What Did Your Toddler Eat Today? Part 6

[mumofalice]

Welcom brennasmommy 

Khalam's Mama - just seen your new ticker!  Congratulations  Wishing you a happy & healthy pregnancy.
With regard to the flapjacks - I've added grated courgette and it was lovely. The recipe suggests grated carrot or courgette and I think finely chopped (or grated?) onion. As Karen said - onion seems to work well.

Karen - thanks for the veggie chips/crisps recipe - think I would like them myself. Have made parsnip crisps before and they were lovely but think a mix would be even better. Have bought bags of veggie crisps before and they are yummy - tho I suspect not as healthy as making them yourself!

Steph - hugs for the gashed chin. Hope DS is doing okay. 

Cath - trying to think of things that I make and freeze but TBH think everything has been mentioned: curries, pasta sauce, veggie chilli. Couple of things I used to make (recipes from BLW thread many moons ago) were tuna 'croquettes' (tuna, mash pots, breadcrumbs) and also chicken sausages/patties (this may be the AK recipe but I don't know for sure).

Here's what DD has been eating the last couple of days . . .
Wednesday
B: muesli & milk, banana (shared it with DH and I), water
S: (at Gran's) 2 organix moon biscuits
L: (at Great Gran's) REFUSED pasta and veg - so it seems Alice has finally gone over to the dark side 
S: savoury muffin, few spicy battered broad beans, water
D: whole jacket potato with cheese & mixed olives, chopped cucumber & tomato (cleared the plate - prob due to lack of lunch!), yoghurt, choc chip cookie, banana, water

Thursday
B: rice crispies, milk, strawberry & banana smoothie
At CM
S: kit kat, juice
L: ham sandwich, cheese cubes, sausage roll, yoghurt, water
S: raisins, breadsticks, milk
At Home
D: cabbage roll casserole, slice of garlic baguette, yoghurt, water, choc chip cookie

Today
B: muesli & milk, strawberry & banana smoothie
S: (at Gran's) organix cereal bar, juice
L: (at Great Gran's) home-made veg and noodle soup, bread & butter for dipping, sweet bread roll with jam & butter, yoghurt
S: yoghurt coated fruit flakes, water
D: cheese & leek lattice (pastry), carrot & potato mash, peas & sweetcorn, yoghurt, melon, water, biscuit & milk

[twogirlsmommy]

Okay so here's what we ate today:

Breakfast:
1/2 piece of cinnamon toast
vanilla yogurt
1 Strawberry
(she probably would have eaten the whole piece of toast if I had given it to her

Lunch:
Carrots
almost 1/2 a scrambled egg
Blueberries

Dinner:
Cherrios
Ground Turkey (which she flat out refused)
Carrots
Peas
Cantelope

To be honest I feel like this is a good day for her because of the low amount of processed foods but I'm pretty sure she could be eating better

[Rebecca247]

Yesterday:

B: full weetbix with milk, half a piece of toast with vegemite
S: yoghurt and strawberries
L: leftover chicken kebab
S: a few arnotts chicken crimpys at the park, water
D: spaghetti toddler tin..

then we had fish and ships for dinner so he had 2 nuggets and a few chips!

[Rebecca247]

Today;

B: weetbix with milk, orange
S: yoghurt
L: chicken soup, scrambled eggs and some toast.
S: yoghurt
D: homemade spaghetti bolognaise, and another yoghurt

Since not having milk during the night he has been eating alot of yoghurt. Do you think he is eating to much yoghurt now? He really enjoys it and when he is hungry he asks for a 'yoggie'.......
He hasnt had any snack foods today so i'm extremely happy with that. We usually allow one snack item from the cupboard a day for all the kiddies but today they havent asked!

today was also the first day he ever tried scrambled eggs and asked for more, i have offered it to him before and he has always spat it back out, so i was extremely happy when he showed me an empty plate and asked for more, I think his taste buds are getting better now after an overload of milk during the night previously.....yay so excited

[Khalam's Mama]

Why didn't you give brenna the whole toast?

I think yoghurt  is better than some snacks Bek. Do you buy the kind that isn't too high in sugar?Ds has started eating a whole adult yoghurt!

Fish and ships for dinner sounds exciting Bek, though prob just a typo LOL.

