What has your toddler eaten today?

[toddlerfooddiaries]

I need ideas for what to feed my toddler! He's 15 months. Thought I could start a thread for some inspiration. He's allergic to dairy, egg and soy.

Today he's had

Breakfast: Porridge with oat milk, mixed seeds, banana and peanut butter.

Snack: an orange

Lunch: a crumpet with peanut butter and jam, cucumber sticks, cherry tomatos and grapes.

Dinner: coconut chicken lentil sweet potato and spinach curry with whitE rice, followed by the new almond petit felus!

Please share ! Any ideas welcome!

Mine had no allergies and had:

Cup of milk
Porridge with a few milk choc dots stirred in (FF milk)

Bag of mini cheddars

Crusty roll with cheese, offered cucumber didn't eat it

Blueberries, petit filous

1x choc chip brioche

Homemade bolognese with added veg and cheese and pasta

Pudding pot

Most of a banana

16 months old, no allergies - no idea what they do for snacks at the nursery, at home we do one or a few of banana, grapes or other fruit, organix oaty bars, cheese, yoghurt, avocado or soft cheese on toast. Not a great day today with lots of sweets and pasta twice!

Pre-breakfast: Greek yoghurt, strawberries, grapes and blueberries
Breakfast (at the nursery): toast, banana, healthy cereal
Lunch (at the nursery): vegetarian meatballs with pasta and sauce, homemade cookie
Afternoon tea (at the nursery): yoghurt, tea cake
Dinner: penne pasta with bolognese sauce, steamed broccoli

Did you look at any Rebecca Wilson books? We are big fans and she always suggests subs for eggs and dairy so you might want to have a look.

If you're just after ideas @toddlerfooddiaries then this guide from the Caroline Walker Trust has some great suggestions including sample menus

DD was at nursery yesterday so I don't even have to try and remember I can just look at her chart!

Cup of milk at home with us first thing

Rice snaps and toast for breakfast

Apple and banana waffles as a snack

Fish pie and pesto bruschetta for lunch

Tuna and cucumber sandwiches plus pineapple for tea

Then square of flapjack at home with us for supper.

No allergies. She's about to turn 2.

My DD has a dairy and soy allergy and is almost 2 and a half.
she loves chia pudding made with oat milk, its great because you can make it in advance and have it with a variety of toppings.
pitta pizza is also a big hit for lunch time- pitta bread with tomato purée spread on top and red pepper/ham/vegan cheese as toppings, normally serve some picky salad bits on the side.
coconut based curries also go down well for dinner, served with rice
home made banana pancakes are a popular breakfast, served with coconut yogurt and cooked up frozen berry mix

Thanks for the tips and ideas! It's lunchtimes I really struggle with! Particularly eggless and dairy free toast toppings! So if anybody has any ideas for that 😂

Also definitely going to try chia pudding!

My 17 month old has an egg allergy

Breakfast - toast & butter, blueberries strawberries a yoghurt and a biscuit

Lunch - sausage chips and peas

Snack - banana & some crackers

Tea - beef stew , loads of veg & mash and a mini Swiss roll for pudding

She eats everything. More than my 6 year old 🤣

Breakfast - porridge mixed with crushed raspberries and milk

snack - banana bread

lunch - pesto pasta with spinach (sauce already batch cooked and frozen so only need to cook the pasta)

snack - celery sticks, blueberries and crackers

dinner - chicken hotpot with mash potato

will have a biscuit and milk before bath and bed.

my toddlers don’t always eat everything every day. Some days they’re ravenous and other days they turn their nose up at food.

Almond butter is a hit in our house as toast topping - and it has more nutrients than peanut butter. Chocolate hazelnut spread is also a hit for obvious reasons lol and crushed banana

15.5 month old, no allergies:

Cup of milk
Breakfast - banana pancakes with strawberries
Snack - orange
Lunch - cream cheese sandwich, blueberries and pepper slices. Plus she stole some of my crisps 🤦🏻‍♀️
Dinner - bolognese followed by a yoghurt
Before bed she'll have a cup of milk

Following with interest as I struggle with lunches for my toddler as all food have to be pureed and sieved. Bread/pasta and rice don't puree well and if they do puree they turn to gloop. I need some ideas for high calorie foods that I can blitz, (toddler has cows milk allerg).

