Food Shopping For 22 month old

74jax

My daughter has always eaten whatever i'm eating, just mashed down.

I've never been one for making two meals. From a very very early age she had chillies, garlic etc as these are what I love and have in practically every meal. I didn't make two batches ie one without chillies for her.

I have to say, now she's 11 she eats practically everything and anything. She loves hot spicy foods and stays away from plain foods.

She's a dream on holidays as she'll try anything and if she's hungry will eat anything going. SHe is defo NOT a fussy eater and I sware it stems from bringing her up to eat what I have, if she didn't eat it, she didn't get anything else. (Unless of course she genuinly didn't like something - although I'm trying to think sof something......)

M_A_R_I_E

Our 16 month old eats the same as the rest of the family. Roast dinners, pasta, sandwiches, cottage pie, Salad, beans on toast, etc.
There should be no need to buy or even cook seperate 'special' meals. The sooner they are used to doing this the less fussy they will be. Both my children have always had 'our' food - mashed in the beginning, then small chunks and now she just have it cut up as you would expect for a toddler.

neneromanova

My DD will only eat Fish fingers, cocktail sausage, waffles, smilie faces, spaghetti bolognese, spaghetti strands and hash browns. She's a very fussy little so and so so we just make sure she eats for the time being. We're trying to branch out with things but she's VERY stubborn and I hate her going hungry as she's thin. She loves banana, and apparently eats crackers and jam at nursery. I'm planning on letting her have lunch at nursery soon so she see's the other children eating so she knows she must too.

freyasmum

onlyroz wrote: »

My 15 month old eats what I eat.

Mine is 3 1/2 now and she always ate what we did. I remember her grandad being astounded that I was feeding a 10 month old braised steak and onions!

She'll eat anything from curry to omelettes to steak and she adores lamb chops - she eats the little cutlets like lollipops :rotfl:

Breakfast is porridge/scrambled eggs and toast/yoghurt and fruit.

So basically, whatever you're eating. We eat at the same time, btw

neneromanova

freyasmum wrote: »

Mine is 3 1/2 now and she always ate what we did. I remember her grandad being astounded that I was feeding a 10 month old braised steak and onions!

She'll eat anything from curry to omelettes to steak and she adores lamb chops - she eats the little cutlets like lollipops :rotfl:

Breakfast is porridge/scrambled eggs and toast/yoghurt and fruit.

So basically, whatever you're eating. We eat at the same time, btw

Christ, I wish my daughter was like yours for her eating habits!

ibelongtoguy

My little girl is 27 months and eats a lot of what we have. My OH works shifts so its not always practical for us all to eat at the same time. If I have made a spag bol I will gerally cook one for 4 people and portion of 3 or 4 of her size portions for the freezer so she can have those on other days. I also do this with chili con carne - I mix in the rice and then freeze it. When I re-heat it for her I stir in a bit of cream cheese to take off the spicey edge and make the sauce a little more creamy. She loves it! You can also add frozen peas or tinned sweetcorn at the time of re-heating these meals for added veg factor.

I do have a prob that she won't eat much meat in terms of chicken or other roasts. We try to eat together on a sunday and she always gets the same as us. If she doesn't eat it their isn't an alternative. She also doesn't like potatoes, but as she eats lots of pasta and rice I'm not too worried...she won't eat chips which is probably a blessing but sometimes for ease I wish she would.

Lunches she has crackers and cream cheese or sandwiches or soup - soups a good one for hiding veg/lentils. Sometimes she has a 'selection' cubes of ham, cubes of cheese, tomatoes, cucumber, olives, she loves pickled garlic, a bit of tinned sweetcorn. That way she doesn't get bored.

She can fill up on as much fruit as she likes. Satsumas, grapes and strawbs are her faves as well as dried fruits and rice cakes.

I hope that helps a bit xx

bulchy

onlyroz wrote: »

My 15 month old eats what I eat.

When my kids were younger, they ate what we ate, feeding them seperately is a waste of money. Whatever I cooked would be to cater for all 4 of us, whether it was a bolognese, chilli-con-carne (sp?) homemade soup, shepherds pie or whatever, we all ate the same meals.DD though has always hated spicy food, and has never eaten curry with us, I blame the OH though as he does tend to be heavy handed with the spices.
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svmitche

Our 2yo eats similarly eats what we eat and if he doesn't eat it there's nothing else.

He is a nightmare for veg - will barely touch anything, but loves all types of fruit. I just keep serving the veg thinking he will eat it eventually.

My MIL got a shock just a couple of weeks ago when I told her he eats chilli etc 'You can't feed that to a toddler' were the words!!

We do have fish fingers etc for special treats, but where my OH and I used to eat loads of ready meals we now eat 'from scratch' foods due to costs mostly and DS doesn't have anything that is specifically 'baby food' as I find it's just too expensive to feed him this way.

We tend to go for easy meals (I'm a terrible cook) spag bol, chilli, grilled chicken and salad, jacket potatoes, fish in sauce, pasta with a tomato sauce or pesto.

Hope you get some useful tips from some better cooks, and also have a look at the Moneysaving Old Style board for recipes and how to keep a well-stocked store cupboard. I've found them very useful!

tiamai_d

DD is 7 months and is just starting to move onto our dinners. Meaning when she is wanting dinner when ours is ready, she has what we are having, if she is wanting dinner earlier, she gets jarred food.

Last night she had dinner with us, it was potato and bacon salad, so she had the potato's sliced into chunks no skin and some salad (onion was too slippy and she may choke, bacon is too salty). It was yum yum.

I did find with the boys, that we had to change our eating habits for a few months so they could eat with us. Have dinner at a set time, plan meals so that they can get some of it. Curries can be cooled down by adding some cream or plain yogurt, spicy chilli add some pasatta. Most things can easily be adapted to introduce a child to grown up food.

What kind of things do you eat? We may be able to help you adapt them so the lo can share.

lauren_1

My children have always eaten what i have eaten since they were about a year old, i cook the basic of what i am cooking then take their portion out and add all the salt, pepper, chilli that i would add to the meal usually.

You can make their own cottage pies in ramekins and freeze for later use.

Chunky veg and beef stew (i add the beef a good hour before the veg goes in so the meat falls apart)

Ham, pitta, veg sticks and dips was a firm favourite and my ds had that daily for lunch, toast the pitta and cut in to strips so they can dip in to tzatziki, mango chutney and hummus (all can be made at home)