give me ideas please?

Question

what can i give my one year old son to eat for lunch?, im running out of ideas like sandwiches and cooking things like fish fingers and nuggets( healthy ones of course!)

Answer 1

cheese, bologna, cooking vegies, and fruit until it is very mushy (and then cutting it small) so they can gum it works, things such as cooked broccoli (the florets), potatoes, and carrots, noodles cut up, canned soups like minestrone work after they've been cooled. As do small slices of cheese, bagel, and the ubiquitous cheerios,
-protein: meat spreads on bread or toast; cheese in all varieties ( shreaded or sliced cheese works best); hamburger patty broken up; cheese melted on bread I've also fed my baby sliced deli-style turkey, chicken and bologna, cut-up turkey dogs (skin peeled) and my own chicken shreaded.

-veggies: peas, carrots, zucchini, broccoli, asparagus tops--all cooked until tender but not mushy; beets; regular and sweet potatoes or yams, baked and cut up or mashed ( mashed potatoes; you can melt cheese over it, too)

-starches: pasta in all shapes with different sauces ( corkscrew pasta); rice (you can firm it up with some cheese); bread and toast; crackers; potatoes, beans fruit: bananas; soft pears; minced apples; canned fruit (drain off the liquid); strawberries (after 9 months); grapes (skinned and quartered)

finger foods that are either pretty soft (fruit chunks like pear, melon, kiwi; avocado chunks, tofu chunks, tortellini that are slightly overcooked), or that will dissolve when wet, like cheerios, bread, or crackers (like graham).
Few ideas for you..hope it helps add to the lil one's diet. LL.

Answer 2

Get a hand-held blender and blend some of your food before you have added salt - how can he grow up liking adult food if he grows up only knowing kids stuff? Take out a bit of your spagBol or whatever, add some carrots or peas and blend it for him, leaving it chunkier as he gets older. Don't cook his food until it is mush as by that time it has little nutritional value and it's not worth eating. If you go to France and look at their jars of baby food, they start their babies on purees of adult-type food, which taste of real food not the watered down version available in jars in UK.

Mash potatoes with cheese and vegetables.

If he likes to each with his fingers, you can give him steamed carrots, cauliflower, peas and corn, with fishfingers - they don't make too much mess, the veggies can be cooked in one pot and look very colourful and inviting.
These things may take a bit more preparation but he's worth it, isn't he?

I have just read rg462's comments ad totally disagree. Do not under any circumstances take him shopping - there's too much choice and he doesn't have the knowledge to make a selection that he knows he will like. Introduce him to new things in small portions so you can keep track of his likes and dislikes - confused screaming kids being asked for an opinion in shopping trolleys are a nightmare for the parent, the staff, other shoppers - everyone! Save shopping trips until he is old enough to know what he is looking at

Answer 3

For a 1-year old child,it's advisable to give him/her something that is soft and easy to chew, as his/her milk teeth have not grown completely yet, and if he/her eats tough chewing food, it will be painful when he/her chews on them. He/Her can try:

- Mashed Potato: As in the ones you see at KFC, just that they're even tastier and healthier too.

- Flavourful Porridge: The world's most delicious porridge ever made. Ingredients include: eggs, corn, mashed chicken etc. With these healthy and flavourful ingredients, your child's meal will be the best he's ever had!

- Mixed Vegetables &/or Fruits Salad: Can be mixed with your child's favourite greens and tasty fruits. Sounds VERY healthy, huh?

- Jelly scoop: You can choose to decorate the jellies or you can mash them up in a bowl. You can also add other desserts with them (e.g. ice-cream). And jelly has never been known to be unhealthy ...... right?
*Served as dessert/ supper only

Hope you'll consider these! :)

Answer 4

I'm not sure if he has enough teeth for this one but since you said sandwiches here gos. Try taking a hot dog and wrapping it in canned biscuits with a slice of cheese {pigs in s blankets} bake them 8 min or until golden brown. I cook for a daycare and our kids love them. We also take the Grand biscuits and flatten them out real thin put pizza sauce and cheese on them bake them about 6 min or until cheese is melted

Answer 5

how about macaroni cheese or ravioli if he likes that kind of thing i don't know what his tastes are so i cant suggest much oh you could also give him some home made soup if you are a good cook then you can control the salt content that is all i can think of as i don't have much to go by

Answer 6

hers an idea for pudding, get some fruit chop them up, put some greek yogurt with honey iN A GLASS LIEK 1 LAYER, THEN SOME of the fruit, the another greek yogurt and honey, the fruit, then greek yogurt again. those are the layers.
luch, u could cook a corgette and peppers, and liek the pudding cut and put them in the oven then put them in layers. anmd margerita chesse on top.

Answer 7

How about pasta - nice and quick - nice and cheap - VERY versatile as you can put pretty much anything with it? If you make a lovely tomato sauce you could put grated or pureed vegetables into it and he'll get the goodness without knowing!

Answer 8

ok, first is he not eating what your trying to give him? If thats teh case? take him shopping with you, let him pick things out and try them. If your just trying to give him something diffrent everday? Go shopping, start at one end of teh suppermarket and go with one thing at a time. I think that will give you a varied selection for some time.

OH YA! Skip the cleaning supplies aisle!!

Answer 9

McDonalds.

Answer 10

try giving him salads or fruit salads he could have low fat yoghurts such as muller these are healthy and filling.