Dinner ideas suitable for adult and baby/toddler?

[JennaTooIs]

My daughter is 11 months and is quite confident with eating now, so to save me from making our dinners separately, does anyone have any recommendations for nice dinners that would be suitable for us both? (Nothing too fancy as it's just her and I). Thank you!

You can pretty much give her anything. Ours eats everything except major chewy stuff like crackling/very crusty bread.
The last few days he's had fish pie, medium-heat curry (we started with mild), sausage and mash, penne carbonara. He's 16 months now but he's been eating what we eat since the get go. Until he got teeth we just squished it up more. Pretty much everything can either be chopped into finger food or spooned in.

At 11 months my DC loved pasta and most sauces, stews with mashed potatoes, shepherds pie, omelettes, risottos, most things really. (one of them got fussy as an older toddler/ young child). a favourite they still like today was meatballs with baby roasted potatoes and veg, leftover meatballs go in a pasta sauce. also toad in the hole made with chipolatas and veg.

Thank you both, lovely ideas! I think I just get nervous due to the lack of teeth, but you're right she should be able to have everything I eat if prepared properly.

Jacket potato with cheesy beans. I used to peel the skin off the potato and cut it into chunks for them to pick up

Mine loved fajitas or burritos. I used to take their potion out then add extra spice to the adult portions.

My eldest got her first tooth at 17 months. The only things she struggled with before then was hard fruit like apples. Their gums are hard.

Fish pie, shepherd's pie, macaroni cheese, scrambled egg/beans etc, pasta with mushroom sauce, chicken and mushroom pie, tuna pasta, mild cury and rice. Chicken satay meatballs. Egg fried rice. Our little boy loves noodles so I do a stir fry with boiled veg bit noodles can be difficult to eat. I did used to cut them up really small and mix with satay sauce when he was a baby.

Thank you everyone! I'm officially hungry.

@PuttingDownRoots How did you serve the fajitas? Cut into pieces?

Don't worry op.start as you mean to ho on.literally will help you no end if you just normalise your food as theirs too.no special meals.
As my granbysed to say " you'd be surprised what you can eat with no teeth!"
Its more logistics with toddlers and awareness ,balance etc.so how deft they are with cutlery etc.chopping. things like spaghetti they haven't got the twirling fork maneuver down lol.so chopping that into shorter strands before you boil.or use pasta shapes.
And remember they are starting from bland one taste types so if they biak a first try don't automatically think another week they won't.
Their taste buds adapt all the time.

Yup.or We used to make ours into a layer cake😄.used the cake tin.and layered the fajita,salsa,cheese,wrap,fajita,salsa,cheese,wrap etc cheese ontop.cook. and serve in slices

This also works great with leftover curry,mince etc.

@Itsgottobeme Thanks so much!

I’ve never made separate meals - just don’t add salt. Curries, stir fry, chillis, tray bakes, sausage casserole, fajitas, burritos, pasta, bolognese. Just cut small / squash a bit!

As others have said, try not to overthink it, we've almost always given the kids the same as us from the start of weaning really. DC1 always been a poor eater and DC2 so far a pretty good one but he's only 1 and a half so plenty of time to become influenced by his sibling's bad habits yet..

I did what my ancestors always did, one meal for all, but minced for the toothless.

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Ours just ate what we did.

Stir fries, curries, spag bol, casserole, roasts, mince and tarries, baked potatoes.

Babe doesn't need teeth. Gums are are her and can manage most things.

Bit late to this thread but what do you all do if they refuse to eat what you’re having? We keep trying but I end up serving pasta more often than I’d like as it’s the only thing he’ll reliably eat!

I don't do much except make sure they aren't hungry or dehydrated by providing water and milk. I refuse to make a special meal for DS. I've been at dinner where a child refused to come to the table. They held out long enough, the parents got desperate, and the kid got cupcakes. I don't want to force my child to eat and create a complex around food. I offer everything we have for dinner in appropriate sizes or mashed. It's the kid's choice to eat how much. Sometimes, DS eats a lot and other times, not much, in which case I make sure he gets milk so he's not starving and waking up a night from hunger.