How much should my 10month old be eating?

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DD is 10months and will eat most things. I have no idea if she is eating a normal amount for her age and wondered if anyone can advise from their experience.

My HV said she was having too much milk a few weeks ago (still about 5/6 feeds in 24hours) and strangely she has gradually cut down on this herself but food intake hasn't really changed since.

Normal day is:
Breastfeed first thing
Breakfast of weetabix/shredded wheat with yoghurt and fruit
Lunch of cream cheese/cheese half sandwich, some fruit or dried fruit
Dinner of pasta/stew or similar (roughly 2 freezer cubes) with a couple of bits of brocolli/carrots, possibly a yoghurt or some rice pudding if she's still interested.
Breastfeed before bed

Occasionally she still asks for milk mid afternoon but the past few days she hasn't and I have given her some raisins. She still wakes in the night for milk but it has gone from up to 3 times just a few weeks ago to normally once now.

That sounds completely normal, and even the pattern beforehand too. I don't understand why the HV would have said it was too many milk feeds.

At that age I was doing 3 feeds on a nursery day (first thing, on arrival home and bedtime), with maybe 1 or no overnight feeds. On a non-nursery day there would probably have been an extra feed in the day mid morning or mid afternoon depending on what we were doing.

Thank you Culture, that's really good to know. I had thought that children get the majority of the nutrition/calories from milk until they're one but my HV seemed to be saying she doesn't really need much milk at all now and the quantities of food should be increasing. I have some friends who boast that their child has 3 meals and 2 snacks now and I was worrying that Dd should be getting more food and less milk. Will stick to what we are doing for now.

I think I had exactly the same worry at the same age I figured that a breastfeed was essentially a snack, and so that was ok.