Food Ideas for 1 Year Old

DS just turned one and I feel like I need more meal ideas. I feel like he doesn't get much of a variety. Can you ladies share some breakfast, lunch and dinner ideas? Also, what do you give as a snack?

Thanks so much!

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Why not just feed the baby what you eat? Aside from allergies, I don't see why babies can't eat the same food as grownups. I think it's a great way to prevent a picky eater and makes the parents' life easier too.

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DD eats what we eat for dinner, or leftovers. Last night she had sausage, peppers, and potatoes.

Breakfast she almost always has a yogurt and fruit.

Lunch-
Oatmeal with fruit
Cheese, crackers, and fruit
Grilled cheese
Pizza
Eggs
Pastina
Soup
Turkey & cheese
Waffles/pancakes/french toast.

Dinner- Leftovers or what I'm making for us.
Sometimes I give her the Gerber Ravioli.

I don't include snack in the everyday meal plan. Sometimes I give her goldfish or dry cherrios though.

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Mine is 11 months... so not so much milk/cheese in the diet yet.

IMO, we don't eat very healthy. There is a LOT of salt in our diet... so I try to keep DS's meals salt/spice free.

We do:

7 AM: baby whole grain cereal (with formula) for iron. weekends= eggs.

11: Fruits (pear, peach, banana, melon, orange, avocado: whatever is IN SEASON: no berries yet)

4PM: We still try baby food (country dinner). Usually, he eats 1 container and gets more fruit.

6-7PM: Our dinner: We could chicken, pork, beef or meatballs (ground sirloin) for him with NO SPICES. I shred it up & let him finger it into his mouth. He'll have some plain potato, turnip, ect if we make i with dinner. For dessert, he gets melon: watermelon, or whatever melon we have.

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Breakfast:
banana (cut up)
waffles
pancakes
french toast
eggs/omlette

Lunch:
almost always eat this same meal:
Yogurt, cheese stick, & fruit

Dinner:
What we are eating (unless somthing spicy or salty)
then they have
turkey meatballs, chicken meatballs, or ground beef meatballs (i make big batches and freeze them)
vegetable pancakes that I make/freeze or the Dr. Praegers ones or steamed veggies

for emergency dinners I keep Gerber raviolis in the diaper bag

Snacks:
fruit (they LOVE clementines)
cheerios
puffs
gerber cereal bars
gerber yogurt drops
cheese sticks

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Today my DD had a mini whole grain waffle, a cheese omlette and a strawberry with a "green" drink. She also eats yogurt with fruit, oatmeal, pancakes, fuit, ceareal bars.
Lunch/dinner: Grilled cheese, mac n cheese, rice and beans, butternut squash risotto, quiche, pizza, spaghetti, meatballs, or anything we are eating.

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I'm making ravioli this weekend ... maybe ...

I'm going to make several kinds and freeze, stuff with veggies, meats, chickens, cheases ... thinking of combos now and going shopping...

I think i might get DS involved in making the dough or playing with it as I roll it out and cut out the squares ... should be interesting ...

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