What do you feed your kids?

[teamhayes]

My kids don't eat anything

A typical lunch is a cheese stick yogurt hummus sandwich some cut fruit like strawberry Apple orange or raspberry a pouch or apple fruit Sause dessert is usually a carb like gold fish or bar

[ruby412]

When the girls start their new school, I have to begin packing lunches (and anything warm has to be sent in a thermos pre-heated), so following this thread for ideas! Here's my list so far:

-mac & cheese
-soup, with most liquid drained off
-bagel with cream cheese
-tortilla with cream cheese and jelly
-sunbutter sandwich (I got these premade uncrustable style dr. praeger ones)
-hummus with pretzels to dip
-chobani yogurt
-veggie burger (for the baby, V doesn't like these currently)
-turkey and cheese roll-ups

[bebeetmoi]

PB&J on whole wheat bread or whole wheat and flax pita
Mac and cheese
Left over chicken or salmon (from night before) with spinach and carrots
Hummus and cheese quesadilla

[kandrze1]

She's still pretty fussy.
Lots of yougurt and fruit
Cereal and fruit
Cheese sandwiches
Cheese crackers and pepperoni
Turkey cheese pita sandwiches
Chicken nuggets
Meatballs
Mac and cheese
Hamburgers

I make her take 3 bites of whatever I made for dinner too.

[vthokie]

She loves lunchables. But just the meat and cheese. They're so processed, so I try to just do sliced cheese and ham roll ups. We eat a lot of fruit over here. And yogurt

[shevacc]

I send them nearly the same lunch to school each day. I figure G is old enough to complain if she minds and they usually eat it.

1/2 a butter and jelly sandwich
Applesauce
Cheez-its or goldfish

And a fruit leather for G

[Deleted]

We do these when I need something really quick.
www.birdseye.com/vegetable-products/birdseye-steamfresh/disney-by-steamfresh

We also do bagel or English muffin pizzas.
Mac n cheese
Meatballs
Homemade lunchables

[browneyedhunni85]

Christian sometimes just doesn't want lunch so it can be a struggle.

Grilled cheese
PB&J
Chicken nuggets
Turkey hotdogs
Smoothies with tons of fruits and veggies. He's been on a smoothie kick lately and it's my chance to add veggies in. That's the only way he eats them.
Yogurt
Toast
Pancakes or waffles
Oatmeal
Cereal
Fruit and cheese

[imimahoney]

Lunch is his worst meal. He eats fairly normal for bf and dinner but lunch is a like a different kid.

Currently he will eat pizza, chicken nuggets or turkey meat balls. He usually has a fruit with that, an granola bar and maybe an apply sauce pouch.

[Deleted]

My kid pretty much eats nothing. He asks for the same lunch everyday: cheese stick, crackers, applesauce or apple slices, sometimes lunch meat, black olives, and cucumbers. My MIL can get him to eat PB&J or grilled cheese, but he won't usually eat that for me.

[silverjm]

Half the time Logan just doesn't eat lunch. He'll typically only eat two decent meals, so if he eats a good breakfast then he's just not hungry for lunch, but when he does:

Nuggets
Hotdog
Peanut Butter sandwich
Grilled cheese
Quesadilla
Cheese stick and crackers

Plus a few bites of fruit or baby carrots.

[chirpchirp]

W's favorite lunch is deli meat, cheese stick, slice of bread or crackers, yogurt and various fruit. If we don't have deli meat, she usually requests PBandJ. I'm always on my own with her for lunch and it's really easier to,just,give her what I know she'll eat, even if it gets redundant. She eats a variety of foods for dinner, so that makes me not as worried about lunch

[monkeybabe]

Zoe eats very little, in the way of variety. Luckily things she will eat are black beans and brown rice with shredded cheese, hard boiled eggs, bananas, and peanut butter sandwiches. That's basically her entire diet. She will occasionally eat chicken tortellini, but it's a toss up on if she's willing, even if she says she wants it.

[carawestt]

PB&J, turkey and cucumber sandwiches, Mac and cheese, leftover dinner, yogurt with granola and fruit, black bean boca burgers, carrot sticks, Apple wth PB..

[charmediamsure]

Jack has a grilled cheese every day. Every day.

I also give him fruit and/or yogurt or something like hummus and crackers on the side.

[fryjack2]

The boys either eat like grown men or they eat 2 bites.

