What is your toddler’s *favorite* meal this week?

An omelette at daycare. He apparently ate two full omelettes and kept asking for more throughout the day.

Omg this hits right in the heart

Lol! Mine will not touch yogurt at home. Hates it. Won’t taste it. No way. His teacher reports he literally licks the yogurt cups clean at daycare……. Wtf

Shredded cheese, all day every day. it gets everywhere and I hate it. "Want more cheese momma!"

If you’re in the US, Tillamook makes thick shredded cheese (should be available at most grocery stores) and Trader Joe’s has this shredded unexpected cheddar. The thicker cut ones cause significantly less mess.

Thisl! My daughter is obsessed with shredded cheese! My dogs are loving the cheese trails left around the house.

What is it about the damn shredded cheese?! Lol

Try maybe a less messy cheese like cheese slices. You can buy a block of cheese and cut it up in bits. My daughter likes cheddar

Mine too! Half of it goes on the floor 🥴

Omg, the shredded cheese. Not american cheese slices. Not string cheese. I've even tried the cheddar cheese sticks. Has to be the messy cheese.

Same with mine. We put it in a bowl for it and she eats it by the spoonful. HUGE mess after.

Whatever mommy is eating (I am mommy).

This. My LO refused to eat her lunch… then later ended up eating my In-N-Out burger.

I plan for this now- definitely add extra veggies. I hide behind the fridge if I really want to eat something by myself.

The pointy part of the pizza slice 🍕.

The most delicious part!

This made me LOL. I've had many pointy-less pizza slices in my home due to this 🤣

“Shmicken shmot shmeye”. What is that? It’s mashed up chicken pot pie. Chicken pot pie is the least favorite meal this week. It’s yucky. Will not eat. Mash it up, give it a silly name, now it’s delicious.

This is hilarious & I love your username! I’m cackling

My god this post is making me feel so much more normal 😂. Probably Ritz crackers, grapes and pumpkin bread.

Grapes and raisins…. That’s it so we are counting them as two foods

I fully support that.

This makes sense to me.

This is also our house....

Cashews and pickled herring. He’s Polish, what can I say

Polish toddler here too and the kid would trade me for sweet pickled cucumbers given half the chance!

Lol mine loves fancy cheese and smoked meats. I’m Eastern European and it’s really popular in my country.

Bananas. She only likes bananas 😭

Mine asks for a banana, eats a third of it, then asks for a different banana. 🤦‍♀️

My child would eat bananas for every meal and snack if I let him. Fortunately he does eat other things but banana is definitely the favourite!

So many bananas. It looks like I run a smoothie shop on my counter. I’ve never eaten 2 bananas in one day in my life. These little jerks have 3 by noon

Ketchup

My 23 month old's favorite "food" of all time.

My toddler dipped his oranges in ketchup at dinner. It looked so gross.

We have the same toddler.

Grilled cheese, frozen corn and frozen peas. Makes dinner super easy as she likes them cold

Wow our children are twin flames. Grilled cheese, frozen corn and frozen peas. I have 15 bags of frozen peas in my freezer. Every meal. Peas.

My child also loves frozen peas. I’ve tried them myself and see the appeal.

Air

Air + goldfish over here

“Cook eggs” 2y is obsessed with making scrambled eggs

Mine too! He loves to crack them into the pan. When he helps to make eggs he often eats about 4 at a time. It's insane.

My daughter calls them "circled eggs". They are a fan favorite here too!

Mine too! Loves helping make them. We got these cool Mickey Mouse shape things for eggs/pancakes at Walmart the other day so she can now eat her Mickey Mouse shaped eggs with her Mickey mouses shaped nuggets.

The only meals both my kids have actually eaten this week (not counting the endless snacks) were digiorno pizza and a tomato and Italian sausage penne bake thing I made, which I was honestly astonished they both devoured.

Care to share the penne bake recipe?

An apple. Apparently when I threw away the dirty core that was laying on the floor he wasn't done enjoying it. He cried for three days, including having nightmares about his apple being thrown away. Giving him a new apple was not the same. I guess it must have been a really good apple...

That must be THE best apple.

