Moms- please share some really easy recipes for lunch/dinner that your toddler likes?
My daughter 22 months..pretty picky eater so I’m always looking for new ideas to get her more used to different foods. I don’t like recipes that take $30 to make one dish or take an hour to prepare, the simpler the better.
I’ll share a few of mine that are so very easy and that my daughter loves:
English muffin pizza’s. English muffin, top w/ pizza sauce and mozz cheese, bake for 10 minutes at 450.
Baked mac and cheese. Milk, cheddar cheese, 2 or 3 cups dry macaroni and a lil butter, bake 1/2 hour or till done at 350.
Thick turkey slices from deli. Cook stuffing and place mix on turkey slice…roll, cover w/ gravy and bake at about 400 till done ( 20 minutes give or take )
Now your turn…(o= THANKS!
My son really likes meatloaf and funeral potatoes. I have to be careful that the meal doesn’t end up with tons of salt, but it’s usually not too bad.
http://www.recipezaar.com/Funeral-Potato es-55389
He also really likes chicken curry over rice. My recipe is similar to this, except with out the beer and tomato bullion rather than soup.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/tomato-curr y-chicken/Detail.aspx
Any type of home-made pizza goes over really well too, especially when you use corn toritillas or pita bread as crust. I can use regular pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce, enchilada sauce, ranch dressing, even alfredo sauce. We make taco pizza with spaghetti sauce, seasoned ground beef, black beans, diced onion, green onions, red and yellow peppers, corn, and queso fresco. Ranch, chicken, blue cheese, complimentary veggies, and a bit of hot sauce makes a good buffalo chicken pizza.
rainwriterm | Nov 22, 2009
My daughter’s favourite lunch is soup - which suits me fine cos I manage to get veggies into her that way! Granted, it’s more cooking time, but I make large pots and freeze into portions, so I only have to heat up a portion and serve with bread or toast. Her fave is sweet potato and carrot soup - which she calls, ‘orange soup’.
Peel and chop equal measures of carrots, sweet potatoes and onion (I do 1kg of each at a time, in a very big pot). Slow fry in butter for at least 20 mins. Cover with stock and leave to simmer for a further 20-30 minutes. Blend well and serve or freeze.
Failing that, she loves having what she calls a ’snack plate’. We give her a selection of crackers, cheese, cocktail sausages, sweetcorn, carrots, ham, grapes, breadsticks, humous etc (not all at once, of course! Just depends on what we have), and let her pick her way through it.
Not A Supermum! | Nov 22, 2009
We do pizza bagels on occasion for lunches. My girls are 14 months old. Just pizza sauce on a bagel with some mozzarella on it. We typically keep pepperonis around the house as well
Chicken quesadias
grill chicken until done with a little chili powder on it (we buy the bags of boneless skinless)
Put chicken in the food processor to chop it up fine
take a flour tortilla and put it in a skillet on low heat
sprinkle half of it with the chicken and then add cheddar cheese or mexican blend and fold in half
flip after about 2 minutes to brown lightly on both side
cut into wedges with a pizza cutter
We also like using the jar of cheese con queso to make quesadias with, when I do this I spread it over the whole tortilla before putting it in the skillet.
misslissa121 | Nov 22, 2009
avoid turning your home into a restaurant -serve the child the exact same food that the rest of the family eats!
eloquent | Nov 22, 2009
My 14 month old son loves all of these -
Lunch:
Grilled ham and cheese sandwiches
Egg salad sandwiches
French toast
Dinner:
Elbow mac with cheese or alfredo sauce (from a jar)
Boiled chicken cut up in pieces
Meatloaf
Pierogies
Stuffing
Noodles
Veggies
Mashed potatoes
I buy frozen vegetables so it’s easy to pull out a couple of teaspoons and warm them up … you’re not opening a whole can that may go to waste. My son loves peas, corn, green beans and carrots.
To save time during the week, usually on Sundays I’ll boil up a few chicken breasts and a couple servings of elbow mac and put them in a container in the fridge. This way I can just heat the chicken up or put the pasta in a pan with whatever sauce … cheese, marinara, alfredo, and have a quick lunch. The other day I made elbow mac with alfredo sauce, peas and chipped ham, heated everything in the frying pan for 5 minutes, with some parmesan sprinkled on top … my son LOVED it. I got the idea from a dish at an Italian restaurant we went to recently. It was really easy.
Hello Friend | Nov 22, 2009
My daughter will eat anything. LOL Which is great because she gets what we eat and nothing else. I dont have time to stand in the kitchen all day. I do however fix broccoli and cheese which i do not like but my daughter and husband love. Its like me and her like cooked carrots and my husband doesnt like them. Here are some of my ideas
breakfast burritos: scrambled eggs, real bacon bits and cheese. Put in a tortilla and roll. Make sure the cheese is at the bottom so the folds stay together. Pop it in the microwave for 25 seconds (for 1) Just enough for the cheese to melt. You can also put hashbrowns in it (cooked) I get the ones that have onions and green peppers in it.. I like it but my daughter doesnt care for it. Good Brunch Idea. Something easy when you running late.
cheesy potato chowder: boil your potatoes, onions and celery. Take out half of the potatoes and mash them. then put them back in the water.. Add a can of evap. milk and cook for about 15 minutes. Until nice and hot. add bacon bits and canned carrots in.. then put on low heat and add cheese and cook until all the cheese is melted. Its really good.
beans and weinies: Canned of bush’s baked beans (or any one that you like) slice up some hot dogs and cook over the stove until both is done.
then she likes the usual grilled cheese, diced lunchmeat and cheese cubes (she wont eat lunchmeat sandwiches, she will only end up picking everything off and not eating the bread) mac n cheese, meatloaf (her fav) also spaghetti (her fav).
Cassie | Nov 23, 2009