toddler friendly dinner suggestions

livalil319

DS is super selective about his food and I am running out of ideas! What are some of your lo's faves?

purplepuggles

pasta with meat sauce, sausage, mac & cheese, meatballs, sweet potato fries, any meat mixed with BBQ sauce, hotdogs (yeah...i know ), tacos, quesadillas, beans (baked beans, black beans with salsa, etc)

 if all else fails, i always have yogurt available if he absolutely refuses to eat what i have available. i usually make him dinner and if he throws it/refuses to eat he can have one of the yobaby yogurts with veggies and fruits mixed in or greek yogurt with fruit. 75% of the time he is fine, but we always have yogurt as a back up :-)

helovesducatis

My DD is super picky as well, but it is getting better as we hold our ground.  One of our go-to foods is salmon.  DH bbq's it in some foil and she LOVES it.  Also, grilled chicken.  Her new thing is dips.  She won't touch the salmon or chicken unless we give her something to dip it in, which we use ketchup  and hummus.

welshgirl

Scrambled eggs, grilled cheese, and pasta with either tomato or cheesy sauce. Or, any type of minced meat cooked with potatoes, low-sodium gravy-type sauce and veg. He's a meat lover, my boy.

PDX

black beans and rice, basically any type of starch/meat, kiwi, morning star chicken burgers or boca burgers, asparagus. Oh, and if all else fails, he'll always drink a smoothie (ours are just frozen fruit and a tiny bit of pure grape juice w/ added calcium). He eats loooots of beans... in chili, red beans, black beans, etc, w/ meat, vegan, in a veggie rice salad, any way really

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Safe bets when DD is being fussy:

- Mini raviolis or tortolinis plain or with sauce

- Chickpeas cooked with nostick until they get a bit crusty on the outside and easy to pick up.  We serve with rice or potatoes or cooked veggies like zucchini

- Black beans, even right from the can (rinsed and drained).  We will offer with cooked carrots and rice and she will down all of it.

- Corn on the cob.  We give her the whole cob and she goes to TOWN

- Broccoli (just the "tree" part) with cheese melted on it

- Cottage cheese with crushed pineapple mixed in it

- Crisp fresh green beans steamed.  Frozen doesn't cut it for DD, but the steamed fresh ones she loves and chomps on them and holds them in her mouth like a cigar and sucks out the little bean part.