Ok miracle alert. KALE. He just ate his own weight in kale, and even stole some off of my plate. How? Why? I will not question the will of the toddler, IT SHALL RAIN DOWN KALE ON OUR HOUSE! He'll probably turn his nose up at it next time, but I'll try!

Mine used to eat sautéed kale with me every morning for a while. That fell off sometime when she was 3. She’ll still have it occasionally but I need to try making chips.

Yesss!!! Stuff dat bebe with nutritious kale til they turns GREEEEEN!! You don’t know how much longer it’ll last 🤪

This is fascinating! How do you serve it to him?

We had kale growing in our garden and my toddler loved to grab and eat pieces. We had to tell him to get us to wash it first since lots of insects also love kale. Now he likes eating baby spinach leaves.

It's not a meal but for him it might as well be. Applesauce. Please send help. I'm on like day 27 of applesauce 💩 and it's not pretty.

Lol at least they are going 💩 could you add unflavored gelatin or even collagen powder to bulk it up?

I bought a box of 16 packet apple sauces 3 days ago. They're gone. My 3 year old has eaten them all. I'm concerned.

My kid eats probably a pound of applesauce a day. I will say, she's never constipated.

Pumpkin bread. She watched me put everything in the mixer, pour the batter, and turn the bread out of the pan, so she’s feeling proprietary.

Sausages... And "buy grapes"... "Buy strawberries" oh and "BIC bics" (biscuits/cookies to US friends) for breakfast 😅

After watching many British programs, my family now calls cookies “bickies “

French fries. Always French fries

Specifically Old McDonald’s fries

Always!

Blueberries for every single meal

Mine was on a blueberry kick until I noticed her poop was like acid on her butt! No matter how quickly I changed her, she would get an awful diaper rash. I didn’t connect the dots until a friend said the blueberries did the same to his daughter. Now she eats them every (other) day haha

Same, my child lives off of blueberries and cheese. Though we call them “bloobs”

Tacos. She lives for taco tuesday

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I just asked my 2.5 year old what her favorite food is. She said, "I think chicken. I think chicken nuggets."

Fair enough, im not always in the mood for my favorite food either haha

My 2 and a half year olds favourite food is “dinner”.

Pumpkin spice. We have gotten a few things pumpkin this week and so has daycare and he keeps saying pumpkin mmmm.

My 2-year-old son is OBSESSED with tomatoes, to the point where I have to limit how much he eats because (tmi) the acidity was giving him a rash.

My son got such a bad rash from tomatoes that I had to get prescription-strength diaper cream. Looked like a chemical burn. The things they don’t tell you when you become a parent!

“ Mama, I want chicken nuggies from Old McDonald’s” 😂

PB & banana smoothie with a scoop of toddler formula and a smidge of honey. My smoothie brings all the kids to the yard.

I make a smoothie for mine almost every morning now after he refused every food I could think of for breakfast. Banana, Greek yoghurt, some rolled oats, toddler formula and a small handful of a different froz fruit. Every morning he now shouts SMOOOTHIE!

Woah this is next level. Gonna make my girl one for brekky 😋

Cream cheese bagels and yogurt

White cheddar popcorn

Boiled eggs and buttered toast lol

This is my son's favorite meal right here!

Spaghetti!

Egg pie has been a huge hit the last few weeks (a Trader Joe’s frozen gluten free premade pie crust filled with 6 eggs, some milk, shredded cheese, and whatever veggie or meat I have that’s about to go bad). She has been wolfing down massive volumes of that with all filling combinations.

Applesauce with hemp hearts lol

Pork loin the other night and Mac and cheese last night

How do you make your pork? My toddlers can’t eat it because it’s too toigh. 2.5 has almost all her teeth except one molar and 1.5 has enough teeth to gnaw

Gruffalo biscuits

Bagels and waffles. To be fair, Asiago cheese bagels are the bomb.

Sultanas! Toddler is obsessed with sultanas this week. But so many get accidentally dropped on the floor.

Whatever is currently on her father's plate. 😂

Same as last week and every week since she was 6 months old (she’s 4 now). Blueberries.

My 19 month old calls them "boomies" and that is now their official name in our house.

Pepperjack cheese. Yes, it's a meal.

