Due to a couple of reasons, my 18 month old eats a few meals each week that are different to us.
He is dairy/soya free, and we eat low fat slimming world meals which I feel are unsuitable for him.
So I sometimes need to cook separately for him.
I think I have the balance right in terms of healthy meals, but I'm not too sure if I'm a bit OTT or not doing enough?!
Examples of meals (and these might be lunches, or dinner) are:
Boiled egg with wholemeal toast soliders, and he will either have cucumber/cherry tomatoes with it, or fruit following.
Sandwiches (on wholemeal) of either ham/chicken slices with mayo spread on the bread (he prefers this to the dairy free vitalite option), tuna or egg mayo, occasionally he gets a treat sandwich of peanut butter and banana. He will have cucumber/cherry tomatoes with this, or fruit. He likes a little balsamic vinegar on his salad stuff (or mayo, but he has mayo overload if he gets it on sandwiches AND salad!).
Rice, chicken, peas and sweetcorn.
Mash potato, mixed veg, sausages and gravy. (I use frozen veg, as well as fresh - it just depends).
Potato waffles, mixed veg, beans or spaghetti.
Beans on toast, fruit for after.
Vegetable soup, slice of bread with vitalite, fruit for after. I have used tinned and made fresh - it just depends on time.
Spag bol.
Fish oven cooked in vitalite , mixed veg, sweet potato mash or boiled potatoes. He likes gravy with this or ketchup 
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He eats a massive variety of things, will generally try new things, although has the odd fussy moment like most children I presume.
I get a bit hung up on trying to make sure all meals have veg or fruit with them, so if he doesn't have it with the meal like with sandwiches, or beans on toast, he always gets fruit for after. A banana or tangerine, or both are favourites.
Would you bother to do this? Sometimes he ends up with some strange combinations of food in my attempts to balance things!
He eats weetabix with oat milk on for breakfast (1.5 or 2). No mornings snacks, sometimes he gets a snack on waking from his afternoon nap, as we eat our evening meal late (6.30ish sometimes a little later). Raisins, breadsticks, fruit, a crumpet, rice cakes are all common snacks here.
Does anyone have any good, cheap, easy but healthy meal ideas to share? Or any helpful advice like shut the fuck up and stop overthinking things? I hate the fact he can't just have what we have. But for now, it's just the way things will have to be.
Oh, and final question - do you children eat more veg if it has some sort of sauce on it? DS will eat anything if it's moist . Gravy, mayo, vinegar, tomato sauces, ketchup, a bit of vitalite on veg. He eats a little of it without, but wolfs the entire portion if it's got a touch of something moist on it!