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I'm getting lazy low on ideas, need inspiration and am also starting to lose confidence - wondering if she's getting a balanced diet (she'd only eat breadsticks and cream cheese the other day!!), wondering if her diet is varied enough, etc etc and would just like to get some perspective.

So post what your 8 mth old (or thereabouts)ate today, thanks!

should add, we're doing mashed up stuff and finger food, so interested in both. Though she's much keener on finger food than being spoon fed!

I'm also aware of the 'food for fun til they're 1' idea, but dd eats like a horse, so don't think anyone has told her this

Today my eight month old ate:

Breakfast: porridge

Lunch: Parsnip, carrot & cheese mash. A banana

Dinner: Cheese sauce with brocolli, carrot and tuna (roughly blitzed up). A pear (most dropped on floor...).

And lots of bf milk!

DS v nearly 8 months

Breakfast - a few spoonfuls of yoghurt, a few spoonfuls of porridge, most of half a bagel

snacks of 2 rice cakes & 1 breadstick on the go

Lunch - disaster would not eat mush, more bagel that I was eating, a rusk, a banana porridge milk organix dessert

snack of a rice cake not really interested

Dinner - refused mush, had what his sister was eating gnawed at steak, pasta & pesto + carrots, pureed dried apricot and apple, a few spoonful of yoghurts

2 BFs, 1 more to go and 1 or 2 at night.

Not a good day for variety but Im ill

Ok my 8 month old had:

Breakfast
- weetabix
- few bites of banana

Lunch
- spinach, lentil and carrot, mash thingy I made. (Looked quite gross but she loved it!)
- Yoghurt

Dinner
- minced beef, carrot and potato stew made with carton of tomato passata and a little chicken stock, blended.
- Breadsticks
- banana and peach puree

DS is 7 months

breakfast - peanut butter on bread, pieces of apple and sultanas

Lunch - English muffin (wholemeal) with butter, pieces of ham and cucumber sticks

Tea - spaghetti bolognaise and a fruit pot

"baby biscuits" and banana in between and milk of couse

thanks everyone, seems quite similar to what dd is eating, iwantitnow, lol at 'refused mush', that rings a bell with me!!!

so far today dd had
weetabix (went down a storm, thought I might have to crack open a second biscuit for her!!) and a suck on a chunk of apple

meatloaf and potato, a couple of green beans she just waved around and threw on the floor

normally her day includes several breadsticks and cream cheese, yesterday I think she ate her own weight in cream cheese....

sweetcorn fritter are also a favourite at the mo, SO easy to make

anyone else?

Some good ideas on here. I was starting to slack in my skills as a chef for DD3 (9 months). She is so fickle with food atm, thinking it is her teeth. Today she has had a crumpet and a cheese toastie but I have offered her Cheesy Lentils(onion, carrots, red lentils and cheese) (she wouldn't eat) for lunch and Weetabix for breakfast (wouldn't eat). Live and let live with food me, they will eat if they are hungry. Oh yes, she has just pinched an Oreo cookie from DD2 and demolished it before I even turned around! Madam!

omg, DD (just 8 months) eats nothing compared to this.

Bfast - refused porridge, crumbled rusk type biscuit and smeared it about

Lunch - about 2 licks of mush, which she wouldn't be spoon fed (mouth clamped shut, head down), but plunged her hands into the dish and licked her own fingers

Tea - haven't got there yet but seriously doubting she will eat much.

She loves the idea of food- for smearing, squashing and spreading about. She's dropping down centiles too.

Breakfast

2/3 of a Weetabix crumbled and mashed with banana and milk

Lunch
Beef bolognese sauce out of AK with tiny star shaped pastas stirred in plus yoghurt with Ellas Kitchen mango puree and an M&S mini sub roll with cream cheese

Tea
Half crumpet and Edam slice
Blueberries

I must say these little star shaped pastas are great. The ones I have are De Cecco brand 'stellete'.

Might get some!

On the not wanting to be fed thing, my baby will turn away after a few spoons now too, but i've found that giving her a spoon to hold helps for some reason and she eats again..

