One Year Old: Eating Plan?

My daughter will be a year old tomorrow. She is now completely weaned off of formula and is on whole milk. Her WIC nurse says that now she is consuming too much dairy. She really loves cheese, so I guess in combination with her milk consumption, she is getting too much dairy. Anyways, can someone tell me where to find meal plans for a 1 year old or tell me what your child (at a year old) normally eats throughout the day, including milk. My daughter eats like this:





Morning: 6 oz. of whole milk, cereal, or oatmeal, or toast, or pancakes, very rarely eggs





Lunch: 6 oz. of whole milk, usually whatever we have that seems like a meal





4 PM: 6 oz. of whole milk, piece of cheese, tortilla shell, or graham crackers or animal crackers





Dinner: whatever we're having





8-9 PM: 6 oz. whole milk





Apparently, she's only supposed to have 3 servings of dairy, so with her milk and other possible dairy (ie: cheese, etc.) she's getting roughly 6 servings a day which is too much...........
One Year Old: Eating Plan?
Once on cows milk, limit it to two or three glasses (times) per day, offer water the rest of the time. Water should be the main drink offered to her now, with milk or occasionally watered down juice as extras. You could try toddler formula too, but also limit to two glasses daily. Any more than that and she will store the fat in her body.


Introduce some yoghurt as well. Natural yoghurt with fresh fruit on the side for dipping is great.


If you can't go shopping more than once per month, buy frozen packets of vegetables (peas carrots etc) so she has at least one serve every day. Pumpkins last well, make pumpkin soup and freeze it.


Buy jars of stewed apple (apple sauce) or make your own and store them in the fridge until needed. Also offer tin fruit salad and tin peaches, apricots and pears. CHildren must have fruit and vegetables at this age, every day. Include fruit in muffins and cupcakes, or make banana pancakes. You could also freeze them for later in the month, when you have run out of fresh fruit. You can also freeze stewed apple. Try her on some dried apricots, dates and prunes, as well as sultanas.


If money is limited, try her on porridge made with milk for breakfast. Porridge or oats are cheap and nutritious. Add some honey and cinnamon for flavour and you have a cheap but healthy breakfast.


I offer my children yoghurt every day, with cheese and two to three serves of milk. They are all healthy, active and slim. Calcium gets stored in the body, which is a good thing. But too much milk to drink would cause her to fill up and not eat enough food.





A typical day in our house would include:


Breakfast: toast / jam or cereal or oats with milk. Milk drink. Fruit.


Morning tea: water, fruit platter incl. cheese or fruit muffin or banana pikelets or yoghurt or stewed fruit or rice/corn crackers


Lunch: either cooked or sandwich, toddler formula.


Afternoon tea: muesli bar or fruit or custard or yoghurt. Ice cream if hot. Water


Dinner: whatever we are having, usually cooked main meal. Water


Milk or toddler formula before bed.





Edit:


To 'mystic eye...'. if you breastfeed your 1 yr old and offer him less than 25% of solids, you are starving your son!! This is definitely NOT recommended for a 1 yr old!! This is insane!! A 1 yr old needs a regular, full diet with breastfeeding as support, not the main diet.
Reply:My son is going to be 1 on the 29th of this month. Wow! Were does the time go. Well, to answer your question. I think you need to talk to your baby's pediatrician about her diet.
Reply:my daughter ate simular to your child except she had 2 (8oz) bottles in place of your six ounce bottle. and she is not over weight or anything she is 5 now and is in a size 5
Reply:when my son was 1yr old he ate things like macaroni %26amp; cheese with a hotdog, rice, chicken noodle soup, he loves spaghetti.. which the sauce provides 1 whole serving of vegetables, cheerios, and applesauce is a great way for your daughter to get some fruits in, as well as Gerber toddler food products, like fruit %26amp; veggie puffs, or Gerber fruit snacks, dried fruits like banana %26amp; strawberry, and veggie crackers... and another good thing is that they aren't very expensive either!
Reply:My son is 13 months. We give him a cup of water throughout the day. Occassionally he will have watered down juice and he gets one cup of milk during the day and one at night. He eats Cream of Wheat for breakfast or cheerios and fruit, sometimes eggs and toast or yogurt or oatmeal. He will have a hot dog, grilled cheese sandwich, soup etc for lunch. He usually gets a snack of some fruit or veggies to munch on later in the day. Dinner is whatever we are having - he loves spaghetti with sauce, broccoli, fish sticks, beef roast, turkey breast, chicken, carrots - he is a good eater.


I would just back off on the milk, offer more water and try to balance your shopping a bit more. I know it is tough when you are relying on a Link card or WIC but you can still shop weekly for fresh items like veggies and fruit. You can always opt for frozen veggies and fruit. How about starting a garden of your own for some of those items or checking for a local food bank? I've included a link for Second Harvest. You can check that website to see if there is a food bank in your area. I would also suggest asking for more information at your WIC office and also calling your local congressman or senator to ask for assistance in finding some other food sources.
Reply:canned fruits are fine. Im not sure if they all come with no sugar but they do have the "light" ones with less sugar and do not give her the syrup that comes in the peaches. You can get canned veggies without salt. also look at the frozen ones b/c they usually have less salt, sugar etc. Just cut them up or you can put the greens in a blender. You can put yogurt and fruit in the blender and make smoothies. its really good and healthy.
Reply:FROZEN fruit and veggies, if you can't have fresh. Freeze your own if they are on sale. You just need to lightly blanch them, place them on a cookie sheet and freeze.





However, there is no reason you have to do your shopping all at once. You need to learn to budget. That is insane. WIC coupons don't have to be used immediately.





I would strongly advise that you ask WIC and CPS if they offer nutritional classes because somehow I doubt it is just your daughter who is eating poorly.





I can't really advise you as to how much your daughter should be eating, as I breastfeed my son and he gets less than 25% of his calories from other foods, as is recommended.