Do you give your toddler sandwiches for lunch?

[maz]

I have a 17 month old and feel terribly guilty whenever I give him a sandwich for lunch. I feel like he is missing out on nutrients by not having a cooked lunch of pasta and veges or something along those lines. How do you squeeze in all their nutritional requirements for the day when they have a sandwich for lunch?

hmm I give both my toddler and my 8 month old sandwich's for lunch...they have wholemeal bread, cheese, lettuce, tomatoe, avocado cucumber..what ever is fresh.

i usually make them one sandwich to share then they have a banana or some other fruit along side with it.

Why dont you keep some tea from the night before and warm that up for his lunch the next day if youd rather.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

I've had a thought recently (blows fanfare):

EVERY DAY at nursery DS has sandwiches with white bread for his tea. He has a cooked meal at lunch, but his 4pm tea is juice, ham/cheese sandwiches (he has 6-8 quarters usually and demands more if he can), strips of fruit/veg (eg cucumber, carrots) and some tomatoes, followed off by a jam tart or an apple pie... the sort you get from the supermarket in a box.

He has this in balance with a breakfast of weetabix and toast, fruity snacks in the morning, big cooked lunch... he's healthy. (I cook a dinner every night at 6 too for him.)

He also refuses fast food, we had to do a motorway dinner at the weekend and he wouldn't eat a thing, so his dinner was ricecakes, sultanas, grapes, apple and apricot (after a lunch of tuna and sweetcorn sandwich and toddler biscuits - out and about far from home day). I made everyone else change his nappies the following day! Too much fruit and veg is toxic.

If your diet is fairly healthy you can miss a day of perfect food. If you get only four fruit-and-veg a day, that's better than none or one most days and a big cram-it-in of ten once a week. Just don't ignore the good food when it's available.