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Healthy and Practical foods for 1-year-old Baby
Babies have their own phase of development. Toddler’s gum can chew food, so no need to completely mashing food dear. It’s time to give a finger.
Now your child is one year, your child may have few front teeth now, can chew some foods. From now on, your baby is ready to have all the foods that were restricted for babies under one. Which means your baby is already having most household meals except for those restricted foods and now you can go ahead and feed your baby everything you make for the rest of the family.
“Sometimes, moms have to be creative to get their babies to eat healthily.”
― Kym Whitley
How many meals should a 1-Year-old baby have?
You can offer three meals, two snacks, and cow’s milk. If you are a breastfeeding mom, you can continue breastfeeding whenever your baby demands.
How much food should a 1-year-old eat a day?
- Whole Grains, Cereal & Carbohydrates – 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup
- Fruits & Vegetables -1/4 cup to 1/2 cup
- Milk & Dairy Products – 1 cup
- Meat/Protein/Meat Alternatives – 1/4 cup
Encourage Fussy eaters in the family? Tips to help
After one year, your baby’s growth rate naturally slows down, and hence, your baby’s appetite might have decreased than before. Also, your toddler might be interested in exploring the world around than eating.
Most of the moms complain that they are their toddler is fussy and not eating well, it is natural that they are fussy, they are more interested what the world has in store for them.
Here are some tips for the fussy eating toddler
- Never force your baby to finish the meal. Let them take their own time and enjoy the food. If your baby refuses food, try again a little later on.
- Offer the new food first when he’s really, truly hungry.
- Encourage self-feeding by offering plenty of finger foods. let him try to feed himself. He might have only gotten a couple of bites into his mouth, but he was more likely to keep it in his mouth, chew, and swallow it.
- Keep offering the food you are attempting to get him to eat. He doesn’t HAVE to eat it, but he should be exposed to it. He may pick it up and play with it and feel it. That’s ok. He’s getting used to it–it’s a process. Let your baby experience the food even it is more of playing and a mess.
- Offer a variety of nutritious small meals.
- Reduce sugary foods and avoid processed/junk food as much as possible.
1 Year (12 Months) Old Baby Food Chart
| Days | Breakfast | Mid-Morning Snack | Lunch | Evening Snack | Dinner |
| Monday | Vegetables Upama | Chickku Milkshake | Vegetables Khichadi | Dry fruits Ladoo | Chapati with Vegetables Korma |
| Tuesday | Dosa | Soft Boiled Carrot sticks | Curd Rice | Watermelon Smoothie | Poha with Milk |
| Wednesday | Poha | Sliced Banana | Egg rice/ Spinach khichdi | Vegetables cutlet | Idli or Dosa with Coconut chutney |
| Thursday | Vegetables Omelette | Fruit Yogurt | Rice with dal paneer sabzi with raita | Cheese corn Balls | Methi Paratha |
| Friday | Paneer Sandwich | Cut Fruits (Apple, chikku, watermelon) | Rice with Fish curry/ Chana Pulao | Pumpkin Soup | Vermicelli Pulao |
| Saturday | Egg omelette | Baked sweet potato fries | Rice with boiled egg/ carrot khichadi | Soft Boiled Chickpeas | Aloo Paratha |
| Sunday | Idali | Chicken soup/Veg Soup | Rice with Chicken Curry/ Beetroot Khichadi | Apple Milkshake | Vegetables Pasta |
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