What did your toddler eat today?

[MrsKirky]

Thank you Mom 2 2!

[mom-2-3]

NP, I'm a huge foodie at heart!

[Marisa's Mom]

Marisa's Mom - I am dying to hear the story behind the dinner for breakfast thing - DS eats dinner for breakfast, too, because Daddy does it!  LOL...Not every day, but quite frequently.  I have been embarassed to admit that to many people - I guess I just outed us to the rest of the world! 

DH got into the habit of eating leftover dinner for breakfast all those years he was single...never lost the habit.

I've been so busy that I haven't visited this site in a while, and I only just noticed this. Um, why is my reply window so small? Didn't we used to have a bigger window to type up our reply? How do I get the larger window?

Anyways, there was a time when DD was very fussy during dinnertime (well, she still can be), and it was hard to get her to eat her dinner foods at dinnertime. So we decided to throw her a curve ball by giving her dinner foods at breakfast time ... cuz she's usually in the best mood in the morring. Her mood is usually best in the morning, and gradually deteriorates throughout the day. So we thought, why not get the "hardest" meal out of the way and feed her the "easy" foods at the end of the day?  She was more receptive to eating dinner foods in the morning with her banana (every other bite, alternating; plus DH feeds her breakfast, and she's always easier on him than she is on me). And it was easier on us to give her "easy" foods near the end of the day. So we would sometimes give her a waffle at dinner. I know, it just plain sounds weird. Since her dinner mix (eaten at breakfast) always includes veggies, it was nice to know that we usually got in one good serving of veggies for the day right off the bat, and then we didn't have to stress as much about squeezing veggies in during the rest of the day. It's like I don't have to try as hard to get veggies in again later in the day. Hey, the system works and we don't want to mess with it now. lol. She still tends to be fussy late in the day, but she's definitely happier eating her "easy" and more desirable foods at that time despite her mood.

I'm sure there was something else I wanted to mention, but I'm tired and my brain feels like mush. I'm not too concerned with DD being confused over what's dinner and what's breakfast, she'll get it all sorted out as she grows up.

I can tel you what she ate yesterday:

Breakfast: beef stew with veggies; banana
Lunch: Noodles with carrots, zuchini, & turkey; strawberries
Snack: Caifornia roll; rice cake; kix cereal
Dinner: Cheese; avocado

The day before that she had:

Breakfast: beef stew with veggies; banana
Lunch: scrambled egg with carrots & zucchini; cracker
Snack: fries
Dinner: Yams; avocado; white peach

[MrsKirky]

Actually, Marisa'a Mom, that doesn't sound strange at all!  It sounds like a very clever way to get your daughter to eat a variety of foods. 

[Critter]

I like this thread...
Here's what Luke had today....

Breakfast:  Scrambled egg and toast
Snack:  Applesauce and Goldfish
Lunch:  Loads of saltine crackers and cheese quesadillas
Dinner:  Two pieces of lunchmeat (roasted chicken) sweet potatoes and yogurt

Yesterday he had
Breakfast:  Nutragrain Bar and Banana
Snack:  Nilla Wafers
Lunch:  Green Beans, Gerber meatsticks, applesauce and yogurt
Snack:  Goldfish
Dinner:  repeat lunch minus the yogurt

[lisi's mum]

Remember me? I was posting on here just a couple days ago about a food strike. I'm so chuffed about how things are going I thought I'd tell you all what dd's been eating

Yesterday

Breakfast: porridge with a pear and dried fruit, a finger of rye bread
snack: a rice cake
Lunch: mashed potato (not popular) with carrot and kohlrabi and a whole pot  of yogurt
snack: piece of schuttlebrot - strange dried bread crunchy stuff, but very good, honest!
Dinner: minestrone with wholegrain pasta, rice pudding with pear made up with almond milk, half a banana

Today so far:
Breakfast: porridge with apple, cinamon and dried fruit
Lunch: vegetable brown rice risotto with ham, yogurt with stewed prunes, half a banana and a few crackers

this is chalk and cheese to last week, I wonder what happened!

[katriona]

congrats katie! sounds as if lisi's found her appetite! 

