What Did Your Toddler Eat Today? Part 6

[~Sara~]

Nathan won't really drink milk from a sippy cup, either. Water and juice are no problem, but milk is apparently just for bottles. Well, he will drink it with a straw or from a little carton.

Yup, Aaron is the SAME way.  I figure I'll just let him have his bottles--he's about to drop the middle one anyways. But he does drink about 1.5 sippy cups of water throughout the day (about 15 oz).  Prefers water over juice.

Yesterday
B: Cheerios
L: rest of bowtie pasta, tomato sauce; then lots of grapes
S: goldfish crackers; 1/2 banana
D: pork chop, long grain wild rice, and some avocado

Today
B: toast with butter and jam; 1/2 banana
L: leftover chicken/broccoli/rice casserole; blueberries
S: goldfish crackers; yogurt melts; cheese puffs
D: philly cheese steak sandwich

[Mom to M&M]

Same here with the bottles. Sippies and straws and open cups are great for water but milk apparently only belongs in a bottle. He gets two a day.

Today was:

B: few bites challah french toast, strawberries
L: 1/3 a banana, 2/3 scrambled egg with cheese and spinach, little bit applesauce
S: few veggie chips, few licks all natural coconut milk ice pop
D: spaghetti and meatballs, small peach (cut up), few licks my raspberry sorbet

[marilyn73]

DD is 16 mths old, and approx 6 weeks ago started refusing plain yogurt (one of her faves).  I tried different brands, and flavored ones as well - but no use - she sees it on the spoon and that's it.
At the same time, she started refusing applesauce too.
She does eat other food that I spoon feed her, but eats most of her food as finger foods - just starting to use a fork here and there.
Any ideas?  I really liked giving her yogurt, especially in her lunch - she dropped cheese at the same time, so I feel like I need to boost her calcium intake!
Otherwise she's a pretty good eater - is this the start of pickiness?

[Brock~Tahlia~Mummy]

IDK Marilyn...My DS used to love fresh fruit and veggies now he just pokes them, squashes them or ignores them. The only way i get fruit into DS is by feeding him fruit purees from the jar or mashing banana in his breakfast cereal, or he likes prune juice. Yet only 1 month ago B would refuse anything but bananas and yogurt, now all he wants is meat, meat, meat! No bananas!

Today and yesterday were basically identical!
B 1 wheatbix and 1/2 mash banana, 1/4 toast with organic butter, prune juice
S 2 mum mums, water
L melted cheese on toast with Vegemite
S 1 jar of Pear and apricot puree and 1 tub yogurt, water, refused strawberries
D Spaghetti bolognaise (really enjoyed), 1 jar apple puree, 1 tub yogurt, water

[marilyn73]

B - shreddies and cherries, milk
L - grilled cheese, 1/4 avocado, milk, apple slices, a couple of snap peas ( in pods)
S - whole banana, goldfish
D - fish, potato chunks, 1 green bean, 2 strawberries, milk

[<Catherine>]

Yesterday:-

B - Cornflakes
s - breadsticks
L - rice with duck in a plum sauce (left overs, not home made but went down a treat!), 2 yogurts
S - 1/2 banana
D - fish pie, yogurt

[twogirlsmommy]

Today:

Breakfast:
Waffles, blueberries, and some cantelope

Lunch: Cheese chunks, apple sauce and some sweet potatos

Snack: Strawberries, One mini rice cake (not thrilled with this) Cheerios, Yogurt

Dinner: Mixed Veg (picked but didn't really eat) 3 chicken nuggets, cereal bar, cantelope, 1 whole nectarine, Yogurt, (was offered cheese ravioli but refused)

Does anyone give more then one yogurt a day?  This is the first time I've done it because she was soo hungry at dinner!

[<Catherine>]

Does anyone give more then one yogurt a day?  This is the first time I've done it because she was soo hungry at dinner!

Yes, DS generally has at least one pot of yogurt after lunch and dinner (often 2), but these are only small pots. So occassionally 4 pots a day (usually only 2 though)!

Yesterday:-

B - Cornflakes, some banana
S - Some fruit cake, breadsticks
L - Fish pie, yogurt
S - Organix Cheese puffs
D - Cottage pie, yogurt, 1/2 banana........and some more cheese puffs - very hungry it would seem!

[Mom to M&M]

We usually only do one 4-ounce container of yogurt a day (some days none).

Eating has been hit or miss lately - but we've all been fighting a tummy bug. Yesterday he ate well - was:

B: small silver dollar pancake, some grapes and cantaloupe, few cheerios
L: most of a one-egg omelet with spinach and cheese, most of a piece raisin toast with cream cheese
S: one sugar cookie (at furniture store), some veggie chips and 1/3 a banana
D: half a piece takeout pizza, applesauce

DS LOVES cookies. He's the true cookie monster! Other desserts (cake, ice cream) not so much but COOKIES!!!

[squeakersmum]

It's so bizarre - I've had to pretty much cut snacks right down here because he's been completely refusing lunch or dinner otherwise.  I have heard other people talk about a massive appetite decrease between 18 mths and 2 yrs so I'm not too concerned - just hope it doesn't lead to really fussy eating

B - ready brek, few strawberries, few grapes
S - humzinger
L - few bites of chicken, cream cheese and marmite sandwich, just over 1/3 apple, mini flapjack
S - few cheese puffs, 2 segments of clementine
D - (which he wolfed down) sticky salmon, mashed potatoes, peas and apple cake with custard

[<Catherine>]

Today:-

B - Cornflakes
S - Not sure, with my sister
L - Lasagne, yogurt
S - A whole pear - never seen this happen before!
D - Refused cottage pie, ate a yogurt (but not very happy about it!), 12 a cherry bakewell, 1/2 a banana.

No idea what the dinner refusal was all about!

[<Catherine>]

Oh, and that was '1/2 a cherry bakewell', not 12, as that would be a little excessive (even for a cake monster like me!!)

[twogirlsmommy]

Today:

Breakfast:
Cheerios, blueberry pancakes, pear chunks

Lunch: Cheese chunks, broccoli pancake, mix veggies (not thrilled) apples sauce and some strawberries

Snack: grapes, blueberries and yogurt

Dinner: Grilled cheese, the rest of the grapes and blueberries from snack, a handful of french fries (a first!), a scoop of vanilla ice cream


We were out for dinner so it was a treat for her.  We also learned that she can use a spoon semi independently (we loaded the spoon. she put it in her mouth and then handed it back when empty

[Mom to M&M]

DS still fighting this tummy bug and/or teething. Today was:

B: small piece challah french toast
L1 (mini lunch): 1/4 banana, some cantaloupe chunks, couple arrowroot cookies
L2 (mini lunch after nap): yogurt, few goldfish crackers
D: tiny portion slow cooked mediterranean chicken, couple sweet potato fries, bit of applesauce

[marilyn73]

B - oatmeal with blueberries - but today decided that rather than be a baby bird and let me neatly spoon the cereal in, had to pick out the blueberries and feed them by hand
L - home made soup, toast with PB, yogurt, cheese chunks.
S - banana, home-made muffin
D - 1/4 hamburger (usually eats almost the whole thing), 1 green bean, 1 potato chunk, 1 cherry. Tried a frozen tube of yoplait yogurt, but was more interested in melting a chunk off and applying it to arms like sunscreen.  And then to the head like shampoo (never has done this with food!)

p.s. used to give a morning snack, but cut it out months ago due to lack of interest in lunch.  Def needs the afternoon snack to make it to our 6pm dinner, and even that's a challenge sometimes.