What snacks do you give your 1year old?

[sososotired]

My DS has only just turned 1hes never really liked milk but has decided that he no longer drinks milk in te day only 100ml in the morning and then a bottle at bedtime my dilemma is what do I replace his milk with he only has 2 teeth at the moment so still struggling with pieces of food!

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My DS has just one bottle a day now (11months) and snacks he might have include bananas, fruit, yogurt, cheese, oat cakes, rice cakes. He doesn't snack much though, but has three big meals a day.

[cloggal]

Marking place for inspiration!

My DS is 14 months, only has a bedtime bottle. He likes babybel cheese, fruit, yoghurt, toast with pate or houmous, and the odd cereal bar. He likes picking up blueberries but won't eat them, and all other fruit gets licked and sniffed but left alone... Strange child...

[sososotired]

Cloggal my DS does that with fruit licks it buit refuses to touch fruit or put it in his mouth! But he will eat puréed fruit!

[yellowsnownoteatwillyou]

My 1 year old refused bottles during the day at 10 months, but luckily has 8 teeth. With snacks it depends on if you want to control the mess or not. He helps himself to the fruit bowl so eats apples and pears. But if pears are too ripe they make a tremendous mess as he wanders around leaving sticky trails as he goes. He eats sticks of cucumber, oat cakes, handfuls of Cheerios, bread sticks, strawberries, or bits of cheese.
Thou I had a later lunch than him today and he was eating the noodles out of my soup and bits of chicken.
But I do also give him biscuits or some crisps in a bowl.

[Mrsgrumble]

My 11 month old has porridge or half a weetabix first thing. Then a six ounce bottle. A kiwi or two plums chopped up.

Dinner - veg, chicken and potato or lentil ragu or whatever veg etc we had the previous evening.

Evening - boiled egg or an avocado or cheese and fruit

Don't really do snacks as such as he eats well but likes crackerbread, cheese, little bits of ham

[Mrsgrumble]

Meant to add.. He would happily have bottles all day and I cannot get him Ontothe beaker at all

[JiltedJohnsJulie]

Both of mine loved cheese straws

[cloggal]

Hahaha OP glad it's not just me - mine will eat banana because it's a mushy texture and puree too, everything else gets thrown!

[mildmaygrovenorth]

My DS is now 13 months with 8 teeth. He has been eating snacks since 6 months (he is a very hungry boy). He loves rice crackers with cream cheese or carrot & cumin dip or hummus, mango, banana, melon, cheese, cherry tomatoes, roast tomatoes, bagels, batons of steamed or roasted vegetables (carrots, mini sweetcorn, pumpkin, broccoli, asparagus, aubergine, courgette). I recently discovered giving him little puffed corn baby snacks (shaped like a cheerio) for him to pick up, one by one.

When I have time I make a batch of savoury muffins (with cheese and spinach, for example) and put them in the freezer. I also recently made small pumpkin patties with cheese and breadcrumbs which I keep in the freezer and cook as a snack.

At this age, I don't think it matters if it isn't what we traditionally think of as 'snack' food. Just something to tide them over until the next meal (I know my son needs this).

[neversleepagain]

Oat cakes with pate, fruit - any type, cheese, bread sticks & hummus, slice of toast with honey, courgette muffins, banana muffins, celery with cream cheese in the groove & raisins on top.

[HavanaSlife]

My 4th wouldn't have any type of finger foods until 13 or so months, he now has toms and cucumber, boiled carrot sticks, fruit, cheese the occasional bread stick.

[Bedsheets4knickers]

Totally read that as smacks lol

[sososotired]

Thank you for all the great ideas I guess it will be trail and error for a while we definitely need something to tie him over between breakfast and lunch!
Don't know why feeding my child freaks me out this much DH and I are both chefs I feed people all day long but feeding my own little person is a whole new scary ball game lol

[KatyN]

My chap went off milk when he was first weaned. He hid milk and calcium in most of his meals. Milky mash, cheese on beans etc. after a few months of me panicking about his teeth he got back into milk and now has it all day.

We had a lot of breadsticks dipped in purée (dip thickness) as they were easy to suck but more exciting that just a purée. Rice cakes are also easy to suck. I won't even admit how many yoghurts he used to eat.

K