How can I improve?

[RubyBlueberry]

My DS is 14 months now and eats what we all eat at tea time, mashed up, has weetabix / porridge for breakfast but lunch time I am crap at.

I am slways so busy flying around getting DD ready for school and pleading with her to eat that he has a jar of Cow & Gate or Hipp??

Should I go to Annabel Karmel? any advice on what to cook easily for him would be very welcome!!!

a sandwich and some fruit would do rather than have to cook anything. Or how about beans on toast, scrambled egg, etc

What do you and DD have for lunch ? Just give him some of that - sandwiches or some cheese, breadsticks and cucumber would be fine.

And why are you pleading with DD to eat ?

you don;t need to cook a lunch and dinner everyday
but one of the easiset things is a snadwich,or mini pitta with hummous or cheese or something like that

or some pasta

eggs are quick

picnic.. some cheese, fruit, breadsticks, chicken/ham/beef etc all in small amounts

Stop pleading with dd to eat.

Make 3 sandwiches.

Cut one of them into finger strips for the baby.

Put one of the other two in front of dd. Say "Dd, here is your lunch"

St down and eat the third one yourself.

Sorted.

Thank you.

DD is just not a fan of food, or sitting down to eat....I have to sit her down and bribe / bargain with her, we have been this way for ages - years actually.
She'd rather be off doing more interesting things.
I can see her point, I don't really like cooking but I do understand it's better to eat well, freshly made stuff than convenience foods, thus am desperate for DS to like his food IYKWIM so I will try the beans, scrambled egg and sandwich ideas. He does like breadsticks and I will try mini pittas with DD (can you get them in tesco?)

Can I say - please stop bribing/bargaining. She won't starve, I promise. Offer food. Force yourself not to mind whether she eats it or not. Don't say a word about it. If she eats it she eats it, if she doesn't - what's the worse that can happen? She'll get a bit hungry. Then she'll realize after a while that she's better off eating when it's available.

Concentrate on you and the baby having lunch. It will work, I promise.

agree with seeker,

put the food out, does not need to be a cooked lunch or dinner every time, let her eat or not, but don;t make it a battleground every time

if you have been doing it for years and she is still not a good eater, it is not working!

You can always sit down with dd and agree a list of lunch/dinner menu items that she will like - and then everyday she can pick something off the list iyswim - theres then no moaning about dinner because they have chosen it and they cant pick the same thing twice in a week - this stops them picking bloody pesto pasta everyday...

as long as you havent got really bad things on the list then ds can have the same...

oh and we eat a lot of avocados for lunch - no cooking and healthy at the same time...