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Share ideas for feeding toddlers!
Hi Everyone
Just thought that it might be nice to share and swap ideas and recipes for our childrens meals?!
Ethans favourites are quiche which is versatile as can be given with so many different things, vegetable risotto and vegetable rissoles which I often make, freeze then give on the side of his meal on the occasions when I resort to oven food,it makes me feel less guilty!!
Just thought that it might be nice to share and swap ideas and recipes for our childrens meals?!
Ethans favourites are quiche which is versatile as can be given with so many different things, vegetable risotto and vegetable rissoles which I often make, freeze then give on the side of his meal on the occasions when I resort to oven food,it makes me feel less guilty!!
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I think if your little boys diet is healthy then thats fine.Children like routine .My son ate a marmite sandwich carrots and cucumber sticks every day for lunch from about 18 months until he started school. you could still put new foods on his plate or seperate but dont mention them and he might try them when there is no fuss. Battleing is pointless as you will never win but just get stressed
Sorry i haven't got back to you with the recipes yet. My husband is the main cook in our houe so will get him to write out the recipes. I do know that the rissoles are any veg you fancy (i use carrot parsnip and potato)grated mixed with 2 eggs some flour salt pepper (optional) and mixed herbs to flavour fried in olive oil then cheese added on top. A good tip is to mould them in a biscuit cutter before frying then they look like burgers!! Ethan adores them!
I would just suggest keep trying. Niamh went through a really fussy stage where she hardly ate a thing and would try nothing new. I just kept putting bits on her plates and making sure the snacks she was eating were healthy.
Also, DONT WORRY!! Its the best bit of advice I had. I stopped fretting and decided she'd eat if she was hungry. As she's got a bit older, she tries everything we cook and is quite adventurous now.
Another good tip is to let them help with the shopping and preparing of the food. They love feeling involved!
Hope you are all well and that it helps.
Speak soon
Kas xx
I agree with Kas The best thing we ever did was letting Ethan prepare his dinner it makes all the difference x
Does anyone know how to make houmus(not sure of spelling)
and what flavours to include?
This is the recipe I use,
400g tin chickpeas
1 garlic clove
1 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp tahini ( sesame seed paste)
lemon juice (Just a little )
and 1 tbsp plain yoghurt
Drain the chickpeas and put them in a blender with all other ingredients. Blend until smooth.
It's fab and really easy. Charlotte likes dipping all sorts into it.
Hope this is ok for you.
Take care, Zoe x
I'm full of ideas if you want anymore just ask. Zoe x
Thanks for that.
Bit of a silly question,but do I need to cook the chick peas first?
Unfortunately, Katelin wont touch sausages,so might try the cheesy beans with mince.
You are really lucky that Charlotte will eat anything.
Katelin seems to have approached the fussy stage rather early which has surprised me as I made all her baby food and she would eat whatever I cooked for her .
Thanks for the ideas. Take care.Lucyanne
Zoe x
I'm glad Ethan enjoyed it. It's so quick to do and goes with different things to give a bit of variety and you know they're not eating rubbish.
Take care, Zoe x
Zoe x
As a treat today for pudding I'd bought a fruit struddle and ambrosia custard. It's the first time i've let Charlotte have anything like this and she loved it. I'm not sure if it was the custard she enjoyed or a combination of the two, either way the bowl was empty!!
Zoe x
Tonight he had chicken roasted new potatoes and then surprisingly wolfed down feta cheese salad!!! Long may it last!
That's great, you'll find it a lot easier if you can put a plate of food down and know it will get eaten. Also he'll be getting more variety so he won't get board of things.
Something to bear in mind for fussy eaters. Jack went off mashed potato once more or less over night and I couldn't get him to eat it for love nor money. Then I was watching Ready, Steady, Cook and one of the Chefs said get your child to help you prepare the food and see it go through the different stages, they maybe more likely to it then. So I did, and he's been back on the mash ever since. It doesn't work with everything but worth a try if nothing else seems to be working.
Zoe x
We've discovered that trick!! Ethan loves helping to cook or just watch Daddy do it and it makes a huge difference with getting him to eat it.
Also we have lunch at 2 of our tots groups and if i tell him which lady has cooked it he gobbles it down then loves to take his empty plate and thank her! What a charmer!!
Here are a few recipes for dips
CHUNKY TOMATO & CREAM CHEESE DIP
200g soft cream cheese
3 tbsp mayo
1tbsp tomato ketchup
1tsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1/4 tsp soy sauce
1/2 tbsp snipped chives
2 tomatoes skinned, deceeded and chopped
simply mix all ingredients together
CREAMY AVOCADO
1 Ripe avocado,halved and stoned
60g soft cream cheese
1 tbsp snipped chives
1 tomato, skinned, deseeded and chopped
Mash the avocado and mix with the other ingredients
RED PEPPER DIP
1 small red pepper
1/2 tbsp veg oil
1 shallot
finely chopped
1 tomato skinned deseeded and chopped
200g cream cheese
roast the pepper
peel and chop it
warm the oil in pan add shallot and saute until softened combine red pepper with shallot and tomato and cream cheese and mix together.
hope they are ok, if not blame Annabel Karmel !!!!!
We tried the red pepper one but katelin had it with rice as a sauce instead of a dip.and the other 2 we made into sandwiches. xx
Zoe x