What does your 10 month old (or thereabouts) eat?

[CassandrasCastle]

I feel constantly in a flap about feeding DD now that she's on solids - it was so much easier when I could just feed her bottles and know exactly how much she was eating in a day (FF, from about 2 weeks old).
I use way too many Ella's pouches. And boring plain pasta. And I get confused about breakfast, because she wakes pretty late and only wants milk then, so I'm planning Weetabix for about 10.30??

Ugh, if you have any tips or solidarity about the weaning journey I'd be grateful. I just worry she's not getting enough sometimes, and almost feel negligent

Shit, does no one look at Chat anymore? Or probably I'm just extremely boring

I'm sure you're not boring, OP. I would try and help but can't remember what my oldest ate at that age, answer is probably not enough as he's always been a terrible eater. Youngest now coming up to 7 months and won't take a bottle, let alone any solids but posting in solidarity and hope someone more knowledgeable comes along soon. You're definitely not negligent though.

DS2 is nearly 13m now, its easier because he is my 2nd so he just gets fed when my eldest gets fed but at 10m it was roughly...

wake up - breastfeed
bit later - breakfast, he likes rice krispies
mid morning - breastfeed, bit of fruit
lunch - whatever we are eating, often scrambled eggs or hummus on toast and some cucumber/pepper sticks
breastfeed around afternoon nap time
Carby snack mid afternoon - breadsticks or baby biscuit, sippy cup of water
Dinner with us, BLW so put it on his high chair and let him have a go
Breastfeed before bed.

Maybe not the way to wean if you are nervous about how much they are eating though.

11 months here:

Weetabox for breakfast with a banana if she is still hungry

Lunch can be bread dipped in soup; chopped carrots, cucumber etc with hummus, pasta, orzo, i would do scrambled eggs but she is allergic.

Dinner is whatever we are having, unless its too chewy or spicy in which case i'll do her a little pasta or I've always got a few jars on hand as well if needed.

Sometimes breakfast is late here too. My daughter also likes a lie in, but she is happy to eat first, and then I follow up with a bottle maybe an hour laterZ

I hate meal times because I can't cook, get stressed and it was so much easier just doing bottles but it is getting easier now. My son will be 1 next week and this is what he's been having for the past few months.

8.30- wake up, 5oz bottle and porridge (cinnamon, apple, banana, something like that in it)

Lunch - Main meal varies but one of these usually: toast with cream cheese, spready cheese, peanut butter. Crackers (I think they are called pops really good for self feeding and melt in mouth) with same spreads. Soups. Beans and cheese with toast. Spaghetti hoops. Pasta left over from night before. Scrambled egg. Boiled egg. Cuppy egg. And then a yogurt afterwards

Snack- fruit, veggie straws, raisins things like that

Dinner- usually whatever I eat or if we are having take away a quick dinner like fish fingers, veg and potato waffle, omelet, corn beef and cabbage

@CassandrasCastle I do feel the same as you I sometimes worry he isn't getting enough, he hasn't been weight since he was 4 months but he is growing well and I'm sure you DD is too so that's a good sign and I'm sure if they were still hungry they wouldn't be 2 minutes in letting us know.
Some days he is definitely hungrier that others which is like me I suppose so just go with it

Wake up - Milk
Breakfast - Porridge/weetabix with fruit, banana pancakes with yoghurt or some type of eggs on toast.
Lunch - Normally whatever I have. Homemade soup, jacket potato, left overs, sandwiches, omelette, beans on toast. Offer fruit afterwards.
Dinner - Anything from mild chicken curry to bolognese, fish pie, roast dinner etc.

Snacks if needed for distraction are rice cakes, grated cheese, cucumber, banana, homemade muffin, berries or cheerios.

DC's favourite at that age was chicken tikka masala! I made it without the chilli and cut the chicken into tiny pieces and froze in little tubs! Still a favourite now, but I'm allowed to add the chilli!
At the opposite end - scrambled egg with grated cheese.
I remember the frustration about how little they used to eat of anything!

I never bought baby food. Mine ate whatever we ate. Makes life a lot easier.

