what to feed my 13 month old...

[janmk]

I know it should be family food but we eat things such as pizza, curry etc i dont always want to give her. Yes our pasta meals and veg meals are fine but not everything. i dont do everything homemade or from scratch and dont have the time ! i am just getting stressed about what to give her to ensure health and variety. if we have shop bought quiche can she have it or a quorn cottage pie ??? Help is everyone else a supermum in the kitchen ???

I have a couple

Let me finish that without my delightful 13 month old interfering!

I have a couple of things that I can quickly make if we're having take out for example but they're pasta based so not much use to you? I'd happily give DS shop bought quiche as long as the salt content isn't ridiculous. Wouldn't give him Quorn though as I've heard of it not agreeing with some people.

I think like you say it's all about balance. As l

My LO usually has the same as us but otherwise I have a stand by of homemade soup in the freezer or I do him some cocktail sausages, potato shapes, humous, breadsticks, cucumber, tomatoes etc or some filled pasta shapes or tortillas with cheese and ham/chicken filling. DS hates eggs but scrambled egg or omelette would be quick and easy.

Agree if the salt level on the quiche wasn't sky high I'd give Lo that with some veggies. Is the quorn cottage pie shop bought? What's the slt content like?

Think its easy to assume that everyone else is cooking up beautiful home cooked food every night but its simply not true do don't bet yourself up about it. Before having dc1 I hadn't even cooked a whole chicken and we ate out a lot. I really have had to learn how to cook for a family the hard way.

If you work full time, how many night do you want to cook? Would putting something in a slow cooker in the morning work for you? How about quick dishes like carbonara?

On the days you do cook, can you cook extra and freeze some small potions for Lo?