Thick Q sorry - can you blend sausages?

[mummy2benji]

Baby girl is now 7.5mo and finally taken to weaning and enjoying her solids, so I am trying to cook up lots of different things for her. I love cooking but am rubbish at knowing what I can blend / freeze! I made something with chicken thighs the other day that turned out a bit too sticky and congealed when I blended it. I was thinking about making a sausage and baked bean casserole - could I blend that?! Or would it be horribly gloopy / lumpy for her? Thanks and sorry for dumb Q!

It'll go gloopy and glue like. Have you thought about just handing her a sausage and letting her get on with it?

Try just chopping up the sausages really small if you want. You shouldn't need to blend it at all really as she should be able to deal with lumps. A lot of people just wean their baby with finger foods now.

sausage and baked beans would be very salty indeed for a baby that age TBH.

You don't necessarily need to blend it. You can split the skin and take the sausage meat out, then just fry it, if you keep stirring it will break up and go sort of grainy. Jamie Oliver had a pasta sauce recipe like this he blends raw onion, carrot and celery (again the texture is grainy) then fries it in olive oil with sausage meat til the sausage meat browns, add a carton of passatta and leave it to bubble for a while til it's all soft. Really nice!

Ah that sauce sounds good! Love Jamie Oliver. I'll try that instead I think. True about the salt content - I have reduced salt and sugar beans but maybe not ideal nonetheless. And glue-like sausages don't sound appetizing... Thanks everyone!

This is it!

Oh that's awesome, thanks - I actually have that cookbook! Bought some sausages today so will try it tomorrow

Why give a 7 month old beans and sausage?! the sausage is a processed meat that has all kind of stuff in it and the beans even though are good I wouldn't give a baby so young beans. Can you try to give her some of these recipes :

Spinach with milk: ( you can use the baby milk or cow milk which ever you prefer ) I use frozen spinach as it takes faster to prepare. Defrost the spinach and put it in a pot with little oil and garlic (if you don't want to give fried food or garlic just boil it in milk) stir it for 2-3 minutes and add milk and salt to it and leave it to boil while stirring now and then. Spinach is a great source of iron and very easy to cook .

Broccoli and cream cheese soup. Add little oil in a pot add the broccoli florets stir for a couple of minutes then add fresh chicken stock and leave it to boil for 10 to 15 minutes. Put the broccoli in a blender add some of the soup in the pot depending on how thick you want it. Blend and add bit of salt and cream cheese.

Make the same type of soup using cauliflower. Or giver her cauliflower with soured cream and cheese and bread crumbs on top baked in the over.
Mashed apple with courgette or carrot, or mashed potato with boiled egg.
You could give the baby some chicken liver and mash potato, definitely liver is better than sausage. Also give her cottage cheese with soured cream. Mashed avocado, carrots, potatoes etc. If you need more ideas let me know :D

I really wouldn't give sausages to a baby - it's processed meat. Keep it simple at this stage. All sorts of things go into casseroles (not necessarily bad things) that they just can't process yet.

I am with IsThisAGoodIDea you really shouldn't feed processed meat to a baby. Apart from being full of salt and very fatty, they're just not neccassary in a child that small's diet.

Meat can be offered in other forms which will be much better....fish is good to blend in with potatoes.

As an occasional thing I think sausages would be fine. DS3 10mo, eats whatever I eat. I don't eat very much meat, and what I do eat is from the butchers-an excellent quality one. We would have a sausage once or twice a month.
I find soup great for quick meals. With bread for dipping.
mylittleangel2 stock is full of salt-and adding more to the food? Absolutely no need, just skip it!

It is swings and roundabouts folks.
IMO, just try your best to eat a diet with as few processed foods as possible, but don't stress over occasional processed stuff.

depends on the stock you use, I make my own stock so I don't add salt if I make it for my son

angel sausages are FULL of salt anyway.

I wasn't talking about the sausages but about the stock in the recipe I have put in the previous message, and I did say I wouldn't give sausage to a baby so young being that it is a processed meat