What do 1yr olds eat?

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new mindee today has brought food but i have said i will supply lunch, am thinking jacket potoaot(insides), little bits of chicken, small soft veggy sticks, soft pasta???...what else???

Peas, grated cheese perhaps ? Mashed potato is a fantastic medium for transporting all manner of food ! IYSWIM

ah good tip!, lots of mash with veggies mashed in...terrible isnt it when you cant remember what your dd ate when she was this age!

suppose its the same consistency of the baby food shes been having so might go down well with bits of veg/chicken/ham etc in...thanks for that

what did she bring, wouldn't that give you a clue. tbh by one i'd have thought they'd be eating whatever you give them, not mashed up at all.

its a jar of cotage pie with pot of home cooked mashed veg..dont do jars, so wanted to try in incorporate what other children are eating

i think a baked potato with bits for everyone with some of it mashed for the baby,then, and you can use the veggies the mum brought. so weird, the idea of a one-year-old on jars, isn't it?

risotto?

sorry...that's not for the mashed potato obviously

I used to give DS1 lots of homemade casseroles too as the meat goes nice and soft making easier for them to eat.

My 1 year old mindee started eating what the rest eat at about 11 months - I haven't mashed up or anything but depends on what the child is used to I suppose

Rosie get a Potato ricer you can put all the veggies through it, perfect for a 1 year old

there should be no need whatsoever to use a potato ricer for a one-year-old's food, surely?

Depends I have one who no way would eat anything lumpy (although we are working on it) and another who has been eating everything whole since 8 months depends on what the parents have been doing with the child to be honest.

i tend to go with what the child will take to start with, and with a new mindee, food is the way they often feel settled with, so do it the way they are used to.

exactly, so the child has a jar and some mashed veg, so mashing should be fine shouldn't it? ricing stuff would be a retrograde step, i presume.

there is not much difference in the ricing or mashing if you do it on a large holed ricer.

(and i must admit I hate jars and with the parents agreement they are the first thing to go)

My daughter wouldn't touch mashed food, it was whole or nothing. My almost 2 year old mindee started with me when she was 10 months and wouldn't eat anything BUT purees. Sometimes her parents had to repuree puree! She would gag - I got her onto mashed then lumpy then whole food within a few months but it was definitely a work in progress.

I would do as suggested, mash/lump what everyone else is having but finger foods definitely go over a treat at that age. Tiny pieces of cheese, cut up chicken fingers etc etc

sounds like my 12 month old, wouldnt take any finger foods or lumps, we were getting there before xmas, will have to see what he is like when he gets back.

Its not that he dosnt lik ethe taste, os apert from bananas he eats everything and anything

well upion heating veggies they were more sliced and diced than pureed..the jar was ofcourse mushy with bits of lumps(jar said from 7 months) and desert was fruit puree....so she had those, i cut her up some honeydew melon to bite on which she loved as shes teething it was sooo cold, then cucuumber sticks, raisins..and a little choccy log...have to get ris of them and mum aid she doesnt mind ..she also tried corn on the cob but spat it out...ill be making her lucnh tomorrow so will do jacket pots and maybe tuna with carrots,peas broccoli diced up small?

I used to do food for my family and save some for mindee babies which I then put in liquidiser and did it pureed or not too mushy depending on child's age.

Sometimes I put the food into used and cleaned jars which were also sterile and put in freezer for another day. It was useful if the Mum had not any suitable food in for him at the time.

J used to like finger food alot and jkt potato taken out of skin with baked beans or cheese (if child is allowed cheese).