Typical Daily Diet for One Year Old

I'm in the minority. I do watch what I feed my 17 month old, but it's not as healthy as it could be.

Breakfast
Bowl of cereal and milk (Cheerios, Rice Krispies, Apple Jacks, etc) or a frozen waffle with butter and cinnamon sugar and an egg.
Milk

Lunch
lunch meat (turkey)
bread (she only eats the crust)
fruit
or spaghetti o's ( i know they're bad for you, but sometimes it's all she'll eat. They're not a whole lot worse than the Gerber Graduate meals and lots less expensive)
milk

Snack
Goldfish, pretzels, cracker or dry cereal
Juice (50/50 w/ water)

Dinner
Whatever we're eating. Usually meat, noodles or potatoes,veg. She gets fruit if she eats all her meal.

Milk before bed.

She eats whatever I'm eating at the time. If I have grilled cheese for lunch so does she. If I have hamburger for dinner, so does she. We cook everything just as normal. I don't use a lot of salt, but I do use seasonings. Nothing too spicy, just for flavor. She does, however LOVE taco meat. The spices don't seem to bother her.

You can actually buy the book superfoods for babies and children by Annabel Karmel. It has excellent recipes from 6 mos to 3 years old. I use it to make my dtr's food, she has never refused anything yet. For e.g Breakfast French toast & fruit/oatmeal & Yogurt. Lunch: meatballs w/ sweet & sour sauce, fried rice & ice pops/fruit or chicken skewers w/ rice & veggies. Dinner: Gratin Haddock w/tomato sauce & Spinach & fruit/ carrot soup w/ yellow split peas, Baked potato & fresh peach melba...etc. Just a few e.g. this book is excellent you will love it.

There are sample menus on wholesomebabyfood.com or wholesometoddlerfood.com (depending on where your child is with solids). Great information, lots of recipes and ideas from these sites.

Here is what my 18 month old typically eats:
Breakfast is french toast sticks, waffles or dry cereal with strawberry milk(he won't drink it plain so I add just enough syrup to make it taste different) snack might be pretzels, raisins, or maybe a Nutri Grain bar. Lunch might be ravioli, lunch meat and cheese, with some fruit. After his nap he might eat oyster crackers, dry cereal, or more raisins. Dinner is whatever I make and he usually eats it, although sometimes he just eats the veggies and a few bites of meat and thats it. Bedtime snack might be more fruit, pretzels, fruit snacks. (My 18 month olkd has almost a full set of teeth, so he can chew anything I give him)

Our daughter, now two, has a different menu now from when she was one, but not that different. We did oatmeal, cereal or eggs (scrambled) in the morning with fruit and whole milk. I never give her juice as most is sugar and lacks the nutrition that she gets out of just eating fruit directly. For lunches we usually do a variety of things but always include carrots or cut peppers or some raw veggie. For dinners we often give her whatever we are having, rice, fish, quesadillas, chicken, etc. They can eat almost anything especially if they have enough teeth in, so we like to include her in our dinner meals.

Hope some of this is helpful - Good luck!

I am not quite sure how old your child is, but here is a normal day for my son who is almost 17 monhts old. He is a big eater. This is what he had yesterday.

Breakfast-sippy cup of milk
Whole wheat waffle
a handful of grapes
a nutri grain bar

Lunch-sippy cup with milk
grilled cheese on whole wheat
steamed broccoli (1/2 cup or so)
Cut up cucumber (1/2 cup+)
a slice of cantalope

Snack-milk and string cheese

Dinner-sppy cup with milk
turkey breast, about the size of my palm
peas (about 1/2 cup)
YO Baby yogurt
2 large handfuls of blueberries

I followed the academy of pediatrics guidelines for serving sizes for one year olds- I found the advice very helpful when knowing how much to give my daughter- (basically 1 tablespoon of each food group for a 1 year old is enough)

Breakfast was usually a small yogurt & handful of dry cereal or scrambled eggs & 1/2 slice toast or oatmeal & 1/2 banana

snack is vanilla wafers, goldfish, teddy grahams, fruit,applesauce- dipping things is fun for them at this age

lunch- soups & crackers,mac & cheese,cottage cheese,ravioli,grilled cheese, veggies

dinner- whatever we are having

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