What's your toddler's favourite meal?
I'm desperately seeking some new meal ideas for an increasingly fussy 17 month old! Protein is the most difficult food group to get into her - eats very little meat and won't touch eggs. It seems I'm making the same few meals repeatedly and she is getting bored with these so I'm running out of ideas!
What's you toddler's favourite meal?
What's you toddler's favourite meal?
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His favourite meal is one of two:
Penne pasta or spaghetti with a tomato/ garlic / pepper based sauce and loads of grated smoked applewood cheese on top
or
a homemade pizza with tomato cheese and ham with garlic bread
my boy will only eat chicken in the form of nuggets and ham on pizza and won't eat eggs at all
I too worry but the clinic I took him too weren't worried at all and suggested if I am concerned to give a multi vit daily which I do
hth x
Pitta bread pizza or tortilla pizza both with mushrooms,sweetcorn and cherry toms on
pasta with soft cheese stirred in
pasta with veg and grated cheese
broccolli in tomatoes with cheese on top then done in the oven boiled rice and a quorn burger
cheese and tomato omelette
cheese salad tortilla wraps
they also love fried eggs, quorn bacon, beans on toast
im lucky my girls eat everything the only thing Lexie(2) has refused is basil it was a tomato and basil pasta sauce she eats the tomato one fine i thought it would be nice but she chose to eat plain pasta instead lol and Leah (1) hasnt said no to any food yet lol
[Modified by: 2girlywhirlys on May 28, 2010 02:42 AM]
Spaghetti Bolognese is his fav but basically with no blogonese! Otherwise any pasta will do accompanied with LOTS of grated cheese!
i manage to get egg into him by doing French toast (bread dipped in beaten egg with milk) fried in a little butter, I make triangles and he loves them.
he really isn't keen on egg tho, no matter how i try to 'dress it up', boiled, fried (!), omlette, scrambled, he licks it, then pulls a really funny face like he's been sucking lemons or something, think its the texture he's not keen on...xx
Even at nearly 3yrs my son doesn't eat much meat and wont eat pork in anything other than sausages.
His favourite meal is brocolli, carrots, baby sweetcorn, peas and mashed pots with gravy! If I put meat on his plate he doesn't eat it so I've temporarily stopped.
I rely on brown bread and green veg for his iron and eggs and cheese for his protein.
Good luck x
I find the more flavour something has the more likely he is to eat it. I cook salmon in a garlic butter and dill sauce and he loves that but if I gave him plain salmon he probably wouldn't eat it. x
For LOs baked beans are a good source of protein, fibre and vitamins, and my ds loves them!
Max is 2 1/2 and eats what we eat (with a few minor modifications) his favourite food is curry. If I make a curry, I'll give him some with rice and he finishes it. And he very rarely finishes his dinner... Don't make it too hot though haha
A good way to get meat into them is to buy mince, because it's a lot easier to chew for LOs. So you could make spag bol and give LO sauce with penne and grated cheese or something.
What about fish? Fish fingers?
Also a good source of protein is hummus. Max loves dipping breadsticks and cucumber sticks in hummus.
Hope this helps )