What did your toddler eat today? Part 5

[mum101]

little dude is slowly eating fewer fruits, so I'm going to be only offering fruit each morning tea. He has spent a lot of time trying to reach the sweets in the cupboard, so they are now boxed and hidden, going to get him eating better if it kills me!  I think he focuses on sweet (although he doesn't get much) and so ignores other perfectly yummy healthy snack.  Should clarify, he does eat pretty well, but not as good as my super-eater DD, so I'm a bit fussy.   

B 1 weetbix, added wheatgerm
S 1/2 banana, 1 biscuit (biscuit given by another mum, grrr)
L 1/2 multigrain tortilla 'pizza', cheese, grated carrot, tomato, baby spinach, ham
S corn thins with avocado
D chilli con carne (minus the chilli  ), mince, lots of chopped up veggie broccoli, tomato, red onion, red capsicum, kidney beans.

[squeakersmum]

Eugh - we're going through this too - even the beloved blueberries are out of favour at the moment.

[mumofalice]

Hello again *waving* 

I've been without email and internet for about FIVE days due to a broken modem - didn't realise how much I used it til it was gone . . . and I missed you all 

Love the cupcake story - especially the quote from Daddy!

So here are the last couple of days - Alice still eating well at the moment.

TUES
B: porridge with mixed dried fruit (raisins, cranberries, etc), OJ
At CM:
S: raisins, banana, water
L: chicken noodles, bun & custard, milk
S: cheesy quavers, water
S: biscuit, water
At home:
D: sausage, mash & beans (cleared her plate  ), blueberries & creme fraiche, hot choc & 3 mini organix cookies

WED
B: crumpet with jam, asked for a satsuam - shared it with me, OJ
S: 2 yoghurt coated sesame snaps
L: (out) slice of cheese on toast, water
S: home-made savoury muffin
D: 2 fish fingers, mash & beans (ate all but a spoonful), yoghurt, couple of bites of plum, hot choc & 3 mini organix cookies

TODAY
B: 2 home-made banana, blueberry & pear pancakes with creme fraiche & honey, OJ
At CM:
S: raisins, banana, water
L: beans, sausages, toast, yoghurt, water
S: apricots, milk
S: cake, water
At home:
D: sausage, bean & cabbage casserole with bread and butter (picked out and ate beans, mushrooms, sausages - ignored the cabbage LOL!), creme fraiche, hot choc & 3 mini organix cookies

[J & J's Mum]

Jessie's come out in a cold, so yesterday wasn't too good, she didn't want her normal snacks!!??

B - milk, cornflakes
S - didn't want anything
L - cream cheese and jam sandwich, yoghurt
S - banana
D - chicken, smiley potato faceys, small corn on the cob (a few mouthfuls), a little bit of ice cream
Milk

Really got to try and stop the milk drinks!!

[mum101]

mumofalice, can I have your recipe for homemade banana, blueberry and pear pancakes?  I made some recently with oats but weren't very good, looking for more to try. 

So chuffed that little dude ate and asked for more fresh dates!  Round 1, mum!

[mum101]

B weetbix, wheatgerm
S 3 fresh dates, 1/2 banana
L veggie and bacon fritters - carrot, corn, zucchini, little taste of homemade raspberry frozen yoghurt (need to add more sugar as wasn't very sweet)
S corn thins with avocado, vegemite and yoghurt
D will be... fish fingers, potato, sweet potato, and pea mash.

[nelliestar]

B - date and banana fruit bar, 3/4 weetabix and milk, half a small syrup pancake, water
S - chocolate chip cookie (!!) Water
L - vegetable stew (onion,garlic,swede,courgette,barley, spices), rice, sweetcorn, Yoghurt, water
S - half an apricot and fruit bar, rice cake, bits of mummys almond cake, water
Tea - peanut butter on toast, dried cherries and dried strawberries, few bites of apple, water
Supper - cheerios and warm milk

Really frustrated and grumpy in pm and lashing out. TEETH!!!!!!! Arrrghhh!! Luckily not affecting his eating too much

Nell xxxxx

[squeakersmum]

Today was very snacky due to lots of visiting...

B - Few shreddies, most of a banana, few bites of toasted raisin bread
S - humzinger bar
L - most of a slice of ham, few bits of cheese, yoghurt coated raisins, little bit of jam and bread, little bit of cheese spread on bread
S - rest of ham and cheese bits found in pot in changing bag!!
D - Beef goulash with rice, mandarin segments in OJ
s - 2 organix cookies

.....and no sick so far today!!  Yay!

[mumofalice]

mumofalice, can I have your recipe for homemade banana, blueberry and pear pancakes?

You sure can  I 'discovered' this recipe on the Jamie Oliver Christmas Specials. He made fluffy American style pancakes with his 2 young daughters . . . and I thought if they could do it then surely I could too! The basic recipe is super-easy - and you can just vary the flavours you put in, I just use whatever we've got in the fruit bowl.

