Food file

Just a quick note for my own reference, of the things he will and won't eat. Bit boring for everyone else, but actually quite useful for me and the little fella.

Basically when we feed him, things either go OTS (Over The Side) or ITG (In The Gob). Any meal could end up going OTS, and the likelihood is that the longer I have spent preparing it, the more likely it is to have a date with gravity. So, even though I said I'd never do fish fingers and spaghetti hoops, that's what I end up doing.

As with any toddler, the things he'll eat change from day to day, but sometimes I forget things for a while and get into a bit of a rut of serving the same thing over and over. So I thought this list would help me keep track and maybe give other people ideas if anyone actually ever reads this!

Things he will eat most of the time
Crispbreads with fakey cheese
Crispbreads with hummus
Big fistfuls of hummus
Fish fingers (sometimes)
Spaghetti hoops
Heinz spaghetti bolognese in a tin
Soya yogurts (preferably from Tesco, not the Alpro ones)
Mango Chia Pots - the most expensive thing on the face of the earth (honestly you'd think it was made of spun gold) but full of yummy calories.
Alpro Vanilla dream dessert
Organix Carrot Sticks corn snacks
Cheesy wotsits (his dad gives them to him, I deny all knowledge)
Supernoodles or similar
Very overcooked spaghetti
Cous cous
Boiled egg yolk
Beef stew but ONLY if it's been made by my stepmum. He won't touch the filthy stuff I make.
Prawn crackers
Chinese rice crackers

Things he will eat at a pinch
Slices of beef or chicken (only if I eat it myself in an elaborate "nom nom nom" kind of way)
Liquidised bolognese sauce with cous cous
Clementine segments (chewed then spat)
Jaffa cakes (with the jaffa bit taken out)
Alpro soya custard
Sometimes rhubarb and apple puree with Alpro Soya Single cream
Ella's Kitchen Stage 1 meaty dishes
Digestives, hobnobs or ginger nuts (sometimes he regurgitates these almost immediately)
On rare occasions, slices of bread or toast with soya butter
Very, very occasionally grape halves (chewed and spat, like clementines)
Beef or chicken slices liquidised in a bit of gravy with some peas

Things he used to eat but won't any more
Normal rice cakes (he will still eat these if they are stolen from another baby)
Pears
Peaches
Banana
Porridge
Breadsticks
Vegetable purees
Apple puree (even with cinnamon and sugar)
Pear puree
Basically any fruit puree without cream.
Strawberry
Ice lollies

Things he wouldn't touch if he was dying of starvation
Raw apple
Cucumber
Carrot sticks, boiled or otherwise
Raisins (although he does like throwing them on the floor)
Blueberries. Nasty things.