need quick menu ideas

im running out of menu ideas.. does anyone have a good food chart i can go by to make sure they are getting enough of what they need every day ? and aslo need some menu ideas .. 12 months old..eating all solids.. will not eat baby food at all..except for the fruit..
helppppppppppppp!!!

 

Just a q...Why not solid fruits? Here is what they should eat a day. The website has lots of other great things including sample menus

Mine get:
Breakfast
(cereal{kix, cheerios, fruity cheerios we rotate between at least 2}, toddler breakfast bar{or adult the toddler ones are just little}, yogurt{which they feed themselves now }, & freeze dried or canned fruit{pineapple, banana, peach}) all this everyday
[1-2 grains, 2 fruits, 1 dairy]

Lunch
(cracker{goldfish or cheezits}, cheese{crumbles}, shredded lunch meat {chicken, turkey or ham}, & veggie
[1 grain, 1 dairy, 1 protien, 1 veggie]

Supper
(bread or pasta{roll, slice or mac'n'cheese}, meat we are eating{chicken, beef, pork or seafood}, veggie we are eating, cheese, cookie
[1 grain, 1 protien, 1-2 veggie, 1 dairy, 1 sugar]

Daily breakdown
[3-4 grains, 3 dairy, 2-3 fruits, 2-3 veggies, 2 protiens, 1 sugar]

 

ty so much !!! to ans ur question.. they do lovee solid fruits..but i keepjars just in case i run out of fresh .lol sometimes its hard for me to get to king kullen lolol

 

I keep canned(solid) for the girls, you can find several canned in its own juice(pineappple, tropical mix and mixed) or light syrup. Mine still eat the freeze dried Gerber(or walmart brand which is about a buck cheaper). They eat about a bag every 2 or 3 days.

Right now the girls are having a breakfast bar, brown sugan oatmeal made with whole milk(man its rich), and freeze dried strawberry and apple bits. [1-2 starches, 1-2 fruits, 1 dairy]

 

Here are some of the things that mine eat. Emilie will eat anything, Trevor is a bit pickier so I do sometimes give him a jar of baby food, he will not touch fresh fruit, especially if it is slimy.

Breakfast: oatmeal (I do still mix with babyfood) and :
toast, pancake, waffle, cheerios

Lunch: yogurt, cheese, grilled cheese, chicken nuggets, pizza, fruit, dried fruit, puffs, cheerios

snack: puffs, cheerios, crackers, dried fruit, cookies (arrowroot)

dinner: generally what we are eating chicken, meat, pasta, veggie

I really try and give them what we are eating. But Trevor is a little hard so he may get 1-2 jars of baby food a day to be sure he is getting enough. Emilie, on the other hand, will eat anything.

We are still in transition, it just takes time.

I'm also planning to try fish sticks, we don't eat them, but I've heard a lot of kids do, so I'm going to give that a try. Emilie will also eat the gerber ravioli and meatsticks, but Trevor won't. Just keep trying that is what I am doing.

 

On the fish stick note, mine had canned Salmon at lunch mixed with Mayo(like tuna but I hate tuna and don't really know why). Mine like fish sticks and any kind of fish. We are already eating seafoood and mine love shrimp, lobster, and clam chowder!

 

Darn I started replying to this when you first posted it then DH walked in a ticked me off cause I should have been doing something else. Ok I was gonna tell you I did the superbaby food diet when mine were infants but I still aply the rules now and it is easy once you get into the habit. Ok here goes. I haev a dry erase board in the kitchen and every morning I write:

G L GV VIT A VIT C D N O O on it. This stands for

Grains- 4 servings a day: 1/2 piece bread or basically 1/2 cup of items that fall in this category.

Legumes- 2 servings/day- for us this is meat, eggs, tofu or beans
Green Veggie- 1 serving per day- peas,greens,okra,brocolli,asparagus stuff like that

Vitamin A- 1 serving/day- I basically go with orange fruit or veggie
Vitamin C- 1 serv/day- 4oz juice, oranges,kiwi,cantaloupe, pineapple, strawberries stuff like that
Dairy- 4 servings/day-2 which are milk then yogurt sometimes ice cream, cottage cheese, cheese
Nuts- we hardly do I wish we could do more but they get nuts all over the floor then Molly finds them. oh yeah 1/day if you do it. A good alternative is nut butter.
O- Stands for other which is any fruit or veggie that does not fall into the other categories, like berries, apple, nanas, potatos, corn, green bean


Hope that helps, it keeps my mind at ease. I mark off the list as the day goes on and I usually plan meals in advace or plan them at the start of the day. anything i miss goes into snack time.