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What does your 1 year old eat?

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ChangesAt30 · 04/06/2019 12:25

DD is 13 months old and has turned into a little fuss pot!

Just wondering what your DC at that age eat, to see if you do anything I haven't thought to try Smile

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mindutopia · 04/06/2019 13:43

Ours eats pretty much what we eat, when possible.

Breakfast is bagel with cream cheese or butter, toast with hummus, porridge or weetabix and then usually some sort of fruit.

Lunch he has at nursery during the week, but I often do picnic type lunches on the weekends (cocktail sausages, ham, cheese, pita with hummus, gherkins, halved cherry tomatoes, cucumber sticks, then yogurt or fruit for pudding - obviously not all of this in one meal, but a mix) or sometimes I will get him a shop bought pasta salad if we are out (like the M&S chicken, bacon and sweetcorn one, he really likes that).

Dinner is always what we're having, so tonight it's pizza and salad, last night was lentil stew with crusty bread, over the weekend I did a basic cheesy pasta and peas, we often do salmon with rice and some sort of veg (he doesn't really eat the rice but he'll eat fish and veg), jacket potatoes with salad, lasagna and peas (I buy the ready meal version from Tesco, which is too salty for him, so I have frozen portions of the Annabel Karmel lasagna in the freezer and I just make him that). Really it's just whatever we eat unless it's too spicy or salty and then I usually use some sort of alternative I can pull from the freezer.

Snacks - he eats a lot of fruit, yogurt, oatcakes, mini cheddars, breadsticks, etc. and sometimes a cup of milk.

waterandmilk · 04/06/2019 18:51

Do you mean eat or throw on the floor?

FiresideTreats · 04/06/2019 18:56

Sometimes lots, sometimes nothing. Just keep offering what you normally do and don't stress.

I offer a 'safe' food with every meal - something I know he'll eat if he is hungry. For him it's buttered bread, breadsticks or Greek yoghurt.

I generally stick with the 'division of responsibility' thinking - you decide on the food and the mealtimes, let DD decide what and how much she eats :)

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pastabest · 04/06/2019 18:59

It's really common for them to go through fussy phases so just keep putting good in front of them and try not to worry too much.

My 1 year old just has the same as her older sibling.

Cheese sandwiches
Ham sandwiches
Cottage pie
Tomato and cheese pasta
Cheesy garlic bread
Chilli on carne and rice
Baked beans with anything
Potato waffles fishfingers and peas
Anything with chips
Omelettes
Boiled eggs
Stir fried rice (leftovers with rice basically)
Actual stir-fries
Baked potatoes
Anything with mash
Chicken dippers
Roast dinners
Toast dinners
Spaghetti Bolognese
Lasagne

ArthurMc · 04/06/2019 19:14

My daughter is 13 months.
Today she ate
Cereal with honey and milk
Cheese cracker
Raspberry, peach, strawberry, blackberries and banana
Yogurt
Hula hoops in tomato sauce
Water
Chicken in sauce ( tomato onions garlic ginger )
Pasta with cheese and tomato sauce

Portion size are small so seems like a lot of food but in reality it’s not

ArthurMc · 04/06/2019 19:17

And in comparison if I tell you what my 3 years old ate, it’s terrible.
Hash brown
Noodles
Potato paratha
2 biscuits
1 cheese cracker
Lots of water
And that’s a normal diet for him. We are under the care of a dietician for him.

Haz1516 · 04/06/2019 19:29

Agree with division of responsibility. My job is to offer something nutritious (including at least one element he should definitely eat), it's then up to my little one if he eats it.

Normal go to foods:
Eggy banana bread
Pancakes
Jacket potatoes/sweet potato with tuna and sweetcorn/baked beans/bolognese leftovers.
Sandwiches - peanut butter, grated cheese, marmite, tuna.
Any pasta type dish - generally use fusilli as it's easy to pick up
Cheesy scrambled eggs with tomato bits and toast
Pizza topping toast (toast topped with passata sauce and whatever toppings popped under the grill for 5 mins)
Omelettes with whatever possible filling is in the fridge
Salmon chunks with veg
Fish fingers, potato waffles and peas

sittingonacornflake · 04/06/2019 19:39

Whatever we eat. So today was a HORRIFICALLY cheesey day's

Bagel with cream cheese and strawberries
Cheese scone
Goats cheese and pepper quiche with salad
Rice cakes and spinach, pea, mint and basil dip
Chicken enchiladas with broccoli, baby corn and asparagus
Plain Greek yoghurt

ChangesAt30 · 06/06/2019 15:46

Some good ideas here, thank you all!

I'm just a bit concerned that her fussiness through the day at her GP's means she's not eating very well, planning on sending her with a packed lunch of things I know she'll eat in future but don't want it to be the same every day.

She loves toast, hard boiled egg, cheese strings, salmon and veg. Usually has Weetabix or Ready Brek for breakfast but seems to be going off those now.

Not a fan of meat or anything too 'saucy'.

Think I'll try some tuna pasta for tomorrow and see how that goes 🙄

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morallybankruptme · 06/06/2019 16:42

Dd is nearly two. Honestly she is like a little hoover and eats almost anything ( except veg 🤦‍♀️)
We eat meals as a family everyday and we all eat the Same things ( butternut squash risotto today), so I think that helps.

We are not perfect though, she has had a sausage roll for lunch Grin

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