Food advice for 1 yr old

[Syndilou]

Hi ladies!
I have been quite quiet on here but I need to ask for some mummy wisdom if I may?

Well Issy is now 1 and very much enjoys her food! However I'm getting stuck for lunch ideas!

What do you ladies do for lunch for your lil ones? I'm trying to find something other than sandwiches/scrambled egg etc.

I was also wondering how many bottles or how much milk your lil ones were on? Issy is now on cows milk no problems, she has 2 bottles a day 1 in the morning and 1 before bed both 7oz each does that seem too much?

Thanks in advance! Xxx

 

[TashaWink]

If I remember rightly Ollie had 2 bottles (1 for nap time and 1 for bed time) which never bothered me. I love milk myself and could easily drink pints of it!

We usually do sandwiches/ toast sometimes pasta. At 1 he was having anything I ate. Omelette

 

[Syndilou]

If I remember rightly Ollie had 2 bottles (1 for nap time and 1 for bed time) which never bothered me. I love milk myself and could easily drink pints of it!

We usually do sandwiches/ toast sometimes pasta. At 1 he was having anything I ate. Omelette

I'm the same I could drink milk all day! Especially when I'm pregnant lol x

 

[Maud]

We eat all sorts: crackers and cheese, soup and bread, spinach pancakes, homemade falafel or bean burgers and pitta bread, homemade hummus or bean pate and rice cakes, homemade lentil pate wraps, vegetarian hotdog and bread roll, omelettes, cheese on toast, bagels with cream cheese, mini pizzas, quiche & salad...

 

[kumber]

We usually do a big lunch time meal and then a smaller dinner time meal as he goes to bed not long after that. Lunch is usually a meat, potato and veg meal as that is our staple diet! We're starting him on saltier foods now so are introducing bits of pork, bacon and sausage with his meals. I do like to vary it with treat things, so occasionally he will have meat, chips and beans, or spag bol, but he also gets a wider variety of food at my mom's including a baby curry! Not quite ready for substantial chunks just yet though, so we are probably a little bit behind you in terms of what we feed.

 

[Kay Kay]

Lunch for us is usually a cheese toastie, soup, bagel and cream cheese (he loves the cinnamon & raisin ones), beans and toast, French toast, homemade pinwheels or sweet corn & spring onion fritters (when I can be bothered making a batch and freezing them), potato scone and beans...that's pretty much it!

Lunch is our worst meal. He used to eat quite well but turned fussy at about 16 months (quite common i think). He used to love yoghurts after his lunch now he goes mental just looking at one!?

I've found the Ella's kitchen book the red one really good for ideas so would defo recommend that. Even if lo doesn't like what you've made it's usually yummy enough for mum and dad too so it doesn't go to waste x

 

[H16]

My LO eats what we eat now. Normally at lunch she will have a sandwich and some fruit or yoghurt, occasionally some baby crisps. Tbh my little one hardly eats anything at lunch time, she never has, she prefers to eat more at dinner time instead. Normally I give her 7oz milk when she wakes up and another 7oz before bed but sometimes she will ask for milk in the daytime and I do give her extra if she wants it x

 

[Syndilou]

My LO eats what we eat now. Normally at lunch she will have a sandwich and some fruit or yoghurt, occasionally some baby crisps. Tbh my little one hardly eats anything at lunch time, she never has, she prefers to eat more at dinner time instead. Normally I give her 7oz milk when she wakes up and another 7oz before bed but sometimes she will ask for milk in the daytime and I do give her extra if she wants it x

Thank you! That's what I'm giving Isabelle at the moment but health visitor says I should cut it down! Don't get me wrong she is abit of a chunk but I can't see how 2 bottles is the problem! Xxx

 

[H16]

My LO eats what we eat now. Normally at lunch she will have a sandwich and some fruit or yoghurt, occasionally some baby crisps. Tbh my little one hardly eats anything at lunch time, she never has, she prefers to eat more at dinner time instead. Normally I give her 7oz milk when she wakes up and another 7oz before bed but sometimes she will ask for milk in the daytime and I do give her extra if she wants it x

Thank you! That's what I'm giving Isabelle at the moment but health visitor says I should cut it down! Don't get me wrong she is abit of a chunk but I can't see how 2 bottles is the problem! Xxx

I was advised to give no more than 16oz by my health visitor - something to do with preventing iron absorption if they have too much?! But I do still give her more on the odd day if she really wants it. I have googled it before and it says on a medical website that anywhere between 16-24oz is fine until they are 2 years old. I don't think milk has much to do with baby weight tbh, even when we dropped from 3 to 2 bottles daughter didn't lose weight. She only started losing weight once she became stable on her feet and started running around all day and she is still a little bit chubby but I'm not worried. Do whatever you think is best for your child hun x

 

[T84]

S is the same age if I remember (can't see tickers) she get 7oz in her cup with her breakfast, although the sometimes only takes like 4. Then her 7oz in a bottle at bed time.

For lunch we make sandwiches, soup, spaghetti, banana pancakes, sometimes she will just pick at like cheese, fruit, bread and raisins on her tray. Meal times are defo our worst time of the day tho!

 

[Syndilou]

Thank you very much ladies!! Sometimes these HV make you doubt yourself which is the worst! Thank you for the lunch ideas as I'm such a fussy eater myself I find it hard to think of things as I don't want her ending up like me lol x x x