Ingredients
1 cup of self-raising flour (I use quite a big mug as the one he used was HUGE)
1 cup of milk
1 egg
pinch of salt

whisk up all the ingredients in a bowl and then add anything you fancy - I added a handful of blueberries, a chopped up banana and a grated pear (have also used grated apple) - you can add as many fruits as you like (or none if you want plain - have done them this way too and topped them off with strawberries on the plate)

melt a bit of butter in a frying pan - and put in a couple of spoonfuls, turn when starting to brown underneath (you can kind of see it happening as it starts to bubble on the top, kwim?) and then serve with whatever you fancy - we usually have creme fraiche/yoghurt and a drizzle of honey.

one of my favourite things about this recipe is that there's no measuring or weighing as such - the 'cup' isn't even a proper measurement - as long you use the same cup for flour and milk it's fine, as I said before the 'mug' I use is large, am sure it's much bigger than an actual measured cup.

I very rarely used to make pancakes before - but as these are hit with DD and DH and are so simple we tend to have them at least once a week (or twice as the recipe makes quite a lot - so I cook up the whole batch and we eat them the next day too).

Okay . . . so this is what A has eaten today
B: 2 x banana, pear and blueberry pancakes with yoghurt & honey, juice
At CM:
S: mini cheddars, water
L: pasta bolognese, cheesy bread, sponge & custard, milk
S: raisins, water
S: biscuit, juice
At home:
D: boiled egg & toast, small pot of mixed fruit in juice (peach, pear & pineapple - spat out the pineapple for the first time  ), hot choc & 3 mini organix cookies

[Mashi]

mumofalice, can I have your recipe for homemade banana, blueberry and pear pancakes?  I made some recently with oats but weren't very good, looking for more to try.  Smiley

Oh no -- hope it wasn't my oat pancake recipe that I have posted here! If so, very sorry! (We love them!!)

[nelliestar]

So far today...

B - banana pieces, peanut butter on toast, raisins, water
S - date and apricot fruit bar, water
L - 3 small hot dog sausages (1st time for these. We all had a "going to football" lunch as stepson is here!) Breadroll, sweetcorn, yoghurt, small cookie, water
S - date and banana fruit bar, breadsticks, water
D - will be hash browns and leftover veggie stew then hot X bun, water
S - will be cereal and warm milk ( maybe not cheerios as they are much higher in sugar than I thought! Found out on the board yesterday : 0)

Nell xxx

[mumofalice]

Today . . . (not a great day as we were out and about in the rain this morning & I had to work this aft  )

B: Jam on toast, 2 helpings of peaches in juice (she asked for more after the first bowlful), milk
S: humzinger bar
L: cheese on toast, half a gingerbread man, yoghurt coated sesame snap, water
S: 2 more yoghurt sesame snaps
D: large slice of home-made quiche (with cheese, bacon, spring onions, olives and s-d toms), about half a pear, hot choc and other half of gingerbread man.

Mashi - am sure it's not your pancake recipe  I do keep meaning to try it as we always have porridge oats in the cupboard (DH and DD are both HUGE fans of porridge - I like it too, but get bored sooner than them  ) - however, I still haven't written your recipe down so when I think about making pancakes in the morning I just revert to my recipe (or Jamie's  ) cos I know that as long as I have 1 egg some SR flour and some milk then I'll be okay! 

[squeakersmum]

We were at a wedding yesterday so DSs snacks and meals were all over the place - he seemed to eat loads in the end though.

B - Banana, scrambled egg, 1/2 piece of bread and jam

L - baked beans and sausages with slice of bread

Selection of snacks throughout the wedding service and drinks reception including - humzinger bar, yoghurt coated raisins, organix corn snacks, organix toddler cookies, 2 fingers of bread and jam (he really wanted his dinner when he was moaning for these but it was still 30 mins away)

D - a looooong drawn out affair - 2 more fingers of bread and jam, 2 watermelon balls, 1/2 a puree fruit pot, some unidentified sorbet the adults had and he realllly wanted, about 1/2 a roast chicken breast with gravy and a couple of mouthfuls of posh potatoes (not sure what they were).

Oh and a chocolate favour! 

[mumofalice]

Today's toddler intake

B: one bite short of 3 home-made banana & pear pancakes (lots of 'soft' fruit in our bowl so using it up) with yoghurt & honey, OJ
S: humzinger bar, water
L: (out) M&S kids goody bag - tuna & cucumber sandwich (without the cucumber which I had to eat  ) which was dipped in DH's tomato & basil soup, pack of cheesy mice (crackers), box of raisins, apple juice
S: home-made savoury muffin, few dried cranberries
D: tagliatelle with lardons, black olives and parmesan, bowl of peaches in juice, fromage frais, hot choc and 3 mini organix cookies

[Mashi]

Berni I have wanted to ask for a while, how do you make Alice's hot chocolate? I notice she has it most every night so there are obviously no concerns about it keeping her awake at night, so I wouldn't mind offering some up to DS every now and again!