Meal Suggestions for 11 Month Old

I have a great book called Blender Baby Foods. All the food is arranged by age, and can be adapted to regular meals. I recommend it!

OMG, my daughter was just like this. She did not like the graduate foods and so we just gave her whatever we were having. However, there are a couple things I made and froze. One was a ground turkey meat loaf. If you want the recipe, let me know and I will look at home and get it to you tomorrow. My daughter LOVED it. There are luchables that have cubed turkey, ham, chesse, and crakers. Or you could cut some up yourself. Noodles are great with a little butter and parmasan cheese for flavor. I made sweet potatoe french fries, broccoli and chesse nuggets (these recipes are all on the sheets I printed) and they were a hit! Plus, healthy. Yogurts are great and those fruit cups. I like the Yobaby yogurt with rice in it. My daughter did like the puffs, stars, fruit snacks, and yogurt drops in the gerber graduates by the baby food. Have fun with it. Cut everything small and she should be able to eat what you guys are having! Let me know about the recipes! Good luck!

She can likely eat what you're eating, just chopped up a little more. Spaghetti w/ sauce, dark meat chicken, waffles, pancakes, steamed veggies, grilled cheese sandwiches, mac n' cheese, raviolis, chicken nuggets, fish sticks, etc. I can't think of many things that we eat that my 12 month old won't eat. Even steak, chopped up into little bits. My son is a little guy for his age, too, so my ped suggested adding a little bit of whole fat to his stuff--real butter, cream cheese, sour cream, olive oil, whole milk yogurt, etc. This of course all in addition to his whole whole milk which he just switched to. Which he drinks LESS of now than his formula, so just beware of that. They need the fat for their little brains to develop properly.

My daughter wanted nothing to do with baby food by 9-10 mths old. So I ahd no choice but to start finding foods. Almsotanything you eat can be either given or altered in some way to feed your daughter. All the suggestion other moms have given are great. Fruit, cooked veggies, my duaghter loves beefaroni. MAc n cheese will never go away and a favorite. Hot dogs are good at this age just make sure to cut them length wise them across. Rice. potatoes, yogurt, meat cut up very small.

When it comes time for dinner give her the meal b4 the milk(formula). My daughter was about your daughters size at that age (5-10 percentile I think). She is now tow and at the 30 percentile. She was small for a long time and from18 mths to age 2 she jumped up but stil on the small end. That is ok. I know plently of 3-4 year old who are not evwen on the charts but as healthy s can be. So as long as she is healthy I would not worry about ehr weight. I would not wait on switching to whole milk, whole milk has a lot of fat in it, which is why they want them on it for the second year. If my daughter drinks 6 oz close to a meal she will not eat. Good luck and wil probable hear from you in a 6 mths when they start becoming picky eaters and some times they do not ewat at all...stressful at first but come to find all normal. If my daughetr has one big meal a day I can forget her eating much the rest of it.

First of all I would ask your ped what # oz. of formula she needs at this age (I'm thinking 24?) Don't give her more than that. She could be substituting formula for food, so, of course she won't be hungry!
I have a 7 yo that used to ask if they had SHRIMP when I took him to McDonalds! He eats everything and anything and I think it's because I always gave him whatever his dad & I had for dinner. With the obvious exception of things she could choke on, she can pretty much eat whatever you eat: cooked veggies, small fruit pieces, tender chicken, noodles, pasta, rice, yogurt, cottage cheese and fruit, mashed or baked potatoes. Just watch the formula intake as it may relate to the lack of appetite!

It does depend on the amount of teeth she has and how she does with chunkier foods, but by about 9 months, my son (though still breastfeeding, but had about 10 of his 20 teeth) ate everything we ate from the table and ate minimal baby food. We just cut it into little pieces and let him explore some things whole depending on how confident I felt he could handle them (these were usually softer foods and easily chewed) as he got older. He loved lasagna, spaghetti, stew, hamburger, pizza, macaroni and cheese. He used his hands to eat (very messy...put a old tablecloth under his chair), but started with a spoon/fork at about 18 months. I also did a lot of the toddler food choices you find in the same area as the baby food...he loved the raviolis and the chicken and pasta.

