What has your toddler eaten today?

This is actually a recipe for 9-12 month olds so for a toddler might only split to 4-6 servings. This is currently the only way I manage to get red meat into my DS.

BABY BOLOGNESE

150G lean beef mince
1 small onion, peeled and finely chopped
75g button mushrooms, wiped and sliced
200g carrot, peeled and diced
150g zucchini, diced
large pinch dried marjoram
oil for frying
600ml salt reduced chicken stock
2 teaspoon tomato paste (optional)

Fry the meat and onion in a saucepan with a tablespoon of oil till browned.

Add the veggies and stirfy for a couple of minutes.

Add the marjoram and stock, cover and bring to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally, until beef and veggies are tender.

If using tomato paste, mix in towards the end as sauce is reaching the desired consistency.

Suitable for freezing.

DH always scoffs the leftovers of this one!

Jack has never eaten fruit wont touch a banana or watermelon grapes etc, but I found he will drink those rafferty's fruit puree's for babies they come in a pouch with a little screw top lid in baby food section, he will drink one of those like its juice and the great thing is its 100% juice nothing else, so if I can get one of those in him every day or 2 then I feel a little bit better about his aversion to fruit

Rach - have you seen the fruit pole things in the health food section? DS loves them - seriously - he is addicted.. and its not too bad - real fruit and stuff.

He's had more to eat from my last entry - I can't believe it.
lunch - 1/4 vegemite sandwich and a stick of cheese
some rice crackers
some watermelon
a malt o milk biscuit
and he's just had dinner - a bowl of fried rice that I cooked up (sucked in DS - you just ate bacon.. bwahahahahaha)

DS, 11.5 months has so far today eaten...

Bowl Cornflakes
Banana
1 x Vegemite Toast
Blueberry Fruit Bar (like the k-time bars)
Little bowl of spinach and ricotta tortellini with pumpkin and basil sauce
Tub of passionfruit yoghurt
2 thin slices watermelon, rockmelon, orange (i have it all precut in sandwich bags)
Handful of Wiggles letters/numbers biscuits

Dinner is still to come but no doubt he will have
2 stalks broccoli, 2 zucchini sticks, Few butter beans
to accompany a bowl of pasta carbonara.

Oh, and he has 3 x Bottles per day, plus generally manages to drink about 500ml of water.
We are on cows milk already and I'd say he drinks about 125ml of his bottles (im still making 200 though, JIC ;))


But, DS is a piggy. He would probably eat lots more but I am careful not to eat in front of him because it's already like he is stuffing his face 24/7

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Rach - have you seen the fruit pole things in the health food section? DS loves them - seriously - he is addicted.. and its not too bad - real fruit and stuff.

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yeah he doesn't like icy poles :lol: go figure he is strange, he will have like a inch of one and thats it...

Wow - Some people have great eaters. What an great thread.

ZWell this is what Master J has had today.

1 Weetbix with 1/2 a banana and sultanas
I cheese andChicken loaf sadwich on Rye bread
Small tub of yoghurt
Small cup of about 10 grapes
A dairy free smoothie with 1/2 a mango, splash of orange juice, and a few strawberries and a scoop of mango sorbet. (oh and laced with a multivitamin)
1/2 a cinimon donut

Dinner to come. Will be serving veggie mash with sausage, but I doubt he will eat it. Won't have a bar of veggies. I am going to try and hide them with a bit of gravy.

Ok success with dinner.

J ate mashed vegetables and half a sausage hidden amongst gravy. Had to spoon feed him (as usual for dinner) but hey got it in to him!
1 Pear
another donut


Nelle - dairy free ice cream - Try sorbet's

rach, yer jay wont eat much fruit either, i buy tinned peaches/pears/apricots, and he will eat them but thats about it, not as good as fresh but hey its better than nothing :p

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Jack has never eaten fruit wont touch a banana or watermelon grapes etc, but I found he will drink those rafferty's fruit puree's for babies they come in a pouch with a little screw top lid in baby food section, he will drink one of those like its juice and the great thing is its 100% juice nothing else, so if I can get one of those in him every day or 2 then I feel a little bit better about his aversion to fruit

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*grabs car keys and races off to supermarket to check it out*

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yeah he doesn't like icy poles :lol: go figure he is strange, he will have like a inch of one and thats it...

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Its not an icy pole - its shaped like a long thin string thing and its called fruit poles - just mushed up fruit together - apparently they are really nice - so DH tells me!!!

We also do the fruit smash sachets here too...

Yeah, those Raffety's purees are great. We call them squeezies and DD loves them because she can kick back and suck on it kind of like a bottle. And no additives! Only fruit and veg - gotta be happy with that!

oh ok Mel will have a look next time we are near a decent supermarket closest woolworths is 64kms away LOL

jess he used to eat tinned fruit but now nup....

Rach - if you can't find any - let me know and I'll pick you up some when I go shopping next and whack them in the post for ya.

goign to rocky (200kms away) tomorrow so shall have a looksie thanks anyway

considering he is getting over gastro. some toast with vegemite,some hot cross bun. for lunch he has nutella sandwhichs.

Well today I was a little naughty and went to macca's for lunch.
So today, J has had

1 weetbix with 1/2 banana
handful of grapes
A couple of strawberries
3 chicken nuggets
A few of my chips
Bag of apples

Any advice on how to get him to eat more veggies?

meg have you tired the vegie fingers similair to fish fingers but mad eof vegies, or you could make you own shape them liek chicken nuggets, will hea eat pancake perhaps make vegie pancake/fritters

HTH

Yeah I have tried the veggie nuggets. When he realises there are peas in there he won't eat it!
Pancakes are a good idea though.
He also loves salmon patties so I chock them full of vegetables.

Thanks for the advice

Meg - I have a super fussy son so I am fast becoming the queen of hidden vegetables. I made up a big batch of every vegie imaginable, cook it in stock then puree it and freeze in ice cube trays in the freezer. This gets added to everything - mashed potato, casserole etc. He actually loves it by itself. The other night we had chicken parma's for tea but instead of the tomato stuff on DS's, I used the vegie puree and he scoffed it. I make up chicken rissoles and put lots of vegies in - same as the salmon patties. I also make muffins and put grated carrot and zucchini in them. DS will also eat vegies if they have been crumbed - like crumbed carrot sticks - but I don't do this often. There is a book around called "Deceptively Delicious" about making healthy food that they won't even realise has good stuff in it!