What are you feeding your baby for dinner?

[Ilovenannyplum]

Just that really, DS is 8 months old, not BLW but now refuses any purée and will only eat 'people' food.
Looking for inspiration

The clue is in your question!

I used to cook without salt and reserve a portioned of our evening meal for DS the following day. Porridge for breakfast and he had whatever I was having for lunch.

Boots do no salt stock cubes. They've made it so easy to cook food dd can eat (then add salt and chilli to my portion!).
Her favourite is turkey thigh mince with mixed veg and pasta!

That's why I struggle, DP and I don't really have a home cooked evening meal. So I won't often have leftovers.

I've been making DS veg with chicken or fish, omelettes, pasta in tomato sauce, low salt baked beans and jacket potatoes, stuffing chicken breast and low salt gravy with veg.

My inspiration pool is drying up!

boob milk

Nando's.

Why don't you have dinner?

My 8 month old adores any kind of pasta (particularly spaghetti) fish, sausages, chicken breast, most vegetables (especially roast peppers), scrambled egg, any kind of potato, mashed avocado on toast, cheese on toast.

We do have dinner but usually it's crap or a takeaway, with work and stuff it's easier just to grab something out of the freezer. My DP is literally the worlds fussiest eater, there if nothing i wish I was exaggerating but I'm not that I could batch cook and freeze that he would eat. It's such a pain in the bum.

So long story short, DS gets a separate dinner

DP would love to feed him Nandos it's one of the few things he likes. DS does like the sweet potato mash from there

My 7 month old had salmon and mashed potato.

Oh ok, phew! The thought of a life without an evening meal was too traumatic for me to contemplate

You can calm down now bunny!
Tonight's offering is a frozen steak pie with wedges and veg.
So not horrifically bad but don't really want to feed the baby frozen ready made stuff (apart from veg), would rather he had fresh. PFB syndrome

I batch cook for ds and freeze in individual pots. He loves:
Fish pie
Chilli and rice
Bolognese and pasta
Chicken cooked in passata with sliced potatoes, garlic, herbs, other veg
Very mild curry made with chicken or fish in coconut milk with a little curry paste
Meatballs in tomato sauce with pasta
Lasagna

I challenge myself to squeeze five different veggies into each dish, eg chilli contains kidney beans, mushrooms, peppers, grated carrot, peas.

If you did one or two big batches a week and made ten portions of each you'd quickly have a freezer drawer full of quick healthy home cooked dinners for him. I find it much easier to do it this way rather than trying to prepare a fresh meal at the time of day when ds is getting ratty

If you are cooking for DS, why not cook for yourself too? Just make what you fancy and he can have some of that?

Like some kind of moron, I hadn't really considered batch cooking for DS. I think that's the way forward.

my 8 month old still gets purees or really really mashed food with the exception of toast.

Dd used to eat whatever we ate at this age