Breakfast Ideas for 1 Year Old

i would not by ANY frozen prepared food. Too many additives. the best breakfast is eggs. so easy to make. my daughter has a bacon and egg sandwich almost every morning. She is eight now. but always liked eggs, not always bacon. i buy the precooked bacon, it is very thin. also any kind of fruit. FROZEN AND PREMADE FOODS ARE POISON!

My son eats small breakfasts, for some reason. So don't stress if he doesn't eat a lot. But here are some foods that my guy loves:

-cut up fruit (bananas, berries, melon, orange slices, etc.) with yogurt

-whole grain waffle (just pop it in the toaster)

-even better: whole grain waffle with yogurt smeared all over it!

-mini bagel with cream cheese

-toast with butter, cream cheese, jelly, etc.

-cereal with milk- really! :) Pour a bowl of cheerios, chex, rice crispies or any other vitamin fortified cereal. Add maybe an inch of milk. He'll eat it by hand, though he'll have fun if you give him a spoon too. Be ready for a mess. But that's ok!

-french toast (Make a big batch and freeze it, then just pop it in the toaster!)

-pancakes with fruit inside (Make a big batch, and either freeze it or keep it in the fridge for a day or two!)

-for when you're in a rush, sesame street organic cereal bars are good. They're vitamin fortified and have evaporated cane juice, so they're better than the Nutragrain type bars.

-If your guy likes scrambled eggs, great! (Mine won't touch them, unfortunately.)

Hope this is a little helpful!

My daughter loved (and still loves):

hard boiled eggs (without yolk)
oatmeal (made with fresh fruit/dried fruit/yogurt/applesauce etc...or plain)
dry cereal with a little bit of milk (kashi mighty bites, millet flakes, raisin bran)
pancakes
bagel w/ toffutti or cream cheese
veggies (peppers (orange/yellow/red), broccoli, tomato, avocado, spinach) yes, i feed her veggies at all meals and she loves them.
fruit (bananas, grapes, blueberries, cherries, orange, grapefruit)
brown rice
tofu
beans (baked beans, plain black or garbanzo, hummus, etc)

Be creative, breakfast foods were coined that way for convenience sake long ago. It is actually very important to have your largest portion of protein at breakfast to get you through the day. Breakfast or lunch should be your big meal, not dinner. That is why I try to offer my daughter all sorts of foods in the morning. She is hungriest then, after a long nights sleep, and she gets the majority of her nutrition during her first meal. She is fairly snack-y after breakfast. Sometimes she has a good amount for lunch. But basically snacks on hard boiled eggs and veggies, sometimes cheddar bunnies or veggie booty, if I feel that she has eaten enough.

good luck.

My son, who is now ten, ate the exact same things for breakfast for almost two years, oatmeal and apple sauce. It is wonderful to be able to introduce different foods and to get a child to try them and enjoy them, but remember that if you find just a few things that he likes, that's okay. Do you generally have the same breakfast each morning - cereal, a bagel, etc.? It's okay if your child does too. Always try to introduce new things, but don't sweat it if you can't give him different every day. Good luck!

My son is 3 now, and will tell me what he wants. When he was one he always ate the gritz (instant from quaker oats), cut up fruits, yogurt, toast with butter and jelly, small panckakes, french toast, and dry cherrios. Believe it or not he still eats just about the same, just that I don't have to cut things up anymore. I always make things myself rather than the frozen kind. You can make some extras and freeze it yourself too. My son never really likes the oatmeal or cream of wheat, or even cereal with milk, he prefered it dry. Good luck to you. I totally understand the frustration about diversifying their menu. At 3, my son is just starting to be open to some new foods.

I do oatmeal and cream of wheat-initially I did the cooked kind with left over baby food fruit mixed in with or mashed up bananas or applesauce. Then I also used the fruit flavored instant ones now that they come in a less sugar variety. Scrambled eggs and toast also worked. Plus now all the whole grain frozen items are great-waffles, whole wheat pancakes, french toast, english muffins. I usually put a little jam,applesauce, or mashed fruit with them. As he got older, one of my son's favorite became whole wheat bagel with cream cheese. I actually found breakfast the quickest and the easiest meal of the day.

