What does your 16 month old eat in a day?

[DaintreeDream]

My DD is 16 months old and finally she has decided to start eating solids .

We have got her up to 3 small meals a day but I am just curious what the average 16 (ish) month old eats in a day.

DD is fed all fluids through a naso-gastic tube and still recieves supplements through there morning and night so she would feel fuller than the average toodler who is now on cows milk.

So otherwise, I know that she is very different to alot of other toddlers but I am just after some kind of idea IYKWIM?

[feeb]

DS is 15 months and his day is generally:

breakfast 3 kids weet bix

Lunch Jar, or leftovers, or sandwich, followed by yougurt aned purrred fruit.

Dinner Jar, or leftovers, or sandwich, followed by yougurt aned purred fruit and cheese stick

sometimes will have a biscuit while we have dinner if we r eating later, other times a bit of what ever we are having.

He will sometimes have a few small snacks if we are out eg playgroup etc liek cheese sticks, rice wheels, corn thins.

he will not eat pieces of fruit only puree grrr

[{sarah}]

My little miss would eat all day long if I let her, so she might not be the best guide! Just remember too some kids are big eaters & others aren't, my son would never have eaten as much as my daughter does at 16 months.

Breakfast
* piece of toast & 1.5 weetbix OR
* baked beans OR
* bacon, scrambled eggs & toast OR
* fruit salad OR
* two pancakes
* all usually with a cup of milk

Morning Tea:
* fruit, biscuits, muesli bar, yoghurt etc depends on what we have

Lunch:
* sandwich & yoghurt OR
* leftover dinner (could be just about anything) OR
* if it's cold we might cook up sausages & veges

Afternoon Tea:
* same as morning tea

Dinner:
* small bowl of whatever we're having (curries, lasagne, meat & veg, whatever)

Dessert (only sometimes):
* yoghurt OR
* custard OR
* fruit

[DaintreeDream]

Thanks Feeb and Sarah .

I will give you an idea of how far we have come in just one week... at the start of last week she wouldn't take anything from a spoon and what sandwiches etc she sucks but I don't know what actually makes it to her tummy.

Yesterday she had:

Breakfast: 1/2 a weet bix (normal ones)
Lunch: Half a tub of yoghurt, also tries to eat a sandwich and sucks on watermelon.
Dinner: 1/2 a tin of spaghetti and meatballs (toddler ones)

She also had 2 grapes and an arrowroot biscuit.

[feeb]

She is doing well she will get there!!!

DS is not a fan of home made stuff so tends to mainly have tins and jars and sachets!! sandwiches with him are hit and miss some days cant get enough other days couldnt care less!

[{sarah}]

Oh wow, that's fantastic

[rufalina]

She sounds like she is going sensationally...

With DS (16mo) he can vary from day to day, But I am pretty similar to Feeb and Sarah...

Breakfast
-1-3 weetbix with milk and pured fruit for sweetening (maybe a tablespoon or so)
-handful of sultanas
-Toast

9.30 - 150ml bottle of formula / milk - we are working on cutting this one back...

Morning tea - usually a banana

Lunch
-Either meat and veges or pasta and veges or a fish cake or something similar
-yogurt or custard
-Fruit

1.30 - 200ml bottle of formula for nap

Afternoon tea - Muesli bar or yogurt if he didnt want it for lunch

Dinner
-Meat and veges or pasta or whatever I have maybe a can of baked beans? It generally depends on how much he had for lunch
-Fruit or jelly
-Biscuit

Bed - 200ml bottle of formula - again trying to cut back on this so I can sub it for milk, but it is not working...

DS still loves his milk, but in the last couple of days as his molars have settled in, he is finding eating better, and so I have noticed he is wanting more food, but still going with the milk, but I am hoping to cut this back.

DS also always has a cup of water with him, and i fill it a few times a day. He loves water with his meals too...

And I think you are doing sensationally... xoxo

[Arimeh]

She sounds like she is doing so well!! DS at that age wasn't a big eater, and still isn't. I sometimes wonder how the hell he is still breathing and functioning!!!!

Miss M is a better eater - she usually has

Wake up - bottle 280ml

Breakfast
Slice of toast, fruit if she wants

Morning tea
biscuits, half a fruit bar and today she had a yoghurt

Lunch
sandwich or
Cheese on crackers
1/2 banana

Afternoon tea
biscuits, slice of fruit

Dinner
Whatever we are having.

Dessert
sometimes she gets half an icecream cut up in a bowl, but i suspect most of it ends up on the floor.

Bed
300ml milk. (this is the only bottle she will completely empty as she usually falls asleep on it)