What did your young toddler eat today?

[newmamalizzy]

Hi all!  My LO (14 months) has been very VERY slow to get into solids.  She's doing a little better, but I feel like we're kind of stuck and need some new food ideas.  Anyone out there feeling like sharing what was on your younger toddler's menu for the day?

[MommaBirdie]

Breakfast today was yogurt and raspberries and milk
Lunch is going to be peanut butter and honey on whole wheat, peas, peaches, salad (my 13 month old just chews it up and then spits it out...I guess he thinks it's gum?) and water
For dinner were having corn on the cob, grilled broccoli, black beans and salsa on pita, jell-o for dessert, and water

 

[colemom]

Our day has just started here, so far my 16 mo old has had some cheerios soaked in milk and 1/2 banana.

Yesterday she ate:

cheerios, strawberries

toast with cream cheese and fruit spread, scrambled egg, 1/2 banana

wheat rotini with broccoli, butter and parm cheese, cantaloupe, 

a little pirate's booty

cheese quesadilla, crumbled ground beef, steamed baby carrots, more cantaloupe

oatmeal choc chip cookie (normally she has yogurt, we made some as a treat)

She also had two 6 oz bottles at nap and bedtime, milk with dinner and water with lunch.  She can't have tomatoes (diaper rash), so that's why she had plain ground beef instead of taco meat, usually she just has what we have. Normally my kids don't eat pasta for lunch, but I had some leftover noodles.  Lunch for her is usually 1/2 a cream cheese/thinly spread peanut butter and fruit spread sandwich. In the morning, instead of toast she also has 1/2 bagel, waffle, or homemade muffin. Both of my kids love salmon and it's easy to eat, soft and flakey.

[newmamalizzy]

Funny, these are really similar to what I tend to give Bea.  I'd love to do sandwiches, but DD doesn't like bread.  She likes tortilla, and sometimes pita, but regular bread and baked goods are a no-go.  Salmon is a great idea that I'll have to try soon.  I would love it if DD took a liking to salmon.  How do you (pl.) do your LOs' veggies?  I feel like veggies are a particularly weak spot for us, so I could definitely use some help in that arena.

[MommyMandi]

My son is 14 months. For breakfast, he had a banana and some dry cereal. For lunch, he had black beans, cilantro rice and mango salsa. For snacks he has had bunny crackers, apple and kefir. For dinner he will have sweet potatoes and broccoli and some type of noodle. He hasn't had much of an appetite in the heat and usually eats much more.

[MamatobabyA]

My son is 16 months.  Here's what he had today:

Breakfast:

Kix cereal

a banana

yogurt

whole milk in his sippy

Snack:

we skipped morning snack today b/c he slept in (!), but he ususally has yogurt, raisins, or dry cereal (depending on bfast)

Lunch:

PB&J on oat bread

a few bites of dh's leftover lasagna

green beans

wateremelon

more milk

Snack:

crackers with hummus (today was tomato & basil, but he also likes parm cheese and roasted red pepper)

a few pieces of a pear

Dinner:

leftover roast turkey

cooked carrot coins

a little cucumber

strawberries

butter cheese

croutons (we were out of teething biscuits )

milk

He had 3 junior mints for dessert

You asked about veggies --

We do lots of frozen veggies.  He loves peas, green beans, carrot coins, and corn.  All I cook in the microwave.  I add pepper and a little butter to green beans b/c that's how DH and I have them and now he expects it :)  I sometimes stirfry peppers and zucchini with olive oil and I add a bit of pepper or basil and oregano.  I half cherry tomatoes and he sometimes will eat those.  He likes cucumber raw or with a little olive oil and basalmic vinegar (verrrry little). 

