What should I feed my 1-yr old?

Question

My son is 1 and he's tired of mushy food but doesn't seem to be able to chew the bigger stuff yet. I'm running out of options.
Help.

Answer 1

When my girl was 14 months I started feeding her what we were eating she was tired of mushy food also and I was so scared of her choking. I remembered with my four year old I started feeding her solids at around 14 months and remembered she liked eating cherrios, crackers for snacks so I started slowly feeding my toddler food that we were eating. I started giving her cut up fruit (strawberries, banana's), cherrios, fish crackers (her favorite), baby cookies, pasta, soup, and basically whatever we were eating for dinner and lunch but cut up in small pieces. It was a little nerve racking because I just felt she would choke on something but never did I always supervised her when she was eating, she loved scrambled eggs for breakfast and small pieces of toast. Try starting off with baby crackers. I also found these cookies that she absolutely loved they are called Baby Mum-Mum, she loved eating those and they disolved in her mouth. Just try experimenting with different food.

Answer 2

Feed your child whatever you eat. I would avoid spicey foods or soups, but anything else goes. As long as he can pick it up, give it to him even if he makes a mess, because he is learning. Also, he can gum most anything accept steak. My son did not get his back teeth until eighteen months and he was completely off the little bit of baby food he was given way before then. Now he gets anything. Here are ideas:
grapes cut in quarters
cantelope cut in pieces
peas
beans
raisins- they come out funny in their poop
yogurt
crackers
french fries in pieces
pieces of ground meat
pieces of a cheese burger McDonald's are the easiest
chicken cut up
small pieces of meat
lunch meat
any vegetable cooked soft
mash potatoes
cupcakes
cookies
noodles
pizza with a soft crust
eggs
pancakes add syrup sparingly
french toast '' "
waffles " "
hot dogs cut in quarters
chicken nuggets
sloppy joes
meatloaf
pieces of cheese
shredded cheese
ice cream- my sons favorites

Answer 3

Try sweet peas, diced veggies like carrots, fruits like peaches and banana (in small pieces), rice and beans (make sure the beans are really soft), pasta, scrambled eggs, bread. He'll learn to "chew" with his gums, it's not "baby food" and not quite as mushy, yet soft enough for a one year old.
Good luck!

Answer 4

Gosh, the toddlers at my daycare love just about anthing they can get their hands on. Try cheese squares or fish crackers. Cut up grapes, or canned fruit.
I found if you eat with them, they`ll want to eat what your eating.
I have a toddler that mooches food off me all the time, he`ll stand there and point and grunt. Most one year olds, ( from my experience), beg for whatever you`re eating.

Answer 5

He should be more than capable of eating almost anything.

My son has been eating table food like apples and pears since 6 months. And at 7 months he started on steak (I thought he would spit it out, nope he eats it faster than anything).

Now he's a year he just eats all my food.

Answer 6

Try him on the smaller portions of solids, things that your eating like apples, carrots, small pieces of meat - like vienna sausage, you can look in the toddler section of the baby foods ideas for some really good ideas.

Answer 7

Check out the dehydrated veggies and fruits that have come out now. My daughter adores the apple. And it's real fruit and real vegetables, just in a different form.

Answer 8

Cut things, especially meats, into really small bite sized pieces. Just keep trying - sooner or later he will get the hang of it.

Answer 9

oatmeal, Campbell's chunky soup, any casserole, spag , mac n cheese, veggies raw or steamed, whole wheat toast, whole wheat waffles, all fruit, yogurt, jello, breakfast bars, iron fortified cereals, at one your child can eat most foods you eat,

Answer 10

feed him what you eat, mac and cheeses, cracker and gramcrakers, and many more