Suggestions for breakfast...?

[AnnaK]

Ds is now 8 months and has started refusing Weetabix and Readybrek for breakfast. What else can I give him? For lunch he has a combination of fruits or vegetable and for supper he has chicken or fish with vegetables plus rice or potato followed by a yoghurt. He is not yet into finger food, even though I give him things like toast and apple for practise. According to Gina Ford, if you don?t give babies too much sweet food early on they are less likely to develop a sweet tooth, so I am trying to avoid too many sweet foods. I have run out of imagination for breakfast foods now, help? (I don?t know if this makes any difference but he has just changed from breast to formula milk.)

Porridge?

Does he have pureed fruit with the cereal? If not, adding some might make it more interesting for him. How about a yoghurt and pureed fruit. When he has got the hang of finger food then marmite on toast would be a good breakfast.

Not quite awake yet so a little short on ideas if I think of anymore will let you know.

It may also be just a phase and he may go back to them again.

bitesize shredded wheat has no extra sugar. Its quite good dry as finger food too. My son went off breakfast in a big way recently. But I keep trying and sometimes he scoffs the lot and sometimes it goes in the bin.

I used to mix half a jar of fruit (one of the pure fruit baby food jars) into Weetabix or Readybrek. You could try that? I know it's sweet but, honestly, a baby already has a taste for sweet things (breast and formula milk are both sweet!) so I wouldn't worry too much about what Gina Ford says (I don't advocate mixing in dolly mixtures or grated chocolate though )

scrambled eggs are very popular in my house

Off topic but jane313, do I know you? Just wondered whether you're the person I recommended to this site who I used to know many years ago and have recently talked to by email. If you're not this post will make absolutely no sense to you!

no sorry I'm not!

OK, thanks!

Try vegemite on toast fingers - I absolutely hate the stuff but baby loves it.

porridge made 50;50 with oats and millet plus mashed banana
little pieces of bagel for him to wave about, bigger pieces soaked in milk for you to feed him
yoghourt with cereal grains in (switch to fruit puree for tea if you don't want to give 2 in a day, or use a soya dessert)
cereal with a little more texture - we like Millet Rice Oatflakes and Mesa Sunrise but they are a bit expensive and not easily available. Puffed wheat? Rice Krispies? (lots of sugar in those)
Baked beans