a cup but he's not having it.

Wow, good eaters. Mine is truly erratic - 2y7mo.
Yesterday
8am ish - tiny cup of milk, bowl of Cheerios, yoghurt, half a Weetabix
10.30 ish - water, 3 or 4 cheese straws
11.30 ish - small box of raisins (to bribe through dog walk)
12.30 ish - noodles, more cheese straws, hummous, grapes
Throughout afternoon - copious quantities of gingerbread dough and raw flour
3.30 ish - small cup of milk, yoghurt, tiny gingerbread man
5ish - 2 bites of toast, 3 baked beans, looked at a banana
6 ish - milk.

Today will be totally different, but equally odd.

Any milk before bed?

I know.... one day, he eats with such relish, like I have been starving him. The next he wants sausages, beans and cheese, and very little else!

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I'd be delighted if my 2 yo ate such a balanced diet, OP. Yesterday he ate:

Breakfast: bowl of oatiflakes with whole milk, slice of wholemeal toast with honey, glass of watered down pure OJ

Lunch: wholemeal roll, several slices of jarlsberg. Turned nose up at lovely homemade butternut squash soup, slice of homemade banana cake, ornage suqash

snack: bowl of organic cheesy corn snacks.

Dinner: macaroni cheese with spinach through it (most of spinach was studiously picked out). Innocent fruit tube

I tear my hair out over his eating - won't even look at fresh fruit or veg (except in smoothies/fruit tubes etc.), and won't even eat potatoes in any form anymore. Variable with meat/fish.

belinda... how does your boy sleep? Just wondering as he is quite a light supper?

daimbardiva... strikes me as a pretty decent menu your dc is eating. Is he not into fruit? Mine only ealt mango, banana and apple. Will not even touch anything. As for veg, will scoff down broccoli, carrots and sweetcorn like it is going out of fashion, but will try to avoid other stuff (at least in isloation, happy to eat if I disguise i.e. peas in tortilla)

7am dry bran flakes. Cup of smoothie.
12pm ham, cheese, water
3pm crisps
3.30pm chocolate buttons, raisins
5pm ONE piece of pasta, two small fromage frais
6.45pm 3 oatcakes, piece of HM flapjack

Might have had some milk at some point too. He is the worst eater of the three and I have been exhausted by it. I've consulted the health visitor, apparently I should just let him get on with it. So I am. I offer a large variety of foods and he eats fuck all. It's terribly relaxing.

Sorry daim, I see ref to fruit

dd is 2.4, yesterday she ate

porridge made with a 1/4 cup of oats with apple and blueberry.
three mini gingerbread men that we made
some cubes of melon (after refusing any savoury for luch)
2 chocolate fingers and a slice of cucumber at a friends house
pasta with chicken, bacon, sweetcorn and pesto
1 more gingerbread man

There were also several beakers of hot milk consumed.

She won't eat bread unless it's in a shop bought sandwhich and the only potato she will eat at home is jacket potato. She eats all sorts at nursery but is pretty restricted at home and always wants one of a limited range of foods.

Oh, he's 2.4 btw.

My son is likely to make a reasonable breakfast and a reasonable dinner. Lunch is usually more like several small snacks over a 2 or 3 hour period. He will refuse most fruits though. He will eat banana, mango, blueberries. Broccoli gets thrown every time.

17 month old just getting over a week of being sick so his appitite is big.
Yesterday he had for breakfast a bowl of plain porridge, about 3 tables spoons with milk and threw in about 10 blueberries and half a banana on the side. Water to drink.
At 11am he had hummous on spelt bread, about half a slice and cup of water.
At 1pm he had penne pasta in bolonganse sauce (from previous dinner stored in freezer), about 12 pieces with more water.
At 2pm had about 4oz milk before nap.
Snacked on some easter egg.
Dinner was salmon with roasted potato and sweet potator, carrots and broccolli. He ate all of his salmon (and mine). Tiniest carrot and broccolli. didn't touch potato or sweet potato. Then had a strawberry yoghurt.
Had about 6oz milk at bedtime.
This morning so far he's had another big porridge bowl and a sausage sandwich at 11am.
Compared to last week when he had pretty much nothing all week excpet milk, he is catching up well.

DS is 16m

Breakfast: cup of milk, 1 weetabix, quarter of piece of toast with peanut butter

snack: half a hot cross bun, babybell

Lunch: Soft boiled egg on toast, yoghurt

Snack: Rice cake with cheese spread, squeezy fruit

Snack 2: some grapes in supermarket (first time ever!!)

Dinner: Roasted veg couscous, hummous on oakcake, rice pudding

Milk before bed

Just putting this up as DS is a crap eater, will not consume any meat unless disguised in a (shop-bought) sandwich, ie chicken & sweetcorn or tuna mayo. Also will not eat any veg, not even potatoes, in any form. He even hates crisps!

