Please reassure me my 11mo's diet is varied and nutritious enough!

[Jacksmybaby]

Have got a bit stuck in a rut doing the same foods and started to stress a bit that the following is not varied enough, also that there are one or 2 things in there that are probably not nutritionally the best (marked * below!), but am very very tired mummy trying to find the balance between making things copaable with for myself and giving him the best diet... anyway, please reassure me about the following diet:

Breakfast (done by DH before work so usually the same, very simple stuff): 4-8oz formula then toast fingers with peanut butter/butter/cheese; or weetabix/oatibix with banana chunks; sometimes sultanas/dried apricots; or sometimes organix porridge pot.

Lunch: chicken or beef and veg casserole/bolognaise/cod or salmon fillets with potato/rice/pasta and veg e.g. broccoli/peas/carrots/swede/parsnip/sweetcorn; OCCASIONALLY (if we are out and about) a Hipp organic jar meal (** evil mummy!).
For dessert yogurt/dried (sultanas/apricots) or fresh (banana/sometimes mango) fruit chunks/ peits filous / rice pud from jar. Water.

Mid-pm: 4-8oz formula

Tea: cheese and tomato or spinach on toast / veg omelette chunks or scrambled eggs / pasta with homemade tomato or cheese sauce / sometimes fishfingers with sweet potato chunks and veg / jacket potato with cheese and sometimes baked beans. Dessert same list as for lunch. Water.

Bedtime: 4-8oz formula.

Actually doesn't sound that terrible now I've written it out... does it??
p.s. ideas for different things welcome but as per above, they need to be very simple and non-time-consuming!
p.p.s. obviously what he has for the later meals depends on what he's had earlier that day, e.g. he wouldn't have toast for tea if he'd had it for breakfast etc!

[LoveAngel]

Sounds fab. At that age I seem to remember my son surviving on weetabix and banana and the odd yoghurt!

[andiemustlosehalfastonemore]

sounds fine to me have you thought about doing bulk cooking and stashing things in the freezer I do this and have weeks where I only need to defrost something at each meal

I use the whispers annable karmel books for ideas but have modified some recipes my ds1 who is 7 still loves some of her stuff

also bfast I do pancakes crumpets muffins etcto avoid toast every day

[Jacksmybaby]

Actually, writing it down has made me feel a bit better about it - seems much more variation than I thought!
BTW, the above cooked meals (i.e. the casseroles etc, also all the veg etc) are pretty much all prepared in advance and frozen in individual portions so when it comes to meal times I can just chuck some stuff into the microwave - not a chance I have time to cook it all fresh on the day!

[Jacksmybaby]

cross post with u andie re preparing in advance! thanks.

[andiemustlosehalfastonemore]

you are doing a fab job already then especially on the dried fruit and stuff