Feeding my 16 month old

amother

Thu, Jun 09 2022, 4:20 pm

My 16 month old baby is a very picky eater. He refuses to eat bread with a spread on it or eggs for breakfast/lunch. The only things he eats nicely are the yogurt pouches and sliced American cheese. Nothing else besides for this. For supper he will eat soup and he can sometimes take small bites of chicken. He's still very much attached to his bottles. I give him formula still because I find otherwise he doesn't get enough nutrition from eating so little. But I'd rather switch to milk and stop the formula. The formula is really chubbing him up with those extra calories. I'd rather he eat normal foods. Can anyone here suggest other things to feed for breakfast and lunch? I'm going crazy

SuperWify

Thu, Jun 09 2022, 4:28 pm

I basically follow baby led weaning.

Here’s what my 16 month old eats.

Breakfast
Wheatabix with milk
French toast (no sugar just milk and eggs)
eggs

Lunch
Avocado
Fish sticks
pan cakes
Eggs
Pasta

snacks
Fruit all kinds cubed
Bamba
Flutes
Pouches
Applesauce

dinner
Schnitzel
Chicken soup veggies and chicken
Franks and fries
Rice

Mostly anything I serve. I serve a plate with all kinds of food cubed. I let her choose what she wants to eat and she feeds herself. We’ve been doing this since she began eating at 6 months and bh she’s developed a well rounded pallet. She still has food preferences but she’s much less picky than her older brother with which I started this program at a later age.

Bottles 2x a day

amother

Thu, Jun 09 2022, 4:45 pm

SuperWify wrote:

Wow wow that's a great variety of food 👌

SuperWify

Fri, Jun 10 2022, 2:07 am

amother [ OP ] wrote:

Wow wow that's a great variety of food 👌

And btw she doesn’t eat bread either (only challah).

Just give him a plate with a variety of foods and leave him to it. No force feeding.

Good luck!! My elder child was like this. Once I started this he got less picky bh.

amother

Opal

Fri, Jun 10 2022, 5:22 am

Sample menu for my 13.5 month old:

Breakfast:
1 slice whole wheat bread
Small yogurt, 2 slices of cheese (גבינה צהובה), or cottage cheese mixed with sour cream
Fruit- most often melon

Lunch:
Whatever we eat that day, eggs, tuna, or turkey slices
Usually with a vegetable, although not always
Carb

Dinner:
Meat, chicken, occasionally fish
Rice or potatoes
Additional vegetable

Snacks throughout the day are vegetables- cucumber, tomato- fruits, such as apples or pitted fruits, applesauce (without added sugars), occasionally a cracker

mdogzz

Fri, Jun 10 2022, 7:22 am

My 12 month olds sample menu

Breakfast:
Plain Greek yogurt
Fruit of some kind its been cut up grapes recently
Cheerios

Snack:
Cheese stick or
Unsweetened applesauce pouch

Lunch:
Leftover dinner yesterday she had all of this

Soy Ground beef mixed with black beans, lettuce, tomato, hard taco shells broken up, sour cream, shredded cheese, roasted veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, sweet potato)

Snack:
Leftover lunch or
Fruit or
Roasted chickpeas

Dinner:
Sautéed mushroom, onion, egg, brown rice

She also drinks 2 cups of whole milk one in the morning and one before bed (given in a sippy cup not a bottle). And she has a sippy cup with lots of water throughout the day.

stillnewlywed

Fri, Jun 10 2022, 9:00 am

A 16 month old should be eating anything you serve the rest of the family
You can check https://solidstarts.com/foods/ to see how to serve all kinds of food safely to babies and toddlers
Stop the bottles, just do milk in a sippy cup in the morning and night. He should be eating 3 normal meals plus snacks.