What did your toddler eat today?

[MomtoRee]

Michelle - sorry I wasn't more specific.  I'm not really one who follows recipes, so it is hard for me to say exactly what I did.  With the butter with the breakfast bars I used about half, maybe a little less than that.  I just felt that it was a lot of butter for Ree.  I have to agree that my dh liked them a lot too!  With the flour instead of using regular white flour I replaced about 1/2 of it with whole wheat flour to make it a little healthier.  Although, thinking about it later I would have used all regular flour and used bran flakes or multigrain  flakes instead of corn flakes.  As you can tell I alter recipes everytime I make something. 

Reegan hasn't eaten much today.  I think that her shots are bothering her because she is always a big eater.  I think that we all probably worry too much about what they eat, but I guess that is what moms do.

[Mum to cool dude]

Today was one of those rare good eating day  . Charlie had:

- 5 am: bottle of milk
- breakfast: 1/2 piece of toast with honey Greek yoghurt on top + couple spoonfuls of Mummy's Readybrek + half of Daddy's yoghurt
- lunch: veg mash + beans + omelette and mangoes & plain yoghurt for pudding
- afternoon tea: Heinz Tropical muesli (2 g sugar/100 g  + Organix banana porridge + most of
Mummy's yoghurt + crackers
- dinner: roast chicken with rice, courgettes & red pepper and Weighchers' fromage frais (5 g sugar/100 g 
- bedtime: 1/2 bottle of milk

Pretty good for him overall AND we had no teething or tantrums today    ! Now all I'd like is for him to sleep through the night

[Heather L.]

Ethan (18months) had:
-Healthy Times Teddy Puffs cereal w/ raisins  and milk for breakfast.
Snack: milk, crackers and grapes
-Bean and beef burrito for lunch
Snack: Apple and cheese
-Tortellini with tomato sauce, peas, strawberries and yogurt for dinner.

[NKmommy]

Here was our day:

Breakfast - scrambled egg, oatmeal, strawberries
Snack - cheerios
Lunch - quesadilla, mango, yogurt
Snack - yogurt cereal bar
Dinner - chicken, veggie patties

[Lilah'sMommy]

A tip on whole wheat flour...

For muffins, pancakes, etc., use whole wheat pastry flour.  You can substitute it cup for cup for white all-purpose flour, as it is low-gluten and therefore makes a much lighter product.  It's nearly as light as white flour, but much more nutritious.  Another tip for muffins and pancakes-- use buttermilk (add baking soda to leaven-- about 1/2 tsp per cup of buttermilk).  Buttermilk makes a much more tender product.

That's enough tips from the amateur baker.

Lilah's eating better now.  I think it was just one of those days.

I made another pumpkin concoction-- pumpkin french toast.  I had a tiny amount of pumpkin left over in the fridge and got inspired.

Here's what I did:

Whisk together:
2 Tbsp. pumpkin puree
1 egg
some milk-- about 2-3 Tbsp?
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ginger
a tiny pinch each of nutmeg, cloves, and allspice
1 1/2 Tbsp brown sugar (though I suspect this could be cut down by quite a bit-- but haven't tried it again.  I also would have used maple syrup if I had had it on hand).
If I hadn't run out the day before, I would have added a few drops of vanilla extract.

Soak three slices of whole wheat bread in the mixture, turn, and soak the other side.  Grill on an oiled griddle on medium-low until browned on both sides and no longer soggy in the middle.

DD loved it!

Today I'm going to try out a pumpkin-cream cheese dip with the end of that pumpkin for her to dip her graham cracker in at snack (kind of like pumpkin cheesecake).  I've got to sneak in those orange veggies where I can!

[Izzy-B's mommy]

Isabella (18months)  had...

breakfast ~ one peice of whole wheat toast with sugar free raspberry jam & 2 strawberries & about 5oz of milk
Snack ~ cheese & goldfish crackers & 4oz of diluted apple juice  (she likes the craft cheese strings, i cut them and they look like little circles)
Lunch ~ chicken sandwhich on a whole wheat wrap, cucumber & carrots and ranch dip (she's a dipper)  and 10 raspberries for her fruit.
Snack ~ 4 oz of milk & an apple
Supper ~ rice (I mix 1/2cup white & 1/2 cup whole wheat ~ turns out softer than all whole wheat and makes everyone in my family happier ) cooked peas & carrots <ate the pea's, not the carrots>, chicken nugget, and I put some beans in maple syrup on her plate but she wouldn't touch them

[M&M's Ima]

I never posted here before, but I've put all your recipes together and plan to try them one a week.
Meir mainly eats carbs and dairy. I'm trying to work within that instead of making it an issue. For example, he loves couscous and stopped being willing to always eat strained soup broth, so I used chicken soup broth instead of water for the couscous, and he loved it. (and a lot cleaner than eating soup. )

and Meir ate three peas today! (that's a vegetable!)

