10months and what to eat?

[calcium]

My dd is now nearly 10 months when at home I cook things for her like fishy rissoles, lentil hotpot etc give her finger food although most of it goes on the floor and fruit/yoghurt. She goes to a childminder 3 times a week when I pack her off with Organix jars should she still be eating these as they don't seem very lumpy and if not what should I give her to take for her lunch? She loves her food so will eat most things but finger food does end up being flung across the room so it worries me if I give her little sandwiches etc she won't eat much. We don't give her meat but she does eat fish. There seems a magic age where they go from lumpy jar food to adult food I'm just not sure how to introduce it all the time. Also any breakfast ideas, she doesn't like weetabix and the toast lines the walls, theres only so much banana one can eat!

Hi Calcium - have you tried Ready Break for breakfst? My 9mth DS loves it and its great as you just have to heat up the milk and mix it in. You could try porridge or semolina which both my DS's love but it's much more of a faff to make in the morning. Maybe a mashed up boiled egg?

As for the day, why don't you just make big portions of lentil hot pot etc and store them in empty Organix jars, that's what I do. I tend to make big portions of adult food - lasagne, pasta sauce, risotto, fish pie etc and just leave out the salt and blend down the leftovers and store them in jars. Then at least you are in control of the consistency and the quantity.

Hope this helps

calcium - I'm also racking my brains with ideas for dd's (10 months) food.

For breakfast I give her weetabix with lots of milk and water - so that it's mushy rather than gluey, but ready-brek or porridge are good too. Also Shreddies will mush up nicely if you add lots of warm milk. I know it's expensive, but I also give her a bit of baby cereal just for variety (can't buy ready brek or shreddies here! )

She also chucks finger food around, but I don't see anything wrong with this - she's got to learn somehow. lunch is usually some sort of finger food - bits of bread with cheese, toast etc. - or soup with bits of bread in, followed by something like a yoghurt if she's still hungry.

Don't see what's wrong with the Organix jars - the ones for 8 months + are lumpy aren't they? (they are in other brands anyway).

good luck with it.

I just took adult food (unsalted) and mashed it down to start giving "adult" table food.

Breakfast ideas: cornflakes, make sure they're well wet with milk, though, or they could be a choking risk. Soak them in water if you can't give milk. Porridge. Heavily Buttered toast. Mashed up canned peaches mixed with porridge.

I would offer her a mixture of mashed adult food plus some more pureed on the same plate and see how she goes. You could make a soup and soak chunks of bread in it. Pasta stars and a runny sauce(Organix and Heinz). Puree fish and potato but leave carrots etc for her to pick up as finger food and gradually you will make the transition.

We mainly pureed until dd was almost a year because she had reflux but at 11 months she started to help herself to my food so we soon realised she was ready to move on.

hth

LizS

ps we still use the occasional (imported !) organix jar - great variety of flavours.

I too am having problems with my 10 month old ds, he will not eat savoury food that I have made, only jars, but give him anything sweet and he scoffs it down. He does not have probs chewing, can demolish a malted milk in about 30 secs! Will eat toast, crakers, bread sticks etc, just not anything that i have made

My ds LOVES pasta and we do too! I cook the big Penne pasta with various sauces.... mostly cheesy with broccoli mashed through it and garlic. At first he used to eat it like finger food coz the penne pasta is so large. Now he's starting to feed himself the pasta is big enough for him to 'spike' it with his fork!

There are so many thing you can toss the pasta in to find something they like.... Olive oil, Pesto, tomato sauces with chicken, even tuna fish.

Parsnips are a good veg to get kids to eat, coz it's quite sweet.

HTH

Hard boiled egg yolk, rice and avocado all mashed together. Looks a lurid yellow/green, but was hoovered up by the sluglet. Try mashed potato. I make a puree of cooked vegetables and pour it into a hollow made out of the potato. Don't be afraid of strong flavours. The sluglet eats olives and blue cheese with gusto.

Slug - definitely agree with strong flavours. It's good to introduce strong flavours as early as poss. even if they act like you're feeding them dog sh*t at first!!!!
DS (21mths) will demolish spicy food with out batting an eyelid! He loves Chilli with rice and sometimes I add chillis to pasta dishes for a wee bit of a kick.

Ask your childminder to mash whatever she's making for the others. Today all my minded children from 10 months to 4 had broccoli, cauliflower and carrots mashed with cheese sauce and some potato and chicken, all left over from last nights roast dinner.

I always cook extra to use for the babies the next day, and I freeze surplus in those fresh sauce ( I use loads of the bolognaise and carbonara sauce) pots from tesco or waitrose. My family are well trained at keeping all the extra veg and storing it for me in tupperware in the fridge!

It is easier for a childminder to give them all the same, and solves the problem of having to cook different meals for the children. I provide all the food for my minded children and they have a good variety of fresh food daily. I also introduce lots of new things that the mums are surprised to find their children eating happily.

Even Organix jars have a large water content, and very little meat, it has been said that babies who have home made food sleep better!

I would persevere with the home cooked food, it is just not worth the hassle (not to mention expense) of making up separate 'baby' foods - almost anything can be mushed up. My DS loved his 'real' christmas meal at 9 months (actually though not so keen a year later!).

Agree with the chilli - I had avoided offering any to my DS but we had a chilli this weekend & as he's now 2 I thought it was time to try it - he loved it, had it two nights in a row! His favourite food is smoked salmon & he also has loved vegetables in cheese sauce since weaning.

My 11 month old DD won't eat any of the jars at all now, as she always wants to try feeding herself. The only pre-prepared 'baby' food I can get her to have are the Toddler 'growing meals'. They are designed to be microwaved for 1 minute. They are 2 or 3 for 10 month olds, and a couple of 15 month olds. DD prefers the one for the older age.

TBH I now tend to give her 'proper' food mist of the time now.

For breakfast, as well as Weetabix, she has Ready Brek, Shreddies, Yoghurt and fruit, scrambled egg and toast.

At lunch she normally has her main meal which can be anything really. She is going through a pasta (fave seems to be just plain with drizzle of olive oil and grated cheese) and garlic bread phase at the moment. She doesn't have very much mashed up at all now (despite no teeth) and much prefers using her fingers, and attempting the spoon (messy!).

For teatime she has more finger food style food - sandwiches, toast, omlette, fruit, raisins, cheese, cooked meats, tuna, small jacket potato, beans/spagetti on toast, etc.

Wow thanks guys almost looking forward to tea time now!! Slug would love to see the sluglet hoovering up the green gloop sounds the kind of thing mine would like. Alibubbles thanks for the advice and the final words of home made food may make babies sleep better did it for me, I think I may have to swot up on my cooking skills. I shall print this off and pin it up by the fridge when i am stuck for ideas though shouldn't I still be avoiding giving dd salty things such as smoked salmon etc and can you give runny egg, all the oldies tell me to give dd boiled runny egg and all the books say avoid it and the white, confused here!

Calcium,

the egg white is what usually gives allergy, so it's usually recommended to start with the yellow well cooked, because eggs can give salmonella (not sure about teh spelling sorry.

Personally I did not give dd egg white until she was 12 months as a precautionary measure.

Also, as far as I know, eggs should not be given too often because of cholesterol(1-2 times a week, so I wouldn't choose it as main breakfast ingredient everyday...

You can get the recipes for Baby Organix jars at www.babyorganix.co.uk so that you could make them up to whatever consistency suits your baby at the time. Also other advice available there re weaning.