What did your toddler eat today? Part 5

[squeakersmum]

Banu we do a mix of the two here. DS starts on his own regardless of what it is (including yoghurt - which is a tad messy!!!) and then unless it's a fully finger food meal like sandwiches and fruit, I tend to help once his attention span wanders. 

If we're out at a restaurant or something then I just avoid all the more messy foods and he feeds himself what he wants - I find that as restaurant meals are more drawn out he is better occupied if he eats a bit, plays with a toy car or something for a bit, and then eats a bit more. 

[nelliestar]

Hi Koe2moe!

sorry I haven't been on here for a few days - have been ill. DS is almost 16 months.

3 molars are through now so eating has improved! : )

B - humzinger, rice krispies and milk, banana pieces, water
s - oatcakes and milk
L - vegetable risotto and peppers, homemade cake and custard, water
S - none
Tea - 3 jam sandwiches (suger free jam), banana and grapes, water
Snack on way home from nursery - humzinger and breadstick
Supper - weetabix and milk

Nell xxx

[AshleyB]

Dinner tonight: complete dramatic refusal of frozen pot roast meal, so rounded up these leftovers and served them one at a time as I discovered them:

Mixed veg, baked tofu, mushroom risotto, vanilla yogurt with fresh blueberries, milk

[mumofalice]

Berniw - WHitby was lovely but somehow or other  Ialways equate the coast with sun - which is in short supply in NE England! I never did get used to the amount of grease and fried foods - was gobsmacked when I saw some chippies had served up leftover deep fried batter at the end of the day!

The coast and the sun *should* go together - but when you live in England (the north especially) you are very lucky to get both   Am guessing that you're talking about 'scraps' - bits of batter served with your fish and chips . . . or as a 'bag of scraps'   which I have to admit to eating my fair share of as a youngster   They were FREE and tasted so good at the time!

Steph - keep meaning to ask how your weekend away from your boys went? Hope you had a good time and the 'devastation' on your return wasn't too bad 

Banu - my LO is a bit older (2 1/2) but she feeds herself everything as we did BLW with her - so we've never fed her as such. She's now using a fork and a spoon too but will quite often go back to her hands as she can get what she wants quicker that way! She asks for help when she's down to the last of her porridge / yoghurt - and we 'scrape' with the spoon and hand it back to her - nothing gets wasted in our house!

Here's what A has been eating the last few days:
Tuesday:
B: 2 slices of toast (1 x marmite, 1 x honey) - only gave her one slice to start with and was shocked when she asked for more as I didn't think she'd eat it - but she finished the lot! Diluted OJ, innocent fruit smoothie
At CM:
S: banana, apple, raisins, water
L: fish fingers, smiley faces, yoghurt, bun, water
S: bread sticks with cream cheese, milk
(apparently Alice and her little 'boyfriend' polished off half a tub of cream cheese between them for snack  )
At Home:
D: pasta with cauliflower, anchovies, olives, s-d toms and blue cheese, yoghurt, hot choc and home-made mini carrot cake

Wednesday:
B: Toasted currant teacake, diluted OJ, innocent fruit smoothie
S: few dried apricots, dried pineapple crisps
L: (after nap due to falling asleep on way home from play-date) toasted teacake: half with marmite, half with honey, pear
S: none due to post-nap lunch!
D: leftover pasta (as previous), yoghurt, home-made popcorn/marshmallow/apricot ball, hot choc and few bites of home-made mini carrot cake

Thursday:
B: Porridge with dried apricots, innocent fruit smoothie
At Grandma's
S: organix cereal bar, juice
L: baked beans on toast, mini muller rice pot, juice
At home:
S: 2 x yoghurt coated sesame snaps
D: home-made sausage, apple and onion pie, topped with root veg mash (carrots, parsnips, potatoes), peas and sweetcorn - ate a decent amount. yoghurt, small pot of peaches in juice, hot choc and home-made mini carrot cake

[MLK]

Scraps - that was what they were called! I am sure that the shop I saw them in CHARGED for them though - that was what amazed me.

How do you remember what she ate for so many days? I'm struggling to remember what was on today's menu!

Yesterday: spent the day at Grandma's
B: bacon and eggs
L: ham sandwiches, fruit salad. Apparently because they didn't have MT he picked all the ham out of everyone's sandwiches then helped himself to the rest of the fruit salad too!
D: chicken soup, silverside, salad

Today:

B: boiled egg, toast, banana, MSPI "milk"
MT: fruit
L: not sure, at childcare and DH didn't check
D: chicken fried rice, MSPI "milk"

[mumofalice]

Have never know a chippy charge for scraps before - that's outrageous! I wouldn't pay for them - never have never will!

I only remember what she ate cos it's generally written down - CM fills out a sheet and if she's at my Mum's she knows to tell me (remember I'm not as relaxed as you think LOL!) - and if she's with me I just 'know' as I try to balance it all thru the day . . .

Today:
B: porridge with dried apple & raisins, innocent fruit smoothie

At CM:
S: raisins, chocolate muffin, milk
L: chicken sandwich, cheese string, yoghurt, water
S: crisps, water
S: bread stick, water

At home:
D: as yesterday (sausage pie, etc), yoghurt, milk, hot choc and biscuit

[nelliestar]

First thing - 7ozs of milk and a humzinger

B - raisins and dried apricots, weetabix and milk, water
S - peach pieces, 3 small animal biscuits, water
L -Grandma's homemade stew, carrots and peas, 1 potato smile, half a yoghurt, water
S - marmite bread sticks, water
Tea - homemade soup - refused it, rice - refused it, 2 veggie sausages, small piece of lemon cake, water
Supper - rice krispies and warm milk
5 ozs of milk

Nell xxx

[AshleyB]

DH made buckwheat banana bread, so that's all Chandler wants right now. She eats a few other items here and there in between slices of "bananana bread"

[MLK]

Banana bread- must get around to makign it again, thanksfro the reminder! DS2 loves it and it's great for puttign the school lunchboxes.

