What foods are good to take to nursery for 8 month old

[mumtobe121]

Hi everyone, I’m looking for some advice please. My little boy starts his settling in sessions at nursery next week and he’s 8 months old. He is on a mixture of BLW and purée’s but is never really fussed about having lunch. What did other mums send them with for lunch at nursery? I’m worried he won’t eat loads and that he will need formula too. TIA

Are you sure you need to provide food? I've never known a nursery ask parents to provide meals unless there were allergies or additional needs to consider.

Will they reheat or does it need to be ready to eat?

You could do his normal pureed meals warm in a flask
Yoghurt
Or cold finger food like omlette, porridge fingers, steamed carrot or fruit. Grated cheese.

Is it a problem if he doesn't eat much and has formula?

I had to provide meals until my LO turned 3.
I just used a bento box and put in variety of things I thought he would it - so humous sandwich cut into squares, cut up fruit, cheese etc. - basically just anything I know he will eat so it’s kinds of like a bunch of different snacks but fill him up if he is hungry. also if I wanted him to have something warm I used a thermos flask and then a smaller bento box with it.
anyway he loves bento box meals so much that now he gets hot meals provided by nursery he ones a bento meal for dinner lol.

I agree with this. Our nursery used to provide food. But I used to have a little flask (£5 from Aldi I think!) that we’d put heated purées in if we went for a day out and I wasn’t sure there’d be heating facilities. We still use it now for his preschool packed lunches! Although considering my child used to play with the food to the point it was cold and then eat it, not sure why I didn’t just give him it cold 😂🙈. Agree with other suggestions, finger foods you know he’ll like - pinwheels, bread, crackers, fruit, veggie sticks etc. My DS always has loved the Organix foods right from weaning (and he’s 3 now and his fave is still the banana flapjacks!). Big favourites at baby stage were the baby biscottis, melty sticks etc.Then you can also send cold pouches like the fruit ones, or yoghurt. At that age they’ll still be mainly having formula I assume and the food is more about tastes and exposing them to new foods and textures? I’m sure at 8 months DS used to try what the lunch food was at nursery adapted/mushed for him (we were given a chart and ticked off when he’d tried something at home so nursery would then let him eat it there) and then they’d give him his bottle after to fill him. Eventually he ate more and more and so had less milk. You can always ask for advice from the nursery on what others have done and what they recommend.