Hi ELT,
Here is a general idea of what my son eats for his three meals,
1). Breakfast, he always has cereal and yoghurt. I try to vary the flavour of the yoghurt as much as possible, i.e. diff flavour everyday (although hard in HK where choice of youghurts is so limited). Somedays he has oatmeal, somedays rice cereal, somedays barley cereal and somedays cheerios or weetabix.
He eats the cereal and yoghurt for the same meal but seperately.
2). Mid Morning Snack, he might have baby crackers, or biscuis or fresh fruit. Today, for example, he had strawberries and a couple of toddler vege. crackers.
3). Lunch, he has a variety of things. He has mini adult meals.
Basically he has what we have but without the salt! My helper takes out a portion of whatever she's cooking before adding the salt.
He eats every vegetable we eat, all kinds of meat and fish (apart from pork), and pasta, rice, noodles etc.
Today, for example, he had mashed potato with beef, carrots and onion. (Shepherds pie basically)
Yesterday he had homemade vegetable fried rice.
4). Mid Afternoon snack, again fresh fruit or vegetables.Rice cakes or similar. Has milk too, although drinks very little.
5). Dinner is same as lunch- whatever we are having minus the salt!
Yesterday he had pasta with tomato sauce, chicken and vegetables.
Tonight he will have lasagna.
I no longer blend or puree his food- I just cut it roughly.
I know people have diff ideas about what babies should eat and how much before a year old, or even before they are two years old. We have tried to follow our sons lead as much as possible. He took to solid food very well and so we went with that.
We were in the UK recently and eating out was great because restaurants and cafes were more than happy to make a baby meal for him minus salt etc. So he ate his way through mini roast dinners etc. Decided it was a much better option than jars of food which I use to give him until I tried one and was nearly sick it tasted so disgusting and nothing like food!
Here is a general idea of what my son eats for his three meals,
1). Breakfast, he always has cereal and yoghurt. I try to vary the flavour of the yoghurt as much as possible, i.e. diff flavour everyday (although hard in HK where choice of youghurts is so limited). Somedays he has oatmeal, somedays rice cereal, somedays barley cereal and somedays cheerios or weetabix.
He eats the cereal and yoghurt for the same meal but seperately.
2). Mid Morning Snack, he might have baby crackers, or biscuis or fresh fruit. Today, for example, he had strawberries and a couple of toddler vege. crackers.
3). Lunch, he has a variety of things. He has mini adult meals.
Basically he has what we have but without the salt! My helper takes out a portion of whatever she's cooking before adding the salt.
He eats every vegetable we eat, all kinds of meat and fish (apart from pork), and pasta, rice, noodles etc.
Today, for example, he had mashed potato with beef, carrots and onion. (Shepherds pie basically)
Yesterday he had homemade vegetable fried rice.
4). Mid Afternoon snack, again fresh fruit or vegetables.Rice cakes or similar. Has milk too, although drinks very little.
5). Dinner is same as lunch- whatever we are having minus the salt!
Yesterday he had pasta with tomato sauce, chicken and vegetables.
Tonight he will have lasagna.
I no longer blend or puree his food- I just cut it roughly.
I know people have diff ideas about what babies should eat and how much before a year old, or even before they are two years old. We have tried to follow our sons lead as much as possible. He took to solid food very well and so we went with that.
We were in the UK recently and eating out was great because restaurants and cafes were more than happy to make a baby meal for him minus salt etc. So he ate his way through mini roast dinners etc. Decided it was a much better option than jars of food which I use to give him until I tried one and was nearly sick it tasted so disgusting and nothing like food!
