What does your one year old eat in a day?

[MarshaMarsha44]

Hi all - I am struggling with different ideas to feed my one year old DS. Would be great to hear what everyone else feeds their DCs in a day so I can get some different ideas. Particularly stuck in a rut with lunches and snacks.

Thanks!

Breakfast - weetabix, fruit and yoghurt
Snack - rice cakes/fruit/banana wafers/flapjack/veggie straws if I’m trying to keep her awake. Milk.
Lunch - she’s by very hungry so just leftovers or a slice of meat or quorn with picky foods like cucumber or a breadstick. If she didn’t eat much breakfast then boiled egg, cheese on toast etc.
I try to avoid afternoon snack as she eats lunch at about 2 after her nap.
Tea - this week she’s had a roast, couscous with lentil sauce, pasta and bolognaise, chicken stir fry, chicken korma, beef stew and mash and on a lazy evening fish fingers!
I found the Anna karmel book helpful.

*she’s not very hungry

1 year old DS.
Breakfast: porridge with yoghurt and passionfruit
Snack: cheese and grapes
Lunch: Pasta with a mixed veg and lentil sauce
Snack: Small banana muffin
Supper: Fish with rice containing chopped dried apricots, peas and sweetcorn, berries for pudding

Snack ideas: rice cakes, banana, biscuits (ones aimed at babies), fruit or vegetable muffins (loads of toddler recipes online - I use a sugar-free recipe and it's delicious - make in a fairy cake tin, then freeze. Take one out in the morning and it will have defrosted in an hour or so), oat bars, fruit smoothie, buttered toast.

Lunches: cold meat from the night before, such as left-over chicken, cous cous, soup, french toast. Similar things to supper such as meat/fish with veg, cottage pie, mini burgers (make a batch and freeze).

Watching with interest as I could do with some more ideas.

Breakfast is usually shreddies or porridge.
Lunch is varies between a sandwich (wraps, pita etc), soup and bread, leftovers, pinwheels, cheese/egg/beans/sardines on toast, with fruit
Tea is whatever I’m having, fajitas, pasta bake, curry, stew, spaghetti Bol, meat and two veg, usually with fruit and a yoghurt after.
He doesn’t get snacks.

I have an older one year old (20 months) but he had always just eaten what we eat and is an amazing eater.

For breakfast its things like - toast and banana, porridge, fruit and yogurt, pancakes with strawberries or banana, scrambled egg with sausage and tomatoes.

For dinner/lunch its- pitta with chicken, humus and veggies, eggs with sausage/bacon and toast, pasta salad, chicken with rice (flavoured), peppers and peas, wraps, a plate with things like cucumber, cheese cubes, olives, ham and crackers or something like soup or a pitta pizza.

For tea - curry/chilli and rice, pasta bake, stew, risotto, Sunday dinner, toad in the whole, pizza, chicken with couscous and veg.

Just whatever we are having really, makes life.much easier

Should add, mine doesn't get much in the way of snacks put has 'pudding' after his tea which is often yogurt and/or fruit. Sometimes he will have some flapjack, a banana/apple or a couple of crackers or a breadstick between meals but I try to keep them to a minimum as all the kids eat better at meal times that way

You are all making me very jealous! My 17 month old is a little bugger for eating!

He has porridge or peanut butter on toast. Sometime a toasted waffle with honey as a treat.

Then milk with his nap.

Some kind of chicken or pizza or leftover Bolognes for lunch- I always give him fruit/veg but he refuses to eat it! I have actually started mixing peas and sweetcorn in with his beans on toast!

Dinner is always something in sauce otherwise he will not have any veg at all. Curry, stew, paella, cottage pie.

Snacks are crackers (I sneak dairy lea and peanut butter on these) baby snacks

Pudding is always yoghurt with mashed fruit sneaked in...

He WILL NOT feed himself unless it is a cracker or baby snack. I'm hoping as he sees other children feeding themselves he might get the flipping idea!

13 mo eats

Porridge (loads) with a whole banana a handful of blueberries and a quarter apple

Snack - baby oaty bar (aldi) or a couple of rice cakes

Lunch: nightmare. Wont eat any type of bread and I have tried everything. So usually pasta with a creamy sauce, sometimes leftovers. This is my biggest problem feeding DS. Fruit, 2x fromage frais yoghurts.

Snack: baby gingerbread biscuit (organix) or similar with grapes

Dinner: whatever we have, roasts, stews, pasta....

I'd love to hear some non bread lunch ideas DS could take to childcare....

jellybabie what about things like savoury rice? My son will eat some bread type goods but much prefers the likes.of couscous, pasta, rice etc

I have a fussy lil 14mo but generally something like today
Breakfast: crumpet, bagel or toast with butter or peanut butter.
Banana and raisins. Sometimes yogurt instead.

Lunch; loves pasta bakes, spaghetti Bol, cottage pie, curry, etc. It’s just always something I’ve batch cooked to last a couple of days worth of lunch

Snacks; usually something like an organic oat bar or something along those lines

Dinner; it’s always a similar sort of thing as lunch usually as I know he’ll eat it.

Some great ideas above though, definitely want to try some of these. Need to get a bit more adventurous myself with tastes and spices etc

Thanks all - will use some of these ideas!