What to feed a 1-year-old?

amother

Tue, Dec 19 2023, 8:38 pm

The daycare says she's often hungry and not very happy with baby food anymore. She recently cleared her allergy testing so she can have anything. So far she has eaten formula, baby food, Bamba, pieces of breakfast cereal...we tried to give her mashed up chicken but she didn't seem to like it lol. What are some ideas of what else I can feed her, at home or to send to daycare?

first time parent, please be nice

amother

Aconite

Tue, Dec 19 2023, 8:42 pm

Download the solid starts app, it’s amazing. I’m a first time mom with a one year old too and I look up everything on the app before serving it to my baby. It shows you how to safely feed it to your baby at each age and lets you know if it’s a high choking hazard food or not.

I feed my one year old pretty much everything. She eats scrambled eggs cut into little pieces, American cheese, rice cakes, salmon, ground beef pasta, Mac and cheese, bananas, avacado, oatmeal, yogurt, challah on Shabbos…

YounginBP

Tue, Dec 19 2023, 9:14 pm

Anything that you eat really
Banana
Sliced cucumbers
Sliced tomatoes
Pasta
Yogurt
Sandwhich with pb, cream cheese
Soup
Cottage cheese
Avocado chunks
Scrambled eggs
Oatmeal

I like to send something that I know she likes.
So I try all the new foods and settle into a routine, say Monday peanut butter sandwhich and cucs. Tuesday cottage cheese and tomatoes, Wednesday yogurt and banana, Thursday hard boiled egg and rice cake.

Leftovers also work well. Sunday soup can be served room temp Monday. If you make pancakes, send 2 the next day.

amother

Freesia

Tue, Dec 19 2023, 11:05 pm

Mashed sweet potato
Potato kugel
Pasta
Rice
Yogurt (Greek if she’ll take it)
Shredded cheese
Oatmeal with peanut butter or chocolate chips
Mashed fruit
Applesauce
Matzah balls
Any chunky soup
Fries
Cottage cheese
Pancakes

I’m a ftm too who just went thru this stage and these are all foods my daughter loved.

amother

Daffodil

Tue, Dec 19 2023, 11:17 pm

My daughter at that age loooved plain Greek yogurt mixed with applesauce or any baby food jar like pears, carrots

I also gave her:
Avocado chunks
Cottage cheese
Scrambled eggs
Quinoa
Salmon (be super careful with bones, I gave her the tail part), gefilta fish, tilapia
Chicken and veggies from the soup
Bamba
Pasta
Cheese
Oatmeal
PB sandwiches, which she didn't like too much
Challah

amother

Ruby

Tue, Dec 19 2023, 11:25 pm

She should definitely be eating more food with texture not mashed food

Soft bread.
Noodles
sliced or shredded cheese
Egg omelette in strips
Oat muffins
Chewy oatmeal bars
Rice (messy)
Salmon
Fish sticks

Real food.

amother

Narcissus

Tue, Dec 19 2023, 11:33 pm

Mine likes

Meatballs
Schnitzel (cut into small pieces)
Potato kugel
Vegetable soup
Sweet potato fries
Butternut squash
Pizza
Yogurt
Cholent
Chickpeas (I smash them before giving so they're not perfectly round)
Toast with peanut butter
Salmon
Gefilte fish
Sushi lol
Oranges (I remove membranes so it's not a choking hazard)
Apples (slices cut very thin)
Broccoli

Basically almost anything an adult can eat.

amother

Oldlace

Tue, Dec 19 2023, 11:36 pm

amother Ruby wrote:

Bread should be harder/ toasted otherwise it gets gooey and choky real quick.

My baby has what we eat. Some things I didn’t see mentioned are soft halves of pears (she can hold herself and chew on) great if constipated. Peas mashed a bit, big piece of meat or chicken to chew on.

amother

NeonOrange

Wed, Dec 20 2023, 7:38 am

amother OP wrote:

At one (and before) she can eat whatever you’re eating, just serve in safe sizes. Check out solidstarts for the safe serving recommendation. Like if you wanna give her an egg just google “solid starts egg” and it’ll pop up how to serve it. How about yogurt? Avocado, cheese, sweet potato, zucchini, pasta, blueberries flattened, pieces of strawberry. salmon is great and healthy. roasted steamed vegetables like broccoli (to make it soft just bake covered for a while can add water to the pan to steam it. Spices olive oil etc). There are so many options. Shouldn’t rly be needing to eat jars at this point. Can also give some applesauce pouches.