need lunch and dinner suggestions for 16 month old.....

[lin7604]

my ds is 16 month today and has a egg allergy ( only raw) and a real bad sensitivity to tomato based foods.  He is also a very picky eater and it's been a long slow time getting him into people food.  He loves fruit, cereal, yougart, pudding, toast, cinammon waffles ( no other flavors), soup, crackers and chicken fingers ( not cooked any other way), potato smiley faces or tater tots. 

He will eat sometimes cooked carrots or peas. 

He won't eat lunch meat, pasta, cheese, any other meat product, rice only in soup not on it's own.  i am stumped what else to try with him.  i try to re introduce all these items all the time thinking he will finally one day give in and try it. nothing so far?  what else can i try?  breakfast always seems to be either a cereal, waffle or toast( or if i make banan muffins).  lunch always seems to be fruit and soup. dinner always seems to be yougart and cooked carrots/peas and potato smiley faces.   

He loved my spegetti, chili and lasagna but it reacts really badly to his system so no go on those anymore!!! anything else we eat at dinner he won't eat and will just play with.  any suggestions on what else we can try???

[finlays mam]

have you tried quorn?...my lo loves quorn sausages, mince and the chicken...IYKWIM? avacado, sweetcorn, we have fish in butter sauces here and they're lovely or frozen fish that takes just 20 mins in the oven with a little butter.

[Jimbob]

What kind of soups does he have? Soup does give a great option for getting lots of vegetables, beans and meat and poultry aswell. Is it possible to do the lasagne or spaghetti with a vegetable based sauce instead of tomato. You could puree the vegetables if he is more likely to eat it like that. Have you tried humous? Some children love to dip breadsticks or pitta bread into humous. That would not be bad for lunch with fruit and yogurt to follow. I will keep thinking for other ideas.

Kelly

[lin7604]

thanks to both of you for the suggestions.  For the soup bit he loves litpon chicken noodle, consumme soup with rice, chicken with rice, cream of mushroom and beef barley.  I have tried to make homemade soups as i love them and prefure them but he won't touch any homemade soups at all? 
how would i do a vegtable sauce base ?  i never see any in the store?? 
i have also tried fish before even just fish sticks as since it is similar to the texture of the chicken fingers he loves but won't eat that either?  try avacados too and no go.

[Jimbob]

I make a vegetable based sauce myself, not sure if you can buy them. I tend to fry some garlic and onion off and then add lots of different vegetables with some water. Bring to the boil and then simmer. I then add a little cream and cheese. You could leave out the cheese if you wanted if your ds does not like it.

Kelly

[Jimbob]

I forgot to add that I often blitz this so its more like a sauce but often cook some mushrooms seperately and then add them into the sauce afterwards. I also put a mixture of herbs in aswell which I forgot to mention. Obviously you could cook the mushrooms with the vegetables if you wanted to blitz them aswell.

Kelly

[lin7604]

thanks, sounds really good.... yumm

[lin7604]

i know there areoptions and i can sneak lots of veggies in it but i can't get him to eat homemade soup at all, why??? i have no idea, only canned or litpons ckn noodle???  I have tried a ckn soup, ckn with rice, etc homemade and he won't touch them???

[Jimbob]

That sounds like a great way to move onto homemade soups.

[lin7604]

that is a very good idea!!!! thanks, i will do that tomorrow!