7 Months old meal ideas?

[babygirlisla]

Hi There

I was just curious really as to what you give your 7 month old to eat to add a bit of variety.
In the evenings we give her our dinners that have been whizzed and frozen eg spag bol, meat and veg anything really usually followed by a yoghurt or two ....
For breakfast she has weetabix usually sometimes nothing but her morning bottle till lunch time.
I struggle for what to give her for lunch times just to try and keep it different .... any suggestions would be greatful

Thanks x

Forgot to mention she has usually 3 x 7-8 oz bottles a day

Thanks

With my DS I used to keep a portion of whatever we had eaten for dinner the night before to give him at lunch time as I found he ate more at lunch than at dinner time.

Breakfast I usually just serve cereal like weetabix, ready brek, rice crispier, cornflakes. You could try toast or yoghurt and fruit.

At lunch time he would have anything really, e.g. roast chicken, home-made chilli con carne, home-made spaghetti bolognese, lemon & tarragon chicken, stir fry and egg noodles.

At dinner time he particularly liked toast at that age, so I would do anything on toast e.g. Marmite, scrambled eggs, cheese. Or sandwiches, crumpets, bagels, pitta bread are good alternatives. I'd serve these with finger food like cucumber sticks, cherry tomatoes etc., with yoghurt for afters.

The main thing to remember is they're just experimenting with food at this age, so it doesn't matter if they don't eat much. I found DS gradually decreased the amount of milk he had, but take your cue from your baby, let them choose when to cut down their milk.

With scrambled egg etc on toast would you let your little one eat with fingers?
She doesn't have teeth yet so not entirely sure how she would cope with things like cucumber maybe i should let her try and see ....
Thankyou

Hi, yes I'd let them use their fingers with all of it tbh! Even without teeth, they seem to enjoy sucking on things like cucumber sticks & a whole peeled carrot cold from the fridge is a good teething 'toy' DS used to enjoy that :-) he now likes carrot sticks dunked in hummus!

The BLW Cookbook is really helpful with easy recipes and advice on weaning. I still use the recipes now. Meant to add that to my earlier post!

You'd be surprised what they can gum sufficiently!

We're doing blw so we just make things into a size that DS can pick up, but otherwise do the same and save food from our supper the night before. I second various types of bread. Eggy-bread is a favourite (esp with a little marmite). Pitta with humous. All sorts of ripe fruit that they can suck at when they have no teeth. Celery is a good one for teething but becareful of the 'strings'.

Variety is more important when they are starting out than quantity. Sounds like your DD is doing well

Thats great thanks, I will try her with some things I thought she wouldn't cope with then and see how she does. I wanted to make sure that I am giving her a good variety so she doesn't get bored of it but also make sure she is getting all the goodness she needs.
I look forward to her having a bit more fun with some finger food then :-)))))
x

Sorry another question, is there anything obvious that she should still not be fed at this age ... i know honey is a no no until they turn 1 but can i give her pretty much anything else?

Thanks again!! x

Thought you might like this thread over on the weaning board babgirl

Sorry didnt see your last post. The NHS list of things to avoid is [[http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/Pages/foods-to-avoid-baby.aspx#close here]

Sorry its here

Can highly recommend the baby led weaning book and blog.
www.babyledweaning.com/
Did this with DS X 2 and it just works. They just feed themselves and have great fun trying different foods and making a HUGE mess.

Good to avoid things like nuts / egg / fish - stuff they might be allergic to initially but after about 8 months think they can pretty much have anything except honey, whole nuts, salt, sugar (personally avoid processed stuff as much as I can)

The idea is to let them try loads of things to get to grips with the textures and different flavors - they don't need seasoning as their taste buds are better than ours.

they should still get most of their nutrition from milk up until the age of one i think - 'under one food is just for fun' or something to that effect.

:)

Hi there. My dd2 is 7.5mo and for breakfast she has baby porridge with fruit puree - I vary it every day. Her favourite is pureed strawberries or sometimes I'll mash half a banana and mix it with the porridge. She chomps on buttered toast fingers or nectarine segments. For lunch she has her main meal pureed eg. Annabel Karmel fish pie or lentils or broccoli cauli cheese or turkey bolognese, followed by a fromage frais, and I give her finger foods to play with - today she demolished a 'sandwich thin' (pitta pocket type thing) with cream cheese on, and a strawberry which she chomped on whole. And for supper she has some variety of veg puree and then a bought pot of fruit puree as there is a limit to how much cooking and pureeing I can manage. Dd2 eats really well - ds1 had severe feeding difficulties and didn't start solids till he was 15mo. They are all different so just try your lo with lots of things and get a feel for what she likes.