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Tell me what you feed your one year old

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Junipergray · 15/01/2024 19:30

im really interested to see what other people are feeding their 12+ month babies. I feel like we’re not really getting it right.

I know lots of people will say they eat what we eat, but that often doesn’t work for us.

can I get some typical daily meals your fed your little ones for lunch and dinner please?

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Junipergray · 19/01/2024 11:42

OopsieeDaisy · 18/01/2024 08:31

We also cook separately for DC (18 months) because our meals are often too salty, far too spicy or just wouldn’t reheat well - we eat after DC goes to bed. I batch cook a lot so DC still has things like curries and chillies but milder versions.

Breakfast is usually cereal (weetabix, porridge or shreddies)

Lunch something like the below

  • Sandwiches
  • Omelette
  • Banana pancakes
  • Cheese and crackers
  • Crumpets
  • Pastry pinwheels
(all the above I’ll serve with things like cucumber, fruit, toddler crisps/puffs etc)
  • Jacket potato with cheese and beans or tuna mayo
  • Something on toast - cheese, scrambled egg, beans, spaghetti hoops
  • Pitta topped with tomato puree, cheese and oregano, grilled to make a little pizza (also do this for dinner on a wrap and serve with sweet potato wedges).

Dinner
Things I’ll often batch cook:

  • Pasta sauce then add fresh cooked pasta
  • Mac & cheese
  • Pasta bolognese
  • Beef or bean chilli & rice
  • Chicken or fish curry & rice
  • Fish pie
  • Cottage pie
And when I have more time (ie days I’m not at work):
  • Fish fillet / chicken with some sort of potato and veg
  • Sausage, mash and veg/beans (only rarely because of salt content)
  • Also use these days to make one of the batch cook meals, feed one portion and freeze the rest.

This is really helpful, thank you. It sounds like you eat similarly to us.

Breakfast is covered - he just eats all the normal breakfast stuff followed by whatever fruit we have in the house. The other meals you've suggested seem like they'd work quite well for us too.

Thanks all for your responses and the helpful suggestions. I'm well aware babies can have spice and flavour and have no intention of just feeding him eat bland food - I want him to eat the same food as us before too long, but we do go ultra spicy. As I mentioned, we do give him what we eat when suitable or adjust to suit if we can.

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Musomama1 · 19/01/2024 11:48

Breakfast - banana / porridge or toast

Lunch - scrambled egg, avocado, cheese, cucumber, ham, bread and butter to pick at.

Dinner - what we have but geared towards his tastes - i.e. pasta and rice. Then Greek yogurt and blueberries. Sometimes it's hit and miss.

Still drinking plenty of milk if all else fails. Good luck op, even with good eating habits it's still tricky.

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