What did/does your 12 m/o eat?

[madameovary]

DD has just turned one and I am keen to give her as much variety as I can. Her usual breakfast is baby porridge and/or toast, lunch is usually a baked potato with cheese, or quorn goujons, or cheese on toast, usually all with greens. For the evening meal she gets sweet potato and apple as it is easily digestible.

Just looking for fresh ideas really. Ta.

Breakfast for my DD is Weetabix or Ready Brek followed by some fruit - tinned or fresh. Sometimes have to fend her off with some raisins first.

Lunch is main meal with meat (chicken or beef) or fish or lentil with veg (whatever I have) and pasta, rice, potatoes, couscous or bulghar wheat. Today she is having tomatoey cauliflower curry, with dhal w. spinach and rice. Then a yoghurt or some fruity puree, custard or rice pudding with fruit puree.

Tea is a struggle but we have sandwiches/ cold pizza/ chunks of ham and cheese/ cucumber and tomato pieces/ fish goujons/ baked mozzarella/ omlette strips, rice cakes, baked beans, sausage (cold) (prob some more but can't think!) - a mixture of the above followed by more yog/ fromage frais or fruit. She is not great with tea so I usually present her with ever more tempting options which end up on the floor! I try to avoid to much sausage/ pizza/ beans etc cos of the salt content.

Can I ask - are you a veggie? Was the Quorn which made me wonder....

Hi fizzpops, yes I am veggie
She gets goats milk and cheese but too much wheat makes her very windy at night and unable to sleep, hence the very simple but filling sweet potato and apple mash...
Thanks for your suggestions.

Ds used to like home made 'pizza'. Wholemeal pitta sliced in half then one half topped with tomato puree or some tinned tomatoes & grated cheese, melt the cheese & cut into thin strips.
The other half of the pitta we'd save for snack time for him to chew on

Could you try her on a mushroom/ other veg risotto. My DD loves anything with rice and I keep meaning to try this myself/ The curry she had today was mainly cauli, tin of toms, some curry spices (not hot) mixed with dhal (garlicky) with basmati rice. Went down a treat.

I don't eat meat myself (some fish though) and want her to grow up knowing a meatless meal is still a proper meal - she does love her meat though!

mine ate pretty much the same as us by that age, albeit chopped a bit smaller / mashed together a bit (NB, this was in the days when you weaned babies on purees and no one had heard of BLW).

DS2 was not good at all with lunch (still questionable even now) so I would often go for a fruit plate, slices of cheese, rolled up ham etc. rather than a 'proper' meal. I figured that seeing as he ate a balanced breakfast and a good evening meal, a picky lunch wouldn't kill him.

On the subject of breakfast, mine had (and still have) Weetabix, toast, fruit, yoghurt etc. but I learned to put some limit on how much they ate at breakfast, otherwise they were still full at lunchtime.

Totally endorse everything people have said about meatless meals... it was important to me that mine didn't eye pulses, eggs, quinoa etc. with suspicion, for economic reasons as much as nutritional or ethical ones.

Good ideas fizzpops and misshardbroom, must give her some rice / quinoa dishes. Thank you!