Question for parents with babies that are eating solids and are around 1 year old.?

Question

How many bottles do your babies drink a day? Formula or milk? How much baby food? Desserts or veggies? Table food? Basically what is the meal plan for your baby during an average day? I am curious to know the eating habits of other babies my daughter's age? Thank you so much!

Answer 1

My son will be a year on the 21st... he is currently eating a formula bottle, 6 oz formula and 2 oz of milk every morning when he gets up and every night before bed... he takes another bottle the same way sometime during the day... usually after nap time... about an hour after he wakes up he eats breakfast... eggs, french toast, oatmeal, toast with peanut butter, apple sauce mixed with grain baby cereal or some kind of fruit, yogart... not all those things, but one or two per meal... lunch time... about 2-3 hours after breakfast... some kind of lunchmeat... ham or turkey... on bread plain... pasta and vegies, any left over dinner... and fruit or cheese... for dinner i make him any kind of chicken or pasta and meatballs... mash potatoes... sweet potatoes....etc... and also i provide him snacks when a little fussy.... crackers, cherrios, fruit, avacados, beets, etc... btw... i offer juice for snack, breakfast, and lunch and plain cows milk vit d for dinner...

so he eats 3 bottles, 3 meals, and a couple snacks... he doesnt always eat all his food at meal times... i just make sure he eats one good meal and a little at the other 2....

i am getting him used to eating 3 times a day....and i try all different kinds of food with him.... alot of fruit and vegi's... he is on all table food... no more jar food... his choice!!

desserts are maybe a bite or two of a cookie, ice cream, pudding, cake ... those are only maybe once or twice a week, or when he sees gramma and grampa... lol

good luck!! I hope that was helpful

Answer 2

When my boy was around 1 year old we had transitioned off the bottle and onto the sippy cup (yeah, that was pure hell for 2 days!!) That was also the time we stopped with using formula because they don't get any nutritional value out of it anymore. And Whole Milk is best (because of the vitamins but also the milk fat, which the little ones actually do need)
So, a typical day was:
Breakfast - Life cereal (or Chex or Cheerios) with whole milk and some cut up fruit (an apple or some kiwi or mango) and then a sippy cup of whole milk, or maybe a scrambled egg with some toast and fruit and whole milk (we like to switch it up so the food doesn't get boring)
Lunch - cut up turkey or chicken, some veggies (he loves steamed green beans) and some animal crackers and a sippy cup of whole milk; or maybe leftovers from the night before (if my husband is running late for work)
Dinner - whatever we as a family are eating which includes everything from fish and poultry to steak and pasta; lots of fresh veggies; rice; cous cous, etc. Usually will also finish up with some more fruit or some animal crackers and again, a sippy cup of milk

My son doesn't snack between meals (he eats so much at meal time there is no need for snacks) and we often give him his milk AFTER dinner, not before (as an earlier poster said, they fill up on the milk and then don't eat). And I will give him juice in between meals, especially after playing outdoors (because he's thirsty!) although after he was a year old, I stopped diluting it. And I only buy organic/"whole" juices (i.e the label doesn't list sugar, dextrose or high fructose corn syrup in the ingredients - just juice and fruit!)

My grocery bill is about $200 a week between my son and my husband. LOL What am I going to do when he is a teenager???

Answer 3

My son is 13mths and has about 5 8oz bottles of cow's milk a day and 2 4 oz 1/2 water and juice sippy cups a day. He usually will have oatmeal with fruit or 1 egg, 1/4 a piece of toast, and fruit for breakfast. Lunch is usually some soup and sandwich, or something lite, but always 2 servings of veggies and some type of fruit. A snack of club crackers and cheese or veggie/fruit puffs mixed with cheerios between lunch and dinner. At dinner he has a small amount of protein and 2 veggies or 1 veggies and mac n cheese. Then a little before bed some Yo Baby yogurt. He has milk with all his meals and his juice at snack time. I really push the milk at this age cause you might have to fight with them later to get them to take it, and I am very careful not to give big portions, but small portions of many different foods to get a good variety of the food groups. They say variety is the spice of life. I hope this helps.

Answer 4

Well, I'm not a mommy but I run a daycare and I have a 1 year old in care. He is off the bottle and has been since 10 and a half months. He drinks 3-4 6oz sippy cups of milk a day. He eats what everyone else eats at the table--just cut smaller or mashed up. A typical breakfast is something like small handful of cheerios, fruit--banana, mandarin orange slices, halved grapes, etc. and juice and milk. Lunch: toast, soup, or if we have sandwiches he gets pieces of sliced turkey, cheese, small tomato chunks. For dinner he just eats what we eat--spaghetti cut up, meatloaf, etc. Last night he even ate very tender and very mashed roast beef and grav with mashed potatoes. He does get dessert and loves pudding. I am also very big on self-feeding. He isn't good with utensils but he can use his hands to get the food where it needs to be! My kids also get 3 snacks a day--breakfast at 7, snack at 9:30, lunch at noon, snack at 2:30, dinner at 5, snack at 7:30.

Answer 5

At around one year all my children were eating table food on a regular basis. I still fed them jar food when I didn't think they had eaten enough just so they were full and then not be hungry again within the hour or so. They still had their formula at times...but I gave them milk in a cup. I gradually mixed the formula and the milk together in their bottles until they were used to the taste of milk alone. I have picky eaters so it was hard for them to get used to the table food and the milk.....but it finally happened. Once they really got used to feeding themselves with table food, they didn't want the jar food fed to them by spoon any longer. during the transition, I would give them some table food to entertain them selves for a bit, then I would give them a jar of food or 2, pending on their appetite. I always stuck with the stage 2 foods, for one they were always on sale and also my kids had no interest in the flavors of the stage 3 foods. When it came to the bottles, I gradually skipped one and substitute for a snack...that was usually table food and a cup of milk. I hope I have helped. Good Luck!

Answer 6

my son is almost 11 mos....he eats baby cereal and a fruit in the am...veggies at lunch with fruit puffs....dinner is a veggie with a meat source. He is not on regular milk yet, and hasn't started much table food because he still only has one tooth. Hope this helps.

Answer 7

My son just turned one this week. He has three 8 ounce bottles of milk a day and three 4 ounce bottles of half juice half water. He eats meals with the family and unless it is seafood or nuts he eats what the rest of us have. He refuses to use a sippy cup.

Answer 8

Please, no cereal interior the bottle. it extremely is so previous. examine have shown that it may surely reason poorer sleep, because of the fact their tummy isn't waiting to digest it yet, and that they have a tendency to consume too plenty. and surely, do you think of a teaspoon of rice cereal is surely going to fill up their tummy sufficient to lead them to sleep all night? there's no actual nutritional fee in rice cereal, and many docs do no longer propose it anymore. Plus, it is a terrible crop so far as insecticides, gentic replace and environmental injury. The longer you wait to introduce ingredients, the swifter you're able to do each and every nutrients, and the cleanser it is, LOL. Feeding a 4 month previous is MESSY, and that they actually are not getting all that plenty in. Feeding a 6 month previous is plenty much less complicated.

Answer 9

it changes from child to child - as no childs hunger is the same
with my son - he had 1 weetabix with milk for b'fast and cows milk
then he would have a few pieces of fruit around 10 a.m
dinner would be around 12 - sandwiches, soft crisps, raisans, fruit / veg, - depending on how hungry he was - and then drink of cows milk after (not before or he wouldnt eat)
around 3 - a breadstick to munch on
5 ish - dinner
7 p.m more cows milk before bed