I used to make spaghetti for a two year old and it is the only thing that I have seen him eat willingly. He eats it like a fiend.
The mother wants to introduce more fibre in his diet but I am out of ideas because I suck donkey ass at cooking. I once tried oats-banana-cinnamon pancakes but the child spit it out because it tasted like shit. (I have posted about it before.)
If you have medium or high fibre recipe suggestions please share. It’s a bit of an odd request so sorry about that but I don’t know where to turn to. The internet is a search engine optimised wasteland.
Anything you cook with fresh vegetables and fruits is probably going to be a decent choice. Simple lentils with rice and a roasted veggie was a pretty easy one for a while. Other than that, we mostly made foods similar to what we normally eat, but with strong flavors dialed down a little.
For your spaghetti example, maybe try something like a lentil Bolognese to increase the fiber content:
https://minimalistbaker.com/vegan-bolognese-with-mushrooms-red-lentils/
Maybe this is a point where you might want to think about developing your cooking skills? Cooking for a young child might get a bit easier when you have confidence cooking for yourself!
We had a period where she’d eat nearly anything we put in front of her but there was definitely a shift to being more picky with foods around age 3 or so. Still working through how some foods are great “sometimes foods” and making sure we’re letting the little one have some part in weekly meal planning, but that’s just how things can be.
I should be able to do this. I eat masoor petty often. Thanks.
my girl loves roasted veggies. peppers, broccoli, whatever. She will annihilate that stuff.
my girl is also really big into “dips” right now. Anything she can dip her food into is huge, and hummus has pretty decent fiber iirc.