What food do you give your 1 year old?

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Basically im running out of ideas on what to give my 1 year old. She is allergic to tomatoes which make her vomit straight away and also triggers her ecezema. Tis a pity seeing as most of the food we have has tomatoes in (we eat a lot of pasta) and im no cook. She used to love cauliflower cheese, brocolli cheese, sphagetti carbonara etc etc but now short of giving her laughing cow sandwhiches and goodies cheese and herb puffs (dont flame me for that) i cant really get her to eat anything else savoury. She puts her fingers in her mouth and pulls eveything right back out again and its everywhere then she will just push the spoon away. Fine with fruit, her breakfasts etc etc. Shes also on 3 bottles a day but about to change to 2 bottles and drop the mid afternoon one with a hope she will be more hungry come tea time.
II suppose it could be teeth too (shes only got 4)! she is drooling a lot at the moment so another one probably on the way. Could it just be a fussy phase? I dont want to be appearing on Jo Frost in 8 years with a child that will only eat crisps and sandwhiches! Also should she be feeding herself with her spoon properly now?
YOu have probably guessed this is my first. Apparently she eats everyting at nursery - fishermans pie, bagels type thing but playing me and my mum up who has her a few days a week. Any tips and ideas on good foods to try?

Thanks

My DS, now 16m, hit the fussy phase about this stage and would only eat finger food. Much easier now he can manage a fork and spoon, but may be worth trying things she can eat with her fingers. Nothing wrong with (good quality) sausages, fish fingers, chicken bites, soasted sweet potatoes, peas, sweetcorn, anything bright and colouful that she can manage herself.

Most importantly, don't ever let her see it get to you if she refuses the food - it's a disaster waiting to happen. That's why I stopped all my DS's meals, much easier to scrape birds eye fish fingers in the bin than home made ones!!

Hang on in there, it gets easier (and then worse so I'm told!!).

Stopped cooking...!! Didn't starve the poor child!

great advice thank you think will try fish fingers and peas tomorrow! forgot all about fish fingers i used to love them! and they wont make a mess everywhere as you say.
Hope it is just a phase - i remember being all smug when i first started weaning she would try anything bless her but was constantly sick - she had reflux which masked the tomatoe thing so there i was giving her loads of stuff with tomatoes in not realising was adding to the problem

There's always a tiny puddle of ketchup if you get really desperate.....

Runs away and ducks for cover....

Good luck!

Sounds a lot like my DD, apart from the allergy thing, mine is just a fussy little madam. She is coming up for a year and doesn't seem to like savoury stuff either apart from cheese and those carrot stick and puffs things, she is even starting to refuse things she previously liked such as fruit and baby porridge. The only thing she will eat reliably is yogurt.

Magnum What are you trying to do to the poor child...she's allergic to tomatoes

Just reading for advice as my DD 14 months is refusing all dinners apart from the usual fish fingers etc as suggested. Breakfast and lunches are ok.

Oh dd does this now and again. She is 13m. She eats what we do but her fabourites are:
Cheesy pasta
Baked potatoes with tuna may/cheese/cottage cheese
Pasta with veg and tomato sauce (could you do a butternut squash type sauce?)
Mince n tatties (hates carrots but likes peas in it, hates onions)
Sausages with roasts and yorkshires
Sandwiches!
Scrambled egg with or without cheese
Pizza
Pancakkes

Ds at this age ate:
Cheerios
Yogurt

He eats fine now, don't get stressed is my main tip.

Pasta and pesto is easy too and I'm going to be trying this at the weekend I think.

We don't eat much meat or fish cause I'm vegetarian but if we did I'd also try
Fish pie with lots of mash and cheese on top
Lasagne (maybe tricky without toms though)
Fish boiled in milk
Roasts
ChcieKn fillets with mash+veg
Homemade mini burgers
Tuna pasta bake

You can do lentil soups with veg with bread? Or rice? Broths and casseroles. I stir fry veg in oil with spices and then Ross some cooked rice in it. Also use quorn mince with veg to make risotto style dish. DS now 17mo eats anything but refuses all foods when sprouting molars!
Being a mother is hard

Oh yes, dd LOVES soup. Esp with lots of bread.

No intention of sounding smug..just finding meal times to be hard work right now...tantrums, chatting, messing, spitting out chewed food. And then the clearing up...it's a lot not easy!

My DS isn't 11 months even but he loves sardines mashed with philadelphia and spread on toast fingers, mince and onions, fishfingers, baby sweetcorn ...

