What did your preschooler eat today?

[EmilyWeather]

3.5 year old DD is a creature of habit when it comes to food. I'd love a few more ideas! Here's our day...

Breakfast: small bowl of porridge with raisins, almond butter, ground flax seed.

Lunch (needed to be super quick because we were late heading out): seeded bread and butter, edam cheese, grapes, strawberries, blueberries, one Oreo.

Snacks: one yoghurt covered rice cake, one pack of dried fruit yo-yo snacks.

Dinner: roast vegetable and lentil lasagna (sauce blended). Cucumber and pepper slices (refused). Half a pot of greek yoghurt with a drizzle of honey. 1 corn cracker with butter. Few smarties later.

Probably too much sugar. Only water to drink, but probably less than it should have been. I'd say this is probably a fairly average day?

What did your kid eat?

That's pretty varied! Lots of flavours and textures. If I was cynical I'd call it a Mumsnet humble brag...

Two pieces of white toast with butter, then a day of nursery food followed by a couple of Lindt chocolates, a few spoonfuls of pasta bake, some apple slices and a small slither of cheese cake.

Nutella on toast
pesto pasta, one slice of ham, a babybel and a frube, a prune pouch
rice and chicken and tomato stew
a mini magnum
apple, banana, raisens all offered and refused 🤦🏽‍♀️
that’s a pretty standard day for him.

My 2.5 year old is so picky since having a month long cold before Christmas, so he had ready brek with peanut butter stirred in for breakfast and a touch of honey, then for lunch he had a poached egg and a scrambled egg (don't get me started on this new servitude I've created for myself 😅 ) some spaghetti hoops as he can swallow them without chewing and he's awkward atm, and smashed avocado. Dinner was hidden veg lentil sauce with pasta, and yoghurt for pudding, home made banana bread for snacks which he mostly ignored though he used to love it.

absolutely a humble brag over the veggie/lentil lasagne win! Don’t worry OP, I feel the same whenever my fussy kids eat anything I would consider to be grown up food.

Mine are 4 and 2 and usually have scrambled eggs or an omelette for breakfast with fruit, then preschool so I only really vary their evening meals.

So far this week, we’ve had spaghetti bolognaise, salmon, mini potatoes and green beans, chicken vegetable lasagne and fish soup with crusty bread. All with varying levels of success but as long as they are trying these things I’m happy. My 2 year old will usually have a couple of spoons then demand cornflakes though but I’m trying not to make food into a battle.

breakfast: 1 weetabix with milk and banana
snack: 5 ritz crackers, yoghurt (organic live cultures no added sugar), 5 blackberries and half an organix raisin bar.
lunch: half a cheese sandwich on white bread and a fudge
dinner: shepards pie but wouldn’t eat it today (polished it off yesterday) so then had 1 an 1/2 weetabix and banana before bed again.

I actually am fed up so would like some ideas too. My toddler has days of eating so well (avocado stew fruit veg etc) and days where eat barely anything but yoghurts and cereal! I don’t know if this is normal or as they’re fed up of their food choices.

@Nosleepforthismum how do you make the chicken veg lasagne?

Out walking with the dog wondering what on earth an avocado stew is 😂 clearly too early for me to have basic comprehension skills!

Breakfast (at nursery): Weetabix and Rice Krispies

snack: crackers
lunch: creamy chicken and cauliflower pasta (all)
tea: creamy veg soup (all) choc and raspberry cake (1 slice)

all the above was at nursery so no idea on portion size or honesty of how much they ate 😂.

home: chicken and chorizo paella and a mini magnum

breakfast: 1 weetabix with milk, sometimes a banana as well
snack: homemade oaty slice/cookie
lunch: cheese sandwich + fruit & a yogurt
snack: piece of fruit or breadsticks & houmous
dinner: usual sorts of spag bol, pesto pasta, fish cakes & mash, mini roast, cauliflower cheese etc

I have a fairly picky reception aged child. He eats a lot of food quantity wise but we rotate the same meals.

Yesterday he had:

Fruit peeler pre breakfast
Porridge and blueberries
Naked bar.

Apple

Cheese sandwich, skips, raspberries, biscuit.

Choc chip brioche. Box of raisins.

Cheese and spinach crepe, few chips, 2 mini corn on the cob.

Muller corner choc balls yoghurt. Grapes.

He ate it all. He doesn't stop moving but still, I don't know where he puts it all!

4YO had:
Breakfast: weetabix, half a banana, petit filous, diluted apple juice
Snack: crackers and fruit (at school)
Lunch: fish and chips, apple crumble and custard (at school)
Snack: jam sandwich (after school club)
Dinner: takeaway pizza 😬 - Friday treat

My DNephew who’s 2 barely eats anything. He likes boiled eggs, avocado and toast, biscuits, cake but he’s quite a fussy eater and prefers his bottle. I swear he eats more at his nursery though. He picks a lot at food too.