What does your 1 year old eat?

[WindFlower92]

Just looking for ideas really! We go for picnics for lunch quite a bit in the week and feel like I'm running out of ideas, so I'm turning to you for inspiration! What is a good lunch/snacks for your 1 year old?

I’m with you OP I find lunches the hardest to make, some examples of what we have are;

Cheese/ham sandwich or toastie bites
Red pepper & cheese omelette
Toast & egg
French toast
Leftovers
Pitta & hummus

I would be interested in your ideas too, apologies not a lot of those are picnic friendly!

Oh can I join? Toastie bites great idea.

Lentil or veg soup and roll, bread. Messy but she loves it.

Crackers and pate or cheese spread.

Quiche, particularly if leftover.

Cheese on toast.

My 1 year old only likes plain rice, bananas and cheese at the moment.

My one year old loves egg ‘strips’- I whisk an egg and tip it into a frying pan and just leave it until it’s cooked through and then cut it into strips. Sort of an omelet but less faff, and she loves it!

Fake pizzas also- soft tortilla, tomato paste, sprinkle on some meat, cheese and veggies and pop under the grill! Great way to sneak veggies in as I cut them up super small and hide it under the cheese!

Little things like Babybel cheese and cheese strings also a winner and good for picnics. What about hard boiled eggs?

Bleedin' anything that is not fixed down.

I tend to make some variation on:

Toast, thins, bread or pitta with either cheese, cream cheese, nut butter, hummus

Omelette or scrambled eggs with one or two different veg

Pasta if she isn't having it for dinner

Usually fruit to follow

@LaTomatina I must have the only baby in the world that hates banana!

Quiche is a good one will try that!

Mine is allergic to eggs which is a total pain. Eggs are such a useful ingredient at this stage!

Tuna with mayo and sweetcorn gets Shoveled in like no tomorrow especially with pasta or wrap. Grated cheese. Cheese and crackers. Tea cakes, half jacket potato with butter.

@Teacaketotty your not alone! My little man starts shaking his head as soon as he gets whiff of a banana! I've recently started to mash it up and mix it into his porridge, even then once he gets a taste of he refuses anymore!

I've been making flatbread pizzas. Tomato sauce on flatbread, like a pasta sauce or passata, cheese and some veg, ham or sweetcorn then cook in oven. Can eat it cold later too and I can sneak as much veg as I can get away with on to it

Mostly whatever is on the floor.

We do a mini full English (spaghetti hoops, scrambled egg and half a thin sausage)
Tortilla pizza
Fish finger with mixed veg
Pasta with mixed veg
Filled pasta with mixed veg

Also my kid won't eat fish fingers. Why?? Or the once or twice I've actually attempted to make chicken nuggets myself. Think I got a defective one.

@AWryGiraffe mine will only eat the fish not the breadcrumbs 🤷🏼‍♀️

Great ideas here - thanks, I also really struggle with deciding what to feed for lunch.

My default is crumpets or pancakes with peanut butter & a piece of fruit followed by yogurt

I have precisely 5 lunch options that get presented on rotation:

Cheese on toast
Peanut butter sandwich
Eggy bread
Cream cheese sandwich
Scrambled egg and toast

These are always accompanied by cucumber sticks, halved cherry tomatoes and some fruit. I have no imagination when it comes to lunch. No complaints to the management from 1 year old yet!

Do you all just use whatever bread you have or something in particular?

My 11 month old always tends to have a picnic-y lunch
Toast with pb or marmite, maybe avocado
potato waffle
Pita bread (usually with melted cheese in the middle and cut into strips)
Grated cheese
Peas
Hard boiled egg
Olives
Sweet corn
Blueberries
Lemon wedges
Canned tuna
Canned salmon
Baby crisps (puffs, wheels etc)
Apple

That list could get quite long, but I tend do a carby thing, a proteiny thing (often grated cheese ) and 2-3 fruit or vegetables.

Ah yes potato waffles are our old faithful, bit of cheese on top works every time! Takes 2 mins in the toaster too

And the holes are perfectly grabbable. Waffles are the best weaning food... it’s just mash really, right?

Thanks all, some good ideas, especially the fake pizzas! Will have to give that a go. I'm lucky in that she'll pretty much eat anything. Will use some of these tomorrow to give her a bit of variety :)

Well you'll all be glad to know that I made a lovely picnic today, only for me to open it up and a bird to poo all over it! But I'm sure it would have been lovely

@WindFlower92 oh wow at least you tried lol 🤣