ideas for ds's tea, instead of baby rice and fruit for supper?

[alibo]

ds is 7 months now, but was 3.5 weeks prem. Have been weaning for 4 weeks now, and am going to start adding cube of chicken casserole to his lunch, which is sweet pot with other veg. Not sure whether to carry on for a while longer with baby rice and fruit after his 6.30pm bottle, or switch to a tea at 5pm and bottle at 7pm. Have followed gford book BTW,and her recipes for tea are either soups, with sandwich etc, pasta dish, veg + potato mix etc, ie something carbohydrate. He is not interested in breakfast at the moment, so don't know if its too soon to change to a proper tea after just 4 weeks. Could do with some other ideas for tea as will be a bit limited avoiding wheat for a while so rules out pasta or bread etc. Don't want to put him off his last milk either by giving him solids at "tea time" as he can mess with his milk at the best of times. Any ideas welcome, whether following gford weaning or not!

There are loads of different fruit/veg combinations to try without having to resort to pasta or meat for variety if you did want to leave it a while. Here are a few of my girls fav. early recipes:
Roast sweet potato with fromage frais
Mash potato with clove of roasted garlic and fromage frais (they loved the gentle taste of sweet garlic and good for them too)
Red pepper mash - roast a sweet red pepper, deskin and liquidize, mix in mash potato
Leek, potato, tomato and carrot hotpot
lentil and veg mush (we "water this down" with stock to double as soup for DH and I)
baked beans and veg (haricot beans cooked with toms, onion, carrot, potato etc.)
Baked banana with a little orange juice
Roast parsnips and spinach - don?t know why this combo works but my little ones loved the bright green colour and soft creamy texture - might need adding a bit of fromage frais or baby milk to stop it being too gloupy

I tend to bake or roast a lot of veg as I reckon it concentrates the flavour and so saves having to make up stock - bought stock is often too salty and homemade is a pain!

If he's 7 months, I don't think it's too soon to go to a proper tea (even if he has only been on solids for 4 weeks - well done for getting to 6m BTW! )

I started ds and dd on veg mixes with a little oil - no meat and initially no potatoes either (though I'm not sure why I delayed poatoes - don't think there's a problem with them. Remember there's carbohydrate in fruit and rice).

carrots and squash were particularly popular, followed by sweet potato and mixes involving other veg. Ds (also 7 months, but has been on a proper tea for ages) is having his first lentils tonight.

Thanks for ideas guys, don't want to end up giving sweet potatoe all the time, as he has this for lunch, and I made the chicken casserole using them as well!!

Alibo,

I also used GF for weaning initially but I had concerns about her plan for giving the evening bottle and then solids - didn't seem right to me - disrupts the bath, bed, bottle theory for a start and besides which dd never went to bed as early as GF babies did! So I did what you have talked about - gave a 'tea' of some sort - mainly different vegetables followed by a bit of fruit at 5pm and then did a bath a 6:45 with night time bottle at 7pm. It worked for us really well.

just bumping this thread, for more ideas. Giving ds tea at 5pm now for a few weeks, but am still struggling with ideas when avoiding bread, pasta, ie wheat due to dh's allergies. He usually has sweet potatoe with some other veg, eg parsnip, swede, courgette, brocoli. Want to give him something different to this, but both weaning books I have suggest thngs like pasta dishes, sandwiches etc for tea.

Alibo have you got the Annabel Karmel book - eg Cherub's couscous - couscous with veg stock and peas. Nice. Don't forget butternut squash - they love that and dd wolfed down avocados and still does.

pear and butternut squash is a nice one