So how do I make sweetcorn fritters then?!

sweetcorn fritters! or patties, can't remember the name, but whatever.

1 tin sweetcorn
5 tbsp flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
1 spring onion or a bit of red onion
small handful of fresh coriander (I have done them without this, still lovely)

Whizz it all up in blender
Heat some oil in frying pan, dollop mix in, I make them about the size of scotch pancakes
They take a just few minutes to cook, and both dd and I love them!

Dd loves holding spoons as well, or tries to grab the food off the spoon as it approaches her mouth, sigh! I nearly get to the 'here comes the aeroplane' distraction method in desperation sometimes, somewhere in my sleep deprived brain I think if she eats more, she'll sleep better!! But finger food is the way to go with my dd, so the sweetcorn fritters are great.

If anyone else has some really easy finger food ideas, let me know. Most of the recipes I see start with 'fry 1 onion' and they've lost me already!!

My 7 mnth old DD ate:

1/2 a Weetabix with a Petit Filous and a piece of pear.

Lunch was AK's Easy one pot chicken casserole with mashed sweet potato and carrot

And supper was Cottage pie with peas (blended up).

She too likes to hold something whilst she eats, I usually give her a rice cake or Organix biscuit and I have to do silly noises for most spoonfulls

I'm trying to beef her up a bit as her weight is a little low but all she wants to eat is the Petit Filous. I'll definately try the cream cheese idea, I think she'll like that.

DD3 LOVES Philidelphia but it has to be the full fat one, no light crap for my girl.

nearly 8mth dd had:

breakfast: half fruit compote with porridge

then sucked and chewed on some toast

lunch: pureed chicken, sweet potato and squash

supper: roasted chunks of carrot, sweet potato and squash, that she self fed.

throughout the day she had a few dried apricots, breadstick and rice cake and banana, most of it squeezed and thrown around.

in the evening she usually has what we have in one form or another

not very exciting yet.....need to step up my game reallY!

So far I haven't given cream cheese as my <ahem> GF guide to weaning said not to as it was too early.. But if everyone else is then hurrah, as my son loves breadsticks dipped in Philly so I'll give her some too.

Hehe! GF. Don't worry, I have that book too. I do the GF approx amounts and approx timing but using AK recipes and finger food.

I'll also confess to having the GF book, not following it exactly but using ideas here and there.

DD (8 months)'s menu today:

Breakfast: quarter slice of toast with mashed banana ( I had to feed it to her)

Lunch: AK pasta stars with AK tomato, carrot & cheese sauce, followed by fruit pot. sips of water (self fed from cup)

Tea: Porridge. sips of water

3 milk feeds

My worry wrt her feedingis she's not really getting the idea of finger food. I had been giving her spoonfeed each meal, then giving her finger food to experiment with while I ate my own meal, but she just squishes it up and throws it on the floor, but will eat it if I put it in her mouth. Thought this might be because she wasn't hungry after her spoonfeed so didn't really need it. That's why this morning I gave her no cereal, just went straight onto toast & banana, but I still had to feed it to her. Aaargh!

My other prob is that i know she should be having veg or something more than just porridge at night, but any time I try veg, she cries half the night with wind. Will she grow out of this? Any ideas?

Yes that's what I do Mrs B! Don't like Gina's recipes much excet Red Lentil Savoury...

x post. hi lotster, remember me? I remember u giving me loadsa good advice when I was pg still.

Hi! Hope you made a good recovery?

Today my 8 month old had toast and banana for breakfast, lunch was jacket potato with cheese and for tea she had a huge bowl of pasta with veg and pesto sauce (a definite favorite at the moment!) For snacks she's had raisins, organix rice cakes and grapes. we've gone the baby led weaning route so dd has never had anything mushed and she's doing great!X

I haven't given DD3 grapes or raisins yet. Am I being too precious?

Raisins are very sugary and quite hard to chew so no. But grapes are good if you pull the skin off and chop them in half.

"..quite hard to chew so no." as in no, you're no being precious btw!!