What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!

[Colin Macs Mom]

Yesterday Colin had:

Breakfast: 1.5 waffles 
Snack: some fruit gummies and a fruit leather
Lunch: half a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (low sugar jelly and low sugar and sodium PB), a few pieces of apple
Snack: popcorn and a few sections or orange
Dinner: three bites of a chicken nugget and a couple green beans

He had probably 30 oz of milk too and some water  

[RyansMum]

Well Ryan had his usual breakfast 

Breakfast - Crumpet with Peanut butter and marmite, cup of milk (though the other day, dh beat up an egg with milk and added it to a pan with a bit of butter and a crumpet, he loved it!)
Snack - Cookie as we had friend over for coffee
Lunch - Open sandwich on whole grain bread with peppered salami, roast beef, olives, crisps (as friend stayed for lunch), large cup of smoothie (blueberry and blackcurrent). Treat pudding of chocolate covered rice crispie square. Ate half the bread and all the rest.
Snack - Cherry flavoured raisins, cranberry juice
Dinner - Spaghetti bolanese (about half his plate) with garlic bread (again about half). Mango yogurt. Strawberry and Banana Smoothie.

Water to drink throughout the day.

[Caroline-Charlies Mummy]

caroline, dont you have to butter outsides of the bread to put in that toastie thing? I actually have one, well its a waffle/sandwich maker

yes, but no more than you'd butter the insides for a sandwich . I don't associate low fat = healthy, never have, particularly for los. But I do think of 'frying' as unhealthy, maybe I'm wrong

[Vicku]

DD just had a snack... yes a SNACK of 1 banana, 1 kiwi, 2 wafer crackers, 1 clementine, 1 slice of cheese, a few bites of bread and butter    she eats more fruit than I do!

Only wish I could get her to eat cooked foods too, like potatoes and meat...

[Vicku]

That would be good! I sometimes worry she'll turn into a fruit...

Is it possible for them to eat too much fruit do you think? I mean, she would probably have had another kiwi and another clementine straight away if I'd let her...

[RyansMum]

I don't think she can eat too much fruit, she sounds like she is having my portion too!!

Well what a surprise Ryan could not be swayed from his usual breakfast!

Crumpet with peanut butter and marmite with cup of milk.
Snack - Biscuit and juice at a messy play group
Lunch - Baked beans, sausages, cheese string, roast beef, peppered salami, cup of kiwi and apple smoothie (left a bit of smoothie and a few beans) Strawberry yoghurt with blueberries.
Snack - Fruit flakes and a cookie (for being a good boy) Water
Dinner tonight will be beef casserole with baby sweetcorn, onion, carrots and peas. Thinking of doing some mash potatoes with this too.  Possibly rice pudding for dessert.

[Grace's Mom]

Breakfast:  1/2 orange, 1/2 bagel w/cream cheese
Lunch: would only eat a bagel w/cream cheese
Snack: 2 bites of chicken, raisins
Dinner: 5 bites of chicken noodle soup, bowl of whole weat pasta and sauce, 3 grapes

She's sick (cough and runny nose) which is making eating even less than normal

[shivi]

Oscar 22 mths today ate:

rice crispies and milk and chopped up apple on side for brekkie
snack - frutapura pack and dried apple crisps
lunch - chicken and veg risotto, 2 fish fingers on side, handful of raisins, small fromage frais
tea - just a bowl of cheerios and full fat milk, then asked for more milk in sippy cup after bath!

[legend_018]

not sure what's going on with Chayse. She keeps begging for milk ALL day long and wont' really eat. Everytime I try to ask her or put her in the chair and get her to eat food, she's already a step ahead of me crying milk milk milk milk. I can't even keep track of how many glasses of milk she's had in the last 2-3 days. Never mind, shes a picky eater to begin with. Today, I think she had some strawberries, 2 yogurt pops, 1/2 cup of vanilla yogurt and maybe some bites out of some ham.

[Grace's Mom]

Not the best eating day.

breakfast: 2 bites of orange, 3 bites of cereal bar

Lunch (if you can call it that) would only eat a bagel again 

Snack whole wheat pasta shells and tomato sauce (she asked for it)

Dinner: 5 bites of ham, a few small bites of carrots, 2 spoonfuls of applesauce

Crazy tiny eater.  I guess that's why she so stinking skinny 


Thanks for the get well wishes.

Oh my gosh..the girls should be sleeping but I hear her having a dance party in her crib....literally. 

[RyansMum]

Wanted to ask how come some of you give more than one breakfast or lunch?

I sometimes read what you guys give your little ones for snacks and think that Ryan doesn't eat that much!  For example the boiled egg as a snack, Ryans snack would be a bowl of raisins!  Wonder whether I should be offering those sort of snacks instead?

Oh and guess what??? A different breakfast today, scambled eggs and toast!!

Grace sounds like Ryan, has her fav and wants it pretty much everyday!

[Caroline-Charlies Mummy]

Yesterday, ds had the sum total of half a tuna and sweetcorn sandwich b/c he's got a stinking cold. Hate it when he doesn't eat

Drunk lots of water this morning, then proceeded to throw it up all over me and my bed, so doesn't look like he'll be eating much today either

Sharon - ds doesn't usually snack much, either. He prefers largish meals with nothing in between, I think it depends on the kid - some prefer to graze all day. I think, as long as whatever you're doing is working, then it's fine either way

[shivi]

Hi everyone,

Oscar eats a great brekkie usually....then a snack when out in pushchair around 10am (it's usually when I/the childminder need(s) to distract leaving the playground and then a big, sometimes HUGE lunch and a great 3 hr nap.... it's usally all downhill from there, this week only will eat cheerios and milk in the evening around 5 (about an hour after he wakes up) and a sippy cup full of toddler formula after bath during snuggle and book time....he's nig thouhg (15 kg at 22 mths and about 92 cm height) and is a truly spirited Duracell bunny! That's why he needs all the fuel during the day!

They are all so so different...
I work with 3 yr olds whose appetite is even more all over the place than Oscar's!

have a good day,

love Siobhain x

[maisy]

Sharon, I used to do a split lunch while transitioning to one nap but now we do early lunch and afternoon snack.

I had forgotton to keep checking in on here and realised its because I hadnt posted!! so it wasnt coming up in my recent replies

my DD has an ear infection  so all she wants to do is snack    she has so far had

milk on waking up
3 bites toast with butter and 2 bites of a pancake
1/2 banana
1/2 a small fromage frais
some grapes
2 bites of a peanut butter sandwich (which isnt something she has ever eaten but asked for  )

am away to make a toastie with some cherry tomatoes and cucumber on the side, I am hoping she will tuck into it

does anyone else go through phases of making the same thing for their toddlers over and over? its not so much my DD asks for the same things but I tend to forget about all the other stuff I could try 

have started to plan our lunches for the week, already do this for dinner , so we are getting a little more variety

x x x x

[Mom to M&M]

DD has gone from being a protein loader to eating very little protein. Yesterday she had:

- Breakfast: about 5 ounces 1% milk, one whole wheat English muffin, some Dried strawberries
- Lunch: About 3-4 ounces 2% milk, 1 chicken nugget (met SIL at Wendy's) and some applesauce
- Snack: half a Clif kids Z bar, some diluted apple juice
- Dinner: Refused chicken and stuffing, had bunch of steamed green beans and some pineapple chunks and a bit of bread. Also about 5-6 ounces 1% milk

So far today she's had two small Nutrigrain pancakes, some raisins and about 4-5 ounces 1% milk. Probably will try these homemade spinach/cheese things I have for lunch along with yogurt. Dinner tonight is fish, baked potato, salad and garlic bread.