Breakfast for a 14 month old

[littlelamb]

Hi I'm just hoping someone can give me some ideas. I have had real problems with eating disorders in the fairly recent past, and while most of that is behind me now, I still have trouble with breakfast, and I am afraid that I've become aware of how this is affecting my daughter. She wakes up and I still only give her a bottle of milk. From tomorrow, I really want to make the effort for us both to sit down and eat a proper breakfast. At the risk of sounding dense, what would a normal breakfast consist of? I guess I'm looking for ideas we can both have and share, so that means no bread or bananas for me, still a bit difficult to eat them. Any advice would be a great help, so thanks in advance!

Thank you those are all great ideas. I will definately try the milk in the cup then breakfast after an hour, that sounds as if it may be the solution. Did manage a good dinner though! I just felt like cooking and had no idea what I was cooking or how it would taste until I was done, but made courgette, pepper and onions with chopped tomatoes and tuna and spaghetti, and it went down a treat! I think the spaghetti was a mistake though, she kept picking it up to look at it, and very little made its way to her mouth! It really makes me feel good to see her enjoying what I make her, so I will definately persevere with the breakfast mission!

I make ds's porridge v.stodgy so he can easily scoop it up - it's almost a gluey consistency. I just cook/microwave until it gets like that. If your dd isn't liking it, you could try stirring some fruit puree into it to make it a bit tastier.

That lunch sounds fantastic (and scarily similar to what ds had for his lunch today!). I use pasta twists though, so he can pick them up / spoon them up as he wants. I usually blend the sauce and mash down the tuna, so that it binds to the pasta as he's picking it up.

You can always freeze sauces like that, so if you've having a day when you don't feel like cooking, you can just defrost the sauce and boil up some pasta.

Thanks so much for all your help. This mornning we finally had success! I didn't give her any milk, and she went to the kitchen and started pointing at the biscuit shelf! I told her the biscuits were in her bowl with the milk, and she ate all the porridge! So I think it will just be a case of calleng breakfast a biscuit from now on
Thanks for all your help, the breakfast really has made an amazing difference, she's not been after snacks all morning, and went straight down for her nap with no fuss!

good to hear things are going well littlelamb

x E

Excellent! LOL @ biscuits. My DS calls crispbread biscuits. Hey, have as many as you like!

Laura032004, thanks for the excellent idea, I just made and froze an amazing amount of food, today I found it quite hard to cook, but now all i'll have to do is defrost something. That Karmel woman would be proud! And Enid, I never properly thanked you for your kindness on my less optimistic threads, so please accept my thanks, you all were really amazing to me, and I haven't forgotten it x