What does your 12-18 month old have for dinner?

[LindsayS79]

Hi all
I've posted about my woes with 15 month old DD being fussy with meat and table food. I've had some encouraging feedback regarding meat being a typical sticky point with weaning.
However, before I ask my HV to come out again, I thought I might ask what a typical dinner is/was for your DC at this age range. What portion sizes do/did you serve? What are/were firm favourites? And did you still give chunky/mashed food or was your DC way past this stage? Thanks in advance, I'm trying not to get too stressed out but it's so difficult

Whatever we had. So was a huge variety tbh.

Smallish portions though. Ie x4 small pieces of chicken in curry sauce, a heaped spoon of rice, and x2 small broccoli florets.

It's supposed to fit in palm of their hand approx per serving ie palm of pasta, palm of veg, palm of meat per meal. So Palm of my 3 year old is quiet small tbh

Ds is older now and good with pretty much everything now, but I do remember at this age kind of lacing food with meat rather than basing any dish around it, eg a chicken curry would be largely made up of veg with very small meat pieces stired through rather than chunks, meals with mince I would still roughly blitz so more like a meat sauce than meat in sauce IYSWIM everything else was normal size.
I've heard good things about pressure cookers making meat very tender.

That's interesting! I do blitz the mince for spag Bol etc!
She was terrible tonight. I tried quorn 'chicken' nuggets with mini carrot & potato waffles and some peas. She had a few peas and 2 waffles. She spat the quorn out .
I think she's teething a bit as she spat out her porridge this morn too though.
The handful measure is a good comparison. Doesn't make me feel too bad

My DS doesn't eat anywhere near the palm of his hand, more like 2/3 times as much! Plus he has loads at the CM - he's very slender with a small pot belly at 13 months. Been walking since 9 months but I do worry he's eating too much!

He eats whatever is left over from the night before, he loves dahls, saag, rice and pasta. He's starting to become more fussy which I think comes naturally.

Sausages he likes but no portions real meat yet.

Light palm is per portion of veg/ carb/ protein. So on average they would be having 2-3 of them

I used to make these for dc I nannied they are very soft and easy to break down

Beef or lamb stew cooked til very soft were both popular with my dc. And dhal.

Thanks everyone. I think I'm way off with the palm size of protein... She's spitting a lot out the past week. I'll give her another week of trying and I'll ask the HV to come out (again!)