What is a practical and sensible breakfast to feed an 18 month old?

Scrambled eggs, cut up banana
Or
Yogurt and fruit

That was definitely my son’s pancake phase.

Also, oatmeal is good, too. Even better if you start with steel-cut oats and add your own flavoring – chopped apple, bit of cinnamon and a little honey or agave nectar or brown sugar.

By that age, my son was insistent upon feeding himself, so I went with a lot of things that would stick to his fork or spoon.

Oatmeal and half a pear, whole grain waffles with jelly or peanut butter (assuming there is no allergy of course), whole wheat toast with jam, yogurt, eggs are some things I fed my kids when they were that age.

When my son was that age, our first goal every morning was to keep him from scrambling out of his crib at 5:00 AM. I used to leave a paper cup or two filled with dry cheerios in the corner of the crib. Picking them up, one by one, and eating them, kept him quiet for another hour most of the time.

Soft-boiled eggs with toast soldiers, oatmeal, and the other items mentioned above.

@gailcalled Colin used to stand up in his crib and shout, “Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! appleJUICE!”

That all sounds good so far!

My little one gets a banana, an avocado or berries with breakfast every day. He loves greek yogurt, oatmeal, cheerios, scrambled eggs and breakfast sausage (not all together!!). Sometimes I grate veggies into the eggs (usually carrot). If he gets a pancake or waffle, I top it with applesauce and try to get some protein in him as well. I try to avoid bread, jam, sugar and syrup.

Cream of Wheat.

How the heck do you folks remember all this? Years birth through 3 are a blur.

@kritiper Ahh sounds yummy even for myself! (During my teen years my mom used to cook Cream of Wheat every morning. Man I loved it with butter!)

Can’t do the butter these days but thanks for taking me back to my teen hood.

My daughter used to love dips, I used to dunk vegetables and breadsticks into nutritious dip such as mashed avocado, hummus or cheese sauce. A nutritious smoothie is definitely a meal in a glass!. Blend together fruits, milk, and yoghurt.
Try to concentrate on iron-rich foods such as meat, fish, eggs, nuts, beans, lentils and iron-fortified cereals. About three servings of milk, cheese or yoghurt a day is enough.
Too much milk can prevent him from absorbing the iron in his food and also it won’t leave enough room in his tummy for other foods.

Fruit, oatmeal, cold cereal with milk or dry (that he can pick up with his fingers and increase his hand-eye coordination with), eggs, toast, juice, milk. Find out what he likes and give him about two – three things at each meal so he can pick and choose.

The other really important part of the experience is remembering to lay a large plastic sheet under the high chair to catch all the bigs of egg, oatmeal, cereal, toast, veggies and random liquids that fall on the floor. If your 18-month old is willing to eat nude (assuming it is warm enough) that also makes clean-up easier. You simply remove him from the chair and pop him directly into warm, soapy water in the sink (don’t forget the shampoo).

I remember these details for my first child clearly and how I agonized over them; for my second, it was all easy and blurred. I could not tell you what we gave her for breakfast.

edit; bits and not bigs (I swear that was typed correctly when I hit “send.”)