What did your toddler eat today?

[ToddlerMama89]

Just for fun, curiosity and some inspiration!

My almost 2 year old is a pretty picky eater so feel free share any good picky eating ideas or tips too.

Today was a pretty good day. He had:

B: Cheerios x2 bowls
S: Banana & carrot porridge muffin
L: Cheese sandwich with 1 slice of bread, crisps, cucumber batons & half a banana
S: Apple (ate some of it) & milk
D: Eggy bread & baked beans, strawberries
S: Flapjack bites

I should’ve said he was also served some chicken & vegetable stir fry on the side of his dinner but it was refused!

2.5 yo DD

2 x wheatabix for breakfast
Lunch was baked bean and cheese fritters with sliced cucumber and tomatoes (didn’t eat the tomatoes)
dinner was beef casserole with veg (carrots, sweetcorn, peas and beans) and mash.
Snacks throughout the day were yoghurts, biscuits, crisps etc.

Need to improve snacks, got a bit slack with a newborn and end up throwing a packet of crisps at her to keep her happy!

My youngest is also almost 2 (next month), and I find these threads so interesting - so thanks, OP!

This was today (he ate most of everything):
B1 - Kids kefir yoghurt drink and blueberries
B2 - Porridge with almond butter, flaxseeds and raspberry chia jam
S - Pom bears and an apple (apple will no longer be eaten sliced, only whole apparently)
L - Scrambled eggs, toast with butter, strawberries and grapes
S - Mr whip ice cream (his first one! The ice cream man stopped on our street for the first time this year so we had to!)
D - Chicken and chickpea korma, rice cooked in chicken broth with spinach mixed through, Greek yoghurt.
S - Banana with cashew butter and honey and milk

But this was yesterday:
B1 - kids kefir yoghurt drink (refused) and strawberries (refused)
B2 - 2 Boiled eggs and toast soldiers (2 slices) (devoured), avocado slices (ignored) and banana (smushed but not eaten)
S - breadsticks, carrot batons and hummus (ignored hummus and carrots)
L - Chicken egg fried rice with peas and peppers (ate one spoonful, then was done)
S - Orange and oat bar (ate oat bar)
D - Spaghetti bolognese (played with it, ate some spaghetti that hadn't touched the sauce, generally screamed about it - normally loves it!)

2.5 year old . Eats the same exact same every day 😭 (Autism and ARFID)

Breakfast : pack of prawn cocktail crisps and 8oz aptamil first milk.

Snack : ella melt puffs and sips of water

Lunch : 6 breadsticks and a small banana, 8 oz aptamil

Snack : same as morning snack

Dinner : 2 packs of prawn cocktail crisps, a small banana, 8 oz aptamil

we are under the care of a dietician so hopefully things will improve soon

Breakfast: porridge with mashed banana and cinnamon
Lunch: cheese omelette with cucumber slices
Snack: oat bar
Dinner: chicken curry with rice, strawberries & grapes, yoghurt

B: Wheatabix, Cheerios, Shreddies, lots of milk refills, toast
S: rice cakes sandwiched together with peanut butter in the middle
S2: in car healthy cereal bar
L: peanut butter sandwich, olives. Ate tiny bit of fried egg, left nost
S: milk
T: refused Beef curry, her 11 month sister ate instead
S: an apple, possibly something else when I was out

2 year old

b: Big bowl of banana porridge (ate all)
L: Nut butter and cheese sandwich, orange and apple slices (ate half the sandwich at lunch and the rest in the afternoon. Ate the orange but refused the apple as i’d cut it up 🙄)
D: Given - veggie burger, sweet pot fries (homemade), salad. Ate - burger bun and some cheese.
Snacks - yogurt with berries, some breadsticks, oat bar, a couple of cups of milk

2.5 year old chronic vegetable dodger.

Peanut butter on toast, grapes and strawberries for breakfast
250ml Alpro Soy Growing Up Drink (mild cows milk protein allergy - tolerates most cooked dairy now but not uncooked milk)
Chicken tikka masala with rice, some cheese crackers and raspberries for lunch.
About 2 bites of chicken Kyiv for dinner. Tossed her peas and potatoes on the floor.
She also told me her Nan gave her a chocolate coin when I was at work, so that too.

Not as healthy as I would ideally like, but she's picky (just normal toddler picky) so we do the best we can.

Mine is 3 but he ate today:

Cup of milk, 2 celebrations chocolates

Porridge with raspberries

Banana

Baguette slices, cheese, skips.

Yoghurt covered dried strawberries, nougat filled wafer. Blueberries.

Pizza (as its Friday!) Was supposed to have corn on the cob too but it had gone off. Mini magnum (normally yoghurt but ice cream is a Friday treat).

Tea is usually mixed veg with meat or fish and mash/sweet potato/waffles etc.

He suddenly keeps telling me he is hungry so I've stocked up on fruit and blueberry pancakes for the weekend for snacks and will bake muffins or flapjacks.

He eats like a horse but is big and tall for his age. He doesn't like rice or pasta so potato in some form is usually his evening carb. I play to his strengths as he needs filling up!

