What is your 2yo eating?

[Chiaseedz]

24 months, vegetarian.
Basically only eats cheese pasta and baked beans. Everything we cook is too spicy (or just refused).
Easy to prepare or freezer friendly ideas please!

What are you cooking that is too spicy? Can you adapt your recipes for a while?

I'm a cm and most of my 2 yr olds eat everything. I have one fussy little one but he's getting better, I still off the same things along side one thing that I know he will eat.

My daughter only likes plain foods and no sauces unless they are in a little jug she can pour on at the table. We can get a way with a bit of cumin or mustard now she's 4. Her favourite meal of ages was plain pasta, olive oil, frozen peas and sweetcorn and chick peas!

She has allergies to alliums and nightshades so we cook onions and garlic separately and a bottle of siracha lives on the table so things that give food flavour can be added at the point of serving.

Once a month, I make this sauce: sweet potatoes, celery, carrots, parsnips, leeks, tomatoes, peppers- I cook them in water and add loads of tomato paste to it. When they cooked, just simply blend it and feeeze them in small plastic bags. I use it on pasta (I add cream and cheese) or on hommade pizza as a souce. (Using kids' pizza dough, which is only flour, baking powder, and yoghurt).
It's convenient as it tastes like a tomato sauce but is filled with veggies.

If your child likes cheesy pasta, that's good: slowly start to blend vegetables into the cheese, sause- a bit of culiflower, or sweet potatoes, or broccoli. It's crazy how much the cheese taste can overpower the veggies.

Veggie cottage pie

2 year old and vegetarian here as well
Regular meals are: gnocchi with cauliflower & cheese sauce, veggie biryani, sweet potato jackets with chickpeas/sweetcorn/black beans, black bean chilli & rice, spinach & ricotta puff pastry parcels, spinach Mac & cheese, broccoli orzo, noodles & stir fry veg, lentil Bolognese, lentil dhal, pizza made with flour & greek yogurt base then tomato puree and toppings like mushrooms, peppers etc

At nursery, my DD (22 months) eats broccoli, carrot, peas, parsnip, apple and pears. I would think they are fudging the daily diary but the evidence is in her nappies.

At home, all the above are refused. Go figure.

However, to answer the OP, a typical day for us is

Breakfast - boiled egg and a bit of toast (usually half a slice)

Mid morning snack - banana (the one fruit the child will eat for me!)

Lunch is usually beans on toast, cheese sandwich and cucumber sticks, cheese and tomato pizza (home made, I don’t order a dominos) fishcake, mash and sweetcorn (she often refuses the sweetcorn but sometimes has some mixed in the mash and I add leek to it too.)

Mid afternoon snack of cheese and oat cake and cucumber sticks

Dinner is usually either spaghetti bolognaise, chilli, lasagne, cottage pie, chicken curry. Basically anything I can add veg too! Thank god for nursery!

My children eat meat, however I do make some veggie meals for them as well and with things like curries or chilli, I just make them much milder than I would for myself!
Veggie meals they like include -
bean chilli
sweet potato and cauliflower curry
egg muffins
homemade pizzas
pasta with homemade sauce (usually either tomato based with other veggies blended in or a green veg pesto)
they also love sausage casserole which you could make with veggie sausages

Thanks all - seems bean chili is a winner so will try that next

I see she eats fish, there is a bbc good food salmon and pea pasta recipe which is very child friendly.

Nope no fish - but thanks

Spinach & ricotta pinwheels
Brocolli & cheddar pinwheels
Pitta bread pizza with pepper & sweetcorn
Lentil shepherd's pie / bolognaise sauce
Macaroni cheese (sauce of butternut squash, roasted red pepper, milk & cheese blended)
Pasta with tomato sauce (tinned tomatos blended with a tray of roasted veg)
Cauliflower cheese patties & new potatoes & veg
Veggie stew & rice (I think this is a Charlotte Sterling-Reed recipe)
Attempted risotto but didn't like it...
Veggie frittata (this is an Annabel Karmel recipe)
Veggie tots/fritters/mini muffins

Lots of recipes available online on Charlotte SR's blog, some free ones on Annabel Karmel website, some on BBC good food, the what mama makes book is good too although not vegetarian has many veggie recipies!