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

Almost 3
breakfast : a dunker , apple , toast and butter. Ate all apple and dunker and half toast
Lunch: a McDonald cheeseburger happy
meal - ate all
dinner- one pie chips and beans ate most
snacks - an apple and a tangerine, 4 breadsticks with a sour cream and chive dip with tomato sliced up

16 months old;

B1 - banana and a slice of wholemeal toast (he gets up at the arse crack of dawn and this keeps him occupied while I have a cup of tea and come back to life 🥴)
B2 - porridge with a drizzle of honey and a few blackberries
L - chicken soup with half a slice of wholemeal bread ripped up into the soup and the other half buttered and turned into fingers for dipping
D - tuna pasta with sweet corn and cucumber on the side. Myself, DP and DS1 had Pizza Hut so the baby inevitably had a few wedges and nibbles of pizza 🫣

I also caught DS1 giving him some wagon wheel earlier…

2 ½ year old eats fairly well, some days better than others

Breakfast- mini shreddies, followed by some of his dad's bacon sandwiches

Snack- banana &strawberries, custard cream biscuit

Lunch- chicken soup, strawberries, humous and breadsticks, a yoghurt

Dinner- one breaded chicken fillet, broccoli, mashed potato

After dinner he had a hot milk with sprinkle of cocoa powder

Today (2yr 3m old):
Weetabix with whole milk
Wheat puffs in his snack pot
A sausage
Black grapes
Tube of peach yoghurt
Veggie crisps
Sugared ring doughnut
Leek and turkey sausage pasta (used a mix of normal bow pasta, chickpea fusilli, green pea penne, and red lentil & beetroot fusilli)

Yesterday was:

B- weetabix, chia seeds, peanut butter, grapes (ate half and all grapes)
S- strawberries, blueberries, Pom bears
L- beans and veggie sausage on toast - ate half toast, loads of sausage and decent amount of beans
S- biscuit and more fruit
D- corn on cob, spaghetti hoops, chips and a quorn dinosaur - ate most of corn and small amount of hoops and dino

She’s not eating so much just now so have been sticking with the favourites as we’ve had a lot of “don’t like dinner!” and refusal to even try.

2 and a half year old

Breakfast: mini shredded wheat
Snack: yoghurt pouch and an ice cream at the park
Lunch: peanut butter sandwich, strawberries, glass of milk
Dinner: spaghetti Bolognese

B : Weetabix
S: Babybel
L: 2 boiled eggs, toast with butter, sweetcorn, cucumber
Milk before nap
S: Blueberries
D: Will be chicken curry, brown rice and broccoli
Banana and milk before bed

2.5 year old DS.

Breakfast:scrambled egg on toast
Snack: Apple
Lunch: lasagne (ate all of it for a change at preschool!)
Snack: cheese sandwich, grapes and half a pack of frazzles.
Snack 2: a handful of lurpak when I wasn’t looking
Tea: fish and chips as a treat 🙂

3yo

B - Cheerios
S - grapes/blueberries/strawberries
L - beans on toast followed by ice cream cone which he asked for repeatedly but didn't eat
S - marshmallows/cucumber/carrot
S - half a sausage roll
S - 2 slices of watermelon
S - handful of chocolate buttons
D - cheese and tomato pizza

Keeping it real over here with 50,0000 snacks

2.5yo DS

Breakfast - 2.5 weetabix with chia seeds, a drizzle of honey and milk
No snack today, he was too buzzed to be back at one of our toddler groups after a bit of a break for one reason or another. He’d usually demolish a good pile of food there, but the toy tractors were just too exciting!

Lunch - cheese and ham wrap, half a bag of mini cheddars, cucumber, red pepper, grapes, apple slices
Afternoon snacks - 4 strawberries, a load of blueberries, the crust slice of bread (he got this himself 🙄), a pack of mini party rings, a banana
Tea - 1 sausage, beans and homemade potato wedges. Jelly, then yoghurt for afters 🤦🏼‍♀️
He will also have a banana and a cup of milk before bed

2yr 3m:
Weetabix with wholemilk
A couple spoonfuls of mummy's cornflakes
Wheat puffs in his snack pot
Cracker & fruit (served at nursery)
Refused nursery lunch!
Lemon cake (nursery)
Breastfed at naptime
Apple
Homemade pizza
Breastfed at bedtime

Purple smoothie for breakfast (plums and berries, but with hidden kale and carrots and a bit of ginger), yoghurt.
Lentil or rice cake for snack (nursery offer both, can't remember what DC chose).
Veggie pasta at nursery.
Shami kebab (lamb, peppers , onion, spices) with yoghurt.

Drank milk and water mostly but also had half a small fruit shoot (shared with me) after running around at an activity.

I'm pretty positive about today, for once.

We had a really good day today. He ate pasta for the first time in months!! Albeit he thought it was rice as it was orzo 😅 but I’m taking it as a win nevertheless as it was in a tomato sauce which also hasn’t been accepted for a long time.

