What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!

[shivi]

still sick here....DH is trying to pressurise me to give DS antibiotic (which you get here once your child has green snot!). His temp is 37.3 this evening...still awful cold though running less today and still coughing but mainly just after waking. He doens't cough during the night or during naps but you ca hear him wheeze (though I think its in his throat) from time to time.
DS ate today: Bowl of rice krispies, a humzinger then snack: some dry corn snacks and dried cherries, refused lunch but had another humzinger and water, lots of water after waking, then refused lunch (reheated risotto) again and helped me make a spinach ovwn omelette for DH and I and I thought he'd enjoy eating it but completely refused so had more dry corn snacks and two little fromage frais and more water going to bed....

one of his worst eating days ever.....
and don;t know what to do about antibiotic.....

[SallyDom]

It's a hard decision about antibiotics isn't it...I don't like Dom having them but usually think if the doctors prescribe them then he must need them (tho I always say to my doctor that I don't like him having them so we only want them if she really thinks he should).

I think bad eating days are totally allowed when poorly, plus I don't think his day was so bad, it's not like all he ate was chocolate or biscuits etc. Hope he feels better soon.

Dominic had:
Breakfast - cornflakes
Lunch - beef sandwich, very few corn snacks, white chocolate buttons
snack - a little bit of ice cream (we were at a farm that makes their own ice cream, we shared one!)
Dinner - beans and chips, 2 yogurts, dried fruit.

So not the best day for us but I don't mind him having bad days every now and again...

x

[shivi]

thanks Sally,

Problem is here that the doctors give antiniotics just because a runny nose is green!!! Oscar is a big boy and strong too...so I hope he'll fight this off.

I'm back to work tomorrow...so better go leave his food list ready for childminder!

Anyway, thanks for your words of encouragement!

Siobhain

[stridey]

Hi there, today our DD ate

Breakfast - muesli and yoghurt
Lunch - vegemite sandwiches - yoghurt - sweet corn (kernels) - cheese - watermelon - she is such a grazer and just sits and munches away!
Dinner - pasta with cream cheese and basil pesto - veges - frozen blueberries (she LOVES the berries and I have found them great when she has been teething)

I have found the above pasta meal great and as Cliodhna loves using her fork it is easy to pick up the pasta.

I still freeze some foods and she usually has some form of meat/iron with her dinner.

Thanks for the great thread and I will keep my eye out for future ideas.
Cheers

[legend_018]

ok, I know this is for toddlers, but who seems to be the better eater today?

Chayse 2 years old: Lots of Ice, banana, some strawberries. Offered toast with a bean spread that I made, offered carrot muffin, offered buttered and parm noodles that I made, asked her if she wanted other stuff. Oh and 1/2 of a homemade fruit pop which was made with strawberries, peaches, peach juice and a little yogurt.

Chaunda 8.5 months old: homemade fruit pop, some pieces of a strawberry, peeled and cut in half grapes, almost an entire piece of toast with bean spread, cheerios, noodles, very little turnip that I cooked that she didn't seem to like "lol", and a couple slices of banana.

[Mydreamcametrue]

Your younger one sounds like my younger one.  Toddler not a good eater at all, baby eats like a pig.

[shivi]

they are little vaccuum cleaners at that stage...used to call Oscar my Noo-Noo back then!
LOL!

[IndiaJenn]

Here's what my ds (23-months old) had today:

Pre-breakfast: a cup of horlicks
Breakfast: Upama (basically cream of wheat fried up with peanuts & spices - it's a south Indian dish) - about 1.5 cups -- he really liked it

Snack: 3 rusks, 1/3 of a banana-bran muffin

Lunch: 2 pieces of mackerel loaf (I've got a great la Lecha League recipe if anyone would like it), 3-bean salad (about 1/4 cup) and some bits of cucumber & tomato -- all doused in as much balsalmic vinegar as we would let him have

Snack: far too many pieces of watermelon

Evening snack: Banana-strawberry smoothie (about 1/2 cup)

Dinner: dal (lentil curry) & rice and a little bit of curried chicken

I don't know where he puts it all, btw. He's hardly a chubby kid!

[OliverRowland]

dumb question....but how do your lo's drink smoothies?  are they thin enough for the thin straw sippy cups?

