meal ideas for 1 year old

toria27

Hope someone out there can give me a bit of inspiration. I am struggling to think of things to feed my 1 year old daughter, she likes everything she is given and is a good eater.

My problem is mainly snacks and puddings. I give her yogurt, fruit or rice pudding at the moment for puddings and then snacks are either rice cakes, fruit (fresh & dried) and sometimes a bit of gingerbread.
Now she is walking around more she is definetly getting hungrier so I think I need to give her something a bit more substantial.
Heres a typical day:

breakfast: weetabix
snack: 4 rice cakes
lunch: spag bol & yogurt
snack: satsuma & mango
tea: crackers & cheese, cucumber, cherry toms, apple & banana

want to keep her away from too many sugary things and give her a balanced diet.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks

Lillibet_2

Hi

My son is 13 motnhs and I often think he has the most repetiatvie diet ever...not beacuse he is a picky eater btu beacuse absoutly everything HAS to be finger food which he can feed himself:rolleyes:

He seems to survive on fish fingers, cheese, rice cakes & strawberries soem days. He is currently going through a "no banana" phase, despite seemingley enjoying them since weaning. He likes gunerbread men & Heinze make mini vegetable biscuits which are good for snacks but expensive at around £1.90 for 4 mini packets:eek: He also likes to have little piles of (cooked) frozen mixed veg. I think it is the colour he likes, you know the kind with sweetcorn, peices of pepper, brocolli etc, so I just periodically give him a little handful of this. For a while he went through a phase of loving blueberreis which were easy to dole out one or 2 at a time but caused explosive black nappies and apricots which just caused explosive nappies:p Soilders of bread & butter, cooked potato wedges & pasta tubes/twists are all easily trasportable for snacks.

To be honest I don't bother with puddings too much, mostly beacuse it's impossible to get finger-food friendly ones. If he ahs any it tends to be fruit, I figure not encouraging a already absent sweet tooth won't be a problem if he happily eats fruit.

HTH & good luck;)

Rachie_B

check out annabel karmels site http://www.annabelkarmel.com/
her books are well worth buying too ,have a look on ebay / amazon

you are doing well to keeo her away from sugary things,what about making asome of your own snacks for her ? savoury mini muffins ? malt loaf ,banana bread etc

so you are in control of the amount of sugar added

i used to keep a plate with cold pieces of pasta / cheese cubes / fruit cut up / mini breadsticks / mini rice cakes etc to hand when my sons were that age that they could help themselves to when peckish as i found they wanted to eat on the move lol

once they started to walk that was far more important than sitting down to eat !

Rachie_B

also for tea time type meals dont forget about the humble egg ! boiled so she can dip soldiers into ,scrambled and served with toast ,an omelette cut into wedges for finger feeding etc

livinginhope

I always just gave my 2 children the same food we had,still do,separate food for kids is my biggest hate our diet became much healthier as I was thinking more about the nutritional content of the food,I rarely give puddings,we grew up with pudding after every meal and I think that was a cause of my weight problems,if you really want to give something for afters a yoghurt or piece of fruit is fine.Regarding snacks,fruit dried and fresh is all my kids get,I would never buy packets of biscuits or crisps for the kids as they would not touch the fruit.If we haven't got it,they can't have it!
Ooh I sound like a control freak of a mum don't I,sorry kids

toria27

Thanks for those quick replies. Tea is always finger food i make scrambled eggs and eggy bread both of which he loves. I worry about giving too much fruit & veg though as like you say lillibet you can get explosive nappies!!! I'll try the potato wedges and pasta, it's really hard not being repetitive though isn't it.

Rachie, I have made cheese staws for her which she loved, all I seem to do is cook as I make all the family meals from scratch as most of us do on here but I am a bit fed up with it at the moment and am using my previously homemade frozen meals up. I thought about making banana bread but does it have a lot of sugar in?? also I have just joined weight watchers so don't want too many tempting treats around! I'll have a look for some mini muffin recepies that would be really good.

thanks again

toria27

Her lunch is always what we had for our dinner the night before we only eat together at weekends as she has her dinner at 4pm and we eat at 7pm weekdays, don't want her to have crisps either like you say if you havn't got it they can't have it.

fsdss

for snacks i use for example

banana, raisins, crackers, chopped fruit, flap jacks, etc

for breakfast and lunch much the same as you, but for tea my little one has what were having (ie cooked meal) and always a pudding (i've made for today apple crumble using dessert apples) and custard

Rachie_B

toria27 wrote:

Thanks for those quick replies. Tea is always finger food i make scrambled eggs and eggy bread both of which he loves. I worry about giving too much fruit & veg though as like you say lillibet you can get explosive nappies!!! I'll try the potato wedges and pasta, it's really hard not being repetitive though isn't it.

Rachie, I have made cheese staws for her which she loved, all I seem to do is cook as I make all the family meals from scratch as most of us do on here but I am a bit fed up with it at the moment and am using my previously homemade frozen meals up. I thought about making banana bread but does it have a lot of sugar in?? also I have just joined weight watchers so don't want too many tempting treats around! I'll have a look for some mini muffin recepies that would be really good.

thanks again

HM treats only have as much sugar / fat as you put in you can use prunes / apple to replace a quantity of fat

have a look on the old style board LOADS of recipes,hints and tips

why not make a batch of something and keep in the freezer,then just take out a few the night before ready for the next day ?

savoury brownies / muffins / flapjacks freeze really well as because they are savoury i often use them in place of a sandwich / pitta bread / bagel etc at lunchtime,serve with some cheese cubes / veggie sticks etc

toria27

Im not that good at cooking without a recipe am getting better though. I had a look on the BBC website and found a cheese muffin recipe sounds good and nice and easy.
175g SR flour
2tbs chopped chives
100g grated cheese
1/2pt milk

preheat oven to 220, combine all ingredients in a bowl, sppon into muffin cases cook for 10-15mins until golden.

Will give them a go.

Rachie_B

do a search on here for muffins / lunch box ideas / kids food etc and you will get tonnes of recipes / ideas

carrot muffins go down well with my son and he doesnt like carrots usually ! lol
carrot ,apple and raisin are even better