While planning healthy meal ideas for 1 year old, always try to incorporate the four basic food groups, namely, milk or alternatives, vegetables and fruits, grain food products and meat or alternatives. While preparing snacks, you can include 2 food groups at a time. Plan meals and snacks for your toddler this way and you will succeed in feeding balanced and healthy foods with the necessary nutrients. As far as the eating routine is concerned, feed 3 meals a day with 1-3 servings of snacks. This will help in meeting the high energy requirements for proper growth of your baby.

     Breakfast
     Breakfast is considered as the most important meal of the day. Start your baby’s day with a tempting and healthy breakfast. Some of the food items and recipes that you can include in breakfast are milk, whole milk with oatmeal, yogurt, bean soup, scrambled eggs, bread, cheese, macaroni, whole-grain cereals, waffles, soft fruit pieces and boiled or grated carrots. Read on for breakfast recipes for kids.

     Lunch
     For serving lunch, you can consider adding solid foods containing rice and bread along with vegetables and meat. Soft rice with meat pieces, fish stuffed in a sandwich and fish sticks are some of the healthy meal ideas for lunch. Do not forget to feed your child with pieces of apple, banana, melon, pear, berries, etc. after removing the hard skin and seeds. More on healthy meals for toddlers.

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