Sample Diet for 12 Month Old

My son is 13 months and he had a long process transitioning to table foods...I thought he would never do it! ;) For breakfast he usually eats one packet of oatmeal, I make it kind a dry and crumble it into hunks and he finger feeds, and then a banana or some raisins with milk. He doesn't usually get a morning snack, but will nap a bit.

For lunch he likes hot dogs but I don't give them to him that often. He will eat cheese and he loves crackers. He also likes yogurt and cottage cheese so those are also good protein sources. Sometimes I spread hummus and/or cream cheese on Ritz and he really likes that. My son LOVES PB&J. I make a half sandwich, kinda skimpy on the PB and then smash the bread together really well and cut it into bite sized hunks. This is one of his favorite lunches! I do that with grilled cheese too. At this age my daughter loved lunch meat at that age and I could just put little bits of it on her tray, but my son, not so much. You could try that though too. I also give some sort of fruit or veggie with lunch too. My son is a picky eater, but you could do pears, grapes, strawberries, whatever! I would stay away from apples for now though, too hard.

Afternoon snack is usually graham crackers or a cereal bar or maybe some cheese and crackers.

For dinner my kids get what we're eating. I cut it up in small sizes and make sure I make a veggie that they like. Sometimes I will also give them cheese or yogurt or fruit.

My son get milk at every meal and usually before bed. At snack time he gets water.

Congrats on the milestone...yay!!

Same here, my 13mo. old son eats just about anything..including peanut butter. He seems to handle table food really well, he can even eat apples but small with most, but not all of the skin removed. I try to give him as much fresh "real" food as possible. So alot of cooked veggies...asparagus, broccoli, carrots, he'll even eat cooked onions..lol. Pasta is good, avocado, cheese, lunch meat. One thing I really try to keep my eye on tho is the sodium content. I dont' think babies need to much sodium so I avoid giving him alot of canned foods like soups and chef-boy r-dee(sp?) He'll eat alot of different fruits like fresh pears, peaches, strawberries, blueberries, bananans, grapes all cut up in small bite-size pieces. For breakfast he gets eggs, oatmeal, cheerios, sometimes sausage mixed in his eggs. I stick w/whole grain options and low sugar whenever possible. Very litte juice..just milk, soymilk, water. When I make him pbj, I toast the bread...he seems to handle that better than when its not toasted. He looooves potatoes too! Mashed baked scalloped potato salad etc....yogurt, and cottage cheese, but really watch the sugar content in yogurt!! I buy whole-grain eggo waffles and cut them in bite sized pieces with a touch of syrup he loves that too! I also try to avoid alot of crakers and foods that have empty calories!! Start them right away on veggies tho and they will grow to love them even if you dont!!! Stick with ones they will eat and just keep trying to give the ones they wont. Eventually they'll start eating them...Trust me!! Good luck!

My daughter is 16 months old at eats whatever we do just cut up small and cooked longer so it is soft.

Honestly I do not remember how we switched over just started cutting things extreamly small and then get a touch bigger as they can tolerate it. Try different foods, if you have to through a serving of your meal into the food processor and chop it fine do it, this way they get used to the flavors of what you make for dinner.

My son is almost 16 months old and eats exactly what the rest of the family eats he just gets it cut up. The only exception is Peanut Butter, Honey, or spicy foods.

By about 12 months my girls were eating what my husband and I ate (with the few exceptions of peanut butter, honey, chocolate and a few others), just cut up smaller. So we'd all have breakfast, lunch and dinner together. In addition to those 3 meals, my girls would have at least 3 snacks per day so that their total meals were pretty much every 2 hours when they were awake. A snack could be as simple as a couple of pieces of cheese or a baby yogurt. But my girls were grazers and rarely ate lots in a single sitting.

My daughter was a late teether too and she was eating what we ate at 11 months. The only thing we had to make differently was meat. Not having teeth doesn't matter because they just gum it. Don't worry too much about it.