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Please tell me what your 1 year old eats in a day

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Latinorapida · 06/10/2021 20:36

And quantities too please if you don’t mind!

My son still breastfeeds quite a lot and a fair bit at night too. He never has much for breakfast (probably from feeding all night), eats an ok amount for lunch and dinner and has a few rice cakes and some fruit as a snack.

I only have 1 friend with a baby who’s a similar age and he eats absolutely everything so please if you don’t mind could you share what you’d 1 year old eats. Not sure whether I need to worry or not as some times he eats very little

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Letsallscreamatthesistene · 06/10/2021 20:40

Mines 18months. Today he had -

Breakfast - porridge and cup of milk (all of it)
Snack - banana (all of it)
Lunch - sausage ragu and pasta and peas (our dinner from last night - he ate most of it)
Dinner - fish fingers, mashed potato mixed with broad beans and sweetcorn, and blueberries (ate all the mashed mixture, half a fish finger and one blueberry 😂)

Drinks offered throughout the day.

About 8oz milk before bed.

SamanthaVimes · 06/10/2021 20:46

Until recently my 15 mo ate maybe 2 or 3 bites at each meal / snack and bf a lot. More at nursery (or so I’m told) but the last week or two her appetite has suddenly taken off and she’s eating loads more.
Today she had:
1/2 banana
1 egg on toast (probably half made it in her mouth)
A few handfuls of Cheerios
2 satsumas (and she would have had a third if we had one!)
Half a bread stick
Bowl of pasta
Couple of bites of chicken/broccoli
Coconut biscuit
Stolen bits of my pasty at lunch, maybe 8 small bites
3 or 4 small rice cakes
A small bit of pancake

She also had a few bfs but not as many as she would have done a few weeks ago

Letsallscreamatthesistene · 06/10/2021 20:50

Also, for the absolute life of me I cant get mine to eat egg. So any tips along with this thread would be very welcome!

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Fallagain · 06/10/2021 20:50

My youngest is two now. Doesn’t eat much breakfast, like your lo because she bf. In my experience of both bf and ff but none after 11 months old was that kids only eat two meals a day. One meal is always just picked at. For toddlers you need to see a varied diet over a week and not worry about each meal or day.

SamanthaVimes · 06/10/2021 20:55

@Letsallscreamatthesistene mine will only eat boiled egg and then only the whites. She’ll happily munch that but if I give fried, scrambled or omelette she looks at me like I’ve put a turd on her plate 😂

ayegazumba · 06/10/2021 20:58

Mine used to be a good eater now throws most her food on the floor. Barely touches veg, will gobble a cream cheese or tuna sandwich and about 10 tonnes of fruit but that's about it. Help!

WeaningNewbiiee · 06/10/2021 21:07

My son will be 1 at the end of the month. On a day where he goes to nursery his routine/dietary intake looks like
6am - 9oz breast milk or formula drinks all
8am - breakfast usually porridge/weetabix or shreddies normally eats all
Morning snack - usually fruits eats all
11am-12pm - lunch. Could be anything (vegetarian nursery) depending if it's finger food he will pick at the food or if it's puréed/mashed he'd eat it all.
Afternoon snack - something savoury - eats some
2pm - offered 9oz bottle drinks on average 7-8oz
4pm - light tea so soups or sandwiches. He'd eat it all
5:30pm home he'll have a pudding
7pm - 9oz bottle.

Days when he's not at nursery his days are similarly structured like nursery but we tend to do more blw. There's days where he will eat loads and then days where he will only have a few mouthfuls. I tend to offer a lot of food so he can pick at and choose what he wants to eat. I don't expect him to eat it all.

Don't worry mama, you got this! Every child is different. No need to compare your little one to anyone else. Your doing brill.

Letsallscreamatthesistene · 06/10/2021 21:12

Don't worry mama, you got this! Every child is different. No need to compare your little one to anyone else. Your doing brill

100% this! Some kids are naturally hungry, others not so much

Oreoreo · 07/10/2021 17:21

My baby is one at the end of the month and is in the camp that doesn’t eat much. Usually breakfast and lunch are fine, dinner she very rarely has more than a couple of bites of before it’s left. She has three bottles of formula spaced out throughout the day, although I think the middle one is going to go soon. Health visitor told me as long as they’re pooing normally and otherwise generally well then they take what they need. My DD is quite a big baby as well (no idea how that’s maintained as she’s never had a huge appetite Hmm)

MeadowHay · 07/10/2021 19:23

My DD is 3 but she genuinely only started to really eat solid food at about 1. So it was usually tiny quantities, she was certainly not eating proper meals or whole bowls of porridge and so on. She mostly lived off toast and fruit and it was just picking at bits. She has always been a fussy eater and never eaten most vegetables for example. At 1 she was still having I think 3 bottles of formula a day, we took her down to 3 a month or two later I think and this did increase her food intake. She didn't feed at all overnight. She is quite petite - both height and weight - but grew ok tracking her curves even though it felt like she hardly ate any solid food.

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