What do you feed your 16/17 month old?

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What breakfast, lunches, dinners and snacks do you give to them? Would really love some ideas from other parents :) thanks

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Anything we eat at this point

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Breakfast is always milk, some kind of fruit, and then sometimes we do toast and strawberry/blueberry cream cheese, a Kodiak cake pancake, avocado toast, or if I’m feeling lazy, a toaster waffle. We used to do a lot of eggs but she got sick of them. 
Paisley doesn’t have a huge appetite so her lunch is usually something small. Her favorite is ham and cheese wraps (I just lay a slice of cheese on top of a slice of ham and roll it and then cut it into pieces) but lunch meat tends to be high in sodium so we don’t do that super often. Sometimes she’ll get some yogurt or cottage cheese with fruit, and she loves Mac n cheese (and it’s also my favorite way to sneak veggies in. I just blend steamed veggies into the cheese). 
For dinner, she eats whatever we do. She’s super picky about the kind of meat she’ll eat so I always put some on her plate even if I know she won’t eat it and offer several safe foods that I know she loves. 
For snacks, she loves cheese and ritz crackers, applesauce and yogurt pouches, fruit, puffs, sometimes I’ll throw a bag of steamed veggies in the microwave and set them out on the table while she plays because I find that she eats her veggies way better if they’re set out in a no expectations sort of way. She typically ignores vegetables at meal time but she’ll devour them for a snack throughout the day.

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Breakfast is always 2-3 different fruits, and toast with cream cheese and jam or some breakfast muffins (cheese and ham, blueberry oatmeal etc). She struggles with grains so she usually eats everything else and pecks at her toast. 
Lunch we usually do an easy frittata, quiche with lots of fresh veg with crumbled feta or avocado with lime or hummus. Or leftovers.
Dinner she eats absolutely anything, but she’s on a Vietnamese kick these days and of course dad cooks something German for her once or twice a week. Gulasch and red cabbage with potato dumplings are her fave. I’ll cook a whole chicken once a week and portion and freeze the leftovers for her. On most Sundays I meal prep one or two things in case we have a busy day, like chilli or meatballs. The microwave pre portioned rice cups from uncle Ben are lifesavers.
Snacks is almost always fruit, smoothies or cheese, but only because grains and crackers really aren’t her favourites!

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Snacks: fruit, crackers, cheese, yoghurt, porridge pancakes, muffins.
Breakfast: toast and fruit, sometimes will eat porridge or weetabix or egg depends on the day, sometimes it’s like it’s poison to him other days he loves them 😂
Lunch: egg, avocado, cheese, sausage, cucumber, tomato, really he eats what we eat. So dinner is pasta, roast chicken, curry, fjiatas etc. Only thing he doesn’t like is minced beef but I keep trying.

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He’ll eat almost any veggie or fruit - his favorites are avacado and blackberries. Yogurt with fruit multiple days a week because it’s easy. Toast with PB or cream cheese or marscapone. Pancakes or waffles on the weekend. Pasta with either pesto or marinara. Meats are trickier, but we try really hard to incorporate it. We often cook chicken the in the crockpot - just toss it in with some sauce - because it comes out tender enough that it is easier for him to eat. 
He is a big fan of Indian food, not so much Mexican food. Hit or miss on Chinese. So we order Indian in every few weeks - he loves chicken sagg and sagg paneer. If I don’t order a double batch I won’t get any! 
Snacks wise: fruit, goldfish, Cheerios, sometimes pouches, fruit bars.

What do you feed your 16/17 month old?

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