19 month old lunch help?

[Ld1924]

Hi all,

My little one is 19 months old and appears to be the pickiest of eaters,

I was just after some suitable lunch time ideas for him. He has a mild egg allergy, so alot of the snacks I've seen are not suitable,

He's not a fan of sandwiches, and veggies he's fine with aslong as they're in something, trying him with veg sticks just result with them being thrown on the floor, and sometimes he just ends up with picky bits for lunch and some dried fruity bits.

I know it's not the most balanced of diets. But i do want to try new things with him.

Any egg free ideas? Please?

Rice. The Tilda kids microwave packs go down well here!
And spaghetti hoops with toast.

Sorry if I sound stupid, but what would you give them with the rice? Is it like an all in one bag? 🤣🤦‍♀️

He's a fan of toast, not so much with beans/pasta shapes.

Pasta sauce with hidden veg and spaghetti / linguine if shapes are not liked.

Add in mince and or quorn for protein.

Perfect with some grated cheese on top.

Jacket potato could also be given as alternative to pasta or rice

@Ld1924 sometimes rice on its own (it has veg in it) or alongside fish fingers.

I'll try it, thank you!

Pasta - cook loads and then give it with chicken, ham, fish etc on different days. Easy to add mixed veg to as well.

picky lunches always went down well in this house - chunks of cheese, meat, bread/toast/crackers, carrots, tomatoes, cucumber, sweetcorn, hummus. Hot additions could be fish fingers, chicken goujons, hash browns.

I also have a fuss pot 19 month old who won’t eat sandwiches! Luckily he can eat egg so he does like omelette and boiled egg and soldiers. Some none egg lunches he eats;

Picky plate is a fave, today he had breadsticks, grated cheese, thinly sliced apple, cucumber, veggie straws and some greek yoghurt with HM strawberry puree

Soup is a good one! You can free it in portions. DS2s faves are leek and potato, chicken noodle and cream of tomato.

Cheese beans/hoops on toast

Homemade sausage roll (ish - shop bought pastry wrapped round a sausage)

Veggie/fish fingers/quorn nuggets with rice or whatever carb he likes

Tuna pasta

Macaroni cheese with veg

Jacket potato (he likes beans, cheese, tuna or
sometimes I’ll add leftover chilli or bolognese)

Sometimes it’s simply reheated leftovers from the night before.

Basically - he’ll eat anything as long as it’s warm and more effort for me than a sandwich 🙃

Thank you! 🥰

Much appreciated!

I have the what mummy makes cook book and it says use an egg or chia 'egg' substitute for a lot of the lunch stuff like fritters/veggie flapjack etc, chia egg is chia seeds and a certain amount of milk mixture - would that be suitable as an egg alternative?