Just a record of my kids favourite dish since they are sick of porriadge already. Wanted to keep track, because they are not really keen on rice with dishes and i have to crack my head each day to think of what’s good for them and what’s their preference. (Yee…not easy to be cook of the house, what the adult likes doesn’t mean that it’s suitable for them or up to their preference…)
JS was a very fussy eater, I used to be very stress and tense when comes to her meal time, (always worry if she’s having enough …etc etc) a lot of shouting and yelling at her, but I’ve noticed some very promising improvement lately. Though there’s still certain food she’s still quite picky like vege, generally she’s much better. It’s WH turn now as he’s approaching 2, and most time he refuses to open his mouth wide though he’s mush more experimental with food compare with JS. It takes a very long time to feed him now. But after the first experience, I’m less stress with WH, I know it’s just a phase that he will eventually grows out and as long as he’s snacking on healhty snack in between, it should be alright. Going places and eating out become a much delighted affair without having to worry about the kids meal. (used to be very fussy and insistent that I only want my kids to have home cooked meal without aji and salt)
Here’s what they like
- Annable Chicken Sausage snails
- Flavour chicken rice
- Hawker Stall’s Hainan chicken rice
- Kid’s pasta
- baked macaroni cheese
- baked penne pasta
- baked rice
- French fries
- simple fried noodle
- mashed potatoes
- Tau Yew Bak
- Chicken stew
- Fish dish (preferably cod, salmon, threadfin and bawal)
- Home made fish and chips
They prefer pasta, noodles than rice…..
I know some of the dishes I can cook more and freeze it for the next time, but I really don’t like the idea of my kids having overnight food, I want them to have freshly cook food each day and this is hard work to come up with different varieties they like daily, twice a day sometimes….
What do you cook for your pre-schooler and toddler daily (lunch + dinner)? What’s is simple and fast to make with easy obtain ingredients and still pack with all the nutrients?
August 31, 2006 at 3:41 am |
hey you very creative oerdi lehh..my girl takes the same food noon and nite cause I only cook once. Noon she takes rice + soup. Nite she takes rice + soup + dishes
August 31, 2006 at 11:58 am |
My kids like soup and rice too. Usually my mum cooks chicken soup. Use chicken bone (i dunno if your market sell something like that. it’s basically the whole chicken bone minus flesh, thighs wings etc.) to make the stock, then add vege like beijing cabbage and carrots and little minced pork balls. put rice in the soup. Instead of cabbage sometimes we also put spinach (bayam). sometimes also can put sweet corn (not baby corn) and potato and carrots in chicken stock. My daughter also likes beehoon or kuay teow soup. Just that u must use scissors to cut the noodles a bit for your son.
September 1, 2006 at 8:09 am |
jazzmint
I usually only cook once a day for them…unless on days that I’m super “rajin” than I do 2 different meals for them. but still each day cracking my head … feel like everyday eat rice very sian coz I’m not a rice person. I only boil soup for dinner when hub is eating in.
Karen
Whole chicken bone ah? I always buy that for boiling soup. So your kids also eating soup and rice only ah? Maybe I should try that too when I’m really out of idea.
September 4, 2006 at 5:31 pm |
Derek would like anything with soup :
1. Ikan bilis soup with misua and fishball, I normally put in baby bayam or chinese cabbage. He eats the vege when they are cut into small pieces so that he doesn’t choked.
2. Cauliflower/brocolli cook with shrimp and chicken slices in oyster sauce in gravy (man fan) with rice.
3. Cauliflower/brocolli cook with shrimp and chicken slices in soup (上汤烩饭） with cooked rice boiled into the soup. You can add some frozen vege to add colours.
4. Fried spaghetti – boil spaghetti, minced pork/chicken, fish cake, cabbage & soya sauce.
September 5, 2006 at 3:32 pm |
Thanks for the ideas Catherine.