What/how much did your 16m-ish toddler eat today?

[MeadowHay]

I'm always agonizing over my fussy DD's diet. She can eat for England in the stuff she likes and regularly asks for food, but is fussy.

Today was a fairly typical day, she had:
8am breakfast: 5oz milk in sippy cup, half a piece of white toast with marge, Babybel.
10am 2 berry-flavoured mini rice cakes.
11.45am lunch: she picked at lots of things so difficult to estimate portion sizes, probably like half a falafel, half a piece of cheese, a small chunk of cucumber, 4 cherry tomatoes, 4 green grapes. Refused green olives.
3.40pm a satsuma and a little pack of savoury biscuits.
5.50pm dinner: a Quorn sausage patty with ketchup, 1/3 of a white English muffin, half a baby sweetcorn, 2 seasoned wedges, she also had some fried onion and some sweetcorn and carrots but difficult to estimate quantity as it was mixed with green beans and peas which she had little tries of but otherwise didn't eat.
6.40pm 5oz milk in sippy cup.

She has water with her meals and snacks and then regularly offered in between too. Today this has been a mixture of an open cup, and a straw cup.

Not looking for comments on her diet please just curious to see what other similar aged toddlers are eating.

Mine's 13m. He's been out of sorts today with the cold, but yesterday he ate:

Breakfast: Slice of wholemeal toast with peanut butter and a small handful of Shreddies. 6oz milk (unfortunately still out of a bottle, we're working on it
Snack: Kiddilicious mango smoothie bite things (we were out and about) plus water from his cup.
Lunch: Leftover veggie sausage casserole from the night before with borlotti beans, carrots and peas. Grated cheese (leftover from my own lunch). Purreed fruit and yogurt, some blueberries. Some rogue animal biscuits. Water from his cup.
Snack: 2 Cheddars and an oaty bite. Milk from his cup, I give him 3oz but he never manages to drink more than 1oz.
Tea: Beef stew with potatoes, carrots and green beans. More fruit and yogurt, a banana and some raspberries. Water from his cup.
Before bed: 9oz milk (again from his bottle).

He is an eating machine though.

For portion sizes, I used the munchkin love bowls. If he doesn't eat most of it, I don't offer anything else. He's spoon fed, he has no interest in feeding himself.

Tbf though, you seem to offer dessert with breakfast and lunch right? So isn't that offering something else really anyway if they don't eat most their meal? Not a criticism at all btw but some people may offer something else but not give dessert iyswim so two different ways of achieving what seems to me to be a similar result, ie child refuses one thing and eats something else so as not to go hungry.

Your little one sounds ace with their eating! I like that DD will mostly feed herself because it means I have a few mins to shovel food into myself but equally it is messy as hell and often not very efficient. And then sometimes she point blank won't let me feed her which when we are giving rice or soup, isn't very convenient!

Don't worry about bottle. DD had hers til about 13 months and we gradually transferred to sippy cup in morning and then before bed either sippy cup or bottles with free flow teats, we have an Avent one and another one that I can't remember the brand of. Maybe your DC would prefer these to a sippy cup for milk as they're more like a bottle?

I offer him extra when he finishes everything and still looks hungry... Occasionally he won't finish his meal, so he doesn't get anything else. If it's because he really doesn't like it (so he's only had a few mouthfuls), I give him toast and peanut butter, I'm not heartless.

I would like him to feed himself, he didn't get the memo... He takes so long to chew that I can normally do a spoon for him, then a forkful of my dinner for me.

I have tried all sorts of cups... he gets on best with the tommee tippee free flowing one for milk and the 360 cup for water. But he's not great at it! He starts nursery this month, I'm hoping seeing kids using their cups will help.