20 month old had:

Breakfast: weetabix and strawberries

Lunch: cheese & crackers, cherry tomatoes, ham, yogurt

Dinner: fish finger, mash, carrots & broccoli

Snacks: raisins and pom bears

My dd recently turned 3.
Like most toddlers, she has days where she has a huge appetite & other days where she hardly eats anything.

Breakfast today was a boiled egg with buttered brown toast

A few pieces of cucumber and apple as a snack

Lunch was some spaghetti with tomato, broccoli, garlic herbs & cream cheese mixed in - she had a few mouthful’s and said she was full😆

A snack was some Greek yogurt with banana mixed in.

Tea was corn cob, cauliflower cheese, peas and cod followed by a rocket lolly.

22 months old with several allergies including egg and milk.

Breakfast: grapes, honey hoop’s cereal, breadsticks.

Lunch: ciabatta roll with dairy free cheese, blueberries

Dinner: chicken curry with rice and potatoes, apple

Back in hope of some more inspiration 😂

Today

Breakfast- porridge, almond milk, mixed seeds, peanut butter, frozen berries.

Snack- cucumber sticks and coconut yoghurt

Lunch- pasta with asdas free from pesto, peas, brocolli and spinach, tomatos and an orange

Snack - oat milk and a rich tea

Dinner will be sausage mash and green beans!

Also- what dairy free cheese do you find best??

Mine allergic to nuts, and mildly intolerant to dairy so eats very little of it. It’s a nightmare tbh. He’s also gone very fussy the last 2-3 months since he’s been ill

Today:
Breakfast : dry Cheerios, banana
2nd Breakfast: ( we pack and he takes to nursery) Mashed avocado on soft rye bread. Satsuma, grapes.

Lunch: Homemade chunky minestrone

Snacks: Mini pretzels, dark chocolate, oat bar, 1/2 apple

Dinner: will be Sausages, green beans and potatoes ( he will hate the potato and nibble one)

He can’t drink much dairy milk ( ok with tiny bit cooked inside stuff), won’t drink oat milk and allergic to the nut milks.

Today at nursery was

• breakfast Cheerios and toast

• lunch salmon and broccoli pasta with an onion ring

• tea jacket potato with cheese and ham, melon for dessert

Breakfast- Wheetabix with milk, honey and raisins

Lunch - Oatcakes, humous, peppers, Grapes, Raspberries

Dinner - sausage pasta in tomato sauce

Snacks - pom bears, rice cakes, apple, banana

28 month old toddler

Breakfast: Half a slice of toast, banana, a low sugar petit Filous yogurt drink

At nursery she had:

Snack: Pear
Lunch: Lamb casserole and potatoes
Pudding: Rice pudding
Snack: Cracker with butter
Tea: Pizza with veggie sticks
Pudding: Orange

They serve tea early at 3.30 and DD goes to sleep at 9 so on the bus home at 5 she normally has some cheese puffs or teddy faces to keep her quiet (sorrynotsorry)

Dinner is homemade tomato veggie soup (only way she will eat veggies at home, with a small handful of precooked chicken and sugar free jelly.

@toddlerfooddiaries i find the best one is cathedral city dairy free grated cheese. It’s the closest to the real thing I would say.

12 month old - no allergies

Breakfast - a banana and cheerios

Snack: Kiddylicious oat bar and blackberries

Lunch- turkey (in the shape of billy bear!) sandwich, grapes, raspberries, cucumber, biscotti and half a boiled egg

Snack: breadsticks and rice cakes (munched throughout the afternoon)

Dinner: spaghetti bolognese with extra veg and a yoghurt

Breakfast: shreddies with oat milk.

Snack: blueberries and organix biscuits.

lunch: lamb curry with potatoes and rice.

Snack: grapes and more biscuits.

Dinner: fish fingers and apple. Tiny bit of organix oat bar and a couple of organix crisps.

Mines not eaten much.

Porridge for breakfast.
handful of blueberries.
Biscuit (given out after a group we went to)
Biscuit (stolen from my bag on the way to park 😂)
Half a tea cake
Raisins
Chicken casserole with mushroom, onion and carrot
Yoghurt