Meal ideas for a 12month old please

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Could you please share your meals for your lo's please?
I find I am making the same old thing! For eg:
Lunch- buttered toast (brown) cheddar stick and yoghurt
Dinner- pasta with bolognese sauce with mince or chicken/veg/cous cous
My lo has a hard time chewing on skinned things ie peas- they are forever in her mouth which means she won't open for more, also I have to blitz the mince into the sauce as it's too much for her to chew l!
I want to make sure she's getting enough veg/fruit and protein a day.
For snacks she will have biscotti/Cheerios/yoghurt/fruit pot and for desert she will have a pear or some other fruit.
Thanks

Dd is older but ate more or less what we ate from 6 months.

Today her meals were

Breakfast Toast with butter and jam and a glass of milk
Lunch ham sandwich, yoghurt and fruit
Tea roast chicken, potatoes, broccolli and gravy.

Ds likes

Breakfast: weetabix and fruit
Lunch: warburtons sandwich thin or brown bread with chicken or peanut butter or soup + custard and fruit
Dinner: turkey mince enchiladas (with peppers and onions in), pesto pasta with chicken and peas, mince and potatoes with carrots, chicken with mash and cauliflower and corn, meatballs with crusty bread and tomato sauce

Wow sharond101 how old is your lo and does he feed himself? That's a good variety of meals there. I wish I could give dd that type of food but she does not seem keen on chewing mince etc which is why is need to blitz it and it's always better in sauce.

DD is 15 months but ate the same thing at 12 months. Today she had:

Breakfast - apricot mini wheats softened in milk, some baked beans, a square of my toast and a finger each of kiwi and mango
Lunch - dairy lea sandwich from half a slice of bread, a few bits of cooked chicken, a few carrot sticks and mange tout, a cherry tomato and a slice of avocado
Dinner - piece of salmon packed in milk, sweet potato mash, peas, followed by some sliced banana and fromage frais

Snacks were a box of raisins, some cubes of cheese and some baby rice crackers

*poached

Dd likes jacket potatoes, houmous sandwiches, omelette, pancakes, pitta bread pizzas, vegetable canneloni.

Mine just eats whatever we are having....in whatever form I think is suitable be it chopped, minced, grated, sliced into sticks, chunks or whatnot.

For example today my 10 month/toddler have had:

B - Cereal with stewed prunes and pureed pineapple
L - mini toast pizza's - toast, tomato sauce, preservative free deli ham, veggies, cheese broiled 2 min or so and cut into triangles, 1/2 small avocado (wedges)
S - dry puffed wheat, grated apple
D - Basa (white fish) flaked into small pieces, broccoli florets, rice done up in some chicken stalk.

Yesterday we had elbow pasta with sauteed shrimp for dinner - I decided the shrimp was too chewy for my youngest so I minced it in the food processor and dumped it on his tray.

Its not about what they can eat its just about how you serve it to suit your comfort level and theirs.

My 11 month old likes for lunch oatcake spread with houmous, peanut butter or Philadelphia. She loves scrambled egg just tipped onto her tray and eaten with her fingers. She also loves banana, or grated apple, and sticks/chunks of melon which I buy ready prepared.

For dinner she likes pasta and sauce, or chicken and rice (if we have curry we just leave the sauce off for her. She also likes peas, sweetcorn, baby sweetcorn, green beans and broccoli. Pudding is a yoghurt or fruit pot.

She's not keen on breakfast so just has toast.

Tagz we do a mixture of spoon and self feeding. DS will not eat fruit or veg unless it is hidden in a meal so I need to blitz at least some of his meal to allow for that and also put pureed fruit in his weetabix and custard. It's a pain but I would rather he had some than none. He will always have finger foods too which will include fruit and veg alongside but won't touch them, just eats the carbs and protein.

If she's struggling chewing solids, has she ever been checked for tongue tie?

How many teeth has she got? My DD is a year old and still only has top 2 and bottom 2 front teeth, so she sometimes struggles with tomato skin etc. But she's getting better the more she practises. With mince, I find either cooking it very slowly for a long time (I do bolognese for the freezer, for about 2 hours) helps. Or she likes little pork burgers (I buy pork meatballs and flatten them, they seem to be softer. She eats something like this:
Breakfast - either toast with pb, marmite or honey, plus greek yoghurt & fruit, or Weetabix or porridge with fruit.
Morning snack - either fruit or cheese or rice cakes
Lunch - smoked salmon pinwheels, or scrambled egg & toast, or chicken/hummus/ham/roast beef/prawns with b&b, cherry toms, cucumber, grapes, with organix crisps, followed by fromage frais or yoghurt.
Afternoon snack - fruit or plain biscuit
Tea - pasta with pesto or bolognese, or mushroom ragu with sweet potato, or shepherds pie, or beef stew, or spinach dhal with naan, or homemade thick soup & sandwiches, or pork burger with yorkshire pud, veg & gravy. Ella's pud pouch or rice pudding or yoghurt or custard.
I still batch cook pasta sauce, shepherds pie, stews, soups etc in small portions for the freezer for her. Saves a lot of time & thought!

My little one is 13 months; she often has a sandwich with cheese & tomato, cheese & cucumber, ham, marmite, etc. and also has a little yoghurt afterwards. If we are at home I'll sometimes do her a scrambled egg and she will have this with some toast.

For dinners she tends to eat what we have eaten the night before, so fish pie, maracaroni cheese with spinach and leeks, chicken and veg risotto. She also loves to feed herself with her hands, so she will often eat plain chicken, or fish or sausage with pasta twirls or mini roast potatos and courgettes/broccoli/peas/sweetcorn. Despite all my efforts I can't convince her to eat red meat in any form, If she polishes all her dinner off I will give her a satsuma, some grapes or a banana.

Ours are 14 months and today had...

Breakfast: Semolina porridge and blueberries
Lunch: Spagetti and meatballs (the sauce has tomatoes, red pepper & mushrooms), banana & custard
Dinner: Eggy bread, chopped tomatoes & cucumber, satsuma, yoghurt.

Other favourites are...
pan fried fish (usually seabass, salmon or tuna steak) in butter with mash, peas and carrots
beef or chicken stew (a particular favourite is ox tail stew)
Vegetable & lentil casserole

She likes to feed herself which I'm getting her to do more often but is super slow.
Thanks for all the ideas. I will def be making some of these
She has 2 teeth, both at the front one top and one bottom so this does not really help with chewing etc