Breakfast for 13 Month Old

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My daughter is 14 mo old and she loves sliced turkey sausage and banana with her waffles/cereal etc at breakfast. For lunch/dinner her fav veggies are cooked broccoli trees and sliced avocado. She likes diced chicken, ham, etc. I do give her cheese pizza pieces, meatloaf in small pieces and she actually loves salmon. For a treat I give her graham crackers. Hope that helps.

I pretty much feed my 13 month old anything we eat, but we are also experiencing issues with her wanting to feed herself and not accepting spoonfed foods.

My DD loves yogurt and when I can get her to take the spoon, she loves oatmeal. We eat grilled chicken and pork for dinner and she will eat it if it is cut small (she just now has 5 teeth).

I also keep a bag of frozen peas around. I add a handful to a plastic cup, cover with water and nuke for 2 minutes, drain and serve to her. Babies get so many carbs (cookies, crackers, puffs, etc) in the form of finger foods meant to occupy them, I love the peas as an alternative while I am fixing dinner!

Good luck!

one of my faves - slice bananas into discs (about 1/4" thick or less), dunk them in pancake batter and cook on the griddle - you end up with perfect finger-food size pancakes with a sweet bit of fruit in the middle! works with apple slices too. Make a batch on the weekend and freeze them, then reheat as many as you need in the toaster oven.

when my girls were that age we did many variations on the 'bread and cheese' theme - cheese melted in a tortilla and cut into finger-food size squares, cream cheese on toast or baguette, bagel slices with cream cheese, etc. For variety, use small cookie cutters to cut the bread and cheese (save the cheese scraps for the quesadillas :-) - the bread scraps can be dried for breadcrumbs). Also plain pasta - small to medium size shells were good finger-food size and I'd toss them with some peas and cottage cheese (which sorta gets stuck inside the shells) and you end up with something similar to gerber pasta pick-ups with fresh stuff inside at a fraction of the cost :-)

http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com is another great source for ideas

At 13 mos, all kids in my childcare are on the "big kid" menu thru my USDA sponsored food program. That jsut means they get offered the same meals as the bigger kids once they hit that first birthday!

We do alot of different pastas (cold salads..the bagged flavors...spaghetti with burger or chicken and loads of veggies in the sauce). Pastas like the wagon wheels or the twists are easier for that age to pick up, versus actual spaghetti noodles.

Do home made or canned soups...just drain the juice out..or most of it. Offer her a spoon or a fork her size. Its great practice to get her using one.

We are required to offer a protein (meat, fish, egg, or even a yogurt or real cheese), 2 fruit and/or vegs, and a bread item..plus liquid milk. Serving sizes are pretty small for that age...1/2 cup milk..1 ounce meat...1/4 cup for each of the veg/fruit servings, half slice of bread or equivalent...so not alot of food. (this is the age 1-2 serving sizes..changes at 3 years old) Its a great guideline for parents to offer for meals for their children too..with the componenets for a well balanced offering at mealtimes.

Have fun!

Oatmeal...not gerber...Steel oats..whole grain pasta...whole grain bread, yogurt

At that age my kids liked jelly sandwiches, hard boiled eggs chopped up. Dry cereal or cereal softened in milk. Plain pasta, peas, Good luck.

She can eat anything you can eat as long as it is in a form that she will not choke with -

breakfast - whole grain cereal, whole grain toast with peanut or almond butter, waffles, oatmeal with fruit, eggs, fruit (bananas, pears, strawberries, mango, pineapple, papaya, berries, really anything), yogurt (the plain stuff, not the kid stuff with all the added sugars) with real fruit mixed in, avocados.

Lunch - for sandwiches - canned salmon, peanut butter, cream cheese and olives (mash them a little), hummus, grilled cheese - plus a fruit and vegetables (cooked carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, avocados, green beans, chick peas (smash them a little), peas, sweet potatoes, squash).
Dinner - we fed DS whatever we were eating - lots of whole grain pasta (with veggies and sauce), fish, shellfish, chili, chicken and dumplings, beef stew, stir fried veggies, any kind of soup, cooked sushi, edamame (smash them a little), seaweed salad, homemade mu shu.

Since we do not eat chicken nuggets, ham or hot dogs we do not feed them to DS (OK, DH has the occasional hot dog). Way over processed and full of unnecessary fats.

my daughter LOVES refried beans..but careful they can pack a punch at the end..hee hee
Oh and for bfast I also do Fried bologna