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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
utgirl2
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Please list your meal ideas for toddlers.
utgirl2
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I am running out of ideas. Lately he has been such a picky eater too. Please list some of your meals you give to your DC. Thanks
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Re: Please list your meal ideas for toddlers.
Two posts that I have bookmarked and find so helpful:
Poll: your 3 best meal ideas for toddlers
Lunch/dinner ideas for 13 (almost 14) month old (the first response to this post is amazing!)
Mama Jan's Kitchen... a food blog
Zachary has food allergies, so we're cooking dairy-free and peanut-free. Also, he does not like beef, so we eat a lot of chicken and fish around here.
I hope this gives you some ideas!
I also do this and DS loves it. I often add spices (pepper, garlic poweder, oregano, basil, etc.) to the bread crumbs.
Mama Jan's Kitchen... a food blog
DS eats what we eat, about 95% of the time. he is usually NEVER offered anything else. If he has had a low eating day, we will offer him a PB sandwich as an alternative.
breakfast is always the same. any flavor oatmeal and banana. sometimes he gets a scrambled egg in stead of oatmeal.
lunch- left overs from dinner, grilled cheese, PB sandwich
Veggies DS loves are, butternut squash- mashed like mashed potatoes with cinnamon, nutmeg and a touch of brown sugar. acorn squash, cubed with butter. sweet potato with cinnamon and nutmeg. peas. yams with cinamon and nutmeg.
https://fingerfoods.wetpaint.com/
these were INCREDIBLE ideas i saved this as well.
We always go by the "3 things on a plate" rule. So with her main dish she always gets a veg, a fruit or cheese. ?Here are my main dishes:
Chicken - nuggets or grilled
Grilled cheese
Turkey meatballs - so easy to make a big batch of these (oven baked, not fried) and freeze them
Pork, beef, veal mix meatballs
Pasta - mac n cheese, noodles with butter
Morning Star veggie (chicken) nuggets
Morning Star spinach-artichoke nuggets?
Cheese & crackers
Gerber toddler meals if I'm out of time & need to buy groceries?
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I'm going to list entrees below, but keep in mind that the girls get fruit with all three meals and veggies with lunch and dinner. They also get cheese with lunch/dinner if there is no cheese in the meal itself.
Breakfast:
Cereal
Oatmeal
Scrambled eggs
Pancakes
Waffles
Baked french toast
Lunch/dinner:
Grilled cheese
Pasta w/ ricotta and melted cheese
Pasta w/ spaghetti sauce
Cheese quesadillas
Pizza quesadillas
Omelets
Gardenburger (often served alongside something else)
Morningstar veggie bites (often served alongside something else)
Breakfast for lunch/dinner (pancakes, scrambled eggs, and Morningstart sausage patties)
Soup w/ the broth drained off
Hummus and pita
Veggie chicken nuggets (often served alongside something else)
Peanut butter and honey open-faced sandwich
Vegetarian chili made extra chunky w/ lots of beans and Morningstar crumbles
Curried lentils
They have also had various ethnic foods like gyros, Indian, Chinese, Thai, etc. when we go out to eat. The only reason that they don't eat what we eat more often is that they aren't eating meat until they are two and most of the foods we make are meat-y. Plus, they eat dinner too early for our dinners to be done by the time they are ready to eat... and there are rarely leftovers with three big kids lol.
sfl
My Sweet Girls
Gah, that one post lists all the Morningstar stuff. It's really not great stuff for toddlers to eat on a frequent basis. It's vegetarian junk food, check out the ingredients (especially all the soy protein isolate and concentrate and sodium). Dr Praeger's is a great brand for healthy vegetarian/meat alternative foods.
My son loves lentil dal, split pea stew, beans and rice, vegetable stew, hummus on whole grain toast, etc. Not anything original, but he also loves cheese pizza, grilled cheese, macaroni and cheese (Annie's or I make it myself), eggs, chunks of baked potato, etc. Plus veggies and fruit. I sure wish I could get him to eat peas though.
Yes, at the end of her post she talks about things she keeps in the freezer. But 2/3 of her post are great ideas for making meals for a toddler.
Mama Jan's Kitchen... a food blog
sfl
I have a bag of frozen cheese tortellini that is my fall back meal for G. I microwave a few in a small bowl of water along with a handful of Pictsweet brand frozen mixed veggies and he has a pretty healthy meal in 2-3 minutes.