All those who have a 10/11month dc and have few moments to spare....

[littleboyblue]

Hello All
Was just hoping some of you would have a spare few moments to tell me what your dc's have for evening meal.
My ds has gone off home cooked (can't blame him!) so is on jars at mo. He has a full jar for lunch, followed by big bowl of custard and for dinner I've been giving half a jar follwed by some steamed veg sticks or cucumber or somthing and then some peices of fruit.
What I'd like is to get some ideas for proper meals that might be suitable. I would like to move him back on to home cooked food soon so any ideas please?
TIA x

I was down at the bottom.
Anyone?

Gone again.
Nobody got any ideas?

Going back onto home food after jars can be hard (but possible!) as jars tend to be bland compared to fresh home made meals.

DH steams some veg- carrots, broccoli, peas, aubergine and mixes and matches which to lightly blend together.

The veg are quite plain in taste which might help your DS to get used to home cooking. We often add onion gravy for extra flavour.

I was quite surprised when our DS had a small bowl of my home made spag bol the other night, but he wolfed it down! Were trying to alternate jars and home food, so I was pleased to see him try this!

You could also try baby pasta, or even just cut your pasta up small if you have it for dinner one night.

We dont stick to recipes as such, just try DS with what were eating and quite luckily it has worked so far.

Good luck

My LO is only 7 months but will be having pbolongse (sp) with tiny little pasta shapes.
She had scarmbled egg with added cheese and tomato for lunch.
Yesterday she had cauilflower cheese for luch and liver pureed with veg and and I added mashed potato.
Tomorrow she also loves cod in cheese sauce, beef casserole, roasted butternutsquash.

HTH

Sorry for typo's, LO is attcking my hair!

what do you eat, OP? how is he with finger food? it may be not so much that bland in the jars that the baby likes as the sweetness... some carroty spag bol might help.

Thank you chinchi.
I'm a terrible eater myself and really don't want to pass this on.
We've been giving veg and stuff as finger foods.
DP is about to give him scrambled egg and beans. Ds doesn't like egg but we shall see if beans make a difference

We did BLW so DS eats what we eat, example

Last night, Jacket potato, salad, corn on the cob (mix the potato up with butter take out of the jacket but they love to suck and chew on the jacket so leave it on the tray), corn on the cob cut in half so he could pick it up and the salad shredded.

Tonight we are having shepards pie, so we just don't salt the potatoes and he eats it with his hands (I put his on the tray 10 mins before everyone elses so its cool and he can eat with us)

Chicken korma, (huge favourite)
Homemade soup, he can't eat this by himself
Spag bol
Homemade pizza (homemade base so perfectly healthy and lots of veg hidden in the sauce)
Frittata with homemade wedges/chips (oven cooked)

Think we all cross posted there, but think my last message answers all.
He is good with finger food but meals tend to be a bit of everything, like spagbol(jar) with courgette or peanutbutter toast so it not actually a set meal or anything and as I've never had what you'd call proper meals as have always been so fussy, I don't know what to do. My mum says I was a complete nightmare and would only eat mash with beans and then fish fingers till I was about 11 (and I remember it well)

Ok sherby, that all sounds good. Will have to give that stuff a go. Does he eat it all with his fingers?

Well, he's just eaten nearly 2 bowls of scrambled egg and beans and is tucking in to his pears now.
The thing is, is that we don't have family meals as yet. The reasons being is that we are staying with friends at mo until we complete the purchase of new house so don't have a dining table and he was a very colicy baby and had really bad reflux so spent the first part of his life in constant pain so he has dinner at 5, bed at 7 then we eat after that so we could both have dinner while it was still hot.
When we move, DP will be home from work earlier so will be able to have family meals and we can sit at our table again!
I'd like to give him things that he can do himself too so he doesn't always have to be spoon fed as it's hard to tell when he's had enough as it's constant head thrashing from start to end of ALL meals. Tough isn't it?

I tried the jacket potato, ds was not impressed! He had a little bit mixed with cheese and beans. He had some cucumber and tomatoes, Was confused by the jacket skin and corn on cob went straight on floor! Will try this next week again

LBB, I'm also a fussy eater but am trying to encourage ds (now 13 months) to eat better than me. Does your ds have any teeth? Mine has liked toast and cheese for ages, and it has the advantage of being easy to eat together, as he loves to eat what we're eating (and that's quite common with babies from about 9/10 months I think). He likes frozen peas and sweetcorn (off the cob), bits of fruit, we cook a chicken once a week on a night when we can all eat together, and he can feed himself all those.

We also give him fish fingers about once a week, and am moving from scrambled egg to omelette as more finger food friendly.

I've seen lots of blw and baby/toddler recipes for cooking all kinds of things in breadcrumbs - vegetables and/or meat.

that's the spirit, littleboyblue! he doesn't have to be impressed at the end of the day, there will be some foods that he quite legitimately won't like. dd is one of those 'good eaters' but won't eat lettuce, tomatoes, spits out spring onions and chopped-up herbs in food. and that's fine by me, she just doesn't like them. (plus... sometimes i think she tests me a bit on the tomato front, saying 'i don't like tomatoes, mum' when i'm eating her. i sometimes wonder if i didn't respond with an 'i don't care, darling, i like them, you don't have to like everything' if it would be a wee opportunity for her to start with some fussiness, iykwim? keeping everything totally non-confrontational seems to me to be the best way.

anyway, sorry, was blethering. basically don't sweat it, give him the food you're having, he'll find a way if he likes it and if he doesn't, he can just drink more milk.

lol at 'when i'm eating her'. when i'm eating them in front of her...

Hi elkiedee Ds has 2 teeth at mo. He not overly keen on cheese, think it a bit too rubbery.
I tried fishfingers and ate some myself too but he wasn't impressed. He does really well with pieces of fruit and veg as fingerfoods but actually EATS better from being spoon fed. I'd like him to be able to feed himself more now.

AitchTwoCiao We don't eat together at mo, me and dp eat after ds has gone to bed but that hopefully gonna change soon when we move. I don't really worry when he doesn't eat as he big so to miss a meal here and there won't hurt, I just sometimes struggle with meal ideas you know?
Plus, he not too bothered by milk either so only has bottle at bedtime, I didn't follow the weaning guidlines, so mainly replaced milk with food, but he's doing well and does enjoy eating.

Anyway, thanx for your help, gonna try fishfingers again, and mayb just save portion of our dinner in fridge for him the next day.
Agree not to make it confrontational though.

my ds lovesa bit of soup and a sandwich (soldier style) to dip in, I see someone else uses mini pasta shapes, we had great success with plasmon pasta - we have a shop here in devon that specialises in baby and children's food and it does all kinds of mini pasta plus some really nice sauces freom sauces for kids which have lots of hidden veg but are smooth. I believe that they do mail order its called www.kiddieskitchen.co.uk. Also tried mini-pizzas with a english muffin base. Houmous is a BIG fav and has led to both our boys eating raw cucumber and carrots which is great! When we went away we tried some frozen organic food from truuuly scrumptious which was really tasty (and easy to microwave)

Hi landnsdad Haven't tried soup, but will now. What sort of soup does your ds have? I have been thinking about trying pasta again, he did seem to have a bit of trouble with it, almost like it was too much hard work for him. He has cucumber and carrot sticks etc but just plain. Good idea for english muffin based pizzas, must give that a go too.

Sure no-one's actually that interested in what ds has for dinner everyday but just wanna try to keep this thread active as have been given some really good ideas so far.