Desperately need dinner ideas for toddler who doesn't like wet textured foods!

[Toomuchtooyoung01]

DD is almost 3 and has always flat out refused wet textured foods. This means she will not eat staples such as shepherds pie, fish pie, spaghetti bolognese etc, even cereal with milk.
I finsld myself giving her the same old thinhs eveet night for dinner - chicken or fish gougons with wedges and veg, sausages etc - PLEASE does anyone have any fresh ideas which aren't time consuming to make (also have a newborn who is attached to my boob about 23hrs a day)
Thankyou!

Plain pasta, frozen veg and prawns is a favourite of my dd. It takes 10 mins to cook. I stir in butter or olive oil but it's not essential.

Chicken ceasar salad (no sauce)

Eggy bread? Pasta with grated cheese on the side? Corn on the cob? Hard boiled egg? Cut yourself some slack though - nothing wrong with the same old things, especially with a newborn. Nothing wrong with toast, and maybe a side little eggcup of hummus for her to ignore.

Stuffed pasta with a little bit of pesto

Veg burgers or home made frittas?

Gnocchi with ham / peas mixed in, and maybe butter / pesto to moisten?

Quiche?
Sausage rolls
Cheese / onion rolls

My DC is a year older and v similar tastes. He likes pasta (with butter and Parmesan), ham, grilled chicken and roast chicken too. He also went through a phase of liking scrambled egg and is now into pizza, burgers and hot dogs...turned his nose up at meatballs last week though.

Fortunately he eats veg and is v active but we do struggle with family meals. Tomorrow, we’re having chicken kebabs (his plain, ours with peppers and chorizo) and I’m going to try him on roast pork at the weekend.

It would be so much easier if they ate wet food!

My 3 year old is exactly the same. Not a chance will she eat anything wet.
Other than that she eats pasta boiled with grated cheese on side, plain boiled brown rice or quinoa, plain brown bread, white chicken no coating etc.
I tend to give her' picky plates' with a few things I know she will eat (pasta, grated cheese) and a couple I hope she will (grapes, carrots etc).
In reality the only way I get fruit/veg into her is by pureed fruit frozen into iceblock molds, smoothies (will sometimes drink).
She has recently decided she loves pistachio nuts thank God, do that's a little more nutrition.
Its tough. I feel for you.

I have one of these who is now 16 so feel your pain. Maybe not now as you have a baby but my advice is to do everything you can to get them out of this if you can. It is / has been a slow process for us!

Tonight we had chilli and he had chicken kebabs with salad and wraps.

Other staples (sorry if not toddler friendly, it has been a while)

Roast chicken
He will eat pasta with tomato sauce but not with any other kind of sauce
Tandoori chicken if they like that kind of thing
Homemade burgers / chicken burgers / chicken schnitzel
Toad in the hole (sometimes mini)
Sausage rolls (sometimes from the freezer)
Potato waffles if you are not averse
Fishfingers / scampi
Quesadillas
We often have meat or fish with potatoes or rice and veg. Maybe gammon or salmon or white fish or yet more chicken
Hard boiled eggs and toast
Prawns cooked in oil with a bit of garlic and crusty bread
Pizza

A bit like a PP said we also have something called Big Salad which consists of a few salady bits and bobs with some nice bread and cheese, maybe cocktail sausages or ham, boiled eggs, cucumber etc.

When my children were younger they like picnic foods or-
Hummus
Olives
Pasta with pesto (on the side)
Chopped tomatoes and cucumber
Bread sticks
Oat biscuits inc cheese oat biscuits
Chunks of cheese
Grilled sliced chicken
Ham
Lettuce
Melon
Raisins
Grape
Broccoli
Sliced apple
Yellow peppers
Etc

Hope this helps. It was all pretty nutritious.
I would often cook small batches of pasta and keep in the fridge for a couple of days and the other bits were easy to chop quickly for lunch. It makes for a v colourful plate too.

try Combinations of -
Carbs-
Plain pasta, rice, Pitta bread, potatoes
Protein-
Fish, shredded or roast chicken, meatballs (Annabelle Karmel has a good recipe)
Veg-
Peas, sweetcorn, broccoli, cucumber, grated carrot

You ve got a newborn
Just give her what s easiest for now.
When her dad or other parent is there to cook he can get her to cook with him and try introducing nes food from whatever he is cooking for the adults
If you lone parent so long as there is veg and it s balanced carb veg protein just stick to what she eats. When newborn starts eating you can work on both to try new things
When they eat at school or nursery peer pressure helps

Same old things every night is absolutely fine OP as long as you’re covering all the food groups along the way (maybe not every meal but across several meals). She will not care if it’s boring even if it seems so to you.

As a child I didn’t like anything in sauce, so similar to your DC. However I would eat most veg, fruit, protein and carbs provided they were plain. Boring to an adult but I didn’t mind and was perfectly healthy. Picnic plates as suggested above were my favourite.

Much later (sorry!) I changed and now eat more widely than most people I know. Just go with the flow.

Egg fried rice? If you cook it for slightly longer it won’t be wet at all and you get loads of veggies in it too.

Falafel www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/falafel-burgers-0 or get ready-made
Frittata muffins
Puff pastry tart www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/tomato-tart
Lentil slice www.healthylittlefoodies.com/curried-lentil-bake/
Savoury bread and butter pudding realfood.tesco.com/recipes/savoury-bread-and-butter-pudding.html
Fish cakes
Sweetcorn fried rice www.greengiant.eu/sweet-corn-fried-rice/
Cheese pancakes
Sesame chicken noodles www.myfussyeater.com/sesame-honey-chicken-noodles/
Jambalaya realfood.tesco.com/recipes/jinis-make-it-better-jambalaya.html

Thankyou so much for taking the time to reply, thetes some great ideas here! Thankyou!

My 3 yo is going through this stage at the moment and rejecting usual favourites because they are too 'saucy' (her words).

We have had a bit of success putting a child size portion on a big adult size plate so it looks like a smaller portion to tackle and trying to reduce the amount of 'sauce' in her portion so it's a bit of a dryer texture.

Where possible I stick to things that can be separated out a bit more easily. So rather than cottage pie we will have mash and mince so I can give her a large spoonful of each and she doesn't have to eat the mince and gravy if she doesn't want to. Similarly pasta with a spoonful of the sauce on the side so she can 'dip' in it if she wants.

If she helps me cook it she's slightly more likely to eat it, but theres no guarantee.

It's just a phase. Hopefully.