Would anyone mind sharing a typical food day for their LO?

[BeatrixRotter]

I struggle a bit with inspiration for food .

Yesterday DD (11 months)

Breakfast: Baby porridge mixed with fruit puree

Lunch: Ham and soft cheese sandwiches, cherry tomatoes, yogurt

Dinner: Pasta and sauce (mostly rejected), banana, chedder and lentil mash.

For snacks she had breadsticks, organix things and breastfeeds.

I am trying to think of what DD had at that age

breakfast - eggy bread/porridge/weetabix/scrambled egg/toast

snack - fruit/yoghurt/milk/raisins/crackers/cheese

lunch - beans on toast/scrambled egg (if not for breakfast!)/pasta and tomato&veg sauce (blended to hide the veggies) with grated cheese/cheese/tuna sarnies

snack - same as above/occasional biscuit or cake as a treat.

Tea - pasta and sauce/macaroni cheese/spaghetti bolognaise/lasagne/cottage pie/fish pie and vegetables/chicken pie/chicken, rice and veg.

Pudding - fruit and custard, yughurt, occasional bit of cake or ice cream.

To be honest, she would eat pretty much the same as us, but near the end I would take some out for her/to freeze before seasoning ours more heavily. Or at the same time I would make the same as us, but one pot for her (ie one spag bol for her, or one entire fish pie for her), then divide hers up and freeze - lots of meals out of one small dish for little ones.

oooh I quite fancy beans on toast for lunch.

Ds2 is 11 1/2 months now.

Yesterday he had:

Bf when he woke

Breakfast: 1 weetabix with full fat milk

Few grapes (in 1/4's) for snack mid morning

Lunch: Scrambled egg on toast with yoghurt for pudding

Humzinger bar mid afternoon

Tea: Fish (flaked), boiled potatoes (squashed) and beans (we're were at the in laws!) with strawberries and vanilla ice cream for puding

About 4oz formula milk before bed.

He has whatever we're aving 90% of the time with some of it blitzed in the blender if need be.

If DD did not eat the beans, I would take it away, and then mash it up and return it, worked then, does not work now!

Another good quick one is vegetable sticks, vegetable sticks, hummous/cottage/cream cheese for lunch.

DD is 16mths; yesterday she had:

Milk when she woke up
1st breakfast - Shredded Wheat Bitesize (which is Nestle but it's the only salt and sugar free cereal I've been able to find, so I shamefacedly buy it) with milk, diluted prune juice (but only because she's constipated, usually she drinks water with meals and snacks)
2nd breakfast - we shared a croissant and she then had some toast at a toddler group
Lunch - pasta with tomato and basil sauce and parmesan, grapes
Snack - breadsticks and cheese, more grapes (again for the constipation)
Dinner - cottage pie made up of mince and mash that we make in big batches and freeze in portions, broccoli, yoghurt
Milk before bed

I hope that helps - I remember desperately scrabbling round to think of interesting things to feed her when she was about your DD's age. The frozen stuff is a godsend, at the moment we've got mash, broccoli, mince with carrots and celery, fishcakes, 'chilli', red sauce, chicken stew and lentil mush, all portioned up in the freezer ready to go. She's with a CM three days a week and we send food with her, usually from the freezer store.

To mix it up a little I'll sometimes make her scrambled eggs, sardines on toast, omelette or something for tea. DP picks her up from the CM, so now I try to get home from work in time to make something we can all eat when they get in, which we all really enjoy - although DD can't seem to grasp that we've got the same food as her so will beg for stuff off our plates in the manner of a puppy.

I mostly batch cook and freeze for DS, even now at 19 months.

Something I've just started doing (and don't know why I didn't think of it before!) is making a big batch of cheese sauce, freezing in portions, then I can just defrost sauce and cook up some veg or pasta or both. Quick and easy.

I made a mild curry recently for him, loads of veg and a few chickpeas cooked in coconut milk and some mild curry powder. Went down really well.

DD (15mths) food today:

5 ozs milk in bottle

breakfast: sliced banana then malties in small amount of milk to soften, fruitpura pot.

lunch: toast, boiled egg, fruit (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries)

5 ozs milk in bottle 3pm (ish)

tea: peas, potato wedges, carrots, grilled salmon

for pudding hipp organic jar

another bottle before bed.

snacks: organix crisps, bread sticks ,rice cakes.

DD is intolerant to dairy/soya so eats no yogurt, cheese etc

if you want other ideas DD also eats:

pasta, pesto,veg
roast dinner
any meat/fish & veg
fish fingers
meat balls & pasta
stew
chicken casserole

DD won't let me feed her at all so any mush type things are out ie mashed potato as she refuses to do it herself and wants things she can pick up with hands iyswim.

The only thing she will regularly have with spoon I do it)is a fruitapura pot in the morning.

DS2 had mackerel in tomato sauce on toast for lunch today - or rather I did, but he fancied a bit and wouldn't eat any more of his until he'd had a good bit of mine!

I must start cooking more baby friendly meals in the evening, rather than spicy fajitas and curries.

ds2 10 months

breakfast: wakey cakeys (see aitch's BLW blog - basically oats, milk and fruit baked into a small cake so they can feed themselves easily))
plus blueberries

lunch: chunks of roast courgette, aubergine and mushroom
rye bread
banana

dinner: veg + bean korma with rice