We do steel cut oats, scrambled eggs, 5 minute egg, bagels and cream cheese/pb/butter
For lunch we do pieces of lunch meat, cheese, cottage cheese, grilled cheese sandwhiches
Anything u can eat they can eat

Map out the food chart for them, etc:how many servings of grains they need, fruit, etc. Then just try and stick to roughly that amount. I give my daughter a fruit, veggie, or yogurt for one of her two or three snacks a day for sure. And then she get's a pasta for lunch or supper.

Meat was our hardest to get going, so we serve tofu to her. Also, if you are super worried, there are multivitamins you can introduce at that age, my nephew is a picky eater and he takes one.

My daughter is really picky and was still eating baby foods at 16 months. Now she is eating all adult food (almost 18 months). she eats the same thing every day (even though I offer her something new every few days, she never likes it). For breakfast she has a scrambled egg with cheese, dry Cheerios, and vanilla milk (won't drink regular from a cup) .

For her snack she has strawberries and a Gerber fruit/cereal bar. (The only fruit she likes is strawberries.)

For lunch, she has a grilled cheese sandwich, YoBaby yogurt (I sometimes sneak fruit like blueberries in that), and more vanilla milk or Pediasure Sidekicks (like Ensure but for kids who aren't getting all their nutrients).

For dinner she has a Gerber meal like macaroni and cheese, a vegetable (broccoli or green beans or carrots I cook until really soft and sneak into her food) mashed black beans, and vanilla milk.

For her last snack, she has strawberries, cheese cubes, and Puffs. She also has access to a sippy cup with water all day. I refill it frequently.

So that's a start. If yours aren't picky, like mine, you can do oatmeal for breakfast. You could do a bean and cheese quesadilla for lunch. Yogurt is always good. If they'll eat veggies, steamed veggies with a little butter and salt. I have lots of ideas, my daughter just won't eat any of them!

If your little one really likes yogurt can you mix oatmeal in it? Just a thought, Marlow is just hitting her picky stage, and she has recently(19months) decided she hates oatmeal, but if I dump a whack of yogurt in there she mows down.

I also found, Marlow hated fruit until she was almost 16 months, but ate every veggie, that she would eat dried fruits. Like dried cranberries, she loves those now, and dried blueberries.

If it is more cost effective, then keep giving them baby food for breakfast. A jar of fruit + oatmeal is almost the same thing as buying fruit and adding it to oatmeal. It all depends on how much time you have to prepare food. My daughter hates cereal so that isn't an option for me.

Make lunch time easy as pie. Stock up on finger foods that bake easily in the oven. Lunch fits on one cooking tray and is easier to clean up. If you look hard enough in your supermarket, you can probably find sweet potato french fries- they have a lot more nutrients in them than regular potatoes.

If you have any free time at home, aim for versatile food types such as pierogi dough, wonton, bread (I've even tried garlic bread with homemade spreads- very easy to make), and puff pastry that you can fill with anything. Experiment with different flavored fillings- sweet, savory, fruity, vegetable, meat, cheese, etc. If you have a large enough freezer at home, set aside a few hours a month to prepare meals in advance. Spending a few dollars on presses or molds makes making big batches easier.

You're doing a great job! Just remember, metabolism rates slow down after 12 months. Let your boys guide you and listen to what signs their bodies display. When all else fails, try a vitamin supplement. It will fill in the gaps.

First off, we do still give my daughter (22 months) vitamins because I want to make sure she is getting everything she needs.

For breakfast she usually grazes her way through a yogurt, Cheerios, Quaker Oatmeal Squares, toast with butter or peanut butter, or flavored oatmeal (apple cinnamon). Sometimes also fruit like an apple or peaches. She will NOT eat eggs in any form yet... sigh...

For lunch she either has a grilled cheese or hot dog, or turkey and avocado, pizza, or pasta with sauce and breaded eggplant cutlets. Sometimes I also feed her a YoBaby meals yogurt (fruit, veggie and yogurt all in one). Then I add in some fruit and veggies (peas or corn mostly). For starch she will eat rice or sometimes egg noodles.

For dinner she eats something she didn't eat for lunch from the above list. She eats adult food but will not really eat much meat so she doesn't tend to eat what we eat.

For snacks she eats fruit (apples, bananas, dried cherries, peaches, pears, blueberries, strawberries, melon), cheerios, Pirate Booty veggie flavor, goldfish, veggie chips, string cheese, more yogurt, peanut butter crackers (or peanut butter straight from the jar), Annie's fruit snacks.

She also drinks probably 15-20 ounces of whole milk each day.

I think using the food pyramid is the easiest way to determine if you are giving enough of the food groups for a healthy balanced diet.

I did this with my older boys and kept track of how much milk & juice they had during the day. My LO is just a few weeks younger than your twins and I use this as a guide when I am feeding him breakfst, snacks, and dinner.

Remember that any food that is good for them is good for them at any time of day. One day I gave my LO wheat pancakes with blueberries for lunch, or french toast for snack (made with only egg yolk because of his age) I eat leftovers from dinner for lunch, so sometimes my LO is eating the same thing.

i know what you mean my grandson turned 1 on march 5 its so hard to feed him he fights me i want to feed him healthy food he will actually eat this morning i feed him a cearel fruit beechnut jar of food unfortunatelly half of it got smeared on him and me so i too am looking for healthful suggestions he is a very determened child his parents say just pat him on the behind but it makes me cry and him angrier so thats not going so well i would love some suggestions thank you all love and hugs