How much veggies should I put in the flapjacks? No. of carrots etc would be helpful as my scales are broken. I had to get my sister to weigh out 150g oats at her house and tell me on the phone how many tommy tippy pots it was!

Yesterday
B: 1 slice toast and honey
L: baked beans refused toast (though why did I give after he had same for breakfast?)
S: 1/2 slice bread and peanut butter
D: 1 fried egg, 1/4 beef sausage and few chips
S: raisins

That was an awful day for veggies - bad mama.

[mumofalice]

How much veggies should I put in the flapjacks? No. of carrots etc would be helpful as my scales are broken. I had to get my sister to weigh out 150g oats at her house and tell me on the phone how many tommy tippy pots it was!

I *think* I just grated one average-sized courgette to the mix - I think one decent sized carrot would be enough. HTH.

[Khalam's Mama]

Thanks.

[Mom to M&M]

So-so eating day yesterday. Fourth tooth is about to break...

B: bite or two of raisin toast, 15 blueberries
L: couple bites cheese, turkey, broccoli quesadilla (not impressed), 1.5 sneaky chef meatballs (with sweet pot and carrot puree), cantaloupe
S: yogurt, goldfish crackers
D: tiny portion veggie lasagna, few bites my chicken chow mein (homemade), LOADS of strawberries

[Rebecca247]

haha yes just a typo! but does sound interesting!

I have been buying yoghurts in a 12 pack, but today he ate it from a tub of adult yoghurt too, the ski brand 'strawberry smash' yummo.....
older kiddies like it in the bug family tub...might just stick to that he did enjoy it obviously!

[teilvnav]

Hiya ladies, will drop back with Nathan's meals today after dinner. He hasn't been eating very well at all this week due to the heat and cutting his first two molars. We seem to be back on track today; phew!

Question: Nathan still takes milk from bottles, and had been taking three 8 ounce bottles per day (if not 4). Suddenly he is refusing to finish them, taking only 3-5 oz at a time. He is drinking more from his sippy cup; could this be why? I am wondering if he has adjusted to the faster flow and prefers that now.

[mumofalice]

Bek - so impressed by Max's eating of late - it's improved so much, hasn't it? Bet you're over the moon. Never really sure about yoghurt - DD would eat it after every meal if she could, but I try to limit it . . . tho, not sure why 

Amy - can't help with the bottle question as we didn't really do bottles (EBM for Dream Feed in a bottle and the odd one here and there during the day) - I just remember worrying that DD would never work out how to drink from a sippy 

Today
B: shreddies & muesli with milk, dry CN cornflakes on the side, strawberry & banana smoothie
S: sliced banana & melon chunks, water
L: home-made lettuce soup, soda bread & butter for dipping, yoghurt, piece of licorice, water
S: innocent smoothie tube (frozen), humzinger bar, few of DH's crisps
D: On the plate (same as yesterday): cheese & leek lattice (pastry), carrot & potato mash, peas & sweetcorn - think DD ate maybe one bite of the lattice and one spoonful of peas & sweetcorn - dinner finished there. Bit of milk.

[nelliestar]

Cath - what about a veggie or chicken curry - mild and coconutty? We also do a lentil spag bol to freeze and meatballs in tomato sauce. Dh also makes homemade burgers that we freeze, lamb and mint, beef and herbs, turkey and sage and onion stuffing mix.

HTH's

Nell xxxx

PS - playing catch up as couldn't get on site and don't have a web address for the temp one! ; )

[Mom to M&M]

Would love a recipe for a mild, kid friendly veg or chicken curry!

[Khalam's Mama]

If Nathan drinks from a sippy why don't you try to give him the milk in there instead? he doesn't really need so much milk now anyway does he? Though DS still has 4 BF a day even though he probably only need 2. Maybe he is just full from solids?

Today:
B: 1 pear and banana pancake with honey and 1/2 banana
L: peanut butter sandwich (1/2 slice bread), 1/4 peach
S: 5 strawberries
D: lemon grilled chicken, sweetcorn, 3 pomodorino tomatoes,
S: another pancake from breakfast.

[mumofalice]

Would love a recipe for a mild, kid friendly veg or chicken curry!

I made sweet potato, cauliflower & green bean curry the other day - DD ate it so does that qualify as kid-friendly? Happy to share the recipe if you like.