Lunch and Snack idead for an 8 month old

Caden is starting to have more finger foods now, I am giving him a banana broken in half and he eats both halfs, he sometimes has grated cheese but more plays with this than anything lol, and he has bits of kiwifruit somtimes aswell. I havent really tired him with bread and toast yet as the one time I did he tried to shove the whole lot in his mouth and I worry that he will choke


So for lunch most days, he has a banana and a tin of something, and some water, then his bottle a little while later. Is this enough? and should I be offering him snacks through out the day aswell??

He loves to feed himself!

ETA-I have some fishfingers I want to try him with, and also can I give him baby peas whole? I have noticed than when he eats banana etc, he really moves his mouth around and up and down so Im pretty sure he is chewing, he doesnt just suck, then swallow the food, he works it round his mouth.

Edited by Sheza

Mousetraps with marmite/vegemite and cheese. Another option on the cruskits is avocado. JJ likes homemade chicken nuggets (from the destitute gourmet book).

He also really really likes big chunky potato or kumara wedges. Chop into quarters lengthwise and roast with no added salt, but make sure you let it cool for a while before giving it to him cos they can be superheated inside. A trick I picked up from the BLW forums is to keep a plate in the freezer so you can put food onto it and that cools it down quickly.

Fish fingers should be ok but check they don't have a high level of salt. JJ has peas but I can tell you they go straight through relatively unscathed so I'm not sure there's much point

Corn fritters are a good idea, Fliss! And there's a good easy recipe for carrot/courgette fritters in the recipe section of the OHbaby! website (not the forums) too.

the corn comes out looking the same as it did going in, but there must be some nutrients in there somewhere!

I roast potato, kumara and carrot cut in quarters longways for Joel, he loves it. He also has marmite rolls(bread with marmite , crusts cut off, rolled up tight and baked in the oven at 140 for about an hour) cruskit with marmite or avacado. Tonight he potato/pumpkin mashed really thick with lumps with some gravy from roast pork, and half a tin of lambs fry and bacon mixed in for good measure, ate most of it.

Yep Id try the fish fingers. Cooked bits of meat/chicken fish etc. Aria meat chips are good. Well cooked eggs. Id also start introducing a range of different startchy foods eg oats, rice couscous, breads, pasta, cereals etc. Dairy products can now be slowly introduced, although you should wait till over a year to introduce milk as a drink you can use it to make white sauce to add to veges. Green beans. Citrus fruits. Id def wouldnt be pureeing food now just mashing or mincing. Sounds like Caden is definately chewing or gumming his food.