I make a batch of mashed sweet potato and freeze it, then if I'm in a rush I microwave one with some baked beans! Also roast chicken with roast veg. Scrambled egg with grated cheese?

I make a nice lentil and sweet potato casserole thing which he wolfs down too :)

Mine loves roast chicken with peas, creamy mash and low salt gravy. I sprinkle the peas on his tray and he loves picking them up and that allows me to spoon/ fork feed him the rest while he's distracted picking up peas.

Have you tried cheesy scrambled egg with some toast/ bread and butter?

thanks for all the replies some great ideas now for me to try. well i got a call from nursery today she came out in a rash on her face after eating cottage pie that the poor cook had cooked seperately for her with no toms in - so god only knows what else she is allergic too, they were thinking onions??? anyone else had a child allergic to onions???! i had to nip in to bring her piriton thankfully she is all ok now and the rash has pretty much gone. im so hoping this is just a phase with these allergic reactions
also - can i ask again if your 1 year olds feed themselves with a spoon or are they still too young for it?? i end up taking it off her as it goes all over the place and takes forever but am aware this isnt letting her learn for herself, would you just continue with finger foods for now and spoon feed yourself?
i do that too matana with the food distractions and try and get as much in that way!

My DS loved holding a spoon at that age but didn't really start using it properly til about 14m. We always had about 4 spoons at mealtimes - 1 for me to shovel the food in and 3 for him to play with/drop on the floor/push food around the plate with. Now he's not so keen on being helped!

The more you let her try, the sooner she'll get the hang of it, just don't push yourself if you're stressed or tired just spoon feed.

Sorry about the ketchup advice BTW, totally missed the tomatoes allergy, poor thing!

ha ha magnum its ok i didnt really think you were suggesting that i try and poison her!

good tip about the 4 spoons thankyou

Dd is 13m, she can kind of feed herself with a spoon but makes a mess, she had soup today with bread in and I fed it to her whilst she tried - messy but she is so independent she won't let me help her much.

My friend was very allergic to oinions + that also extended to things lkike chives etc because they are all from the same 'family'

quiche? pesto pasta & peas, scrambled egg, fishfingers?

More chance of plaiting piss than my 12 month old feeding himself with a spoon

My 11 month old LOVES risotto... And you can add anything to it!

He's also great at spoon feeding himself - I let him have the last bits of every meal to do himself - so a nearly empty yoghurt pot, bowl of porridge, bowl of risotto etc.. The more they do it, the neater they get, so less mess....!

My DS is nearly 15mo and some of the non-tomato things he likes are:

Mashed potato, broccoli, cheese, milk and carrot with aduki beans and peas mixed in whole (or haricot beans instead of aduki).

Pasta with roasted red pepper sauce. And cheese.

Mince and veg with mash.

Chicken with a bit of mango and rice.

Green lentils with mash/rice and gravy.

White fish with peas and potato.

Basically I was a bit skint recently so heavily investigated the pulses section of the supermarket. I couldn't afford to make too many meat dishes.

While I can't say aduki beans would set my world alight, DS likes them. My biggest challenge is that he will no longer let anyone feed him and he only wants to use adult spoons and eat what we eat.

He's perfectly competent at getting the food in but gets distracted by things so meals which used to take 5 mins now take an hour.....

Teething sets my 1 year old right back into BF mode and she eats nothing. Then she perks up afterwards and demolishes anything in sight. DD only has 2 teeth but has 2 more coming - no teeth for 11.5 months then 4 at once, poor sod.

She loves steamed baby sweetcorn, asparagus and broccoli. Also strips of meat, garlic bread and pesto.

Quiche could worth a try? Just to make a change from the cheese!

There's a recipe for watercress and goats cheese muffins on Mumsnet that I tried with spinach and they were a huge hit.

Starting to think I was a bit strange - my 2 had whatever I was cooking for us from the 6 month BLW point. I'm not a fan of "children's / baby food" - just don't see the point. I also don't make separate meals - if they're hungry they'll eat.....

I don't know if it's luck that mine will eat anything or everything or the fact that I have a "eat it or go hungry" rule.

ps if they really dislike a food I don't make them eat it - bad memories from my childhood of being force fed broad beans stops that one.......

No I don't cook separate meals for DD either. She has what we have. But we work silly hours and don't always eat at proper times so if this happens, she has leftovers from previous night with a few steamed veggies to freshen things up.

Spinach and ricotta tortellini is a huge hit. She can eat handfuls of that at one sitting.

issimma - DD is the same with cheese. Hates the bland stuff. Would eat lumps of Stilton if I let her but it's a bit salty.