Fussy toddler family dinners

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Looking for inspiration!

Our 2year 9months old us just starting to turn a corner (18months of refusing everything apart from fruit and weetabix) and is starting to eat mash, plain pasta (cheese cant be melted), basmati rice and occasionally roast potatoes!

Meat is still having finely chopped but getting better with fish. Ate 1/5 of a fish cake both haddock then cod.

But im running out of family dinners and using the same one. What do you all have for dinner with mash, pasta or rice?

Or what does your fussy toddler like? Meal inspirations needed

Bangers and mash, pie and mash, shepherds pie, cheese and potato pie with beans, fish pie.

curry & rice (this is limitless which type of curry), chilli and rice, Chinese style aubergine and rice, egg fried rice.

Tuna pasta, orzo, pasta and veg, pasta bake, spaghetti bolognaise. Will they eat noodles if they eat spaghetti? Our dd loves the novelty of chopsticks if they’ll be on board with them for noodles!

One of my favourite autumnal dinners is braised beef, carrots and mash.

Do they eat bread/toast? As that's the basis for a lot of simple lunch or tea options.

If some bread is eaten would "make your own wraps" work? The mini wraps are less intimidating, and you can have bowls of all sorts of things on the table - some cooked chicken, ham, all cut up small, chopped up cucumber and tomato or whatever, grated cheese, rice or pasta, let them choose what to put in the wrap. Even if they start out just with grated cheese in a wrap it's still joining in with everyone else.

I loved mashed potato volcanoes as a child - make the mash into a volcano shape and fill with beans. Serve with whatever else they will eat, sausages, fish fingers, whatever.

My 4yo niece is weirdly into soup, she loves almost all soups. And my friend's fairly fussy child likes chicken noodle soup. Cream of tomato seems pretty popular with a lot of kids as it's sweet.

Mash- roast dinner, sausage beans/peas and mash, smoked haddock with mash, ikea meatballs with mash

Pasta- tuna pasta, spaghetti bolognese, chicken and lemon tagliatelle

Rice- Curry, chilli, risotto, egg fried rice