What did your toddler eat today? Part 5

[nelliestar]

We are refusing LOADS of stuff at the mo and I am finding it hard to deal with to be honest!! I put lots of effort into my LO's food (as we all do) and it just gets spat out or thrown on the floor. Not all things but lots! Anyway...

B - refused porridge with honey and dried fruits, ate pieces of bagel and dry cheerios, water
S - humzinger, raisins, pink wafer, water
L - (at my folks barbeque) Grandma's stew (beef, onion, carrot, mushroom, potato in gravy) pecan cheesecake, water
S - oatcake, refused yoghurt, fruit pot and fruit
T - 3 herby sausages and ketchup, oatcake, apple juice
No supper too tired.

Not a good food day for us! Quantity ok but quality could be better...

Nell xxxx

[squeakersmum]

Well, we're back from our trip to New York (which was fab!!) - Ben didn't really eat a whole lot while we were over there - I think it was all just a bit 'wrong' - he is pretty set in his ways when it comes to the food he likes.  We did, however, discover 'goldfish', which he loves! and some rice puff things that we brought back with us.  Oh, and seriously, Twizzlers!??!?!?  Why doesn't someone import those over here!??!??!  A few things that I was hoping to hold off on for another few months (years?) snuck onto his menu though and he has now eaten chips and chicken nuggets!!  He wasn't too keen on American macaroni cheese until we slathered it in tomato ketchup (the same the world over, right?).

He has eaten like a horse since we got back and today he had,

B - HUGE bowl of ready brek, banana, half a slice of toast and marmalade
L - smoked mackerel, philly on bread, strawberries, cheese, chocolate animals from DH
S - oat bar, humzinger
D - out at restaurant with ILs - corn snacks, goldfish, sausage and beans, yoghurt covered raisins

[MLK]

Weren't turkey twizzlers "featured" in  Jamie Oliver's school dinner series?

[Mashi]

Weren't turkey twizzlers "featured" in  Jamie Oliver's school dinner series?

Different Twizzlers!  "Turkey Twizzlers" from Jamie Oliver are a name brand of product in England (perhaps some other places sell them as well) but afaik they don't have them in the States. They are mechanically separated turkey nuggets

Twizzlers are red licorice (don't know if they are allowed to call it licorice any more, prob just called "candy" now but when I was a kid they were called licorice as it comes in red (strawberry) and black (licorice flavour) so was just all considered licorice) - and Steph, I get my dad to send BAGS of them every year.  I have NO idea why they have not been taken on in England, all English people I know totally LOVE them.  (That and cinnamon as a flavour (gum, candy, etc). )

[Khalam's Mama]

Yesterday;
B: Toast and raisins. Oragne juice (always diluted)
L: Pitta, homous, strawberry, raw carrot, end of french stick, cheerios. water.
D: sweetcorn, sweet potato pancake, 3rd of a chicken breast (grilled), 1  on the vine small tomato. refused boiled potato. Orange juice. Piece of lambs lettuce.

[MLK]

I do remember haiving those long licorice straps as a kid, but they weren't called twizzlers in Australia!  Licorice is something you love them or hate - I hated them!

[teilvnav]

Weren't turkey twizzlers "featured" in  Jamie Oliver's school dinner series?

That made me giggle out loud. Turkey candy... mmmm! Mashi is right; they are not called licorice anymore on the bag. They are labelled, 'licorice-like candy confection' or something like that. I love real black licorice, especially the little black Dutch cats, so I have never liked Twizzlers... but now I am curious about what the bag says, so I will have to check next time we are at the store.

[mumofalice]

Weren't turkey twizzlers "featured" in  Jamie Oliver's school dinner series?

That was my first though LOL - I've never seen them but I remember him trying (and succeeding I think?) in getting them banned from school dinners.

I never wanted to try Twizzlers as I was only 'familiar' with the Turkey variety - until now that is. I love liquorice - whenever these love / hate things come up with foods I always seem to be in the love camp! (marmite, olives, now liquorice . . . what will it be next?)

You've now got me thinking about different sweets / candy / chocolate bars that I've managed to have the pleasure of trying when I travelled - cherry ripes and s'mores instantly spring to mind. 

[squeakersmum]

Ew - no, not turkey twizzlers    the red candy variety - I can see where the confusion came from though!  If I hadn't scoffed the lot that I brought back with us already then I could look on the bag and tell you what it says!! 

Cherry flavour is my favourite - although I didn't try the rainbow bag which looked rather exciting! 

I'm so investigating having some shipped here - they're so much better than any of the other red 'bootlace' things you can get here.

Ben was sick last night, so I thought he would be off his food today but he's eaten pretty well.

B - ready brek and a banana
S - humzinger
L - some cheese and ham sandwich, apple, grapes, few yoghurt coated raisins
S - organix corn snacks
D - chicken, bacon and veg casserole and fruit pot.

[mumofalice]

Here's today:

B: rice crispies and milk, satsuma, orange juice
S: 1 pack (3) yoghurt coated sesame snaps
L: (out with friend) shared hummus and pita, black and green olives with sourdough bread, bit of scone and jam, water
S: organix cereal bar, juice
D: potato rosti, omlette with peas, sweetcorn, tomato & cheese, blueberries & strawberries with small pot fromage frais, bit of gingerbread biscuit with milk

[mumofalice]

Cherry flavour is my favourite - although I didn't try the rainbow bag which looked rather exciting! 

After all this talk about twizzlers I decided to have a look and see what they were . . . google them and found (without looking very far) a website called cybercandy.co.uk which sells candy from all over the world - they have a few shops here in the UK too, so Steph you may not have to have them shipped after all 

PMSL when I found the rainbow packet - see attached pic with quote underneath . . .

[~*Nicole*~]

I have to say I love twizzlers, but hate licorice flavor. I only like the fruity flavors.

Anyway, I've disappeared from this thread, but am starting to get into bad food habits with DD and wanted to hop back in so that I can get back on the ball of providing her with better food options. Mostly I'm just being lazy and not planning ahead. Need ideas again.....

So far today:

B-yogurt, granola bar and milk (her requests before we even got downstairs)
L-turkey and cheese sandwich (didn't eat much of it, a few bites or so), cheese crackers, and water.
(we were at the zoo and that's what we had packed)

(that's where we are now...need to go wake her up from her nap and then figure out a snack and dinner.

[nelliestar]

Today...

B - cheerios and milk, raisins, water
S - Organix carrot stix, water
L - 2x fishcakes (FISH yay!!) loads of peas, ketchup, fruit pot, 2x dried prunes, water
S - carrot stix, pink wafer biscuit, water
T - Daddy's home made turkey meatballs and sweetcorn, refused yoghurt, handful of granola, water
Supper - slice of toasted fruit loaf, humzinger, water

I thought he would refuse the fishcakes for sure but decided to try them and he liked them! Had to have ketchup but its the reduced salt and sugar variety so not too bad ; )

Nell xxxx

[Khalam's Mama]

We started bad today but got better as the day went on.

B: apple and blueberry cereal and 1/4 banana. 4 grapes.
L: Beans and toast and cheese omlette - few bites of each only
D: (out - off our plates) many bites of cod, beef, lamb shank, mashed potatoes, peas. 1/2 a fruit shoot H2O. (he loved the bottle so am thinking to get something similar to have water and milk in as he doesn't drink this much normally).

[~*Nicole*~]

We finished off the day with:

S-raisins
D-diluted juice with sausage, pierogies, and spinach. Wasn't too good about eating dinner, ah well