[mari]

mashed potato (not popular)

Mashed potato is boring for us too, I think it could be the colour, they don't like anything white, ie cauliflower, white cabbage, so I mashed the potato with either sweet potato or swede and it goes down a treat.  ( I tried sweet potato on it's own but they don't like that, but mixed with normal potato and they enjoy it)

[*Natasha*]

Yesterday DD had:

Breakfast: 9ozs milk then 1/4cup oats mixed with milk and a slice of toast with vegemite on it.
Morning snack: Muesli bar and handful of saltanas and water
Lunch: Peanut butter and honey sandwich and a 120g tub of yoghurt and water
Afternoon tea: fruit stick and some more saltanas and water
Dinner: 7ozs milk then a HUGE bowl of beef cassarole with zucchini,eggplant,mushroom and tomatoes mixed with pasta (homemade). Then a slice of fruit cake.

[Critter]

Any ideas on what to give a poor boy who is cutting 4 eye teeth and 3 molars all at once? 

All he seems to want is nutragrain bars, bananas, peanut butter sandwiches and peanut butter crackers, yogurt and applesauce

[Caroline-Charlies Mummy]

Oooo, I've never joined in here before, so here goes:

On waking: 200ml growing-up milk
Breakfast: Bowl of porridge w/milled flax seeds mixed in & cup of smoothie (poured most of it on his tray though )
Mid-morning: 150ml rice milk
Lunch: Small tin sardines in tomato sauce on wholewheat toast / carrot sticks (refused) / one fruitpot (Organix brand pureed fruit)
Mid-afternoon: 150ml rice milk
Dinner: Homemade spagetti sauce left-over from our meal last night (lots of veggies hidden inside ) w/wholeweat pasta shapes / 1 peach / 1 pot soy yoghurt
Before bath: 150ml rice milk
Bedtime: 200ml growing up milk

He has a sippy cup of pure apple juice (diluted) to hand all day, too

[MrsKirky]

Since I was in ACLS class yesterday, Aidan had an interesting day:

Nutrigrain bar and banana for breakfast with milk (Daddy breakfast)

Cheese sticks and crackers for lunch with water (Daddy Lunch)

steamed potatoes and a bit of sausage (ate about 2 bites of each - wouldn't touch the cabbage) and milk.

Banana and popcorn.

Water throughout the day.

He was boycotting veggies yesterday again.  What are you going to do?  I wasn't home until after his nap to sneak the veggies into his meals.

The "safer feeder" with frozen or really cold fruit (or an ice cube) really saved us when he was teething.  He would just worry it away with his teeth.  He also like the vibrating teethers, but didn't care for the frozen washcloths.

[katriona]

well, today was a good food day for us.

b/f upon wake up
breakfast: 1 weetabix with whole milk and a tub of prunes; slice of wholewheat toast with butter and scraping of marmite; nubbins of banana; few gerber fruit puffs; about 2oz of whole milk from sippy
snack: half a banana; 1 arrowroot cookie; water
lunch: slice of wholewheat toast, baked beans with melted cheese and a few pieces of cut up hotdog; 2oz of oatmeal with pears and cinnamon; 1/2 a pear; few gerber fruit puffs; about 2oz of whole milk from sippy
b/f after nap
snack: half a banana; pieces of ritz crackers with avocado; some whole milk
dinner: leftover beef stew mashed up with sweet potato; handful of frozen peas; 2oz of yoghurt with 2oz of oatmeal with pears and cinnamon; half a pear; few gerber fruit puffs; about 3oz of whole milk from sippy; some water
b/f before bed

[lisi's mum]

5.30 am  8oz milk
breakfast: oatmeal with pear, bread and butter, piece of apple

lunch: spinach ricotta tortellini with butter and parmesan, chunks of tomato and cucumber, bit of yogurt, clementine, couple crackers

snack: 6oz milk and a couple baby cookies

dinner: mixed veggies with polenta and cheese, zwieback (dried bread), umm, I think that's it.

before bed 6 oz milk

[BabyBsMommy]

Can DS be considered a toddler at almost 11 months?  He eats like one, lol!

Today...
6 oz bottle at waking (just got weaned to 4 bottles from bfing so I haven't cut to 3 yet)
B - raspberry/oatmeal/yogurt cereal, half a baby yogurt, handful of cheerios, bites of pear, banana and cantaloupe.
snack around 11:45 after swimming - handful of gerber puffs and 5oz bottle
L - about 1/2 cup of pasta casserole made of ww pasta, green/red peppers, onions, mushrooms and lean ground beef in white cheddar sauce (leftover from our dinner last night), 1 cube of squash, more bites of melon and pear
5 oz bottle before pm nap at 2:25
Snack - 1 gerber wagon wheel and half a breton low salt ww cracker
D - same as lunch but with a cube of broccoli instead of squash
6 oz bottle at bedtime