Now at 2, he does really well with a spoon and fork (and actually will sometimes refuse to use the "baby" spoons and forks and insists on adult silverware!) and we don't do anything special to his food for the most part (unless it is hard, like carrots), but he loves hamburgers, anything he can dip- like chicken nuggets, hotdogs cut up, anything Italian- especially pizza and macaroni and cheese, any veggies- fresh, canned or frozen, all fruits. He is much neater now as well...still have a crumb mess under his chair, but much easier to just sweep up.

I should mention that my son is tiny too...he is only 23 pounds at 2 years old...but as someone else mentioned before me, you can start doing lots of added butter and oil on your child's food to help her gain a little more weight (and after she is 1, you can do lots of the milk products...string cheese is one of my son's favorites...I think you can give those before she turns 1, but just check with your MD first. They also had me doing PediaSure as well after he turned 1 to see if that helped him gain weight- didn't work for my son because his "little stature" is due to genetics, but maybe it will for your daughter. Peanut butter is also a good healthy fat- my son loves peanut butter crackers). If you need any other ideas for her, go no further than what you are eating yourself for dinner! As far as allergies, we have TONS of food allergies in our family, but I went ahead and gave my son peanut and other nut products at 1 and seafood at 2...just gave a small bite the first time and waited all night before I tried more to be on the safe side, but he has done great with everything (except whole milk consequently, but we found that on an allergy screen...so we do soy and rice milk)! Let me know if you need any other ideas!

R.,
Like the other moms have said your baby can eat whatever you eat, just make sure it is soft enough that her gums can chew it. Try feeding her food before you give her formula and see if she will eat more. Also if you do not have any milk allergies in your family history you can safely start giving her whole milk now too. she can also have cheeses and yogurt @ 8 months. stonyfeilds makes a yogurt with whole milk.
Good high calorie/ fat foods include, cheese (dairy),eggs, avocados (in Brazil they mash it with a little sugar and in Mexico they mix it with salt and cream or yogurt) , anything high in protein will help, like meats. olives are great, and you could add a little olive oil to her foods too. If you do not have peanut allergies, you could do peanut butter, although some sugest you don't do that until after two years. All of these are good healthy fats to eat. Good luck with the calorie boosting and meal enhancing:)
E.

I had the same problem with my son, now 14-months. Hie wanted to do it himself and any attempt at feeding him baby food was met with a turn of his head or a swipe at the spoon. He is also a naturally thin baby. I would recommend toast, green beans, noodles (which are a favorite of my son's), steamed carrots so they aren't soggy but still somewhat firm, ramen, chicken noodle soup (prepare for a mess), etc. My son is very picky about textures and if he doesn't like the texture of the food he won't touch it. I'm not sure If you have this problem, but my pediatrician recommended picking 3 foods per meal, one which I know he likes and two experimentals to try to encourage him to try new things. His primary source of nutrition is still coming from toddler formula as he is very picky still. I've also started giving him chicken strips from chicken breasts or tenders. So he can hold it and take little nibbles. String cheese, which he won't touch, eggs, again he won't touch. Gerber makes a lot of finger foods for kids that age you can also try. Mostly it's finding foods you think are appropriate and your child can manage. While she is still on a bottle, I would start with the toast, noodles, beans, and steamed carrots. When you see how she does with chewing and such, add more slowly. When you start giving her whole milk her appetite will most likely increase on its own unless you have a frustratingly picky child like I do.