2 and half year old DD

Breakfast-Toast,omelette,bacon and milk

Snack-grapes,strawberries,banana,apple (shared fruit) and biscuit,water

Lunch-2 waffles,1 sausage,kinder bar and water

Snack-Yoghurt and cucumber

Dinner-Rice with beans,carrots and red peppers and water

My 2 year old survives on air some days.

breakfast - weetabix with banana (spoonful if I’m generous)
walk to nursery - sliced apple and cubed cheese.
nursery lunch - vegetable fritters, veg and rice. Jelly and cream (ate all apparently)
dinner - creamy chicken tomato pasta (some), a side of cucumber and carrot sticks w/ hummus (no sticks digested; just used to scoop large quantities of hummus into mouth)
pudding - sorbet lolly
off dads plate- three prawns, a slice of garlic bread.

she is breastfed at bedtime, all other feeds dropped, but this one.

2 and a half year old

Breakfast: porridge with mashed banana, chia seeds and ground almonds and some bacon on the side

Second breakfast!: Cheerios

Lunch: peanut butter sandwich, strawberries, yoghurt and a flapjack

Dinner: chicken and vegetable soup and a digestive biscuit

Drinks water and milk at various times throughout the day

Nearly 3 year old, eats like he's never been fed before:

Breakfast: a 300g pack of cottage cheese with a few raisins + strawberries and blueberries on the side
Snack: some kind of health food cookies from a hipster coffee shop (about 20g)
Lunch: 2 scrambled eggs, 2 cream cheese sandwiches, cucumber slices
Snack: rest of the bloody cookies plus 2 clementines
Dinner: lamb hot pot with steamed peas and carrots on the side, 3 clementines, 2 beetroot crackers

2 and a half year old DD, she's very snotty at the min (first week back at nursery after school hols...) so hasn't got a great appetite!

B - Pancakes with banana (ate half)
L- Would only eat cucumber and a cheese dipper
D- Sausage, mash, broccoli and carrots (ate halfish)
S- wotsits and more cucumber

DD 16 months

B mini shredded wheat and half of my hot cross bun

S raspberries

L leftover beef stew, mash and carrots

S cheese straw and half of my apple

T quiche (refused) potato wedges and corn on the cob (refused) yoghurt, orange and banana

And lots of breast milk throughout the day!

17 month old dd ate

Bowl of porridge with almond butter, dried fruit and nettle seeds

W/m toast with butter, smoothe peanut butter and honey drizzle (ate 1/3)

Pouch of baby food and fish fingers

Breast milk on demand throughout the day and night.

Yesterday she had her usual porridge

Cheese on toast

Couple of biscuits

Beef stew and dumplings

B: big bowl of porridge with chopped up pear. Demanded a second glass of milk (but said please, on prompting)

L: half slice of toast, "crisps" (special K) and mixed fruit, a banana, homemade fairy cake, rice cracker with soft cheese. Think he also begged half of Daddy's apple!

S: 1/8th of a melon

D: a deconstructed fajita (ate the wrap and then was too full for the beef, but refused to quit because he wanted dessert), and some Greek yogurt. The fajita beef contained red and green lentils, plus grated carrots in pasata (made from scratch - we all don't get on with bought sauces)

Reading this over he seems to eat incredibly healthily! He does get chocolate and biscuits sometimes

2.5 year old
B- porridge with grated apple and cinnamon.
S-Babybel
L-cheese sandwich, grapes, strawberries, cucumber, homemade cupcake (no icing)
D-prawns, pasta with cheese sauce, broccoli, green beans and baby corn (doesn’t eat much veg but I offer it at every meal and hope one day she will!) Full fat Greek yoghurt (a lot!)

Cup of milk

Porridge with raspberries

Banana

French bread, cheese, butter, crisps and blueberries

Yoghurt coated fruit bits, half a cake slice

Apple

Roast chicken, mixed veg, mash

Yoghurt.

He ate all of it!

DS (12 months)
B: Wholewheat toast with almond butter, half a banana
Mid morning snack (doesn’t usually have this but we were out and about and he was cranky): fruit pouch and baby cracker
L: Half an avacado, jam sandwich, a few blueberries and chopped strawberries
Afternoon snack: Oaty bar
Dinner: Baked salmon with tomato rice and broccoli

4 beakers of follow on oat milk (CMPA) and 1 beaker of water

Not the best diet wise:
Breakfast: peanut butter crumpets and a peach
Snack: mini cookies
lunch: beans on toast
snack: milk and an apple
dinner: pasta, courgette and roasted peppers
yogurt

20 months

Breakfast: wheatabix

Snack: biscuit and many strawberries

Lunch: picnic so she had some tinned mackerel, cottage cheese, tuna salad with olives and veg, chorizo, focaccia and humous.

Ice cream and a biscuit

Tea: gnocchi, peas and Parmesan.

A lot of cows milk

2.5 year old
Breakfast: 1.5 wheetabix with grapes and cows milk
Snack: apple juice
Lunch: fish and chips (ate lots),
Snack: breadroll with butter (couple of bites), cucumber, grapes
Dinner: vegetable soup with chicken, sour cream and potatoes (half small bowl)
Before bed: 350 ml cows milk

3 YO.

B: Cocopops (only on Saturdays, other days it's porridge)
B#2: scrambled egg, bacon and beans
S: Pear, crackers, apple, cheese cubes, orange segments, a small Easter chocolate
L: homemade chicken goujons and skin on "chips" (baked not fried) - she was offered peas but refused.
S: Apple
D: Cream cheese pasta with oregano and ham. Cucumber on the side also refused.

She is currently on a no veg streak, but it'll change next week and she will be mainlining broccoli so I try not to stress about it!