Twin 1: Bananas Twin 2: Whole apples

My kid is obsessed with whole apples right now, too. I think she feels like the bee’s knees walking around the house with a full piece of fruit.

Spaghetti bolognese and sausages with sweet potato and corn

Homemade nachos!! She actually ate 2 toddler plates of them. I’m sure tomorrow she will hate that meal!

Cheerios and milk.. poor guy has been home sick and all he wants to eat is cheerios with milk every day

Homemade chipotle plate...quesadilla, black beans, rice, sour cream, and an orange. He gobbled it up and had seconds. This from a kid who has not been eating.

We offered her some curry flavored cous cous and she LOVED it. So now we have gotten more inventive since discovering that and have been adding some leftover shredded curry goat and hard boiled egg. She loves it! (At least this week 😅)

She has just discovered cashews and almonds.

Pizza crust

Biscoff cookies

Don't blame them!

Blueberries and beef jerky.

Orange chicken. She literally licked the bowl clean.

Sushi!

Smart kiddo!!!!

Roast chicken. He hasn’t eaten it in months and now that’s all he wants.

Bread. The Hawaiian rolls, specifically.

Fries so I’ve been doing baked potato wedges because it’s somewhat healthier and not just frozen fried in old oil drive thru fries

Yogourt, he even says HMMMM after every single spoon

Progresso macaroni and bean soup.

‘Snacks NOT food’ according to her

Milk. She can has 5 round of milk in one day.

Sausages !

Cheese

Uncrustables

A hard taco shell and my MIL’s broccoli (but not mine of course).

Tell toddler your broccoli is MIL. Get MIL to confirm. My sister had this issue.

Chicken nuggets lol

Cheerios 🤷🏻‍♀️

“Cheese sammich” aka orange cheddar (has to be “orange cheese”) sliced up on a piece of bread and microwaved until it’s melty.

Oh yuck… please, make the kid a proper grilled cheese 😛😂

Sure as hell not my homemade pasta. Or anything else I make. Throw the kid a graham cracker and hard boiled egg and he’s golden.

Spooky noodles aka- black bean noodles I found in the cupboard and renamed spooky in an attempt to get her away from her normal Mac and cheese.

Apples and yogurt. Not apples with yogurt, either apples, or yogurt.

Peas are a big hit with Mr 2. He even calls himself ‘king of da peas’. We’ve also told both our boys that baked beans make you fart, cherry tomatoes make you burp. They are very excited to eat both. We do the whole ‘(other parent) you’ve given them beans again. Oh no! They will do so many farts” they love it & eat them up. Ahh the theatre of parenting

ramen noodles, risgrøt (a norwegian rice porrige with cinnamon) with steamed carrots

Unagi and pumpkin pie filling. Not together. But she asked for more of both.

My kid is also a major pumpkin pie monster. I’ve been meaning to try making it with plain condensed milk instead of sweetened. Then it’s basically a health food right? She probably won’t eat it without the sugar though.

Pasta with butter sauce and capers or peas.

Pasta with cashew rosée sauce, and apples (which he now suddenly likes after refusing to eat them for months).

Spoonfuls of sour cream

Snacks, never real food 😂

Fruit salad, “yummy yummy”. Thank you Wiggles for making my toddler want to eat fruit! (And last week he motored down a Caesar salad and still sang “fruit salad yummy yummy” while he was eating it and I almost died from the cuteness.)

“Daddy toast” which is toast with cheese wiz on it and edamame. Also Cheerios, yogurt, cucumber, grapes, and of course goldfish crackers.

Absolutely nothing I’ve made

Mine would survive solely on fruit snacks if I would allow it. But today she did eat almost a whole apple by herself!

Hot dog spaghetti lol, she had it for the first time today because I didn't want to cook anything hard lol. 3 bowls of it since 4:30

Heavy cream. By the spoonful. Occasionally with raspberries.

I asked my kids and they said broccoli, meat, and birthday cake. Realistically, the thing they always eat without any fuss is salmon, rice, and broccoli.

Pickles..

Mustard is the perennial fave, but now that it's fall, it's apple cider. My kid's little voice saying, "Mo!" (More) is so cute, but I figure she shouldn't have 3000 g of sugar per day, so she gets denied!

