Dinner for 12 month old

[purpleme12]

What do you make for dinner for your 12 month old? (by dinner I'm thinking the midday meal/cold meal/not the main meal)

Also we eat a few meals out when she's in her pushchair so she's had a cheese sandwich for this which she's always been fine with but now she's refusing or eating far less of the things she always used to eat a lot of (and I'm not just talking about cheese sandwich it's in general). What would you give for dinner if they need to eat in pushchair?

We tend to be quite boring and have

Sandwiches
Breadsticks, carrot and cucumber sticks and humous
Cheese on toast
Oatcakes with cucumber sticks
Homemade soup
Leftovers

Err that's about it. I'd do sandwiches when out. Mine like cheese, cream cheese, wafer thin chicken, ham, grated cheese.

What do you have to eat? Mine just have the same by 12 months.

Mine is 11 months but tends to have things like sticks of cheese, pitta and hummus, salad/raw veg, cold meats etc, then usually fruit and some Greek yoghurt. Now it's colder I'll probably start doing more hot things like pasta, chunky vegetable soup, jacket potatoes etc.

roganjosh sounds like we doing ok then I think I do similar. When we've given her soup she's refused it though.

I'd got up late today so I bought a cheese salad sandwich - no mayo or anything - which I know she'd have eaten before but she just refused it apart from the tomato and cucumber that was in it so that was all she had for dinner today. Maybe it's just a phase?

I haven't given her any wafer thin chicken I think i'll try that. Do you give real ham or like the wafer thin type ham?

I do tend to have toast or sandwich for dinner too.

chunderella the only thing about bananas - which she does like - is that I take them with me out and about for snacks and we're often out for a while so she needs something else apart from dinner.

From what everyone says we do similar I guess it's just a case of hoping this is just a phase cos she's not eating as much of the stuff that she would eat before, if any.

It's normal for them to swing between eating lots and little. Best thing is not to stress. Ideally feed your child what you eat as long as it's not too salty

I give him a main meal at half twelve like potatoes , veg and meat then a lighter meal later. I think it works better as he sleeps really well after.

Usually do a boiled egg with toast fingers in the evening. Yesterday banana and blueberries. Sometimes a bit of cereal. If stuck for ideas a potato waffle or pancake eith chopped kiwi. Chunks of cheese and soda bread and butter.

oh right that's interesting maybe it is her teeth - she hasn't had any yet so they should certainly come in about now.

She also seems to have a temperature today (only very slight) although I do get confused about fevers and teething I read conflicting things about if it's connected or not. (although I'd say the not being as good as she used to with food has been going for past week maybe at a guess)

well a week to 2 weeks

Nappies are normal, no change. She's not herself today.

Can I ask how do you know when they're poorly or when they're just teething and not actually poorly because people say symptoms of teething is diarhea and fever which is same as being poorly? And she's acting poorly now although I understand if it is teething that can make them feel bad anyway so they probably act like they do when they're poorly.

Spreadable cheese on toast
Omlette cut into strips
Scrambled egg
Pitta bread strips with hommous (sp?)
Pancakes with a drizzle of honey
Open buns with tuna mayo etc (ds prefers buns open than closed - less bread)

Hope you get some ideas - lunches can get very samey - ds gets bored of sarnies

Thanks.

She doesn't seem to be that much of a fan of eggs which is a shame - apart from the omelette I made the other day she ate an ok amount of that - which is my first omelette! I have zero confidence and don't cook food is not my forte!

Ah ds wasn't too keen on eggs til he was about 14/15 months so don't give up hope yet I also make "pizzas" with the muffins you put in the toaster, a bit of passatta and some cheese melted under the grill.

Out and about I tend to take snacky things like crackers, breadsticks, cheese, fruit etc