[mommy212]

LO loves yogurt so I make a sauce like this every week to help get him green vegetables which he won't eat otherwise: three or four pears of apples, cut up, a cup or so blueberries or raspberries, and as much spinach/kale/other greens as I feel I can add without making it gross. I add it to the yogurt and ta-da, healthy snack/breakfast. otherwise my 18 month olds diet looks like this:

breakfast- a lot of oatmeal with usually grated apple or chopped dates, ground walnuts/flax seeds, coconut, wheat germ, and some butter/milk. Sometimes we have scrambled eggs with lots of cheese and toast, or just toast with nut butter and sliced bananas. He loves sausage when we have it.

lunch- the majority of the time we have leftover dinner. If not, we have PBJ or other sandwiches with raw vegetables or fruit (the veggies don't get eaten much but I continue to offer), quick stir-fry and rice or pasta, or  whatever else I can come u with from what's in the fridge

snack- smoothies! fruit, tofu, milk, flax seeds and sometimes oatmeal if we have had a day without many whole grains. Sometimes we make muffins or oatmeal cookies or something too. Our afternoon snack tends to be sweet a lot... but always with whole grains and low/nu refined sugar and whatever else I can get in there

dinner- I usually just cut whatever we eat into small bites and give it to him. A typical dinner for him might be cut-up chicken bites and the almost-clean bones (liek chicken thigh bones, he loves them), mashed sweet potato and sauteed greens. If he eats it, fantastic, if not, I offer again next time.  Usually afterwards he will eat some blueberries because he loves them. The cutting into small bites really seems to help him a lot; I used to offer larger pieces for him to chew on but found this worked better.

[Wolfcat]

DD, aka Ladybug, eats EVERYTHING.

Yesterday for supper, she had Egg Ta (a custard-like dish), bananas, chicken, broccoli, watermelon.

Today she had honeynut o's, mac n cheese, homemade pepperoni pizza with cream cheese.

She eats bbq ribs, pork chops, cauliflour, corn, beans, crackers, veggie spaghetti, turkey, pancakes, homemade "pockets", soups, salads... anything we put in front of her.

[newmamalizzy]

Originally Posted by Wolfcat 

DD, aka Ladybug, eats EVERYTHING.

Yesterday for supper, she had Egg Ta (a custard-like dish), bananas, chicken, broccoli, watermelon.

Today she had honeynut o's, mac n cheese, homemade pepperoni pizza with cream cheese.

She eats bbq ribs, pork chops, cauliflour, corn, beans, crackers, veggie spaghetti, turkey, pancakes, homemade "pockets", soups, salads... anything we put in front of her.

So jealous!!!  DD's like to not like ratio is about 1:50.  We waste a LOT of food...

[colemom]

In regards to vegetables, I've been lucky that dd is still open to pretty much anything, watching her eat corn on the cob is hilarious. I know this may not last forever as it didn't with ds, who is now 5 and finally becoming much more agreeable with food choices.  I did a few things for my ds to increase his veg intake, especially since he was never a kid that liked to dip, so that strategy didn't work. I made veggie pancakes, just grated zucchini and carrot into pancake batter, you said your dd isn't into baked goods so this also can be done with leftover mashed potatoes or potato flakes and make potato patties.  We bake a lot of sweet potato sticks (ds calls them fries) and I used to add small pieces of broccoli to every quesadilla I made for him.  Any muffin or quick bread made in this house has zucchini, pumpkin or carrot in it and whenever I make meatballs or meatloaf, I saute chopped spinach and add it to the mix.  I also make green smoothies into popsicles, ds calls them monster popsicles.  These added veggies are all visible and I am honest about what they are once ds was old enough to ask. 

[memz]

My DD is also really picky..... So I try different things. What works for us right now is oatmeal with strawberries and flax seed for breakfeast. PB & J sandwich or almond butter with a bit of honey on toast, cut up cherry tomatoes sometimes she'll also eat cut up cucumber. She loves loves yam chips ( i cut a yam in chip slices put olive oil and basil and put in the oven). She'll sometimes eat pasta with tomato sauce or pesto, or sheppard's pie with ketchup. Sometimes when she hasn't eaten much during the day, I make her favorite, a banana yogurt with added veggies....1 mashed banana, plain yogurt, 1 egg cooked in microwave, half an avocado, a bit of spinach and a couple spoons of wheat germ....in the magic bullet...I can't believe she likes it but it always works I also try to had veggies to homemade muffins or pancakes...She also loves pretty much any fruit, especially homemade  fruit salad, green smoothies with a bit of kale, strawberries, mangoes and milk...She also has a least one yogurt a day... I had also made once, lentil muffin which where quite good and chickpea cookies which were also really good....

I've never worked so hard int he kitchen