What was your child eating by 1yr old?

[TrinitySquirrel]

What did/does your 1yr olds meals look like?

We're doing a combo of blw and things like porridge and puree so far at 7m old but wondered what his menu should really look like by 1yr old.

We're pretty skint right now so our evening meals aren't always blw friendly (as we're clearing out the ready meals and spicy food from the freezer step by step) so then he gets some steamed veg fingers and fruit.

Mine ate the same as the rest of the family at 12 months. You say you are using up freezer things etc just now but you have 5 months to progress to a stage where baby eats the same. You can start now and freeze a small portion of soups/bolognese/stews every time you make it to build up supply for when you and your DH have a scrappy freezer tea

At a year, yes, I would say same as we ate, with some modifications if that wasn't appropriate. For breakfast, she was starting to feed herself porridge or yogurt, plus I did toast with various things on it, weetabix or shredded wheat softened with a little milk (she could pick that up with her hands), dry cereal she could just eat with her hands, smoothies with cashew butter for protein, etc. Lunches were often cold picnicky food or sandwiches, breadsticks with hummus, cheese cubes, ham, cucumbers, fruit, sometimes I'd make savoury muffins (spinach and feta or cheddar and sweetcorn), or little sandwich fingers, cold pasta salads.

We didn't do family dinner together yet at 1 because she needed to get ready for bed before I had time to cook, but I would set aside leftovers from dinner (that I made for us) each night and then she'd have that the next day, just a bit earlier than us (we'd make dinner after she went to bed). I did lots of pastas, soup with toast fingers, roast chicken with potato/sweet potato wedges (made fresh and baked, not like from the freezer section), quiche or omelettes for dinner.

Maybe just before 1 she started to have mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks, usually rice cakes, breadsticks, yogurt, fruit, raisins, cheese, etc.

Also, second the suggestion to freeze things when you have extra for whenever your meal isn't baby-friendly. I used to do this and then we'd have a spicy curry or something similar if we wanted it. I also used to make batches of some things and freeze them, like the savoury muffins, or I'd make veg pasties or even twice baked potatoes. They were easy to re-heat for any meal when we needed something (or I was too lazy to cook).