DS is 99% of the time in bed with me in the morning, probably last had milk at 4/5am so no need for a feed first thing. BLW so everything is stuff he can feed himself.

Breakfast - fruit, yoghurt, slice of toast with cream cheese/avocado, something like that.

Lunch - sandwich (cheese and tomato, ham and cream cheese, hummus and pepper) with tomato and cucumber sticks on the side

Snack - breadsticks or toast or fruit or cheese sticks

Dinner - pasta and veg, fish and veg, veg chilli and rice, stew, sausage casserole, basically whatever we're having for tea but half his plate is vegetables

8.5m here 😀

6:30 up
7:00 bottle
8:00 weetabix or porridge oats with yog and fruit
After nap 1: snack pear/banana/strawberries/raspberries or what ever fruit we have available.

Lunch/dinner: left overs from night before: shepherds pie, cottage pie, fish pie, fishfingers and beans, sea bass and avocado, spag bol, toast and peanut butter if I’m feeling lazy, tuna pasta, various pasta bakes, roast veg and pulled pork, beans on toast. Male pizza with yoghurt and flour and smash on what ever is there lying at the bottom of the fridge about to die.

After nap 2 snack: fruit or meaty sticks, or any crisp I have in and a bottle.

Bottle for bed at 8:00.

Forgot to mention he's intolerant of egg so all my old staples I used with baby 1 are no good now: eggy bread, omelette, scrambled egg on toast, homemade courgette fritters, homemade baby fishcakes etc.

Also pouches if we have something salty like stirfry. Well not pouches anymore but the 12m+ ready meal type things so it’s like chopped up food not blended.

Current 10 month old eats very little, won't entertain purees or spoons. He has milk on waking, a finger of toast for breakfast, a finger of toast for lunch and a cheese straw for dinner. Today we celebrated because he put a carrot stick in his mouth and ate it. We are working with a SaLT with him, he still has 4 x 8oz bottles a day.

The little one who left us just before Christmas for his forever home would eat 3 meals a day, he ate whatever we had just chopped into manageable lumps. He was down to just 2 cups of milk a day.

Thanks so much everyone! Really useful to see how others are doing. I'm looking in awe at some of the lunches...I HATE lunch, it always seems such a faff, and I'm not very good at having it myself - often used to skip it or just eat stupid things, so usually find myself just messing about with an avocado and a bit of bread for her. Inspiration here...
I should probably try the breakfast followed by milk thing instead of the other way round as well.

@alexio Yes, very true about some days being hungrier than others!
DD is fairly small, but can eat a whole avocado and banana, a pouch/yoghurt and then want more some days... (I have no idea if that's actually a lot for a baby, but it seems like it!?)

9 month old here. She eats quite a bit. Toast/porridge fingers with full fat yogurt and fruit (pear/melon/baked apple slices - sometimes a pouch of purée). Lunch is usually something she can hold herself, so some kind of mashed up veg and protein (think chicken croquettes/cheesy risotto balls) maybe with a smear of soft cheese on the tray or a purée of veg for her to dip into - I make these in advance and keep in freezer, so easy. Sometimes fruit afterwards. Dinner is the same kind of principle as lunch, or she has what we are having. So yesterday she had: porridge fingers with yogurt and melon slices, lunch was fish cake with a purée of cheesy butternut squash and leeks followed by some of a pear purée pouch, dinner was roast dinner with us.

Brekkie- baby pancakes which make awesome snacks, cold from the fridge. 1 mashed banana, 30g porridge oats blitzed in ninja, 1 egg whisked slightly. Mix. I chip up some blueberries and raspberries too. 1 tbsp each to make small pancakes. Fry on medium heat a couple of mins each side. AWESOME.
Lunch- hummus and avo sandwich or in bread (check salt in hummus), sweet pot falafel, roasted sweet pot or other roast veggies, I just chop and throw in oven 20 mins before lunch. Sliced avo, fruit, rotisserie chicken, leftovers... Still quite soft food.

The mess is another thing isn't it, the bloody MESS 🙈 Have just fed her soup and she and highchair now awash with it