We were having the exact same problems with my 16 months old who was just 17 pounds and still on breast and formula six time a day.(he refused cow milk).We just start giving him whatever we were eating chopped really small. He loved the fruit cups,pasta rice and bread,banana,cheese stick and the gerber yogurt in the baby aisle .We are still working on the vegetable as peas and carrot sometimes only is as far as he will go for the vegetables.And he still having 3 nursing and 2/3 bottle of formula a day(about 24-30 ounces of breast formula combined ).Today he is 18 months old and 22 pounds.

Depending on how many teeth she has, she should be able to eat anything you're preparing for yourself at this point in time.

The American Academy of Pediatrics used to recommend holding off on certain foods because of allergy concerns, but they reversed that opinion about 2 years ago. Here's a link you might find interesting:
http://www.healthychildren.org/english/ages-stages/baby/f...

When we took our daughter in for her 1 year well-baby visit almost a year ago, our pediatrician's advice was that anything posing a choking hazard (raisins) were not recommended, and to try new things in small quantities (peanut butter) to make sure there isn't a reaction. Otherwise, it's OK to try new things.

At that age, frozen mixed vegetables are great, lunch meats, cheeses, soft fruits (though both of my kids were eating off apples/pears and 1/2 of whole grapes at that point).

I wouldn't personally mess with the "stages" baby foods. It sounds like she's letting you know what she's interested in. At this age, formula doesn't really need to be the dominant source of calories, but only your pediatrician can really advise you on what proportion is good.

Hi R. - that's great that she likes table foods. Give her all the good things that you like to eat. Give her a variety of foods and try to keep her diet balanced. My peditrician told me that on average a toddler needs about 1000 calories a day.

At 11 months kids like finger foods. She can eat soft fruits and soft cooked veggies like carrots, squash, peas and small pieces of broccoli etc. My kids really took to eating veggies once I figured out they didnt like the bland taste. Why not? I dont like them bland either. They like them seasoned with just a tiny dash of sea salt and olive oil. My youngest loved broccoli rice casserole. You could try ziti or penne pasta with or without sauce. My boys both enjoyed meatballs and marinara or raviolis, tortellinis etc. They liked small cubes of ham chicken turkey and cubes of cheese with Ritz. I made yogurt drinks for them rather than buying the supersweet Danimals. I just used whole milk baby yogurt and mixed it with some milk and gave it to them with a straw. Just some ideas.

One thing I remember at that age (seems like forever and a day ago) was that I gave them small portions of just one or two things and then added as they wanted more. If I gave them too much, they would get a little overwhelmed and start playing with their food rather than eating.

Also, both of my boys started having sinus problems at one year when they started drinking larger quantities of whole milk. We switched to 2nd stage formula that had DHA/ARA supplemented and just did a little milk in the form of yogurt cheese etc and they did better. Just something to think about if you notice anything popping up after starting whole milk.

When my daughter was little we didn't hardly do baby food at all, just steamed veggies until they were really mushy (sweet potato, brocolli, colliflower, edemame etc. (she didn't have issues with gas or allergy worries) and had a little hand baby food grinder that we would put a few bites of whatever we were eating and she would 'eat with us'. I think that you may still have to worry about peanuts allergy potential under a year. I really like that we got her used to 'grown up' food and a taste for variety really little, she eats sushi, curry, schnitzle all variety of types of food, the only thing she won't eat is "cooked fruit" and don't know where that comes from, but effectively she won't eat pie, or fruit in deserts or pastries, which is fine with me. ;o)
Good luck and enjoy!

She can have whatever you are having. She no longer needs baby food as they are just to sloppy. Her breakfast can be cereals with milk , toasted bagel w/cream cheese , regular toast , pancakes , maybe a banana or strawberries to go with it. Lunch can be a sandwich with ham or turkey , maybe some cheese , a yogurt (yobaby are good). Dinner pasta will be fine , you could make a pasta sauce with lot's of veggies blended into it (will freeze well) , pasta & meat sauce , mac n cheese , lasagne , rice. Whatever you are eating put her some aside and cut it into small pieces that she can pick up. Just remember that spicy or strongly flavoured foods probbaly won't work just yet.