What did your toddler eat today? Part Two!

[jennyb133]

Sure, I've been reading more on the pre-schooler thread lately anyway.

Or, I could continue to post here about Alex since I serve them the same anyway.

So far today:
Breakfast- Blueberry oatmeal, piece of toast with apple butter, milk
Lunch- ham & cheese sandwich, yogurt, juice
Snack- pretzel sticks
Plan for dinner is a london broil, my kids are refusing all veggies I put on their plate, Alex will pick at some, James flat out refuses. James also has been refusing his meat lately too unless I make a grilled sandwich out of it.  Alex will usually eat meat with ketchup.

[speechie]

Jenny- any luck with hiding the veggies in other dishes?

[lewismummy]

Wow, I thought my ds ate a lot but now im not so sure.....

Todays meals were

Breakfast - 7oz milk then 1/2hr later golden nuggets (big bowl)
snack - 4 sweets (he had been a good boy!)
Lunch - potato an veg
snack - bottle milk 6oz ish
Dinner - 1 grilled sausage, 1 potato cake, 2 onion rings(oven baked), scrambled egg, yougurt for dessert
7oz bottle b4 bed

I must admit he eats a good sized portion as he is a big boy and I grill/oven bake most often

I will keep an eye on this thread as his habits are changing as he is now able to feed himself with a fork and sometimes spoon

[♥ MaryAnn ♥]

Breakfast is pretty standard: Cream of wheat (made with whole milk) with strawberries, whole wheat toast with butter, and some banana chunks. Sippy cup of milk.
Snack: string cheese, cheerios, milk
Lunch: Steamed Cauliflower with homemade cheese sauce over brown rice. Sippy cups with water and milk --he will switch back and forth
Snack: grapes, Graham crackers, string cheese.
Dinner: Ham veggie soup and more toast with butter (his favorite thing these days).  Sippy cup with water.

I'm worried that he doesn't get enough Milk in his diet, he really doesn't drink a lot.  he has one sippy cup (maybe 10 oz) that I offer him throughout the day--and only sometimes will he finish it.  I try to offer cheese and put milk in his cereal . . .do you think that's enough??

Anyone?

[speechie]

All you can do is try! Sounds like you are supplementing with cheese. Would he take yogurt?

Today Nick ate:
Breakfast: banana pancakes, veggie sausage, egg, milk.
Snack: crackers, pear
Lunch: peanut butter and jelly sandwich, milk, broccoli, yogurt/applesauce.
Snack: crackers, piece of salami, apple
Dinner: Thai takeout- masaman curry (potato,carrot, onion, tofu in a peanut curry sauce), rice, Pad Thai (noodles and tofu), apple, milk

[speechie]

Today Nick ate:
Breakfast: whole wheat toast w/pumpkin butter, egg, blueberries, and milk.
Snack: banana and peaches, water and juice
Lunch: left over THai food (see above), applesauce, milk.
Snack: Organic Elmo crackers, pears
Dinner:brussels sprouts (about 12), portabello mushroom burger, whole wheat pasta, applesauce (probiotics mixed in due to antibiotics/flu), milk

[Colin Macs Mom]

I think I'd like to eat at your house Cathie!

[shivi]

me too LOL!!!

[rinajack]

OMG, can an 18mo really eat as much as that Cathie? 12 Brussel Sprouts PLUS other food? If I were able to get my kids to eat those, 12 would be at least a whole day worth of food, maybe even 2 days worth!

[speechie]

er....yeah... mine does! he's always been a super eater and at one point I wondered if he had a tapeworm. He's in the 50% for weight, and 95% for height, but honestly he burns it off- If you've read my other posts, you know he's crazy spirited and doesn't sleep much...sigh.
The brussels sprouts are mini sprouts...about the size of a small marble.
BTW, thanks you are making me feel good about what I feed Nick. Are you Thai food fans?
He's a good eater and I'm trying to expand what we're giving him while he's still receptive.
Today he ate:
Breakfast: egg, milk, waffle, blueberries
Snack: raisins, water w/vitamin shot
Lunch: 1/2 turkey bologna sandwich on multigrain bread w/mayo and mustard, rest of the brussels sprouts, yogurt, one chocolate chip cookie (homemade) and milk.
Snack: fruit bar and water.
Dinner is supposed to be homemade pizza w/pepperoni and some sort of soft cooked veggies... we'll see.
Come on - post what your kids eat! I need more ideas- just cuz Nick's a piggie doesn't mean your kids should eat what he does!

[rinajack]

What was actually running through my mind is how on earth do you find time to prepare that lovely food when you have a spirited child? Between having 2 spiriteds, and 2 kids who hardly eat, our food is far less than gourmet these days

[speechie]

Hmm, the Thai food was take out which we always stretch with extra rice, the portabello burger was a frozen one that I heated up, the veggies are mostly frozen (winter here) and soft cooked, the sandwiches I make at night before I go to bed, DH gets the breakfast things prepped before he leaves at 6:30... We've got a system for the AM because he wakes ravenous and mean until he's eaten, then he's my spirited-angel.
Oh, and I love my crockpot.

[speechie]

PLUS, I only have ONE kid! Because he's so spirited, I can't imagine 2!
I tend to do the prep when he's sleeping, then boil what I can while we play and throw it all on the plate. He does help me with baking projects as he's obsessed with any tools- mixer, blender, food processor, etc...

[gpmom]

Okay yesterday Daisy 18months ate

Crispex cereal and toast with fruit jam on top
snack, water, raisens and gold fish crackers
Lunch-pasta with pesto sauce, turkey peperoni, kiwi, water and cheese of course
snack some pop corn twists with daddy
supper-pizza (on toast) with cheese, ham, pineapple and she also had more pasta and loads of fruit,

[speechie]

ooohhh pesto sounds so good! great idea!