What is your toddler eating (15-24mth)

[Amaye]

What is your toddler eating?

My twins are 17mths and have a ton of teeth and can kinda of chew. However I'm not sure what to feed them for lunch and dinner. I steam and puree their food and supplement with Ella's kitchen pouches but now I know they need more and not sure what to do!

[countrymouse]

Have you tried solids yet for them? Since they have teeth they should be ready for more table food. My DS2 is almost 15 months, has 12 teeth, and pretty much eats what we eat. For lunch today he had homemade chicken vegetable soup (with the liquid drained out), part of his brother's pb&j sandwhich, a cheese stick, and a few Ritz crackers. Last night for dinner he had meatloaf, mashed potatos, and green beans.

I still use jarred food on occasion, mostly if we are in a restaurant and I don't have anything else for him, or if he is ready to eat before I finish getting the family dinner cooked. Most nights I put aside a toddler sized portion for him to eat the next day.

You can start with 'soft' foods like buttered bread, small pieces of cheese, very ripe fruit, etc and see how they do.

Some other things DS eats:
pancakes/waffles/toast
green beans/peas/sweet potato/corn
scrambled eggs
most all fruits
grilled cheese/cheese quesadilla
any kind of chicken or pork
salmon (be careful to check for bones)
deli ham and turkey
cheese
mac n' cheese
yogurt
goldfish/animal crackers/graham crackers for snacks

[PookiePrincess]

Mine is 13 mos and he's been eating table food before he had teeth. Right now he has 3 teeth on bottom and 4 on top. This is what he's eaten so far today:

Breakfast: Bagel, blueberries, cheerios, yogurt.

Lunch: Hotdog, leftover noodles from dinner last night, grapes, and lima beans.

Dinner will be another fruit and we're having broccoli and shrimp with rice.

He literally eats everything we do. For lunch we either have leftovers from the night before or he has lunch meat/hotdog/chicken nugget, a veggie, and a fruit. For dinner I take whatever we eat and cut it up into bite sizes for him. He eats chicken, fajita meat, spaghetti, shrimp, round steak. Literally whatever we are eating.

[Amaye]

Thanks! I have been giving them solids but recently realized that I have been doing very limited dishes. I need to expand what solids they are eating but seem to be having a brain freeze.

[looch]

My son won't eat jarred food, I don't know how he knows but he does. That makes for some stressful mealtimes out, because restaurants around here don't offer a lot of choices for kids!

I rely on a lot of pastina when he's teething. I know a tooth is popping out when he refuses his normal food. I then boil up some pastina, drain it well and stir in an egg. I cook it well and then he's happy as a clam.

[akacharlotte]

DS is 18 months and has been eating almost everything we do since a year or so old, up until 2 weeks ago when he turned into a totally picky eater. Fruit is our go to because he will always eat it. He has all but his two year molars and bottom canines as far as teeth go. Breakfast normally consists of a banana and muffins, pancakes or french toast. My MIL watches him so for lunch it is nuggets, hotdogs, PB&J, mac-n-cheese, cheese and crackers w/apple slices, pizza english muffins or something else she comes up with along with fruit. DS pretty much refuses vegetables of any kind. Peas and corn are the only ones he will even try to eat and sometimes he even refuses those. He absolutely adores black beans though and pinto beans come in a close second.

[lil_geek]

DD is 13 months old - it has been a good 4-5 months since she has had jarred food! She eats exactly what we are eating - just cut into smaller chunks. (She has 6 teeth 4 top and 2 bottom)

Yesterday she had

Breakfast: Cheese, toast, strawberries
Morning snack (daycare): Yogurt (feed herself... not successfully and my only complaint with daycare!) and fruit
Lunch (daycare): Turkey Sandwich, peas
Afternoon snack(daycare): Nutrigrain bar
Dinner: Edemame, pork roast (sliced into small cubes), carrots, buns, potato salad



I think it comes a point where you just need to keep feeding 'from your plate'. I always keep more kid friendly food around for both kids and have a few standbys in case I really don't think they will eat something (or in our case we are going to feed the kids, go do something as a family and DH and I will eat when they are in bed) like nuggets, pasta, veggies (which I will still steam for DD), cheese and fruit.