Do you give your toddler frozen stuff..

[08marchbean]

I do give tinned ravioli or tinned macaroni on occasions when we are going out ad she needs an early tea or for any other reason that I havnt made our dinner yet and she is hungry! Not very often. She also has fishfingers chips and peas sometimes if not eating with us.

I do try and have small portions of homemade meals in the freezer for these occasions but it doesnt always work out! she is eating more now so we dont always have leftovers to freeze!

I def dont see it as a problem for the occasional quick meal if we are in a rush/going out or whatever.

 

[louandivy]

stardust every week I find the time to make a quick healthy tomato pasta sauce - just onion, garlic, chopped courgette and peppers, chopped tomato, a teaspoon of sugar and a dash of worcester sauce. So then I have a big batch and give it to her with penne pasta if we are in a rush, and for lunch use it as a tomato base on pitta with cheese sprinkled on top as a little mini pizza! It is also good to serve like a kind of ketchup with sausages and sweet potato.

 

[sparkle_1979]

Ruby has them maybe twice a week the rest of the time she eats pretty healthy. Every day she eats lots of fruit and veg, so it doesn't worry me.

 

[MrsBandEgglet]

Yep, Arf does and to be honest I struggling to get him to much else at the moment. He loves fish fingers and asda's equivalent of smiley faces. We never have frozen chips though and always make our own. He would eat beans every single day if he could. Vi is a lot more discerning lol and wants to eat nothing but brocolli, peas and sweet corn. Neither will eat pasta, chicken or sausages. We do cook a lot fresh but it's almost like Arf prefers the processed stuff and I just want him to eat so I confess I give him stuff that I know he likes and will actually eat. I cannot for the life of me get him to eat any vegetables at all but he eats as much fruit as he can stuff down during the day.

 

[Cattia]

Yes, Abigail quite often has fishfingers, sausages, baked beans etc. She always has one home cooked meal a day like Shepherd's pie or fish pie that I cook in batches and freeze, then the other meal will be sandwiches, something on toast or something out the freezer. As a working mum I feel that one home cooked meal a day is good enough going! I have recently discovered home made pizza and I have to say this is my new favourite, the dough takes a while to make but you can make it in big batches and freeze it, so all you have to do is throw pasata and cheese on it and put it in the oven.I think it has a lot less salt than shop bought pizza. She also never has chips, just because I don't buy them.

 

[Lellow]

Hmmm frozen peas, sweetcorn and Quorn foods like sausages/burgers/mince.
Aymen loves carrot and potato waffles and fish fingers too.
He has that maybe twice a week on my 2 long days at work. He has his dinner at nursery, but i like to know hes definately full so a couple of fish fingers, a few waffles and some peas are just a small meal he can pick at and then leave when hes full.

I dont see freezer food as a huge problem a couple of times a week, esp as all his other cooked meals are made with fresh ingredients.

 

[OmarsMum]

Fish fingers (bird's eye cod fish or salmon) & frozen French fries (I air fry them without oil), sometime I use frozen chicken nuggets. He gets them around twice a week

 

[Zizzle]

Yep, couple of times a week. I'd love to give him home cooked stuff everyday but sometimes it isn't possible. It wont hurt them.

 

[Jchihuahua]

Daisy has things like beans on waffles, tinned pasta shapes etc for her lunch sometimes when I'm at work as it is easier for my husband as he's not much of a cook and also has a colicky and very difficult Tommy to deal with. I always do a proper meal for her in the evenings though and she has loads of fresh fruit throughout the day.

 

[Nats21]

Yeah Callum does, not all the time as I still enjoy cooking for him and he'll have what we do most of the time. But things like waffles or veggie fingers he enjoys so will have it every so often xx

 

[hattiehippo]

Tom would have fish fingers, potato croquettes and spaghetti hoops every night for tea if I let him. As it is he has tea at nursery 3 times a week and fish fingers on 1 or 2 of the other days.

 

[Mynx]

Evie occasionally has fish fingers or chicken nuggets but she absolutely hates tinned spaghetti and baked beans! I often put baked beans into my home made shepherd's pie or casserole to bulk it up a little and she'll eat them in those but on their own, she hates em lol!

 

[Farie]

Nim often takes veggie fingers and or beans to preschool for lunch. She also has Poms on occasion.

She doesn't like fish fingers much or tinned spaghetti tho

Everything in moderation lol

 

[Lu28]

Aisling has frozen food maybe once a month and tinned beans once every couple of weeks. When I wasn't working I made homemade fish fingers and chicken nuggets etc. She eats her dinner at the childminders so I only have to take care of the weekends anyway so it's easy for me not to resort to the freezer!

 

[fluffpuffin]

Isla loves baked beans and has them maybe twice a week or so but she's not so keen on tinned spaghetti. She loves fish fingers too and I get the 100% cod ones so they're very healthy actually. She likes potato waffles or hash browns so I serve them with some meals. I don't see the harm , yes they contain more fat than some home cooked food but at that age they need a certain amount of fat in their diet.

 

[MrsVenn]

Not really but that's because she's a fussy madam and is picky over what I make her too so regardless of whether it's come out of a packet or not. I see no harm in frozen food at all, all in moderation. On a side, all of my main veg and fruit is frozen

Molly is a bit partial to a chicken nugget though and will have the odd fish finger so I have those in the freezer just incase. She won't touch potato smilies or waffles but will eat wedges.. someone explain to me the difference?? She won't eat baked beans at home but does at nursery too, again, I see nothing wrong with this. It's food at the end of the day.

 

[rwhite]

The way I see it, everything's okay in moderation There's nothing we won't give Lachlan, especially if it's something we're eating at the time...if we gave him something different he would flat out refuse to eat it until he got some of what we were eating (McDonalds- case in point so now we're cutting down on our takeaway intake).

Lachlan has tinned spaghetti on nights we are in a rush or dinner is taking ages and he's got to go to bed, he'll have spaghetti and toast. His diet is fairly varied so I feel he's getting what he needs and an occasional easy 'no nutrients' sort of meal isn't going to hurt

 

[Dream.A.Dream]

He has fish fingers and reduced sugar/salt beans sometimes Maybe once a week? x

 

[Emz1982_in_uk]

Yep, once or twice a week. Mostly fish fingers and waffles and occasionally chicken goujons. Our peas and sweetcorn are frozen as well. He does like tinned spaghetti and baked beans and will have those about once a week too.

I made my own fish fingers the other day and froze them. They are actually very easy to make. Also homemade macaroni cheese takes about 15 minutes if you make your own cheese sauce , so pretty quick. And we freeze bolognase and chilli that we make

 

[KellyC75]

Yes....

I am a terrible cook, but am trying to pick up tips from here