Poll: What is your toddler eating?

adamsbabble · January 2009

Some of Ava's favorites--applesauce, any cut up fruit, yogurt, string cheese, graham crackers, turkey burgers, sweet potato fries--are what I consider typical toddler foods, but other than that she'll turn her nose up. She doesn't like beef, chicken tenders are a hit or miss, anything too bland is a no go. It seems that my picky eater just isn't into what I thought a toddler should want to eat. Some of her favorites include:

steamed broccoli (by far her favorite veggie)

cherry tomatoes

spaghetti squash

sauerkraut

hummus

cajun tilapia

split pea soup

black bean soup

annie's mac & cheese with veggies mixed in (not weird but it is our safe go to meal for her)

I never would have started her out on any of these foods, but thankfully we have turned a corner and I can now say that she is a pretty good eater. It was a challenge for sure. What are some of your DC's favorites, especially if it isn't typical toddler food?

little-peanut · January 2009

Everything but veggies. LOL.

IAM4UK · January 2009

Here are Katie's favorites that are weird:

Black Beans with Mexican Rice
Skyline- she is a human garbage disposal with that stuff
Gingered Flank Steak with Fried Rice
Eggplant Parmesan
Montgomery Inn Ribs

She does do the typical foods as well, mac n cheese, chicken nuggets, sweet potato fries, cut up fruit, cheese, steamed veggies, grilled cheese, chicken and stars, etc. She prefers her food with a lot of flavor as well. We are very tempted to see if she enjoys spicy food, but I don't want to do that to her just yet. I think I am going to give her some blackened salmon this weeked to see if she likes it. Should be interesting.

JLPT830 · January 2009

what about tortellini or ravioli with sauce?

I haven't tried to give any to DS yet, but I just made meatball soup....homemade meatballs(you could use any kind of ground meat) that I simmered in beef stock (could use chicken or veggie) with some carrots. I will also add alphabet noodles.

steamed cauliflower

beans and rice

curlypie1 · January 2009

Nora has to have some spice in her food too or she won't eat it.

Her favs are:

Polenta with tomato sauce and parmesean

Cous cous with onion and sundried tomatoes

Progresso Vegetable Soup - she won't touch most veggies but eats everything in the soup

Spaghetti with any kind of sauce

Tacos with shredded beef

Stuffed chicken breasts with goat cheese and olives

Any kind of beef steak or roast - she eats way more than me when we have this

Baked potato with sour cream

Any type of curry....lentil, chicken, spinach

Hummus (this is her go-to food if all else fails)

...and she'd eat a whole jar of pickles if I let her

vbmeg · January 2009

Really she will eat anything that we eat. She does love her veggies. Her favorites are broccoli (or cocky as she calls it) and peas.She does love seafood which grosses me out but DH loves sharing with her. Some of the out of the ordinary food that she eats is tacos (beef or chicken), skyline, olives, and chili (especially the beans). So far we are lucky and she isn't too picky.

adamsbabble · January 2009

IAM4UK- I bet Katie would love spicy food! I have a couple different white chili recipes and used one of the blander ones (just one can of green chiles in it, some beans, broth and white chili seasoning in it) the other day to let Ava try and she loved it. I posted the recipe in MandaK's white death recipe poll the other day. I think it was a good starter spicy food.

MelissaMc22 · January 2009

You have a good list going....

Here are a few I've tried that Jackson likes- some that surprised me!

~Jambalya

~Potato Peirogies (I saute mine on the stove)

~Quesadilla- I make these with just about anything. Chicken a nd Cheese, Turkey and Cheese, Beans and rice, he loves them on the George Forman with "dip" (any kind of sauce)

~ Taco Salad (DH made it tonite and he gobbled it up!)

~Beans and Rice

~Steamed Asparagus with Olive Oil and Garlic Salt, soo yummy!

~Tuna Salad

~Cranberries, Canned Light Pears, Any fruit

sistrkate · January 2009

I'm curious how you guys let your kids eat this stuff.......do you feed them, put it on the highchair tray, or give them their own utensils?

Justin has gotten really picky on us lately and we are having lots of trouble figuring out stuff that he will eat. I've been giving him his own silverware to use but that doesn't solve anything.....if I just put it on the tray he throws it, or if I give him a container with food in it, he dumps it on the tray and just paints with it.

I don't know how to solve this!

adamsbabble · January 2009

Katie,

Depends on the food- she's uses her fingers and/or her utensils (and does pretty well though it did take some time) with some things, and some things I still opt to feed her myself, or at least help with the feeding. She's independent and pitches a major fit about this. On days that I am a patient mommy up for teaching her, I will give her a spoon for each hand so she can help, but on days that her attitude is less than becoming, I just set the food down on the kitchen table where she can see it but not reach it, walk away and let her have her fit. When she stops, I'll come back and she'll let me feed her. She gets the point. I'll also take food away if she's throwing it, which when I worked in preschools was a HUGE no no, but I do it with my own kid anyway... hope I'm not doing too much damage.

alisonada · January 2009

Piper's tried tons of stuff and it's anybody's guess what she'll like at any given moment. The only things she consistently eats are cheese pizza, gerber graduates chicken ravioli, and peas, so nothing exotic there. Oh, and she loves her "shake" (Kroger version of Boost).

Zoogy · January 2009

Mya is a pretty picky eater. She doesn't eat a ton of veggies but does love corn and also loves veggie soup or chicken soup with veggies in it. She goes for pizza or pasta anytime, chicken and rice, quesadillas with cheese, yogart and yogart shakes, string cheese, pancakes, bagefuls, eggs, The thing she loves most is fruit. She eats about any fruit so we always have a variety of the fruit in the house.

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