What baby food can I prepare in a tent.....and how???

[LadyTophamHatt]

I'm not going to be cooking veg to puree every day...well I could but it would be a PITA.

Some ideas??

Oatibix are a very convenient way of carrying porridge around. I find about half a bix with one scoop of formula and as much water as it takes makes a decent breakfast for 8mo ds2.

Jars/avocado/banana/porridge/baby biscuits/blw.

Why are you going camping with a 6mo? (Asks the lunatic who's going camping with a non-sleeping 9mo.)

fingers of toast smeared with avocado? soft fruits like peaches, strawberries, ripe melon, pears - no need to cook, just mash a bit. Maybe some baby rice (eugh!) to make things a bit thicker and add some carbs?

I'd also try and use whatever you're having and take a masher or fork to squish it up, add some formula or water to make it a bit wetter if he likes it that way.

Try and eat out for at least one meal a day!

As a snack or with meal I found tortillas (can get white or brown) were good before DS was able to chew up proper bread as they kind of smoosh up in their mouths and melt (sorry not a very good description).
Need to keep them in tupperware though as they go stale quickly.

We took babies camping a lot and didn't use jars much.

My top tip - get them used to a rough texture, fork-mashed rather than machine pureed. Then you can cook and mash all sorts.

We used lots of cereal - I guess at 6 months baby rice, plus weetabix, plus some sort of ready-brek which we mixed with hot water and a bit of cold milk. Lots of mashed bananas.

and besides that, you can do pasta or rice and veg mixes, cook as usual, chop small, mash with fork. Baby gags a bit but gets used to it.

I think getting him used to a rough texture beforehand is top advice from fennel.

Banana and avocado mashed together if you run out of ideas.
Cow&Gate do plastic tubs of pure fruit puree mix. Organix biccies softened up with milk or water.

Kallo organic %100 rice krispies - dry or wet.

bags and bags of rice cakes - if in doubt, spread with anything!

Definitely ajrs, mashed bananas etc

Cow and gate make those yoghurt pots of fruit puree that keep easily (DS3 has them as a daitry free option still), and if there are freezer facillities either in your tent- well some people do- or on the campsite remember the babylicious frozen ones too, it was all ds3 woulde at.

buya potato ricer to take with you then you can easily puree what ever you are doing for dinner.

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(its a good idea really, obv)

PC, do you know i've asked myself that question many times now.
except not just about ds4....WHY am I camping with any of our children??!!

so the general opinon is to mash friuts up rather than faff about with boiling veg etc?

I think some BLW wil deffo be the order of the day too...

lth, if you're having barbeques you could do a bit of steak or pork chop or somesuch and let the baby try a fist-sized (his) piece to chew and schlurp on.
i found that dd had a tendency to inhale pieces of hamburger or minced meat when she was very wee, and was more likely to splutter and cough than if she just had straight meat. she never ate much of it, but it was a limp and revolting pale grey by the time she'd sucked the juices out. [blee]

LTH we have 4 LO's of similar ages to yours and have always gone camping (DS3 was only 2.5mths when we went last year )

we have not used jars very often in the past either (i'm not anti jars lo's couldn't stomach them and always threw up!) what we used to do was make batches up of food and put them in the site freezer (if they let you) and they would last a few days its alot of fussing but if your not keen on your LO having jars then thats all there is i'm afraid!

Also there are companies that make proper homemade foods which are then frozen and they will deliver to door so you could always find out if there are any similar companies near where you are staying and see if they would deliver as a holiday one off?

Good Luck

jars for camping - definitely

Oh - see you don't want to use them. How old is the baby? You could mash food. He won't need much food if he's only just being weaned so bananas, yoghurts, cereal might do? If he's over 6 months then you could try some finger foods and toast and eggs.

Use ellas house pouches while away or finger foods?? Things like cucumber, mashed banana etc..thats what we will use with DD2 and its what we did with DD1 last year/.

Ooh just looked at your pics LadyT, he really is cute! Reminds me of Bruce Willis (also v cute once upon a time.)

Thos tubs of ambrosia rice pudding? Don't ned to be kept in a fridge.

For older kids I take those little cartons of chocolate/strawberry soya milk with straws because they don't need to be refridgerated. (But brush teeth after if drunk at bedtime - pretty sugary.)

I phoned the campsite today and they di have a freezer we can use so I might go really mad a buy a mini baby food steamer to use and freeze any excess.

I'll sell it on Ebay once he's eating sausage and chips etc

Thats good news LTH most sites are really good about that sort of thing - there's always a way around it

'babylicious' do a frozen range and the food is already in ice cube trays, I haven't used them myself but this could be a way round it - still a kind of home cooked meal and its organic

All ds3 would eat was babylicious (Sainsburys and Asda stock it), its real food- not the jar crud- definitely a good option for this LTH

just give him the sausage and chips now lth. all organic, of course.