Community› The Bump Local Boards› South Florida Babies
South Florida Babies
New Discussion

What do you feed your 2-year-old/toddler?

MrsTweetybrideMrsTweetybride
in South Florida Babies

Yea, so L is two weeks shy of the 2 yo mark, but I'm curious what others are feeding their toddlers? And how much milk are you giving them?

L takes about 18 oz of milk a day in the morning before breakfast and at night after dinner (yea yea, I know, but he refuses milk out of anything except a bottle and I don't want him to stop drinking milk even though he eats other dairy and he doesn't walk around w/a bottle just drinks it and is done with it, so pls no comments on that), but in addition to that he eats regular meals with us. He typically eats what we eat and doesn't eat baby food anymore unless we're somewhere we can't get him food (I take "emergency" baby food with me but less and less).

Breakfast
1 waffle with butter or syrup
1/2 banana or 1/2 cup grapes
1 yogurt (yo-baby fruit + cereal)
some OJ (prob around 2-3 oz)

Lunch
A carb (rice, pasta)
Protein (chicken, meat, beans)
Veggies (green peas, carrots, mixed veggies)
Fruit (banana or grapes)
Water (or if no juice for breakfast, juice for lunch or dinner)

Dinner
Same as lunch. These are usually the same thing we eat. I.e. today's menu was Arroz con Pollo.

Snacks
If we're out, we try to go by Starbucks for their yogurt parfaits - he LOVES those, esp the Dark Cherry one. lol. If we're home, snacks usually consist of fruit and/or crackers, cheese, or cookies.

He's had mac n cheese, spaghetti and meat w/sauce, taco, empanadas, lasagna, picadillo w/rice, sweet potato w/marshmallows, bagels w/cream cheese, a little peanut butter, and basically anything else we're eating. I also have some frozen kid meals for emergencies. Oh yea, and he'll eat pizza or chicken nuggets sometimes if we eat out or it's a party.

SO, what's your kid eating? I'm curious about offering other alternatives.

Report Reply to Post

Re: What do you feed your 2-year-old/toddler?

  • ANJ410ANJ410

    Nicky's meals look something like this:

    Breakfast:

    -9 oz. cup of milk

    -a fruit and cereal bar / mini pancakes /a bowl of cheerios /mini waffles

    -cut up fresh fruit or a 1/2 cup of OJ

    -daily vitamin

     

    Lunch:

    -1/2 sandwich of cold cuts and cheese/a mini cheeseburger / bagel bites / 1/2 grilled cheese sandwich / a bowl of macaroni and cheese / chicken nuggets

    -chocolate pudding cup, a Gogurt, a fruit cup, or a few cookies.

    -a cup of watered down juice since straight juice give him diarrhea

     

    Afternoon Snack: 

    -a juice box or yogurt smoothie

    -pretzels/ cheese cubes /goldfish crackers / cut up fruit or a Dole fruit cup / animal crackers

     

    Dinner: If we are eating something he can eat, I offer it to him, otherwise he gets:

    -9 oz cup of milk

    -chicken nuggets, fish tenders, hot dog, or grilled chicken strips with a side of pasta, tater tots, french fries baked in the oven, or sweet potato fries also baked in the oven.

    Before Bedtime: usually another 4.5 oz of milk and sometimes a cookie.

     

    Nicholas will not eat a single vegetable so I try to get two good sized servings of fruit into him every day.

     

     

    Report Reply
  • Loading the player...
  • taxbridetaxbride
    Like your son, Cedric eats what we eat.  Lots of rice and beans.  He likes steak, which we cut up since it is hard to just eat that without cutting it.  He really likes fish, especially breaded.  Costco sells a nice breaded tilapia frozen, and we use that a lot.  He eats chicken wings with us (we are careful to watch him as he eats them b/c the bones are small).  He eats peanut butter sandwiches.  He had a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch with me today (on whole grain bread, also from Costco).  Lots of fruit snacks--apples, sliced, grapes, mango, pear, oranges, etc.  Goldfish crackers are always welcome.  He loves cheese, but I have no use for yogurt (too messy for me).  I sometimes get frozen veggies and microwave them for us and for him, and he especially likes the ones with some sort of flavor or sauce).  He loves broccoli.  French fries are always a hit, whether homemade or bought.  He loves ketchup on rice or on fish or on its own.  For breakfast he usually has cereal with milk, like me, either Honey Nut Cheerios or, lately, Nature's Path Flax Plus Pumpkin Raisin Crunch (also from Costco).   If Ofer makes bunuelos or pan de bono, then that's breakfast (usually with chocolate milk or jugo de lulo or jugo de mora).  He drinks hot chocolate and sometimes Ofer's (decaf) coffee (that one surprised us, but he loves it).  He drinks chocolate milk almost every day.  I drink a lot of water, which encourages him to drink water, since he always wants what we're drinking (hence the coffee).
    Report Reply
  • taxbridetaxbride
    He also drinks agua panela fria con limon, which Ofer makes a lot.  We don't tend to buy juice, but we often have this or regular lemonade in the house, so he drinks that, too.
    Report Reply
  • shoe-kitty1109shoe-kitty1109

    imagetaxbride:
    He loves cheese, but I have no use for yogurt (too messy for me). 
     

    Funny lady!

     

    I wish I could help you, but H is a terrible and unpredictable eater.  Every meal is a battle, but she loves sweets.  We've yet to figure out how to win the nutrition wars.....

    Report Reply
  • FSUSammyFSUSammy

    Mikey eats just about anything I give him. Except for veggies. The kid does not like veggies at all, except for the fun ones like corn on the cob.

    Here are things he'll eat...

    Breakfast - Pancakes, Muffin Tops, Oatmeal, Toast, Eggs, Cereal

    Lunch - Get's school lunch which is a variety of foods

    Snacks - Nutrigrain Bar, yogurt, cheese sticks, cheese blocks, fruit, applesauce

    Dinner - Whatever we eat for dinner

    Report Reply
This discussion has been closed.
Choose Another Board
Search Boards
"
"