Thank you so much for this thread - I started a thread yesterday about DS not trying new foods, got good advice, then promptly had a massive argument with him over dinner

Yesterday he had:

6.30am - 210ml fresh milk
7.30am - about SIX cheerios plus TEN of my shreddies
Midday - two spoonfuls of gravy (refused to even put the pork, carrot, broccoli or beans in his mouth), 1 Rachel's Kitchen yogurt (he wanted crisps and biscuits but I refused as I'm trying to get him to eat his main meal.)
3pm - 3/4 of a banana
4pm - a little Organix oat bar
5.30pm - 1 homemade meatball, major meltdown as he wanted cheese. I held out for about 35 minutes then gave in and gave him 3 slices of cheese, a little fromage frais and a piece of toast with marmite.
7.20pm - 240ml fresh milk

All my friends seem to have children who are really good eaters so I'm happy to see that DS appears to be quite normal!

I should explain that I wasn't withholding cheese for the sake of it...rather his repertoire of meals is rapidly shrinking to the piont where is refusing normal meals that he previously loved and now only seems to want to eat cheese, yogurt or toast.

DD2 (14mo)
B- 1 weetabix, bowl of cheerios, half a pear, beaker of milk
L- half a roll with cream cheese, a MASSIVE German Bockwurst sausage, 6 tomatoes, 4 olives, half a punnet of strawberries, half a plum
S- offered Easter egg, she refused (weirdo)
D- loads of pasta with tomato sauce, sweetcorn and tuna,a yoghurt.

DD1 (3.0)
B- handful cheerios, beaker of milk
L- a few noodles of mine, cream cheese off her roll, the other half of the punnet of strawbs
S- chocolate
D- a begrudging 4 or 5 pieces of pasta, a yoghurt

Both are healthy and active and happy. So different!!

Ah yes Nichynoo, remove the toast and you have my dd's list of favourite foods! I have had to start hising the cheese in a tub in the fridge as she finds it then starts whining when I say no.

Mine had half a hobnob yesterday but is poorly with sickness bug.

Generally tho
Breakfast cereal or toast and fruit juice.

Snack
Smoothie and raisins occasionally a clementine.

Dinner
Sandwich any meat or dairy lea. Sometimes crackers too. Crisps as a treat. He won't eat a sandwich tho but if I put meat on plate and cut bread in squares he will. I offer salad but forget that. Yoghurt. Offer fruit.

Snack
Breadstick. I try fruit but it's shoved back at me. Chocolate occasionally as a treat.

Tea
Any form of meat or fresh fish. No veg. Has just started eating roast potatoes. Loves stuffing. Pizza sometimes as veg can be disguised in pizza sauce and he loves thin chips. Tried with sweet potato and he gave them the dog. Yoghurt. Offer fruit but no chance.

No supper or milk. He refuses milk but like melted cheese and yoghurts and I let him have angel delight with full milk.

He will not eat eggs, pasta, veg and even fruit is a battle lately. Smoothies are my saviour. He used to love spag Bol, peas, all fruit but these days arrrggghhhhh. I despair but he looks fairly well on it generally.

Typically nursery say he eats a good range including bits of celery, apple, chicken curry etc. grrrrr.

On sunday DS (18m) ate:
8am small bowl cheerios + milk, water to pour into cheerios drink, handful of raspberries, chopped up pear, some of my smoothie
10am beaker of milk and a malted milk biscuit
12.30pm chicken chasseur, mashed potato, brocolli, carrots, cauliflower, 1 squeezy yoghurt, 2 tubes of yoghurt, a small piece of easter egg and some of my trifle... and then we stopped feeding him in case he exploded. Oh, and water to drink
1.30pm bottle of milk before nap
5pm baked beans on bread (not keen on toast - or bread really), fruit pouch, water to drink
7pm big bottle (9oz) milk

Yesterday we were out for the day so I have no idea how much of his lunch he ate and how much he fed to the ducks.

He eats like a horse, unless the first mouthful is everso slightly too hot, and then he won't touch any of it just in case it is still too hot.

Just thinking of trying puréed pear in choc mousse and banana in butterscotch etc. Is this wrong? He can spot an annabel Kramer recipe a mile off and won't touch it lol

20m ds

In last 24hrs:

Roll with cream cheese
Bowl of grapes and apricots
3 'baby' biscuits
Box of raisins
Yogurt
Pasta with bacon, brocolli and pesto
Half a bottle (5oz?) milk
Another half bottle of milk
Banana
Bowl of porridge
Another box of raisins
2 Rich Tea biscuits
Slice of toast with baked beans
Water during the day as well

DS2 is 17 months had yesterday:-

3 oz milk in bottle then a weetabix mixed with milk and half a fruit pot

Half a hot cross bun and some grapes when back from school run

Lunch-cous cous mixed with philly, brocolli and peas,a satsuma and a small fromage frais

Babybel and some rice cakes and raisons and 3 oz of milk after nap

Dinner-1 roast spud (most of which ended up on floor!),yorkshire pud,loads of chicken and some carrot which got spat out! Followed by some blueberries and half a banana.

Slice of bread and butter which he helped himself to of DH's plate!

4 oz of milk before bread and water throughout day.