B1: Crepe with jam, strawberries & half banana
B2: 1 Weetabix with ground seeds & ground almonds as he wanted mine so I got him his own
S: Whole bag of Veggie Straws & 4 mini Organix gingerbread men
L: Eggy bread (ate half), baked beans & cucumber
S: Raspberry & coconut bliss ball, half satsuma
D: Tomato & hidden veg orzo, cheese, half slice bread & butter (offered as a safe food!), melon
S: Banana, peanut butter & chocolate chip mini muffin

B - porridge with honey and cocao powder + ground nuts and seeds and some Greek yoghurt, grapes on the side (ate all)
S - Toast with PB and jam with some blueberries (ignored the bluebs), babyccino
L - Homemade tomato, pepper and lentil soup with salmon fishcake on the side (ate maybe 1 or 2 spoons of soup and a bite of fishcake)
S - Choc buttons and Greek yoghurt with honey
D - Oven pizza, oven chips and ice cream (was going to be homemade Greek yoghurt pizzas but I had a cbf moment in Aldi and bought the frozen stuff )
S - Cows milk and 1/2 banana

B: Weetabix with oat milk mixed with some raspberries I had mashed up
S: Oaty bar
L: Egg mayonnaise sandwich, half a banana
S: Another oaty bar 😬 he loves them
D: A bit random tonight, sweet potato wedges (homemade), broccoli, low sugar/salt baked beans, some fruit purée

2.5 yo

Breakfast: cereal and milk
Snack: grapes, rice cakes and milk

Lunch: some yogurt, pasta (very little), strawberries and a few cherry tomatoes

Snack: pancakes, raisins and milk
Tea: chicken with noodles and baked beans.

This is less than what he usually eats btw.

B - porridge with chia seeds (bc I made it too milky) and Peanut butter. Hot cross bun

S - blueberry pancake (treat.. dont normally give them too many snacks)

L - more pancake, avocado, cucumber, tempeh, bread roll with butter

D - cheese/tomato pasta (vegan version), veggie sausage, frozen peas and frozen currants

This is for toddler twins and one ate it all fine and the other was being fussy and had to have a bread roll as option B...

16 month old today had;

B - boiled egg and wholemeal toast soldiers, and a banana while he waited
L - homemade banana bread with peanut butter on, rasps, bluebs and some cheese cubes. He then came after my lentil crisps.
D - spag bol with cheese, broccoli on the side and a garlic bread dough ball

No snacks today as he had his lunch quite late due to napping a bit longer. Will have 7oz milk at bedtime too.

Croissant and apple.
Jamaican jerk chicken (also contains sweet potato, sweetcorn, peppers, onion, tomato).
Yoghurt.
Tomato pasta.
Drank water, milk and a blackcurrant squash.

2 and a half

Breakfast: shredded wheat and some bacon
Lunch: noodles with veg, pain au chocolat, strawberries
Snack: biscuit
Dinner: chicken burger, brioche bun, sweetcorn, petit filous yoghurt

My girl is feverish and miserable today, so good nutrition went down the drain and I just tempted her with whatever I could get her to take. She's had;

Calpol
A little piece of pancake
A small piece of ham sandwich
Some tinned mandarins
Some scrambled egg
A couple of spoonfuls of soy yoghurt
2 cups of soy milk
Some breast milk
Multivitamin
An After Eight

Given how poorly she is I don't think that's too bad at all.

That sounds pretty good @pbdr - I hope she feels better soon

B- rice crispies, strawberries and raspberries
S- melon, half croissant and a few Pom bears
L- offered lentil soup and fruit smoothie but didn’t want it, ate her roll and veggie sausage
D- offered mac n cheeze had a few spoonfuls through tears as “don’t like it” (wasn’t forced at all it’s just all that was out for her) then had a soya yoghurt pot and some toast

Been a bit rubbish at eating lately but she goes through these phases and hopefully will come into an “eats lots” phase again soon and can get more veg into her.

B- rice crispies, grapes and kiwi- ate none
S- slice toast, strawberries and 2 small cookies
L- veggie sausages, chips and beans, only ate chips and beans (in a cafe and sausages did look crap tbh)
S- satsuma
D- home made pizza (ate 2 slices) and corn on the cob (ate all), bit of chocolate for dessert

She was sick a little bit after her milk, hope she’s not coming down with something.

What was eaten:
Half a banana.
2 bites of an oatcake with sliced apricot.
A plain wafer.
Half a portion of chicken and sweet potato curry.

Drank milk and water.

What was rejected:
Porridge with a choice of toppings.
Smoothie.
Sweet potato salad (sweet potato, tomato, cucumber, onion, pepper, yoghurt).
Mac and cheese (with hidden veg).
Apple.

Oh well. Tomorrow's another day.