What are you feeding your baby?
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Topic: What are you feeding your baby?
Posted By: tiptoes
Subject: What are you feeding your baby?
Date Posted: 22 May 2010 at 11:47am
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We're just starting to get into solids now, we've had 3 days of quite a few teaspoons so I'm starting to think about what we'll do once we're on two or three meals a day and making sure he's getting a good variety.
Do you have a particular system with what you feed at particular meals? For example do you do something like baby cereal/rice for breakie, fruit for lunch and veges for dinner? What about meat? Do you give that every day? Is there any reason to give certain foods at certain times? What foods have you found mix nicely together? If there's any good websites you can point me to that would be cool too, seems I've read up heaps and heaps on lots of other baby topics but now that we're starting solids I don't really know a lot and I guess I'm the type of person that likes to be armed with lots of info rather than just going with the flow 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 22 May 2010 at 8:18pm
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baby led weaning is an awesome way to feed your baby... if you are going to research feeding you should at least look at that. gil rapley wrote a book on it and lots of the ladies on here have read and used it. i did it with my third child and it was so much easier! My two year old now tries to cut up her own food! her fine motor skills really benefitted from it too.
meat isnt essential till they get a bit older but isnt needed every day and you dont need much... i did give cereal to start with the older two but not for long. babies dont really care when they get what and you can mix things you wouldnt normally for yourself. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: jessiesmum
Date Posted: 24 May 2010 at 8:30am
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I found "Cooking for you child" by Nicola Galloway was brilliant. She's a kiwi so the veges and fruits are relevant. Also she pays particular attention to reducing allergies so has a good guide to when certain foods should be started. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: SpecialK
Date Posted: 24 May 2010 at 2:54pm
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We just winged it....
Introduced a new food every few days, then started doing combos. I usually did cereal or fruit for breakfast, fruit/custard/yogurt for lunch, and casseroles for dinner. He loved kumara, kumara and apple, banana and avocado, roast chicken dinners (roast chicken, pumpkin, kumara, potato, carrot pureed with a bit of water) and beef casseroles. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: shadowfeet
Date Posted: 25 May 2010 at 9:27pm
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Alison Holst does a cookbook called 'Baby food and beyond'. I like looking through it for ideas and is all about making your own food for baby. ------------- 
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Posted By: Mum_mum
Date Posted: 26 May 2010 at 10:55am
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We did lots of vege purees, boiling or steaming pumpkin and potato or kumera. You can mix kumera and apple if you like. Later on we added meat (after 6 months) of chicken or mince all pureed with veges. Or you can add lentils for protein.
We now do cereal and fruit for breakfast, veges and protein for lunch and then whatever veges or mac cheese or spag bog or something we are having for tea. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
 Angel baby - May 2008
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 26 May 2010 at 11:16am
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A brilliant website is http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/ - wholesome baby food
Under the section foods for baby, is a listing of each food & what they go well with. ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: HuntersMama
Date Posted: 07 June 2010 at 9:17am
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Thats a great link! Im startng to wonder whether DS is ready for solids and its good to have some straight forward info. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: HoneybunsMa
Date Posted: 07 June 2010 at 11:20am
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We completely winged it. We did purees alot when small now she eats whatever when ever. I still have to spoon feed her puree/cereals at 10months but she does eat alot of other stuff like bits of potato etc.
annabelkarmel.com - annabelkarmel has some good recipes not that I've ever used them. Plunket should give you a guide on what babies can eat at different stages (not that I followed that much either) ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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