Please help me with breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner ideas for my nearly 2 year old, I’m at the stage where I feel like I don’t like most of what we eat (which sucks for me) and meals are a bit samey. She’s not what I’d call fussy per se but she’s hit and miss and exceptionally stubborn.
We tend to have similar every week. She’s in nursery 3 days a week but has dinner at home. She won’t eat fish (not even a fishfinger) but will eat a fishcake, she’s gone off meat entirely too, and she used to love pulses and rice (think daals) but now won’t touch them. Won’t eat porridge, I’ve tried making her breakfast bars and snacks, they don’t get eaten, she also won’t eat cakes (so can’t make muffins as snacks). We don’t eat pork and tend to use leftover meat for dinner.
So this is what we do rn.
Breakfast- some sort of cereal, milk and fruit (rice crispies, shredded wheat, weetabix etc) this can stay the same
Snack 1: brioche/ malt loaf with butter/ toast with different toppings and half a banana and a cup of milk
Lunch: this is where we strugs. So will do pizza tartlets/ pitta pizza (basically the same thing on w slightly different base) Jacket potato half beans half hoops (she won’t eat pure beans) with cheese, cheese/ tuna/ egg sandwich, egg on toast, omelette, you get the idea.
Snack 2: yogurt and fruit/ malt loaf/ brioche/ cheese and crackers and a cup of milk
Snack 3: basically another variant of the snacks above / maybe some low salt crisps or a trail mix of raisins, cereal, seeds and a few chocolate chips.
Dinner- in order of how they appear in the week mon-fishcake and chips (all home made, sometimes store bought FC) tues- left over meat from Sunday roast into some sort of pasta dish, wed- some sort of slow cooked curry or stew with mash or rice, Thursday- some sort of pasta bake, Friday- some other sort of slow cooked stew or curry with either mash or rice- might make it a pie if we feel fancy lol or maybe a Spanish omelette. Sat- daal rice and chapatis, Sunday roast either chicken or beef with trimmings.
Dessert is yoghurt and or fruit
Anyone got any food inspo for one bored of food mummy?
We have pasta twice because it’s her favourite food and we know she’ll eat it, I’m weird but I hate pasta. she’s a skinny Minnie so we walk a fine line between needing to ensure she does eat and giving her what we have. She eats her fruit and veg fine, so she gets enough of that.