1 Year Old Feeding Schedule?

If your daughter still does not have teeth, you can puree just about anything or chop it up real fine. Suprisingly even without teeth, babies still can gum/chew things really well. I would just offer her whatever you are having for dinner and make sure you puree or chop it up. Soft foods are probally better for the time being. Veggies, yogurt, cottage cheese, chunks of cheese, applesauce, avacoado are some good things to offer.

Hi G.,

I would start with the table foods she already eats, and just slowly introduce new foods. We always had great luck with pasta, macoroni and cheese, chicken nuggets, and of course french fries! :) Keep offering the foods even though your daughter may not take to them the first time. As for the formula, talk to your doctor and see what they say. My 14 month old still has 2 bottles of formula during the day, and 1 at bedtime. Just because the books say you should be done with formula at 14 months doesn't mean absolutely no more after that! We are slowly weaning him from his bottles, but are taking our time due to his milk allergies. If your daughter is doing milk already, I'd say slowly drop 1 bottle a week (or so) and substitute with a tippy of milk. Good luck, it can be so hard finding just the right foods you feel safe with. You'd be amazed at what they can eat without many teeth too!

I buy applesauce in the big jars and mix with cereal. He really likes firm tofu cut in cubes if you're not ready for meat- it has a lot of protein. The cereal puffs that dissolve unlike cheerios are good if your nervous about the no teeth chewing.
We have a mesh thing with a handle that you can put grapes, oranges (not bananas too messy!) so you don't have to worry about choking and she gan gum it.

I would try giving her some pureed' vegetables. It is a good time to introduce children to vegetables at an early age so they used to them and learn to like them. My children and grandson love them.

Hi G.,

When our baby turned 1yrs. he only had a couple of his front teeth so when I made dinner I used a food grinder. He loved to eat meat. Chicken, ham, steak. Meat is a good source of protien when they are that young. Our baby was very medical needy so we had to be careful as to what to feed him. But we would try one new food every week just to make sure he didnt'get an alergic reaction to it. He was also on formula when he was 17 months. But he could not have regular milk. It was a special order formula. I still have that grinder, I would just have to find it as I packed it away. But if you would like to try it out let me know and I will look for it for you.

W.

well,young children really like sugar and if you keep her on natural sugars then she will be less addicted to them when she is older. Also if you have her try a new food every day her food range will be large and you can find out if she is allergic earlier and plan meals away from those foods.