[Diana1981]

Sergio had a bottle at 5:45am!!!!
Ate french toast and couple of slices of cheese for breakfast.
He drank pear juice and a cookie for snack.
Rice with chicken and veggies for lunch.
Peach juice and a small bundt cake for mid-afternoon snack.
for dinner sweet plantain with cheese
and a bottle at bed time

[SallyDom]

Had to write to tell you about waht Dom ate yesterday and today:
Yesterday:
Breakfast - Weetabix
Snack - grapes
Lunch - cheese on toast, yogurt
Snack - 2 bags of crisps, 4 biscuits, 2 chocolates (all given by a well meaning great grandad when I wasn't looking)
would eat dinner (suprise suprise!)

Today:
Breakfast -Weetabix, fruit, yogurt
Snack - grapes
Lunch - crackers and cream cheese, tin fruit
Snack - fromage frais, grapes
Dinner - jacket potato, carrots, broccoli, green beans, chicken, fruit, yogurt,

Guess which day made me feel like a better mummy!
x

[grahamsmama]

I've enjoyed reading this.  It certainly normalizes the whole toddler stage doesn't it?  My older two don't eat as much as the baby, but she's starting to slow down.  So I just have to repeat to myself "don't stress, don't stress, don't stress."  LOL
Today Meghan had:
Breakfast: a few cut up strawberries, about 3oz of whole milk, and a few bites of cheese
Snack: a ton of cut up grapes, a few pretzels
Lunch: a few bites of cheese, a cheese/broccoli silver dollar "pancake" (tiny)
Snack: about 4 oz of milk, a few multigrain Cheerios (she is trying to feed herself with a spoon, so most of these ended up on the floor. LOL)
Dinner: A good amount of roast chicken, about 2 tablespoons of peas
Bedtime snack: Drank half her yogurt drink and then saw the piece of pizza brother had and went crazy, so I gave her one and she ate almost the whole thing!

You know in reading this back, it seems pretty good actually!

[We Three]

This is awesome...I'm getting some good ideas here!!

  dd (18 months today...Happy 1/2 Birthday!!!) ate today:
 
 6 oz milk at wake-up
 Blueberry pancake and hour later

 Dry Cheerios as a snack while I cruised Target (and water)

 Grape Jelly sandwhich on organic ww bread...she ate about 3/4 with some milk

 Snack of grapes and some graham crackers (water)

 Stuffed Shell for dinner (with ground turkey meat sauce)  (milk)

 1/2 banana muffin (homemade)

 I hate the days when she doesn't have any veggies....although I make my own sauce and there is tomato in there and a bit of spinach.
 It is cool to see it written down so I can now spend the night obsessing over it! 

[grahamsmama]

I just reviewed the toddler portion sizes sticky.  That is so helpful to put some perspective on this!
Meghan today had:
Breakfast: 4 oz milk, 1/2 cup mandarin oranges (I gave her some and then her sister sneaked her some extras.  LOL), a few cheerios
Snack: water, breakfast bar and fruit juice snacks at the pool
Lunch: about 1.5 oz grilled chicken, 3 peas ( ), 1/2 slice wheat bread, water
Snack after nap: 5 oz milk, 2 animal crackers, a few pieces of cereal
Dinner: a small salmon cake (made with celery and onion, so some veggies there), about 2 tablespoons of cooked/diced carrots
Bedtime snack: 3oz yogurt drink

So, she had plenty of the protein and fruits, and almost enough veggie and dairy groups, and not nearly the 6 grain servings (probably only had half of what she "should" have).

I have a question for you all-- how much liquids is your lo drinking each day?
Meghan probably has about 8-10 oz milk, 10 oz water and a 3 oz yogurt drink
Is that enough, do you think?

[We Three]

I always stress about the liquids too.  Amelia has milk at wake, at lunch and before bed...about 6 oz at each...so there's 18 oz.
And she has water with her snacks, about 2-3 sippy cups water per day, so about 18 oz. More on a hot day. We have never offered juice, and I'm grateful she likes water and will sometimes even ask for it.      I think 36 ounces of fluid per day for an 18 mo old is even on the high side, no?