Hi L..

You've gotten great advice so far, I'll try not to repeat anything.

Puree fresh mango, strawberries, and/or peaches for a smoothie with yogurt or to dip french toast/pancakes in.

Veggie omlettes with whole grain bread. You can put just about anything in an omlette besides fresh veggies, leftover veggies from last night's dinner, cheese, leftover potatoes, even leftover chicken or turkey.

Be creative. At this age they can eat almost anything as long as its cut into small pieces. My son always wants what I'm eating which makes my life very simple. I eat healthy and chop up his portion very small. So far I haven't found a food that he doesn't like, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this will continue.

Good luck,
R.

My kids ate mini pancakes and french toast sticks from the freezer section. Also, cheerios or other cold cereal. Mini muffins or toast with cinnemon and sugar. My daughter gets scrambled eggs a couple times a week. Sometimes with cheese. But when introducing eggs I was told to give the whites for a couple days and then add the yolk. Just to check for allergies.

My son is now almost 2 but a huge breakfast eater. He loves pancakes, waffles, french toast, scrambeled eggs, Instant Oatmeal (I buy the lower sugar Quaker variety)ceral with milk-just a splash so its wet. He also loves cinnamon toast the pepridge farm bread toasted is really good. Good luck!

I am grandma"UMMA" to wonderfull eater granddaughter. Mom and Dad feed everything...fresh fruit all 3 meals and you will find from trying which are favorites and also try baco, sausage, cream cheese, applesauce with every spice in it one at a time.If you apply this to all food groups then the window of choices are only what ypou choose.

My 1yo still usually has fruit and cereal (oatmeal, usually) for breakfast, but he also loves scrambled eggs, pancakes, french toast.....the usual breakfast things. Whatever we're having, I always include fruit. We were told by a nutitionist that since breakfast is usually the best meal for babies and kids, it is a good idea to have more dinner-like foods instead of the sweet foods that we're used to. She suggested making breakfast pizzas or wraps with ham, cheese, and veggies. Or make chicken and veggies or whatever you have for dinner. It sounded silly at first, but it makes sense. We should start the day off with healthy food and protein, not just sweet cereals, pancakes, and baked goods.

My daughter loves muffins and eggs and sausage balls, so every once in a while I make up a batch of one and cook them in mini muffin pans then freeze in good quality freezer bags. In the morning I just put them in the microwave for a few seconds to warm. (for the eggs I mix eggs, cheese, veggie crumbles or veggies she will eat(purees- sometimes I just buy gerber- work well in all of these, great way to sneak in fruits and especially veggies). She also thinks that yogurt with "crunchies" any granola or cereal I have on hand mixed together with the yogurt is great!

You could use up your baby cereal & some of the food in pancakes. I love to make home made healthier pancakes for my boys. I kind of go by a recipe in Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfield which I highly recommend. Anyway I also involve my boys in cooking and they love to make and eat pumpkin pancakes! I admire your plans of being so organized! I like to have somewhat of a plan, but I never can get that far in advanced to be rotating. When I make my pumpkin pancakes, then I will make a lot and usually end up refrigerating them and the boys will eat them over and over, by choice, sometimes I freeze, but ofcourse they don't last long in the freezer. they also love waffles, so with both of those, I can offer them a different kind of fruit or veggie or turkey sausage. They also love muffins, so same as the other recipe, sometimes we make a big batch. Here and there they like oatmeal, cream of wheat, or cold cereal -- you can add peanut butter to the hot cereal if you are ok with doing PB @1yo, they love any kind of dried fruit cooked in with the oats, I usually cook my hot cereal with milk instead of water, usually no added sugar or butter. In cold cereal, sometimes I add bananas -- sometimes at that age I didn't always put the milk in, just dry cereal. or a small amt of milk, they liked to pour...

When they were younger they also liked tofu scramble and also eggs, now they are not that excited about it.

Hope that helps and was not too overwhelming! Message me if you have any ?s
take care!