What do your 1 year olds eat?

[Mumtoone202020]

I need some ideas as I'm stuck as to what to give dd, she eats pretty much everything I offer her but she has pretty much the same meals everyday. She's 14 months in a couple of days

For example

Breakfast she has - toast, sometimes with butter but most of the time plain or porridge and a bottle

Then she has her morning nap for about an hour

Lunch - cheese sandwich and a yogurt, or pasta (she always has water)

Afternoon snack- fruit

Then she has about a 30 minute nap

Dinner - I cook cottage pie, spaghetti bolognese, pasta etc but I'm struggling on what to give her as I feel like I'm giving her the same things most nights!

Whatever you are having!
By one year should be able to have most things, just avoid if too salty or very spicy.
Curries, pies, stews, pasta, fish, roasts, risottos, jacket potato, salads. Just make sure things are cut appropriately for her age.

Whatever the rest of us are having. She has a few allergies so it makes it tricky. She still breast feeds (bf) at 19 months. Here is what I can remember of this week’s meal plan.

Breakfast bf, offered, cereal, fruit and toast but rarely eats breakfast

Snack - pancakes, hot cross bun, fruit, apple to dip into peanut butter, maybe an organix bar

Lunch - tuna wrap, pasta, falafel, humus, salad and pitta bread, baked potato and beans, smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, Sunday dinner, soup

Bf before nap

Another snack - more of the same and often hot chocolate (recommended by her dietitian)

Dinner - cod and chickpea bake, salmon new potato and veg, chilli, shepherd pie, pizza, risotto,

Bed and over night a few bf.

DS has everything and anything. He has lunch at nursery 4 days a week and they mainly do veggie and fish. Today it was a lentil stew with sweet potato and broccoli. He had tea at home - savoury spinach pancakes with guacamole for dipping. Things that are very popular here include anything pie/pastry related, mild curries, avocado on toast, macaroni cheese (#1 by a long way). Quesadillas are my go to for a quick meal.

Fortunately mine will eat most things. Usually something like this -

Breakfast - Weetabix or porridge
Morning Snack - fruit and cheese
Lunch - peanut butter sandwich, egg or beans on toast. Salad bits which sort of get sucked and chewed on (no molars yet, but they like the taste!) Soup
Snack - rice cake with Philadelphia, organix oaty bar, crumpet or something like that. Yogurt.
Dinner - usually what we are having. Spag bol, chicken korma, roast dinner, fish pie. I just pick out easier to eat bits and cut meat up very small. Cooked veggies.
Supper - rice cake and blue top milk

Only drinks water through the day.

Breakfast - porridge, toast and peanut butter or Philadelphia. I also found a quick easy ‘pancake’ recipe..you mash a banana and whisk with one egg. Then stir in some dry oats and fry. Drizzle with a bit of honey.

For lunch and dinner I do some batch cooking for her, quite a lot of veggie pasta recipes as she always eats those. Her favourite one is butternut squash, tomato and basil pasta by annabel karmel (mega quick and easy and can make a big batch).

Generally if me and husband are making a meal we just make another for 3 people and then that makes a few meals for her to go in the freezer. Even things like curry for us I just then water it down with Greek yog so not as spicy

Breakfast: porridge and banana

Lunch: usually toast with houmous or cream cheese or avocado. Plus fruit/ salad bits/ cheese cubes/ yogurt depending on what topping he had.

Dinner : protein, carbs and veg. Always add lentils/ beans/ fish/ egg/ meat, then rice/ potato/ pasta, plus veg.

Mixture of spoon fed and finger food

DS is 14 months too and likes to eat what we do with the exception of breakfast which tends to be either porridge with peanut butter or weetabix with 2 cups of whole milk.

I found this book quite helpful. I still use it!

books.google.com/books/about/What_Mummy_Makes.html?id=H33gDwAAQBAJ