Help Please
For a potential project related to this post, I need to know what a typical meal for your toddlers is like when/if parents and kids keep different meal times.
These days, I try to get everyone eating together but the kids occassionally get fish sticks and potatoes with broccoli or chicken fingers with rice and carrots a few hours before my husband and I sit down together.
So, what do your kids eat when you cook just for them?
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8 opinions for Help Please
Mike
Nov 22, 2006 at 6:44 am
We hardly ever eat at different times than the kids. I am fortunate to almost always be home by 4 or 4:30pm.
On the rare occasion that we eat separately, we normally feed them something like PB&J and an apple or Mac & Cheese and some carrot sticks. Stuff that is quick and easy. Most of the time we do this it is because we were out running around and got home right at bedtime and need to get dinner in quickly.
Revka Stearns
Nov 22, 2006 at 9:42 am
Like most people, my husband works duing the day; lunch for the kids and me will usually be a peanut butter sandwich or cheese toast. Sometimes I’ll make mac n’ cheese or Ramen noodle soup. I cook breakfast and supper and don’t want to do any cooking for lunch if I can help it! :)
Hsien Lei
Nov 22, 2006 at 11:07 am
Your kids’ dinner sounds pretty much like ours. But S really really likes dry nori seaweed with plain white rice so sometimes he eats just that. He also likes pasta tubes with ragu sauce.
Jill
Nov 23, 2006 at 5:25 am
You know my answer! I do my share of pasta etc but I like to make things that can morph into starters or pasta toppers for us! Last night they ate chicken liver pate and then homemade chicken nuggets, with a side of mozzarella, some thin-sliced roast zucchini “chips” and tomato sauce for dipping both. OK, not very balanced (there wasn’t a lot of veg), but they’re more often than not veggie kids so the protein did them good. We had the liver spread and then used the extra chicken for a pasta sauce (adding cream, leeks and the rest of the zucchini).
Karen
Nov 26, 2006 at 8:38 pm
We all eat together when I cook, but if it’s just them eating then I do easy stuff - macaroni and cheese, pizza, bananas, apple sauce, ravioli, bologna and cheese, grapes, cheese toast, chicken nuggets, diced peaches or pears. I try to do a protein and a fruit. Unfortunately, my kids are not big vegetable eaters. :( They were as babies, but somehow they have become quite picky, although I keep offering it to them. One of my problems is that my son has problems with allergies and asthma and he is allergic to some of the vegetables. It makes it hard to offer a balanced meal sometimes.
Hsien Lei
Nov 27, 2006 at 3:18 am
Karen: I’m glad I’m not the only parent of a child who doesn’t eat veggies!! I keep offering all sorts of different kinds prepared all sorts of different ways but the most success I’ve had is vegetable puree/finely chopped in spaghetti sauce and broccoli. ::sigh:: This is tough for a mama who eats all her veggies! He takes after his daddy for sure on this one.
Karen
Nov 27, 2006 at 7:08 am
Green beans are one of our favorite vegetables, but my son is allergic. He pukes peas. I can’t get him to eat corn yet. Carrots used to be one of his favorites, but now he passes them up. It makes it hard to find a balanced diet for him. I’ve often said that he is my carb boy.
Jill
Nov 30, 2006 at 3:05 am
We get a lot veggies in through the back door of risottos. Enough olive oil and parmesan cheese and they’ll eat anything!
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