Bernie - maybe things are a bit different in Co Durham? I remember thinking this chippy was a but weird because instead of cooking the fish and chips to order they had "frying times" where they just cooked up batches at certain times of the day and you had to go and buy it then. Or is that nornal too?

Today so far:
B: bacon and eggs ( doesn't normally get this twice a week but was at his grandparents on Thursday), MSPI "milk"
MT: was so hungry he tried to help himself fro mthe fridge! Watermelon, banana, pineapple
L: not hungry after big MT - so strawberries, MSPI "milk" and left over bacon from breakfast
AT: will be fruit puree pot
D: will be chicken noodle soup and bread, MSPI "milk"

[AshleyB]

Chandler' day so far:

B: Banana bread
S: cereal bar
L: spinach/potato pancake, corn, banana bread
S: 100 calorie pack oreos that she caught DH eating followed by some m&ms she caught DH eating because she stole his snack
D: hopefully will be vegetable egg fu yung at our favorite Vietnamese place. I'm pretty sure they don't serve banana bread there, so she might be forced to eat something else.

[emz1907]

Yesterday Callum ate:

B: homemade coconut and vanilla pancake, cheerios with milk, milk to drink
S: Banana, babybel cheese, kinder egg left over from easter
L: Ham sandwich (picked out all ham and left bread), spread a little jam on remaining bread and he ate all that, yogurt, juice
S: Was so distracted at playing in garden in warm weather he wouldn't entertain any snacks!
D: Big portion of pasta with red pesto (ate in garden as a picnic or 'pimco' as he calls it), 2 yogurts, juice

[mum101]

Chandler' day so far:
S: 100 calorie pack oreos that she caught DH eating followed by some m&ms she caught DH eating because she stole his snack

love it! 

[mumofalice]

Chandler' day so far:
S: 100 calorie pack oreos that she caught DH eating followed by some m&ms she caught DH eating because she stole his snack

love it! 

Me too 

I'm pretty sure they don't serve banana bread there, so she might be forced to eat something else.

And I love this 

Lan - maybe Co Durham is a bit different but to charge for scraps is not good in my book! As for 'frying times' am not quite sure how that works. We have 'frying times' in our local chippies but that generally means what time they are open. The one I usually go to you tell the 'fryer' how many fish you want as you walk in, then by the time you've got to the front of the queue and paid for your order you have your freshly-fried fish ready to take away . . . all this talk about fish and chips is making me crave them!!

Here's the w/end - Alice seems to have decided that she doesn't eat tea anymore ('tea' in the North of England generally means your main meal at the end of the day - ie what most folk call dinner - don't ask  ) - her two new favourite sayings this weekend have been (1) 'pay out' (which means play out - she hasn't mastered the 'l' sound yet) which is great as we've had fairly good weather and (2) no want my tea - which I'm not so keen on 

Sat:
B: poached egg & a slice toast (half a slice with marmite as she saw us putting some on ours), small pot of peaches & pears in juice, innocent fruit smoothie
S: yoghurt coated sesame snap after swimming, then went to farmer's market so a few samples of cheese, samosa, choc muffin
L: 1/2 bagel with cream cheese, apple juice
S: 2 yoghurt coated sesame snaps, small ice cream
D: home-made risotto rice patties (parsnip & butterbean) with home-made beetroot chutney and rocket salad - ate ONE bite, warm milk

Sun:
B: rice crispies and milk, couple of bites of my toast (some honey, some marmite), couple of bites of DH's home-made banana & pear pancakes, some of DH's yoghurt, innocent fruit smoothie (she's big on sharing at the moment - ie having some of everyone esle's food!)
S: humzinger bar
L: picnic in the garden which included bits of the following: oatcakes, salami, olives, cheeses (maasdam, mature cheddar, smoked stilton), organix corn snacks, some of our 'crisps', home-made popcorn 'ball' (with marshmallows & dried apricots), juice
S: home-made savoury muffin, small chocolate egg (still working our way thru the Easter stash - hopefully finish before Christmas!)
D: Sunday Dinner: turkey, roasted veg (pots, carrots & parsnips), peas & sweetcorn, onion gravy - didn't want any but put some turkey in her mouth and then spat it out  , warm milk

Tried to stay calm about the tea/dinner refusal and explained that there wouldn't be anything else to eat - no yoghurt, no hot choc, no biscuit (which is pretty much what she eats at the end of each day) and she was okay with that. Just gave her a cup of warm milk and she accepted it . . .

[MLK]

ugh just lost my post!

Forgotten what I wrote when site was down...

But basically yes it was a strange chippy ,frying times were 12-2 pm and that was it..

Dinner refusal - had to leave out afternoon tea and have dinner at 5pm if I wanted my kids to eat it. Otherwsie leftover dinner=lunch the next day.

[AshleyB]

Last night refused to eat dinner because it wasn't "souffle" or "chocolate." Whatevs.

She's doing better tonight:

baked tofu, sugar snap peas, rice with sesame oil, avocado chunks