What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!

[RyansMum]

Rina, when you say tomato sauce you don't mean ketchup do you, you mean something like Hunts in the tin yes?

[shivi]

Hi,
Rissoles sund yummy,
Here is the cheese and courgette recipe: Annabel Karmel makes it as a sausage shape but my DS prefers nuggets!

6 oz fresh breadcrumbs
1 oz butter
1 medium onion finely chopped/grated
6 oz coarsely grated courgette/zucchini
5 oz cheddar cheese grated
1 egg , separated
a little salt and pepper
oil for frying
(I also add 1 clove of garlic for the immune system at this time of year )

Heat butter in frying pan and then fry the onion till soft, add the grated courgette/zucchini and cook till softened, also add the optional garlic here
mix in the egg yolk (keep white in bowl for later), the salt, pepper, half the breadcrumbs (other for later) and grated cheese
shape into sausages/nuggets/burgers
beat the egg white and then dip your shaped mix into it then into the remaining breadcrumbs.
set them aside in the fridge so they can firm up and then fry when ready to eat.

Oscar adores these...and as a treat, he has oven baked sweet potato chips on the side....

I have a few more recipes I use on an ongoing basis...so just let me know if you need anymore ideas....and plese share some more with us!!!

Siobhain x

[shivi]

Hi Stacy,

I also love those apple and chicken meatballs...that was another I was meaning to post!
I use her tomato and hidden veg sauce (my freezer has about 6 of the 6 oz pots of it at the mo) for pasta a lot.

Other favourites are salmon rissoles: really easy peasy...
1 can red salmon (about 7 oz)
1 heaped tablespoon of grated onion
2 tablespoons tomato ketchup
1 tablespoon fresh breadcrumbs (plus a little for coating)
2 tablespoons of veg oil

Flake the salmon in bowl, check there are no bones, mix with ketchup, onion and breadcrumbs, then form small balls and coat in remaining crumbs and sautee on pan one to two mins til golden brown...

My prob with Oscar is, he loves these finger foods but hates to spoonfeed himself anything that is more like "mush"! At the moment will only properly "spoonfeed" himself Cheerios and after that, it has to be finger-lickin' good finger food or at least, dig the fork in and the meal will follow if you know what I mean!

Is that normal?
He would live on toasts, french toasts, rissoles, fruit he can bite on and chew, meatballs, pasta with thin coating of sauce (so as he can scoop it up with hands when tired of fork), nuggets etc.....

[rinajack]

By tomato sauce, I do mean ketchup!

[RyansMum]

Oh thats great thanks, I was thinking what would be a good alternative to the other stuff over here!! 

Well today Ryan ate very well.

Breakfast - Shreddies with honey, cherry flavoured raisins, cup of watered down cranberry juice
Snack at nursery - fruit and drink
Lunch at nursery - Sausage bean bake, courgette and parsnip mash, spotted  and custard
Home dinner - Slow cooked steak with gravy made from juices, stock, worchestershire sauce, soy sauce and gravy granules, peas, mashed potatoes and mashed sweet potatoes with maple syrup and butter. Bread and last bit of gravy. Let him have a bit of choccy as he ate so well and had been pretty well behaved for the afternoon. Orange Smoothie to drink

[rinajack]

I dont cook specifically for Zara either, but some of the toddler recipes and family food recipes look yummy for all of us - hence why I made those rissoles!

[Grace's Mom]

Not a good eating day....My sitter called and told me she had/has a fever and wasn't eating  I think she has the flu 

Breakfast: raisins and dry cereal
Lunch/Snack: not much she said....few bites of banana bread, 1 bite of mac n cheese

When I got her home she ate a fruit strip and 2 pieces of turkey lunch meat 

Dinner: 5 pieces of pasta, 2 cherry tomatoes, 1/2 apple sauce

Melissa

[Mydreamcametrue]

My toddler just does not eat.  Going to the GI tuesday to see why.

Today: a few bites PB sandwich, 1 piece of pizza, 2 cups of pediasure.

[Grace's Mom]

Let us know how things go! 

Gracie is still sick. 
Had a 102 fever this morning so not too much food is being consumed but it's not horrible....a little is better than nothing.
 

[SallyDom]

Another good day for us,
Breakfast: cookie crisp cereal (not great, dh gave him it), bit of my bacon buttie
Snack: grapes and sausage roll
Lunch: baked beans, bit of rice salad, bit of pasta salad, yogurt
Dinner: jacket potato with cheese, cherry tomatoes, 

I still don't think he gets his 5 portions of fruit and veg most days which stresses me out but I am going to try and be mch more organised with his meals and plan more so I can try and squeeze them in. I used to give him drinks of smoothie but seem to have stopped doing that. Don't know why.

Sally
x

[RyansMum]

Ryan had pretty good day today and was an angel for the most part!

Breakfast - Peanut butter toast, cheese string and milk
No snack just rest of his milk
Lunch - Bit of a struggle, Frankfurter, pastrami, chicken, bagel with cream cheese and strawberry jam (only had about a third of this) Ate the rest ok. Cup of orange smoothie, banana custard with a jelly baby from DH.
Dinner - Pasta bake, brocolli and baby sweetcorn, devourered almost the whole plate full, Orange smoothie and as he was a good boy DH bought Ben and Jerrys Cookie Dough home  I wasn't complaining!!

[Grace's Mom]

My dd doesn't get 5 servings of any on thing on a daily bases  but I know she's eating what she needs and is doing well.
Like Stacy said, try to not worry.  Your lo seems to be doing fine.

Melissa

[Grace's Mom]

Thanks.

Breakfast: 1/2 oz of freeze dried mangos and bananas
Lunch: Asiago Cheese
Dinner: Asiago Cheese, 4 bites of ham lunch meat
 

[Caroline-Charlies Mummy]

Wow, I've got crossed eyes now, just spent about 2 hours reading the whole of this thread and the previous one . Needed inspiration for lunches (and reminding of the good things I used to give him and have forgotten )

He's back on track now after being poorly and not eating much. Today:

Breakfast: 1 and a half Weetabix, sprinkled with ground flax seeds, rice milk. Strawberry smoothie
Snack: a banana as big as his head
Lunch: ham sandwich, raspberry soy yoghurt
Snack: went out with Daddy - a lolly to get him through a haircut
Dinner: I made a vegetable ratatouille in the slow cooker that I just knew he wouldn't eat, so I took out a portion, mushed it up (so it went sauce-like), and served with wholewheat pasta. Went down well . Couple slices garlic bread.

[Grace's Mom]

Today

Breakfast: strawberries, blueberries, grapes
very small bowl of organic bunny cereal

Snack: cinnamon apple sauce

Lunch: tuna w/mayo and carrots (very little of both)

Snack: cheese and 2 bites of ham and 3 boxes of raisins

Dinner: chicken from mommy's sandwich and 3 bites of red peppers and then a cereal bar when we got home