Feeding a 1 year old

ZombieFan said:
Not direct advice for your problem, but whenever we had veg with our own dinner we would cook a whole load of it (without salt etc), mash it up, put it into ice cube trays and freeze it.

Then whenever we needed a meal for our 1 year old we could get a variety of food cubes out from the freezer and defrost them for lunch. From what I remember it worked really well.
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Yup that's what we used to do when we first started weaning him at 6 months, always used to work well, but from what we've been told they're supposed to be having proper meals now. Obviously we can't give anything too chewy as he hasn't got his molars.
 
PaulStat said:
Yup that's what we used to do when we first started weaning him at 6 months, always used to work well, but from what we've been told they're supposed to be having proper meals now. Obviously we can't give anything too chewy as he hasn't got his molars.
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are you still giving him plenty of milk be it from the 1+ follow on powder or whole milk?

also, a load of mashed up veg can taste like '~'@ esp if it includes broccoli or cabbage

stick with parsnip, butternut squash, carrots, potatoes and sweet potatoes and you won't go wrong, a nicely roasted parsnip or squash does wonders

also i asume there is nothing inhibiting his eating as per my post above?
 
Yeah he has two 8oz bottles of whole milk a day which he still loves, and nothing inhibiting his eating (apart from sore gums)
 
Simple rule here is, leave child in a cage with a load of food. If he's hungry, he'll eat, if not, he'll leave it. Now, the same cannot be true for dogs. :p

Also, try and avoid whole milk for very young children, it offers no development nutrients bar fat (after treatment). The follow on milk is far better and actually has calcium in it :o
 
lookitsjonno said:
+1 for annebel karmel recipes.
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My wife used them on both ours and no problems, they go off food occasionally for a week but they soon are back on it when they are hungry.

Ours went from breast to AK puréed food then you gauge the food size of chunks by how much they gag or throw up then off the breast at about 7 months and onto HIP organic milk then organic cows milk at a year.

Both of our have organic milk only and are rarely ill, non organic is the devils milk.

Now they eat what we eat just chopped up a bit more, and now we add salt ourselves so the kids don't get too much.
 
Mine's 11 months and eats everything in sight, including the dog's tail, dog's food ( now being locked away) my laptop cable, remote controls on top of all her food.

My wife does the batch food thing, where all the food is made and she freezes them all in little individual pots. She doesn't really use a recipe though, just meats and fresh vegetables pretty much all mushed up. When I feed her I tend to steal a few bites, and it's NOM
 
On a slightly related note, remember a childs stomach is very small and they will tend to graze more than eat a full meal.
 
SB118 said:
Dude, buy a telly, it's cheaper ;)

That said, my son should have arrived yesterday and he doesn't seem to be in any hurry :(
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Mother said that to the wife when we announced she was pregnant, to which the wife calmly replied:

"we have one but we only watch porn on it"
 
My son (now 2 n a bit) went through a couple of stages, one was where he just needed distraction like a toy and then after that it was because he wanted to feed himself.

Also he loves ketchup. He'll eat anything with ketchup on it.
 
You could try how I had to feed one of my snakes.
I had to hold it's mouth open while shoving a mouse down it and then hold the mouth shut until it swallowed it.
It just might work.
 
kokuten said:
just feed him whatever, plenty of time to worry about bad habits.. the little lads only 1 :-) keep him happy
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Do not do this at all. Really bad advice. Same for sweetening and adding salt etc you could try cinnamon though.

A child's food patterns for life are established between 6 months and 18 months so you need to stick to your guns and persist. Yes it is difficult sometimes but does you little one have milk? Don't forget that food is there to aid their growth as long as he is getting milk + some healthy food then it really is not an issue unless his weight drops two percentile lines ie if he is on the 50% line last time he was weighed he would have to drop not just to the 25% but the 9th for a medical professional to class it as significant - so take him to see the health visitor explain your problems and get him weighed as long as he has not had a significant drop then he can go without a few meals.

Edit: It goes without saying as well if you are giving him the attention he feels he deserves either positively or negatively then he will get the attention he wanted and repeat the behaviour - just put the food in front of him and if he eats it praise him if he does not then calmly remove it without any emotion after a reasonable interval.
 
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