Here's what they have eaten the past 2 days:

Breakfast:

Plain yogurt with a scoop of low sugar jam mixed in.
Banana
Veggie Sausage

Snack:
cucumber slices
blackberries

Lunch:
Turkey and cheese sandwich
Grapes
carrots

Snack:
Cliff kidz bar

Dinner:
chicken nuggets-they refused to eat the chickpea stew I made because it was too spicy.
carrots
apples

Today's food:

Breakfast:

Oatmeal with raisins and cinnamon
A plain waffle

No AM snack today

Lunch:

Bananas cut up and made into mini "sandwiches" filled with sunbutter
Apple slices
cheese sandwich
raisins

Snack at school

Dinner:
3 bites of steak from Blue apron steak sandwichs. Half a personal sized baguette
2 bites of potatoes

[Deleted]

Breakfast:
Any and all fruit. He will eat buckets and buckets of fruit all day long and be happy with just that.
Waffles with cream cheese or PB
yogurt
Bagels
Cereal bars
Muffins
Oatmeal with berries
Scrambles eggs
Bacon/sausage

Lunch:
Pb&j
Lunchmeat and cheese (either alone or in a sandwich)
Carrots
Nuts
Broccoli
Mac and cheese
Nuggets
Soup
Grilled chicken

Dinner:
Usually some variation of lunch
When I cook it's a meat, veg, starch.

Snacks:
Graham crackers
Cheese
Trail mix

[TrudyCampbell]

Im the same as you, lots of toddler food. We were eating a lot of variety before ruby came along. Violet is a great eater but Ruby sucks.

My dinners for them are:
Grilled cheese and soup (at least once a week)
Quesadilla (bean and cheese) with guacamole
Ham and cheese croissants
Ravioli
Mac and cheese with veg mixed in
Chicken nuggets or fish sticks and dr Praegers spinach and broccoli nuggets

[thedahliharpa]

They eat cereal and pouches for breakfast.
School lunches are always:
Turkey & pepperoni sandwich of sunflower butter sandwich
Steamed vegetable
Coconut based vanilla yogurt
H takes a zbar, d gets snacks at school.

When I'm home with D she wants snacks all the time..

Their favorite dinners are
*make our own no cheese pizzas
*meatballs
*burgers
*pork chops, roasted sweet potatoes, broccoli
*rotisserie chicken
*deconstructed Mexican feasts

We've are in a repetitive weekend lunch rut
Nuggets, mini chicken sandwiches, fruit
Sometimes bean quesadillas.

Oh, and they eat a pancake breakfast every Friday night. Occasionally eggs..

[creamsiclechica]

My kids are raw veggie fanatics, so we always do them as a side: peppers, cucumbers, carrots, cherry tomato, broccoli, cauliflower. They'll eat peas as a side too. We do strawberries, pineapple, grapes, Apple slices, bananas, blueberries, blackberries.

We do cheese and crackers, turkey, ham, almond butter/peanut butter and jelly, chicken nuggets.
Wrap sandwiches with deli meat, hummus, cheese, spinach.
Veggie burgers and sweet potato fries.
Grilled cheese and chicken soup (Carter just eats the sandwich, lol)
Those spinach potato tots
They love pierogies
Quesadillas (they will only eat this if my friend makes them lol)
Fried rice with veggies

[onehitwonder]

Pigs in a blanket
Grilled cheese
Anything with pasta and red sauce
Beans and rice
Soft tacos
Ham or pepperoni with pita
French bread pizza
Mini meatballs or Aidells
SBJs
Burgers

We sometimes do fun presentations, like using a cookie cutter, serving the meatballs cut in disc shapes or making our burgers into sliders.

[imimahoney]

What is it with lunch? Why are they all so frustrating in the middle of the day.

[jenbelle]

I feel very lucky at this point that daycare takes care of lunch. Supposedly he eats well there. They have just started doing "family style" lunch there.

But for dinners, I feel the same way.  His main go-to is Morning star chicken nuggets, baby carrots and applesauce (and it has to be from the pouch, poured into the compartment of his plate. 

[pippilongstocking]

I usually send leftovers for lunch at daycare because they will heat things up. If there are no leftovers they get a vegemite sandwich and a piece of fruit. They seem to eat pretty well at daycare so I always add extra veggies.
When we are at home it's really hit or miss. They usually just graze on things, fruit, raisins, nuts, bread, cheese, cereal, musli bars etc. For some reason they have both been loving frozen peas and corn, in a bowl, still frozen. I don't know.

[rjamz]

Breakfast:
Cereal
Cereal bars
Applesauce pouches
Apples, strawberries, or blueberries
Squeeze yogurt (he won't eat yogurt in any other form)

Lunch: he eats at school during the week and they tell me he eats everything.

Snacks: popcorn, honey wheat pretzels, carrots and hummus, graham crackers by the truckload, cut up fruit.

Dinner: the biggest fight
Mac and cheese
Salmon
Roasted chicken
Vegetable soup
Salami, crackers and sliced cucumbers
Those are the things he's guaranteed to eat.