lunch ideas for (almost) 7 month old, no teeth,no lumps, hates potato?

[kiera]

at the moment he is having either pureed pasta with a home-made tomato sauce or cauliflower cheese. I understand from Annabel Karmel that meat/fish/poultry/lentils should only be given once a day so he has this for dinner but as for lunches I am a bit stuck as he won't eat anything with potato in it. any ideas, anyone?

[Swizzler]

Have you tried sweet potato? DS likes this (not keen on potato or carrot)

[Twiglett]

may I ask why you're having to puree pasta? can he not finger feed it whole?

there's a whole raft of finger foods you could do .. vegetable batons (carrot / cauliflower / broccoli), cheese on toast etc

I wouldn't worry about the protein thing personally

how about couscous?

[NoBiggy]

My 7mo is having a cheese stick, cucumber and mashed potato sticks (left over from yesterday). Ordinarily she'd have toast, pitta, or a nice crusty roll (favourite, gnaws the bread off the crust).

Toothless here too!

[BizzyDint]

what about sandwiches?

[NoBiggy]

Kiera, what do you have for lunch? Can he have the same?

[kiera]

yes he will eat a bit of sweet potato if mixed with something else. as has no teeth have not tried bread/sandwiches, toast, whole pasta, would he be able to eat this without teeth? he has spat out cous-cous so now I blend it! so far has has only sucked the edges of a rusk or rice-cake. he turns 7 months this week.

[Twiglett]

babies don't need teeth to eat well-cooked veg batons / toast etc

they gum it to death

[lulumama]

those baby gums are hard !! has he ever'bitten'you with his gums?? they can cope with bread, toast, sandwiches, steamed veg....for chewing , gnawing , gumming

[MrsBadger]

no teeth is not a barrier to finger food - their gums are very tough!

[BizzyDint]

best try toast first, less claggy in the roof of their mouth than bread. all ok with no teeth, same with pasta.

[Twiglett]

may I just compliment you on the use of the word 'claggy'

[Olihan]

Keira, my 7 month old used to eat sausages with no teeth. In fact, she would eat anything, which was good as I don't think she had teeth until 10/11 months! Have a search through the weaning archives on here, there is loads of stuff on Baby Led Weaning which is all based on finger food. AitchTwoOh is the poster you need to search fo, she's a whizz at it!

[BizzyDint]

why thank you oh marmitey one.

[kiera]

do you butter the toast?

now you come to mention it I remember going to a cafe with a friend when ds1 was about 8 or 9 months old and before I knew it she had given him a hunk of garlic bread to gnaw and he loved it! he didn't cut his first tooth till the day after his first birthday...

[MrsBadger]

you can put anything you like on it - Philadelphia is nice

[AitchTwoOh]

have a wee look on here where you will find endless screeds of info on finger food, written my by own fair self and others. it's quite geeky, but i was feeling in a geeky mood when i wrote it. there are some cracking recipes too, for when your baby gets the hang of it. you will also see who was the first to use the word claggy with reference to toast... [huffy]