Snack ideas for 12 month old

[Laura1609]

Hello!

I’m after some inspiration for snack ideas for my 12 month old. I always end up giving him fruit or an Organix oaty bar but just want to offer him some variety (preferably an easy, on the go, no high chair required snack!).
At the moment he only has a morning snack and I want to drop the afternoon breastfeed as he doesn’t seem particularly interested in it anyway but I don’t want him going hungry from lunch until dinner. Any ideas welcome!

Fruit and oaty bars are a staple here too! Mine is nearly 2 but has been having these snacks since he was 1.

Rice cakes
Heinz Biscotti Biscuits
Squeezy fruit pouch
Cheese sticks
Hummus and breadsticks/cucumber sticks
Yogurt (not easy on the go though)

Oh he also has the Organix (or supermarket own!) pea/sweetcorn/carrot cripsy/puff things

Not maybe the most practical but I made up a batch of baby friendly scones the other day and DS has loved them with baby friendly jam (raspberries cooked down with some chia seeds to thicken) as a snack. He does end up with jam everywhere though.

If you have the time, energy and inclination there are a few good things that can be made and frozen, recipes readily available on google. Actually, I might have a couple on my open tabs...

Banana muffins
Apple muffins
Banana pancake (oats, banana and egg blended and fried - great finger food and for out and about)
Lentil wedges.
Eggy muffins.

Easy ones are bananas, spoonful of peanut butter or a digestive biscuit. And crackers. We go through many, many crackers in this house. And mini breadsticks. And my kids go nuts for a welshcake. And malt loaf. And more bananas.

www.allrecipes.com/recipe/240114/banana-oatmeal-muffins/?internalSource=amp&referringContentType=amp%20recipe&clickId=amp_directions

www.naturalbeautywithbaby.com/recipe/jonahs-cheese-and-lentil-wedges/

Eggy muffins are basically eggs blended with grated cheese, poured into silicone muffin cases and topped with more grated cheese.

Babybels
Breadsticks
Rice cakes
Bananas
Organix sweetcorn rings, tomato wheels etc
Liga
Oaty bars

Thanks so much all, some good ideas here! He bloody loves yoghurt but it gets so messy that it feels like an awful lot of effort for a snack 😂 cleaning up after 3 meals a day is bad enough!

I would stay away from Organix bars which are a quarter sugar or this puffs / rings which are basically doritos for babies. Read the labels, if you have 26 g of sugar /100 g, leave on the shelf, if it says maize or corn flour and oil (That's doritos) leave on the shelf

Why give a child the habit of an ultra processed and highly unhealthy food, I am not sure. You are giving your child healthy fruit why switch to junk food? If you want variety, switch fruit (pear, apple, watermelon, berries, banana, peach, apricot, ....) or add some veggies carrot, cucumber, cherry tomato (I know technically a fruit) , even green beans my kids used to eat green beans on the go,

Or roll a slice of ham around a bread stick. But really, stick to real food @Laura1609 and sometimes, when in a park, a croissant or similar is fine, but avoid the junk route

I don’t think getting into the habit of handing out snacks is a great one to get into. A piece of fruit for elevenses, a biscuit, half a piece of toast? It doesn’t need to be expensive / processed or specially marketed as a toddler snack.

I agree with pp, I think snacks are a bit overdone by some. And then people wonder why their kids aren’t interested in their meals. My DS has always just snacked on fruit or cheese, once or sometimes twice a day - sometimes not at all if he’s eaten big meals. I never bought any of the marketed toddler snacks that so many of my mum friends seemed obsessed with. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with them but it seems such a waste of money. I definitely put more effort into main meals than snacks. A snack just needs to keep you going and ideally be more often than not healthy - nothing wrong with keeping them simple.

Half an avocado? My dc loved to walk around with a plastic spoon digging out avocado.

I think the idea of snacks is very British / Aussie. I am French, have followed husband in his postings around Europe and now Australia and I have never seen people eating so much, constantly, everywhere, any time , any place.
In France, you don't eat while walking, women don't carry food in their bags, you eat at meals and possible the four o'clock afternoon snack but that's it. No lunchboxes to parks, chips on the beach....
Giving a child the habit of eating constantly is not on. It is ok to have an empty stomach. That feeling is normal and not to be confused with hunger.
I don't where this snacking habit comes from.

1, 2, 3 pancakes. Make a batch and freeze them. 1 banana, 2 eggs, 3 tablespoons of oats. Easy peasy!

Le grand - you are so right I hate seeing people carting bags of ‘snacks’ around, it’s so unhealthy and sets kids up for a life of eating whenever they are a bit bored. So many people hand out snacks as a way of entertaining their children, it’s lazy imo. And really weird, when did three meals a day + elevenses disappear? And then we wonder why there are so many fat people!

Eating an avocado with a spoon while walking around is weird too imo.

I wouldn’t call it weird, but half an avocado is certainly an expensive snack for a toddler who’d be just as happy with a banana.

I hate seeing people carting bags of ‘snacks’ around, it’s so unhealthy and sets kids up for a life of eating whenever they are a bit bored.

I agree, I’ve always found this odd. Many of my friends started with this as soon as they started weaning - constantly opening packets of corn puffs and baby bread sticks to give their babies to suck on - that’s not even snacking, it’s simply grazing and like you say its to keep them busy, not to keep them full. There’s just no need. Mine just ate breakfast, lunch and tea until he was about 14 months - he was still having two milk feeds so what need was there for snacks?