BLW - ideas
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Topic: BLW - ideas
Posted By: mummymonster
Subject: BLW - ideas
Date Posted: 25 November 2011 at 6:21pm
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My 7mth old is eating up a storm. He's already recognising 'the good stuff' and rejecting the rest. I'm running out of ideas, quick and easy ideas as I prepare a meal for him, he eats it all and i'm not keeping up a stock.
He gets steamed carrot/parsnip/kumra, canned peaches/pears, fresh banana/avocardo. plain pasta. toast & marmite for breakfast. i've also tried egg & tonight beef mince pattie. Any suggestions welcome ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: pudgy
Date Posted: 25 November 2011 at 6:52pm
Grated cheese was always a hit. Watermelon or rockmelon. Ds started having homemade pizza slices at about that age. Steak cut into fat fingers. Rice crackers, fruit toast, mini pikelets/ corn fritters. Really they can have anything you have  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 25 November 2011 at 8:37pm
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Lengths of sasuage, steak, roast meat, chicken- then the bone to chew on after removing the skinny sharp bone and the grissly end.
Roast veges- corgettes cut into lengths, potaoe, pumkin, kumara, carrots, eggplant. Breakfast muffins, crumpets, porridge. |
Posted By: Hayz001
Date Posted: 26 November 2011 at 10:46am
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I find it alot easier if I work on the idea that she can/should eat what we're eating (DD is 9mo, so a wee bit older). So use your meal as a starting point and then just think about how you can modify it to suit his current tastes and abilities. That way, you're only really thinking of one meal idea instead of two! I would also recommend getting your hands on a good baby/kid cookbook like the River Cottage one - has great ideas for those blank moments when trying to think of something to feed them!
I also keep a list of ideas of meals/snacks so when I think of something I write it down and can then refer back. Things like toasties, pasta bakes, paninis, quesadillas, roast veges with pasta sauce etc etc :) Oh and mini muffins are great - you can make a whole batch and freeze them in little bags of 3 or 4, defrost them in the microwave when need be (or at room temp if you're organised!) and they're a great snack (sweet or savoury). Mini quiches are great in the same way, and all kinds of varieties of fritters (courgette, fish, roast vege, corn etc etc). You could also try omelettes with yummy fillings like spinach, and fruit pancakes for breakfast. Have fun! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 26 November 2011 at 12:04pm
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As a general rule, Jacob has/had what we had for tea the night before. (He gets too tired and grumpy to eat much if I make him wait till DH is in). We didn't BLW, so if the meal seemed more suited to it I just blended it up and gave it to him that way, which might limit you a bit, but the only time I struggle to find food is when I've been lazy and we've had toasties ourselves or something - then I whip him something up / raid the freezer / feed him porridge (that's my never-fail food, and although I feel a little guilty about giving the chappy breakfast for tea it helps out on tough evenings a lot!) -------------   
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Posted By: maya22
Date Posted: 26 November 2011 at 12:38pm
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fritters - sweetcorn, tuna, potato, kumera - you get the idea.
Mixed froz vegies pikelets,scones roast vegies fish pie/shepherds pie/spag bol sauce fish Why do you not offer the same foods you eat? We also just offered what we had, it was much more interesting off our plate! If you find that food is just being thrown over the side, cut it up smaller, we found it was more likely to make it into the mouth. ------------- DS1 July 2007 DS2 Nov 2010 http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mummymonster
Date Posted: 27 November 2011 at 4:17pm
We have a lot of tomato based pasta sauces and i din't think he could have tomatoes (or mushrooms) yet. I give him the pasta without the sauce though. Smaller pieces? I thought he'd have trouble picking up smaller pieces as he's too young for pincer grip yet. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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maya22 wrote:Posted By: Jaune
Date Posted: 27 November 2011 at 7:36pm
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At that age you'd probably want to keep the bits a bit bigger so a) he can pick them up easily and b) they're less of a choking risk.
I second what everyone else has said... DS just eats exactly what we eat. No problems here with tomato based sauces or tomatoes - he used to have cherry tomatoes cut in half around that age. He basically just sucked the seeds and spat out the skin though! DS loves mince...that's his never-fail food. As others have said, fritters of any kind are great, nice and soft so easy to eat and you can put heaps of different stuff in. My favourite recipe is a baked bean one I got from the Healthy Food Guide...I add grated carrot and courgette for extra vege. I also add a small tin of tuna to my sweetcorn fritters...don't really taste it and it adds extra protein etc. And I also always have a batch of mini muffins in the freezer like someone else mentioned. I was also giving DS sandwiches at that age too. There's a BLW forum online somewhere that I used to go to when I was a bit stuck for ideas...actually there are lots of recipes and ideas online for BLW. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: maya22
Date Posted: 28 November 2011 at 9:16am
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the smaller pieces was a revelation to us too! If the pieces of food were too big DS2 would throw them over the side, when cut smaller he would palm them into his mouth. This was before he had pincer grip.
Obviously there were no hard foods, so no risk of choking. There was some gagging as he got used to moving the food around his mouth, but that is part of the learning process for a baby learning to eat. ------------- DS1 July 2007 DS2 Nov 2010 http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bky
Date Posted: 28 November 2011 at 1:30pm
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I have a pdf of 100 BLW recipes (we didn't use many of them as DD couldn't handle onions or garlic for months, so I had to make a lot of blander things). Anyone know if there's any way I can attach it?
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Posted By: MamaT
Date Posted: 28 November 2011 at 2:27pm
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DS just had what ever we ate, literally. Some of his favourites were mince patties, sausages, chicken drumsticks, fruit - things like a whole pear, grapes, nectarine. Toast, pancakes, fritters.
If there are no allergies you can offer pretty much anything. If you're breastfeeding baby will be getting a taste of tomato and garlic etc through your breastmilk anyway. -------------  
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