Ground beef & broccoli cooked in the skillet together with an absurd amount of Worcestershire sauce & onion powder, served with rotini pasta. It’s ridiculously easy and everyone in our house loves it. My 22mo especially is a fan!

Potatoes in all forms because he is his mother's son. Mashed? Yas. Fries? Gimme. Potato salad? Yum. Literally give him (read: us) potatoes and he's (read: we're) happy.

Pie and ice cream. He has only had desert on special occasions like birthday parties, and we had a friend over for dinner who brought dessert. Well...at least he had a full stomach by the end even if it did cause the sugar zoomies from crazyville.

Roasted chickpeas with paprika and garlic salt. She ate em all. The whole can

A bell pepper (seeds removed) that he proceeds to eat like an apple. I hope I’m not raising a psychopath.

We get bdubs every Thursday for obvious reasons, and both of my toddlers (1 & 3) devour their (dry rub) lemon pepper boneless wings

Dino shaped pasta, scrambled egg and sliced ham. I made pulled beef nachos from scratch and that’s what he insisted on 🙃

Oatmeal. Wants it for breakfast, after daycare, after bathtime. And, of course, has zero patience for it being made and needing to cool down.

We had this issue in the mornings and I've started just using a bit less water in the oatmeal and then chucking in an icecube and swirling it in just until the oatmeal cools enough to eat, then I scoop out the cube and chuck... I'll do anything to avoid meltdowns right now!

Macaroni . Always macaroni . Or " ronees " as my 18 month old calls it.

Mine used to call macaroni and cheese “monkey cheese.” 30 years later that’s still what it’s called in our house.

Ham, JUST Egg (vegan egg) and guacamole

She's going to turn into lasagna if she eats one more bite.. at least it has squash and spinach in its layers. These canines on top are really messing with our usually pleasant 'dirs recently and it sucks

Japanese chicken curry with rice. I made a big pot on Monday and we ate it 3xs this week. When I asked her what she wanted for dinner tonight she said curry. Lol

Cheetos

She loved the tortilla soup I made. Finished hers and tried to eat mine!

Grapes, mandarin oranges, pb sandwiches

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.

Anything labeled “snacks.”

We got a random hello fresh meal that was farro seeds, salad, and roasted sweet potato with dried cranberries. He LOVED it. I have no idea how or why.

Weirdly enough, Thai red curry except I make her some that leaves out the curry paste so it's just veggies and chicken in coconut milk. Normally she complains, but this week she kept saying, mmmm!

Air !

Wow. My 2yo eats almost everything as long as it isn't leafy. The problem is that he ALWAYS wants more. He eats more than I do! But I'm obese and he's just fine... No pudge at all. HOW

Apples and bread.

Pizza, all the time. And bananas

Hey this was our exact dinner tonight ha

Buttered noodles

Donut

Popcorn.

Pbj crackers and popcorn

A tortilla. Plain. Just a soft tortilla shell.

I asked her just now and got “tato cakes” 🤷🏻‍♀️

Bananas. That’s it.

Cheese. Just cheese.

Crackers.

Chicken nuggets and ketchup

Fruit cups and bunnie snacks

Cold pizza

Grilled cheese. My 3yo can’t get enough of it.

Fruit Loops. Got them once a couple months ago for an activity sorting colors and making necklaces and she’s hooked. I need to wean her off those little sugar circles.

Yogurt… boy ate a whole box in a hour!!!

Grilled cheese lyfe here

pizza rolls… cut into 4 pieces each

Chicken nuggets and bananas

Trader Joe’s macaroons. She calls them cookie treats

Pepperoni pizza

Green and red grapes with thick cut shredded cheese from whole foods or organic thick cut shredded cheese from Kroger

Pumpkin muffins and chocolate mouse

Goldfish in a bowl like a kitty

Tonight was chili! Loved helping make it then when it came to eat she loved squirting her own sour cream in and putting her own shredded cheese in. Proceeded to eat the sour cream solo and later picked out all the beans. I call that a success.

Chicken noodle soup from chik fil a, so far. 😬🤣

Slice of bologna stick of cheese and a pickle

Peanut butter and “lelly”. Also carrots and apples. Three year old claims potatoes. Demonstrably untrue.