[miriela]

Breakfast: milk, one slice of wholeweat bread with a little butter and honey
Snack: blended banana, kiwi and apple
Lunch: Fresh fish with vegetable soup
Snack: Banana and a cookie
Dinner: Cereal and milk

[i-wei]

Aidan 14.5mths had -

Breakfast - ready brek made up with 4oz cow's milk and half a pear
Lunch - one slice of wholemeal bread spread with dairylea and half a cup of plain yoghurt mixed in with a handfull of raspberries and blackberries
Snack - 3/4 of a banana
Tea - cod and pasta bake with peas and carrots and one pot of organix apple and prune rice pudding
Milk - 4oz sippy with breakfast and 9oz bottle before bed (only drinks half of the morning sippy as he's still protesting the withdrawal of the morning bottle a few days ago!)

Ideally I'd like to give him more veggies but don't really know how to without the need to cook.  Tried giving him cherry tomatoes and cucumber for lunch but he didn't want to know.  He's eating quite a lot of fruit so hopefully that will sort of make up for the lack of veggies.

[mommyOfX]

*sigh* My toddler is sick, I think.  It's been a weird day.  He ate:

Breakfast - 1/8 of a museli bagel, 2 pieces of bacon, OJ, a few bites of pear
Snack - yogurt
Lunch - two spoons of alphabet pasta, a couple of grapes, refused to eat anymore, got down from seat, then ate a few more grapes and a couple of pieces of cherry tomato
Snack - cracker, cheese, grapes, OJ
Dinner - couple bites of potato and salmon, then refused to eat again, gave him Cheerios, then started to eat his broccoli, and finished up with a ton of strawberries

I hate it when he doesn't eat properly.

[AGS Mom]

I was so happy to find this forum!! I feel like ds is eating the same thing all of the time--here is what he ate today!

Breakfast
Cheerios
Peach Slices
Milk

Snack
Grahm Crackers
Banana

Lunch
Sliced turkey
Cheese
Toast
Milk

Snack
Cheerios
Juice

Dinner
Mac and Cheese
Peas
Milk

[deenz]

Today dd1 (25m) ate:

piece of toast with jam and peanut butter
2 plain biscuits
1/4 white bread sandwich with butter and marmite
4 rice crackers with hummus on
few pieces of ravioli pasta filled with spinach & ricotta
bowl of yogurt
drank some milk and water

(She's not much of an eater!! And pretty much never eats veges - and I see today she refused her fruit too!).

[Wilfie's Mummy]

Pre breakfast breast feed.

Breakfast - cup of milk, 2 weetabix with milk, raisins

snack - cup of water, rich tea biscuit, raisins

lunch - ham and cheese sandwiches made with whole grain seeded bread, grapes, drink - water

afternoon snack - cup of milk (anything more than this seems to kill his appetite for tea)

tea - poached salmon, mashed potato's, cheese sauce mixed with pureed cauliflower and broccoli (I over cooked these veggies so they were nicer pureed and made part of the sauce!) peas, sweetcorn and carrots, for pudding he had a fromage fraise. drink - water

I've just discovered this thread and think its great, it really makes you think about what your feeding them, I think if I thought I had to write a post every day it would definatly make me think a bit more closely about what I feed DS!

Hannah x

[yda]

hi every one,
                  my son aftab is 1 year 10 months old.he likes nothing other than milk.he ask for it when ever heis hungry. he ill drink5 cups of milk every day.he hates to be fed .some times he il have a biscut or two.he is 12kgs and very active i always wonder where his enery comes from.ask any doctor about this they say its ok as long as he is active . i never push him.but i know for brain development he requires protiens and carbohydrates too. we  r indians and eat a very balanced food.i wish some one ill help me solve this problem. if at all anybody things its a problem.
                                         
                                                   hope some one ill help me
                                                                                       yda

[M&M's Ima]

can you try making him healthful milk shakes in a blender? try putting in fruit, and can you add protein powder? (soy powder, or i think they make it from rice also.)
maybe someone else will have another idea of what you can put in it.
(if you need to make it sweet, use fruit instead of sugar.)
good luck. let us know how it goes.