What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!

[RyansMum]

Good grief if I let Ryan have that much snack he would just not eat Lunch or dinner.  He would snack forever if I let him!

Today was the usual breakfast  Toast with marmite and peanut butter with a cup of milk.
Snack was a biscuit and juice at a local toddler group.
Lunch - Mustard seed coated ham and cheese in multiseed bap, olives, pretzels and cup of smoothie, followed by a banana with white choccy sauce (he was being good so had a treat!)
Snack - Blackcurrent fruit flakes and some water
Dinner - This I was really pleased about  Thai chicken yellow curry with mixed vegetables and sticky rice followed by (naturally) lemon/sugar pancakes with a bit of maple syrup on the side.  Did have smoothie but knocked most of this over the kitchen floor!

[Grace's Mom]

Breakfast...bowl of Organic O's cereal, grapes and banana 'chips'
Lunch...turkey and ranch
Lunch #2...salad-lettuce, carrots and tomatoes and two bites of egg....all dipped in ranch.  
and 3 organic toddler cookies

***She asks for carrots at breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Is there any harm in me giving her too much carrots...raw, not cooked..she hates cooked carrots.

****Also, she is not keen on yogurt or cheese anymore
She drinks milk, but I don't think she's getting enough calcium
I do have her eating 1 toddler multi vitamin every day (for 2-3 year olds)
Do I need to worry?

[Colin Macs Mom]

I don't think you need to worry M. Colin eats a lot of raw carrots too    I think you're doing fine - actually it seems Grace is eating way better than she was there for a while!

[Grace's Mom]

Thanks for the carrot encouragement 
She is eating better....loving those raw veggies.
Cooked ones, not so much, but I can't complain.
At least we are done with purees 

[Colin Macs Mom]

That's really great that she's gone from purees to raw veggies in such a short time!

[rinajack]

Zara is doing pretty well I think on the eating...

Today so far -

Just Right with milk, sippy of milo, and half a banana
about 1 doz grapes, several dried apricots, a couple of corn chip thingys (slightly different than the ones we would eat ). 2 cheese sticks, 1/3 of a packet of 2 min noodles, and some juice (heavily diluted)

[Grace's Mom]

To finish our day, Grace had multi colored pasta wagon wheels with tomato sauce.  I also offered fish sticks....one bite only. 
I try to not offer veggies at dinner because she'll refused everything else if I do so.  That's why I give her her veggies after her nap 
She did eat some strawberries and 1/2 an apple cereal bar later.

[RyansMum]

Well will do yesterdays menu as the little guy is off to nursery this afternoon.

So breakfast, guess what....peanut butter and marmite on a crumpet  Jeez he will not eat anything else for breakfast at the moment!  Plus a cup of milk.
Snack was at a messy play group of juice and cookie.
Lunch - Left over cottage pie, blueberry smoothie and cupcake that he decorated at the messy play group. It had a chocolate on top, there was no way that was gonna last!
Snack - was at the park with friends so another cookie...whoops! Water to drink.
Dinner - Chicken and mushroom pasta with carrots and potato salad (not so keen on the salad, think he prefers his onions cooked), cup of smoothie and banana custard for pudding.

[Grace's Mom]

Wow.  Everyones lo's seem to eat sooo much more than Grace.

Breakfast: 3 spoonfuls of cereal, 5 raisins
Lunch: chicken lunch meat
Snack: granola bar
Snack from Grandpa: tomatoes and lettuce (like 5 bites...very tiny)
Dinner: Yogurt (1st time in about 2 months  ...maybe the calcium strike is over), 4 bites of mac n cheese, 2 grapes and then she begged for a cereal bar and I gave it to her since she just won't eat and I'd rather that than a hungry baby in the middle of the night  

   lame eating day but she just won't eat much else.  
She use to gobble up meats, cheeses, etc. but won't anymore.  

[RyansMum]

Yep I don't get the peanut butter/marmite thing but it was a suggestion on the Skippy jar so I thought I would give it a go and Ryan loves it!!

[Vicku]

Hi everyone!
I was recommended to read this thread as been fed up with LOs eating habits. She's younger than yours but should still be interesting to see what they eat. So, can I join?

Will post DDs daily food later

[Vicku]

Thanks!
Ok, today was quite a good day, but that's because I fed her stuff she likes... my lo loves fruit and eats some veggies, but doesn't really eat meat, potatoes, pasta, that kind of thing. Healthy but maybe not so calorific. She ca eat good amounts, but is picky with what she eats. I've not been feeling very motivated with her food lately, so looking forward to getting some new ideas and, hopefully, to get her to try some more stuff. She's VERY suspicious of everything new.
today:
breakfast- oat porridge, water
snack- baby rice cake
lunch- (at play group) cheese and cucumber sandwich (few bites only) 1/2 a mango, banana and oat pure baby jar, water, 1 whole banana, small box of raisins
snack- (at home before sleep) finished other 1/2 baby jar, water
snack- 1/2 orange + 1 kiwi cut in bits, water
dinner- 3 1/2 fish fingers (wouldn't try the mash potato or creamed spinach)

Oh, and she always has two bottles of formula (won't take cow's milk  ) one in am, one before bed. Each of 9-10 oz!

[Caroline-Charlies Mummy]

Not a bad day yesterday:

Breakfast - bowl of Fruit and Fibre (dry, refuses to have milk ) with extra 'chewies' (raisins ), Innocent Fruit smoothie, an apple
Snack - 2 (!) buttered crumpets
Lunch - cheese/mushroom/orange pepper/ham toastie - ate half
Dinner - Daddy took us out to a restaurant, so ds had 'wigglies' - spagetti in a tomato/garlic sauce - ate a huge bowl . Also raided the salad bar, so had loads of sweetcorn and crunchy croutons . Chocolate brownie for pudding

[Caroline-Charlies Mummy]

a toastie is just a grilled sandwich right? like stuff between bread, fried in a pan.  Kinda like a panini?

Sort of, it's a sandwich toasted in a sandwich maker, like this one

I wouldn't fry a sandwich in a pan, something about taking something healthy like a sandwich and making it unhealthy frying it

[Vicku]

Yesterday DD had:
formula
breakfast -rice crispies multigrain cereal with vanilla yoghurt, water
snack -1/2 pear, water
early lunch -porridge, 1/4 apple,water
late lunch (after nap) -3 fish fingers, 3 broccoli florets, some rice, water
dinner/snack -grapes, 1/2 banana mashed with 1 egg yolk, water
formula

Like the idea of toasties! I have one of those sandwich toasters, have to dig it out from the back of the cupboards...